Revenge of the creativity demons...
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mandolinIs it just me, or do creativity demons get more insane when you're supposed to be doing research?
(Same drill, all: bold is the author, different colored italics are random demons. Not as funny as the last one, sorry.)
Hey, I wonder if the Thanagarians would have implemented something like RFIDs in "Starcrossed" if they'd had a longer occupation of the planet...
Hey, that reminds me - Zatanna is in the JLU universe, right? Then we could use her in that idea I had!
Oh, don't even START. Come on, guys, I need to pull together a paper outline and references, not suck away the afternoon over stupid fanfic ideas.
It's not a stupid idea!
You liked the coffee shop scene.
What's wrong with the idea of harassing Wally as an Olympic event?
Nothing, if it wasn't in the context of Yet Another Gratuitous Crossover Idea.
Having one powerless character from BtVS get stuck in the JLU universe for a couple months isn't that gratuitous. And it's not like Unlimited has done anything with Flash lately.
It's not hard to imagine the League would have missed her dropping in if it happened right after "Starcrossed." And forging an identity would be a lot easier in the wake of the Thanagarian invasion.
Enough to get a job in a coffee shop, at least.
Admit it: you laughed your ass off at the prank war.
Guys. Two problems: we've consistently missed JLU for several months, and this crossover idea is too much of a retread. Not to mention you'd have to yank the BtVS timeline forward at least 5 years to make the ages work. At LEAST.
Retread? What are you smoking?
I have one thing to say to you: "The Key and the Sword."
Bah. There's no MacGuffin here, you actually liked the excuse for the dimensional jump...
Dawn gets dumped on her lonesome into a parallel dimension and develops a relationship with a wiseass guy with superpowers. Does this ring ANY bells, people?
Yeah, but this is a better idea!
Any story of this sort that requires me to set it in a time frame where Dawn's at least 22 is pushing it for me. WAY too contrived. The Compass was a bad idea, and stretching time frames is just as bad.
I don't get it, you let us go on about this for hours while out walking, then you tell us to drop it?
Yeah, come on. You know better than to get our hopes up.
Because it was at least more palatable than that Mary Sue you were blathering about earlier.
I was bored!
You were the one who read The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop three times, you should have seen this coming.
Theoretically, exposing oneself to excellent fanfic should at least lead to GOOD fanfic ideas. Besides, it sounded like a perfectly sound "let's make Wally suffer for the fun of it" short until you pulled in the crossover aspect.
So what do you want? A short fic with Wally and John in a coffee shop and the barista driving Wally crazy?
Meh. That's the kind of short that you could turn into original fic just by changing the names. And eliminating Wally's dozen-bagel breakfast.
I said donuts!
What, you want to write Wally on a sugar high as well as the caffeine jokes?
...Good point.
Have we also forgotten the "No long story ideas" rule I imposed on you morons after what happened to "Sharp Edges?"
Short fics are boring!
And you know if we left most of those drabbles where we leave them hanging, a couple of hundred readers will go, "Sequel! Sequel!"
You shot down the Detective Conan drabble for just that very reason.
Also because it was committing an annoying fix-it fanfic tendency.
Only for 24 hours.
Twenty-four hours that I would be compelled to write. And since my only exposure to that series consists of the Cartoon Network dubs, I don't think I have a good enough handle on the characters for that.
You said the Fruits Basket crossover with that show was an amusing idea.
Yes, but you all gave me blank looks when I pointed out that a) you'd have to set up an actual mystery, and b) the question of whether or not Conan would discover at least part of the Souma curse caused so much bickering I tuned you out after five minutes.
The curse would lead to a lot of weirdness that Conan would have to look into, though; he wouldn't just let it slide!
Yeah, but the secrecy of the curse and the constant threat of having Tohru's memory erased - for Conan to find out even a bit of that would seriously cheapen it.
Fine, then you'll have to come up with an alternate alibi that Conan will buy. With Kyo's luck, he'll get changed in the course of the investigation, have to disappear, and then account for his disappearance. Or it'll happen to Yuki, or both.
Tohru can cover for them!
When confronted by a detective as good as Shinichi/Conan? The way she babbles? No way.
I still like the terrifying image of Ran and Uo teaming up. And Hana noting that Conan's denpa is a bit off.
Maybe Ran convinces Conan to drop it?
Why would she do that?
Actually, Shigure and Kogoro in the same room is pretty scary too.
La, la, la, I've been ignoring you all for ten minutes now...
Should I even mention the Charmed/PRDT futurefic thingy? I mean, we can write it now and wait til the original crossover it's based off is posted so it makes sense.
*glare of death*
Never mind.
Look, you need to stop shooting down all our ideas and shelving the good ones. We completely lost the one good He-Man short idea because you sat on it too long and forgot about it!
Wait! That was the "Adam avoids mind-reading Teela like crazy" fic, right?
I stand corrected.
I'm sorry, all, but if I humor you when you go off on these tangents, it inevitably leads to a fanfic fact-check/research session which goes nowhere and sucks up all the time I have for real research! You already killed an hour of my time.
Hey, it was more fun than privacy research. Don't you have a group to handle part of this?
A group that is collectively MIA on weekends. The proposal's due Thursday, and since I didn't jump on this immediately after the exam as I should have, I need to have a coherent skeleton outline on Monday when we meet. I know we have evaluations, but I think I'm more likely to get attacked for slacking off than taking up too much of the work.
Group projects SUCK. Seriously, nothing gets done when you have a whole bunch of people arguing over what to do.
I'm just going to agree with you there and ignore the irony... Screw this, I'm going for a walk.
Huh? Irony? What'd I say?
*sigh*
(Same drill, all: bold is the author, different colored italics are random demons. Not as funny as the last one, sorry.)
Hey, I wonder if the Thanagarians would have implemented something like RFIDs in "Starcrossed" if they'd had a longer occupation of the planet...
Hey, that reminds me - Zatanna is in the JLU universe, right? Then we could use her in that idea I had!
Oh, don't even START. Come on, guys, I need to pull together a paper outline and references, not suck away the afternoon over stupid fanfic ideas.
It's not a stupid idea!
You liked the coffee shop scene.
What's wrong with the idea of harassing Wally as an Olympic event?
Nothing, if it wasn't in the context of Yet Another Gratuitous Crossover Idea.
Having one powerless character from BtVS get stuck in the JLU universe for a couple months isn't that gratuitous. And it's not like Unlimited has done anything with Flash lately.
It's not hard to imagine the League would have missed her dropping in if it happened right after "Starcrossed." And forging an identity would be a lot easier in the wake of the Thanagarian invasion.
Enough to get a job in a coffee shop, at least.
Admit it: you laughed your ass off at the prank war.
Guys. Two problems: we've consistently missed JLU for several months, and this crossover idea is too much of a retread. Not to mention you'd have to yank the BtVS timeline forward at least 5 years to make the ages work. At LEAST.
Retread? What are you smoking?
I have one thing to say to you: "The Key and the Sword."
Bah. There's no MacGuffin here, you actually liked the excuse for the dimensional jump...
Dawn gets dumped on her lonesome into a parallel dimension and develops a relationship with a wiseass guy with superpowers. Does this ring ANY bells, people?
Yeah, but this is a better idea!
Any story of this sort that requires me to set it in a time frame where Dawn's at least 22 is pushing it for me. WAY too contrived. The Compass was a bad idea, and stretching time frames is just as bad.
I don't get it, you let us go on about this for hours while out walking, then you tell us to drop it?
Yeah, come on. You know better than to get our hopes up.
Because it was at least more palatable than that Mary Sue you were blathering about earlier.
I was bored!
You were the one who read The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop three times, you should have seen this coming.
Theoretically, exposing oneself to excellent fanfic should at least lead to GOOD fanfic ideas. Besides, it sounded like a perfectly sound "let's make Wally suffer for the fun of it" short until you pulled in the crossover aspect.
So what do you want? A short fic with Wally and John in a coffee shop and the barista driving Wally crazy?
Meh. That's the kind of short that you could turn into original fic just by changing the names. And eliminating Wally's dozen-bagel breakfast.
I said donuts!
What, you want to write Wally on a sugar high as well as the caffeine jokes?
...Good point.
Have we also forgotten the "No long story ideas" rule I imposed on you morons after what happened to "Sharp Edges?"
Short fics are boring!
And you know if we left most of those drabbles where we leave them hanging, a couple of hundred readers will go, "Sequel! Sequel!"
You shot down the Detective Conan drabble for just that very reason.
Also because it was committing an annoying fix-it fanfic tendency.
Only for 24 hours.
Twenty-four hours that I would be compelled to write. And since my only exposure to that series consists of the Cartoon Network dubs, I don't think I have a good enough handle on the characters for that.
You said the Fruits Basket crossover with that show was an amusing idea.
Yes, but you all gave me blank looks when I pointed out that a) you'd have to set up an actual mystery, and b) the question of whether or not Conan would discover at least part of the Souma curse caused so much bickering I tuned you out after five minutes.
The curse would lead to a lot of weirdness that Conan would have to look into, though; he wouldn't just let it slide!
Yeah, but the secrecy of the curse and the constant threat of having Tohru's memory erased - for Conan to find out even a bit of that would seriously cheapen it.
Fine, then you'll have to come up with an alternate alibi that Conan will buy. With Kyo's luck, he'll get changed in the course of the investigation, have to disappear, and then account for his disappearance. Or it'll happen to Yuki, or both.
Tohru can cover for them!
When confronted by a detective as good as Shinichi/Conan? The way she babbles? No way.
I still like the terrifying image of Ran and Uo teaming up. And Hana noting that Conan's denpa is a bit off.
Maybe Ran convinces Conan to drop it?
Why would she do that?
Actually, Shigure and Kogoro in the same room is pretty scary too.
La, la, la, I've been ignoring you all for ten minutes now...
Should I even mention the Charmed/PRDT futurefic thingy? I mean, we can write it now and wait til the original crossover it's based off is posted so it makes sense.
*glare of death*
Never mind.
Look, you need to stop shooting down all our ideas and shelving the good ones. We completely lost the one good He-Man short idea because you sat on it too long and forgot about it!
Wait! That was the "Adam avoids mind-reading Teela like crazy" fic, right?
I stand corrected.
I'm sorry, all, but if I humor you when you go off on these tangents, it inevitably leads to a fanfic fact-check/research session which goes nowhere and sucks up all the time I have for real research! You already killed an hour of my time.
Hey, it was more fun than privacy research. Don't you have a group to handle part of this?
A group that is collectively MIA on weekends. The proposal's due Thursday, and since I didn't jump on this immediately after the exam as I should have, I need to have a coherent skeleton outline on Monday when we meet. I know we have evaluations, but I think I'm more likely to get attacked for slacking off than taking up too much of the work.
Group projects SUCK. Seriously, nothing gets done when you have a whole bunch of people arguing over what to do.
I'm just going to agree with you there and ignore the irony... Screw this, I'm going for a walk.
Huh? Irony? What'd I say?
*sigh*
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Date: 2004-10-17 12:22 pm (UTC)My particular demons are very loud and vocal about ideas like "Wedge Antilles and Dawn Summers meet" (don't ask), or writing random AU scenes from the Identiverse, but when I politely suggest they might like to actually get on and help me with Shadow Games or Five by Five I get an all round deafening silence.
Maybe I'll appease them by cracking on with my Christmas story...at least that way I'd be writing something as opposed to playing Rocketmania or Spider Solitare...
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Date: 2004-10-17 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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