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no, but seriously, wouldn't that be neat?
Actual thought that went through my head tonight:
"You know what fandom really needs? Stories about everybody dying in five or ten years of an influenza pandemic!!!"*
It's amazing, really. As much time as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lalejandra spends convincing people she isn't squishy, I seem to spend even more time trying to convince people that, no, I really am a fluffy schmoopy marshmallow girl!
(Actually, you know, it might even be an interesting challenge -- assuming you're working with non-futuristic fandoms, I mean. But saying something like "In 2010, the world gets struck with influenza on the scale of 1918 or so" and then people all writing that story in their own fandoms? That would be AWESOME. It works for everybody -- due South, Buffy/Angel, SGA, etc, etc, etc. Man, this concept is going to intrigue me for DAYS.)
*Yes, I do indeed have punctuation like this in my thoughts. Sometimes I even have ALL CAPS.
"You know what fandom really needs? Stories about everybody dying in five or ten years of an influenza pandemic!!!"*
It's amazing, really. As much time as
lalejandra spends convincing people she isn't squishy, I seem to spend even more time trying to convince people that, no, I really am a fluffy schmoopy marshmallow girl!(Actually, you know, it might even be an interesting challenge -- assuming you're working with non-futuristic fandoms, I mean. But saying something like "In 2010, the world gets struck with influenza on the scale of 1918 or so" and then people all writing that story in their own fandoms? That would be AWESOME. It works for everybody -- due South, Buffy/Angel, SGA, etc, etc, etc. Man, this concept is going to intrigue me for DAYS.)
*Yes, I do indeed have punctuation like this in my thoughts. Sometimes I even have ALL CAPS.
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And sometimes my thoughts are a sort of running commentary on my day. In the third person. And the past tense.
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I think that would be a great challenge. It would be like the first few chapters of The Stand, over and over and over again -- or the last few! Woo!
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Can I say, that surprises me NOT AT ALL?
Also, I have totally never read The Stand, even though it has been on my reading list since I posted my apocalypse fic and Ces was shocked and appalled in my comments to find out I didn't know it.
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Actually, I TOTALLY agree with you. In fact, #4 on my current WIP list is: "A story in which Ray goes off to play with Fraser in Canada. And then the world ends. (Um, have I told you all about my obsession with natural disasters and apocalyptic scenarios?)" So if you make a challenge like this, I will write with utter glee. Utter glee.
And my thoughts are often caps'd and italic'd. Sometimes I thnk 'o-m-g'. ::laugh::
Actually, the story I always tell is that when I was five, I ran in to my mom's room, and said to her in total amazement, "Mom!" I can talk in my head!!" ::grin::
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Like I said to Starfish above, though, I wasn't thinking quite apocalypse level pandemic. (I think the 1918 flu was something like 5% global mortality rate, with up to 15 or 20 percent in some countries? Even the bubonic plague is still like 1/3.)
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Not just in due South, though. Can you imagine it in Josie? Ooh, or Mean Girls?
*waits*
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