dear fandom

[mimesere]

if we could avoid writing fic in which basically nice, decent people are suddenly ABUSIVE ASSHOLES*, I would really appreciate it.

with a moue of distaste,
s.

*please feel free to replace "ABUSIVE ASSHOLE" with any of the following: Randomly Evil, ZOMG DARK AND TORTURED, "Morally Ambiguous" (when morally ambiguous just means self-centered dick. i.e., 90% of the time), Self-Hating Queer/Woman/Person of Color, Child Molester, etc.

Comments

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

...seriously? People seriously go to that place with RAY AND GERARD?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, you have no idea. There is very little of the pairing to begin with? And of what little there is, a shockingly high percentage involves rape and/or emotional abuse.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Can I butt in and ask (though I'm sure I'll regret it) - who is tending to be the abuser? Cause I can't wrap my brain around it, either way.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I will bet it's Ray. I will bet you ANYTHING it is Ray.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ray 90% of the time, definitely. Always when there's rape. Sometimes Ray is so in love with Gerard that he can't leave him, despite Gerard being a self-centered closeted asshole, though.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

::weeps for humanity::

This is making my brain hurt. Even more so than Gabe always being evil, at least that's normally just in AUs where he's a generic bad guy.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Oh dude, I read that story! The self-centered closeted asshole Gerard story. Ugh.

This is the face I am making right now: :(((((((

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

Dude, was it the one where Ray is a HUGE ASS PUSHOVER, but there was no other Ray/Gerard and I found myself sucked in anyway?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Probably! Did it involve Gerard's emotional fuckedupedness making Ray puke every night?

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

Poss...ibly? Was there throwing of glassware in fits of passive aggressive rage?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I kind of want to re-read it now?

[missmollyetc.livejournal.com]

Not in the slightest! I have the urge myself sometimes! Only, then I start, and I have to quit because of the rage. As of now, however, it's really the only thing going re: Gerard/Ray. And you can't say it doesn't bring the emotional porn when needed, because it's got that in spades.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

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I may need to go reboot my brain if that's the case. I've come across pre-sober asshole Gerard stories, but Ray? Just...what?

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Because you know, when I think of Dudes Who Could Potentially Be Abusive Assholes, my mind immediately goes to RAY TORO.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Run, Gerard, run!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

He only hurts Gerard because he loves him.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

His evilness is all so obvious now - he is part of Gabe's cobra cult, and Gabe is evil incarnate.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

That makes me sad in my soul.

(RAY and GERARD? REALLY? because. seriously, erica, an 8 year old girl in a tutu with a unicorn charm bracelet is more likely to be an abusive asshole than those guys.)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Sheila. I WOULD NOT MAKE THIS UP. I WOULD NOT BE *ABLE* TO MAKE THIS UP.

(There are an awful lot of random abusive asshole syndrome in gerard/mikey stories, too, but I can kind of excuse it by assuming that they're writing incest anyway just for that kink. With Ray/Gerard i don't get it AT ALLLLLLLLL. THEY ARE THE SAPPIEST BOYFRIENDS IN EXISTENCE STOP THAT RIGHT NOW.)

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I will never understand the need to make NICE PEOPLE into raging psychotic assholes.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

What, you don't see it? That's totally a dude who likes to slap his boyfriend around and call him a whore.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Well of course he does. Gerard *asks* for it, you know.



If Gerard would just stop making Ray so mad, he wouldn't get hurt.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

He didn't MEAN to make him mad! He'll do better!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

...I don't even have a hilariously inappropriate comment to make. Just a picture of them being GIANT NERDS.