How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?

[selenak]

Poetry month means a lot of people post poems I've never read before, which can be a great pleasure. Today, I spotted a charming one which is called Jane Austen and John Lennon in Heaven, and is about precisely this

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[fallingtowers]

*sporfles*

I have nothing to add, except for maybe the suggestion that this post might warrant a beverage warning. :)))

[selenak]

Blame the author of the original poem for your spewed beverage, I say. :)

[innocentsmith]

Ahaha. Amazing. I would happily read hundreds of thousands of words of this.

[selenak]

Should I write a Jane Austen/John Lennon epic, I will tell you then. :)

[ponygirl2000]

It would be glorious!

I wonder if Jane would still be a Tory. It's hard to know how the dead deal with political change of course, but I'd hope that having a perspective on a very big picture would make them more flexible about their positions.

[selenak]

...for by many stories,/ And true, we learn the Angels all are Tories, as her contemporary (decidedly not a Tory), Lord Byron put it in his satire A Vision of Judgment. :)

Of course, I don't know any better than anyone else does, but while I think Jane would have regarded the extremes of Thatcherim with distaste, there is nothing in either her work or what I know of her letters that leads me to conclude she wasn't a political conservative by choice and inclination rather than only due to the times she lived in. (The times she lived in being rather revolutionary ones.) (Also, if you manage to be pro monarchy with poor old mad George III as your king and, well, Prinny as your Regent, you really must believe in the system.)

[itsnotmymind]

:)

[selenak]

It's the crack ship of the undead ages which simply has to be, the more I think about it.

Also your icon reminds me of that other crossover someone needs to get around to, which ffutures gave me the idea for: Help! the film is based on a real events, only the people after Ringo were aliens, of course, and the Queen, being a Beatles fan, ordered Jack Harkness to protect them (he does have some lives to spare and Torchwood gets paid by the Crown).

[itsnotmymind]

That needs to be written!

[selenak]

You can even use a framing narration wherein Jack namedrops again and Owen says "no, you didn't", and then Tosh is curious enough to go through old files and lo and behold, there's a thank you letter from Brian Epstein!

And then the team asks themselves the inevitable question about the Swinging Sixties and Jack in emergency situations. *veg*

[avrelia]

I love this idea so very much! And in my head the whole day The Dead British Writers Heavenly Picnic is going on. :)

[selenak]

*bows*

All credit should go to the author of the poem; I just ran with the central conceit. :)

[shezan]

I can see you've half-written this fic already!

... and BTW, have you seen the Copenhagen Ring? AM TRANSFIXED in front of YouTube & plan to buy ALL the DVDs at ONCE.

[selenak]

No, I haven't, but will now that you've linked me as soon as find the time!