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implicated2) wrote2019-01-16 06:30 pm
implicated2) wrote2019-01-16 06:30 pm
Hypothetical fic meme
Okay, I'll play.
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Give me the title of a hypothetical fic (and fandom/characters/pairing if you like) and I will:
-tell you what it's about
-recall my favorite or least favorite parts
-possibly attempt to write an excerpt of it
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emef Give me the title of a hypothetical fic (and fandom/characters/pairing if you like) and I will:
-tell you what it's about
-recall my favorite or least favorite parts
-possibly attempt to write an excerpt of it
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Fandom: The Adventure Zone - Amnesty (idk if you know this fandom but it called to me)
The latest monster threat means that Ned, Duck, and Aubrey can no longer sleep safely in their own homes. They go to the panic room in their... darn, what is it called? Their underground lair thing. There is--you guessed it--exactly one bed. Duck politely refuses it. Aubrey less politely refuses it ("One of you should take it. You're old.") Ned is like, "Well if you insist, and after all it is my panic room, but of course if one of you wanted it..." The fic is basically a montage of all the things Aubrey and Duck get up to all night while not sleeping, because a) floor and b) Ned is a Serious Snorer.
Favorite part: the 3:32a.m. segment where Aubrey gets out of pack of cards from her magic show collection and they play Crazy Eights. They are both terrible at it. Eventually they switch to War, a game so boring it might actually put them to sleep. Sadly, it doesn't.
Least favorite part: Fittingly I guess, figuring out how to fill all the hours.
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It's the third night of the Puerto Rico tour and Lin can't sleep. He doesn't often feel nostalgic--there's too much going on now, and too much coming in the future, to miss what came before (and it's not nostalgia, exactly, that makes him think ruefully back to a time before the storm, or a time when immigrants, we get the job done was more a celebration than a salvo in a culture war)--but tonight he can't help thinking of their first year on Broadway.
He remembers his dressing room in particular, how easy it was to come back to Jon Groff's sunny, goofy presence there. They got each other, Lin and Jon, and a couple of times it had even seemed like--
Favorite part: Lin calls Jon in the middle of the night and Jon answers, and they have a sincere, sepia-toned shared reminiscence about their time in Hamilton together, and how yeah, there probably had been something between them, and why hadn't they done anything about it, and is it too late now?
Least favorite part: Lin and Jon conclude that maybe they should see each other soon and see how it goes, and that's something to look forward to (which is a contrast with the nostalgia theme and feels like bringing it full circle, so that's definitely the end, but I was sort of thinking there might be sexy stuff and it just doesn't fit. Shrug emoji).
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In the Quick-Fire Lies round, Miranda is first up, and her claim is "I fell on purpose." It's a lie, but she's very impressed by whatever staffer managed to slip that card in after a completely accidental incident.
Then it's Lee's turn. His card reads, "I made Miranda fall using my powers of telekinesis." Remarkably, this claim turns out to be true, and at Rob's urging, he demonstrates his powers, mostly by repeatedly knocking Rob's water bottle off its stand.
Favorite part: The back-and-forth during the teapot scene ("Show us your spout." / "Another of Rob Brydon's chat-up lines") was great fun to write.
Least favorite part: Physical comedy is hard to render in text form!
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Also, "show us your spout," ahahahaha, perfection.
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It's Yuletide, and Because Yuletide, someone has requested Tortoise and the Hare BDSM fic. As you do.
Swiftly Now is the story of the Lady Angora, who may or may not actually be a rabbit, and Shell, who probably isn't a turtle but maybe wears very dapper green pajamas. One morning, the Lady Angora challenges Shell to a race: whoever gets out of bed first has the right to send the other out to pick up breakfast. (There's a place around the corner that, naturally, makes excellent carrot cake muffins.) There's a whole Bondage Situation, and Lady Angora is kind of rubbing it in Shell's face that because of said Situation, Shell can't get out of bed, so obviously she (Angora) is going to win, and she very ostentatiously does things that are not getting out of bed, like reading a book, or lounging in various loose-armed positions. But! Slowly and steadily (of course), Shell gets loose from the... ropes, I guess? let's say ropes... and eventually, while Lady Angora is doing whatever she's doing, Shell breaks free and wins.
Favorite part: the fact that someone requested this ridiculous fic
Least favorite part: figuring out the end. Which I think is that Shell wins the *right* to send Lady Angora to pick up carrot cake muffins, but is probably too service-oriented to want to use that right.
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Sidenote: I was in a not-very-receptive headspace when I listened to the latest Lunar Interlude, so it's possible I'll relisten and find my opinion has changed, but it kind of felt like Griffin and Justin were just majorly changing Duck's character, explicitly on a whim, and not really offering a lot to help the audience make sense of it. I liked Duck's arc as a reluctant Chosen, and this feels like abandoning that arc? And maybe it's not, maybe there's a grand reason for any of this happening that will reveal itself later, but in the meantime all we got was Justin screeching about helmets?
Anyway, Our Nature Does Not Change By Will is a five-times fic where Duck talks to five different characters (or, I guess 6, if it's 5 + 1) trying to make sense of what his role is now.
Favorite part: Duck and Ned have a funny exchange where Ned's reaction is ultimately so cowardly that Duck finds he's taking the brave position kind of by default, even though he hates that he's doing it.
Least favorite part: Secretly I like this part, but it hurts: one of the five characters he talks to is Minerva. Or, it's not Minerva, but he goes outside at... what is it, 6:14?... and tries to call for her in increasingly desperate ways. She doesn't appear.
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I'm pretty into the change in Duck's character sheet--partly for, hm, game play reasons, as I take the meteor to be a consequence of Justin's epically awful Destiny's Plaything roll at the start of the last arc, so it doesn't feel totally arbitrary to me. But also partly because I think, for all Duck has come around to helping save the world, he's done it with a safety net. He's been able to be the damage sponge of the group because the damage didn't last. The notion that he has to be vulnerable now for real, and affirmatively choose to keep going, is pretty appealing to me, and it's obvious that's a super hard pill for him to swallow. Though I wish they'd been clearer up to now about how much Ned and Aubrey actually know about Minerva, because I have no idea how much they are now supposed to understand about what's changed. Clint tried to bring that up with his "what happened?" but Duck was apparently too far into his nervous breakdown to notice.
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