Two memes

[daibhidc]

Memed from john_elliott and lost_spook:

First meme:

Give me one fandom I write/rec/read AND a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc) or another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc). I will then explain the gist of the story I would write for that AU.

Second meme:

Give me a pairing and I will tell you:

1. What they most commonly do during sex
2. Who has prettier hair
3. What they argue about most often
4. Who'd cope best if the other one died
5. The happiest plausible happily-ever-after I can think of for them.

(Note: I am almost certainly going to completely ignore question 1.)

Comments

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

synchronicity, don't you love it. Let me recommend the Ciaphas Cain books then, you don't really need to know about the W40K world as they're pretty self contained (and fun). I avoided them for ages, then took the plunge due to Waterstones 3 for 2 deal and getting the first omnibus for free. I'm so glad I did because they are wonderful stories.

Anyway, remind me what the fandoms you are famliar with are again, because the only two I really know you are fan of are Discworld and Dr Who and they are so flexible virtually any/every setting/scenario has been done already in-canon.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

DC and Marvel (um, same problem...)
Red Dwarf
Star Trek
The Muppets (also the same problem)
LOTR
Dragonlance
Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes
Futurama
Simpsons (and again; is there an AU that hasn't been a Treehouse of Horror?)
Diogenes Club/Anno Dracula
Radio 4 comedy

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

Lord of the Rings, as an 80s "socially aware" British sitcom.

Arnold J. Rimmer/Gytha Ogg

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

1) Hmm, tricky. Maybe something like:

Opening shot of Bag End Tower Block. In Flat Eleventy-One, Frodo Baggins (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is worried that his Uncle Bilbo has disappeared after his birthday, and he's got no way of paying the rent. Gandalf (Alexi Sayle), the crazy guy who lives in the flat below, offers him a job. With the bungling assistance of his best mate, lovable buffoon Sammy (Bill Bailey), he agrees to take a load of hooky gold rings to Sauron, kingpin of the Mordor Estate (Adrian Edmundson).

But on the way he gets mugged by a motorbike gang called the Black Riders and loses the rings. It's down to the Sensible Female Character, Galadriel (Linda Robson), to sort everything out...

2)
2. Um ... no-score draw?
3. Whether it's appropriate to follow up all 23 verses of the Space Corps Anthem with all 23 verses of the Hedgehog Song.
4. Gytha's used to loss, having buried at least one husband. Rimsy isn't even used to having someone who likes him, so he's unlikely to react well to losing her.
5. I honestly can't imagine Rimmer ever getting a plausible happily-ever-after. His life just doesn't work that way.