Rambling about yuletide

[alixtii]

Since everyone else is doing it (at least likeadeuce and penknife), I will too. There are two things which are almost certainly on the list:

X. The novels of Robert A. Heinlein (so I can request Lapuz Lazuli Long/Lorelai Lee Long twincest, probably, although there's plenty of other interesting pairings, as the multiverse is so rich).

X. The Parent Trap (1999),

Comments

[alixtii]

Yeah, if I were to run it, that's how I'd do it. And I don't think that anything I'm thinking about would be all that unreasonable.

[booster17]

Is it a bad thing that I immediately thought of Ms Scarlet/Mr Green from Clue when trying to think up obscure things?

[alixtii]

The game, the movie, or the tie-in novels?

[booster17]

*stares* I was thinking the movie, but really? Honestly? There are tie-in novels!?!?!?

[alixtii]

Not really. There are, erm, collections of short stories? Short mystery-ish things, with rather over-the-top-characterizations and liberal doses of what is supposed to pass for humor, all aimed at elementary school children. The last mystery in every book deals with the death of Mr. Boddy, who in the introduction of the next book is revealed--surprise!--to not have actually died through some ludicrous sequence of events. The murder attempt is explained away through some extremely implausible explanation, and Mr. Boddy, always-forever gullible, accepts the explanation.

At a certain age, those books were addictive.

[likeadeuce]

there have definitely been Shakespeare requests and stories at previous Yuletides. I guess it's rare enough on LJ.

[alixtii]

*nods*

I suppose if one adopts a suitably narrow definition of fanfiction (so as to exclude Tate, Bowdler, Shaw, Stoppard, et al.), then it is a rare fandom.

[inalasahl]

Assuming they keep the same definitions as last year, a "rare" fandom is defined as fewer than 500 fanfiction stories available on the internet.