titles in search of stories

[aesc]

I was flipping through the Notebook looking for something completely unrelated to fic (for the curious, a bunch of references for a research project that I had written in the Notebook because I didn't have any other paper with me), and I came across a few titles with absolutely no context or story ideas. And I am befuddled, because clearly I meant to do something with them, and there may indeed have been ideas connected with them originally, but I got distracted or something and now... they're simply there.

A Verb for Ascent (J/R)
Clearly a John/Rodney story (duh), and it's a while back in the Notebook. It just appears after a set of scribbled invective demanding to know why the hell I couldn't get another story (my sgabigbang fic, heh) to work.

The Hidden Land
No clue, except the title is from a Flecktones album. It's definitely SGA, because it appears some ways back and the SPN stuff doesn't start until recently, but I know nothing beyond that.

A Slightly Odd Man with Enormous Wings
Castiel story, because the title is adapted from Gabriel Garcia Márquez's short story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," but what I meant to do with it, if anything, is still a mystery.

This Island Life
Okay, it's from the Violent Femmes. And?

Old evil spirit (take that Greyhound bus and ride)
I think this is SPN, mostly because the title is a line from Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil Blues." Then again, I might just have written down the line because I like it a lot.


I am willing to entertain suggestions as to what to do with these. Cos I've got nothing.

Comments

[fractalreality.livejournal.com]

This Island Life: J/R, SGA.

I don't know what they'd be doing on said island, exactly.

Maybe Rodney's a billionaire recluse and John applies to be the caretaker? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7830692.stm)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhh now THAT is an idea!

And man, I would not mind that job... Although I think I would spend most of my time testing the comfort and resilience of numerous deck chairs :D

[fractalreality.livejournal.com]

Yeah; I'd be constantly standing in the surf going "Yep, water temperature is optimal... but perhaps I need to walk a bit further down to make sure the shore isn't in a freaky state of flux"

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*siiiiiigh* There should be more jobs like that in the world :D

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

PORN!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Not many of them seem to lend themselves to porn... They don't feel very porny to me, at least.

Although not much feels porny when you are congested and gross-feeling, as I am at the moment *sigh*

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

"A Verb for Ascent" sounds like it could go three possible directions:

1) John and Rodney playing word-games (Scrabble? crosswords?)

2) Rodney taking pilot's lessons (either AU or in canon)

3) crackfic: John and Rodney as albatrosses

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Awww, albatrosses! Although I think human!Rodney has enough albatrosses of his own, poor guy :D

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

"This Island Life" makes me think about the life of an island. Ummmmmmmmm.

Rodney and John are underwater volcanoes that develop into an island chain. Their foreplay involves sending waves to lap up against each other. And of course, eruptions = orgasms. And when they finally build up enough sediment to both rise up out of the ocean, John's all, "Hey, you." And one day they both have eruptions so extreme that afterward, they find they have actually joined together in the middle, becoming one single island with two separate peaks, linked forever.

(Until, you know, oh shit, what about those earthquakes?)


Disclaimer: LOL I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GEOLOGY

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Har har, maybe they would be like the volcanoes around subduction zones or whatever, and John would be all "heyyyy, wanna bump tectonic plates?" and do the volcano version of the eyebrow-waggle and Rodney would rumble v. menacingly but be secretly rather intrigued!

Har har, I know nothing about volcanoes either!

[perspi.livejournal.com]

*dies*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I think Rodney's island would be abandoned, unless the villagers placate him with frequent offerings of coffee and chocolate. He's very volatile unless he is placated.

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

Maybe Rodney has a research center set up on him.

John is used as an Air Force base!

:3

ITA that Rodney would grumble a lot and threaten to erupt if the ppl on him didn't, like, occasional climb up him and pour some coffee into his ...whatever you call the top of a volcano. *cough*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Maybe Rodney has a research center set up on him.

John is used as an Air Force base!

Yes yes!! Also, Rodney would mock John for supporting twenty-first century American imperialism by allowing the humans to build an Air Force base on him.

Is it at all odd that I can now totally see this working?

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

John would pout and stubbornly be all, "It's not about the military, it's about the pilots. They rely on me to be there for them when they fly in. I'm not going to let any of them get left behind because they were trying to make it to some island that's farther away."

Probably Rodney would still make sarcastic comments to John about the military presence, and would boast about his own significance ("Well, I am supporting cutting-edge scientific research!"), but secretly, he'd feel a swell (maybe an ocean swell? hee) of affection for John and his stubborn refusal to lose any of his people.

I THINK YOU SHOULD WRITE IT DO IT DO IT DO ITTTTTTTTT!!! :D :D

[aesc.livejournal.com]

The one thing that Rodney resents (but puts up with because of the offerings of coffee) is the volcanologists and seismologists dropping their little measuring devices down into his caldera. You just don't measure Mt. Rodney!

(Actually, he was named Mt. Meredith by his original discoverer. John has never let him live it down.)

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

Actually, he was named Mt. Meredith by his original discoverer. *giggles insanely*

And then, there's the arguments about size, I'm sure.

"You know," Rodney says smugly, "there's a reason they're studying me and not you. It's because I'm so active."

"Yeah, well, frequency of eruption isn't everything, Rodney," John says sourly.

"Oh, sure, that's what they all say."

"I've got more land mass than you," John taunts. "That's why they picked me for the AFB."

Rodney is chagrined at that. "But land mass means nothing! Like I said, it's eruption frequency that counts."

"Sure, you just keep telling yourself that, Rodney."

"Oh, please, just because you can't get your lava up, you try overcompensating with other things."

"Hey!" John begins fuming, "I don't need to compensate for anything."

And so, the Air Force has to schedule an emergency evacuation of their base, when their island volcano suddenly starts erupting unexpectedly.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

*dies! dies many times!*

Ha ha, and you should totally write it, you're kicking ass with the thing goddam!

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

I... I am tempted, but there is physics homework and then there are all the things I have overdue for Sweet Charity, still. *mopes* And I told myself I wouldn't do anything else until I finished those.

Haha, somehow it does not seem like I am breaking the rules if I only comment-fic, but if I were to post something in my journal, THEN I would be breaking the rules. XD

[aesc.livejournal.com]

The rules were made to be broken :D