The Answer Is kadrin/George Carruthers.

[rionaleonhart]

I keep wanting to make a poll with questions like 'WHAT IS THE TRUE LIVEJOURNAL OTP? thebaconfat/squeemu, ladybella/tick_, jantalaimon/evil/draegonhawke, rionaleonhart/crack/dracothelizard, etc.' and 'WRITE A 250-CHARACTER REAL-PERSON FANFIC ABOUT SOMEONE ON YOUR FRIENDSLIST', but I fear that it would be far too creepy. Also, I don't want to give you frightening frightening people any excuse to send me into Silent Hill.

So, instead, I am going to wonder aloud why on Earth I haven't written a Top Gear/Silent Hill crossover involving Zombie Piers Morgan yet. I mean, honestly.

Actually, I have a question for you all. There are two 'fandom injokes' I know of in the Top Gear fandom: Zombie Piers Morgan, and the idea of Jonathan Ross writing terrible Top Gear fanfiction. These are recurring concepts in the fandom, despite the fact that they never appear in 'canon' (which is, of course, real life): Zombie Piers Morgan will pop up in fanfics and discussions; people will write hilariously dreadful fanfiction 'by' Jonathan Ross (in fact, he now has his own journal: wossy60).

Do any of your fandoms have injokes shared by the entire community? What are they? Do you know the origins?

I'd imagine that they might be more likely to develop in fairly smallish fandoms, but I could be wrong.

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

"Take me, Time Lord!"

[rionaleonhart]

I've always wondered about the origins of that! Was it actually seriously used in a fic somewhere?

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"I haven't written a Top Gear/Silent Hill crossover involving Zombie Piers Morgan yet. I mean, honestly."

That would be HILARIOUSLY cruel.

(Also, clearly darthfi/evil/m31andy it the ot3 of LJ!)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"Also, I don't want to give you frightening frightening people any excuse to send me into Silent Hill."

And to think that I implied you were being harassed by Zombie Piers Morgan when I could've implied you were being harassed by Zombie Piers Morgan in Silent Hill!

[rionaleonhart]

After all, I haven't written a Top Gear/Silent Hill crossover focusing on Jeremy yet please stop me from writing this...

(darthfi/evil/m31andy is so true. I'm quite fond of the rionaleonhart/dracothelizard/littlemoose trio of lunacy, though.)

[darthfi.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I walked into this thread about to say "and you haven't slashed me and Andy!" Trust me, evil doesn't need to be there. We can generate it on our own.

Clearly the evil is generated by Andy, because I'm sweet and fluffy!

[kelly96.livejournal.com]

See, that last paragraph is why I love TGS. I don't even know where they came from, but I still think it's hilarious.

yes, that does mean explain please

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

The concept of Jonathan Ross writing fanfic stems from here (http://rionaleonhart.livejournal.com/54942.html), pretty much, in which Riona thought that Ross wrote bad Jeremy/Richard angstfic due to the way Ross wanted to know if Jeremy cried in his pillow because of the Accident. anazri and myself ran with that idea in the comments, creating a truly horrible Jeremy/Richard angstfic.

Zombie Piers Morgan is from this thread (http://characterlove.livejournal.com/2917.html?thread=284261#t284261) on characterlove, which was meant for anonymous roleplaying. A zombie appeared, who wanted the brains to "that trio below" *(The Top Gear trio), and one of the trio protested and eventually the zombie was called Piers Morgan.

Hope that explains things!

[rionaleonhart]

I take a certain amount of sheepish pride in the fact that they were both sort of my fault.

The Jonathan Ross fanfiction came from an entry I made after Richard Hammond appeared on the show following his accident; Jonathan Ross suggested that Clarkson was probably secretly crying over Hammond while he was in hospital, and so I said 'I bet Jonathan Ross writes dreadful Jeremy/Richard angstfic.' anazri and dracothelizard took this idea and did amazing things with it.

Zombie Piers Morgan originated over here, in an anonymous roleplay. A certain pure-evil friend of mine was innocently (if she ever does anything innocently) playing a nameless zombie until I came along as Top Gear Dog and addressed the zombie as 'Mr. Morgan', and thus the community was doomed for ever.

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Boosh fandom had like a THOUSAND little insane things, from sticking-lollipops-in-little-Jamie-Nemo's-hair to "bum me like a stormtrooper", from "NO HAT NO" to... well, probably the most relate to Chris Corner. He's a singer (a very good one, to be fair) and member of the Clusterfuck - the collective name for their whole, sort of, group of friends - who's so thin and occasionally terrifying that he's very often described as a pro-ana childcatcher. The crackfic has a comm of its own (http://community.livejournal.com/booshhethaven/).

Although, most of these happened when the fandom was thrivin', about a year back, so possibly the newer members wouldn't know them? Everyone at the time was in on it, though, heh.

[rionaleonhart]

"NO HAT NO"

...I FEEL A POWERFUL NEED TO KNOW WHERE THIS ONE CAME FROM.

[http://users.livejournal.com/tick_/]

'WRITE A 250-CHARACTER REAL-PERSON FANFIC ABOUT SOMEONE ON YOUR FRIENDSLIST' sounds more hilarious than creepy.

...I resent being paired with A Crazy.

And I feel the need to point out that Zombie Piers Morgan is the worst injoke EVER! You're so mean to him. *sob*

[rionaleonhart]

YOUR LOVE FOR BELLA IS PURE AND TRUE AND YOU CANNOT DENY IT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TRY.

I'm not mean to him! I just, er, tend to kill him quite a lot.

...

...well, at least the zombie apocalypse fic portrayed him fairly sympathetically!

[ladybella.livejournal.com]

Well I resent being paired with A Slut.

Darling, when are you coming back to beeeeeed?

[glowering.livejournal.com]

I'd like fanfic to be written about me, I think.

[rionaleonhart]

I'd like it, too; it'd be hilarious. (newbie1990 once wrote a fanfic in which I swapped bodies with Jeremy Clarkson. Reading it was one of the most bizarre and entertaining experiences I've ever had.) But I imagine some people might be uncomfortable with it, so I'm not sure I can throw out a 'WRITE FANFICTION ABOUT LJ PEOPLE' free-for-all.

[gayjunglefever.livejournal.com]

Duuude, regarding RLJPF (as I think it should be known) I'm still hanging on the idea of a fic involving you, me, strangeumbrella, freakish_geek and immoralilly discovering our favourite big gay ukulele-ists at the village fete. *g*

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

THAT WOULD BE AMAZING, but also a bit embarrassing, considering we would probably have been in the middle of saying "and so this is why I think they are gay and OH HI THERE UOGB OH GOD." (why did they have to be in Ireland why)

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Alas, the TGS-er slash community died a death.

In Mock the Week, we have elves and scones. Elves because... there was this whole weird joke that Russell Howard did and then Dara did it and ohgod the funny. Scones: Frankie said, "Would you like a scone?" in a creepy and sexy way.

[kelly96.livejournal.com]

I had wondered where the elves came from.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

Um, most of the Harry Potter fandom now knows the AS/S joke I think.

I really don't know. I am blissfully unaware of fandom in-jokes. Except for randomly going "DON'T GO BEIN' A TWAT NOW" and "MAYBE THE SWAN DID IT" around my friends who have seen Hot Fuzz.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

BELLA/TICK IS THE ULTIMATE FANDOM OTP.

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

MGS has...oh, so many.

One of my favourites is the the idea that Snake's bandanna functions as a censorship device and replaces every word he doesn't want to hear with 'Metal Gear'. That tends to come up a lot.

Side character Scott Dolph - huge, black, gay for Vamp - is usually referred to as 'Bear' because of a very popular and good fanartist who started calling him that.

"Yooouuuu liiiiike meeeeeen!" A sort of Beam-Me-Up-Scotty for Mantis, from a flash cartoon called Metal Gear Awesome.

And dare I forget Everyone Is Gay For Big Boss? But that started on 4chan, and the fandom just adopted it.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think Transformers IS its own injoke. Honestly. The entirety of the original cartoon and movie.

Ignoring all of the abuse we gleefully heap upon canon (it asks for it), though, there's always Ramjet Likes Toast (http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c126/HisiM/Other%20Stuff/Transformers/Stealinyourtoast.jpg?t=1186619786) and "Cheetor likes pie" (if I remember correctly, someone wrote a fic once where Cheetor proclaimed his love for pie and then, later, they got the voice actor to say, "I like pie.")

I don't know that 'Dirk Dinobot' counts, because the animators of Beast Wars were responsible for that (you don't really want to see it), but Dinobot's Rigid Grill Structure probably does (a misremembered signature from a forum). I don't know if The Truth About Ratchet (http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33347) counts, either.


... There are more. The sad thing is, there was just a thread about TF-fandom injokes on one of the forums I frequent, and I can't remember half of them now.

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT KNOW HOW I FORGOT ABOUT BONECRUSHER HATING EVERYTHING (http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27810)! That was started by his movie toy bio stating he hates everything. It may have gotten a little out of hand.

There is also the Church of Waspinator (because Waspinator exploded for our sins. Repeatedly) and the Minicon that turns into a disco ball (Groovinator)! JaAM (http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/JaAm) is a good example. Lots (http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fandom) of really odd things.


Final Fantasy XI's not quite as profound. We have lolbifrons (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=930) (after a monster with a funny name, and if there's anything else to it, I don't know it), loldrk and loldrg (the job classes Dark Knight and Dragoon, respectively. They have very hard times getting invited into parties - especially Dragoons. Dark Knights have an assortment of jokes about "emo kids" playing them)... Deodorizing! (There is a spell called "Deodorize" that prevents monsters from using scent to detect you. Almost nothing aggros to smell, though, so mostly the white mages just cast it on people to be silly/imply they stink.) Tarutaru panic-motions look like dancing and, yes, we did at least use to get things like this (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=82). Using auto-translate text to form sentences, even when not speaking to anyone who speaks a different language. Valkurm. Valkurm Dunes. "how i mine for fish?"

I will stop now before I hurt someone.

[xavantina.livejournal.com]

Xavan was just minding her own business, and now she'd dead from Draco/Zombie Piers Morgan. How is that fair!?

[rionaleonhart]

Honestly, I have no idea why anyone lists me as a friend when I show affection by shouting at people and then pairing them up with zombies.