meme thing 2.0

[neveralarch]

I should be asleep, etc etc, but I've been working on Yuletide fic and homework and the weekend is coming up and I need something to keep me moving and not get stuck. So! Meme.

This is from LJ and then tumblr and I have no idea where it originated, sorry.

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

Anything I write will be solidly not!fic, probably, but feel free to give me whatever fandom. You can see the ones I've written on AO3, and I am also happy to write Skyfall Bond and any other fandoms you think I might know.

Comments

[aralias]

yay! this is great. i actually read it this morning and then didn't comment, but mostly what i meant to say (i could have said then was) I LOVE HIGH SCHOOL AU!

how awesome is it that hornblower chases off the school bully? brilliant. although i guess he doesn't have to deal with a potential epic court marshall. man, i love lieutenant hornblower. it is so awesome and also gay.

also, i thought bush was going to die when he fell off the cliff... even though it was rationally too early for that. so, i was relieved when he didn't! and then everything was good :D :D

[aralias]

also - what i only thought later was-

perhaps all hornblower's normal and clever thoughts are in regular upper and lower case, but whenever he is trying to cope with HUMAN EMOTIONS it is in upper case.

[aralias]

also also also - i'm sort of glad you didn't write the pretneding to be married. becuase that is what i have been writing ALL DAY.

except mostly it is sex, and not much of the plot.

[neveralarch]

Haha, getting this series of comments was great :D

At first I was kind of like 'high school AU, what do I do with a high school AU,' and then I realized that I am about ten times more invested in Hornblower's life if he's an awkward teenager, so. And I also remembered that Lieutenant Hornblower is totally my favorite Hornblower book.

I think you're right about Hornblower's ALLCAPS and normal type thoughts - my thoughts about HUMAN EMOTIONS are generally in all-caps too...

And I'm excited to read your fic! I just saw the post, so maybe in a bit I will stop trying to write papers and enjoy fanfiction instead.

[aralias]

maybe the thing is that hornbloewr is always an awkward teenager... he just gets better at directing naval battles.

i love him very much, because of his horrible fail. that's not to say i'd want to be married to or even in love with him, but he is such a falliable character and yet so good. i think that is excellent. (this is just some thoughts about hornblower, now. not related to the high school thing).

i love hornblower playing video games with bush's sisters WHO ALL KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM, though. i love that the most.

this bush icon has seen a lot of use today...

[neveralarch]

Aha - I think it's kind of awesome that I've managed to talk about Hornblower all day when I wasn't writing term papers.

I really like Hornblower as a character - I'm consistently impressed by Forrester's writing and the humanity that he gives to Hornblower despite Hornblower being, on the face of it, your typical good-at-everything action hero. I just also want to shake Hornblower until he stops being a dick. (But this is an urge that I get toward a lot of real human beings, so this is just another testament to Forrester's writing ability.)