It's The Only Reason To Have A Cake.

[rionaleonhart]

It is Derren Brown's birthday today! Should I do something to celebrate? I have already sent him a ukulele, edited a Jigglypuff into his picture and thrown him into the TARDIS, so I don't really know what else I can possibly do. Once you are the Doctor's companion with a Jigglypuff and a ukulele, what more can you want?

Actually, yesterday, I watched the Derren Brown interview on Inside Your Mind (which was, by the way, amazing. Nine-year-old Derren setting fire to his friend's dad's boat! Derren generally being dorky and hopeless and adorable!) and, in response to Derren's wonderful story of his rubbishness at basketball ('IT WAS LIKE BEING BACK AT SCHOOL, EXCEPT INSTEAD OF THE TEACHER YELLING AT YOU IT WAS ALI G'), sent the following e-mail to moogle62:

Of course, this means that there needs to be terrible AU crossover fic in which teenage Derren Brown goes to Tree Hill high school and is the worst basketball player in the world and has sex with Lucas.

So I suppose there is something I could write to celebrate Derren Brown's birthday.

But I won't. Because it would be appalling.

What I will do, instead, is say that one of the things I really love about Derren - aside from, you know, the dorkishness and the adorability and the bizarrely attractive eeeeeeeeevil - is the way his work says 'look at this, this is what the human mind is capable of' (his explanation of how he remembers which cards have come up when playing Blackjack with four decks is a good example of this, and something on which he expands in his book). Human beings are so much more able and fascinating than I had ever realised before.

So happy birthday, Derren Brown. Keep making the world a more interesting place.


Progress on the Derren-and-the-Doctor fic: it is now fifteen thousand words long! Making it longer than any work of fiction I have ever completed. It's not a solo effort, admittedly, but that is still quite a number of words, and I am rather amused by the fact that what looks very like it will become the longest piece of writing on which I have ever worked is also quite possibly the most ridiculous.

(Writing fanfiction involving the Winchesters from Derren's point of view, incidentally, is really difficult. I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO MAKE SAM AND DEAN INTERACT WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT DEAN OR SAM.)

Comments

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

Sam and Dean investigating Derren during 'Messiah' would be amazing. Seriously, if they heard all these reports of the born again christian/ufo abductee/psychic who was eerily accurate and found out they were the same person, you'd investigate, right?

[rionaleonhart]

That does sound excellent! Sadly, I have not seen 'Messiah', so someone else will have to write it. PERHAPS YOU.

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

oh shit maybe

'Messiah' is free on 4OD - I really liked it, but at one point he freaks himself out enough that he almost starts crying. ISSUES, DERREN.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh man please do. I have become horrendously adddicted to Derren Brown fanfiction, and there is not nearly enough out there. You would be rescuing moogle62 from my constant badgering!

at one point he freaks himself out enough that he almost starts crying.

IT IS SUDDENLY VERY IMPORTANT THAT I WATCH THIS. I feel I should not examine why too closely.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

STRANGELY I SEEM TO HAVE HAD THE SAME IMPETUS THERE

AJBFAJDKBVJKABDVAJKBV WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

[serriadh.livejournal.com]

I HAVE SEEN IT AND DO NOT REMEMBER THIS BIT. REWATCH IS REQUIRED.

(Riona, have you had any post recently?)

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

IF I'VE MADE THIS UP IN MY HEAD I'M GOING TO BE VERY UNHAPPY.

It was basically in the 'talking to the dead' bit, at one point Derren looks a bit wet-eyed.

[rionaleonhart]

(I have, in fact, had some hilarious, brilliant, massively creepy post! It entirely made my day and entirely unnerved my housemate.)

[serriadh.livejournal.com]

(oh good! Would that be the same housemate who brilliantly rearranges your dvds? Because I have no sympathy for her, the genius)

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

at one point he freaks himself out enough that he almost starts crying.

I don't remember that bit, and I only watched it the other day! What part was it?

[the-funmonkey.livejournal.com]

When he's doing the 'talking to the dead' bit - he said before that the whole thing made him really upset/unconfortable, and if you look at his face during it, his eyes are all pink and shiny :(

[thrennion.livejournal.com]

Derren Brown is the Trickster, obviously.

[rionaleonhart]

It is quite possible!

[thrennion.livejournal.com]

And it would be awesome. Sam 'n' Dean are investigating some rather odd goings-on in London (the Heist!) assuming it's the work of the Trickster in his ordinary guise. HOWEVER. He has been replaced! By a man who claims to be the "new" Trickster!

Or something like that.

[iwrotethissong.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO MAKE SAM AND DEAN INTERACT WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT DEAN OR SAM.

MY PROBLEM EXACTLY.

[rionaleonhart]

WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT? IT DISTRESSES ME. Can't you just be capable of interacting with non-family members for a little bit, Winchesters?

[iwrotethissong.livejournal.com]

No, they can't be! They're all wrapped up in each other. That's why sometimes they find themselves in the backseat getting flirty with the dirty.

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise it was his birthday! D: D: D: I must pay penance of some kind.

But I won't. Because it would be appalling.

I think you mean amazing.

[rionaleonhart]

I hope this penance involves fic of some sort. (It is now my aim to make everyone in the world write Derren Brown fanfiction. the_funmonkey has just written a Derren Brown/Supernatural crossover, if you'd like to take a look. (You should take a look.))

AMAZINGLY APPALLING, MAYBE.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I would've expected you to grab the chance to make Derren go to Highschool Musical School and have him be rubbish at basketball there, so that Troy or Chad can teach him how to play it properly. Or Ryan can help him embrace his crapness at basketball through SONG AND DANCE.

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

YAY for Derren. ^^

[vzg.livejournal.com]

Aw, I would totally have read that fic! :[