geeheartmikey
| Journal Community | |
|---|---|
| Name: | keepin' it in the family... |
| Date(s): | 31 August 2004-14 September 2014 (Last post) |
| Moderator: | nz_bonjovi_gal, _silverjets, x_stoked_x? |
| Founder: | _silverjets [1] |
| Type: | incest slash fanfic |
| Fandom: | My Chemical Romance |
| URL: | http://geeheartmikey.livejournal.com/ |
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geeheartmikey is a LiveJournal community dedicated to the incest ship Gerard/Mikey that was created in 2004. As of 2016 the community had 1,636 posts; 11,104 comments; and 1462 members. Posting slowed down in 2008-2009 and petered out around 2011.
At least two other Gerard/Mikey LJ comms were created,[1] but geeheartmikey is the first. It is also the first MCR slash comm ever created,[2] beating mychemicalslash by a week. This fact suggests a few possibilities: that an incest pairing was indeed the first popular ship in MCR fandom, or that incest shippers felt it would be safer to create a separate space for themselves.
According to the community profile, geeheartmikey was "THE OFFICIAL 'MOST HATED MCR-RELATED COMMUNITY' ON LIVEJOURNAL.COM! WOO YAY!"[3] This description was added in December 2004 after community members noticed[4] a very large discussion happening in the non-fanfic community chemicalromance, where someone posted asking "what exactly is geeheartmikey? I hear everyone going on about it."[5] The post got 195 comments, many of them using terms like "sick" and "wrong" to describe the comm. Many commenters also condemned MCR slash and/or fanfic in general. Some people defended the comm and said, basically, Don't Like, Don't Read.
The community became friendslocked after the chemicalromance drama.[6]
References
- ^ Both accounts have since been deleted: waycest_love and waycest. According to FanHistory, waycest was created on February 12, 2005. archived. A post in slashypunkboys indicates that waycest_love was created in November 2006.
- ^ SparklyFiend. "Such an old school MCR fan that I remember GeeHeartMikey being the only fic comm on LJ. COME AT ME." Tweet posted 20 Jul 2016.
- ^ profile page, archived. Accessed 30 October 2016.
- ^ untitled post by birdboys in geeheartmikey, 22 December 2004.
- ^ untitled post by run_away_ in chemicalromance, 22 December 2004.
- ^ comment by coricomile in chemicalromance, 22 December 2004.