zoetrope

In the past 6 days rageprufrock and I have:

drunk
4 bottles of wine
3 bottles of beer
3 gin and tonics
2.2 bottles of champagne
2 pints of cider
1 pint of guinness
been eaten by the hedgerows once
lost one parking ticket
Eaten in 8 restaurants
spent 27 hours in the car
visited 12 towns and cities
visited 3 castles
wandered around 2 cliff-faces
fallen over on rocks a lot
tripped up narrow castle staircases several times
lied to surveyors for the National Trust
secreted 1,300 (approx) insects about our persons after time spent frolicking amongst wildflowers
gotten lost countless times

In conclusion:

( have some morally dubious Merlin slave AU )

Hmm, I'm a little reluctant to post this. But, in the spirit of cleaning out my folders, I will.

This is something that I wrote for 2am_optimism in... *checks date* woah! November 2005! We called it "indulgence fic" for reasons which I'm sure will be almost immediately obvious.

There were many reasons that I never did anything with it, but the main two were that it never had enough structure or interest to maintain as a revised, stand-alone story, and also that around that time, several people came out with much much better stories that followed the theme of this story. To the extend that now I would say the premise is almost one of the SG:A fandom cliches. But, like all good cliches, I suppose it's just really really nice to have something comforting to read occassionally.

So, without any pretense to originality of any kind, completely unbetaed, off the cuff, and over a year old:

( The Luxury of Takeout. John/Rodney. NC-17 )

Now, some brief meta thoughts on this story and fandom as a whole.i warn you, the below is rambly and disjointed. More a splurge than proper thoughts!

A friend and I have a theory. People get into fandom from one or more of two routes:

Science Fiction vs. Romance

Personally, I most defintely went the romance route. I'm a fiend for romance novels - especially of the bodice-ripper persuasion - and although I do harbour love for the main genre-crossing staples of sci fi (Star Wars, for instance) I don't have that passion for the genre that some people cherish.

Then there are the Sci Fi fans. I obviously can't talk with as much authority about their point of view, with the exception that my friend is in fandom and is a die hard sci fi nut. She will read anything - no matter how poor the writing/characterisation etc., as long as it has a good, solid science fiction premise. For that reason she is also completely open to gen stories, or those catagorised as pre-slash, etc.

For me, that just don't kick it. She is in almost constant wonderment that I will not really love a piece of fanfiction unless it satisfies what she laughingly terms my romantic fiction criteria. And I am equally baffled that she can read 100,000 words of angsty holding hands, or whatever, because the science fiction is good.

SG:A seems to be that rare kind of fandom that has possiblities to satisfy both these types of people. The fanfiction backs me up. We have as many sci fi/gen writers as we do AU/romance writers, and the canon itself is so malleable as to be completely at our disposal in a way that someone watching it can't help but want to mould and shape into their perfect story.

Improbable sci fi scenario complete with million-dollar special effects and gay sex? Check!

Self-indulgent, earth-bound historical porny AU? Check!

To bring this back to the story above, I think that is my main reason for the fact that all of my SG:A fics (the public ones, at least!) are set on Earth. The romantic in me wants a Harlequin, not a Star Trek, and so turns canon into that. And I would say that this is why stories like this - indulgent earth-fics - are so popular in a fandom whose canon is, after all, science fiction!

So, bored at work, I emailed 2am_optimism.

"Let's play a game," I said. "You give me an AU, and I'll write a little bit of it."

After a day and a half, thought it might entertain you guys to post the results.

They are wacky and odd and (hopefully) sexy and funny by turns. And completely unbetaed, just stream of consciousness writing at whatever came to mind after reading the prompt.

Ranging from G to NC-17 and covering topics such as (Rodney and John as...) pirates, models, and the inevitable Entourage AU... all behind the cut.

( Here be fic )

How Eric Likes His Eggs
Entourage, Vince/Eric, NC-17, spoilers through Season 3

With huge thanks to hackthis and askmehow for the beta, and 2am_optimism for the final tweaks.

( It all starts when Eric and Sloane are lying in warm, post-coital stickiness.  )

You know what I really fancy reading?

An AU set in early 30s Paris, in which Rodney is an over-protected son, studying away from home for the first time. He arrives in a city that is teeming with a greedy underworld of perversion, lust and booze, which he is shocked by and drawn to all at once.

His usual acerbic self, he spends his first few months either studying or sitting in his room (in a hotel in the Latin Quarter, naturally) reading, watching the city frolick outside his window from the corner of his eye, half wanting, half afraid.

Then, one night, there is a knock at his door, and it's his downstairs neighbour - alleged downstairs neighbour, since Rodney has never seen him before - a louche underdressed boy about Rodney's age - on the verge of being a man. It's John, of course. He's locked himself out.

"What do you want me to do about it?" Rodney snaps, distractedly aware of losing his place in his novel as well as the loose fall of hair accross the man's forehead.

( Would you mind if I stayed here for a while? Only, it's raining out. )

Firstly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY brooklinegirl! Hope you have a lovely day, sweetie.

Secondly, I'm cultivating a new obsession: Arrested Development. Being in the sucky UK, I'm aware I'm rather behind with this obsession. However, I've now seen almost all the eps, and, yes, here be very silly fic.

Don't know if anyone else on my flist will be interested in this - plus I'm pretty scared to post it! - but I very much enjoyed writing it, so for those of you that do read it, hope you like!

( Lucille 1, 2, 3, 4 )