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A Game!
Finally, I have a full weekend to work with! And by work I mean... not work at all. As such, I have done basically nothing today, and this is good.
A good part of Friday was actually spent fanmixing (link does not include mp3s, but if you'd like them, all you have to do is ask). It turns out what I need to do is set out to do one thing (which was "Illogical Songs that Would Drive Sherlock Holmes Crazy"), and then eventually a list of songs for something entirely unrelated will sketch itself out in my notes instead. In fact, other than the Solar System Mix (which originally included some extra-playlist material in the form of MC Hawking songs), all of the fanmixes are made entirely from songs that happened to be on my iPod during lunch on Friday, while I sat in the shadow of the Chase building and laughed silently to myself about things like Moriarty bouncing around to Succexy in his socks, giggling about calling Sherlock, in someone else's apartment while they were strapped to a bomb. (That thing about me and inappropriate public laughter? Still a problem.)
On a related note, I am tired of all of my music, my "play things only once a month" playlist is down to 41 songs and I don't want to listen to them, I have a bunch of spare emusic downloads lying around for this month, and it's still another couple of weeks before my Sufjan Stevens preorder pays off in the form of mp3s. So, I'll ask my approximately bi-yearly question: What should I be listening to right now? I'll take anything, honestly. I mean, today I discovered that I actually kind of like Florence + the Machine... something I figured out after everyone else in the world. Dunno how I managed that, but it happens. Either that, or I wasn't properly prepared for this kind of music until after Hazards of Love convinced me that maybe My Brightest Diamond was worth listening to. I've never been very good at music sung by girls. (Okay, I like Dog Days Are Over, but some of the tail end of Lungs is kind of too... whatever the word for that constant forward momentum of polished earnestness in pop music is. Like if it rolls forward with enough of a wall of sound-and-vocals and is mastered loud enough the emotion will be there. There probably isn't a word for that, but that's what it is. Makes me feel vaguely like I'm being manipulated. Also, I apologize for feeling like I have to qualify I every statement I make about any artist that's been on the VMAs because otherwise I can't be a proper hipster anymore and no one will respect my obscure and ironic taste in music.)
If that wasn't enough run-on sentences strung together and you're still hanging in here: I have a random idea that's been lurking in the corners of my brain pestering me at inopportune moments, so, for my benefit and yours, I am kicking it out into the ether to fend for itself. Simply put: a bunch of unrelated heroes get together for a swingers party to trade their sidekicks out for a week. I... admit that I have a bit of a thing for crossovers and exploring the nature of 'secondary' characters and putting people in universes they don't belong in, but I'm sure it'd lead to some quality adventure. (And I say 'hero' here not necessarily in the 'super' sense. We all know which pair I have in mind, because John Watson paired up with Fox Mulder or something would be just as fun. His fascination with eccentric brilliance would probably be mitigated into morbid curiosity.) It's certainly nothing I can do by myself because, let's face it, if I manage to put down more than a thousand words in a month we're doing really well. So, anyone want to have fun with this with me? I'll take a hero, you take a hero, we throw a bunch of sidekicks in a hat, see what we end up with. Doesn't have to be anything major, or even anything made of words, but... well, I'm just throwing it out there. (And I mean, look at my example. I am obviously incapable of thinking outside of the Holmes/Watson archetype at the moment. My alternate comparison was going to be Watson and House, I mean... give my brain some exercise here, since I'm obviously too out of shape for leaping mental fences at the moment. My only excuse is that I only recently started to think about how Holmesian Mulder and Scully were, so they're still in the wrong box in my brain's file system.)
A good part of Friday was actually spent fanmixing (link does not include mp3s, but if you'd like them, all you have to do is ask). It turns out what I need to do is set out to do one thing (which was "Illogical Songs that Would Drive Sherlock Holmes Crazy"), and then eventually a list of songs for something entirely unrelated will sketch itself out in my notes instead. In fact, other than the Solar System Mix (which originally included some extra-playlist material in the form of MC Hawking songs), all of the fanmixes are made entirely from songs that happened to be on my iPod during lunch on Friday, while I sat in the shadow of the Chase building and laughed silently to myself about things like Moriarty bouncing around to Succexy in his socks, giggling about calling Sherlock, in someone else's apartment while they were strapped to a bomb. (That thing about me and inappropriate public laughter? Still a problem.)
On a related note, I am tired of all of my music, my "play things only once a month" playlist is down to 41 songs and I don't want to listen to them, I have a bunch of spare emusic downloads lying around for this month, and it's still another couple of weeks before my Sufjan Stevens preorder pays off in the form of mp3s. So, I'll ask my approximately bi-yearly question: What should I be listening to right now? I'll take anything, honestly. I mean, today I discovered that I actually kind of like Florence + the Machine... something I figured out after everyone else in the world. Dunno how I managed that, but it happens. Either that, or I wasn't properly prepared for this kind of music until after Hazards of Love convinced me that maybe My Brightest Diamond was worth listening to. I've never been very good at music sung by girls. (Okay, I like Dog Days Are Over, but some of the tail end of Lungs is kind of too... whatever the word for that constant forward momentum of polished earnestness in pop music is. Like if it rolls forward with enough of a wall of sound-and-vocals and is mastered loud enough the emotion will be there. There probably isn't a word for that, but that's what it is. Makes me feel vaguely like I'm being manipulated. Also, I apologize for feeling like I have to qualify I every statement I make about any artist that's been on the VMAs because otherwise I can't be a proper hipster anymore and no one will respect my obscure and ironic taste in music.)
If that wasn't enough run-on sentences strung together and you're still hanging in here: I have a random idea that's been lurking in the corners of my brain pestering me at inopportune moments, so, for my benefit and yours, I am kicking it out into the ether to fend for itself. Simply put: a bunch of unrelated heroes get together for a swingers party to trade their sidekicks out for a week. I... admit that I have a bit of a thing for crossovers and exploring the nature of 'secondary' characters and putting people in universes they don't belong in, but I'm sure it'd lead to some quality adventure. (And I say 'hero' here not necessarily in the 'super' sense. We all know which pair I have in mind, because John Watson paired up with Fox Mulder or something would be just as fun. His fascination with eccentric brilliance would probably be mitigated into morbid curiosity.) It's certainly nothing I can do by myself because, let's face it, if I manage to put down more than a thousand words in a month we're doing really well. So, anyone want to have fun with this with me? I'll take a hero, you take a hero, we throw a bunch of sidekicks in a hat, see what we end up with. Doesn't have to be anything major, or even anything made of words, but... well, I'm just throwing it out there. (And I mean, look at my example. I am obviously incapable of thinking outside of the Holmes/Watson archetype at the moment. My alternate comparison was going to be Watson and House, I mean... give my brain some exercise here, since I'm obviously too out of shape for leaping mental fences at the moment. My only excuse is that I only recently started to think about how Holmesian Mulder and Scully were, so they're still in the wrong box in my brain's file system.)
A Game!!
...Are we talking rp, fanfic exchange, collaborative fanfiction, some combination of the above?
Re: A Game!!
Yaaay!
Your icon's going to give me epilepsy.
I HAVE NO IDEA EITHER! Um, I guess we'll have to think about/discuss it. I'm kinda in the same place you are, though... very limited for writing/rping time. As long as whatever it is isn't too massive/is on a not-too-hectic timescale, I'm sure I can set aside the time, though.
I guess I'm thinking more in the direction of option 1 or option 3? Because we might not pick a hero/sidekick pair that someone else was familiar with/felt comfortable writing either side of, so it makes sense to me to have each of us be in charge of our hero and their sidekick, wherever the sidekicks end up. *shrug* But I'm not completely devoted to the idea, so.
I KNOW WHICH HERO/SIDEKICK I WOULD PICK, CAN YOU GUESS? :DD
...I bet Lauren and Becca would be into this sort of thing, too.
It's so happy, though! I almost subjected you to it a second time.
I like the idea of option 3, because it retains some of the give and take of rp without the rules against godmodding. I have no idea how this would work, though. Perhaps an agreed-upon central plot that would eventually tie all the parallel swapped-sidekick stories together? (Even if it's an old-school-style ridiculous villain plot (http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2395151.html). Actually especially if it's an old-school-style ridiculous villain plot.)
And yeah, I realized last night that if we were going to go for heroes/sidekicks that we were all comfortable writing half of we probably wouldn't have an entire set between us, even if it was just me, you, and Dar. Maybe if we each put together a list of preferences we can work out something that's randomish but still works for everyone. (It occurs to me that this would be easier to work out rp-wise, if we each played our hero and sidekick, but then we'd just be working in pairs, and on two things at once.)
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Yeah, rp would definitely be easiest... working in pairs isn't so bad with a small group (if there's three of us we all work with each other), and we can join everything up in the end in a massive crossover party? Pfff idek. If multi-tasking seems daunting, we could take turns concentrating on a pair, with the other players tossing in npcs and plot stuff? (Still looking at the rp/collaborative fiction end of things here, obviously.)
For a fanfic exchange... yeah, it'd be doable if we worked out ahead of time who we think we'd be comfortable with... but it would take a lot of the random out (although maybe not terribly so, in a hypothetical group of three... even doing it the other way we wouldn't have a lot of choices). Still leaning towards 1 or 3, because it gives us more character options (we don't have to be constrained by other people's writing comfort zones), and imo, while a fanfic exchange would be fun, I'm inclined to think increased interaction with each other would be even more fun. ...Of course, interactive stuff also comes with logistics problems....
...Basically what I did there is run around in circles without really going anywhere useful at all. ^_^;;
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The villain angle could be a backstory for the annual sidekick swingers party. Everyone could sit around and reminisce about the first time it happened and then go home with each other's accomplices for added adventures. (-: Actually... yes, I really do want to see the party. I keep picturing everyone gathered in a room trying to suss out the super-villain's intentions after they find their way to the nexus of the switch, and naming off their usual menaces. "Skrull! Aliens! Moriarty!" and House keeps sarcastically adding "Cancer!" to the list from the back of the room. (I'm also enjoying picturing Sherlock constantly threatening to send Watson or Lestrade back to work with the Batman if they don't start catching on to the cases more quickly. Both of them are terrified of the Robin uniform, especially the one Alfred altered to be the right size.)
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LUPUS!! Oh god lolololol especially if it's the classic Robin costume! XDDDD
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I have some loose ideas now of how this could be handled as an rp, with event-style points in the timeline where everything affects everything else, but this is probably a good point to stop and see if anyone else wants in. (I figure you're relaying this to Dar, or she's lurking around, and she'll weigh in one way or another eventually.)
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...Should I bring this to the attention of anyone else who might be interested/interesting but who may have been a little TL;DR? Lauren or Becca perhaps?
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Go ahead and poke at Lauren and Becca if you'd like. The more the merrier! I don't think I know anyone outside of you guys that'd be interested in this.
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♥
How do you wanna do this?
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But darn you guys for dividing this into two comments because now I'm going to have to say "I have no idea!" again and it'll get repetitive so ::points above:: but basically whatever you guys want? (-;
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There are just so many WORDS.
And also I might be more caffeine than human being right now.
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Basically: rp format y/n? Overarching villain plot y/n? Actual swingers party y/n? Any further suggestions y/y?