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But I Was Tinkerbell and You Were Peter Pan by graceoftheworld (R)
Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: always-a-bio-girl!Frank/always-a-bio-boy!Jamia, always-a-bio-girl!Frank/Brian
Length: 3,482 words
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graceoftheworld
Author Website: Author's masterlist
Why this must be read: This story takes something done pretty often in bandom - changing sex/gender - in a way I've never seen before: Frank has always been a girl (Frankie), and his wife Jamia has always been a boy (Jamie). The characterizations are incredible, so well-developed that even the hilarious side-conversations between Jamie and his friends could carry the story alone. Frankie shows up in their lives by sleeping with their RA (they live in a college dorm) and running into them, smoking and half-dressed, in the common bathroom. She's just as crass and headstrong as Frank would be - she forgets people's names, double-fists her beers, and humps frat boys while playing guitar - but she's also complex, passionate and competent. The story is smart and witty from start to finish, shows us just how messy gender can be, and has a feel-good ending; I dare you to read this and not fall for Frankie just as hard as Jamie does.
Excerpt:
When they finally manage to wake Brian up, Gerard is very close to tears. "I lost my hamster, Brian!" he says in a squawky voice.
"No, you didn't," says Brian calmly. "You did not lose a hamster because you do not have a hamster. You have never had a hamster. You have never heard of the existence of such a thing as a hamster. We had this conversation at the beginning of term."
"I know, Brian, but that shit doesn’t matter now because she’s gone! She’s all alone in the world in her little plastic ball!"
On the other side of the door that Brian is very carefully only wedging his upper body out of, somebody says, "What the shitting fuck, Schechter."
"Oh," says Gerard, and looks at Brian with an unflattering degree of amazement.
Jamie grabs Gerard and steers him away. They find Mrs. Snuffles alive and well and futilely banging her ball against a beanbag in the common room.
Mrs. Snuffles is not actually the salient point of the story.
But I Was Tinkerbell and You Were Peter Pan
Pairing: always-a-bio-girl!Frank/always-a-bio-boy!Jamia, always-a-bio-girl!Frank/Brian
Length: 3,482 words
Author on LJ:
graceoftheworldAuthor Website: Author's masterlist
Why this must be read: This story takes something done pretty often in bandom - changing sex/gender - in a way I've never seen before: Frank has always been a girl (Frankie), and his wife Jamia has always been a boy (Jamie). The characterizations are incredible, so well-developed that even the hilarious side-conversations between Jamie and his friends could carry the story alone. Frankie shows up in their lives by sleeping with their RA (they live in a college dorm) and running into them, smoking and half-dressed, in the common bathroom. She's just as crass and headstrong as Frank would be - she forgets people's names, double-fists her beers, and humps frat boys while playing guitar - but she's also complex, passionate and competent. The story is smart and witty from start to finish, shows us just how messy gender can be, and has a feel-good ending; I dare you to read this and not fall for Frankie just as hard as Jamie does.
Excerpt:
When they finally manage to wake Brian up, Gerard is very close to tears. "I lost my hamster, Brian!" he says in a squawky voice.
"No, you didn't," says Brian calmly. "You did not lose a hamster because you do not have a hamster. You have never had a hamster. You have never heard of the existence of such a thing as a hamster. We had this conversation at the beginning of term."
"I know, Brian, but that shit doesn’t matter now because she’s gone! She’s all alone in the world in her little plastic ball!"
On the other side of the door that Brian is very carefully only wedging his upper body out of, somebody says, "What the shitting fuck, Schechter."
"Oh," says Gerard, and looks at Brian with an unflattering degree of amazement.
Jamie grabs Gerard and steers him away. They find Mrs. Snuffles alive and well and futilely banging her ball against a beanbag in the common room.
Mrs. Snuffles is not actually the salient point of the story.
But I Was Tinkerbell and You Were Peter Pan