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[melannen]

I am backreading old fic in my tags (partly to procrastinate actually finishing any more, partly because I'm thinking about finally putting together an AO3 anthology of scraps too small to go anywhere else, partly because I am masochistically collecting old bunnies I could write the first 1700 words of if I make my October goal^**).

And I just want to say that if anybody felt like posting their translation of Oolon Colluphid was Right somewhere I could see it, it would make my weekend. ^_^

(my intoabar assignment is Jasper Sitwall & Nita Callahan, which is simultaneously too hard and way too easy)

^**Here is my current list of bunnies-I-could-totally-write-the-first-1700-words-of-as-long-as-I-wasn't-obligated-to-finish, if any of you want to egg me on in my challenge <_<

*the AU where Javert becomes a criminal mastermind instead of a cop and recruits Valjean before he meets the bishop
* the Community/Captain America crossover
* the next bit of the Community werewolf AU
* the YA fic where Billy Kaplan is terrified that he's been accidentally turning everyone queer
* the one where Carlos takes Cecil as his date to the Ig-Nobel awards
* the Kirk/Spock/Uhura conduit fic (where Kirk is the conduit)
* the les amis in Omelas au
* the SGA as Gethenians au
* the Avengers Go To A Drag Ball (because if Steve comes out he wants to come out the proper old-fashioned way, by dancing with Sam at a drag ball)
* Valjean in the Ankh-Morpork AU
* pallet/shipping container slash
* Steve Rogers/Betty White
* Stacker Pentecost/Hannibal Chau hate-is-too-strong-a-word!sex
* les amis go to the moon and meet the Lunar Man-Bats
* les amis in Starfleet
* four-year-old baby spy Natasha being trained by the Winter Soldier
* Harry Dresden Sings the Blues
* The Erlking vs. Benton Fraser
* The next bit of the one where Langoustini meets Marcone
* the dS/DW AU where there's only one Ray, but he's a Time Lord
* the Pacific Rim Star Wars AU
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's Scottish by upbringing, oops
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's a virgin, oops
* the sequel to the hl/yw fic where Methos and Ed'rashtekaresket are bros
* the one where Marius and Cosette meet Azelma in New Orleans
* the one where les amis are judges in an American election
* the Eroica baseball au
* the one with Klaus and the "machine"
* the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it
* the Lucky Starr AU with magical soulmate wrist tattoos - wait not an AU sorry
* the one where the serum doesn't work and Steve Rogers becomes a Pulitzer-prize winning war cartoonist instead
* the one where Aurora Pontmercy has twelve dead godfathers
* Peter Quill/Dean Winchester, driver picks the music
* the one where hot grown-up Gavroche goes back in time and saves everyone at the barricades
* the one where Bucky writes a book
* the Good Omens Easter story
* the next bit of the epic Night in the Lonesome October sequel
* Valjean and Javert at La Madeleine
* Les Amis start a porn studio (for great justice)
*JARVIS finds a copy of the Wizard's Manual on one of his drives, and has to make a Choice
*Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan/Admiral Miles Naismith
*The AU where pere Madeleine is Bishop of Digne and Javert is a young priest serving under him
*Grantaire takes a love potion to make himself fall for Enjolras

Comments

[synecdochic]

the Avengers Go To A Drag Ball (because if Steve comes out he wants to come out the proper old-fashioned way, by dancing with Sam at a drag ball)

YOU ARE LIKE ONE OF THREE PEOPLE I WOULD TRUST TO DO THAT CORRECTLY OMG YOU MUST.

[melannen]

Yeah sadly *I* don't trust me to do it correctly (do you know how hard it is to find detailed sources on pre-WWII Harlem drag balls??? I descended to trying to find archives of historical black newspapers online, and couldn't even find any of those that were reasonably searchable. Not to mention modern ones.... you're one of a few people I know who actually might have tried to find them, come to think of it) but I did spend a very fun two weeks once coming up with designs for Tony's Mark 63 armor with the hoop skirt, spike heels and shoulder-length satin gloves.

(He left a gap between the gloves and the sleeves, so the current to power the repulsors in his palms actually flows over apparently-bare skin for about an inch, it looks really cool in the dark okay)

(...this is part of the reason I don't trust me to do it correctly)

[siegeofangels]

Avengers Go To A Drag Ball sounds awesome. It should be a story, or at least some sketches or pinterest-y inspiration collages.

Pallet/shipping container: I am very intrigued. Is a sex toy/pallet jack involved?

[melannen]

...I may already have the skteches and inspiration folder. <_< And no, it was actually going to be a tragic love story about how Four-way Pallet and Standard Shipping Container changed the world together by fitting so well together, but now that newer, more efficient technologies are replacing the old wooden pallets, Shipping Container is leaving Pallet behind. (I think it had a bittersweet happy ending with Shipping Container becoming a house in post-capitalist-apocalypse Earth, and Four-way Pallet being remade into a dining-room table.) Mostly I want an excuse to tag something on AO3 with "Shipping - Fandom" and make all the other wranglers hate me. (also, shipping infrastructure is cool.)

[beatrice_otter]

Bunnies I am most interested in reading, if you care (and if you don't, feel free to delete comment:

the Avengers Go To A Drag Ball (because if Steve comes out he wants to come out the proper old-fashioned way, by dancing with Sam at a drag ball)
This one seems to me like it would be so fascinating, and fun, and also could only be written by someone who has done research into queer culture of the 30s and 40s, and there are very few people who have done sufficient research, so I will always want more fic from you as one of those people doing anything related to Steve and queer themes.

Steve Rogers/Betty White
Ahahahaha. Yes. I can't decide if it would be a fake relationship where the two are just friends and they troll everyone, or something really sweet and wistful.

the dS/DW AU where there's only one Ray, but he's a Time Lord
You know, I never thought of this premise but it could be AWESOME. There are some people (such as Mary Poppins--the carpetbag!), where things make so much more sense if they are Time Lords.

the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it
YES. THIS.

the one where the serum doesn't work and Steve Rogers becomes a Pulitzer-prize winning war cartoonist instead
the one where Bucky writes a book
... these two could even be combined ...

[melannen]

No, I am glad to hear! The drag ball one seems to be a hit. (I think people are vastly overestimating the amount of research I have at my fingertips there, though.)

I think Steve/Betty would be a little bit of bittersweet, a lot of trolling, with a garnish of Steve learning things about sex he didn't even know he didn't know. :P I mostly want Steve to date someone his own age, and I feel like Betty White would be up to it. She was a USO girl in Hollywood during the war, iirc, so they could have even known each other before! (There's actually a reference to it in my Bruce Banner fic, when they mention Steve's scary girlfriend it's hinted to be Betty, though it was a very subtle hint.)

and Ray is a Time Lord is just... really necessary, and works weirdly well, although there's some backstory stuff that takes explaining, although the car being a functioning TARDIS helps. (So does "Stella was married to Vecchio, okay, and we just didn't have chemistry anymore after I regenerated, and it SUCKS.")

[stellar_dust]

Presumably you have found this already? http://www.amazon.com/Bulldaggers-Pansies-Chocolate-Babies-Triangulations/dp/0472034898

I want all the ones that have been mentioned plus Harry Sings the Blues (you read the latest book right?). And hot grown-up Gavroche, yes.

[melannen]

Oooh, if I did find that one before I wrote it off as "not a chance in hell I'll ever get my hands on it". (On the other hand it's possible it wasn't out the last time I was seriously researching this.... I will definitely put it on a list!)

Harry Sings the Blues is the result of me getting assigned the Chicago Blues Festival in a Dresden Files vs. Real Chicago fest that happened a couple years back, and I never wrote it because of a similar case of "damn it if I'm going to write about Chicago Blues I really need to do a better job on the research and non-whitewashing than Butcher ever did." Luckily that one *does* have the research material out there - it is in fact the main reason I now own all these books, and actually feel semi-qualified to offer Robert Johnson in YT this year - I just haven't, uh, read most of them.

(also haven't read the last two Dresden Files books. Actually. Possibly my planned story wouldn't even work any more. It had a lot of Lash in it. and required Harry being much more okay than he was at any point in Ghost Story.)

[neotoma]

* Steve Rogers/Betty White

that could be very sweet.

* Harry Dresden Sings the Blues

All I can think of is the Justice League Unlimited episode which ends with Batman having to sing "Am I Blue?" at the end

* the Pacific Rim Star Wars AU

original series or prequel?

* The Erlking vs. Benton Fraser

ooooo. the Dresden Files version of the Erlking, not the fairy tale version?

* the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it

Yes please!

* Peter Quill/Dean Winchester, driver picks the music

bwahaha. You know, it would probably be good for Dean to get kidnapped by intergalactic space pirates with similar tastes in music...

[melannen]

I was thinking neither prequel nor original trilogy? Given that the movie is about people who were formerly an elite military unit transitioning into being a resistance force, I was going to set it in the very early Imperial years. (And ignore most of the post-Prequel-Trilogy EU because I don't care about it.) So Master Pentecost is leading a motley group of traumatized Force-sensitive survivors and Republic loyalists and trying to save what he can of the Jedi tradition without drawing Imperial notice. (I think there's a climactic moment where he says "Today, we stop clinging to the last excuses of the Old Republic. Today, we become the Rebellion.")

And yeah, it was going to be Dresden Files Erlking, the next one in the series of crossovers I plotted out (Fraser is chasing a poacher across Canada, and runs into a Hunt he didn't expect....)

And hanging out with Peter & Co was enough to let even Comics!Tony get over his angst enough to be cheerful for awhile, so I figured it might be worth trying with Dean. (I don't have enough recent SPN canon to do it properly though, so if someone else wanted to... )

[ellen_fremedon]

Valjean and Javert at La Madeleine

I still want this so bad.

[melannen]

So do iiiii.

[rymenhild]

Things I would really enjoy from this list:

Carlos/Cecil+IgNobel Awards would just be adorable.

Les amis in Omelas... so how do they protest? Do we get a revolution? I would love to know.

skygiants taught me to love Azelma, so I'd love to see her and Marius and Cosette after everything.

Adora Belle Dearheart, the Patrician -- yessssssss

Aurora Pontmercy and twelve dead godfathers *sob*

[melannen]

Carlos figured that the Ig Nobels would be a nice, gentle way to introduce him to the non-Night Vale world, since he really wouldn't stand out at all, except by being less strange than most of the attendees. It worked pretty well! Then he got cocky afterward and took him as a guest to the secret post-awards meeting of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (which is a real thing that really exists independently of Night Vale) and Cecil passed out from sensory overload. (the problem with this one is I'm about a year behind on Night Vale canon, and I understand that... stuff has happened.)

And sure Aurora's godfathers are all dead, but they don't really seem to mind being dead, so she doesn't know why she's supposed to be sad about it? (Aurora inherited her dad's social graces.)

[lannamichaels]

These all sound amazing, but especially
* the Avengers Go To A Drag Ball (because if Steve comes out he wants to come out the proper old-fashioned way, by dancing with Sam at a drag ball)
* Valjean in the Ankh-Morpork AU
* les amis in Starfleet
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's Scottish by upbringing, oops
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's a virgin, oops
* the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it
* the one where the serum doesn't work and Steve Rogers becomes a Pulitzer-prize winning war cartoonist instead
* the one where Aurora Pontmercy has twelve dead godfathers
* the one where hot grown-up Gavroche goes back in time and saves everyone at the barricades

[melannen]

The drag ball seems to be the breakaway hit here! Color me surprised, I was not expecting that for some reason.

[fenellaevangela]

The Community/Captain America crossover! You know the fandom wants it ;-)

[melannen]

The fandom is still reblogging it at least a couple times a week....

[sophia_sol]

Has anyone ever posted a fan-translation of Oolon Colluphid Was Right?


Of the fics you list, UM ALL OF THEM but most especially:

* the YA fic where Billy Kaplan is terrified that he's been accidentally turning everyone queer
* the Avengers Go To A Drag Ball (because if Steve comes out he wants to come out the proper old-fashioned way, by dancing with Sam at a drag ball)
* Valjean in the Ankh-Morpork AU
* pallet/shipping container slash
* four-year-old baby spy Natasha being trained by the Winter Soldier
* The Erlking vs. Benton Fraser
* The next bit of the one where Langoustini meets Marcone
* the dS/DW AU where there's only one Ray, but he's a Time Lord
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's Scottish by upbringing, oops
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's a virgin, oops
* the one where Marius and Cosette meet Azelma in New Orleans
* the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it
* the one where Aurora Pontmercy has twelve dead godfathers
* the one where hot grown-up Gavroche goes back in time and saves everyone at the barricades
* the Good Omens Easter story

[melannen]

No, nobody ever has! I have have no idea if anybody is translating it at all the way I would have. The suspense is dreadful.

(I mean. I could just post my own translation I guess. But that would be no fun.)

[zlabya]

Les Amis in Omelas sounds intriguing, and hot grown-up Gavroche has its appeal even without saving everyone (though that would be awesome; I love {my} wish-fulfillment AUs)

I'm also imagining Tony in an Iron Man drag outfit complete with hoop skirt and gloves. For some reason he's coming out Lolita style with an over-the-dress "cage" hoop skirt, black decorated with red and yellow flowers. Pics are more Goth than I'm thinking but give you an idea of what I mean.

[melannen]

I think I was going for more over-the-top classic drag style? So yards and yards of satin ballgown and gratuitous cleavage and going more for something out of Scarlett O'Hara's wardrobe. Gothic lolita with lots of metalwork has possibilities, though....

[aceofannwn]

The ones that sound most awesome to me are:
* the Avengers Go To A Drag Ball (because if Steve comes out he wants to come out the proper old-fashioned way, by dancing with Sam at a drag ball) - I know nothing about drag balls, but this sounds intriguing
* the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it - ahaha, yes, this: she would do it well, I think
* the one where the serum doesn't work and Steve Rogers becomes a Pulitzer-prize winning war cartoonist instead - this could be fascinating!
* four-year-old baby spy Natasha being trained by the Winter Soldier - this sounds like it could be sad, but also kinda awesome?
** the YA fic where Billy Kaplan is terrified that he's been accidentally turning everyone queer - I would read this so hard

They are all awesome ideas, though!

[melannen]

Yeah, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out who Vetinari's successor could be, because none of the possible good candidates seemed likely to man up to it - and then I realized, wait, why was I restricting it to men, Spike would be PERFECT.

[genarti]

I love the way your brain works so very much. I never have this many ficbunnies at a time, and they're all great!

Fics on this list I am particularly interested in:

*the AU where Javert becomes a criminal mastermind instead of a cop and recruits Valjean before he meets the bishop WHAT. This is horrible, and I would compulsively read with hands clapped over my mouth.
* the les amis in Omelas au SPEAKING OF HORRIBLE, and I am so curious how this would even go down. Although possibly the first 1700 words would just be set-up, and, you know, that's still interesting.
* the SGA as Gethenians au I love all SGA fics that play around with team dynamics and gender and culture, and remember Teyla and Ronon exist, and stuff.
* les amis go to the moon and meet the Lunar Man-Bats I am always here for wacky space AUs.
* les amis in Starfleet I am also always here for Starfleet AUs.
* four-year-old baby spy Natasha being trained by the Winter Soldier MY HEART yes please, I love Natasha backstory so much.
* The Erlking vs. Benton Fraser Because really now.
* the Pacific Rim Star Wars AU I wasn't sure, and then I read your description in another comment, and OMG YES PLEASE.
* the one where Methos is forced to admit he's Scottish by upbringing, oops
* the sequel to the hl/yw fic where Methos and Ed'rashtekaresket are bros Oh wow. Yep.
* the one where Marius and Cosette meet Azelma in New Orleans Once again, AUGH MY HEART.
* the one where Adora Belle Dearheart becomes Patrician because the men are all too chickenhearted to do it I am so very, very much here for that. Yes please wow.
* the one where Aurora Pontmercy has twelve dead godfathers
* the one where Bucky writes a book I am so curious about this book.

...Admittedly this is a lot.

[melannen]

..uh. I. think of the one where Javert is a criminal mastermind as, like, "fun fluff". They get to be gay crimelords together! They bring Fantine into their prostitution ring under their protection and then realize that Tholomyes stupidly left her a letter they could blackmail the shit out of him with! They con Thenardier's inn right out from under him and offer to train up his kids as skilled pickpockets! FLUFF AND HAPPY ENDINGS ALL AROUND. ...possibly this fandom has done something to my definition of 'fluff'.