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Aten't dead! In fact I have been posting to both tumblr and twitter with reasonable frequency, but my life in 140 characters or gifs with capslock commentary is not ... particularly in depth. So: hello! I am here to warn you all that Martin Freeman's face has hypnotic powers of suggestion, because my recent fannish activities have fallen into one of these two categories:
1. rewatch Sherlock/rewatch the Granada Holmes series/desperately seek post-Reichenbach fic/reread the Paradox series & all of Katie Forsythe's fic in a fit of madness/gaze upon Sherlock vids/curse the heavens that I have to wait so long for the next series
2. reread the Hobbit/flop about and make joyful noises about how fucking perfect Freeman's Bilbo is going to be/watch the Hobbit teaser trailer about a million times/rewatch all the cast bits in the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs/read all the Mark Reads entries of the Hobbit & what he has so far of Lord of the Rings/accidentally trip and fall into the first few chapters of Fellowship, which is fair enough as I haven't done a proper reread in three years
I am combating this White Dudes Doing Stuff thing by working on my novel that has basically one white dude doing stuff, and plenty of ladies and nonwhite dudes doing stuff, which is great! But the fannish channel is all hobbits and detectives right now. (Although no hobbit detectives! There seems to be a pretty low crime rate in the Shire, but I really hope there's a hobbit detective in Bree or something.)
Meanwhile I want to pull out something that I posted last time I was reading Lord of the Rings, because it was SUCH FUN, and it is the One Ring game! The One Ring game basically goes: think of (a) character(s) from a fandom other than LotR, and figure out what would happen if they were given the One Ring and charged to destroy it. So, for example: Neville Longbottom would destroy that sucker; Andrew Wells from Buffy would hide in a dark room with it and call it his Precious and be totally useless; Benton Fraser would TAKE OVER THE WORLD. &c. Give me characters! I will tell you what they do! Epic quests and evil overlords for all!
1. rewatch Sherlock/rewatch the Granada Holmes series/desperately seek post-Reichenbach fic/reread the Paradox series & all of Katie Forsythe's fic in a fit of madness/gaze upon Sherlock vids/curse the heavens that I have to wait so long for the next series
2. reread the Hobbit/flop about and make joyful noises about how fucking perfect Freeman's Bilbo is going to be/watch the Hobbit teaser trailer about a million times/rewatch all the cast bits in the Extended Edition Lord of the Rings DVDs/read all the Mark Reads entries of the Hobbit & what he has so far of Lord of the Rings/accidentally trip and fall into the first few chapters of Fellowship, which is fair enough as I haven't done a proper reread in three years
I am combating this White Dudes Doing Stuff thing by working on my novel that has basically one white dude doing stuff, and plenty of ladies and nonwhite dudes doing stuff, which is great! But the fannish channel is all hobbits and detectives right now. (Although no hobbit detectives! There seems to be a pretty low crime rate in the Shire, but I really hope there's a hobbit detective in Bree or something.)
Meanwhile I want to pull out something that I posted last time I was reading Lord of the Rings, because it was SUCH FUN, and it is the One Ring game! The One Ring game basically goes: think of (a) character(s) from a fandom other than LotR, and figure out what would happen if they were given the One Ring and charged to destroy it. So, for example: Neville Longbottom would destroy that sucker; Andrew Wells from Buffy would hide in a dark room with it and call it his Precious and be totally useless; Benton Fraser would TAKE OVER THE WORLD. &c. Give me characters! I will tell you what they do! Epic quests and evil overlords for all!
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Rory: he just soldiers on and gets it done! Unless of course their opponents realize that Amy is Rory's weak spot; if anything happened to her I have no doubt that Rory would suddenly stop thinking of the Ring as the evil thing to get rid of and immediately utilize it as the Ultimate Weapon to Get Amy Back, because as we well know, Ponds are scary when their loved ones are threatened.
Amy: might be an excellent unexpected best bet! Everyone would assume that she'd succumb to the Ring's power, but she's so ridiculously stubborn and resilient, she'd barge right through and get it done. I expect that when it came time she wouldn't be able to throw it in, but she'd get all the way to Mt Doom, at the very least.
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So okay now I am imagining Rory and Amy on a quest to Mordor and I actually think they'd do pretty well! Because I think that Rory by himself would absolutely get the job done but I'm not sure there'd be much of left of himself afterwards without Amy there to keep him human. And I think that Amy wouldn't be able to cast the ring into the fires by herself, because she has the universe inside her head and she knows she could use it to do so much good and save the world and keep her family safe, and she and Rory could wield it together, but if Rory was there with her he could talk her out of it, or just knock her out John Watson-style as you outline above.
But yeah, the instant either one of them was in serious danger, shit would get real. Oh, Ponds, I love you and your terrifying ways.
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Oh my gosh, actually Amy and Rory would do a really excellent impression of Frodo and Sam! Except without Gollum around to bite off Amy's finger, Rory just knocks her out and throws the Ring in. And everyone is okay! Or mostly okay. As long as Rory keeps his head that one time Amy gets captured by orcs.
Also RORY VS A GIANT SPIDER, OKAY, I AM STUPIDLY DELIGHTED BY THIS NOTION.
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... this shouldn't work remotely as a fusion. AND YET.
I think Amy and Rory's main problem would be fighting over who carries the Ring, because it's Amy's cross to bear, dammit, but Rory can't stand to see her go so loopy with it and besides he's a little better at dealing with all the associated awfulness. And also I think it would make Amy feel a bit invincible and so Rory has to keep pulling her back from the brink of doing something really reckless and getting them both captured, and all the while she's being basically awful to him, and frankly after a while he's more focused on saving her from this than he is on saving the world. But between them they manage it and then sail off to the Grey Heavens at the end and live happily ever after. <3
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And Sauron is the Black Guardian.
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Oh my goddd though Amy and Rory! At the end! Sailing together beyond the confines of this world! FEELINGS.
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Also, omg, the idea of Jack Harkness getting anywhere near the One Ring is frankly horrifying. I'd like to think he'd have the Aragorn-like common sense not to touch it with a bargepole, buuuut that depends on where in his timeline you fall I guess.
(Still pondering Donna and Mickey's respective roles in this, hmm.)
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Also I want Martha to maybe take on Eowyn's role as well as Faramir's (shhhh it could work) so she and Donna can team up and take on the Witch King together, because best.
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Oh man, though, if Martha is Eowyn and Faramir ... I actually really like that! Because it means that she saves herself from despair, that is pretty great and also an accurate description of Martha. I am also extremely in favor of Martha and Donna being battle buddies and taking down the Witch King together.
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I was doing so well (nodding along etc), and then I got this far and now I'm helpless!!!! I have no idea if this image is more terrifying or hilarious - either way it's beyond awesome!
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