deird_lj | You know...

My favourite tv/books/etc include:
- massive curry monsters
- dragons with explosive digestion
- an episode in with everyone turns into Looney Tunes cartoons
- England being ruled by mermaids
- a song about the wonder that is SUITS
- Lois and Clark getting married by an angel and then going back in time to break a soulmates-consummation-curse
- Groundhog Day
- people being brought back to life by a piemaker
- people being welcomed into their death by grim reapers who hang out at a waffle restaurant
- The Muppet Show
- a fashion consultant turned bounty hunter
- a planet filled with nothing but Arnold Rimmer, over and over again
- Death's grand-daughter fighting evil with half of Time's son and a formerly-evil chick who suicides in a vat of chocolate
- fanfic all-Penguin AUs

And this? Twangel destiny-sex that destroys the world?

This is too cracky for me.

Here endeth the lesson.

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From:

jnb71976.livejournal.com

HaHa!

*requests copy of your reading list* cuz, whoa.

From:

deird1

Let's see...

I just mentioned:
Dead Like Me, Discworld, Farscape, Groundhog Day, How I Met Your Mother, In Great Waters, Lois & Clark, The Muppet Show, Pushing Daisies, Red Dwarf, Stephanie Plum, and Buffyverse fandom.

:D

I enjoy the crazy.

From:

snickfic

So out of those, which, specifically, involve the curry monster (that sounds Pratchettian to me...), the dragon, and England ruled by mermaids?

Out of those, the one I hadn't even heard of In Great Waters - book, movie, or TV show?

From:

deird1

The curry monster is from Red Dwarf (and is defeated by a can of lager - because everyone knows that lager kills a good vindaloo).

The dragons are from Discworld - and explode when they hiccup.

In Great Waters is the mermaidy one. It's a book by Kit Whitfield - whose previous book, Bareback, featured a world made up almost-entirely of werewolves, where the non-wolves were the odd ones.

From:

snickfic

Ooh. I feel like I've heard of Kit Whitfield - she writes very literary-type stuff with SF tropes, yes? With a rec from you, I might have to finally check her out. 'Cuz both of those premises sound like they could be lots of fun.

From:

deird1

She's quite good - but, word of warning, she doesn't go in for happy endings. Or happy middles, for that matter...

From:

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

I once became totally enraged with the third book of an otherwise fascinating series, in which two teenagers had destiny-sex that saved the world. The more things change... Sigh.

But the mermaids are news to me, and would explain a lot.

From:

deird1

Oh boy. So Joss saw all these people writing world-saving destiny-sex, and went "Ah-ha! Subversion! I'll write world-destroying destiny-sex instead! It's a brilliant, brilliant plan!" and retired to his den, cackling maniacally?

...it'd certainly explain a lot.

Edited Date: 2010-04-10 11:32 pm (UTC)

From:

next_to_normal

This is my #1 theory.

From:

rebcake.livejournal.com

But I liked that part of it! That and her horrible parents redeeming themselves by jumping into the void (which I'm not crazy about in BtVS, btw). However, the point remains that it's just weird in the present instance.

I think perhaps my sex-positive viewpoint is okay with sex saving the world, but not destroying it. Does that make sense? I'm a shipper of the sex positivity! (Which also maybe explains why I'll never be an Angel fan.)

Edited Date: 2010-04-11 05:03 am (UTC)

From:

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

It was nicely written, I grant you. Just '14 year olds have perfect first-time sex yay' seemed like an odd solution to the problems of all the worlds and kind of spectacularly irresponsible in a semi-teen series.

But then, it was the parents that really interested me, so I was pretty cross with the whole last book. Redemption? Pffft.

From:

quinara

Trufax.

It's because mini!super-strength!Lister wouldn't be able to take out Twuffy with a can of lager...

From:

deird1

Probably not. But someone should still write him trying. *nominates you*

From:

quinara

While Lister finished eating the dead curry monster off the floor, the others could only watch in a strange mixture of disgust and awe, when suddenly Holly appeared on the screen.

"Picking up something strange on the long range scanners. Calling red alert. Red alert!"

"What is it?" Rimmer asked, while the Cat looked around at the completely unaffected corridor, strangely still expecting some sort of siren.

Holly frowned. "I'm trying to get a visual, but all I can see is the porn you loaded on my vidscreen last night."

"Oh, sir," Kryten butted in. "I was saving those tissues for the next time we watched Casablanca..."

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Rimmer protested, straightening his uniform. "I may have indulged in a few favourite examples from French film-bleu movement, but none deserve so smutty a title as..."

"Astro-Tits and her Space Shuttle Adventures?" Holly began to reel off the titles still in her admittedly limited memory. "Rocky the Rocket in the Terra Incognita? It's all here..."

Rimmer continued to protest, but in the meantime the Cat made his way into the cockpit caught sight of something truly hideous. "Oh, yeuch!" he cried out, shielding his eyes.

For there, in front of the ship, was possibly the most ugly sight a cat could ever see: two humans going at it, their bodies lacking all grace and not looking so dissimilar from gnomes. He covered his eyes. "Oh, great mother, make it stop!"

Apparently his cries were loud enough to bring the others running, or maybe they all needed a distraction from the thought of Rimmer with his porn. "Oh my," Kryten said, before Lister, still small and superhuman came running in behind them.

"Who the hell is that smegger?" Lister squeaked, after a distinctly curry-flavoured belch. "And why has he got a tattoo of a lobster on his back?"

"I believe that is an angel, sir," Kryten replied. "A messenger of God in Judeo-Christianity."

"Well, he could kindly move his backside out of the way of the ship," said Rimmer at last. "Or turn around so we could see whoever owns those legs around his waist."

"Just get them outta here!" cried Cat, as the body started to thrust - though of course, with no air resistance or surface to push against, this mostly resulted in a wiggle. "I think I'm gonna die!"

"It's all right, Cat," Lister promised, pulling forward another can of lager he'd brought with him and shaking it mightily above his head. "I'm the man for this!"

And then, with the most terrifying of tiny war cries, Lister released the ringpull on the lager, spraying it at the window and obscuring the horrifying sight from view.

"Full speed ahead, Holly," Rimmer commanded with a shudder, worried what they would see when the froth had faded away.

"Setting course for the next moon," Holly confirmed. "I think you'll like this one; it's called Twilight."

Little did they know the real horrors that awaited them...

From:

beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com

Heee!

*silently curses you for thinking up this idea first*

From:

mymatedave.livejournal.com

Just think, there's a pun out there that you'll never-wait. I don't want to tempt you, I know what you're like.

From:

quinara

:D

I'm sure the adventure could be continued in some way...

From:

brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com

Continuumed, surely?

Brava, overall, though!

From:

quinara

Point, very much so.

Cheers!

From:

mymatedave.livejournal.com

Magnificence. And you cruel, cruel woman doing that our "heroes."

From:

quinara

Cheers! Though I do feel sorry for the Cat; he'll be grooming it out of his system for weeks...

From:

deird1

*applauds*

From:

quinara

*bows*

From:

angearia.livejournal.com

Okay, I know nothing about Red Dwarf but this is hilarious! Hee!

From:

quinara

This may or make not make everything clearer.

Ah, if only I could do justice to the actual show...

From:

curiouswombat.livejournal.com

Could they not just have run them over in passing? Please, pretty please?

From:

quinara

I fear that if Buffy can live through the lack of pressure and oxygen, a mere thing like the Red Dwarf will not be able to touch her...

From:

gillo

You rock like a rocky thing made out of granite.

though of course, with no air resistance or surface to push against, this mostly resulted in a wiggle.

This has been concerning me ever since I saw the super-speed airscrew pics. I know they have super-muscles, but WTF?

From:

quinara

Why, thank you!

It's definitely one in the eye for Willow's 'magic works off physics', whatever's supposed to be going on. Because physics it ain't.

From:

deird1

Physics-compliant (Spuffy) sex can easily be written with more realism. And that makes it much more entertaining. :)

From:

quinara

Exactly!!

From:

gillo

Anti-physics. Possibly like the anti-Christ, but way sillier.

From:

rahirah

God damn it!!!!

He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
Without him life would be much grimmer...

From:

deird1

Ack! Earworm!

*runs and hides*

From:

beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com

But... they sparkle!

From:

deird1

So do the Cullens.

*glares*

From:

beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com

No, no, no. The Cullens are far less cracky. At least their brand of evolutionary leaps can REPRODUCE.

ETA: Unless #35 reveals that Slayers reproduce using looms or something.

Edited Date: 2010-04-10 11:46 pm (UTC)

From:

deird1

Looms. Definitely.

From:

rebcake.livejournal.com

In Twilight-land, the serpents actually pluck the little Slayers off the tree when they ripen and hand them off to the unicorn princesses to raise. *nods*

I'll expect a check when #35 comes out...

From:

curiouswombat.livejournal.com

Probably the only possible way for Angel's cold dead seed to produce anything... I think you van just start spending the money now!

From:

elisi

Loooooooms! (Lord, I love Doctor Who...)

From:

ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com

people being welcomed into their death by grim reapers who hang out at a waffle restaurant

WOOT! *misses show*

And WORD to the Twangel wackness. *uses appropriate icon*

From:

rebcake.livejournal.com

Excellent points! My favorite comic book has Mexican wrestler revolutionary super heroines, among other things, but it also has a consistent (but not boring!) reality. I'm a fan of silver age DC, heyday of the "imaginary story"! Mr. Mxyzptlk, anyone? Absurdity is one of my favorite things. I'm all for crack, just make it work in your established world. It's can be prime stuff! This: not so much.

From:

curiouswombat.livejournal.com

All of your reading/watching is eminently sensible - especially when compared with the current crack.

Also I have better icons - but LJ had logged me out and when i log in when posting it goes to the default...

From:

silverusagi

And this? Twangel destiny-sex that destroys the world?
This is too cracky for me.

It's the crackiest of crack!

From:

debris4spike

Yes, that Lois and Clark wedding is brilliant - with the great twist to the honeymoon.

From:

gillo

Yup. I also have a hero who turns up when you call his name three times, usually in his dressing gown, enjoy a soap about three supernormal housemates and adore a show about a madman in a box.

But the crack!fic!sex is a screw too loose for me.