the cliché fic meme!

[phosfate]

Stolen from soda_and_capes

Have you writte...

Genderswap
How very Thorne Smith! No.

Bodyswap
Nah.

Huddling together for warmth
Nothing that made it to paper.

Undercover in a gay bar!
Oh, be serious.

Pretending to be married!
I...what?

Secretly a virgin!
No, though I subscribe to violetisblue's theory that Doris Thatcher is a virgin.

Amnesia
No, but that could be really, really funny.

Cross-dressing
No, but I drew Karenina in a smokin' three-piece pinstriped suit once.

Forced to share a bed!
The idea of having to be forced to share a bed is beyond me. Don't people like to sleep?

Aliens make them do it!
Ahahahahahano.

Wingfic
The first ten seconds of Faithful Departed.

Mpreg
Oh HELL no.

Mistakenly assumed to be gay!
Not mistakenly...

Let's play truth or dare!
Yes, because all my characters are 12-year-old girls.

Mary Sue fic
Not since I was 10. The Sue was a dog. SHUT UP.

Aphrodisiacs!
No.

Curtainfic
I...whatfic?

Hurt/Comfort
Well, yeah. With the shootings and all.

Apocalypse fic
Does "Stars Fall on Sandford" count?

Someone has a baby!
"She's Really Called Rosemary." Possibly Doris' baby, or she may just have charge of it for the day.

Telepathic soulbonding
Unpublished Karenina novella with, among others, the Tomorrow People. Except the two characters in question would laugh at you.

Werewolves mate for life!
...what? STOP MAKING STUFF UP!

Comments

[gossamerrain]

....What in the hell is curtainfic? o.O

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

According to Super-Wiki:

>A fic focussing on a romantic domesticity - as in "they moved in together and started picking out curtains" <

Fanlore has a few more details. I've seen it used more often to describe slash rather than het.

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Unpublished Karenina novella with, among others, the Tomorrow People. Except the two characters in question would laugh at you.

One of the bestest things I ever read...hmm, I think it's time for my annual re-read.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I LIKE YOU!

Do you realize those guys are over 50 now? I hope they got rich.

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

I LIKE YOU TOO!

As I read the opening bit, about all the awful Broadway shows, and saw "Frankenstein," I thought about "Young Frankenstein the Musical." And then my head went all 'splodey.

I think they turned "Karenina vs. The Nazis" into a weekly series, and are still getting fantastic residuals.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I was really, really pissed that they actually made a musical out of Titanic afterwards. And I'm still surprised they haven't actually done Citizen Kane:

The bulldog's gone to bed?
Well, hurray for the bulldog!
I've had it, Charlie
I'm lonesome down here.

I don't want a picnic
I don't want more jigsaws
And your friggin' bulldog
Is a pain in the rear

Needs work.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahaha--

Werewolves mate for life!

D'oh!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, they mated for life before the lycanthropy...

[alpha-orionis-v.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with this theory about Doris. It hadn't occurred to me before, but it does make a lot of sense.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

You know, I think there could be a lot of entertainment value in fic written to subvert the cliche.

Nick & Danny undercover in a gay bar -- they have to pretend they're not a couple!

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Huddling together for warmth!

"D-d-did I ever show you them due South stories I y-y-used to read? They was always fallin' in the r-r-river and then 'ad to shag to keep from f-f-freezin' to d-d-death."

"Danny, I d-d-don't think that reminiscing about p-p-pornographic fanfiction is an especially effective way to stave off hypothermia. Oh my GOD your feet are cold."

"It don't make you feel all s-s-sexy to be lyin' together half-naked like this?"

"I c-c-can't really tell, I think all the important bits have crawled up inside my abdominal cavity. Shift your arm a little, we should maximize contact area. There, like that."

Danny rubbed his numb hands along Angel's back. "If I die first, you have my permission to cut me open like a tauntaun and crawl inside."

"That's very kind of you, but I haven't got a laser sword."

"Lightsaber."

"Right, that." They clung together, shivering. "Danny. I can feel a lump pressing up against my thigh. What is that?"

"'Snot my prick, I can tell you that. I'm so cold it feels like I'll never get hard again."

"Is that your cell phone?"

"P-p-probly."

"The fancy black commando-style one with the waterproof all-weather cladding that you got for Christmas?"

"Yeah."

"Do you think that perhaps you should whip it out and call someone to come and rescue us?"

"... Yeah, that sounds like a good idea."

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Cross-dressing!

Oh, God, did I already do that one, too, with the Halloween thing?

"I'm afraid we won't be seeing Little Nick and the Nickettes again for a while."

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

"Is that your cell phone?"

"P-p-probly."

"The fancy black commando-style one with the waterproof all-weather cladding that you got for Christmas?"

"Yeah."

"Do you think that perhaps you should whip it out and call someone to come and rescue us?"

"... Yeah, that sounds like a good idea."

ILU!

I'm not sure whether that counts as cross-dressing or not. It may be more Dadaism.