Going To Hell...Who's Coming With Me?

But honestly, the idea of partnering up sentient beings without telling one half of the partnership the other is sentient? Kind of horrifies me.

Also? Letting the one person on your team who's afraid of heights wind up with a flight alt? Kind of a dick move. OTOH, maybe they're all afraid of heights and Blades just got the helicopter alt because he's not as pushy as the others.

I'm not even gonna go into how WHITE and MALE the cast is, because I feel like television stopped trying sometime in the 90s. Just take, "I am horrified by your lack of racial, cultural, and gender diversity" as a given these days. (My surprise that the girl got the helicopter who's afraid to fly as a partner, let me show you it. Maybe she will learn to be more nurturing and compassionate properly female because of this! Also, air support means they don't have to worry about her getting her hands dirty like the boys on the ground. Yay.)

THAT SAID, I still think Rescue Bots is an entertaining show and I feel someone needs to write me a Rescue Bots/Lightspeed Rescue crossover yesterday.

Episode spoilers go behind the cut because I am a well-trained dragon.

( But as I was saying... )

I find it entirely plausible that Blackarachnia would let Megatron blast Silverbolt at the end of season two.

There's an AU in that. Someone should totally write it for me. To reward me for not coming home with a puppy. Or console me for not coming home with a puppy. One of those.

Edit: And then there are days when I almost think that would have been for the best. ::smacks Silverbolt in the head::

Edit2: Not to mention the days when I think we just shouldn't let boys play at all and it's really time to bust out the damn lionesses, already. ::smacks Cheetor in the head, too::

Cheetor: Bolt? Do you...have the faintest idea why she did that?

Silverbolt: Not really, no.

So I'm pretending to work and listening to my iPod, right? And Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" comes on. And I am amusing myself by mentally vidding Bayformers to this, because talk about larger than life, you know? (Also, someone should totally make this vid.) And the next thing I know, Blackarachnia is in the back of my brain, looking Sam over and going, "Did I miss the memo where we're supposed to be impressed?"

Someone should totally write that crossover. (Looks hopefully at raisedbymoogles and deepbluesquee.)

I should not be allowed to play with the Seventh Sanctum crossover generator. Most viable crossovers so far: West Wing/Devil May Cry, Reboot/Phantasy Star, Golden Girls/Legend of Zelda, Quantum Leap/Sonic the Hedgehog, and Little House on the Prairie/Metal Gear Solid.

Okay, maybe not that last one. Though Sesame Street/Devil May Cry has possibilities...

(And, generated by my own twisted brain: This Old House/Silent Hill.)

Power Rangers Time Force/Power Rangers RPM crossover! That starts like this...

( Consider this a prompt, or swipe it wholesale. )

Specifically, the episode with the planet where all the men were captured, so it's just womens trying to get along, oh woes. They kidnap Buck, because clearly, a reasonable solution to the problem of 99% of your men being taken is to kidnap random men and sell them as breeding stock. And Buck is all "Why not just ask for help?" and the daughter of the leader is all, "OH NOES, if anyone knew we have no MANZ we'd be invaded immediately D:" (though I will grant that Buck, who two DVDs ago was going "LOL WOMAN COLONEL" is now, "You have women pilots, right?" just as if womens can fight like MANZ can! I like to consider this a type of growth in his character.) And it does come out that without the MANZ, there just aren't enough women pilots to train replacements, which I can accept as a cautionary tale about letting the men be in charge of things.

But really, the point of this post isn't to talk about very old sci-fi, it is to say: I think it would be LOLarious if someone took the old "remove all the MANZ to cripple the planet" trope, and had it backfire because, well, this is a very traditional planet, where the woman's job is to protect home, hearth, and children while the men are off hunting, exploring, and doing MANLY THINGS, and since the MANZ are all out exploring new planets, "home and hearth" has expanded to include the whole planet. And these traditional women take their job of protecting home and hearth very seriously.

Yes, I am easily entertained.

Last night I dreamed that Peter Pan knocked up Wendy and they had twins.

Peter gave Wendy a fruit, and when she went to eat it, Tink magically goosed her, so that she swallowed it whole and came up pregnant with twins. (This happens surprisingly often in fairy tales.) And we know it was the fruit because the twins (one boy, one girl, named Nut and Berry) had skin the yellow-orange color of the fruit's flesh (yes, they were literally peach colored) and green hair and eyes like the fruit's skin. Oh, and also they were born in seed pods, which, you know, ouch.

And since part of my dream was a dream, and part of it was me reading the book, I woke up with passages like, "The twins grew quickly, so that in perhaps a year - or a bit more, or a bit less, for time is hard to reckon in Neverland - they were old enough to join the Lost Boys. And Berry ran as fast and laughed as loud and flew as high as any of the others, for Wendy had been quite unable to make a proper young lady of her (Wendy privately blamed Peter's influence)."

Then later the twins accidentally left Neverland (which was apparently in a giant beehive, IDEK), and as they grew up and lost their innocence and outgrew their clothes I suspect there would have been twincest, but I woke up before then.

Oddly, the whole dream was of the Disney style characters, even though Disney's Peter Pan is by far my least favorite (I prefer the character designs from Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates, where Peter actually looks like a little boy).

Someone should totally write this for me, of course.

yonmei linked me to The Big List of Fanfic Pet Peeves, some of which I share, some of which I disagree with. But, I was reading along, nodding or "meh"ing depending on my agreement levels, and I hit this (under "Expository Lumps"):

Beware: some of the worst offenders are x-overs, have you noticed? The characters get together, and as Katrina says, all of a sudden it's a convention of Norse warriors, all reciting their mighty deeds.

DUDES, I TOTALLY WANT THAT!

Seriously, give me Jean-Luc Picard telling Cid Highwind about The Picard Maneuver, and Cid embellishing detailing his own exploits. Angelo and Sephiroth, comparing bad hair days! Scotty and Rodney McKay, one upping each other with "how I saved the day" stories. Dillon and Wolverine having a brood-off!

Come on, guys, comment fic me! :D