Um. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

[sholio]

naye and I have discovered that our sgabigbang story is not gen after all. It appears to be slash. I swear we did not do this. And yet, our 60,000 words of gen seems to have turned, entirely without our knowledge, into 60,000 words of pre-slash. I seem to recall having a discussion with someone not too long ago in which I claimed that this never, ever happens to me. Story that starts out gen and develops a pairing later on? Ha! Never happens!

Oops.

What's really funny is that we both came to the same realization more or less at once ... we'd been trying our damnedest to keep it gen and getting more and more frustrated with the story, and finally gave up on the whole gen thing, and suddenly it's all working again! Yay!

The chat kinda went south after that:


[currently stuck on plot, talking of "Rocks fall, everyone dies"]
naye: Oh, but we have to decide what rocks are going to fall!
friendshipper: Rocks of GAYNESS!
naye: Like I said - no standing around having a conference scene of talking heads for five pages...
naye: äshjrköhösdfljkdfjkldjkl
naye: I'M FALLING NOW
naye: OUT OF MY CHAIR
friendshipper: OOPS.
naye: AND IT'S YOUR FAULT!!
friendshipper: *picks up, brushes off*
naye: Thank you. *sits*
naye: *giggles*
naye: ROCKS OF GAYNESS
naye: It's like Kryptonite?
friendshipper: ... now I'm laughing almost too hard to type
naye: Only with more kissing.
friendshipper: Pink Kryptonite!
naye: .......please don't tell me it exists.
naye: it does, doesn't it.
naye: it's canon, isn't it.
friendshipper: ... I don't know. I hope not. But I wouldn't be surprised.
friendshipper: No, wait. Rainbow Kryptonite!
naye: Well, they must have used SOMETHING in Smallville, from what I hear. *g*
naye: ANYWAY.
friendshipper: There must be some on the beach...
naye: ROCKS.
friendshipper: ANYWAY. YES.
friendshipper: BIG GAY ROCKS.
naye: .sdfhildös
naye: HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.
friendshipper: I BLAME THE STORY
naye: Yeah.
naye: It's the whales.
naye: They make people gay.
friendshipper: ... oh right! Excellent point
friendshipper: XDDDD
friendshipper: ... dratted whales
naye: I know.

Plot manages to get plotted, but not for very long ...

naye: What's the point of a magic AU if they lose their mage?
friendshipper: Ronon has a magic gun!
naye: ........NO BRAIN BAD BRAIN
friendshipper: s;lkdjf;lasdjfl;kads
naye: *headdesK*
friendshipper: It's those GAY WHALE RAYS again!
naye: gkdhsöl
naye: How do slash writers ever get ANYTHING done???
friendshipper: XD
naye: The innuendo, it's TAKING OVER.
friendshipper: Maybe this is why there's so MUCH slash!
friendshipper: Once you start, you can't stop!


Edit: More of the transcript can be seen at Naye's LJ. Clearly, we are a very bad influence on each other.