SAVE THE CHEERLEADER SAVE THE WORLD

[schmerica]

Because, um, I couldn't sleep last night and ended up doing this instead. Hmm.

Setting: Northeast United States, biggest excesses of the Jazz Age era.

Main Characters:

Ralph and Clara Westcott (Paul Gross and Molly Parker): Twins, rich, attractive, smart, seductive. They like parties and fun and decadence and beautiful things. Ralph is quieter and subtler, and Clara is louder and more overt, but they both get what they want. They have a very complex and fucked-up relationship between themselves.

Harry Dove (Callum Keith Rennie): A brilliant artist who's been struggling for years, he's just had his first big success, which is how he ends up at one of the Westcotts' parties. Ralph and Clara adopt him as a sort of pet, and he gets more and more involved with them, staying with them, getting sucked into their own little incestuous world.

Minor characters:

Chauncey Lofton (Don McKellar): one of their frequent party guests. Born rich and high class, arrogant, committed socialist who talks all the time about the common man.

Alma Sullivan (Rachel McAdams): another frequent guest and friend. Pretty, fast, likes cocktails and short skirts and cigarette holders and dancing all night; wants nothing more than to be outrageous.

Marguerite Heller (Martha Burns): another one of their circle. Avant-garde poet, intelligentsia, obsessed with culture. Probably the one who first discovers Harry Dove and brings him along.

Mae Cottle (Ellen Page): Clara's daughter from her short-lived marriage. A prodigy and genius who spends the majority of her time at school in Europe, only arriving at the Westcotts' for occasional brief visits.

Frank Cottle (Peter Outerbridge): Clara's ex and Mae's father. He was the Westcotts' chauffeur before he and Clara eloped when she was 18. The marriage only lasted a few months before Clara came back home, had the baby, and then forgot the whole thing like it had never happened.

Bess (Katherine Heigl): Very pretty, sort of shy and naive maid in the house. She tries to be proper, and gets embarrassed easily when the master and mistress notice her to flirt her and tell her how pretty she is, etc.

Julius (Jeffrey Dean Morgan): Another servant; he pretty much runs the entire household and knows everything that is ever going on there.

ANYWAY. In the world of REAL FANDOMS! I just watched Heroes 1x05, and oh my god, dudes. I feel like I should have lots and lots to say about this show, so it's really weird that I don't, not at all. All I have to say is BWEEEEEEEEEE THIS SHOW I LOVE YOU SO MUCH SQUEE SQUEE SQUEE. I am ridiculously in love.

On the list of things that fandom is making me do that I will probably regret in the near future:

a) I'm downloading Hard Candy for Ellen Page.

b) I signed up for rps_advent. Eeeep!

Comments

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

So is it sad that just by reuniting Izzie and Denny in your head, you've made me a Bess/Julius shipper in your imaginary fandom?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...Dude, do you really think *I* am in any place to judge sadness right now? SeriouslY?

[etben.livejournal.com]

I HEART your imaginary fandom. That's some hot stuff, dear.

...and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Much. Although I do think I feel some DOOM coming on...

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna sing the doom song now!

Doom de doom doom doom de doom...

[etben.livejournal.com]

...fuck. The more I think about this, the more I really want you to write it. Because it would be an engaging and fascinating (and, yes: hot) story! ...WHATEVER SO I AM A HOOKER. You totally already knew that.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Point.

You should totally write this.

[pocketmouse]

Oh, I am loving your imaginary fandom. It's so pretty and fucked up.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

Your imaginary fandom already owns me. Wriiiiiite iiiiiit. You know you want to.

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Not. Helping.

(Also, interesting that Clara is the more outgoing one -- I was seeing it the other way in my head, but... yeah. That works.)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Hard Candy is so very, very good and screwed up.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Isn't it though? *cuddles it*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Man, the thing is, I want to write fic for it, not actually write a story or book or whatever, you know? And I want other people to be writing it, too! Imaginatation is so stressful.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It looks good! Just stessful!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm totally helping, you don't even know!

But, yeah, I think Clara is totally outgoing -- very dramatic, always seeking entertainment. And Ralph is quieter and is one of those people who always looks amused and superior, and is good at saying really witty mean sarcastic things. (He says them to Harry when they're standing in the corner at one of the parties, while Harry sips his drink, and Ralph talks quietly enough that he has to lean forward to murmur it into Harry's ear in his low, husky voice -- and what he says is almost cruel, but also funny, and Harry feels weirdly special that *he's* the one Ralph's saying it to.)

Um, yeah.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, I point you to my comment below! --Man, the thing is, I want to write fic for it, not actually write a story or book or whatever, you know? And I want other people to be writing it, too! Imagination is so stressful.

Original writing, BAH. That's no fun at all.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I point you to my response here: http://pearl-o.livejournal.com/804022.html?thread=7333302#t7333302

(Man, your icon is SO PRETTY. Oh, Izzie.)

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

That is so fascinating, because that is almost exactly how I'd pictured her -- someone constantly saying extremely wicked things in a very soft, cultured, ladylike voice -- but now that I'm thinking of it the other way round...

Oh, God, I want this to be real. And I kind of really want to write fic for it, actually.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

So what's the difference between an imaginary fandom and an original fiction idea?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Well -- like I said in some of the comments, I have no desire to actually write this, you know? The things that are interesting in this to me are partly the thing itself -- which would be something I would enjoy if someone else created it -- and partly applying what I love about fandom (the community, writing the good parts, the whole thing) to what this would be if it existed.

Um, I know I'm weird.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

It is. It really keeps you guessing in someways without taking you out of movie itself. And it's so pretty.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I want this to be real. And I kind of really want to write fic for it, actually.

*winner*

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm afraid you are. (And I do! Pity I'm not a mind reader...)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Man, other people's heads are just as interesting as mine, you know?

(oh, crap, how did I even *do* that)

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Reposted, because I am Special:

Yes, but at present yours is the only one with the correct version of these people in them. And oh god the pretty help it's eating my brain.

*sulks*

*is not a stalker, promise*

[etben.livejournal.com]

If this were a fandom, I would totally write for it.

...hmmmm. I really kind of want to propose some sort of communal-original-fiction-writing project, but at the same time? I just want another drink. Guess which impulse wins!

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

No, I think that makes sense. My ideal fandom is definitely not something I would write if I were still writing original fiction.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear ya. But you could write the fic without actually writing the whole story first...

No, really, you could.

[sloganeer.livejournal.com]

i love your imaginary fandom. it's exactly the kind of thing canadian film is known for. it could totally happen!

heh. chauncey.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins* Don McKellar would TOTALLY be a Chauncey, dude.

Re: (oh, crap, how did I even *do* that)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but since they don't exist, there IS no one correct version, right?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, you are making me wish I had a blender so I could make myself lots of girly frozen drinks.

Also, that would be kind of awesome.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...Vic, why must you encourage me in my crazy self-indulgence?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

P.S.: look how pretty they are:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y159/pearlo/imaginary.jpg

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

If it makes you happy, it makes me happy. Or something. Also, Bess/Julius! You know you want to!

[fractalreality.livejournal.com]

I was just linked to this, and I think I love you...

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

Okay, how old are these people with respect to eachother? Because I was going to go by actor ages, but PG and Molly Parker aren't near each other in the slightest, so I'm thinking you must have some plan layed out.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ha, yes, that is totally a handwavey part. So I mean, in Men With Brooms MP and PG are clearly supposed to be within a couple years of each other -- and then there's stuff like how in dS, CKR is playing the same age as Anne-Marie Loder, who's a decade younger, too. So basically, I feel okay saying "the hell with it" and CKR, MP and PG all about the same age. The same with Martha Burns, Don McKellar, Peter Outerbridge, etc -- all the same generation. Rachel McAdams always seems to play young, so I was imagining her somewhat younger, and obviously Ellen Page is a different generation.

[mondschein1.livejournal.com]

So if, say, someone from the older generation were to hit on Rachel McAdams, would this be considered hot, stupid, or just plain sick?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It depends on the person, but I lean towards hot! Maybe a decade or so difference? I would not be surprised if she and Molly Parker have made out before to enliven boring parties.