Euro 2012 and a Meme
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redfiona99I've nothing much to say about the group D games other than Gerrard, Ibrahimovic and Shevchenko all played a captain's innings. Especially Shevchenko. Quite frankly, I hope a lot of pundits choke on their words.
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Meme:
Give me a fandom and a character/pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universes for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky.
01. D/s
02. Dystopian
03. Vampire/Shapeshifters
04. Pirates
05. …In SPACE!!
06. Genderswap/Always A ______
07. Band/Singer
08. Supernatural
09. Magical Realism
10. Matriarchal
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Meme:
Give me a fandom and a character/pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universes for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky.
01. D/s
02. Dystopian
03. Vampire/Shapeshifters
04. Pirates
05. …In SPACE!!
06. Genderswap/Always A ______
07. Band/Singer
08. Supernatural
09. Magical Realism
10. Matriarchal
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Date: 2012-06-12 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-13 02:32 pm (UTC)I hope you don't mind me posting them piecemeal
Date: 2012-07-12 05:26 pm (UTC)The full fic would be titled something like 'Loose Lips Sink Ships'. It's Henry Morgan-era pirates, and Regal is the governor of one of the smaller of the Caribbean islands. Jericho is a local pirate, who, of course, is bribing the governor. Island rumour at present is suggesting that there may be all kinds of other sweeteners to this deal.
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Regal heard the footsteps echoing from behind his bookcase. It could mean only one thing, that someone was creeping up the secret passage. And since all his men, excepting the watch, were asleep in their beds, that left only the pirates. By now the tide would be low enough that you could walk along the tunnel from the coast. But, given the presence of Barrett's marines, who would be stupid enough to sneak into the mansion?
Desperation was known to make people do terrible things, so Regal carefully loaded the pistol he kept at his bedside.
The bookcase slowly rolled back, Jericho stepped forward, pistol first. "I was hoping it would be you I'd find." Secure in his safety, Jericho returned the gun to it's holster.
"What on earth are you doing here? Barrett's men are all over the island."
"You think I don't know that. Why do you think I'm here? I was selling the merchandise in the town, successfully might I add, and when I started to head back there's red coats, everywhere. This was the only place I could think of that was safe."
Regal didn't have to worry about the ship, Jericho would be dead before he left the Liontamer in any danger. No, all Regal had to worry about was himself. "You could have stayed in the tunnel."
"It's damp and it's cold."
"And when Barrett charges in, telling me there's been a sighting of the dread pirate Jericho in the town, how do I explain you?"
"You've gone native and I'm one of the local lovlies. I don't know, dealing with the British is your job. Now move over and let me get some sleep."
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Date: 2012-09-06 01:25 pm (UTC)I'm envisioning some sort of 'Behind The Music' type of documentary. It's been years (~10) since whatever band it is split up amid the usual acrimony. This bit is an interview with the bass player and he and the interviewer are discussing comments made by the guitarist. (Michael and Gary are place-holder names until I can find someone to fit. I am very tempted by the idea of Edge as the bass player, except there is already an Edge in a band, and I think there's a one Edge limit when it comes to musicians. Also, I'd need to find a hockey player to allegedly say the George Best quote I use. Plus using if I use Edge as the bass player, that would probably make the guitarist Christian.
"Is he still going on about that then? I've heard about bitter, but it's been ten years." Michael leaned forward on the couch.
The interviewer pounced. "So you don't agree with him, that the way your contract with Sony was structured was unevenly balanced and Chris got the lion's share of the money."
"Oh no, he's right about that, but Chris was the star, even if and it wasn't like we didn't see any money. I think the problem with Gary is that he always thought he'd be the sensible one, and be sitting on piles of money while the rest of us spent all of ours, and he's not happy that that wasn't how it turned out. Me ... well, what's that old George Best quote, you know 'I spent money on booze and birds, the rest I wasted', I always knew that was going to be me so I don't mind so much. Plus, Chris had the advantage that he got Regal when the band split up."
"Gary did suggest that the reason the contract was so heavily weighted towards Chris was because of the alleged relationship between Jericho and your manager."
"Are we still going with 'allegedly' for that?"
[Brief noises in the background as the interviewer talks to the rest of his team.] "Yes, we're still going with allegedly for that, at least until they stop threatening to sue."
"I'm not sure they can sue you for things I say, as long as it's made clear that it's only my opinion."
"I didn't know you were well read in law."
"I'm not, really, I just thought I ought to do some reading, what with everything,"
[screen fades out to a brief history of the bass player's many brushes with the law].
Sorry that it's so only tangenitally Jericho/Regal. The rest of the not Behind the Music would cover them more, from the early days of the band, where we discover the bass player always had a terrible memory, through the acrimonious break-up and subsequent misadventures and then where are they now. Jericho lives in a palatial mansion somewhere in LA, where he mostly writes songs for other people nowadays, although he goes on acoustic tours sometimes. The documentary desperately tries to avoid mentioning that he lives in the same gated community as Regal, mostly because Regal has attack lawyers watching them like hawks, because he's seen what coming out did to Rob Halford's career, and he's not having that happen to his Chris.
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Date: 2012-10-01 05:17 pm (UTC)She knows she shouldn't be bitter, coming into the business she knew that she'd probably never be the star. She's not pretty enough for that. She prefers 'striking' or 'handsome', but knows that butch tends to be the word people use.
She chooses to believe that it doesn't bother her, but she knows that if it really didn't she wouldn't feel quite so ... conflicted about Christine's success.
It wasn't that Christine didn't work hard, she'd thump anyone who said differently, but things were easier when you were a pretty girl like Christine.
And yes, she should be less bitter when it's her girlfriend going for the gold, even if that relationship's kept very much between themselves. She doesn't blame Christine for that, as the boss-man said, "the fans don't mind when it's two babes, but ..."
Will was present for that meeting, and finished the boss's sentence with "point" rather than let him end it, because the man was a genius, but he had a way with words that left crude and vulgar in the dust, and whatever he had intended to say would have been offensive.
She'll be happy for Christine, eventually, but there's something aggravating about having to job in the curtain jerker when Christine's booked to win in the main event.
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Date: 2012-06-13 12:31 pm (UTC)Can I have the Magnificent Seven? Maybe Chris? If that's too long ago, hmmm.
Avengers, Bruce?
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Date: 2012-06-13 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-13 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-15 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-15 06:39 pm (UTC)I'm intrigued to see it. Universes have this habit of expanding...
Being posted in pieces so that some of them will see the light before doomsday
Date: 2012-07-12 05:31 pm (UTC)~~~~
Bruce was claustrophobic, everyone knew that. Quite why they'd sent him up to the space station to fix it was beyond him. It was beyond everyone, including Tony. "All he's going to do is have a freak out."
"Someone needs to fix the drive manipulator." Steve always was the sensible one.
"Hello, genius engineer here."
"Tony, Bruce is the man who designed the damn thing, he knows more about it than anyone else. I don't doubt that you could fix it, but it's better if there's an actual fix, not a Heath Robinson job."
"All my other repairs have worked." Tony was sick of Steve doubting his abilities.
"All your others weren't on the only thing keeping this up in the air."
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Date: 2012-09-06 01:26 pm (UTC)Because I like going with obvious options, Bruce is in a band called the Avengers, and equally obviously, he's the drummer, very much in the Animal/Keith Moon mode. He's embarrassed by it, because he's nothing like that in real life/offstage. Thor is the bass player. He used to be in a death metal band with Loki but left to join the Avengers and, oh boy, do those two bands ever not get on. Natasha is one of the singers and multi-instrumentalist. Guitar, violin, banjo, you name it, she can play it. Hawkeye is the keyboard player. Steve Rogers is one of the two guitar players, while Tony Stark is the other, and the constant source of tension between the two is whether Tony ought to be allowed the solos he wants, because sure, they're good but do they add anything to the songs.
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Date: 2012-10-01 05:21 pm (UTC)Bruce could hear Colonel Hill approaching. He'd come out here to the balcony at the top of SHIELD's headquarters so that no one would bother him. He still wasn't fit for human company. But that was never going to stop Hill. Neither of them had any time for pleasantries. "I wasn't expecting Fury."
"I only send my best for the Avengers."
"Romanova?"
"Already out on assignment. Listen, I know you don't like Fury." Bruce really didn't. He blamed it on Fury being ex-military. He never had got on with the army, which was his Dad's fault. People kept trying to tell Bruce that he ought to go easy on his Dad, that he'd been under constant pressure to prove himself given his gender and his rank. Bruce felt that might be an excuse for some things, but not using his only child as a guinea pig. It wasn't just that, of course. Fury was a shock after Coulson. Phil had been blandly attractive the way all company spokespeople were, the perfect face for SHIELD. Fury, with his scarred face and eye-patch, wasn't. He was also always three steps away from insubordination.
"But Fury's the best I've got now."
I wish I could write more of this. It's an interesting verse. Natasha is the undisputed leader of the Avengers, and Tony Stark is generally held to be lucky that he's got money from his father.
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Date: 2012-06-14 06:47 am (UTC)Here's the first one
Date: 2012-07-12 05:47 pm (UTC)He made sure to stay in the background when the press were around. A man with his history shouldn't even be in the band of conservative country's darling.
Except he'd been there every step of the way for Molly's eight year overnight success story, and he wasn't throwing her into the pit of vipers that is the music industry without some protection.
(In which Regal pines for Molly, who is a Taylor Swift-like country singer [complete with performing in bare feet]. He used to play in a band that toured with Black Sabbath, back in the bad old days. He doesn't think that Molly would, could ever consider him so he just busily tries to keep her safe. Obviously there would be a happy ending, I'm just not sure how the rest of it goes.)
Re: Here's the first one
Date: 2012-07-13 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-06 01:26 pm (UTC)It was no surprise that Inspector Regal of the Ministry was visiting the House of the Grey Sisters. The Sisters were the only people who were allowed into (and back out) of the wastelands, to tend to the outcasts, but they were monitored. Rebels were everywhere, according to Government news.
The Sisters had converted their grounds to farmland, vegetables mostly, with some chickens and goats. No government rations went to the Wastelands, it was the only way the Sisters could provide for the outcasts.
He took one of the sisters, Sister Molly, out to interrogate her by the tomato vines.
Of course, his superiors wouldn't like what he was saying.
"Have you heard anything more about the water pipes?" Molly asked.
"No."
"It is urgent."
"I know. The Ministry know there's a mole, and I think they've narrowed it down to my department. They've tightened all the security protocols, and made everyone change their passwords, so I've got to gather them again."
"Be careful."
"Trust me, I am. There's nothing like working next to the gallows to sharpen your precautions."
"I mean it."
"I know." Regal moved to hold her hand, but Molly pulled away.
"You know I can't. I'm presumin' enough on the Sister's kindness as it is." Hiding in plain was the best way of getting things done, and being a Grey Sister was the quickest way of communicating with the rebels that had been caught and cast out, and, while there was still surveillance of the Sisters, they had an easier time of it than most citizens. "One day, when this is all over."
"If we win and if we're still alive."
"That's why we leave the optimism to me."
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Date: 2012-09-11 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-12 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-16 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-01 05:22 pm (UTC)He ought to hate her. He's spent years fighting against what he is, sucessfully he thinks, take the nonsense with 'the man's man'; any deference in him is put down to politeness, and his general reserve to British stuffiness.
And it's all fallen apart, under those tiny delicate hands. She's all kindness, absolutely sure of what she wanted done but courteous while being that. All he wants is to obey her.
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Date: 2012-10-09 07:27 am (UTC)