Fic meme

[girlofprey]

Make up a title for a story I didn't write, and I will respond with details of those non-written stories. You may, if you like, include details, such as pairings or fandom or whatnot.

Stealed from rei_c. Because I've been feeling my distinct lack of fic lately. And I'm in the mood for a meme.

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[rei-c.livejournal.com]

Turtle-Soup on a Cold Day

It was a Pirates fic, wasn't it? Or maybe Ankh-Morpok-based, I can't recall. (Not that those two should or could ever be mixed up, but. You know me and my spaghetti-like brain.)

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

It was both, in fact. My God, that was cracked. Writing a Pirates crossover with Discworld with my knowledge of Ankh-Morpok coming entirely from The Colour of Magic. Fun to write though. My favourite bit is still the first bit, with Jack trying to explain to Norrington quite how they ended up there. "Any port in a storm" didn't quite cover it. Chasing the legends he'd heard about a giant sea turtle seemed like a fairly Jack-ish thing to do, though. The problem was letting him brag about the "quest" to the locals without him getting lynched as a heretic for it.

I never really explained why Norrington was there, and I only feel slightly guilty about it. The alternative was using Will and/or Elizabeth, and they irk me a bit. Or would have in Ankh-Morpok. It was more fun getting Jack and James to run around the city together, trying not to be noticed and not entirely succeeding. I still quite like the way I managed to get them working together. It was odd plotting out their reactions to the attack by the wizards, given the use of magic in Pirates and their different experiences of it, but it was pretty useful for getting them to stick together. I had a vague plan to get them into a swordfight with Teatime somehow, but I like them both too much, so a run-in with the Theives Guild seemed like enough. It was hard to judge when to stop Jack ruling the roost and have Norrington come in and wreck everything, but I'm pretty pleased with how I left it.

I'm not convinced I quite pulled off Prachett's sense of humour about the city, or made it very funny, but I did my best. It was, as I say, crack through and through. And if the stormy weather that kept Jack and James from leaving also had them huddling together for warmth, that was just a bonus.

[rei-c.livejournal.com]

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BEST. FIC. EVER.

(You never needed to explain why Norrington was there -- him and Jack huddling MORE than made up for it. And yes, much more with Norrington in this, rather than Will and/or Elizabeth. I mean, that scene when they crossed paths with Death? Only Norrington. *Giggles* Only Jack. *Giggles more* And, by the way? Pratchett's sense of humour? COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to pull off, but you did an EXCELLENT job. I loved the footnotes, too!)

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

You Really Got Me - who would have thought that you'd write Caroline/Mac fic, eh? Man, that was a good one.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Why do you have to keep bringing that up? I think it's really BEST FORGOTTEN DUDE.

You know I mostly wrote it to show how terribly Mac and Caroline cope without Guy. A romantic holiday away, in a castle by the sea - and she was ready to kill him by the end of it. All those little mind games, comments, that she couldn't quite keep up with - and with no-one else to have slightly more direct and resolvable confrontations with. And he was just bored, no-one around to fight with, not even Caroline since they were 'doing well' now. If she hadn't gotten annoyed with herself he'd probably have pushed her off a pier, 'for a laugh'. It was with GREAT RELUCTANCE I ended it with him doing with of those suprise romantic gestures he always does, and her accepting it like she always does. Canonical evidence weighed me down. How was I to know it would really appeal to the Caromaccers? ::headdesk::

Note the distance she leaves between them when they're driving back on Mac's bike, dude. I'd have had a coda where they get back to Guy and find themselves suddenly really refreshed, if I didn't think I'd be lynched for it.