Slashy Nominations 136: Praised Be the Alternate Universe
Some of you may remember - or maybe not; a livejournal generation is only, like, eight days, so we're talking about ancient history, here - when I recommended fan fiction in this space. When I was knee-deep in vids, I swore to myself that those days would come again. It was very dramatic and meaningful, although the pervy LotR vid playing in the
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You know, the worst thing about this fandom is that I actually kind of really want to see that.
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I'd read it too, despite the fact that I had to swear off Anne McCaffrey around the time I turned 20. (It was better for everyone that way, believe me.) But before I'd even posted this, Best Beloved and I were figuring out how it would work, because it's just very compelling. See, Rodney would totally be a bronze, and, yeah, okay, he'd be good at fighting, but he would never want to. He'd be the smartest, talkiest dragon ever, though. John would be a totally daredevil rider on the world's most cautious dragon, and they'd have lots of conversations like this:
F'jon [um...if that's how you make a rider name]: We can totally do it! Come on, faster!
Rodney: Not with these bronze wings. You want to risk hideous Threaded death, you can go fool around with some blue. He'll be too stupid to realize how insane you are.
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F'jon: She's, mmm. *gazes at Chaya lustfully* What say we go get some of that?
Rodney: No. She's evil, F'jon. I can sense it. Also, I am totally not mating with [Chaya's dragon's name - Proculus, maybe?], because ( ... )
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::boggle::
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See? It would totally work! So obviously someone needs to write it. Someone who isn't me. You, for example.
*delegates*
*nods emphatically*
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Besides, from the other comment down there, you've already gotten a great start.
Beckett would be a Healer. I can only recall that the Healer at the Harper hall was a hunchback. Zelenka? Some sort of master craftsman. Oh, hey, maybe (to totally swipe someone else's concept) at a vinyard, inventing stills and making kickass new tasty alcohols. Heh, and Rodney gets indigestion from the fire-making rocks and Zelenka finds a way to refine it, make it tasty *and* more effective. And then Rodney's all "Snack!" and John has to keep the stuff locked up.
Oh, holy mother of poodles. I'm not writing this. Not not not. I give unto you these concepts, do with them as you will.
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Now I'm picturing their Impression, during which all the new riders are feeding their dragons and F'jon's still so excited that it takes him a while to realize Rodney is eating like five times as much fresh meat as all the others are getting.
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You know, I actually meant Weyr when I said Weir up there, because I'd forgotten the mutant spelling thing, but Weir the Weyrwoman works so well.
*ponders*
And Ronon and Teyla would also be riders, despite my temptation to make Ronon a Harper. (Oh, come on, don't tell me you don't want to, too. He'd be all laconic and thoughtful and he'd play guitar or whatever instruments they have, and he'd smile a lot, and he'd always have the best gossip, but he'd refuse to tell it to anyone in the Weyr but F'jon. And all the ladies would so want him.) Beckett would be...hmmm. I don't remember what they did for doctors; wasn't it mostly, like, the various maternal figures that did that? Well, you know, Beckett's fairly maternal, so...
And Zelenka. Wow. He totally doesn't fit in this world, does he?
Now I'm picturing their Impression
Oh my god. So am I (thanks to you). And I can just see it, with wee Jon smacking Rodney on the nose all, "Cut it out. You've already had way more than all the other dragons combined." And ( ... )
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I don't think healers had to be female, but you're right about Beckett being a mother hen. He'd have a fire lizard too, one he somehow impressed accidentally and never quite knows what to do with.
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So I can't possibly re-read them. I can't ask Best Beloved to go through that again. But if I wrote this, I'd have to re-read it, because I don't remember the details very well. (I'd totally forgotten about Healers until diluvian reminded me, for example.)
Still, it's so tempting. I mean, I can hear all these snippets of dialog in my head. For example:
F'jon: And, no ( ... )
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I'm just enamoured of the idea of Rodney as a dragon. Maybe it's that thing Spaggel had going with the Rodneysaur. I don't know.
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"Rodney: Not so much, no. But I have heard of not telling C'ldwell [still don't know if I'm making these names right, but the latest info says you elide the first vowel, so...] the things you thought about him while he was telling you off for that night flight we did."Snerk. You know what else they'd get told off for? Remember the time travel thing (colloquially known as "timing it." Man, I don't even want to know how much random Pern trivia is stored in my brain...)? John would so frivolously abuse that. Or at least want to. And then Rodney would argue with him about messing up the timeline. It would be great. Hm, or possibly they'd do it once for some Really Important Reason, and Rodney would actually be very ( ... )
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I'd read it too, despite the fact that I had to swear off Anne McCaffrey around the time I turned 20.
Ahh, so you haven't read her latest efforts. (Or those of her son. Really. Writing a series is not like owning a family buisness.) They're just - so *depressing*. I think what it comes down to is that the real strength of the series was its world building, and that seems to have stopped. (Correct me if I've just missed the right book here people - I have not read the lastest one (ones?).)
Actually, I've been seeing a lot of SGA/Pern ideas floating around. Obviously this is an idea whose time has come. *looks at plot bunny with renewed interest*
F'jon [um...if that's how you make a rider name]As far as I can remember, you dropped the first vowel. John's name... doesn't really work for this. OTOH, the justification for the idea was that it made your name faster for the dragons to say when fighting Thread, so ( ... )
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