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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]

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.

So when it becomes necessary to deal with the fissures in reality caused by the activities and continued life of one Tyrone Slothrop, an American stationed in London during the Blitz, he's the only one who can be sent. He and a partner, that is. His usual partner would probably be Watari, but they send Hisoka because (a) Hisoka speaks English; and (b) everyone wants someone sensible in the party.

So they find themselves in London, only there's more of a universe-altering supernatural nature taking place than just the odd affair of Lt. Slothrop. There's an outfit called the White Visitation that's trying to investigate supernatural phenomena. There's general weirdness, and a guy who might be using the V2 rocket as a vehicle for magic. And then, there's our guys' private and self-imposed mission to get to Mrs. Quoad's Evil English Candy stash before Slothrop's presence brings in a V2 and annihilates it, because they want to bring it back as a souvenir for Tsuzuki.

There was going to be a climax involving a game of bridge at a classic English high-society house party. (Thus the working title, "Seven Spades.") There was, if I could manage it, be a bit of a chase sequence involving Rocket Limericks. There was, in other words, practically no possibility that I could have pulled this thing off, however desperately I wanted to try.

Fortunately for my sanity, I was doing a show the very day this one was due to be posted. So there was no way I could claim it. But I'm still more than a little sorry about Tsuzuki and Mrs. Quoad's candy stash, dammit.

And having written all this out in nearly-incomprehensible shorthand, I realize that it will be even less comprehensible if you don't know Gravity's Rainbow, which is the crossover universe. Probably another reason it's a good thing I didn't actually try to write this!

[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*