the last days of the empire

[schmerica]

pearl_o: ds is a crazy nice fandom.

dsudis: yeah?

pearl_o: we have, like, no wank at all. and very few crazy people. even fewer crazy bnfs.

dsudis: *nods*
dsudis: true.

pearl_o: like, the ray smoking thing is as bad as we get.
pearl_o: and we were all polite about that.
pearl_o: *listening to fox tell me about crazy buffy fandom*

dsudis: I think we're enjoying some sort of. Golden era of peace, following the salt-the-earth Ray Wars.

pearl_o: hee.

dsudis: Pax Speranzica.

pearl_o: does that mean the next war is going to be big and huge and take no prisoners?

dsudis: *nodsnods*

pearl_o: all the small beginning things for total war are starting now, and we just won't see them till it's too late.

dsudis: We'll be overtaken by barbarians and split into warring germanic tribes.

pearl_o: *giggles*
pearl_o: Dark Ages!

dsudis: Ray/Ray is probably a warning sign of our collapse into decadence.
dsudis: And as for K/G... hooboy. Fiddling while the fandom burns, I don't doubt.

pearl_o: plus, all these new-fangled people who don't appreciate tradition.

dsudis: *nodsnods*

pearl_o: and, you know, lj.

dsudis: pffft.

pearl_o: God knows that's a sign of the bad times.

dsudis: Maybe that was the shift into Empire?
dsudis: And we all know it's all downhill from there.

pearl_o: *nod*
pearl_o: ...I have lost ability to stretch our metaphor further.

dsudis: yeah, me too.
dsudis: *grins*

pearl_o: it was fun while it lasted!

dsudis: yes!
dsudis: Nothing like a good Roman Empire metaphor.

pearl_o: *nods firmly*
pearl_o: I like the idea of the due south fandom dark ages, though.
pearl_o: we'll lose all the ancient learning and traditions.

dsudis: Except what's preserved by Irish monks.

pearl_o: *nod*
pearl_o: Or zines, perhaps.

dsudis: Possibly.
dsudis: Well, we'll both be totally forgotten, then.
dsudis: Note to self: befriend Irish monks.

pearl_o: And then they'll have to create the fandom anew. Characterization, plot, fanon...
pearl_o: *giggles*
pearl_o: Irish monk au!
pearl_o: *cough*

dsudis: hush, you!
dsudis: I have more AUs than I know what to do with.
dsudis: Also, RayK would make a terrible monk.

pearl_o: I actually had a long conversation with Lyra once about a historical au involving medieval monks.

dsudis: Also also, Kat's already got dibs on Fraser as a priest.

pearl_o: yes. but Fraser would make a good monk. and he could write a history about he and rayk, and it would be all tragic and stuff.

dsudis: awwww.
dsudis: It would probably rhyme.
dsudis: In Latin.

pearl_o: heeee.

dsudis: Rhyming is a lot easier, in Latin.

pearl_o: It would be like a secret manuscript, hidden away and only found by scholars years later.

dsudis: *nodsnods*

pearl_o: I actually have this conversation saved somewhere. It's awful.

dsudis: *grins*

pearl_o: *finds it* Apparently I was also telling Nifra she should write a Russian AU that night. Siberia! Arctic!

dsudis: *snickers*

pearl_o: me: I was telling Nif that I very very vaguely want a dS AU involving Russia. With Fraser from Siberia~!
me: And Nif was all like "Siberia makes me think of prisons and bears."
me: Only then I told her about Tunguska, so I guess now it's prisons, bears, and UFOs.
pearl_o: anyway. my point was: I like monks.
pearl_o: wait, no.
pearl_o: what was my point?

dsudis: Anything can inspire an AU?

pearl_o: *snicker* Could be.

Comments

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i gotta say that as far as crazy goes, lotrips wins. my favorite fandom is master & commander - there's like ten of us there, and no wank. except for that one person who wrote a 7000+ word story, and posted it to the drabble community. there's always one nut ;)

one of these days, though, i swear i will see due south. my hand to god.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

See, I know nothing about lotrips? But it still always gets voted the craziest in any multifandom conversation I've ever been in. HP gets a nice honorable mention, though.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

dude, it totally brings the crazy. i should do a poll when people are around again. heh.

hp is so huge, that it can't help but have crazy. but it doesn't have the True Love and the Evil PR.

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

This is just yet another example of why dS fandom is my happy place.

*befriends Irish monks*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins* dS fandom is *my* happy place, too. (Also, I love your icon. Hee.)

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

Am now picturing the Name of The Rose dS AU. And I don't even *read* dS!!!

Er, have you read Name of the Rose? Umberto Eco? Monks? It's funnier if you've read the book, I SWEAR.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, I *think* I have. There's like a murder mystery, maybe?

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

It's a murder mystery set in a monastery in the 1300s and the conceit is that it's a lost manuscript written by the young monk who was part of the investigation and the monk is all old and stuff.

[claire.livejournal.com]

I vote for dorkiness.

I bet Ray would be a fine Irish monk. Or he could be the stable boy that leads Brother Benton astray. Mmmmm stable boy.

[mergatrude.livejournal.com]

(sorry to butt in but...) stable boy Ray is over here: Sir Benton and the Groom (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sihayab/1680.html#cutid1) by sihayab.

[claire.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. Nice ;)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. When Lyra and I were actually having our long conversation about this, we decided Fraser would be a monk, and Ray would be neither clergy, serf, or landowner -- which, uh, basically leaves craftsmen or artisan, I guess (blacksmith, carpenter, blah blah blah). Or maybe military.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

OK, my brain went to a Tunguska crossover place, with Ray&Fraser + Mulder&Krycek. I now have smoke curling gently out of my ears, and all the gears locked up.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I know pretty much nothing about X-Files -- does Tunguska have a special connection within it?

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Oh my golly. OK, um. It's part of the big uber-plotarc and hence makes no sense, but anyway, Mulder and Krycek take a long long trip together to Tunguska (during which Krycek is frequently in handcuffs and Mulder smacks him around a lot). Mulder does one of his insane madly-racing-into-hideous-danger things and Krycek follows after for no apparent reason (except for the LURRRVE!) They end up locked in a cell in a Russian prison camp in Tunguska, alone together in the darkness, and there is a great deal of mutual pushing-up-against-the-brick-wall, and invasion-of-personal-space, and deep-intense-eyefucking. Think Oz, except with cockroaches and Russians.

There is, needless to say, a fair amount of missing-scenes fanfic set in that selfsame cell. *g* And now you'll have to excuse me, I'm having a great swamping wave of XF nostalgia . . . Ahhh, my pretty, pretty, fucked-up boys . . .

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh. All is clear now!

...So what kind of crossover place *did* your brain go to? *g*

[daughtershade.livejournal.com]

Ray would totally make a good monk! He'd be the one in charge of the wine that was drunk all the time and getting called down by the Bishop. He'd flagrantly ignore most of the rules, but still be a good guy at heart that the local people adore and go to with their problems. Fuck... he's Friar Tuck! LOL

Robin Hood AU... just sayin...

[plumsnickety.livejournal.com]

Fuck... he's Friar Tuck!

Or in the immortal words of Samantha on Sex and the City, he's Friar Fuck.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Fraser and Ray as monkeys? Are you off your nut? (or your banana?)

Oh wait... monks? Never mind.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Once I was talking to somebody about helenish's Nsync AU, "Guerrillas" and the subject of unfortunate typos came up, and we started planing out the possibility of an "Gorillas" AU where all the members of the band were in fact non-human primates.

This dorkiness is nothing new.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

You are the cutest geeky dorky psychotic ever.

*snuggles*

*tells you more stories of why my fandoms are always the batshit insane-iest*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*curls up for story time*

Although, dude. You do remember s1/2 hiatus?

[china_shop]

I'm so glad I missed the Ray wars.

*snugs ds fandom*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*snugs with*

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE YOU BOTH!!!

And, can I just say... I'm, like, writing the RayK-as-surly-Irish-monk AU in my head right now ... grrnarrrrrgh. Thanks a lot.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[reginagiraffe]

We'll be overtaken by barbarians and split into warring germanic tribes.


I read that as 'genomic tribes' and I went to a Wrath of Khan/Mad Max kind of place.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. Total apocalypse, man.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Pax Speranzica.

You're so very right about that. (:

[silverakira.livejournal.com]

Pax Speranzica.

[dies] So very true, though.

And dude. You two are, like, my heroes. Really.

dsudis: Anything can inspire an AU?

pearl_o: *snicker* Could be.

So we can be expecting some fic in the near future, yes? [waits patiently]