resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
[personal profile] destina - Top five pairs of characters, cross-fandoms as needed, that need to sit down and have a conversation and share life experiences so that at least one of them can benefit from it.

This was so much fun.

5. Benton Fraser would really benefit from a few long conversations with Guinan in Ten Forward. Possibly he'd need Worf to spar with him for a bit to weaken him enough that he'd say anything that needed saying.

4. Actually I'd also like to see Fraser work with Sam Vimes for a bit. Fraser's stubborn, principled, and out of step with the values of the world around him, but he can distract you from it with a frictionless surface made of pleasantness and pedantry; Vimes is stubborn, principled, and out of step with the values of the world around you, and he'd spit in the eyes of the gods if they weren't too cowardly to take physical form and fight him. It would be fun to watch. (Also it would take Vimes a minute to figure out that he wasn't dealing with someone like Carrot -- that there was sarcasm under all that courtesy.)

3. Can you imagine Rodney McKay let loose with Q from Skyfall? Yeah, we made something blow up somewhere in the galaxy but it will probably be awhile before humanity discovers whatever it was, so we're fine.

2. I wish that instead of falling in with the Mayor, Faith Lehane had apprenticed with Granny Weatherwax.

1. Batman needs to sit John Winchester down and teach him a thing or two about being a father. Maybe he could have a talk with Bob Fraser, too.


Leave me a comment to add a prompt to the calendar. The current list is below the cut.


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resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
TJill has translated my Discworld story, Pseudopolis, into Italian!

Pseudopolis (di Resonant) (3480 words) by TJill
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Havelock Vetinari/Samuel Vimes
Characters: Samuel Vimes, Havelock Vetinari
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, First Time, Time Travel, Translation
Summary:

Le uniche tracce del futuro Vetinari erano il naso, le mani e l'immobilità. (Young Vetinari con Sam Vimes nei panni di John Keel, in Night Watch )



I don’t read a word of Italian, unfortunately. I thought that the combination of Latin in high school, Spanish on a Dora the Explorer level, and, you know, having written the story myself might combine to allow me to puzzle out a bit of it, but I didn’t do so well. I’m in awe of people who are fluent enough in multiple languages for a feat like this!
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
I'm gearing up to move again; now that I don't have to stay in the school district*, I'm looking at a couple of places that are smaller, cheaper, closer to work, and ideally a little less damp.

But of course the idea of touching every single item I own, again, is incredibly intimidating.

So I decided to try packing one box a day.

There's quite a lot of low-hanging fruit -- at least ten boxes that I never got around to unpacking two years ago when we moved here. I may very well bog down when it comes to starting from scratch. But here's two days' worth of progress:

Day 1

Packed: One box from the bedroom. Mostly books and miscellaneous desky stuff.

Discarded: One bag of books and three bags of clothes to Goodwill. Half a recycle bin's worth of paper.

Find of the day: A bunch of little spiral notebooks from the pre-Iowa days, when I used to get Saturday mornings alone to write. Much probably-doomed writing in there, including the title of a Discworld story ("Hard-Boiled Egg") and the summary of a Sherlock story ("Suicide by vampire. At least, that was the plan.") and about 500 words of a story I was going to write about how in an Alpha/Omega universe the end of fertility must be heralded by an Omegapause ("Everybody around him was so goddamned fucking young.").

Day 2

Packed: One box of cookbooks and other non-fragile kitcheny stuff.

Discarded: Another bag of books ready to go to Goodwill, and a garbage bag full of things which stop being edible after being left in a box on the living room floor for two years.

Find of the day: So that's where all the AA batteries were.

* Let's just take a moment to let that sink in. Barring really strange circumstances, I am finished with school districts. School districts will never again play a role in my real estate decisions. I am no longer the parent of a public school student. I have attended my last teacher conference, and probably also my last progress report.
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
So remember when I said I'd love to see the worlds of Rivers of London and Good Omens meet?

Here's something even better!

Rivers of Ankh-Morpork (6357 words) by melannen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Grant, Angua von Uberwald, Samuel Vimes, Foul Ole Ron, Gaspode (Discworld), Sybil Ramkin, Thomas Nightingale
Additional Tags: Crossover, community policing, hydrological engineering, Ankh-Morpork City Watch, the River Ankh
Summary:

The Faceless Man miscalculates, and Peter Grant falls into a river.

...well, more onto a river, really. He may have bounced.



Terrific voices, completely plausible Discworld fanboy Peter Grant, and a bit of headcanon that made me catch my breath.

Hangups

Sep. 2nd, 2013 02:17 pm
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
Enough real life. Let's play a game.

You give me a fannish character I'm reasonably familiar with, and for that person I will give you a hangup. You know: a sexual dysfunction, an unexpected inhibition or aversion, some perfectly ordinary thing he/she simply cannot handle.

If I'm *not* familiar with your character, maybe some other reader will join in.

-----

We have requests that I'm unable to fill:
Joe Dawson
John Winchester
Reese or Finch
Christopher Chant

Anybody want to take these on?
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
Saw this gif from "Air Force One Is Down" -- know nothing about the canon -- but it makes me badly want Rupert Graves as Sam Vimes/John Keel in a film of Terry Pratchett's Night Watch.

He's too handsome, but do I care?
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
Lord help us, Res is posting gen. Next thing you know, [personal profile] cesperanza will be posting story notes that say, "Sorry there's not enough plot."

Fruitful
Discworld -- G -- 580 words -- Cheery Littlebottom's wedding, and what follows

Thanks to [personal profile] out_there and [personal profile] runpunkrun for beta!
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Yes)
I've posted a new story based on Terry Pratchett's Night Watch:

Pseudopolis
Vimes/young Vetinari -- NC-17 -- 3,400 words
The only traces of the future Vetinari were the nose, the hands, and the stillness.
Warnings, if any (highlight to read): No particular warning.

Thanks to [personal profile] giglet for beta!

If you haven't read Night Watch recently, there's a brief summary in the story notes.

Or you can read it on my nifty page on An Archive Of Our Own.
resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
I've posted a new Discworld [livejournal.com profile] cliche_bingo story to my website. This was written for the square "Backstory."

Thanks to [personal profile] dira for beta!

And Onto the Grass
Young Gytha Ogg/Young Esme Weatherwax -- PG -- 500 words
"In fact, I believe he thinks I'm his girl."
Warnings, if any (highlight to read): No particular warning.

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