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[rionaleonhart]

You know what 'Folsom Prison Blues' has made me start thinking about? A Supernatural/Prison Break crossover. They've both got the brotherly love goin' on, and the getting-sent-to-prison-to-achieve-a-goal-and-get-out. Sam and Dean would probably get off to a bad start with Michael (or possibly Sam and Michael would get along freakishly well; I haven't quite decided which way it would go yet), and then they'd work out what was going on and decide that they had to help him because, dude, it's his brother. AND MICHAEL'S ESCAPE PLANS START TO GO HORRIBLY WRONG (or, all right, continue to go horribly wrong, because from what I remember of Prison Break it certainly wasn't running terribly smoothly) WHEN THE SPIRITS OF THE MANY PRISON BREAK CHARACTERS WHO HAVE BEEN UNPLEASANTLY KILLED RETURN TO HAUNT HIM. YES.

Also, you know that Dean would have sex with Sara, and Michael would be so annoyed. YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND SHAGGING PEOPLE INTEGRAL TO THE ESCAPE PLAN, DEAN.

Of course, I've only seen thirteen episodes of Prison Break, which is a slight obstacle to my actually writing the thing.

In case anyone is curious about my stance on the nonsense that's been going on in Livejournal lately: I'm not leaving. SUP have been condescending and deceitful and rude, and their business decisions have irritated me quite a lot, but I'm not leaving, and I'd like it if you didn't leave either. I have made amazing friendships here. I'm not prepared to abandon those in a display of moral outrage against a company that doesn't care.

Comments

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

Well I'm not leaving either. I'd have to find something better to do with my time and that idea puts the fear up me.

I never really got into Prison Break, but I get the feeling my enjoyment for the show would rapidly increase if it suddenly did a From Dusk 'til Dawn and went 'Oh yeah, by the way? MONSTERS'.

Because that's a plot-twist.

[rionaleonhart]

OH, THE AMOUNT OF TIME I SPEND ON LIVEJOURNAL. IT IS APPALLING.

Prison Break has a tragic lack of ghosts (and Winchesters), honestly. I am fairly certain that adding the Winchesters to anything will automatically make it better. Except possibly a mincing machine.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

Witness my brain spiraling off into a Sweeney Todd/Supernatural crossover.

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..THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Time-travel, or historic AU Winchesters?

And more importantly, would either one of them have eaten any of the pie before the big discovery?

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Dean would have eaten SO MANY.

Either are good, but zombie/ghost Sweeney and Lovett would be awesomely creepy.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

There's a British-style pie shop in a town full of mysterious disappearances. Initially, Dean's annoyed that the sign says pie, and they're all full of meat, instead of things like fruit, chocolate, or ice cream. But then they eat there, and Dean discovers that they quite like it.

It turns out, several days later, that the reason for the mysterious disappearances is that the pie shop's run by zombie-Sweeney and zombie-Lovett, and Dean's literally eaten enough pie to make a whole nother person.

Sam goes out of his way to scare Dean about catching kuru, just for a laugh (Dean will not actually catch kuru, as that would be horrible and depressing; besides the zombies eat the brains themselves).

[rionaleonhart]

I think Dean would probably be more afraid of turning into a Wendigo.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Eating people turns you into a Wendingo? I've been watching them over the internets, and I couldn't find that episode.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

If the fic includes someone saying 'these emos make good pie' then I may have to marry it. Or you. Either is good.

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

I would watch so many more shows if there was even a chance of that happening.

I ♥ unexpected naked monsters.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

Things that would be improved with the application of unexpected monsters:
-The Sweeney
-Emmerdale
-Match of the Day
-The O.C
-Pretty much any Poirot or Miss Marples book.
-The News at 10
-Songs of Praise

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy Agatha Christies as they are, actually... (Though now I'm just imagining Poirot strutting about and going on about his little grey cells in the work up to the denouncement of the case- before being abruptly eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. I hope no asks why I'm giggling so hard.)

But the rest- yes! I would love to see the dead rise from their graves during Songs of Praise!

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

Poirot on a Supernatural-type investigation would be ACECORE.

"I believe this is the work of zermbies."

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

"Dash it all, those grey fellows ate that small French chap as he was about to explain the whole damn' case. Looks like we'll never know who killed Lord Featherstone-Haugh," said Captain Lovett.

"Bbbbbrrrraaaaaaaaaiiiinnns," agreed Miss Pembroke.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

*SNNNNEEERRT*

[rionaleonhart]

-The News at 10
-Songs of Praise

This was where I lost it and started giggling uncontrollably. AMAZING.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Silent Hill/Pokemon/Songs of Praise crossover?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I'm not leaving either. At least not currently (if things get worse, I may change my mind at some point). You in on the one-day content strike? It's like leaving, but only for twenty-four hours.

[rionaleonhart]

I'll probably be participating in the strike, yes. If, y'know, I can resist the siren song of Livejournal for an entire twenty-four hours.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Me too. Timing's not great for me; I have to stop Thursday afternoon here, and Friday afternoon through some time Sunday, I'll be visiting relatives with no chance to check lj. But it's only a couple days.

[dancesontrains.livejournal.com]

I'm not leaving yet(I go when lifein1973 goes- I joined for them after all).

And when I say 'go' I mean shift my main stuff to Insanejournal and RSS comms and people on this side, and keep this journal for people who have flocked journals themselves. Er.

I'm pretty sure that I won't be renewing the paid account. (Anyone curious about what I'm babbling about should go look at ljspeaks and the latest few entries on metafandom, btw.)

Er. *Looks at post, tries to think of something relevant* I just watched the 'Woman's Work' SPN vid. Have you seen it yet? It must be famous if I've heard of it.

And I was trying to ring you- have you changed your phone?

[rionaleonhart]

Augh, sorry! My holidays have started, and I keep my mobile phone turned off when I'm at home because there's no mobile reception here. If you need to contact me, e-mail's probably your best bet.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

To be slightly random (I was going to go with, "Speaking of giant mechanical spiders...", but I'm afraid I might confuse someone by saying that and not speaking of giant mechanical spiders), is there anything you'd consider too nasty to do to basically any fanfic character, ever? I read this thing where turning disturbing dreams into some form of artwork is supposed to make them less disturbing and less prone to reoccurring, but I'm thinking some of my nightmares might be a bit beyond the acceptable bounds of character-torture.

[rionaleonhart]

I don't think I'd ever write about a character being deliberately, sadistically sexually violated by someone they trusted. Of course, th_esaurus wrote Saint Jude, and it was bloody good, but I'd never be able to write it myself. I don't know whether there's anything that nobody should write.

It's an interesting question. What are your boundaries?

(The worst nightmare I ever had was about finding out that my little brother was dead, and it upset me so severely that I have trouble even typing that. When I woke up, the first thing I did was call to make sure he was all right. I don't think representing it in fiction would do anything to get rid of the lingering trauma of that dream, but that doesn't mean I'm promising that I'll never have anything of the sort happen to Dean.)

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I have a lot higher of boundaries in RPF than fake-people-fic; I wouldn't write anything making one of the characters a bad person unless it was at Zombie Piers Morgan levels of cartooniness (flawed's okay, but not bad); and I'd be extremely reluctant to RPF anything with serious long-term damage (I definitely favor stuff where they can get better afterwards.)

With fictional people, I'm not sure what boundaries I have. I can't think of anything where I'd feel it would make a meaningful story but I definitely wouldn't write it. I'm not entirely decided what my worst nightmare is, but there are a few I wouldn't inflict on any character. And the idea of fanficcing the mermaid dream is alternately tempting and seriously creepy.

Mostly I was thinking of this one dream I had. I already told it once to johnnypurple here: http://johnnypurple.livejournal.com/35825.html?thread=396017#t396017 (warning; exceptionally creepy and gruesome). Obviously, not RPF, and it wouldn't fit into canon for every show out there (only ones where 'scalpels made of magic rocks' make sense, for instance). But it's like half a plot, and I'm in way too many fandoms where 'scalpels made of magic rocks' makes sense.

Torchwood? Do all the really nasty stuff to an OC, so I don't feel guilty about beating up on canon characters?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Also, if you pulled a, "It was just something messing with him!" ending, you could have Dean waking up to find apparently-dead Sam work quite well. Or do a really dark AU where Sam's really, truly, permanently dead, and see what that does to Dean.

It would crush him like nothing else. It could be brilliant.

[rionaleonhart]

I've been thinking about it, and I can't do it. I can't kill one of the Winchester boys. It would just be the most horrible thing ever.

Also, that mermaid dream sounds seriously unpleasant. And I have more reservations with RPF than with fictional-person fic, too. I can't even write Top Gear angst.

You know, unless it's in Silent Hill.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I understand about the Top Gear angst. Obviously I do write Top Gear angst, but I have specific issues as to how and when I'm comfortable with it.

Silent Hill seems to make all kinds of character-torture more justifiable.

I seriously couldn't put any RPF characters into the mermaid dream. I might try it as an original story. For some reason, I'm less bothered about beating up on characters I make myself. It might be a bit too nasty for fanfic; among other things, it seriously doesn't seem fixable.

Unless the characters woke up and went, "It was only a dream." Which would just be a lame self-insert.

What about a fake death? Or one that didn't take? Kind of like Mystery Spot? In terms of "psychological cruelty to Dean Winchester," I don't think you could do worse than making him think Sam was dead.

Of course, I'm unwilling to inflict eyelid-slicing on him because it's too cruel, and if Dean were ever in a, "You can have your eyelids sliced off or your brother killed; your choice," situation, it's pretty obvious what he'd pick.

[thelimpshrimp.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I would give my right arm for a good SPN/PB crossover fic! And I agree, I think Sam and Scofield would get along scarily well.

Awww man, you've only seen 13 eps? I devoured the first two seasons and CANNOT WAIT for the third season on DVD.

YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND SHAGGING PEOPLE INTEGRAL TO THE ESCAPE PLAN, DEAN. HAH! Yes! Dean would go nuts with Sam making all geek-boy-to-geek-boy with Michael.

[rionaleonhart]

I'd love to see more of Prison Break, but the second half of the first series is absurdly difficult to find and even more absurdly expensive (seriously, I'm not spending more than twenty pounds on nine episodes). The idea of breaking into an HMV is tempting, largely because the newspapers would have so much fun with someone who broke into a shop to steal a series called 'Prison Break', but I'm not sure I want it that much.

Sam and Michael having geekboy conversations would be wonderful. BEST FRIENDS FOR EVER.

(Thank you for your teeny!Sam fic-review, by the way!)