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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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.