Well, it's writing...

[rabidsamfan]

Over at fanthropology they posted a link to a very random pairing generator. Here. Then they suggested that we defend some of the pairings we cam up with...

And I ended up drabbling...



Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) / Spock (Star Trek)

He raised an eyebrow, considering the proposition. Kirk had gone off with the girl, naturally, and the two of them were undoubtedly finding some way of distracting themselves for an hour's time before they all risked becoming dinosaur fodder by venturing outside. Until the Enterprise made the slingshot trip around the sun, unless they made it back to the pickup point without being eaten, there was no real hope of rescue. Generating a little heat in the meantime would add only a mite to the general chaos.

Besides, Malcolm was the first man who had ever made chaos seem... logical.



Jane Drew (The Dark is Rising) / Qui-Gon Jinn (Star Wars)

She wouldn't remember – she'd think the boy was Bran's – and after three years of trying they'd be grateful for a child.

He disentangled himself and found his clothes, found the scanner it had taken him a millenium to remember how to build, passed it gently over her.

Yes.

This would be the generation that would fulfill his promise. There was no need now to walk through past and future, sowing the seeds again and again in his granddaughters and their granddaughter's granddaughters. This would be the child who would carry the midichlorians into the future. The Force would rise again.

Comments

[dreamflower]

Amazing! These both make perfect sense in your hands...*shakes head* I couldn't imagine it myself, but now you point them out...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I have a strange brain... A lot of the pairings the generator comes up with are very silly indeed, but a few of them made me think.

[melanieathene.livejournal.com]

Both drabbles are wonderful, but I really like the Malcolm/Spock one. That last line is priceless. :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The generator is a great toy.

[clever-hobbit.livejournal.com]

These are both so good!

I did the free-for-all option and came up with Hawkeye Pierce/Spongebob Squarepants and Jafar/Zaphod Beeblebrox. O.o

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I just spun the dice and got Tigger (Winnie the Pooh)/Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who)...

stop me....

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Oh no, we won't stop you. You're simply too entertaining. *grins*

They are both amazing, but the first one positively cracked me up.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

That generator is evil. I keep hitting the button and going oooooohhhh....

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

The second one - well, I haven't read 'The Dark is Rising,' but the imagery's lovely.

The first one... wow. The pairing just seemed silly at first, but you have it really truly make sense!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of very silly pairings to get through the generator, but it's the ones that I can twist into almost seeing that interest me most.

And you should read "The Tark is Rising" -- all five books -- before the movie comes out and ruins it for everyone. *sigh*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

er.. D, not T. *wonders where glasses are* The author is Susan Cooper. The first one, Over Sea, Under Stone reads like a fairly ordinary treasure hunt, but starting with The Dark is Rising the fantasy comes thick and fast and wonderful. The rest of the books are Greenwitch (My personal favorite), The Grey King and Silver on the Tree.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

I'll give them a look!

I've been re-reading Madeline L'Engle's Time series, just finished re-reading 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' this morning while I had breakfast.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Do. You can read the first two in either order, but read them both before you go on to Greenwitch, as the two threads tie up there.

Been a while since I re-read L'Engle. Probably time to do it again. As much as I love the original three, Many Waters is the one that haunts me.

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

I just ordered all five as a boxed set from Amazon. You're a very bad influence, y'know. ;)