Meme fills

[lost_spook]

I've managed a few of the AU Meme ficlets so far (and a few still yet to come). I have been posting them to AO3 & of course in the comments, but in the absence of other things going on, I thought I might as well round them up here, too:

Comments

[a_phoenixdragon]

Hee!! Loved these!!

*Happy!Squishes!*

[lost_spook]

Thank you. :-)

[persiflage_1]

Much fun and mirth!

[lost_spook]

Thanks! :-)

[astrogirl2]

Hmm, I have apparently discovered that the secret to getting me to actually enjoy these kinds of AUs is keeping them to a few short sentences. I will keep that in mind for future reference. :)

Also, the Liz Shaw Urban Fantasy AU made me laugh a lot, probably because it's such a tiny, tiny turn of the knob from canon truth.

[lost_spook]

Ha, well fun snippety bits like this don't really matter what they are!

And that one I couldn't resist. Plus, it would be a fun one to actually extend (not that I will), because, as you say - it's only a little way from canon. :-)

[daibhid_c]

These are all brilliant. And gratuitous Swallows & Amazons ref FTW!

[lost_spook]

Thank you! Well, I was sitting there thinking that Ruth couldn't be a pirate name, and then realised that someone else had already had that particular problem. :-)

[ylla]

Pirates having to be Ruthless is possibly one of my favourite jokes from any book ever.

And reminds me that I bought Secret Water from a secondhand bookshop beside where we were dancing on Saturday, and the Amazons had just turned up (I've been too sleepy to read since I got home!)

[lost_spook]

Aw, how nice! And it is true: pirates have to be Ruthless. :-)

[john_amend_all]

That Nine and Rose Regency AU fits surprisingly well. You've got me wondering where Jackie and Mickey are in the below-stairs hierarchy now.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! I rather like that one, too. As for Jackie and Mickey, well, Jackie can just be Rose's MUm who was a maid once in her time (or possibly, now widowed, she's back as cook, but she doesn't really need to be), whereas Mickey... a valet, I suppose. He doesn't quite seem to be the footman type somehow.

[john_amend_all]

Groom, perhaps, since in the mainline universe he works in a garage?

[lost_spook]

Possibly! I was thinking, at that period, he was most likely to have started off as a page, and then couldn't quite see him being the footman, but that would no doubt also work.