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Cable/Deadpool crackfic snippet
May. 5th, 2011 09:27 pmOkay, let's get this one out there at the top of the post before I get to the excuses: I just wrote 1300 words of a The Little Mermaid AU Cable/Deadpool fic.
While waiting to get the next chapter of the highschool AU back from my beta reader I felt the need for a bit of a light relief between the big fic projects - the irony here being that the HS AU was supposed to be light relief between bigger fic projects that has since gone badly feral. When you've reached the point where you feel the need to write a bit of something for light relief from your cheesey highschool AU fic, you may as well admit you're already well off the deep end of crackfic territory.
Or to put it another way, this is another of those scenes that get written because they would not leave me alone.
The worst part is, of course, that this fandom already has a The Little Merpool AU, in the form of a hilarious 24 page comic featuring, amongst other things, Bob the Fish, Weasel the Lobster, and Deadpool the Mermaid-Who-Wants-To-Be-Human-Because-He's-Fed-Up-With-His-Fishy-Lack-Of-Interesting-Plumbing. Really, you should probably just go read it now if you haven't already, just so we can all be perfectly clear on how I cannot even claim original crackfic anymore. But also because it's kind of brilliant.
If that comic has a fault, it's only that somewhere in the middle it veered right off to the left of where I thought it was heading and left me with a head full of leftover ideas for things you could do by mashing up Cable & Deadpool with The Little Mermaid which never made it into that one comic. What about the chance to mix up Deadpool's canonical desire to just look like a normal human being with the mermaid's longing to be human? What about the chance to cast Cable as the handsome prince and Blind Al as the old witch who thinks Deadpool's off his nut for imagining that any prince who'd turn him down for his face is worth giving the time of day, but who grudgingly agrees to grant his wish anyway just to make a point? What about Deadpool tackling the 'you must snog within three days or the deal is off' rule head-on with his glorious Deadpool aplomb? So. Many. Possibilities.
So in honour of yet another Idea That Would Not Die, have a very rough, completely un-betaed scene from the middle somewhere.
I honestly have no idea if there's going to be anymore of this.
( There's nothing like quoting Cable's full name to inflate your word count. NOTHING. )
While waiting to get the next chapter of the highschool AU back from my beta reader I felt the need for a bit of a light relief between the big fic projects - the irony here being that the HS AU was supposed to be light relief between bigger fic projects that has since gone badly feral. When you've reached the point where you feel the need to write a bit of something for light relief from your cheesey highschool AU fic, you may as well admit you're already well off the deep end of crackfic territory.
Or to put it another way, this is another of those scenes that get written because they would not leave me alone.
The worst part is, of course, that this fandom already has a The Little Merpool AU, in the form of a hilarious 24 page comic featuring, amongst other things, Bob the Fish, Weasel the Lobster, and Deadpool the Mermaid-Who-Wants-To-Be-Human-Because-He's-Fed-Up-With-His-Fishy-Lack-Of-Interesting-Plumbing. Really, you should probably just go read it now if you haven't already, just so we can all be perfectly clear on how I cannot even claim original crackfic anymore. But also because it's kind of brilliant.
If that comic has a fault, it's only that somewhere in the middle it veered right off to the left of where I thought it was heading and left me with a head full of leftover ideas for things you could do by mashing up Cable & Deadpool with The Little Mermaid which never made it into that one comic. What about the chance to mix up Deadpool's canonical desire to just look like a normal human being with the mermaid's longing to be human? What about the chance to cast Cable as the handsome prince and Blind Al as the old witch who thinks Deadpool's off his nut for imagining that any prince who'd turn him down for his face is worth giving the time of day, but who grudgingly agrees to grant his wish anyway just to make a point? What about Deadpool tackling the 'you must snog within three days or the deal is off' rule head-on with his glorious Deadpool aplomb? So. Many. Possibilities.
So in honour of yet another Idea That Would Not Die, have a very rough, completely un-betaed scene from the middle somewhere.
I honestly have no idea if there's going to be anymore of this.
( There's nothing like quoting Cable's full name to inflate your word count. NOTHING. )