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[animadri]

I am bored and sick (cold) and stuck at home. Share with meeeeeeee!

1. Tell me about a springkink prompt that you claimed thinking that you had a grasp on it, a vision so to speak. You knew exactly where you wanted to go, only to be derailed by the characters, the plot, your muse, your cat ... You name it! Tell me what happened. Where you able to muddle

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[p_zeitgeist]

Want to hear about the Muraki/Hisoka WW2 prompt I didn't claim, because I knew there was no conceivable way I could do it that month?

[veleda_k]

I know I do!

[p_zeitgeist]

You guys are all too indulgent, allowing me to rattle on about this one without having to actually, you know, try to write it!

The prompt was WW2, games, high society, blackout. This is the recipe for an epic; in my brain it went instantly to the bizarre comedy/crossover place. (So I may be about to disappoint you horribly, I'm warning you right now.)

This one features the version of the guys where Hisoka and Muraki have resolved the worst of their differences, and where Muraki's been killed and recruited for the Summons Bureau -- in other words, the version growing out of the last thing I did for stagesoflove. Muraki's still Muraki, see: he's still doing research and meddling with things he ought not meddle with, and he's figured out how to do a certain amount of time travelling. For technical reasons, he's really the only one who can do said travelling, although he can take people with him when he does it

[veleda_k]

You guys are all too indulgent, allowing me to rattle on about this one without having to actually, you know, try to write it!

Oh, don't worry. The peer pressure comes later.

*Makes note to read Gravity's Rainbow*

[animadri]

Yes please.

[p_zeitgeist]

As you can see, it's probably a damned good thing I didn't try to claim this one. Crack!fic from hell; and there's no way I could have written rocket limericks that stand up to Pynchon's.

But I still half-think that somebody should do this. Possibly Pynchon himself, because his is one of the few universes that's weird enough to feel right at home with the YnM universe.

[animadri]

It would have been a lovely change of pace. I, for one, would love to laugh along to Muraki and Hisoka's shenanigans.

[keelieinblack]

Oh yes, please, because when I saw that prompt my very first thought was "Dear god, I wish p-zeitgeist would do that one."

[p_zeitgeist]

I'm deeply flattered. But as I've just explained a little upthread, you're probably kind of glad I didn't, because the prompt as written clearly called for something kind of dark and glittery, and instead my brain came up with a weird buddies comedy in which Hisoka and Muraki snark at each other, win huge amounts of money playing bridge against aristocrats who don't know what hit them, fight with demons who chant Rocket Limericks, and steal Horrible English Candy to bring home for Tsuzuki. (It's science, they tell each other. They want to see whether he'll actually eat it, and if he does, whether he'll notice there's anything wrong with it.)

I'm not convinced I could have actually written it. And if I somehow had managed it after all, I rather suspect I'd have been the only one who liked it.

[veleda_k]

instead my brain came up with a weird buddies comedy in which Hisoka and Muraki snark at each other, win huge amounts of money playing bridge against aristocrats who don't know what hit them, fight with demons who chant Rocket Limericks, and steal Horrible English Candy to bring home for Tsuzuki.

You seem to be under the horrible misconception that this is bad thing. Buddies comedy with snarky Hisoka and Muraki is just what the world needs. The world needs it. I need it!

It's science, they tell each other. They want to see whether he'll actually eat it, and if he does, whether he'll notice there's anything wrong with it.)

*snicker* What a delightful pair of sadists.

[keelieinblack]

Really, I have to agree with veleda-k--Hisoka and Muraki snarking at each other can never be wrong, particularly when there's a card game in there as well. Even though I haven't read Gravity's Rainbow in years, the whole thing sounds marvelous. And considering that the last time you went in an unexpected direction with a prompt it turned out "And Not Your Yellow Hair", which I was rereading for the thousandth time just yesterday--

--well, I'll just say that I'm extremely sorry that the world won't get to see this one.

[p_zeitgeist]

And once again, I fear you are too kind.

I'm sorry not to have been able to grab it -- but then, you must know by now that the odds were always high that I'd have gotten myself all tangled up with it anyway, and it would have wound up as yet another of my forever-in-progress WIPs. Like the AU where I assured everybody that the Muraki/Tatsumi hatesex was coming up within weeks, that was like three or four Christmases ago now. Or the Bookverse thing that I refuse to give up on, but was reduced to posting the opening of in the hopes that one of you guys could tell me what the hell should happen next. Et cetera, et cetera, and on into infinity . . .

[bladderwrack]

WOULD ACCEPT. :D :D

(Prompt is mine -- I lack the capacity to visualise the whole thing myself, but goddamn I want somebody to write that fic. I think the characters would do well in such a location. Must read Gravity's Rainbow. I was thinking more Ishiguro/Powell in terms of settei, although I fear that would lead to a terribly depressing fic.)

I am amused, if concerned, that Watari is Muraki's usual partner. (Tend to think that it would end up with rather too many fascinating explosive experimental fireworks and an extremely idiosyncratic understanding on both parts of the term 'common sense'. ♥)

[p_zeitgeist]

You know, it doesn't altogether surprise me to hear that was your prompt. It's a great prompt, too: I wish more people had grabbed for it, because it's the sort of thing where I could easily see ten people coming up with ten equally good and utterly different stories from it.

I was thinking more Ishiguro/Powell

That may be one of those fundamental differences between the American cultural default and the U.K. cultural default. This country didn't get trashed during the war, leaving us with nothing in our environment to restrain the general cultural tendency toward the glittery surface -- the Good War! London! Bad guys in black uniforms!! There are ways in which I actually know better, and it still would never, ever have occurred to me to go in the Ishiguro/Powell direction. Although I'd damned well want to read it if anyone else wrote it.

I am amused, if concerned, that Watari is Muraki's usual partner.I have to think you're right about the questionable aspects of pairing these two. But there are forces pushing in that

[bladderwrack]

I see what you mean there. Although, I think it has at least as much to do also with my tendency to make everything I write REALLY DEPRESSING, and your strange and fascinating habit of writing plot and games and solutions and /life/ out of a fundament of dead people. (s'one of the reasons I never got that into YnM, I think - what's the point of writing depressing stories about dead people who are demonstrably more fucked up than I could ever make them? And besides, Dorian already has that angle covered.)

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^^ I'll get it out of the uni library and have a go reading it on the eight-hour train journey home in a couple of weeks. It sounds like a thing that would benefit from a concentrated period of nothing-to-but-READ.