THE MARCH SISTERS GROUPCHAT
Amy: hey wheres jo do we know where jo is rn
Meg: She told me she was seeing Knives Out with Laurie
Beth: yeah she posted about it on Instagram a half hour ago
Amy: ok good so shes not here to defend herself
Beth: hm don’t like where this is going
Meg: Oh no Amy what did you do?
Amy: id idnt do anything!!!!!! SHE used my phone when hers broke last week
Amy: and she logged into a webiste for FAN FICTION
Amy: and she forgot to log otu 😈
Beth: oh jesus christ
Amy: im gonna go thru this chronolgiclaly or however u spell that
Amy: in time order
Meg: Amy don’t
Meg: This is none of our business
Amy: so the first thing she posted ws a back in 2008 it was a harry potter fan fiction
Beth: seriously amy no one cares about jo’s old harry potter fanfiction
Amy: its called “Flirting with Death”
Amy: an dits… about … snape… and hermoine 😱
Beth: wait what the fuck really
Amy: “Twenty years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione returns to Hogwarts as Head Mistress. There are many spirits still haunting the halls… and she’s about to fall for a ghost she never expected.”
Beth: ew
Amy: rated m for mature
Beth: amy please stop
Amy: “Hermione looked at the ghost’s cold hand and stared deep in his icy-blue orbs. Should she reach out and take his hand? Should she lead him up to her room? He had taught her so much back then. But now, he was no longer an authority figure. And she was no longer his student. She was his equal. And maybe, just maybe, they could teach each other a thing or two.”
Beth: stop
Amy: “The freezing fingers of Snape’s ghost carded through Hermione’s hair as their tongues battled for dominance.”
Beth: STOP
Meg: I would never have expected Hermione to fall for a stodgy old professor, it seems very out of character for her
Meg: What’s wrong with Ron? I always thought he was such a sweetie
Amy: jo doesnt like sweeties meg she likes weird old ass men
Amy: case in point she wrote like 1 billion stories here about sherlock fuckin holmes
Beth: oh the new bbc version right? jo made me watch the first episode with her once
Beth: it was alright
Amy: this ones got like 100k hits
Amy: “Weep, Little Lion Man” its from 2011
Amy: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Harriet “Harry” Watson/Clara
Amy: “When John’s sister is hospitalized with a potentially fatal case of pneumonia, he and Sherlock pay her a visit in the hospital. When his sister’s wife assumes that he and Sherlock are a couple, will he face the truth? Or continue living a lie?”
Beth: wait when did she post this
Amy: uhm February 2011
Beth: are you fucking kidding me that’s when i got pneumonia
Beth: i almost died
Amy: ya i was there i remember
Beth: did she literally write sherlock holmes fanfiction about the time i got pneumonia and almost died
Amy: “Clara gripped John’s face in her hands. ‘When you love someone,’ she said, ‘when you really love someone, the way you love Sherlock, the way I love your sister, you have to tell them. You have to say the words out loud. Before it’s too late. Before there’s no one to hear you speak.'”
Beth: oh my god i’m gonna smack her
Meg: Sorry, just had to put my phone down for a minute, Daisy had a nightmare and I had to get her back to sleep
Meg: I didn’t know Sherlock Holmes was gay in the BBC show 😲
Amy: he isnt jos just being a weirdo
THE MARCH SISTERS MINUS JO GROUPCHAT
Beth: ok guys i have to move over here for a second
Beth: we for real have to stop
Amy: omg beth why
Amy: this is like the most fun weve EVER had dragging jo
Beth: yeah but like
Beth: ok i know we’ve never really said this as a group but jo is a lesbian
Meg: Beth come on we don’t know that for sure
Amy: yeah plus we JUST established that she likese weird old ass men god beth keep up
Beth: actually i think she’s just drawn to older men/professors/authority figures in fiction because she has trouble connecting to boys her own age
Beth: and it’s more about intellectual validation than physical attraction
Amy: lol ok frued
Beth: anyway i’m just saying if she’s been posting gay fanfiction online she’s probably going through something serious and it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing we should be making fun of her for
Amy: shes not writing lesbian stories tho
Amy: like almost all of these are about guys
Meg: Exactly, it sounds like she’s mostly writing straight stories
Amy: no no no she’s writing about guys AND guys
Amy: gay guys
Amy: if u click on the sidebar there’s a little menu that says the top ten things she writes about most
Amy: Enjolras/Grantaire, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Merlin/Arthur, Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas, Shinji Ikari/Kaworu Nagisa, Finn/Poe Dameron, James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Aziraphale/Crowley, Nate Silver/Harry Enten
Beth: nate silver? the 538 guy?
Amy: imm pretty sure all of those are guys
Meg: I don’t know
Meg: Karkat sounds like it could be a boy or a girl
Beth: nate silver from 538 and harry enten also from 538?
Amy: i just googled karkat and i think its a boy
Amy: like some type of cartoon alien boy with horns but yeah a boy
Beth: so i’m truly the only one who cares that she is writing romantic fanfiction about the 538 podcasters
Amy: like heres “My Own Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” from 2014
Amy: “No Archive Warnings Apply, Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas, Dave Strider, Karkat Vantas, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, FTM!Dave”
Amy: “When Karkat finds a ‘baby photos’ folder on Dave’s hard drive, depicting a pink wriggler who is, by all appearances, a girl, he thinks he’s glimpsing yet another an alternate timeline. It’s up to Dave to tell him the truth.”
Meg: I don’t understand
Amy: neither do i
Amy: theres like 16 fanfictions about this dave guy and theyre like all tagged “FTM!Dave”
Amy: wtf is ftm
Beth: i don’t know amy why does it matter
Amy: a bunch of the star wars ones have it too like “FTM!Poe Dameron”
Amy: and heres “FTM!Enjolras”
Amy: what does it meeeeean what’s ftm
Meg: It must be a fan fiction terminology
Amy: yeah maybe
THE MARCH SISTERS GROUPCHAT
Jo: AMY I AM GOIGN TO FUCKIGN KILL YOU
Jo: WITH MY BAR EFUCKING HANDS I AMG OIGTN TO KIL
Meg: Oh no
Amy: ur the one who logged in on my phone and STAYED logged in when urs got back fromt he store
Jo: HWO FUCKING DARE YOU YOU HAD NO FUCKIGN RIGHT
Beth: jo i’m really sorry i told her to stop
Beth: you can scroll up and see i told her to stop
Meg: Jo we are all wondering what is “FTM!Dave”?
Amy: yeah there’s like a zillion stories abt ftm this and ftm that
Jo: AM Y I FUCKGIN
Jo: FUCK
Meg: Jo are you there? We can see you typing
Jo: YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Beth: jo again i’m really really sorry
Beth: but actually also why did you write sherlock holmes fanfiction based on the time i got pneumonia and almost died that’s not cool
Beth: especially because i remember you would visit me in the hospital and you’d be on your laptop the entire time and you were always like “oh i’m working on this term paper” but you were actually writing sherlock holmes fanfiction weren’t you
Beth: while i was DYING
Beth: of PNEUMONIA
Laurie: Hey everyone, Jo’s phone is not working
Laurie: Jo threw it on the ground in the parking lot and the screen shattered and it’s not starting
Amy: oh god again
Amy: seriously
Amy: marmees gonna be pissed
Meg: Is she okay?
Laurie: Jo just needs a second
Laurie: Jo is in my car now
Meg: Okay just having a cool down?
Laurie: No Jo wanted to use the seat warmers
Meg: I meant cool down like relax, take a breath, ect. haha
Laurie: Oh no Jo is not doing that either LOL
Laurie: Jo is punching the dashboard and exclaiming things
Amy: jfc drama queen
Laurie: It’s okay Jo just needs to let off some steam
Laurie: My dashboard is sturdy enough to handle it
Beth: well can you tell her to text me when she’s calmed down a little
Laurie: But Jo’s phone is broken
Laurie: Jo threw it on the ground in the parking lot and it broke I just told you
Beth: ok. laurie. can you give her YOUR phone so she can text me
Laurie: Sure one second
Laurie: okay lmao this is NOT how i wanted to do this but here we fuckin g go
Laurie: i’m!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! transgender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111 tada!!!!!!!
Meg: Oh Laurie this is such big news, you know we love you and you will always be an honorary March Sister 💖
Laurie: oh my god meg you 79 year old grandma this is JO using LAURIE’S PHONE
Laurie: i mean like yeah laurie IS trans (she just gave me permission to tell you, i asked) but thats not the point
Laurie: i jo march am transgender
Laurie: i am a transgender man
Amy: isnt transgender just like the new way of saying you’re bi
Laurie: no dipshit
Beth: amy honey i think you’re thinking of pansexual
Amy: ohhhhhhh right right right ok
Laurie: i wasn’t gonna tell you guys yet but you found the ftm dave strider fics
Laurie: which basically left me no choice
Meg: Well Jo we love you very much and we are very proud of you
Beth: yeah dude we love you
BETH has changed the name of THE MARCH SISTERS GROUPCHAT to THE MARCH SIBLINGS GROUPCHAT
Laurie: ❤
Laurie: we can talk about this more when i get home
Meg: Is Laurie giving you a ride?
Laurie: yeah she’s gonna drive me home now so i can beat amy’s ass
Amy: noooooooooo please don’t beat my ass jo i love you
Amy: i love you even tho you write about bucky and captaina mericana being cannibal mermaids who eat and kill iron man
Beth: wait what
Meg: Cannibal mermaids?
Amy: thats right
Amy: cannibal
Amy: mermaids
Amy: care to comment jo
Laurie: I’m driving with Do Not Disturb While Driving turned on. I’ll see your message when I get where I’m going.
Laurie: (I’m not receiving notifications. If this is urgent, reply ‘urgent’ to send a notification through with your original message.)
Amy: urgent
LOVE
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THIS WAS SO GOOD. thank you for linking in Nicole’s open thread.
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This made me want to cry, but then I got to the cannibal mermaids part and laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe. A+++
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AMAZING. ART.
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oh my GOD
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oh my absolute LORD this was perfect in every way, every detail was SPOT ON, thank you for making my day. I especially lost it at the list of ships, and every excerpt was comedy gold. THANK YOU
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OH my GAAAAAAD this is amazing
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THIS FEELS SO TRUE IM DYING RIGHT NOW
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omg PERFECT
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ok well I’m screaming
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Oh my dog, it’s perfect. It is utterly flawless and I wished it was on AO3 so I could mash every single approval button. I am also feeling weirdly seen as my own personal little time capsule trajectory of fandoms we have hurtled through as a community since 2009, with special loving emphasis on FTM!Dave Strider.
So good. Just, so good. Thank you!
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*HEART-EYES*
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i just freakin love that laurie’s in the march sisters groupchat
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OKAY here’s the thing. I have read this piece no fewer than a dozen times and every time I read it it makes me absolutely cry with laughter. This is *literally* one of the funniest things I have ever read in my entire middle-aged life. It has extended my lifespan by at least five years. You are a master and I love you even though we’ve never met. God fuckin bless you my child ❤
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