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[7wildwaysup]

 

 

I’ve been  missing… I’ve been underground… I think I have a serious problem… I’m completely addicted to the fic I’m reading… I just sent this email to one of my new most favorite authors Gael McGear   http://gaedhal.livejournal.com/ and http://www.fortruthis.com/gaelmcgear/Gaedhalficpage.html

If you haven’t read this already and I’m sure most of you have… I’m always a little late for the show; I suggest that you read this. Queer Theories and Queer Realities although I’m only half way through Queer Theories…

Hi Gael,

Just thought that I'd check in and let you know that I'm pasted my manic ranting. You know I do love your writing and think you’re really great; although there were times when I found myself pacing around the house in frustrating. Sorry about those hysterical crazy woman emails I sent you....

I think it was because there wasn't anyway of releasing my anguish and despair. I never really realized how much I need the comments from the others. I needed to be able talk about all the crazy feeling I have been experiencing that you were stirring up within me.

So I vented to my good friend Yvonne Reid, because no fic has ever made me scream at my computer in frustration, wish Brian would actually just commit suicide or die, and sworn that Justin should never forgive him... I would actually turn the computer off and swear that I wasn't going to read anymore. It was too sad and depressing... but I couldn't stop... I would be sitting back in front of my screen in less than ten minutes... reading eight hours or more a day...

So now Vonnie is reading this as well and I'll have someone to rant and rave with as you send me through all the next twists and turns, angst and grief. I wish I had read Nowhere Man sooner it would have saved me so much pain and suffering instead of waiting until chapter 107.  I'm only half way through and I want to say I'm so excited and really enjoying this fic but as I told Vonnie...

"I would say enjoy the story but this isn't a story that I would call enjoying... its more like a bad drug addiction you can't kick; and you just hope that one day all those feeling will be replaced with B-J Love..."    
 
I'm pretty sure I'm going to need rehab when I get to the end... but then I did see you have other fics... warning... danger... I really do love your writing and I'm so glad I started reading this.

Later Kathleen 

 

Comments

[yvonnereid.livejournal.com]

This is vonnie,im on lost boys I think,vic has just gone to see Brian,its 1988 so im way at the start but im loving it alot.
please feel free to rant away to me,actually I was gonna send out a search party to see where you were lol
xoxoxoxo

[7wildwaysup.livejournal.com]

Yvonne this is the response from Gael. Isn't it the best... ~ K

From: "GaelMcGear@aol.com" <gaelmcgear@aol.com>
To: sevenwildwayup@yahoo.com
Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 7:30:09 PM
Subject: Re: Queer Theories

You might need this:

The 12 Steps

I am a Queeraholic

1. We admit that we are powerless over Brian and Justin. That our lives have become unmanageable without the fix of watching,reading about, and imagining these two beautiful men having sex in every orifice, on every surface, wearing every possible type of clothing but preferrable none at all, and every conceivable time period.

2. We came to believe that only a Power greater than ourselves -- like the Power Company, Showtime, or an angry husband/lover/parents/
children/boss -- could restore us to mundane sanity. Not that we want that. But that's the problem, right?

3. We made a decision to turn ourselves over to the care of a Higher Power as we know him/her. Preferrably one 6 ft. 3, 9 inches, cut. Or else one with a long-run fanfic series that we can't stop reading.

4. We have made a searching and fearless moral inventory or ourselves -- and organized our fics in the way most conducive to finding all the really hot parts.

5. We have admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves, to our significant other, our boss, our mother, our best friend, our beta, and the person whose laser printer we have been using to
print out fics the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. We are really, really ready to have our Higher Power remove all these defects of character -- right after we finish reading this next chapter.

7. We humbly ask Brian -- I mean, our Higher Power -- to remove these shortcomings. Also for Him to remove all those constricting clothes.

8. We have made a list of all persons we have harmed, bothered, bugged, asked to make tape copies, arrived at their house at 10:00 on Sundays just because they have Showtime, took over
their computer, or refused to make dinner because someone was posting a new section right at that minute -- and we will make amends to them all. As soon as we can.

9. Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others or would get in the way of watching the show or getting our hands on that new chapter.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were missing a chapter or skipped "Nowhere Man" admitted it, went back, and corrected the situation.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Higher Power, praying that we know fully, deeply, in complete detail, with photos of positions, close-ups of body parts, and especially those
green eyes -- that we may know His will for us and that we have the power to carry out that will. And we will!

12. Having had an awakening as a result of these Steps, we will carry the message to others and practice our obsession with Brian and Justin in all of our affairs. All the time. Whenever we can get it. I mean that!

[yvonnereid.livejournal.com]

Lol,intresting,number seven made me laugh.
xoxoxo

[7wildwaysup.livejournal.com]

Don't discount number 10... you'll need to read this when you get really depressed. It will help you see that there is hope and love will win in the end... at least I hope... ~ K

Nowhere man is an alternative stream...

[cherub68.livejournal.com]

Have to agree with you about pacing the room yelling at the computer whilst reading QT. I have cried buckets, wrung my hands and felt depths of anger that I didn't know I was capable of! and I've only got to London. I did take a break to read Medium Security again horrifically angsty in places but came out feeling positive. From your comments think I have to run off and read Nowhere man.

Just have to add have been loving all your fics and the way they link together, but especially McKinney.

[7wildwaysup.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you decided to join the caravan...

Yvonnereid and I have been reading this together, she's actually following me. It sounds like you guys at about the same place in the fic...

Yes stop and read Nowhere Man now if your really getting depressed at this point. It will make all the difference. I also just noticed that all the fics listed on the directory page if you read the summary's they're all alternative streams (Different lifetimes...)

I'm already reading Queer Realities, and at chapter 26. It's not as much angst but its not my sugar and spice... but at least Brian and Justin trying to work it out and Brian is learning to express his feeling without actually loosing his life... maybe...

Obviously I've been lost in this fic for the last week or two, but I do plan to get back to McKinney and I'm so glad you like it that makes me happy and inspired.

I've been so depressed with this fic it's hard to get my mind in my happy writing mode. I guess I'm learning to write angst...

Keep me posted where your at in the fic and you can always email me to vent your frustration. It's hard when you can't read other peoples comments and you really need to scream... that's why Yvonne and I email each other, besides she's just the sweetest thing ever...

So good to hear from you, take care and I'll CC you on my venting... Later ~ Kathleen