thisbluespirit: (dw - twelve)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Thanks everyone for all the questions! Here's the first round of answers:

1. Regina Mills (OUaT)
2. Jenkins (The Librarians)
3. Rumplestiltskin (OUaT)
4. Silver (S&S)
5. Twelfth Doctor (DW)
6. John Seward (1968 Dracula)
7. Death (Discworld)
8. Holly (Red Dwarf)
9. Uljabaan (WtOVPIC)
10. Padme Amidala (SW)
11. Charley Pollard (DW)
12. Jenna Stannis (B7)
13. Lynda Day (PG)
14. Michael (Good Place)
15. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (Cabin Pressure)



[personal profile] ermingarden: Regina and Death team up to catch a greased pig. What result?

LOL. What did that pig do? 0_o Anyway, Regina, being a queen and bit more refined than that, lets Death get on with dealing with the pig. Presumably the Death of Rats is on holiday? If Regina can't get out of helping and can't use her magic, there's a lot of undignified falling over and threats to murder the pig, and if anyone ever mentions this again, they're going to pay for it.


[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea: Rumple and Uljabaan are flatmates. Who does the washing up?

I'm trying not to say "Belle and the Minions," but you know it would be. That is a devious, manipulative, unscrupulous pair of flatmates! It's lucky Rumple has magic and/or might possibly be reformed, depending.

If it has to be done by hand, then actually, Rumple would probably just take his turn. He can do household tasks okay, even if he prefers to do it by magic or sort-of-abducted princess. What he would not be fine with is a flatmate who never does any of it himself. And trying to get Uljabaan to understand the concept of doing his fair share of the chores is a lost cause, really. He might wipe up one time and think it a great achievement or something, but it would take a loooong time for more improvement than that.

Uljabaan better hope this is a depowered or reformed Rumple, or something very nasty, and probably darkly amusing will happen to one (1) invading alien overlord.


[personal profile] el_staplador: It's sports day! Who wins the sack race, who drops their egg in the egg and spoon race, who gets sunburned, who's the ridiculously overcompetitive parent, who gets tripped up by whom in the running race, and who's serving watery orange squash?

Lynda is canonically barred from the egg and spoon race (after that time she stuffed the egg down someone's mouth for beating her in it when she was four), so she can just report on the outcome in the Junior Gazette. It should at least be a good story.

Uljabaan trips up Jenna in the running race. (He's a cheat. He is very soon a cheat running away from the track and the annoyed space smuggler.)

Holly is occupying a food dispensing machine and dispensing watery orange squash on the sidelines. It's really rubbish orange squash and nobody, least of Holly, is sure about what they're doing there.

Jenkins wins the sack race (he is an immortal knight).

Regina drops her egg in the egg and spoon race, and blames the egg.

I'm not sure who would be the overcompetitive parent. The Doctor, maybe, in a fit of inordinate pride about some of his companions' abilities?


[personal profile] persiflage_1: Holly and Carolyn Knapp-Shappey are trapped in a lift. How does that go?

Holly is trapped in the lift's circuits and operating it, which explains how Carolyn also gets trapped in it, because as Holly says, it's just not the same as a deep space mining vessel. Bound to take her a while to get the hang of things!

There are a lot of threats issued while Holly investigates the problem, until finally Holly works out that she may just have panicked a bit because someone stuck chewing gum between the doors.

It's very, very lucky, that Carolyn is not in any way armed, and that Holly is just a face on a screen in a blonde wig.

[->Somehow I feel this is definitely Hilly Holly in this scenario.]


Silver and Jenna are fake married for A Plot. Do they both make it out alive? Do they actually fall in love?

I don't think actually falling in love is on the cards for an element, but Jenna is a competent space pilot with a mental link to a special space ship. I think they will navigate the Plot and make it out alive and whoever instigated the Plot will be Sorry.


Would I like Death if I met them IRL?

Well... I mean, Discworld Death is hard to dislike, but at the same time, you really, really would not want to meet Death in real life! I don't want you to meet Death!!

So, no, and yes, and no no no no no...


What's Uljabaan's favourite food?

Cake!! I mean, probably? It is, isn't it?


[personal profile] kalium: Charley receives a message stating they're about to inherit a large sum of money, on the condition that they get married in seven days. Carolyn Knapp-Shappey is the only person they can get hold of in that timespan. How does it go?

Well, it could be worse! I mean, Carolyn is permanently in need of cash, so she might just possibly be up for the marriage of convenience on a purely business level, but whether or not they could make it up the aisle before Carolyn decides the money isn't worth it, I don't know. (No offence, Charley. That's just Carolyn.)


[personal profile] romanajo123: Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?

There are a lot of people who'd be very useful indeed. I would not, though, want Death hanging out with me in those circumstances. Or Uljabaan, who'd probably agree with that joke about you just have to outrun your friend, not the lion zombie. Rumple would depend, but Regina, Jenkins and the Doctor would all be excellent people to have around.

I think I'll go for Regina this time. She tends to use fire magic, so she can dispose of the zombies with a minimum of rotting carcases left lying around afterwards.


Rumple, John Seward & Padme are on a road trip. Who sits in the back?

Dr Seward! Can't have him fainting up there in the front. Does Rumple actually drive with his leg when there's no magic? I think he doesn't? But never mind, I'm sure Padme will cope with earth combustion engines! She can fly a spaceship just fine. /hand waves (I mean, at least Dr Seward has a reason to faint, so there's that. Anyway, congrats on choosing three characters who all probably can't drive! What could possibly go wrong?)


Regina & Carolyn Knapp-Shappey must team up to defeat Holly, the new big bad. Will they succeed?

Yes. Holly is notoriously incompetent and would probably forget to enact parts of their plan anyway, although, of course, that in itself can make an actually quite intelligent if rusty computer hard to defeat. But it's hard to imagine that their heart was in it. Their programming was probably hacked. Regina and Carolyn could potentially be a formidable team, but there's going to be a massive sarcasm-off and explosive rows going on. They will probably enjoy the experience, but never ever admit it.


[personal profile] corvidology: Lynda, Twelve and Michael are locked up in a dungeon together. They have to decide amongst themselves who dies, who has to marry Jenkins and who gets to escape.

Look, Jenkins never asked for this! Why are you giving his hand away in marriage like that?

The Doctor gets to escape. That's what the Doctor does. Lynda isn't marrying anyone who's not Spike, thank you. Or, indeed, anyone she didn't ask to marry and who doesn't actually want to marry her. Michael will marry Jenkins, because it's a human thing he hasn't tried, and if someone's got to in order to get out of the dungeon, then why not? I'm sure Jenkins will be happy to promise to lay off any gross stuff and won't be too fazed at the former demon bit. He will, though, be officially, Deeply Unimpressed with whatever magic made this happen to him, and hoping that a bunch of Librarians will turn up to object with all force possible before he makes it down the aisle. But he and Michael meet occasionally for coffee afterwards.


[personal profile] hamsterwoman: Jenkins, Rumple, Twelve, Death, and Charley are taking a class from Lynda. What are they learning, how is Lynda as a teacher, and how does the group presentation they have to put together for the class go?

Well, just as I was about to say, that's a tough crowd, featuring several people who a) usually do the lecturing themselves, b) are immortal/super clever and/or c) are death incarnate, but then again, Lynda doesn't know the meaning of the word failure. She will damn well give the lecture! It will be a great lecture, on how to run a newspaper.

Charley find it very entertaining. Death is a surprisingly apt pupil and takes notes... somehow. They just seem to ... appear on something that maybe isn't paper in front of him? Everybody else finds this weirdly disturbing in ways they can't put into words. The Doctor stays because Lynda reminds him of someone, and also he thought the pink rabbit at the funeral anecdote was great. Jenkins has had to do worse things, and no doubt needs info from Lynda's lecture for Plot Reasons. Rumple just poofs out of there in under a minute, because the Dark One does not attend lectures.

The end presentation features a lot of arguing, though, and does not go well, even after Death takes over, because while he's clear and, again, a surprisingly apt pupil, the auditorium is empty before he's got past two full sentences. All the rest of his team are convinced they could have done it better themselves if everyone else had been more willing to co-operate.


[personal profile] astrogirl: Silver, Holly, and Charley have to spend the night in a haunted house. Do they survive? Do the ghosts survive? Are they traumatized? Unimpressed? Newly possessed of Wisdom from Beyond the Veil? And what does Uljabaan have to gain from putting them up to it?

Well, obviously, this is another of Uljabaan's experiments to see what humans do under various circumstances, but not one of the better ones (are there better ones?), since at least two of them aren't human. They survive just fine. It's pretty much the day job for Silver, Tuesday for Charley, and Holly will recover all right from any creepiness. If it gets a bit much, they can always just wipe their data and forget it all. Except for these weird creepy messages that sometimes appear on their screen sometimes, which they refuse to believe is a thing because they never notice it.


Michael gets a Twitter account (whether Twitter actually exists in their universe or not). What do they post on it?

But of course Michael gets a twitter! It's such a human-y thing! So much timewasting of time you don't have to waste and mundane annoyances and yet genuine connections between strangers! It takes him a while to get the hang of it, but once he does he gets a niche little following because here's some guy posting about how he got to open a door for someone the other day and do the whole "after you, NO, after YOU!" dance and he seems, like, genuinely excited about it?

In between tweeting about having to queue and how amazing it was, he posts deep philosophy quotes and random retweets and jokes that nobody else understands.

(I laughed a lot at this one, because [personal profile] astrogirl randomly selected a prompt that sounds exactly like a fic that [personal profile] astrogirl might have written, and that I now very much wish existed. XD)


Regina gets amnesia and completely forgets who they are and where they belong. They stumble across Lynda Day. How does that go? Does Lynda help them get their memories back? Who does Regina decide they are now?

What, again? Presumably it's another curse, so I'm not sure Lynda is the best help, but she will at least go to every possible limit to get a story, and Regina's seen off this kind of thing at least three times before, so I think they'll get there. Regina will remember! Lynda probably won't get an actually printable story, but she knows how to deal with that sort of crisis by now.

Why and how it happened, nobody knows for certain, but Lynda is probably right in assuming it must have been something to do with Colin.

Date: 29 Mar 2022 07:53 pm (UTC)
persiflage_1: DWJ The Only Way To Go On Is To Go On (The Only Way)
From: [personal profile] persiflage_1
I wouldn't mind meeting Discworld's Death on the same basis that Sam Vimes does - by managing not to die after all! 💙

Date: 29 Mar 2022 07:57 pm (UTC)
persiflage_1: Tenth Doctor Busy Watching (10 Can't Talk - Watching!)
From: [personal profile] persiflage_1
Fair enough!

And honestly, I love upending questions! 😜

Date: 29 Mar 2022 07:54 pm (UTC)
isis: (yum)
From: [personal profile] isis
Uljabaan's favourite food is TOTALLY cake.

Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:03 pm (UTC)
trobadora: (Regina - Queen)
From: [personal profile] trobadora
Haha, it's amazing that you got Regina forgetting who she is AGAIN. :D

Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:21 pm (UTC)
romanajo123: Belle from Once Upon a Time episode Skin Deep (ouat belle)
From: [personal profile] romanajo123
:D These are amazing

Holly is the drink dispenser! Because of course she is~

I need to finish Welcome to Our Village.. but yeah, putting Rumple with the weird alien; I think it's best if Belle does the laundry

Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:31 pm (UTC)
theseatheseatheopensea: A drawing of a fox and a magpie hugging. (Fox and magpie.)
From: [personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea
These are all very random and funny!! XD

Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:41 pm (UTC)
lurking_latinist: Romana in her Shada dress, looking awed, against a background of space and stars. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lurking_latinist
These are all excellent, but I’m particularly drawn to the haunted house one. I desperately want to hear Uljabaan vs. Charley now!

Date: 30 Mar 2022 02:33 pm (UTC)
lurking_latinist: Romana in her Shada dress, looking awed, against a background of space and stars. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lurking_latinist
It could be a companion piece to the fic I want to write crossing over WtOVPIC with my other favorite audio play where Peter Davison gets trapped in an English village by aliens, Big Finish's The Eternal Summer.

Date: 29 Mar 2022 08:43 pm (UTC)
beccadg: (B7 Jenna Space Ace from sallymn)
From: [personal profile] beccadg
Silver and Jenna are fake married for A Plot. Do they both make it out alive? Do they actually fall in love?

Woah. Given Silver was my favorite part of S&S and Jenna is my favorite part of B7 I'm half tempted to write that x-over. I can practically hear Jenna grumbling about Silver not knowing something, and him giving his protest that he's just a technician not a field element.

It's pretty much the day job for Silver, Tuesday for Charley, and Holly will recover all right from any creepiness.

I would be far more worried for the ghosts safety than theirs.

Date: 30 Mar 2022 09:25 pm (UTC)
beccadg: (B7 Zen Confirmed from sallymn)
From: [personal profile] beccadg
Ha, well, I would be delighted to read it!

If I give in, should I post a link here, or just be sure I mention you when I post it in my journal?

I was amused because I did once write Steel/Jenna for a random prompt thing, so I'd kind of been there, done that for real, but with a different element.

I was surprised when I finished S&S to discover that while I'd watched it for David McCallum it was actually Silver I liked best. You may remember I mentioned having been happy to see Silver in "Blake" when I watched it the first time. Actually, remembering that, a B7/S&S x-over might be a way to approach a fix-it fic for everything that bugs me in B7 too. Could be post series finale for both shows. Might help explain Silver needing to work with Jenna that closely. It's definitely very actively rolling around in my brain as you can see.

Absolutely! I love when people kind of defeat their own question by the characters they have accidentally selected.

I'd wonder more about how the ghosts fared if the B7/S&S bunny wasn't taking up so much of my brain. ;-)

Date: 31 Mar 2022 08:47 pm (UTC)
beccadg: (B7 Jenna Space Ace from sallymn)
From: [personal profile] beccadg
Oh, probably as well to link me if you really do!

I will then. Not beyond a working title and a scene yet, but having both it's past just a bunny stage. The working title is "Wheels Within Wheels."

Although, I'm sure I'd spot it - I do usually read my flist and I have an S&S AO3 feed as well. But, yes, just in case I'm really ill and not keeping up. XD

Heh, I appreciate the reminder to post it on AO3 as well as my DW when it's grown. ;-)

I mean, you can tell by now that I have no problem with people like Silver best. <3

Yep. It'll be a bit because I'll want to rewatch one or two episodes with Silver in them to be sure I have his voice right. I didn't fall hard for S&S like I did B7 so I've only watched it once, and a while ago. I'll take a break from my B7 re-watch for it.

Date: 29 Mar 2022 09:29 pm (UTC)
el_staplador: (Default)
From: [personal profile] el_staplador
I love this meme. It is absolutely joyous. I think Carolyn and Charley's marriage of convenience is my favourite, but there are many delightful ideas here.

Date: 29 Mar 2022 09:33 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Michael)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
Oh, that is a delightful list, and I think your results came out even better than mine this time. I now really want the amazing snark-fest that would be Regina and Carolyn Knapp-Shappey working together. And of course if you put Holly in an elevator, that elevator is going to malfunction and trap someone who'll be really irritated about it. Heh!

I think I'm amused by how all of the questions I asked turned out, too. I don't know that I want to write the Michael Twitter fic, but I definitely want to read it! That sounds utterly adorable.

Date: 30 Mar 2022 04:35 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Toriel)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
Yeah, I think I do get to bow out of the Michael one based on the excuse that I don't actually use Twitter (even though I might lurk on it occasionally), so we definitely need to find someone who does and make them write it.

Also, if I returned the favour, what do you think Servalan's twitter would look like? lol.

Full of manipulative propaganda, probably. :)

I honestly think my list turned out well this time, but I suspect that that is only because I know everybody on my list and on yours the questions skewed heavily to the ones I didn't know this time. (Shocking! Should not be allowed! ;-p)

LOL. I will say, probably yours appealed to me particularly because I did know most of the characters, and even some of the ones I didn't know still managed to be amusing. Like, whoever this alien invader who won't do his own laundry is, I am entertained by him already.

I will admit that I tend to make my lists very much for my own amusement. I am no doubt the only person on my flist who appreciates some of the results, but that still means I get to chuckle happily to myself about, say, Toriel getting information out of Dean Winchester by offering him pie. And I will take such pleasures where I can get them. :)

Date: 1 Apr 2022 10:41 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Maximum Verbosity)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
Some fashion as well, though! Probably with the implied hint that they should send her a copy of it pronto or else...

Ooh, yes, definitely!

I know audio is not your thing usually

Whether or not audio is my thing can be highly variable, really. It may actually work better for me in comedy than in drama. I think my biggest issue with dramatic radio plays is that when characters start describing everything they're seeing and doing, it tramples all over my suspension of disbelief and I just can't take it seriously, but, man, I could listen to fun snappy dialog all day. Which is why I did really, really enjoy cabin Cabin Pressure. Given that you didn't steer me wrong on that one, maybe I will give this one a shot sometime. Assuming it's available to download, rather than being something I have to stream.

I liked this time how you managed to get us to do a lot of shipping your current OTP, though. Very impressive! XD

All right, that I will admit I deliberately picked numbers I expected to come up more for. Not for the first time or the first OTP, either. The results where better than I could have anticipated though. (I mean, aww, one of them got cast as the person sabotaging the other's date with someone else! And probably not in a creepy way. :))

Date: 3 Apr 2022 04:14 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Napstablook)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
LOL, you are very sneaky indeed! I see next time, I shall have to pick numbers very carefully.

Hee! I will say, I didn't expect those characters to come up together quite that often, so that was a nice bonus for me, anyway. It's nice when sneaky manipulations pay off! Just ask the mysteriously absent Servalan, right? :)

Yeah, I mean, audio is a bit complicated for me, but I'm not so bothered by that particular aspect, as long as it's not really egregious and clunky (or at least, if it is, I better be getting something worthwhile in return!). I'm going to say that with the BBC, whether drama or comedy, they are much, much less likely to have that as a problem.

I seem to be ridiculously sensitive to it. To the extent where it's a bit annoying, honestly. It seems to very seriously mar my ability to enjoy a lot of Big Finish stuff everyone else seems to love. Ah, well.

I will say that I was very pleased by how much Cabin Pressure did not annoy me on that point. The dialog was so wonderfully well-written that it always worked no matter what it was doing, and the few times where they kind of did use that gimmick, I think it was used for deliberate comic effect. The studio audience laughter did bother me on that one, though, although I at least managed to get used to it eventually.

if you want to try it, you can download (legally) off-air recordings at the Internet Archive

Thanks! I think I will give it a try at some point, although I make no promises about when.

Date: 3 Apr 2022 05:19 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Night Vale)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
Ha, you're right! Classic Who does do that. Lots of "Doctor! It's coming right for us!" and such. I do notice it there, but tend to just sort of mentally roll my eyes affectionately at it and move on. Honestly, when it comes to the audio thing, the issue may be more in my brain than anything. Having somehow primed myself to notice it in audio and then dwell on it in irritated fashion, I can't not do so, and thus just break my own immersion, hurting no one but myself. Stupid brain...

Anyway, it's not like I've never enjoyed an audio drama, otherwise. I'm a big fan of Welcome to Night Vale, although they take the useful approach of turning that particular problem into a feature, with a perfectly good in-universe reason for a character to be describing things to the audience directly. But I also listened to the Good Omens radio adaptation a while ago and liked that a lot, too. And I have enjoyed at least some of the Big Finish stuff I've listened to well enough.

Date: 3 Apr 2022 06:35 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Magician Aziraphale)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
Ah, yeah, I can definitely see how that could make a difference. Well, thank you, maybe I will cling to the thought that it's not entirely just me. :)

I very much recommend the Good Omens adaptation. And I think it and the TV show have very different strengths and complement each other nicely. (E.g. I think the TV show is way more interesting in what it does with Aziraphale and Crowley's characterization, but I think the radio play made me laugh more.)

Date: 3 Apr 2022 04:21 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Technobabble)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
OK, well, I'm downloading them now. Thanks! It does look like the first four episodes of S1 are shorter than the others? Well, I'll see when I get to them whether they're OK or not.

Date: 3 Apr 2022 04:31 pm (UTC)
astrogirl: (Technobabble)
From: [personal profile] astrogirl
Huh, that is interesting and odd! My MP3 player is also very old, but it still works great, so with luck maybe I won't run into the same kind of issues.

Date: 30 Mar 2022 01:30 pm (UTC)
hamsterwoman: (The Good Place -- Chidi)
From: [personal profile] hamsterwoman
Would I like Death if I met them IRL?

AHAHA what a character for random chance to pick XD

Studious Death disconcerting everyone with his magical notes is also a super charming mental image!

Michael will marry Jenkins, because it's a human thing he hasn't tried,

Sounds quite plausible, actually! Also, Michael on Twitter!!! This sounds exactly like the sort of thing he'd be yearning to try -- human, silly, and with a lot of potential to be annoying XD I could totally see him gaining a following on Twitter, too, for being an entertaining kind of odd. I'm actually kind of surprised now that Michel on Twitter isn't canon!

Date: 30 Mar 2022 02:59 pm (UTC)
liadt: Samurai Sanjuro smiling (Richard III Innocent)
From: [personal profile] liadt
Lots of excellence!

Would I like Death if I met them IRL? Ha ha ha ha.



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