This is what happens

[jlh]

when you talk about fic. We were discussing the "wife swapping" fic, which is H/H and D/G:


Clio: Fuck ME. *bangs head on keyboard* Why did I start writing this story, again?
Nancy: Um. Evil plot bunny?
Clio: As long as they aren't George, Martha, Nick and Honey, I should be okay.
Nancy: LOL
Nancy: could be like a parody.
Clio: no, no. I have much love for that play.
Clio: Though the problem is, if you did it.
Clio: It would be Draco / Hermione and Harry/Ginny
Clio: of course.
Nancy: NOOOOOOOOOOO
Clio: But it would. You can see that.
Clio: Harry is NOT George. Only Draco can be George
Nancy: I can but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Clio: Of course, it would mean that the immortal line "Him can't, him to fulla booze" would be applied to Harry, which is amusing.
Nancy: that is actually quite amusing.
Clio: yes. love that impotent!Harry.
Nancy: See? That's wrong!
Clio: And he would be all, hey, I'm a young stud muffin thing in a way that Draco wouldn't.
Clio: Draco is more about the "I'm way to smart for the room" world-weariness.
Nancy: totally.
Clio: And he could fight like cats with Hermione, which Harry really can't. Harry doesn't do subtext.
Nancy: no. and Draco is all about the subtext.
Clio: And Ginny can totally be the manipulative Honey.
Clio: Wow, Nancy. This would really work. I could never ever write it, but it would really work. Very AU, as they can't be the same ages. And no one does The Play About the Baby in high school.
Nancy: and I wonder why.
Clio: Ha! Gee, you think it's all the drinking and the smoking? The made-up child? The abortion?
Nancy: Gee. I can't imagine.
Nancy: I like the one about the booze.
Clio: Yeah. Liz Taylor really did that line some serious justice in the movie.
Clio: "Him CAAAN't! Him too fulla BOOOOOOOOOZE!"
Clio: My other favorite line is when Honey shouts out "Violence! Violence!"
Clio: I say that all the time, but no one knows what the fuck I'm talking about.
Nancy: Yes, great literary refs are often lost but if you quoted say, Jay and Silent Bob, everyone would get it.

Comments

[gehenna1.livejournal.com]

why don't you keep the setting as after a faculty party ad give it a casting like snape/minerva and james/lily? ages? closer. personalities? better.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

True. But I wasn't writing The Play About the Baby, on purpose. The fic I was actually writing was getting more dysfunctional than I wanted it to be, hence my comment that if they don't end up being George, Martha, Nick and Honey I should be okay.

I like Severus/Minerva. But not James/Lily, because I don't see Lily as being that innocent. Also, James and Lily are the same age as Severus, so that won't work either. Severus/Minerva and Harry/Ginny might work, though. Technically, that would make Minerva Albus' daughter. Maybe Severus/Sibyl? I can see her being a harridan if she really wanted to be one.

Of course, I'll never write this. Someone else can, if they want to, though.

[gehenna1.livejournal.com]

the play about the baby is a different play. with unnamed characters. no goat, though. ulike, for instance, The Goat. which does, in fact, have a goat. when I saw The Play about the baby, a man behindme snored throughout the second act until ex-friend rich turned around and jostled his knee. it was one of ex-friend rich's finest moments.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that ex-friend Rich had his moments.

See, I always thought it was a different play, but then people were all, no, it's just another name for it. When we did it, we just referred to it as VA Woolf, so that's how I shorten it in my head, but that was a sort of inside joke within the production.

No, no goats. However, much smoking, drinking, smashing of bottles, and throwing of books across rooms. My original copy of the play got used as the prop book during rehearsals, and is now a mess.