A Drabble Meme
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jjpor:
1. Go to this link:
http://www.koveras.org/thriller/
2. Randomly generate one cheesy made-up thriller title
3. Write a drabble for your fandom of choice that in some way relates to the title generated. Be warned, some of them are a bit...non-obvious
4. If you're not fed up yet, repeat until you are!
I decided the fandom would be Blake's 7 and then (after it gave me The Phantom Menace), I got The Reality Ploy (which I like so much I want to use on something else someday, too.)
The Reality Ploy
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“Too busy?” said Avon. “Orac?”
The machine ignored him, lights flashing.
Avon turned to the only other crewmember currently available. “Vila?”
“All right,” said the thief. “So I might have said something.”
Avon waited.
“Like, well, even he couldn’t alter the fabric of reality.”
They looked at Orac.
“And?”
“And then he went on about improbability drives, and how it could improve the functionality of the Liberator, and then he told me to shut up -.”
Never before had an alarm clock looked at a pin cushion so witheringly while riding in the basket of a hot-air balloon in space.
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jjpor:1. Go to this link:
http://www.koveras.org/thriller/
2. Randomly generate one cheesy made-up thriller title
3. Write a drabble for your fandom of choice that in some way relates to the title generated. Be warned, some of them are a bit...non-obvious
4. If you're not fed up yet, repeat until you are!
I decided the fandom would be Blake's 7 and then (after it gave me The Phantom Menace), I got The Reality Ploy (which I like so much I want to use on something else someday, too.)
The Reality Ploy
***
“Too busy?” said Avon. “Orac?”
The machine ignored him, lights flashing.
Avon turned to the only other crewmember currently available. “Vila?”
“All right,” said the thief. “So I might have said something.”
Avon waited.
“Like, well, even he couldn’t alter the fabric of reality.”
They looked at Orac.
“And?”
“And then he went on about improbability drives, and how it could improve the functionality of the Liberator, and then he told me to shut up -.”
Never before had an alarm clock looked at a pin cushion so witheringly while riding in the basket of a hot-air balloon in space.
***
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-28 08:13 pm (UTC)BTW, my Eight & Liz sequel has a title at last: The Scourge of UNIT.
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:15 pm (UTC)(Sorry, couldn't resist. :-p *is even more intrigued...*)
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:17 pm (UTC)It's a reference to 'Enemy of the Bane' and Major Kilburne's buddies...
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:17 pm (UTC)(Liz could be the Scourge of UNIT if she wanted, though...)
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-28 08:16 pm (UTC)Whereas "The Time Betrayal" is just begging for Who fic!
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:17 pm (UTC)Absolutely. I got The Time Hijackers as well, which sounds also very much like DW. Except of course it should be the Time Hijackers of DEATH.
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-28 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-01 11:59 am (UTC)(I'd just been watching the ep where Orac gets miffed because they stop playing space Monopoly, so he pilots them into a black hole for fun instead. It all seemed strangely likely... )
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Date: 2011-03-01 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-01 02:11 am (UTC)(and I must have a go or two...)
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Date: 2011-03-01 12:00 pm (UTC)I look forward to seeing the results! (Watch out; it appears you may easily get an octopus...)
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Date: 2011-03-01 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-01 04:00 am (UTC)(The first one I got, back when JJ started the meme, was "The Octopus Directive". Still trying to find a non-Spider-Man plot for that one... I'm not actually any good at starting with a title, but title generators are so fun! *g*)
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Date: 2011-03-01 12:03 pm (UTC)Oh, them Octopi... ;-)
I rather like random generators, too. This site is just full of all sorts - story ieda, characters, themes...
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Date: 2011-03-01 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-01 12:04 pm (UTC)