Okay, since I'm working on Hellblazer: Hogwarts

[camwyn]

and am about two sentences away from John's first encounter with Dobby, it may be a wee bit of a while before I get more fic posted. Therefore, I have stolen this meme from... I forget who. Several people, including meepalicious.

Invent a story of mine and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it's something I never wrote. You can summarize the plot, give fake feedback, whatever you want. Then, of course, post this to your journal and see what stories people invent on your behalf.

olna_jenn, condotierre, I'm already quite aware that most of my fanfic ideas have resulted in entirely new Realms of Hell being opened for me. This is something of an exercise in seeing what else people think I'm capable of.

Besides the idea of Walter Peck taking his remaining anti-Ghostbuster evidence and dropping it off at the FBI Violent Crimes Division, where they decide there's enough possibility of fraud to send Mulder and Scully around for an investigation, I mean.

Comments

[kyrielle]

To cross an old television show and a newer book, "I Dream of Hogwarts"?

I am not good enough to come up with plot, etc. :P I'm not even sure this comment is worth being made. But it's here anyway.

[camwyn]

Poor Severus. You'd think he'd know better than to open strange bottles, wouldn't you? His ingredients contact in America just got the tags mixed up... ah, well, what's a girl to do?

[kyrielle]

*giggles!*

[camwyn]

I've given the Hellbusters idea some thought, actually. The problem is that John tends to cut into their business wherever he goes, you know? I mean, the man has been documented as walking up to persistent ghosts and telling them to 'shove off'- and getting results. On the other hand, the recent Ghostbusters: Legion comic book DID make a reference to a Ghostbusters franchise opening in London, so when I saw that... well, that's John's beat sure enough. I figured something could be worked out of that.

[ocean-song.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say hi and see if this is at all up your alley... I didn't even check it. I just saw slush for new writers and thought of you. *hugs*

[camwyn]

I'll give it a look. Thanks!

Sherlock Holmes/Gargoyles.

[mattador.livejournal.com]

Thanks to your story, I now have secret Demona/Watson shipping urges. It's also nice to see Holmes and Watson get tied up in the supernatural- the good doctor getting flustered at every turn and Holmes completely unsurprised.

Re: Sherlock Holmes/Gargoyles.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

*claps* I want! I want! (I'm a terminal Holmes fan)

Re: Sherlock Holmes/Gargoyles.

[mattador.livejournal.com]

I know... when I came up with the idea I instantly regretted that it wasn't real.

Re: Sherlock Holmes/Gargoyles.

[camwyn]

I feel as if I ought to do a follow-up to that one, actually. I've never really liked the all-too-common depiction of Watson as a bumbling idiot, because he's not. He did have every reason to be flustered in that fic, but I still feel as if I did him wrong somehow. I really ought to give him a chance at redeeming himself in the sequel, you know?

Re: Sherlock Holmes/Gargoyles.

[mattador.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I loved the Lucifer/Constantine/Ghostbusters crossover. Funny, satirical and just a tad twisted...utterly and completely brilliant, J. The characterization was spot-on, the plot ingenious the writing itself intelligent and skillfully done...what can I say after I say it was superb? And the ending, my God, you took my breath away with that twist.

There's only one thing that I did not care for--the fact that it ended. There is just not enough good fic in the world. Please, please tell me there will be a sequel.

[camwyn]

It just goes to show, yet again, what happens when someone provokes me to start writing a fic before I'm even properly familiar with the fandom. D'you know, I'd never even READ an issue of Lucifer before you suggested it?

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

I have to say I'm horribly fascinated by it, despite (or perhaps because of) the "good grief, they what???" value. Only you could *possibly* handle the dialog for such a thing. The expression on the face of Gaimon's Odin (the Greenland one, I'm assuming, that hat is rather distinctive) when confronted with the Animaniacs was simply *priceless*.

[camwyn]

What can I say? I was in a 'Bambi vs. Godzilla' kind of mood. And I wanted an excuse to sit down and watch my old Animaniacs tapes again. Every really good mythology-based series deserves a little slapping around now and again just to make sure the author's keeping it in shape.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

J., I have to admit your latest offering disappointed me. I mean, it was as well-written as anything you've ever done; some of the dialogue was purely brilliant. You did an especially good job capturing Spot's essentially twisted personality.

But I read the entire story, waiting with baited breath to find out who Dick and Jane were going to run into...and there wasn't a crossover idea in sight! You could have done so much more with this story, if you'd only put some real effort into it...

(three hours of sleep and an allergy attack, don't hurt me...)

[camwyn]

Honey, with the amount of time it took for me to even FIND someone in the DC Comics universe named Jane, there was no WAY I was going to expend extra effort. I was just thrilled to see Ms. Doe had acquired that dog as part of her therapy program at Arkham, you know? made my life so much easier...

As for crossovers, I'm disappointed. Jane was being provoked back into the life of a serial killer by letters from a hack writer named Raoul Bloodworth, remember? That was the Smoking Man's literary alias on X-Files. To borrow Ray's phrase from the first movie, "You never studied." Tsk, tsk.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*giggles insanely*

[penguinzero.livejournal.com]

I have only myself to blame for this one -- it all sprung up after I casually mentioned the guy I would have liked to play if I'd been in the LXG 1936 game. I didn't expect you to grab the idea and run with it -- but seeing Sgt. Preston, in his Yukon days, meeting up with Scrooge MacDuich (pre-Goose Egg Nugget and the subsequent three cubic acres of cash -- and, of course, a human, not a duck) went better than I could have imagined. You're quite the inspiration sometimes.

[camwyn]

Yes, you do have only yourself to blame. Honest to Buddha, couldn't you have at least gotten someone a little more pulpy? A human version of Launchpad McQuack would have been so much easier on what's left of my brain. There's nothing like an overenthusiastic bush pilot to give a Mountie headaches.

Ah well, at least old Scrooge's tale worked out well. Holding off those claim jumpers like that until the police could arrive, when he didn't even have a gun... that was a hard scene to write.

[penguinzero.livejournal.com]

Pft, Launchpad. A fun character, but a total invention of the cartoon's writers, and pretty one-note, at that. Scrooge, on the other hand -- how can you say he's not pulpy? I mean, I know you never managed to track down The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck -- it's hard to find these days -- but Don Rosa did an excellent job of fleshing out what Carl Barks hinted at. And that included cattle-herding on the old frontier, steamboating on the Mississippi, fighting zombies in Africa, and escaping a flash flood in the outback on the back of a kangaroo. And, yes, encounters with the Mounties in between prospecting and his tempestuous 'romance' with Glittering Goldie. (You didn't think I was making that bit up, did you? I'd never even heard of Sam Steele until Rosa put him in one of his side stories.)

Trust me, in his younger days, Scrooge was every bit as two-fisted a pulp hero as anyone you'd care to name. Fortunately, it looks like Gemstone's going to be coming out with a big collection of the Life and Times stories soon, so perhaps you can get a look for yourself.

And just so this doesn't turn into pure harangue, the claim jumper scene turned out brilliantly. If I didn't know better, I'd have sworn you were intimately familiar with the Barks and Rosa comics -- you captured White Agony Creek perfectly. Scrooge was totally in character, too -- a little too soppy in the Goldie scenes, maybe, but that's something even the pros do from time to time. If you're ever thinking of writing a sequel, I'll beta-read and fact-check all you like. It'd be a pleasure, believe me.