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Storytime with my sister

Conversations with non-fandom people about fandom: ALWAYS HILARIOUS.

Mara and I were talking over dinner today, and I was telling her about what I'd done today.

Sophia: So I'm reading this So You Think You Can Dance AU --
Mara: Wait, you like So You Think You Can Dance now?
Sophia: No, it's a Glee fic set on So You Think You Can Dance.
Mara: Wait, you like Glee?
Sophia: No.

And this turned into me explaining AUs.

Mara: But wouldn't it make more sense to have the Glee characters on that other show?
Sophia: American Idol?
Mara: That one.
Sophia: Sure, it might make more sense, but the point of AUs isn't to make sense.

*brief interlude where I talk about things like that unicorn/rainbow AU, and the peas/ketchup AU, and so forth*

Sophia: And there are even people who take the term curtainfic (er, that means fic with domestic themes) literally, and write about the characters as curtains.
Mara: What, like, "So, Brendon, here we are hanging in front of a window. Wanna have hot sex?" "Sure, Rory!"
Sophia: *CAN'T BREATHE FOR LAUGHING*

I then proceed to explain to her exactly who Brendon and Rory are and why the idea of them together is hilarious, and wonder aloud how it would ever actually work to get them together.

Mara: Okay, you said Rory's a nurse, right? So Rory and Amy go to a concert, and there's an accident and Amy dies. And then one of the people in the band is injured and they ask the audience if there's any doctors or nurses. And Rory wants to distract himself from Amy's death so he volunteers.
Sophia: *STILL LAUGHING*
Mara: Oh, or maybe the band is travelling -- how do bands travel?
Sophia: On tourbuses
Mara: So the band is on their tourbus in the rockies or something, and Rory and Amy are driving there as well on vacation, and there's an accident and Amy dies and the band members are all injured and Rory comes onto the bus to help, and things go from there
Sophia: *STILL LAUGHING*
Mara: Yeah, that makes much more sense than the first one.
Sophia: *STILL LAUGHING*

IN CONCLUSION, if anyone feels like writing Brendon Urie/Rory Williams fic? I WOULD READ IT. Although preferably without Mara's callous treatment of Amy....:P

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I'm, um, a little concerned about this Amy dying and band members being injured theme. (Does two scenarios count as a theme?) It seems kind of unnecessarily bloodthirsty.

I mean, clearly, the Ponds would pick him up at a bar or something and take him home, and then Spencer and Ian and people would make fun of him the next day for not realising who he was getting picked up by (I pretty firmly refuse to believe that Amy is not doing fabulous other things in addition to modelling her own perfume line. She would have some kind of campaign going on.) around the same time his mobile chimed with a text message, and there would be this *face* and mockery and denial. (It would be awesome.)

Obviously Amy and Rory would decide to keep him. Not immediately after the first night, but it would be one of those things where they would decide to run into him again and things would build. It would be kind of hilarious. Just - the Ponds would decide to go to a mutual friend's party on the off-chance or attend some kind of American gala and then steal him away from his band at the end of the night, as they clearly do not need him just then. Just, Amy is such a force, and there would be wooing, and because it is Brendon he would not realise what had hit him until it was far, far, too late. There would be some obliviousness before he realised he was dating them, is what I am saying.

I'm also imagining in-universe media coverage, a little, and kind of gleefully rooting for an awesome slice-of-life domestic piece with all three of them getting written. They would be awesome. *nods* Amy and Rory Pond/Brendon Urie FTW.

OKAY YES PLEASE. I think the whole Amy dying thing arose because I said something to Mara about how the reason I couldn't see it working was because Rory's so dedicated to Amy. Also Mara has a tendency of reading overly-dramatic old-fashioned novels, which among other things are not in the slightest afraid of killing characters off.

But I love your version of events. Especially the oblivious-to-the-dating thing -- :D :D :D YES. And of course Amy is busy being several kinds of fabulous.

THIS KIND OF NEEDS TO EXIST NOW.

But wait, can they still be curtains in the dead-Amy scenario?

...was Amy a curtain too?

How do you kill off a curtain in a narrtively dramatic fashion, anyway?

YOU CRACK ME UP :D

Yes of course they were curtains! Curtains drive cars all the time. And in the car accident there were flames and things (because obviously the car went slightly explodey) so Amy burned up, while Rory managed to escape with merely a singed edge. The guys on the bus had been tossed around a bit in the accident and something sharp and/or heavy had caused rips in a couple of them, and Rory's pretty good with a needle. Well, he'd have to be, wouldn't he, what with the things that happen to them because of the Doctor.

(OMG now I am picturing the Raggedy Doctor as a curtain....)

The Doctor whould be a giant oddly-shaped curtain that looks like it's been sewn together from pieces of cloth stolen from the costuming department of an avant-grade theatre company.

Also, aren't curtains flame-resistant? Like pyjamas, or something? (I never understood that. Like, if I wake up and my bed is on fire, my first thought will probably not be, "Well, thank goodness I'm wearing flame-resistant pyjamas!")

OF COURSE HE WOULD BE.

Idk, I've always grown up with curtains that either I or my mother sewed, so I have no idea what properties store-bought curtains come with. Ditto pjs, actually! But yeah, flame retardant pjs -- WEIRD THOUGHT. I guess it's so that if you wake up and your bed is on fire and you run screaming, you aren't taking the fire with you as you go? Unless your hair's on fire. Or your entire body. In which case I don't think flame-retardant pjs will do much.

I think what most threw/amused me was that, very clearly, at the beginning of this romance story there would be blood, like, actual blood, not Amy dying off-screen of cancer and Brendon twisting his ankle, oh no, there would be some crash of metal on skin and *I am stopping now*.

Old lit is really good for that, though, the grisly deaths and so on, and there's definitely a thing where one gets very used to the conventions of whatever genre one reads.

I am kind of surprised how much I am shipping it. Just, they all have ridiculous faces, and Brendon and Rory have that kind of clueless thing going on, and Brendon's "on" stage thing meeting Amy's confidence would be fun and interesting.

I also so, so, want someone to make fun of Brendon for his stripping thing. Like, he and Amy can bond over their careers and things and Amy can tell him about how she used to be a kiss-o-gram and then, I don't know, I just sense potential in that direction.

Holy bajeebers, home-sewn curtains. That's pretty awesome.

Curtains are approximately the easiest thing to sew ever! You take a square of fabric, and then you hem three edges of it, and then the fourth edge you fold over and sew in such a way that you can stick a pole through it. DONE.

*looks at all the curtains in the house with new eyes* Hm, this place could use some polka-dot curtains.

Or Rory curtains

Mara does not shy away from intense! Although I'm kind of surprised by how thoroughly she went there too.

And oh, definitely. It always amuses me to pay attention to the train of my thoughts after I've been reading a lot of a particular type of book.

And HOW are you making me ship this so hard? The things you say about them are all SO TRUE and SO RIGHT (and YES to that potential you sense!) and I can see this so well and it would basically be the most delightful thing ever. I'm actually a little bit tempted to write it or something.

YOU HAVE TO MAKE RORY CURTAINS. RORY CURTAINS NEED TO EXIST IN THE WORLD

THEY WOULD BE THE MOST LOYAL CURTAINS EVER

(no seriously I highly recommend curtain-making as an awesome practice. You can get WAY cooler curtains that way than by buying ready-made!)

I JUST THINK THAT THEY WOULD WORK REALLY WELL. ...and also that the extended portion of it where Brendon is being obliviously wooed/dated would be made of magic. Just, he would get text messages from Rory and be happily, obliviously bouncing along, and the Ponds would be like, "Hey, I think we are going to be in the same place Friday night, what are you doing?" and he would be free (or become free) and at some point they would *I want to say go mini-golfing because of the conventions of the genre* but do something awesome and kind of childish together like going to the zoo or a children's museum together and it would be wonderful. They would try on terrible sunglasses together.

Also, I am kind of curious who the Ponds' bandom friend would be. (Who would they have in common?)

*tempts you* (I am slightly tempted myself, honestly; they would just be so awesome together.)

*grinning so hard* YES I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.

Clearly they are friends with Gerard (...GERARD WAY SAVES LIVES. And so do people who hang out with the Doctor! Probably the Doctor's saved Gerard's life at some point, when he accidentally got involved with this alien, um, *handwaves plot* and then Amy just thought Gerard was so fascinating and then somehow along the way they became friends, sort of, at least the kind of friends where you don't see each other often but it's always glorious and epic when you do). Either that or they're friends with Gabe, because DUDE, Gabe's TOTALLY had exposure to aliens.

(I'm already a parargaph in. YOU SHOULD WRITE IT TOO THOUGH! MINE MIGHT END UP BEING AWFUL. OR ABANDONED.)

YES. GERARD AND THE DOCTOR. I was figuring either Gabe or William, because, I think I have head-canon where Gabe is not like Mikey and Pete, he doesn't know everyone, but he will know some strange and unlikely person, because he is Gabe. Also he would totally help the Ponds out with the Brendon thing. ...and William because he is just so gosh-darned pretty; I could totally see him meeting Amy on some kind of shoot.

:D That is so exciting. I am sure it will not end up being awful. :) (...and I do not know if I will write it. We will see how attached I end up being to this idea.)

I like your headcanon for Gabe! Everything is strange and unlikely around him! And, uh, no arguments here about William :D

So clearly the way this goes down is that it's a party of Gabe's that they go to, and Gerard's there too, and they don't actually know Gerard but Gerard knows the Doctor and he overhears Amy saying something to Rory about the Doctor and then of course he has to say something to them, because THE DOCTOR, and Amy and Rory get so distracted by how much fun this new acquaintance of theirs is that they briefly forget their goal for coming here this evening, but then Rory notices Brendon out of the corner of his eye, head tipped back as he swallows a drink, and Rory kind of has to swallow himself, and he pokes Amy and she pokes him back and then they apologize to Gerard and run off to reacquaint themselves with Brendon.

:D YES. SO MUCH YES. [And then later they have tea parties :D. (I, yeah, that's kind of the level of joy I'm at here, just, clearly they would all hang out in the Ponds' garden later and be casually awesome at each other.)]

I don't know if I've mentioned how much I love Gabe's characterisation in fic, just, he's always engaged in some kind of hilarious plot or being ridiculous at someone or just being a really awesome friend or some combination of those things. It's nice. :)

TEA PARTIES ♥ ♥ ♥ And then Gerard would draw sketches of them being, like, chased by zombies and they'll look at the drawings and be like "oh, that reminds me of this time on this one planet when...." to the point where Gerard's kind of itching to draw a comic book about their lives. (eventually he does. He gives it to them, of course, because it wouldn't be a good idea to actually get it published. They think it's pretty much the most amazing thing ever)

Gabe makes me happy every single time he shows up in a fic. Like. ALWAYS. I just grin when he shows up because he is infallibly awesome. He's such a fascinating dude! And clearly genuinely a good dude, but also a dude with a persona that is well-suited to hilarious villainy as well if that's what's called for.

:) I kind of want him and Amy to make something together after her sketches in one of the later episodes this season. ...they would be amazing together. Like, they'd get to talking and then, like, three hours later they'd have most of a short film sketched out along with a charity or relief effort or something, and then they would make people help them so that it actually happened. I'm convinced that one of the skills that companions pick up or hone while with The Doctor, in addition to deadly science and some other things, is the ability to get shit done.

Gabe Saporta would totally acquire a fake mustache on short notice just so that he could twirl it. Gabe Saporta: he is there for you, for all your villainous needs, if need be, he will go the extra mile, it is true. He thought about getting a fluffy cat, but, really, that's a lot harder to do on short notice and it might get hurt accidentally, what type of person do you think he is? He is consistently awesome, it is true.

Okay, JUST FOR THIS FIC, I will finally get around to watching the rest of the eps of this season (I, uh, kind of fell down on that one). Because I am inventing from incomplete information, and that will never do.

But yeah, GETTING SHIT DONE. That is a life skill when you are with the Doctor, no literally, because if you aren't able to be DECISIVE and ACTIVE with your decisions at all times, you could be eaten by a grue. Or cause the end of the world/universe [pick one]. I love the idea of Gerard and Amy making something like that together! It would be epic and slightly crazy and really successful.

OH GABE <33333

Yeah. I feel like a lot of people wandered out of or fled this season of Who, that it was easy to fall behind, but that was just not an option for me, because I have a Who fic in the queue of things that I intend to write and I must have all of the Eleven canon. It is a thing.

Where are you in Who, anyway?

*nods* It is totally a life skill and TARDIS requirement.

I... I kind of want them to team up with Spencer and Pete and make the most amazing wellies in the world. Wellies for justice. I am not entirely sure how that would go down, but, okay, Spencer is clearly the shoe expert (he knows things, obviously), Pete already has a clothing line (right?) and commercial/marketing knowledge in that field, Gerard and Amy have the artistry and would come up with some amazing designs for the wellies. (...and obviously they are wellies because Amy is Scottish. That is how it starts out.) Clearly this is an excellent plan. (Hm. I think Pete is actually kind of optional here, like, I do not think his knowledge would be strictly speaking necessary because they have an Amy, but clearly he would think it was a good idea and then demand to be involved, and then he would start forcing bandom people into wellies. It would be good.)

Hahaha, SUPER LATE COMMENT, SORRY.

I am...three eps from the end of the season, I believe? IDK, I'd have to go check. But I STILL INTEND TO FINISH IT.

Eeee, I love the idea of wellies for justice. Pete might not be strictly necessary but he would not let that stop him.

(anyways I'm still not any further into the actual writing of the Brendon/Amy/Rory fic but I STILL INTEND TO FINISH IT TOO. After the finishing of the Doctor Who eps, that is. Annnnnnd probably that means after the end of NaNo because NaNo is eating my life.)

:) No worries.

I wish you good luck with the last three episodes.

No, no Pete would not. [Have you seen pictures from that photo-shoot? Black and white shots with Pete all sad/reflective/vulnerable model in these knee-high white boots that had polka-dots on them or something. I think the boots had a zip, actually, so not wellies, but there was a remarkable similarity in appearance going on there - remind me of a pair I had when I was a kid. (I have Pete looking vulnerable in wellies in my head now.)] I... kind of love that bit of fannish characterisation of Pete as having stalkerish tendencies that result in him having almost fiendish research capabilities (Pete Wentz, librarian - this exists somewhere, right? He shelf-reads, sometimes, when he can't sleep and has a crush on IT/Children's Programming/the annual scrabble champ/someone in the book club he runs. Oh, oh. High school Patrick/Summer intern Pete. ...this is going terrible places.) and unexpected phone numbers and stealth-marrying people (I am pretty sure I have read three different fics like that?). I mean, there is this terrible sleaze factor coupled with this kind of brilliant earnestness and it somehow manages to be hilarious and grin-inducing. I am picturing Rory having a really confused phone conversation with him, because Pete is already however many steps ahead and then he just keeps going. Rory is trying to make toast.

Also: wellies at Glastonbury. There are already awesome wellie photos from that, and I bet some of Gerard's designs would do really well with that kind of mud splatter. For all that wellies are a little ridiculous I legitimately think that they would be a good plan - they're gender neutral, have a lot of surface area for art, aren't really something with much existing brand power as far as I know, are genuinely useful and a little bit quirky. The promotional photography would be really awesome. ...and someone would demand spats-looking duckies because. It would be good.

Ooh. That is exciting that you intend to finish. I still don't really know if I am going to write this, but I have prioritised it in my head, so that may be a sign.

I do not know if I have wished you good luck with NaNo yet, but good luck. It sounds really exciting and also challenging and a little nerve-wracking.

(Also: I seem to have rambled at you a bit - sorry about that.)

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