plotbunny fail

[burntcopper]

...dammit. The narnia pevensie parents appears to be going absolutely nowhere. Every time I open it, I just stare at it and close it again. Trying to think of other stuff I can do, since am in complete creative drought re: clothing, writing, everything else. i want to do some stuff, can't think of owt to do.

Thinking through snippets I have hanging around the notebooks. What's available :

Ianto and Jack relationship as something different to what we see on screen.
-Looks interesting, but can't think how the hell I would do this now, since S2 pretty much gave me everything I wanted for that kind of thing.

Jack Harkness, head of Torchwood 1
- oooo. Hmm. Probably done from Ianto POV. This might have possibilities. Kind of requires a plot, though, and seeing if anyone else has done something similar so I don't cross the streams - or at least check through it to see what I do/don't want to do/ what doesn't work.

Jack and Ianto Beauty and the Beast
- yes, the cliché lover in me is alive and well. Absolutely no idea how I'd do it to make it interesting rather'n a complete re-tread of the Disney version. (anyone who cites the original fairy tale as an alternative, I start going LALALALALA. *Much* prefer the Disney. for a start, Belle has a brain and initiative and a sense of humour. And there is also Gaston.)

Jack Harkness investigating the Circle towns
- this one... I was considering doing it for nano, since it's a universe I've been working on for ages off and on (regular visitors, it's the 'towns that have to live with being guardians for the entrances to the Summer Country') but as I've never really been able to get a stable plot out of it, but considerably less than 50k might work better, and I can keep it more outsider POV. Circle towns, off the scale in magic/weird readings/ley lines. Death rate and parish records of the WTF. Yet it's never been investigated/checked on. So you get Torchwood going 'hellllloooooo NURSE' and sending Jack to investigate. I was thinking maybe 1920s? And would I send mr. expendable on his own or with another Torchwood person (who of course regards Harkness as a loose cannon, etc, etc)

apparently I'm getting a new computer today. fingers crossed.

Comments

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

How about B&B in which the switch happens the other way? Your Beauty gets Beastified?

[aeshna_uk]

ooh, definitely the last one - just not enough historical!Torchwood or actual plotty Torchwood out there :)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

I have most of the plot in a notebook somewhere, got to hunt it down and see how much I need to add, especially if I'm inserting another Torchwood operative. Thing is, you reckon it would work better if said person was his boss, there to rein in the known-to-be-nuts freelancer who is-also-expendable, as it would've been in the victorian era, or do you reckon 'just another operative'?

it's essentially 'weird little village' story, but I thought about it and it ties in at least a bit to the Small Worlds ep. Not the same type - my elves are mostly Discworld, but similar-ish situation.

[aeshna_uk]

Hmm. I tend to have a much more positive view of historical!TW than a lot of fandom seems to - they're fighting the good fight with whatever's available to them, after all, and Jack isn't there under duress - and the thing with Torchwood is that there's going to be pretty high mortality rate amongst those who aren't Captain Indestructible. Jack is going to gain a lot of respect and unofficial seniority (at least amongst the Cardiff branch) simply by living longer than anyone else....

So in this situation, in the 1920s, the odds are pretty good that Jack would effectively (if not officially, though by that stage he's a freelancer in name only and they all know it) be the senior of the pair sent to investigate. I'd say that your best options would be either someone from another branch who is deeply leery of the uncouth and unkillable weirdo but aware that he probably knows what he's talking about (in which case go for some prim lady who has to pretend to be his wife, etc), or a younger member of the Cardiff team who worships the ground Jack walks on (because groupies are fun!). Or both. ;)

(foolishly signed up for another Big Bang thing - trying to work out which of my bunnies to dust off, though god knows where the ideas will be by the end of next week. Poking at them in the hope that one of them will bite - seems to be a lot of it about tonight!)