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phosfate ([personal profile] phosfate) wrote2008-06-23 09:17 pm

fic post - Garth Marenghi's "Prelude to More Revenge of a Sith"

TITLE: Garth Marenghi's "Prelude to More Revenge of a Sith"
FANDOM: The Star Wars universe. Though I think calling it a 'fandom' is in many ways demeaning to George Lucas' vision. 'Imaginarium' might be a better term, or 'shared dreamworld.'
AUTHOR: annlarimer Garth Marenghi
WORD COUNT: I make every word count.
RATING: PG
WARNINGS: The level of quality of this 'fanfic' may be more than you are used to.
SUMMARY: "Garth Vader stood over the sink of his small bachelor apartment, eating a Pot Noodle." The beginning of a classic, multi-part epic.
NOTES: Feedback is welcome, as long as you're not one of those petty, sad little freaks obsessed with "spelling" and "grammar" and "structure."
DISCLAIMER: Star Wars is the great George Lucas' gift to the world. Here is my gift to him, to it...and to you, brave traveller.


Garth Marenghi's "Prelude to More Revenge of a Sith"

Garth Vader stood over the sink of his small bachelor apartment, eating a Pot Noodle.

How had it come to this? he wondered. He missed Pamedala and the twins, even though the twins were both girls, Pamedala never having given him the son that he'd wanted so badly. He missed their small, unassuming Coruscant penthouse. Not for its considerable luxury (and it was considerable), for Jedi enlightenment had put him well beyond that sort of petty materialism, even though it was his by natural right, but because it had always been their home, even though the lease was in her name.

He crushed the styrofoam pot with a vise-like hand.

He looked down at his hand. He really would have to go back in and get proper fingers attached. But what with moving out and having to hire a temp to do his day to day admin, he'd had little time for a proper cybernetic refitting. He even still smelled faintly of lava -- a natural, masculine scent, suitable to a man of his muscular strength and animal magnetism.

The medical droids had whined and simpered about "evil" and "madness" and "improperly-fitted brain gaskets," but Vader knew better. He knew better than everyone. He had become so powerful, so enlightened, that he had learned to see beyond petty notions of 'good' and 'evil,' learned that the dark and light sides of the Force were one and the same to a gifted visionary such as himself. It had driven the rest of the Jedi mad with jealousy.

He flipped down his helmet's faceplate, and threw the pot into the trashcyclinator unit.

Surely Pamedala knew that he had done everything for her. The genocide, the child-murder (not his own children, obviously -- he had no problem deciding who lived and who died, but he wasn't an idiot, and female issue was better than none at all), the betrayals, the force-chokings, the systematic annihilation of the Jedi, their support staff, and their parking attendants, the public executions, the lava surfing -- he had done it all for her. He loved her more than any Sith had ever loved a woman. Even while he had force-choked her, he loved her. Maybe he loved her the most when he was force-choking her. The helpless look in her eyes as she had gone blue reminded him of a baby Twi'lek.

She was the only woman he had ever loved, or even slept with. And she had betrayed him, calling security services to escort him out, waving her fancy holographic order of restraint under the bit of helmet where his nose had once been.

Well. The hell with her. He didn't need her. Once he'd destroyed enough planetary systems and their occupants, she'd be begging him to take her back. Instead of screaming in terror at the sight of him, the twins would greet him at the door with masks made from crudely scrawled paper plates and aluminum foil. They would be kind of pathetic-looking masks, of course, but Garth would be kind enough to show the girls how to make proper ones. As the fruit of his not inconsiderable loins, surely they had inhereted something resembling competence, and would be fit enough, perhaps with the help of their husbands, to guard his legacy once he'd passed on.

Smiling to himself inside his mask, he took a beer from the fridge. And a straw.
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[identity profile] kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
*dies*

[identity profile] fictionbya.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:42 am (UTC)(link)

There are no words...

[identity profile] black-minorca.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
I...lolled.

>.>


<.

The goggles, they do nothing

[identity profile] dr-tectonic.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, dear God, NO! the monkey cried. No, no, no!"

Indeed it does burn, Jim, indeed it does. I can summarize my reaction thusly: *ow* *ha!* *ow* *ha!*

So, um, good job, I guess?

I really like the trashcyclinator unit. *snerk*
ext_6373: A swan and a ballerina from an old children's book about ballet, captioned SWAN! (Hot Fuzz Japan)

I fail at futurism.

[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I should have made it an atomic trashcyclinator unit. With an iris opening.

Re: I fail at futurism.

[identity profile] finabair.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, irises are really pretty. 8-)

Re: I fail at futurism.

[identity profile] dr-tectonic.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
D'oh! That would be more... something.
ext_6373: A swan and a ballerina from an old children's book about ballet, captioned SWAN! (Sci-Fi Diner)

Re: I fail at futurism.

[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe the word you're looking for is "Heinleinesque."

[identity profile] sorchar.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
You are a genius.
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[identity profile] kirbyfest.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant!

[identity profile] violetisblue.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
...they would not publish this or put it on the air now. They would not do it.

[identity profile] tawg.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
This was a strange kind of beautiful. The existence of a community implies more - shall there be? The lols were too great for there not to be.

ext_6373: A swan and a ballerina from an old children's book about ballet, captioned SWAN! (Darkplace - skipper the eyechild)

[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I certainly hope so.
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[identity profile] edithmatilda.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
The cat is looking at me funny because of the cackling. I wish there were humans here to be forced to read this.
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[identity profile] edithmatilda.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Forced in the sense of "you want me to read fanfiction?" not "this specific one is not good", obv. I may have made that dreadfully unclear.
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[identity profile] edithmatilda.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Also, may I steal the synonyms for "fandom" for the userinfo? Garth will of course grudgingly credit them.
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[identity profile] edithmatilda.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
*struggles to do him justice*
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, I think "forced" is exactly the right verb. The phrase "kicking and screaming" should probably be in there somewhere, too.
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[identity profile] edithmatilda.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
They're all just too confined by their minds which FEAR the vastness of Garth's vision.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
He's like the unholy love child of Edward Teller and Robert Heinlein.
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[identity profile] edithmatilda.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Emphasis on the Unholy, yes. In a caring loving tortured kiddie-saving way.

[identity profile] nitasee.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The straw was a touch of pure genius. I am in awe of your awesomeness.
ext_6373: A swan and a ballerina from an old children's book about ballet, captioned SWAN! (Spidergirl)

[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'd already had him put his face plate down. It was easier to just give him a straw.

[identity profile] ionlylurkhere.livejournal.com 2008-06-24 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Genius!
risha: (Brave little toaster)

[personal profile] risha 2008-06-25 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that was beautiful. "smelled faintly of lava"
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2008-06-25 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I have never been in a surfing lava fight, but I know what it would be like; I just know I'd think the smell would stick with you. Not unlike the way the neighborhood always smells like Fourth of July until the next good rain.

[identity profile] cazrolime.livejournal.com 2008-06-29 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That was a thing of beauty.

[identity profile] roachpatrol.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god, I love Garth Marenghi. This is spot on, and I love it.

[identity profile] roachpatrol.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
P.S I have also died inside because I will never be able to write anything near as good in my entire life. But I will soldier on, if only to read more fics.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
:D EEEEEEE thank you.

Also, don't die. Your roach brethren will be sad.
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[identity profile] annlarimer.livejournal.com 2009-03-05 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. Me too. The show is made of good apples and pie and pasta.