Someone stop me...

[shipperx]

I have a hankering to write a Spike Christmas fanfic. I don't know where the urge sprang from, but two problems:

1) I have absolutely no story in mind. None. Zip. Nada. Pure blank.

2) I never manage to finish these things.

Comments

[rahirah]

Well, with Christmas fic you can shamelessly get away with stealing reinterpreting iconic plots.

(Do it! Dooooo iiiiit!)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Don't be optimstic. At the moment my brainstorming cluster**** list of random looks like:

- Ghosts in "A Christmas Carol"

- Ghosts in XFiles "Ghosts Who Stole Christmas"

- Ghosts in "Homebody" by Scott Orson Card {which I read years before I knew that he was a monumental insufferable asshat. I don't rec the book. The story considerably underperformed its premise. However, the concept of place-bound ghosts being 'stuck' struck me as thematically interesting} (http://www.amazon.com/Homebody-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/0061093998 )

- "14" by Peter Clines (sans Cthulhu...probably... though that could work with Illyria... ) ( http://www.amazon.com/14-Peter-Clines/dp/1618680528/ref=la_B0039LGSLW_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383856157&sr=1-1 )

- The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Parrots_of_Telegraph_Hill )

- The Mary Ellen Pleasant bit on Comedy Central's "Drunk History" (http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/vqosep/drunk-history-mary-ellen-pleasant)

Err... yeah.

No idea what any of that could work to create.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Spike watches A Christmas Story, with commentary!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking along the line of Spike runs into real ghosts on Christmas Eve (and snarks about A Christmas Carol ;)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hmmm Mary Ellen Pleasant's wiki entry looks promising for inspiration (Though I still have no story idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Pleasant

- In one version of her memoirs dictated to her god-daughter, Charlotte Downs, she claimed she was born a slave to a Voodoo priestess and the youngest son of a Governor of Virginia, James Pleasants.

- When Mary Ellen arrived in San Francisco, she passed as white, using her first husband's name and took jobs running exclusive men’s eating establishments, starting with the Case and Heiser. She met most of the founders of the city as she catered lavish meals, and she benefited from the tidbits of financial gossip and deals usually tossed around at the tables. She engaged a young clerk, Thomas Bell, at the Bank of California and they began to make money based on her tips and guidance and by 1875 they had amassed a 30 million dollar fortune between them. Bell., who had worked with Mary Ellen from the slave-stealing days to the civil rights court battles of the 1860s, died in 1877

- later when Teresa Bell, Thomas Bell’s widow, sued Mary Ellen over Thomas’ estate. The house Mary Ellen had designed for Thomas Bell and herself became known as the “House of Mystery” and the peculiar arrangements with Thomas’ farce of a “marriage” were exposed and paraded through the courts.

- newspaper allies, publicly named Mary Ellen as a "Voodoo priestess", but went on to say that she was a baby stealer, a baby eater, a multiple murderess, a madam, a lying, conniving, cunning, schemer, and maybe, worst of all, hung the epithet of “Mammy” upon her. All the press from the 1880s and beyond was extremely negative to an aging Mary Ellen.

- Pleasant died in San Francisco, California on January 4, 1904 in poverty.

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

Oh god for it! If you do manage to finish It you could always post it on this years noel for spike. :)

[shapinglight]

Heh! Snap.

[shapinglight]

Ah, I think you should just write it anyway. You could post it for noel_of_spike, which hopefully will run for a week some time in December again.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of time! *whistles*

The hankering may soon be followed by inspiration. And people (I) will love you for it. It's the gift that keeps on giving!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Spike: Mall Santa.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Hee! That would be hilarious.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

If you're not going to write it, I might. The world needs Spike trying to be patient with snotty little kids who want ponies.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. Do write it! I'd love to read it.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

You'll get to read it quicker if you write it yourself... :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

I'm sort of working on the Christmas ghost concept, though.