girls who just watch

[pensnest]

The drill in our back garden was not working. Came all the way from Yorkshire, too. Someone didn't have a check list! They got it working after lunch, and then, it got dark.

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I've just been going back through my journal to check what I may have left out of my Christmas letter, and discovered something I did back in April which worked out rather well. So, for anyone who's procrastinating about their seasonal exchange fic, or writing their Christmas cards, or, well, whatever, here goes:

Here are ten of my story titles. I invite you to pick as many as you like, and tell me what you think the story is, or ought to be, about.

Popslash stories
A Night at the Palace
The Little Dustbuster That Could
The Christmas Tree Conspiracy
Wide Eyed and Legless
Show You The Shape Of My What?
for this world to be unbroken
Fallen Down I'm Still Alive

Trek stories
An odd state of flux

Glambert stories
Checking for Titanium
can't see the wood for the 42Ds

(And, by all means steal the idea. I also need to procrastinate! Deadline pressure isn't working yet!)

Comments

[frausorge]

Ok, "A Night at the Palace" sounds like either a regency romance with society hopefuls attending the event of the season, or else street urchins smuggling themselves onto royal grounds and hiding out somewhere till morning so they can explore after the palace staff are asleep. Or possibly both at once!

"Checking for Titanium" sounds like a sci-fi story about passengers needing to prove they're all human and not cyborgs in order to board a spaceship, though I can't decide if that's because a dystopian government is discriminating against cyborgs, or because humans are having to protect their last survivors in the Great Cyborg War.

[pensnest]

I like the idea of it as a regency romance! It's actually my version of Cinderall, with boyband casting.

Ah, cyborgs and dystopias and what not. I'm certainly in a very sci-fi mood at the moment, at least if you count Star Wars as SF, which on reflection I probably don't. Thanks for playing!

[watervole]

The Little Dustbuster That Could

Clearly the dramatic tale of how it helped clear up all the needles under the Xmas tree just before the guests arrived.

[pensnest]

It was a title that arrived with me rather before most of the story, and refused to leave. I still can't entirely be sure whether I love it or hate it!

The dustbuster in question is actually a time machine (with limited scope).

[spikedluv]

This sounds like fun! I might steal the idea for something else. *g*

[pensnest]

It's quite a neat little game, when there's procrastinating to be done.

[turlough]

Tsk, tsk, how very unprofessional of them!

I can't decide if I think The Christmas Tree Conspiracy sounds like if it should be a thriller all about spies using the Christmas decorations in assorted London deparment stores as their drop points for stolen documents, or if it's instead a fun Woodhouse-esque tale of misplaced Christmas trees in a tiny English village.

[pensnest]

Either of these sounds like great fun, though I suspect I'd rather read the Woodhousian tale! (It's actually a very slight conspiracy to get Lance and Jesse Tannenbaum back together.)

[turps]

I've been watching so many ridiculous Christmas films lately that A Night at the Palace is obviously some Christmas based royalty romcom starring boybanders.

I see Kevin as a prince for some reason. One that swishes around his ice palace looking stern and wearing a long faux fur-lined cape. I feel JC would be his resident pianist who spends most of his time playing sad songs and longing for a warmer environment. It's JC who agrees to let the strangers stay the night when their car breaks down in a snow storm.

It seems like is some kind of Frozen/Rocky Horror mesh.

[pensnest]

That sounds good! Kevin is indeed Prince Charming, though I didn't feature JC as a resident musician, I think he was the Fairy Godmother. Some kind of Frozen/Rocky Horror mashup would be awesome!

[brandywine28]

Uh-huh, yeah, like I really wasn't gonna stick my two cents into THIS. (Mixed metaphor? Oddly phrased metaphor? Yes and yes and I don't care, because here are my horrible synopseses!!)

So...

A Night at the Palace. Um. Well, the titular Palace is obviously a strip club. A royalty-themed strip club run by Kevin, who takes it all incredibly seriously. He spends most of the fic auditioning male QEII impersonators (who are also willing to get nude on stage) and finally, Justin comes in and gives it his all. He's terrible and his wig is cheap and refuses to stay on his head, but is he cute enough to wear down Kevin's professionalism? WAIT AND SEE. (Or don't. I mean, I probably wouldn't.)

The Little Dustbuster that Could. Chris is shopping for a dustbuster at Target, testing out the display models, when he gets. Curious. And stuck. In that order. Cut to the teenaged stockboy freaking out and running to fetch Joey, head of store security. Sparks fly. It's possibly the world's worst meet-cute. And I am into it.

:)

[pensnest]

No, no, the titular Palace is very respectable, really! Howie runs it, so, you know. But Kevin and Justin are important players. I tried to make Justin be Prince Charming, but he wouldn't co-operate and Lance had to find someone else.

"stuck" a word that, in this context, fills me with horror! This is a rare beast, for me, a JuC story, with only a little leavening of Lance and a little bit more of Chris (though the Chris scene is the best one).