no, but seriously, wouldn't that be neat?

[schmerica]

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 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.

Comments

[calendae.livejournal.com]

Hee. Awesome.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

That is an interesting challenge!

And sometimes my thoughts are a sort of running commentary on my day. In the third person. And the past tense.

[timian.livejournal.com]

Oh! My god! I've been kicking around a similar thought. Fraser and Ray K, traipsing about in the frozen north when BLAMMO! the Avian Flu strikes nearly everyone dead, and they're left to really rough it. But then I love disaster end of the world type stuff, so.

[lalejandra.livejournal.com]

I have all caps in my thoughts a lot of times.

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!

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

so you're squishy and fluffy in the "let's kill the boys we love best!" kind of way?

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

I adore post-apocalyptic fiction, ever since I read Alas Babylon for a history project in high school ... or did I read The Stand first? Anyways, yes. That would be AWESOME.

[riverlight.livejournal.com]

"You know what fandom really needs? Stories about everybody dying in five or ten years of an influenza pandemic!!!"

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::

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

I think you should write LOTS of influenza pandemic fics.

Not just in due South, though. Can you imagine it in Josie? Ooh, or Mean Girls?

*waits*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Actually, I love this idea. Should we do a flashfic Apocalypse challenge?