Random meme time!

[deathpixie]

Taken from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com].

Give me two characters and I’ll give you a sentence (or so) from a fic about them.

Sources include: X-Men, Vertigo (Hellblazer, Fables, the Sandman, Books of Magic), Buffy, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Doctor Who (season 1 of the new series only, tho'), Life on Mars, House, Babylon 5, The Common People Project, pretty much anything Neil Gaiman has written... You get the picture. *grins*


And if someone can figure out a way to make this a general [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] meme, go ahead. ;)

Comments

[khanfused.livejournal.com]

from (I assume) x-men fic?

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

Mystique and Paige Guthrie.

[nute.livejournal.com]

Jayne Cobb and Cain Marko. :)

[silensy]

Is it an "unwritten" fic? Or are you going to go out and do research. The first one is pretty simple to port. The second...hmm, logs maybe?

[deathpixie]

For me, characters from X-Men, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Hellblazer, The Sandman series, most other things Gaiman, Life on Mars... That'll do for now.

And it's not so much actual fics as me giving a sentence or two from a fic in potentia. ;)

[deathpixie]

'Unwritten'. It didn't strike me as terribly fun to do it as an actual research thing. ;)

[silensy]

Then yeah, I'd just repost it to x_project as is (adding in "unwritten" before) and maybe do a "tag in if you're willing to write pairs"

[ferox.livejournal.com]

Eeeee!

[lady-cassidy.livejournal.com]

Willow and Illyana.

[(Anonymous)]

River Tam (post BDM) and Badger

[maureenans.livejournal.com]

River & Clarice.

[avariel-wings.livejournal.com]

Angelo and Simon Tam.

[deathpixie]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to avoid doing all the answers myself. I think "name two characters and _someone_ will come up with a sentence" might work?

[deathpixie]

"Word travels far on the Rim, little girl," Badger said, leaning back in his chair, bowler hat tipped back at a cocky angle. "And the word is it was you that the Alliance was after, back when they razed the safe houses. Lot of people dead, poppet, and a lot more running scared. So tell me why, after all that, why should I help you?"

"Because," River said, her voice remote and serene. "You're too curious not to."

[silensy]

How about "If you post a pair, you're volunteering to write a pair?"

[deathpixie]

This one'll have X-Project references, I'm afraid, mate. Too good a line to pass up. ;)


Paige watched the woman in front of her, twin, mirror-image, the face the same one she saw in the bathroom every morning, the same hair she brushed a hundred times a night, the same body she pushed to its limits in the Danger Room. Her lips tightened.

"Get out of my face," she told Mystique.

"I think it suits me," Mystique purred. "Don't you think? After all, it was good enough for Forge."

[deathpixie]

That could work. *goes to post*

[deathpixie]

Jayne approached the body, moving unusually stealthy for such a large man. 'Night' had fallen - or been declared - on Serenity, the rest of the crew tucked safely in their bunks. Leaving the mysterious body they'd found floating in space in the infirmary. "He's too frozen for my instruments to cut," the pansywaist doctor had said. "I'll try to autopsy again in the morning."

They wouldn't have bothered picking the body up at all, except that it was so unusual. Ten feet tall, dressed in a kind of leather armour, with a helmet bolted down. And in the centre of his chest, exposed by the shattering of the breastplate under some kind of force, was a gem. A ruby the size of Jayne's fist.

The knife gleamed in the medical bay's sterile lighting, Jayne licking his lips in anticipation. A gem that size, a man could buy a whole moon, if he wanted. He set the knife under the edge of the ruby, began to prise...

A hand larger than his head gripped his face, and he froze. The body wasn't a body after all - baleful eyes glared up at him, tinged with red the same colour as the jewel in his chest.

"I think," Cain Marko said slowly, squeezing Jayne's face in emphasis until his jaw creaked. "I think you'll be wanting to put that knife away, boy."

[deathpixie]

"So," Willow said, looking at the blonde girl in open awe. "You teleport between dimensions? Just like that?"

"Well, not just like that," Illyana replied, rolling her eyes slightly. "There's a bit more to things than that."

"But! Still! Teleporting! With the discs and the glowing and the magic!" Willow clapped her hands in glee. "So, have you every been to the world without shrimp?"

An oldie, but a goodie

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Fish and Spike.

You know you want to. ^_^

[deathpixie]

"You're purple," River said, tilting her head slightly as she began to circle Clarice, leaning in to sniff at her clothes, her skin, every so often. "Like lavender. Did you grow in the garden with the other flowers?"

[deathpixie]

"Human mutation of the sort you describe, it's impossible. It'd take millions of years, require far too much genetic alteration..." Simon's words died as he looked again at the tendril of skin wrapped around his wrist. "Isn't it?"

It sounded almost plaintive.

Re: An oldie, but a goodie

[deathpixie]

Jeez, talk about the wayback machine. I didn't realise people still remembered my Collective Mutants. *hees*


Spike grinned, shifting into game face as he approached the young man he'd backed into an alley. Tourist, lost in Sunnydale, like a poor little lamb. A lamb that wouldn't be seeing the rest of its flock any time soon. But as he sank his fangs into the boy's neck, he recoiled, spitting and spluttering.

"You taste like a sodding kipper!" he exclaimed, sounding insulted.

Raphael "Fish" Giannmario grinned, even as he held his hand to the wound in his neck. "I take it you aren't into sushi, then?"

And now I'm going to the special hell for this....

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Andthentheyhadsex.

*RUNS AWAY!*

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

*wibbles* Oh, Simon.

[khanfused.livejournal.com]

Ah ... I'd posted that last one anonymous ... THAT'S why I didn't see the response email.

Thanks!

[kitchendinah.livejournal.com]

Cinderella and Magneto. :D

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

Jubilee and Sophia. *grins*

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

Man, I so want to see a Firefly/X-project cross over fic now. :)

[deathpixie]

"Such power..." Cinderella murmured, watching the television screen. The man in the purple helmet hurled tanks away from himself with a gesture, twisted bridges into pretzels with a thought. "Imagine what we could do with it. The Adversary wouldn't stand a chance."

[deathpixie]

"This is not my dry cleaning."

"Isn't it?" Jubilee cracked her gum, nonchalantly. "You sure?"

"Quite sure, Jubilee. I've never had a fondness for yellow leather."

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

*coughs* The Ninth Doctor (from season one) and Stephen Strange. *INNOCENT*

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

*mwha* I'm going to have so much fun with Jubes. *needs to write out her application once Dex is back.*

[deathpixie]

"Most people are surprised when I tell them I can travel through time and space."

"You've obviously never met my former girlfriend."

[kitchendinah.livejournal.com]

Yay! Danke, Rossi. :)