Fanfic Meme - Name Game
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ffuturesWeird idea I had for a fanfic meme...
Give me a brief story idea from one or more fandoms I'm likely to know, but don't NAME the fandom(s) and keep character names down to a mimimum e.g. Sam, Kara, etc. Avoid unique character names such as Legolas, Frodo, Superman, etc. and unique terms such as Wincest.
I will try to write a ficlet, drabble, or whatever that fulfils the letter of what you ask for but completely subverts the spirit - for example, someone asking for "Sam and Dean slash" might get a story in which Sam Gamgee becomes Dean Rusk's budget adviser...
I have no idea how well this will work - let's say that I'll attempt replies to the first five prompts.
Give me a brief story idea from one or more fandoms I'm likely to know, but don't NAME the fandom(s) and keep character names down to a mimimum e.g. Sam, Kara, etc. Avoid unique character names such as Legolas, Frodo, Superman, etc. and unique terms such as Wincest.
I will try to write a ficlet, drabble, or whatever that fulfils the letter of what you ask for but completely subverts the spirit - for example, someone asking for "Sam and Dean slash" might get a story in which Sam Gamgee becomes Dean Rusk's budget adviser...
I have no idea how well this will work - let's say that I'll attempt replies to the first five prompts.
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Date: 2011-10-19 12:08 pm (UTC)Bill the Galactic Hero and the planet where he didn't get laid.
Date: 2011-10-19 10:01 pm (UTC)"What is this?" shouted Bill, firing his own ray gun back towards the source of the beam, "Bowb your buddy week?"
The beam sparkled harmlessly as it hit the force field around the small tyrannosaur that was advancing towards them, and it shouted "It's nothing personal."
"Wasn't that a man five minutes ago?" shouted Sam.
"Must be a Chigger android," Bill called back. "Didn't know they could transform like that."
"What's a Chigger?"
"Little lizard things, about six inches tall. It'll be inside that thing's head, driving it."
In one fluid movement Sam rolled out from behind the rock and fired. The first bullet penetrated the force field as though it wasn't there, drilled a neat hole through the android's head, and emerged from the back. The second and third completed the job, with blood and gobbets of gore spraying out from the tiny alien driver.
"Bowb!" said Bill, "where did you learn to shoot like that?"
"Magic bullets," said Sam, blowing a wisp of smoke from the barrel of her gun, "don't leave home without them." She made a mental note to buy Willow an extra-special birthday present, and wondered how long it would take to get rid of the visitor. Bill might think he was some sort of galactic hero; to her he was just a time-travelling nuisance.
Re: Bill the Galactic Hero and the planet where he didn't get laid.
Date: 2011-10-19 10:02 pm (UTC)Re: Bill the Galactic Hero and the planet where he didn't get laid.
Date: 2011-10-22 09:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-19 02:15 pm (UTC)...or mineral?
Date: 2011-10-19 11:11 pm (UTC)"I'll have to check," said the clerk at the spaceport Lost and Found office, "but it doesn't ring any bells."
Behind Harry a tall man in a black uniform with Eye of Horus insignia was waiting to be served, and checked something on the data pad he always carried. Eighty pounds was all wrong for quartz, and pink was wrong for most leaded compounds, but the weight and colour was definitely right for Dilithium. And Dilithium was definitely his business, potentially more explosive than plutonium.
Simon Illyan touched a stylus to a series of numbers on his pad, and pretended to be immersed in his work. In a moment an Imp-Sec squad would arrive, and Harry Kim would face a lot of questions...
Star Trek / Vorkosigan saga - what did you think you were going to get?
Re: ...or mineral?
Date: 2011-10-20 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-19 08:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-19 11:40 pm (UTC)She got out her binoculars and took a closer look. An attractive woman in her forties, with a son and a daughter who seemed to be doing most of the work. They were unloading computers, and some heavy-looking long cases that Millie suspected might be guns.
As she watched the daughter stopped and seemed to look directly at her, across half a mile of valley. Millie drew back from the window, thinking that the blue glow in the girl's eyes must be a trick of the light.
Maybe after lunch she'd drive over and welcome her new neighbours, and find out more about Sarah... now what was that name again? and her children John and Cameron...
Thoroughly Modern Millie / Terminator SCC
What were you expecting?
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Date: 2011-10-19 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-20 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-20 11:26 pm (UTC)He drained the last of his pint and looked at it with mild surprise. From experience we knew that we'd hear nothing more until the glass was full. Eric bowed to the inevitable and bought another round.
"Cheers," said Harry. After a short pause he went on: "It happened that just before the war I was in a little town called Chicago on the East Cape of South Africa, and needed a lift to a town called Alice on the West Cape. Now you might think that Aberystwyth is dead on a Sunday night, but that's nothing compared to West Cape. It took me an hour to find a pub that was open, and...."
OK, that was pretty feeble, best I could do. Harry Purvis is the main raconteur from Arthur C. Clarke's "Tales From The White Hart," and that doesn't even begin to do justice to the stories
Which fandom were you looking for?
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Date: 2011-10-20 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-20 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-20 09:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-21 12:09 am (UTC)Best I can do at this time of night - what were you expecting?
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Date: 2011-10-21 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-21 10:10 am (UTC)