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gnine has abandoned me and is setting off to London for grad school today. But I get the brother - hah! (right now we're alternating watching Futurama with Red Dwarf, which is somewhat brain-breaking (if not up to the Twin Peaks/Kodocha standard gnine and I set a few years back.) It's quite satisfying to finally see all of Futurama, and being one of the deprived who was never exposed to Red Dwarf at an early age, I am proud to report that I can now warble the theme song in the shower. I also flatly deny any allegations that I have been secretly googling for Lister/Rimmer because that would be WRONG and I would never do such a thing. Never. Nope.)
But that's neither here nor there. What is here is that I haven't written hardly a word in going on a month, and desperately need to get back in the writing saddle. So, for a limited time, it's open-drabble season - give me a fandom/characters/pairing (whichever, and it can be any series I know, whether or not I've fic'ed for it) and a prompt (single word, quote, sentence, whatever) and I will attempt to produce a drabble, ficlet, or other arrangement of words with a vague semblance of fic.
ETA: Until I say otherwise, requests are still open! No guarantees, but give it a go and I'll see what I can do...
gnine has abandoned me and is setting off to London for grad school today. But I get the brother - hah! (right now we're alternating watching Futurama with Red Dwarf, which is somewhat brain-breaking (if not up to the Twin Peaks/Kodocha standard gnine and I set a few years back.) It's quite satisfying to finally see all of Futurama, and being one of the deprived who was never exposed to Red Dwarf at an early age, I am proud to report that I can now warble the theme song in the shower. I also flatly deny any allegations that I have been secretly googling for Lister/Rimmer because that would be WRONG and I would never do such a thing. Never. Nope.)But that's neither here nor there. What is here is that I haven't written hardly a word in going on a month, and desperately need to get back in the writing saddle. So, for a limited time, it's open-drabble season - give me a fandom/characters/pairing (whichever, and it can be any series I know, whether or not I've fic'ed for it) and a prompt (single word, quote, sentence, whatever) and I will attempt to produce a drabble, ficlet, or other arrangement of words with a vague semblance of fic.
ETA: Until I say otherwise, requests are still open! No guarantees, but give it a go and I'll see what I can do...
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:02 am (UTC)Okay, I will give you crack. Because you know you like it! ♥
Worlds colliding: SGA meets One Piece. (See, I am able to think of other things than just One Piece!)
Alternatively, we did use to wonder what would happen if Minekura's boys somehow crossed the Grand Line on their journey west...!
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:13 am (UTC)Now my mind is full of the Grand Line Interdimensional Visitor Week, and the way the One Piece world would manage to break so many brains. ♥ Of course, the visitors would totally get awesome parties thrown for them if they did something cool and then showed an interest in good food and/or singing...
♥
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Date: 2009-09-23 12:38 pm (UTC)Man, I forgot how much fun you were - why haven't I friended you yet? (Mind if I do? ;)
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Date: 2009-09-23 01:30 pm (UTC)...though things have changed back to exactly what they were. Which is. Um. A lot of One Piece squee? Yeah.
One Piece is a wonderful world to crossover with, because. It's insane, but with so much depth! And the characters are pretty open to all impossibility they encounter! So there'd be a lot of befuddlement and laughs. (And if the visitors are cool? Sparkles.)
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:21 pm (UTC)Ok, had to do it - thought you'd be interested ;) http://community.livejournal.com/onepiece_fics/37142.html
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Date: 2009-09-24 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 06:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 07:10 am (UTC)(still think Tsuda Kenjirou's voice is dead sexay, tho', even when reciting pi! XD)
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Date: 2009-09-24 10:48 am (UTC)(Damn right! That man's got a sexy voice; as was said then- I could happily listen to him recite the phone book)
SGA/OP 1/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:33 am (UTC)The whales had been making a fuss for weeks, so when it finally opened, fifty kilometers from Atlantis, they were ready, with a couple carpets' of equipment deployed to take readings.
Hovering mid-air beside the carpet, John peered down at the turbulent ocean below. "That's one hell of a wormhole--it's got to be a couple hundred feet across, easy."
"Over a hundred meters in diameter," Rodney said distractedly, poking at his laptop; then he leaned over the carpet's fringe to shout down at the sea, "No, do not get any closer! Even if your sonar isn't giving a clear picture--I'll give you the details later!"
He turned back to John. "And it's not a wormhole," he said, "it's a whirlpool. The actual wormhole is under the water; the currents it's stirring are what's creating that."
John gazed down into the whirlpool's gaping maw, the blue water leaping in white froth around the swirling rim. "So have you figured out why we've got a wormhole opening without a gate in the middle of the ocean?"
"I'm working on it--what did I just say?" Rodney launched to his feet, the carpet rippling under him--damn thing was nowhere near as sturdy as a whale's back, but the whales couldn't give him this aerial view. "Keep back, it's not safe--what do you mean, there's someone down there?" He snapped his fingers. "John, scan for life-signs--"
"Life-signs?" John frowned and ran the scan. The bright, massive outlines of the whales appeared on the life detector charm, under the water below, surrounding the rippling energy of the wormhole's vortex--and then within those spiraling patterns, twisting in the currents, shone several smaller dots. Human-sized.
Ronon swooped down from his higher vantage point, wings beating to hold himself level with the carpet. "There's someone down there?"
"Obviously that's what it looks like," Rodney said, "but--no, what did I tell you! Stay back! No rescue missions right now, it's too dangerous!" On the life-signs charm, the glowing shapes of the whales were moving in, heading for those helpless dots tossed in the wild waters.
"We got to help them," Ronon said.
Rodney spared a glance over his shoulder at the Satedan. "Not in those waters, we can't--once they're tossed free of the currents, then we can try to--"
"Probably won't survive the currents," Ronon said, and turning upside down in the air, he folded his wings close against his back to make himself an arrow, and shot headfirst down into the giant mouth of the whirlpool, where the whales were heading
Over the howl of wind, Rodney shouted into his communication charm, "Ronon, get back up here--it's too dangerous--!"
"Even worse for whoever's down there," John said, and tucking in his arms, he dove as well.
"Am I speaking a foreign language?" Rodney demanded to the empty sky. "Does anyone listen to a single word I say--" and he leaned forward to send the carpet swooping down, following his crazy teammates into the maelstrom.
Re: SGA/OP 2/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:36 am (UTC)The hats seemed to be a theme. The skeleton had a top hat and an afro, which Rodney thought was a bit excessive. It--he--had given them all quite a turn, but while he was very, very weird, he didn't feel wrong the way the Wraith-resurrected did.
Of the lot of them, the young blond guy had seemed the most normal--bad-tempered, what with how he was shouting at his half-drowned and semi-conscious comrades for the whole carpet-ride back; but otherwise ordinary.
At least until they made it to Atlantis, and Teyla met them in the carpet bay. Then the guy was transformed into a crazy fawning rose-gifting shining-eyed...something.
"Incubus?" John whispered to Rodney.
"Does Teyla look be-spelled to you?" Rodney shot back. She looked bemused, maybe, but nowhere near entranced, and Rodney didn't think it was her magic protecting her from the yellow-haired idiot kneeling at her feet and pronouncing a sonnet. Besides, an incubus would surely have a better French accent than that.
Then the skinny kid in red finally coughed up a liter or two of seawater and sat up (much to the relief of the teddy bear with the antlers, who had been ministering to him for the carpet ride, with a frantic and sniffling competency) and the blond teen broke off singing Teyla's praises to charge over and kick the kid in the straw hat in the head. Hard.
"What was that, shit-for-brains?" he cried. "Diving right into a whirlpool!"
The straw-hatted kid rubbed his head, but didn't seem overly fazed, for all the kick had snapped his head back on his neck like a tether ball. "But Nami didn't know what it was, Sanji!"
"That doesn't mean Nami-san was asking you to go swimming in it! And you!" The blond teen rounded on the teddy bear and the skeleton. "What were you doing, diving after him?!"
"But--but Luffy was drowning!" squeaked the teddy bear.
"And then TonyTony was drowning," the skeleton added. "What else was I to do, but save a crewmate in need?"
"You could have not drowned yourself, for starters! It's not noble to try to save a crewmate when you can't swim!"
John looked at Rodney. "And you say that I'm suicidal?"
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:46 am (UTC)[later]
Being mostly drowned when Ronon had fished him out of the sea, Luffy hadn't had occasion to notice the Satedan's wings. That had likely been to his advantage, because when he did notice them, he grinned so wide that he probably would have swallowed half the ocean, if he'd still been in the water. "Awesome!" he cried, black eyes lit up like stars. "Can you fly?"
"Yeah," Ronon said, short as ever, but John could tell by the way he said it that even Ronon wasn't immune to the shining wonder in those wide eyes. For a kid made of rubber who could bench-press an elephant, Luffy was awfully easy to impress.
"That's so great! Do you want to be on my crew?" Luffy asked, and he said it guilelessly enough, a casual offer, like he was asking whether Ronon wanted to join him for lunch. But the kid meant it, John knew. Meant that he wanted Ronon to join his little band of lunatics and set off on some amazing, impossible quest that only Ronon could accomplish--and Ronon would succeed, too. Whatever it was driving Luffy and his crew, ambition or inspiration or sheer insanity--whatever it was, Ronon had it, too.
And he liked the kid, saw in him what John could see in him. "Captain," they all called him, and he might be an idiot but it wasn't a joke. John had seen it before--not often, but a few times. In the late General Hammond, in Jack O'Neill; in Elizabeth, too, for all she'd never called herself a soldier; it wasn't about being a soldier, but being a leader, the best kind of leader. Luffy's crew didn't obey his orders because they had to, but because they wanted to.
And Ronon would want to; Ronon would follow Luffy, off a cliff or down a whirlpool; follow this crazy kid captain to another world, and gladly, if he said yes.
"No," John said, not meaning to, not realizing he'd done it until after he'd opened his mouth. "No, he's already got a crew, here."
Only after he was done speaking did he realize that Ronon too said no, at the same time John did.
Over Luffy's straw hat, Ronon grinned at him. And Luffy looked back and forth between them--rubbernecking, John thought, with a dubious mental snort--and then threw back his head and laughed, wild and loud and honest, like being turned down was the best thing he'd ever heard.
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:51 am (UTC)SO MUCH LOVE.
MY HEART.
NAKAMA. Luffy's nakama - Luffy's nakama's trust in him and their dreams and their goals and their adventures, even if he is an IDIOT they will follow him everywhere, and succeed.
And JOHN'S NAKAMA. He won't lose them; not one of them; not even to excitement and wonder. Because they have that and they are family and nothing will change that.
And Luffy. UNDERSTANDS. Nakama. And nakama should be where they belong - together - so of course he's happy that Ronon has a place like that.
MY HEART. Oh. ♥♥♥♥♥
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 05:02 am (UTC)So very happy you liked it so ^_____^
(I didn't mean to steal your whales, honest, it's just, the ocean, and OP is crack, and then SGA has its own crack, and the whales are some of my favorite of the SGA crack, and, well, there you go!)
(Do you think I could post this on the whaleverse comm? extra crossover crack and all?)
oh, and Very Important Question, because I haven't read the manga in so long, and haven't read much of Brook - what does Brook call Chopper? just "Chopper" or does Brook have different names for any of them?
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 05:07 am (UTC)I'm gonna pimp it on my LJ if I have the time before work - if not, then after! Because. SO GOOD!!
Um. Your question - Brook usually -sans everyone, but I can't find anywhere he's addressing Chopper, so I don't know exactly what name he uses! ^^;; Maybe "Doctor" would do? He's quite formal in his address, Brook is.
(And if you want a small nitpick: Woolsey's the one in charge of the expedition, not Elizabeth. Elizabeth's head mage in the SGC-equivalent on Earth, so John's heard of her, but... )
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 05:17 am (UTC)(oops, forgot about Elizabeth! The problem with comment-fic is that I can't edit it...be a good reason to post it, then I can fix that. Though I could say this is an AU of the AU anyway! XP)
(btw speaking of posting, you gotta post your own snippet!)
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 05:20 am (UTC)My rec: THIS IS THE GOOD CRACK, PEOPLE!
♥♥♥
...and you say you can't write humor. HAH!
Off to work, uh, now, but - snippet? What snippet? When? Are you getting me mixed up with someone else? Did I write a snippet? XD
(I wrote a drabble for 300 that I'm proud of, but it makes more sense after chapter 551, I think...)
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 05:27 am (UTC)I can only write humor when it wants to be written! luckily for you (since OP is haaaaard otherwise) it seems to want to be written now ^^
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:53 am (UTC)AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts&hearts
Luffy!!! &hearts
ahahahha - best description ever!!!!
And aaaaaaaawwwwwwww, the end!!! a;sdkfjahs;kahskdhhl!!!!
The saying "No" and the smiles and Luffy laughing and....
LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE &hearts
Re: SGA/OP 3/3
Date: 2009-09-25 05:12 am (UTC)cracklandOP is so enjoyable! ^__^Re: SGA/OP 1/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:47 am (UTC)Ajkasdhjgjklaghsakhkjglhkjdsg AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I WILL NEVER STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!! ♥♥♥
WHALEVERSE. MEETS ONE PIECE.
And Luffy went in the ocean because Nami didn't know what it was and Chopper went in to save Luffy and Brook went in to save them both and then SANJI HAD TO ACTUALLY SAVE THEM, since he can SWIM and they can SINK. OMG. No wonder he was a little bad-tempered. AHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
...INCUBUS.
SANJI THE HAPLESS INCUBUS. WITH THE BAD FRENCH ACCENT. Ahlasdhgkjasghj AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Also Chopper as something out of George Lucas's most heinous visions AHAHAH YESSSSSSSS only he is AWESOME and has a frantic and sniffling competency WINNNNNNN!
THIS.
IS MADE OF WIN.
AND LOVE.
AND SO MUCH SHROOMY CRACK...!!!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH oh.
I.
Could never have imagined anything this hysterical.
Also, you have WHALES!!!
*glomps*
Re: SGA/OP 1/3
Date: 2009-09-25 04:48 am (UTC)ahaha
...ha *takes deep breath* &hearts
This is hilarious!!! And adorable. And hilarious.
AND CRACKFEST WUT!!?!?!?!
Heee &hearts
lol Luffy and his tether-ball head &hearts
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