Round 20 is over!
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fic_rushThis was a really great round! We had an entire parade of ninja animals to keep us on our toes and inspire crackiness. We had new faces in addition to the usual round of suspects. We celebrated ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sidlj's birthday! And we wrote, revised, edited, posted, and did research. And "Research", of course.
We even have crack to show for it!
The Rare Avis Affair, byidlewild_ (Man From UNCLE)
The Ark in Time and Space, bydbskyler (Doctor Who)
Punchline, bylolmac (MacGyver)
Be sure to watch the comm for the poll for next month's 'Rush weekend.
And please take a moment to thank your Mod Squad, especiallyisdon_isgood9, who did an extra shift, chibifukurou, who went on stand-by for extra modding and also found us lovely ninja art, lullabymoon, idlewild_, dbskyler, pitry, and lothithil! And I'm lolmac, for those who don't know me yet or are afraid I've been replaced with a ninja double.
To answer JTurtle's question about the fic gallery: good question, and one I've been thinking about a lot.
There is a very, very out of date gallery for this comm, of fic written (or partly written) during various rounds of the 'Rush. It was originally maintained by the comm's founder,studyofrunning, but she hasn't been able to keep it going in recent months. In addition, this comm has grown a great deal in the last year, and I don't think the single 'fic gallery' post is a good format for handling the massive amount of fic that has been written here!
Accordingly, I'm thinking of setting up another sister comm as a fic gallery. I'd welcome thoughts and feedback.
I'd also be interested to know where people archive their fic. I'm about to create a poll to ask that; please stand by.
sidlj's birthday! And we wrote, revised, edited, posted, and did research. And "Research", of course.We even have crack to show for it!
The Rare Avis Affair, by
idlewild_ (Man From UNCLE)The Ark in Time and Space, by
dbskyler (Doctor Who)Punchline, by
lolmac (MacGyver)Be sure to watch the comm for the poll for next month's 'Rush weekend.
And please take a moment to thank your Mod Squad, especially
isdon_isgood9, who did an extra shift, chibifukurou, who went on stand-by for extra modding and also found us lovely ninja art, lullabymoon, idlewild_, dbskyler, pitry, and lothithil! And I'm lolmac, for those who don't know me yet or are afraid I've been replaced with a ninja double.To answer JTurtle's question about the fic gallery: good question, and one I've been thinking about a lot.
There is a very, very out of date gallery for this comm, of fic written (or partly written) during various rounds of the 'Rush. It was originally maintained by the comm's founder,
studyofrunning, but she hasn't been able to keep it going in recent months. In addition, this comm has grown a great deal in the last year, and I don't think the single 'fic gallery' post is a good format for handling the massive amount of fic that has been written here!Accordingly, I'm thinking of setting up another sister comm as a fic gallery. I'd welcome thoughts and feedback.
I'd also be interested to know where people archive their fic. I'm about to create a poll to ask that; please stand by.
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Date: 2011-08-22 01:26 am (UTC)* * *
MacGyver, Pete Thornton, and the Lady Scientist of the Week walked into a bar.
The barman glared at them. “Is this some kind of a joke?” He handed a beer to Pete and a glass of tomato juice to Mac, then poured three shotglasses of whiskey for the Lady Scientist of the Week.
Dr. Week shook her head. “Just two glasses, Fred.”
The barman met her gaze with a sorrowful expression. “But you always have three drinks – one for yourself and one for each of your two brothers, who are fighting the forces of Evil overseas. You don’t mean to tell me – ”
“Oh, they’re both fine,” Pete interrupted.
Dr. Week nodded. “I’ve quit drinking is all.” She picked up her brothers’ drinks and joined Pete and Mac at a table in the dimly-lit recesses of the bar.
Mac was already in earnest conversation with their contact, Dr. Li, an attaché from the Chinese Embassy. “So you’re sayin’ the scroll was safely locked up in its case when you all went to bed last night?”
Dr. Li looked inscrutable.
“Aw, cut it out,” said Mac. “We’re tryin’ to cut back on the ethnic clichés.”
“I beg your pardon,” said Dr. Li, looking contrite.
“Much better.” Mac reached over the the next table, collected half a dozen unmarked bottles of sauces and flavourings and poured random amounts of each into his glass of tomato juice. The glass fizzed.
Pete Thornton cleared his throat. “Is it time for the expository lump now?”
“Go for it,” MacGyver said cheerfully.
“Right. Dr. Li, you told us that the priceless antique scroll had disappeared from its locked cabinet overnight, and in its place was a different scroll, filled with strange pictures instead of magnificent specimens of T’ang Dynasty calligraphy.”
“Very strange pictures. The first image was of a ninja aardvark, followed by a ninja bat, a ninja capybara, and a ninja dodo.”
“I’m beginning to see a pattern here,” said Mac.
“Well, duh,” said Dr. Week. “Is it time for me to be kidnapped at gunpoint yet? This is getting dull.”
“Not till just before the first commercial break,” Pete replied. “Go on, Dr. Li.”
“Let’s see – after that, it got a little more complicated. There was a ninja elephant and a ninja flamingo – ”
“Whoa!” Mac waggled a finger. “If you recite the whole danged line-up, the narrative is gonna slow down to a crawl.”
“The ninja sloths did that already.”
Pete nodded. “Please, Dr. Li. Just give us the high points.”
Dr. Li cleared his throat. “Um, the ninja lemurs were very cute. But the ninja jellyfish quite disrupted the celestial harmony of the scroll.”
Pete was scowling. “It doesn’t make sense. Why no penguins?”
Mac shrugged. “Even penguins need a vacation.” He suddenly reached out, grabbed Dr. Week by the hand and dragged her off her chair onto the floor as a shot rang out over their heads. The mirror above the bar shattered, the glass falling with a musical crash underscoring the sudden dramatic build of the background music. Pete and Dr. Li ducked under the table.
~tbc~
Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 01:27 am (UTC)Pete peered out cautiously. “Was that Murdoc?”
“Naw, we tangled with him only two weeks ago. Remember? He ended up electrocuted, strangled, stabbed with his own knife, shot with his own gun, and poisoned by the spines of a ninja sea urchin. Then he fell to his death from a great height. He won’t be back till next season.”
“Oh. Right.” Pete stood up carefully, brushed the dirt off his suit and straightened his tie. “Now what?”
“Now all we need is the punchline.” Mac looked expectantly at Dr. Li. “I gotta ask. How did that ninja animal alphabet deal with the letter X?”
They heard a disturbance at the doorway. A xylophagus ninja xerus, a xanthic ninja xukazi, a xenophobic ninja xenopus laevis, a xenophilic ninja xantusia riversiana and a xeric ninja xiaosaurus all walked into the bar, stopping to admire the aquarium with its ninja xiphias gladius and its ninja xiphophorus helleri, and stepping carefully to avoiding the ninja xanthidae scuttling across the floor. They all ducked to avoid the ninja xenops that flew at their heads, flanked by a ninja xami hairstreak butterfly and a ninja Xerces blue.
The barkeeper glared at the menagerie. “Awright, you smartasses. You’ve made your point.”
~ fin ~
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 01:46 am (UTC)I think I might join her. I've got four brothers and three sisters,(all with assorted spouses)four brother and sister-in-laws, two parents, nineteen nieces and nephews, one husband, three children, one son-in-law by common law marriage, one foster daughter, four foster grandchildren, one grandbaby.
I'll have to go to rehab if I have a drink for each of them, so maybe I'll just stick with a drink for me.
This was a fun read, and now I'm nostaligic for Mac's mullet, and his cheerfully building things to save the world.
Laurie
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 01:55 am (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 01:57 am (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:01 am (UTC)I was tempted to have the bad guy shoot Mac, so he could fall down and make pained noises and then be fine, but it ran overlong even without that.
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:28 am (UTC)Your Murdoc story sounds interesting. Where can I find it?
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:35 am (UTC)The story in question is a novel titled "Reverb". It's here on ff.net: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5360766/1/Reverb
If you prefer AO3 (who wouldn't?), I have started to get it posted here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/242363/chapters/373099 -- however, I'm reviewing the master documents as I go, which means it's taking me several days to get the longer works onto the new platform. Reverb is a full-length novel, and I'm only up to chapter 5 on the new posting.
If you'd like something shorter that's very very Macgyverish, you might like this one: http://archiveofourown.org/works/74142/chapters/98311 -- it's titled "101 Uses For a Dead Uzi". *g*
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:42 am (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 04:00 am (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 12:35 pm (UTC)A couple of the readers who gave me detailed feedback admitted that, by the time Murdoc actually showed up, they had forgotten he was going to be there. This was high praise indeed. *g*
Murdoc was far too much fun to write -- especially since I had decided that I wanted him to be genuinely crazy and creepy, instead of camp.
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:41 am (UTC)I guess, since I don't know the show hardly, lol.
Dr. Week, though, is a clearly awesome name that requires no knowledge of canon. :-D
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:44 am (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 02:55 am (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 03:05 am (UTC)Seriously, I laugh more every time I re-read yours. The threatening sea urchins make me think of the Killer Giant Mutant Clams from "Genesis of the Daleks". And editing the spatiotemporal timestamp! Of course!
Are you okay with the title I gave it in the post?
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 03:37 am (UTC)As for the title you gave my crack!fic, it's great! I should hire you to write all my titles. I'm not sure if you already know this, but there actually is a real Doctor Who episode titled "The Ark in Space," so your title is a nice play on that (as well as fitting with the story).
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 12:31 pm (UTC)Re: Punchline, part 1&2
Date: 2011-08-22 03:15 am (UTC)*g*
Re: Punchline, part 2
Date: 2011-08-22 11:46 am (UTC)