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.

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[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.