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Oct. 17th, 2007 02:45 pm:pokes the most popular ones: Er. Okay. Got to work out plot for these and see if they're actually workable...
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cidercupcakes, where are you when I need a muse and someone to bounce ideas off and get the brain running untrammelled and coming up with ideas left right and centre? (for those new to my plot bunny processes, cidercupcakes has been known to feed me an idea, line or concept and then sit back and watch me generate most of her plot for her. This is how the Sharpe's Initiative nanowrimo happened - she still hadn't used it by the time nano came round, so I stole it back and went from the Wes and Faith angle rather than the Buffy angle it was originally generated for.)
Right. Arthurian. Er. Okay, if we start from the premise that Arthur is a half-Roman soldier who's got the job of leader of his bit because he ran one of the forts and sort of ascends because he's the one everyone agrees on, then throw in him marrying Guinevere as an alliance with tribes thing that was one of the things to come out of the talks (Guinevere having been one of the major parts of the talks as one of the war leaders of her area) and see where I can get it from there. Would have to decide location and so on. And whether there will be saxon invaders. Who will not be coming from the north, because unlike the filmmakers we can take notice of a map and placenames which tells us where the saxons and angles used as an entry point and settled. I will not be that historically accurate on it, knowing me, but at least pay more attention to dates and a lack of chainmail.
After talking tomingmerciless last night, he has pointed out that any WW2 Secret Service fic problem can be solved by the injection of Nazis. (he's also lobbying for a precursor to UNIT, while I wail about not knowing anything about UNIT beyond their basic name and premise) Nazis after the Resurrection Glove because they've heard rumours about what it can do and want it for resurrecting dead troops on the Eastern Front. Nazis after something odd. Nazis trying to undermine from Britain within. Anything you think is nuts, the Nazis have been on record as doing something very, very similar. (I always wonder who the hell approved the budget for all this stuff) And then in comes that bastard Harkness, who no-one can ever figure out, everyone knows he's got to have dirt on someone. I did have problems with the american factor - the logistics of an American in there pre-involvement or post-involvement were making my head hurt, until I realised that no-one's ever actually said that Jack's american. You could easily go with the explanation that Jack *is* British, just spent a large amount of formative years in America and still has the accent. The only time he's pretended to be *actually* American was during the con of Empty Child, since I'm pretty sure he was wearing RAF uniform in that pic Estelle has, which was 1943, and by that time all the Eagle Squadrons had been re-absorbed into the USAAF - by September '42 they'd all become the 4th Fighter Group. Me? Too much thought? Whaaaat? Someone else can point out that they've met an Eagle Squadron officer who's got the same name, but unlike Jack, he's actually got a sense of honour. And then... er.... plot. With possible added code-breaking and harassment of any character that resembles Jeremy Northam or Dougray Scott. For Special Journalistic Purposes, to quote Spider Jerusalem.
Lord only knows how I'd work out the Jack Harkness Does the First Half of the Twentieth Century one... I think I'm going to panic about a maximum of two plots at a time.
(Note : when I mentioned the Arthurian one to Dad, he went 'Let me get this straight, you're going to have Jack Harkness in the Arthurian period as an ex-Roman soldier?' I think my mind boggled.)
And on surveying the results, it is entirely clear which fandoms you lot belong to.
cidercupcakes, where are you when I need a muse and someone to bounce ideas off and get the brain running untrammelled and coming up with ideas left right and centre? (for those new to my plot bunny processes, cidercupcakes has been known to feed me an idea, line or concept and then sit back and watch me generate most of her plot for her. This is how the Sharpe's Initiative nanowrimo happened - she still hadn't used it by the time nano came round, so I stole it back and went from the Wes and Faith angle rather than the Buffy angle it was originally generated for.)Right. Arthurian. Er. Okay, if we start from the premise that Arthur is a half-Roman soldier who's got the job of leader of his bit because he ran one of the forts and sort of ascends because he's the one everyone agrees on, then throw in him marrying Guinevere as an alliance with tribes thing that was one of the things to come out of the talks (Guinevere having been one of the major parts of the talks as one of the war leaders of her area) and see where I can get it from there. Would have to decide location and so on. And whether there will be saxon invaders. Who will not be coming from the north, because unlike the filmmakers we can take notice of a map and placenames which tells us where the saxons and angles used as an entry point and settled. I will not be that historically accurate on it, knowing me, but at least pay more attention to dates and a lack of chainmail.
After talking to
mingmerciless last night, he has pointed out that any WW2 Secret Service fic problem can be solved by the injection of Nazis. (he's also lobbying for a precursor to UNIT, while I wail about not knowing anything about UNIT beyond their basic name and premise) Nazis after the Resurrection Glove because they've heard rumours about what it can do and want it for resurrecting dead troops on the Eastern Front. Nazis after something odd. Nazis trying to undermine from Britain within. Anything you think is nuts, the Nazis have been on record as doing something very, very similar. (I always wonder who the hell approved the budget for all this stuff) And then in comes that bastard Harkness, who no-one can ever figure out, everyone knows he's got to have dirt on someone. I did have problems with the american factor - the logistics of an American in there pre-involvement or post-involvement were making my head hurt, until I realised that no-one's ever actually said that Jack's american. You could easily go with the explanation that Jack *is* British, just spent a large amount of formative years in America and still has the accent. The only time he's pretended to be *actually* American was during the con of Empty Child, since I'm pretty sure he was wearing RAF uniform in that pic Estelle has, which was 1943, and by that time all the Eagle Squadrons had been re-absorbed into the USAAF - by September '42 they'd all become the 4th Fighter Group. Me? Too much thought? Whaaaat? Someone else can point out that they've met an Eagle Squadron officer who's got the same name, but unlike Jack, he's actually got a sense of honour. And then... er.... plot. With possible added code-breaking and harassment of any character that resembles Jeremy Northam or Dougray Scott. For Special Journalistic Purposes, to quote Spider Jerusalem.Lord only knows how I'd work out the Jack Harkness Does the First Half of the Twentieth Century one... I think I'm going to panic about a maximum of two plots at a time.
(Note : when I mentioned the Arthurian one to Dad, he went 'Let me get this straight, you're going to have Jack Harkness in the Arthurian period as an ex-Roman soldier?' I think my mind boggled.)
And on surveying the results, it is entirely clear which fandoms you lot belong to.
