The Story So Far Meme

[m31andy]

So, for once, I know where a meme actually started! From draycevixen who thought it would be more interesting to list all the situations the lads are stuck in due to a case of rather serious writer's block.

The list is in fandom and then approx date order.

Life on Mars

1. Someone is burying a body.

2. Maya is reading a diary from 1973 whilst sat beside the Sam's hospital bed.

3. Sam has just opened an old box that was delivered while he was still in a coma.

4. Maya is interviewing a colleague of a dead copper, in order to solve a cold case.

5. Gene is desperately trying to find the git who is knocking off his missus.

6. Maya has just been asked out by a big business man by the name of Sam Williams.

7. Sam Williams is trying to get to grips with a new-fangled piece of technology called a "personal computer".

8. Sam is playing chess with an in-patient at the hospital he is currently recuperating at.

9. Vic Tyler has just asked Sam to join him and get him out of the fix he's in.

10. Ray is sitting down to Sunday lunch with Gene, Gene's missus and a rather sore arse.

11. Sam has just come to after the best blow job of his life, only to find out it's not Annie leaning over him, it's Chris.

12. Sam is about to have hot, sweaty, slightly kinky sex with his boss, Chief Superintendent Christopher Skelton.

13. Chris has just moved in to the new house that Sam has bought.


The Professionals

14. Ray has just got back from his honeymoon to find that Bodie has resigned.

15. Bodie is at a conference, trying desperately to forget that his once-friend and partner is in a coma.


Top Gear

16. Richard and James are hoping that Gwyneth's potion will cure Jeremy of lycanthropy.


Stargate SG-1

17. Daniel is watching his last dawn, Jack is desperately searching for him.


CSI

18. (Pre-Season 5) Sara has just asked Grissom if he loves her. Grissom couldn't answer.


Crossovers

19. Captain Samantha Carter has just woken up in a very dingy flat, lying on a rather flimsy cot with no idea how she got there. Meanwhile, Sam Tyler is having a devil of a time trying to work out how he got on to the TARDIS and, more importantly, how he has managed to acquire breasts. He is also trying to work out why, exactly, the Doctor is insisting on a large number of pre-flight checks.

20. Sam is in hospital, having his appendix out. The boy in the next bed is being visited by a very chirpy gothy girl wearing a large ankh.

21. Sam has just woken up to the news on the radio that a giant, rampaging cat is on the loose in Manchester.

22. Chief Superintendent Boyd is interviewing a suspect in a cold case. Samuel Williams certainly knows more about the killings that he is letting on.

23. Sam Tyler has just met Cal McCaffery and Danny Kavanagh at a tea party held by Harold Saxon.

24. Alex is sure the ageing prostitute they've just banged up for soliciting is actually Sam Tyler. Sam, on the other hand, is desperately trying to work out how to get out of the station without his boss, George Cowley, finding out his cover has been broken.


I'm slightly disturbed by some of the pairings on this list - my OTPs are very thin on the ground there. (That possibly explains why they're all still WIPS!

Comments

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

Well, the ones from my fandoms look fab (finish no. 10 right now!!). Get on with your Big Bang fic then you can finish up these babies. And we may need to have a LoM Big Bang later on in the year :D

No. 22 looks a doozey, as does 24. And 5. And who is the chess-playing patient in no. 8? Anyone we know?

[loz]

LoM Big Bang? Mmmm.

Would you organise it?

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about it for some time, and I was going to test the waters after I've finished the current Big Bang I'm committed to (it's due in August). As I've never organised a fest of any kind I was going to see if anyone more experienced and/or more capable than me would like to take it on. Having said that, I wouldn't be averse to giving it a go *g* Indecisive, much?

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

*grin*

#10 might get finished soon - it's quite short (and was a request from elfbert...) so yeah. Hmm.

The Pros Big Bang is eating my brain. Seriously! (and it's #15, if you hadn't guessed...)

If we do have a LoM Big Bang (and it's a great idea), I might submit #24 for it - it's quite long enough in story, but I've only got bits so far so it would qualify! (But let's do it after August, hey?)

#5 stalled because it's a three-parter (of which all of #1, some of #2 and the end of #3 is written) - the first part reads like an appalling self-insert (it's het, for one) and I really can't see anyone reading past it. *sigh*

As for #8, yes. The chess player is someone we know. Unfortunately he doesn't know... (dun, dun, duuuuun!)

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

Ooh, an angsty Big Bang piece from you then. *g*

I know that we can't do a Big Bang for LoM until after August - there are a few LoM fen writing for the Pros BB iirc - but I keep thinking about it, especially as there seems to be new blood in the comm.

I'm not guessing the chess player because I'll probably be disappointed. Does it begin with 'G'?

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Yeah - if you've not heard, it's based on Kitty Fisher's "The Pillory" (assuming she'll give her go ahead to me taking that as the prequel - I'm still gearing up the courage to ask her) - which is horribly, horribly angsty. I thought I'd get the boys out of the situation she left them in, but that just seems to involve more angst. At least for Bodie. Doyle is stuck in a coma, poor thing.

I'd really enjoy a LoM Big Bang - I've still got several ideas that need finishing (as you can see). There's five on the LoM list alone which will top 10,000 words at least. (I know, unusual for me!) and I think it would be a good thing for the comm to do - a bit different to the usual anon-pornfests, porntobers and whathaveyou!

Loz, are you planning a ficathon this year?

[hambelandjemima.livejournal.com]

Yeah - if you've not heard, it's based on Kitty Fisher's "The Pillory"
No, I hadn't. I'll have to check that out to see if I've read it. Is it on the Circuit Archive? You're usually the one getting them into situations - this'll be a refreshing change *g*

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's on the Circuit Archive. Be warned though, it's not a happy fic at all.

The Pillory

There's Seven Suggestions for What Happened Next by Jess on the Proslib CD - most people need to read that afterwards, to make them feel better.

(I know - but it's the second betrayer!Doyle fic in a row. Perhaps I'll be typecast in this fandom too!!!)

[loz]

I am crazy excited for a few of these!

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Hopefully I'll get at least one of these finished for the Amnesty - there's more than one on the list that was started for a flashfic challenge!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

*eyes your crossovers with extreme glee*

Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be eyeing your crossovers but who could resist?

Of course my heart belongs to #21 and I'm now humming "G - you need a helping hand, O - you know we'll understand..."

They all look to be made of win and sprinkles though. ♥

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

I never doubted that #21 would be right up your alley.

(All I have to do is work out *why* Twinkle has made it all the way to Manchester...)

The crossovers, in the main, are pure crack. (except #22 and #24, which could go either way, really...)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Let's leave my alley out of this shall we?

Moi? Be interested in crack!fic? *bats eyelashes*

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Well if you will eye my crossovers with that look on your face...

And because you've never even entertained the idea of crack-fic, yeah?

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

Hey, I often have an expression of "stunned awe" on my face. *g*

Nuh huh... I've been delighted by how many comments I get about my tendency to slip Phyllis in to everything... Erm... *sniggers* It always makes me want to do the Python Spam sketch but with "Phyllis" instead.

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

So very many of these are pertinent to my interests!

(But srsly, #5 -- either someone is trying to knock off Gene's missus, or they already have done so, surely? You didn't stop writing right in the middle of the murder? Or was that "knocking up" the missus, in which case you stopped writing in the middle of teh sex?)

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

It's British working class slang - knocking off...

Knocking up (also cognate) is exclusively used in the "getting someone pregnant" way now, not just the act itself.

(As in, Sam knocked me up - he either woke her up suddenly or got her pregnant. God, I love British slang...)

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I love British slang too. It's enormously difficult to explain to American friends though as while they have quite a bit of very inventive slang here they don't have the same sort of... grammar, if you will, of slang that we do, like things "modified by context" and how very similar sounding things can have completely different meanings like dog's breakfast, dog's dinner and dog's bollocks.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

Context is *everything*!

[cuvalwen.livejournal.com]

CF 'The adventure of the speckled band'-

“Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,” said he, “but it's the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you.”

[cuvalwen.livejournal.com]

You forgot Gil Grissom et al being called to a body in the desert that turns out to have some sort of snake-like creature embedded in it, and the next thing is that a bunch of airforce types with a cover with so many holes in it you could use it as a sieve turn up.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

You're right, I've completely forgotten about that one. Although it's not really a WIP - more a proto-cane...

I shall write it the day you write Harry Potter and the Handmade Cosmetics!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

*flails slightly*

These look fantastic...........I'll be over here happily picturing 23 in particular.