Cliches are my Kryptonite

[rivkat]

I was looking at morgandawn’s fan fiction tropes and my first thought was, well, I haven’t done all of them. Like, I haven’t done amnesia. And then I thought: no, actually. Twice is almost exactly like never, right? I’m pretty sure I never had Mulder & Scully bake cookies, though they did do home maintenance (gotta patch those bullet holes somehow). And now that I think about it, I did have Clark bake cookies for Lex. He was bodyswapped with Lex at the time. Is that a Double Fandom Word Score?

Anyway, I could still use some prompts for Eight Crazy Nights, getting closer than ever. If you want to suggest cliches, I’m obviously game. And, um, if someone wanted to beta an XF story, I wouldn’t say no. Fair warning: this story is mostly so old that the filename is in all caps, because I apparently began it on a computer that didn’t even use Windows. But by God I was asked for a sequel to Deny Nothing and there it was on my computer, so I’m going to give it the college (or, more accurately, law school) try.

Comments

[samsom.livejournal.com]

Deny Nothing is one of my most very favorite fanfics ever in the history of people putting pen to paper. I love that story and reread it frequently. Your Krycek is everything I wanted from show!Krycek if they'd spent more time on him. If you do this sequel, I might actually sign over one of my children to you.

In other words, can't wait. :D

[flourish.livejournal.com]

I'd love to beta an X-files story. I know we don't know each other, but I come with pretty good recommendations, I think...

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I asked for that, and in any other circumstance I would offer to beta it, but I'm about to head into law school finals. Blergh. (I would probably end up just spewing the elements of common-law burglary instead of providing anything actually helpful, anyway.) (I'm really looking forward to reading it, though!)

[meret.livejournal.com]

Cliches:

Accidentally married or wake up married.
Marry for some non-love reason, and end up falling in love.
Wing fic.
Handcuffed together, and on the run.
Transformed into something non-human.
Mpreg.

Sorry I don't have time to beta anything right now.

[(Anonymous)]

SV AU: Clark and Lex first meet when Lex is a scientist and Clark is a lab rat/patient. Or vice versa, maybe.


I apologize in advance if you didn't want lurker prompts. :)I thought I'd risk it.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Lurker prompts are cool (though I am not too cool to admit I love comments on the final version!).

Cliches, oh boy!

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Woke Up Gay (or, in some cases, Woke Up Straight)
Planet Of The Leather Collars Are Perfectly Normal
Sekrit Vampires & Werewolves & Fairies, Oh My
Separated At Birth
Hello There, New Colleague- ...Last Night's Pick-Up, Fuck.
Pretending To Date For Totally Valid Plot Reasons
Makeover Shenanigans
Time Travelling Test Tube Baby Love Child

...so I got most of those from SGA, but they would all be hilarious in Smallville, or any of your fandoms.

Re: Cliches, oh boy!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Hmm, any favorites? I do better with a couple of specific directions.

Re: Cliches, oh boy!

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I personally am a big fan of Bondage Planet and Hello There, New Colleague- ...Last Night's Pick-Up, Fuck. ^.^ Pretending To Date For Totally Valid Plot Reasons is usually pretty hilarious too.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

sweet lord, help me, but angsty season 8 fanfic is my lifeblood, and I'd kill to see your stab at Doggett. I did like your Reyes, as well. And of course, I always love more "down the road" Iolokus...

(oh, FYI, I still rec people to the amazing fic you wrote me last year for Hanukkah, because it was amazing.)

(a sequel to Deny Nothing? I won't deny - oops, sorry, bad pun - I wonder why. The ending was short and frustrating but I liked it for that reason.)

My new fandom is the BBC's Robin Hood, and I think you'd be brilliant at writing Guy/Marian, but I don't know if you know it.

Hope your holidays (and exam gradings) are going well!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear--I am not sure I can find my inner Doggett. I will think about it!

I think the point of the sequel is to get to the badwrong M/S/K interactions.

I haven't seen Robin Hood, though I will admit that the Kevin Costner version is a guilty pleasure.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

hahaha, fair enough. Only write what you're comfortable with!


Well, yes. The M/S/K interactions were pretty cool - I loved cold-hearted Mulder, above all, for some reason. I must be deranged.


I LOVE THE KEVIN COSTNER VERSION. Sorry. That was the first feature-length movie I saw as a child! It's terrible and unwatchable but I have it memorized.

re: Robin Hood, BBC
It's not a good show, by any means, it's actually a little painful to watch, but somehow the writers scrounged up some really interesting characters, and the actors were talented enough to make it work.

[hulamoth.livejournal.com]

second thought, if you really don't like Doggett, what about Mulder going undercover as a male escort?
(complete wish fulfillment)

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

You haven't done amnesia in Supernatural. And amnesia is my favorite.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I had no idea. Sam, Dean, both, or somebody else?

[cryptoxin.livejournal.com]

I stayed up way too late last night to read Deny Nothing, and it was terrific fun. I only watched XF sporadically, and I don't remember if I ever saw any Krycek episodes, but I got the distinct impression that you must have had a blast writing his POV, especially in the early odd couple/"buddy cop" sections.

You ask at the end of the story: "let me know whether you think M&S were doing the nasty."

I could go either way, but I'm going to say no based vaguely on the scene in the van after the rescue. Unless Alex was wrong and they did have sex while he was watching Mulder's apartment -- but I don't think that Scully would have left in that instance.

Now I'm wondering whether you'll leave the question open in the sequel or resolve it. Either way, I'll look forward to it!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of things in that story I would never do again, but I'm quite pleased that it didn't make you back away in horror! I was experimenting with loosening the stops, and in some ways it definitely worked. I think of it as a transitional story, getting used to writing without a partner again, trying to make use of the many lessons she taught me. (Most especially: blow the budget! A big kaboom never hurt a story!)

I agree with you, by the way, and the sequel is shaped by that belief.

[shiba-inu.livejournal.com]

If you've ever read JUSTICE LEAGUE then you know that they all take turns at Monitor Duty (huge viewscreeen wall that displays disasters going on pretty much anywhere on Earth) and they all hate it.

I was reading your post and, for no reason I can think of, flashed on a scene from some movie or tv show where a bunch of people (cops?) are watching a tape of something that pretty obviously has turned into a sexual clinch between whoever they're watching. What cracks me up is that they all, at the same time, slowly tilt their heads to the side in an attempt to follow whatever's going on onscreen.

So.

You've got somebody pulling Monitor Duty. Alert comes up that a League member is battling somebody. I suppose they watch stuff like this so they can send in backup if it becomes necessary. Anyway there's a fight and, while it's never really in doubt that the Leaguer will win the outfits are getting torn, there's a lot of sweating and grunting going on...

The obvious thing would be the cliche'd male reaction (oooh, *catfight*!) so the other obvious thing would be that it's Wonder Woman fighting some other powered female -- sorry, I'm not familiar with her rogue's gallery so can't make suggestions -- and a buddy of the guy on Monitor Duty shows up with beer and chips or something (think Flash and Green Lantern) to help pass the time.

Might be funnier if it were a woman on Monitor Duty... Are there enough women in the League now for this to work?

Anyway, there would be scenes of the guys/girls in the monitor room making remarks, maybe making bets on the outcome, followed by more scenes of the fight, and every time you go back to the monitor room there are more people there...

God, I just had another flash -- WEST WING, when Sam is losing his initial debate with Ainsley. "Toby, come quick! Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!" "Ginger, get the popcorn!!"

Hope this is useful. If not, forget I said anything. And Happy Holidays to you and yours!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll see what I can do.

[jakrar.livejournal.com]

Either Lex or Clark gets trapped in an alternate SV universe, with the alternate version of the other, and violence/seduction/confessions/weeping/cuddling/game-playing ensues....

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Sadly, astolat knocked that one so far out of the park that I'm afraid to compete. But I'm definitely doing some SV ...

[suzume-tori.livejournal.com]

random prompt four eight crazy nights (this only works if you're familiar with both fandoms, but it's random and I'm sleepy and I figure it won't hurt you to read the weird ideas in my head....?)

Sam and Dean end up in the Firefly dimension. Dean meets Mal. Life is awesome. Bonus points for any angels that tag along (Castiel, Uriel).

the something else: I have no idea. Uh, Mal as a (very disgruntled) damsel in distress who must be saved by Dean? (Only, not actually a damsel. But in a sticky situation.)

I wonder what the Winchester brothers would think of Reavers. I think Sam and River could get along like two brilliant, tormented, psychic peas in a pod. (And Simon and his crazyface overprotective brother syndrome would maybe see kin in the Winchester craziness)

I think that Miranda would be very full of haunted people, actually. Hmm. That's Serenity, though, not firefly, and I'm dubious about serenity because -- WASH. Yeah.

Anyway, I hope that maybe some of this spawns evil plotbunnies to proliferate and frolic within your writerly brainspace. No matter what you end up writing, I'm sure it'll be awesome!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I will think about it! I'm not sure how good I'd be at crossing over a rationalist, sf universe with a fantasy one but I love them both to pieces.

[(Anonymous)]

From (another) lurker:

How about SV AU C/L as written by Octavia Butler?

E.g. irresistible biochemical attraction or involuntary-yet-complicated
servitude. Reckon we already have alien DNA whose unpredictable
consequences can emerge in adolescence...

And of course you'll get comments on the final version.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I'll give it a try!