Lyndsea's Writing Blog

Moved!

2012-01-16T04:41:00.001-06:00

I finally got annoyed enough at Blogger to move to Wordpress. In the future, everything will be published at http://darklyndsea.wordpress.com/

2012-01-13T00:38:00.000-06:00

The friendship between somebody who works at the SGC and somebody who works at NORAD. NORAD thinks that SGC works at a job that's similar to his/hers: highly classified desk work at the Mountain, with the only excitement occasional drills. But eventually NORAD starts to notice that there's something weird about SGC, or at least about SGC's job...:P

2012-01-03T22:13:00.000-06:00

Somewhere along the way, there's a paperwork SNAFU, and despite regulations against family members serving under each other, Winona Kirk ends up serving on the Enterprise under the son she abandoned years ago.

2011-12-31T19:30:00.001-06:00

Somehow, the original Stargate translation team manages to open the "Doorway to heaven" without Daniel, and avoid killing the Abydonians (AKA, everything goes more or less the way it did in canon, but with even more translation problems--maybe the military people are really good at Charades, or something). And then they head out into the galaxy to fight the Goa'uld, but with tons of comedy

2011-12-30T01:42:00.000-06:00

Semi!sentient Hogwarts realizes that they're at war and vulnerable. To increase security, she starts requiring passwords to be changed every 90 days and contain at least one number, one capital letter, and one lowercase letter, and be at least 8 characters long.

2011-12-29T18:04:00.000-06:00

Some time after they've parted on bad terms, Duncan finds one of Methos's old diaries. Remembering how many times Methos had intruded on him and trying to get a petty little bit of revenge, he sets about trying to read the diary. It's not as easy as it sounds: Methos switches between languages when he feels like it (and engages in polyglottal wordplay along the way), and Duncan doesn't know most

2011-12-29T17:53:00.000-06:00

Whichever Highlander movie in which they're aliens, but Methos won the Game, not Connor. Which is a bit more interesting now that I think about it: he'd still create the Dome, because he wants to keep Earth habitable, but other than that...I can't really see Methos being all "yay! Now I'll grow old!" as his Prize. So he'd still be young, and he'd still be living, and maybe a part of that group

Atlantis University thinkiness

2011-12-23T03:15:00.002-06:00

They go in thinking that it'll be a long time before contact is reestablished, and act accordingly. Which means that from the beginning they know that they need more than just the expedition members and relatively easily combine with the Athosians. Politics means that not only the scientists are from multiple countries, the military are too. To simplify things a little bit, they rename the mass

2011-12-21T18:31:00.000-06:00

Shawn Spencer is a go-with-the-flow kind of guy. So when Lassiter misinterprets one of his visions/antics as a come-on and accepts, he goes with the flow. And he's used to relationships collapsing, getting dumped after a few weeks; so much so, that he's extremely confused when Lassiter doesn't break up with him, and doesn't break up with him, and doesn't break up with him...until Shawn finally

2011-12-19T23:42:00.001-06:00

Muggleborns are quietly fed love potions targeted at purebloods and halfbloods, until they have their first pureblood child. By that point, the love potion has long-lasting effects on most of the muggleborns. For those who break free, they can get a divorce...but their spouse would basically get to keep everything, because a muggleborn is obviously less capable, etc. And the wizarding world hates

2011-12-13T12:30:00.000-06:00

Girl!Dexter. Her gender is just another reason Harry adopts her, but despite the statistics she still becomes a serial killer.

2011-12-10T20:31:00.001-06:00

Although they're all adult and responsible now, Hermione's parents were the pranksters of their school growing up, and to be honest they're a bit disappointed that Hermione's so rule-abiding. But then she's falsely accused of a prank (or her parents think she's pulled off a prank, anyway), and instead of blowing up at her they're proud of her.

2011-12-08T23:54:00.001-06:00

You know what plotline would translate well into the Harry Potter-verse? Oedipus Rex. There's a prophecy that he'll kill his dad and marry his mom (or maybe sister), so they curse him and abandon him in the muggle world. His dad...is a Death Eater, maybe? The wizarding world doesn't have the "marry wife of dead king to become the king" thing, though, so that'd have to be fiddled with. Maybe with

2011-12-04T17:37:00.000-06:00

Of course Methos recognizes Andrew Wiggin as Ender--he's certainly got enough experience to recognize children once they've grown up. But whatever the Speaker for the Dead wrote, and whatever orders Congress gives him, he was on Earth throughout the war, and he won't do anything against the man who ended it. (I guess he's captain of a ship that was at the planet when Ender got in trouble...gah,

2011-11-27T18:39:00.000-06:00

Halfway through Fred and George's first year, the Hogwarts professors got together and collectively decided to evaluate their performance not on their schoolwork, because they were deliberately doing worse on it than their pranks showed that they were, but rather on their pranks. And also they started pranking the twins, so inspire them to higher levels of competency and teach them new things (

2011-11-25T08:50:00.002-06:00

From a dream I had. Jane and his wife were Immortals in a world where immortality was known to the world. There's some sort of drug for Immortals that suppresses the buzz and I think makes it look like they heal at a normal speed, although they still heal quickly from anything too bad. Mortals *really* prefer for Immortals to take the drug [but why?], and a lot of them do, but any Immortal who's

New Experiences

2011-11-19T04:27:00.000-06:00

Methos slouched a bit deeper on his couch. What more could he ask for, than a good beer and a book he hadn't read yet? Maybe it wasn't what most people would agree was good literature...okay, that was a bit of an understatement: it was the literary equivalent of Plan 9 From Outer Space, without a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode dedicated to it. But he had a certain irrational fondness for

2011-11-17T14:24:00.001-06:00

Unknown to Lily, Petunia, Vernon, or Marge, Lily was adopted into the Evans family from the Dursley family as a baby. When Harry's young, Vernon finds out and that changes things because yeah, Harry's a freak, but he's a Dursley, and family is everything to Dursleys.

Clan MacLeod-Anne 1

2011-11-10T22:59:00.000-06:00

Anne should be at the hospital, she knew. The situation out there was sure to be bad and getting worse, and that meant that the hospitals needed every pair of hands they could get, before their ability to do much good went away. Sure, the medicine would still be good after the apocalypse, and many of the diagnostic methods didn't depend upon electronics, but how many of those medicines were made

Clan MacLeod: Joe 1

2011-11-09T00:20:00.001-06:00

Seven days. That's all they get to prepare for the apocalypse.Maybe that sounds overly dramatic. After all, the world will still be there, and all the people on it. They even know about it in advance, so nobody's going to die when their plane loses all power. But all their electronics, everything that makes the modern world so modern—that's all going to be useless, fried by Earth's own

2011-10-29T01:33:00.000-05:00

In his free time, Anderson is a superhero (I'm thinking a Superman analogue, but whatever floats your boat), which naturally makes him sleep-deprived and distracted, and maybe it's hard for him to tell what humans can and can't see/notice. Sherlock knows he's a superhero, but doesn't see that as an excuse or even a reason for his behavior. He doesn't say anything about it because it's so obvious

2011-10-29T01:08:00.000-05:00

Worst-case scenario for a sex pollen type scenario: it's not a pollen, but a virus which mutates very rapidly, so it can be caught again and no cure can be developed. And it gets transmitted as easily as the common cold, maybe has an incubation or contagious but no symptoms period. Obviously would require lots of research about disease transmission.

2011-10-28T09:30:00.001-05:00

Back in the day, Methos was Egeria's host and the catalyst for her change of heart. Post-Horsemen, even though that means changing the date that they rode, so he knows the temptation and appeal of power and has gotten over it. So they Tok'Ra around for a while, then get caught, Methos "killed", Egeria imprisoned. Fast forward to the present; for some reason, Methos is with SG-1 when they find

2011-10-27T00:57:00.001-05:00

Dexter Peggy Sue: Dexter wakes up back as a child/teenager (before Harry died), with all of his experience with life and killing. Not to mention years of seeing and getting advice from hallucination!Harry, which doubtless does not match up entirely with what real!Harry would say. And experience pretending to be a normal person. And, you know, the fact that killing animals won't cut it anymore.

2011-10-20T21:01:00.000-05:00

In the myth of Er, Odysseus decides to become reincarnated as an ordinary person. So...what if that ordinary person is John Watson?

2011-10-20T03:52:00.000-05:00

So, one day God says to Joan, "I need you to change your name/get a really good fake ID and go to Miami." The name on her ID is Lumen Pierce.

2011-10-19T20:55:00.000-05:00

Methos was in Grantville when the ring of fire happened, either with or without the others (this could be done with almost any immortal, but if I did it I'd do it with Methos; Duncan would be less interesting because in 1632 he was still a baby Immortal...okay, that might be interesting, too). And he knows that younger!Methos is going to come to Grantville, as well as probably a shitload of other

2011-10-06T10:33:00.001-05:00

Sometime before he meets John, one of sherlock's experiments goes horribly wrong and now he's a zombie. Those body parts? Not (just) for experiments. And he doesn't eat a lot of normal food because it does nothing for him. Nobody knows except Mycroft. But then, somebody finds evidence that he eats the body parts.

2011-10-03T20:40:00.000-05:00

Theseus runs around, defeating bad guys by turning their own tricks back on them. So does Jarod. So...what if Theseus was a Pretender?

2011-10-02T16:53:00.000-05:00

So, I just read a very short X-Men/Highlander crossover where Joe was a mutant. Which would be really interesting to explore more in-depth.

2011-10-01T22:19:00.000-05:00

Admittance to Hogwarts is technically based not on age, but on some whacky magic milestone. It's just that, because its students have all been human, that milestone happens at 11 for all of them. For Immortals it happens after 5000+ years. Methos gets an invitation to Hogwarts, and decides to go because it's something new.

2011-09-30T19:38:00.000-05:00

The Marauders' Map is a horcrux of its creators.

2011-09-26T16:16:00.000-05:00

The Leverage crew all got killed in the pilot, but they all stuck around as ghosts and don't realize that they're dead. And they're so awesome at acting that they fool everybody, even though normally it takes decades for ghosts to figure out how to affect the physical world or be visible. And then the Winchesters figure it out.

2011-09-21T18:57:00.001-05:00

When Kal-El landed on Earth as a baby, the Kents somehow got Kryptonian powers and the instinctual knowledge of how to use them. Although it's interesting to contemplate how things might be different in the big picture when his powers aren't a unique thing, but rather a family thing, I'm more interested in a random domestic scene where they all...heat up their tea with laser vision, or something,

2011-09-16T20:57:00.002-05:00

Variation on an earlier idea: After the most recent fun with thieves disguised as terrorists (which could be any of the movies! :D), John McClane gets a new partner. He keeps getting stuck with the undesirables because nobody else can handle his crazy, so it's not really a surprise that he gets stuck with the new guy...who just moved to New York from the UK. How much of the city will be

2011-09-14T21:31:00.001-05:00

Starfleet Academy (well, technically, everybody, but only SFA or possibly just the students remembers it) gets caught in a time loop before all the craziness. Things, um, get a little bit crazy. Especially since it's one of their emergency simulation days and Kirk's in charge.

2011-09-14T21:06:00.000-05:00

I've never seen Joan of Arcadia, but I'm pretty sure that she was a nice and normal girl before god started talking to her. What if she wasn't? What if she was more like Dexter, only faking being normal, and holding off on her darker impulses as long as she could because if she could love anybody, she'd love her family?

2011-09-13T18:29:00.001-05:00

Somehow, Luke and Leia ended up getting raised by Han (er, might need some age juggling, there) and Chewbacca. And then, they give Ben Kenobi a ride...

2011-09-12T15:14:00.000-05:00

Harry Potter isn't the only new student at Hogwarts who was left with relatives as a baby--Luke Skywalker was, too. In the Star Wars universe, not ours; Hogwarts serves only Tatooine.

2011-09-04T02:28:00.000-05:00

One of the Highlander characters on Pandora or as a red shirt, getting killed over and over and over again but with no place else to go even if they desert or whatever. Comedy.

2011-08-31T17:53:00.000-05:00

Terry being Bruce Wayne's assistant is just a cover story, but this is Bruce Wayne we're talking about; do you really think he doesn't expect Terry to actually do what he's expected to do? Yeah, Bruce covers for him sometimes, does the job instead when nobody else can see, but if he creates the cover story of grooming Terry to take over then he's damn well expecting Terry to learn how to do so.

2011-08-30T19:25:00.000-05:00

I read this summary of a Criminal Minds/Big Bang Theory crossover: "Gideon recruited a different genius to the BAU, and nobody is particularly happy about it." I don't know BBT, but there are so many interesting geniuses that could have been (possibly minus that last part). Personally, I favor Shawn Spencer (who could be interesting in the changes to him from working that kind of case, as well as

2011-08-27T23:05:00.000-05:00

The more you practice magic, the more you have to use it. So...there's somebody who has to use magic. Normally it's not a problem; they just use it for little things throughout the day, most of them not anything that would be noticed even by somebody looking right at them. But then there's something tha prevents them from doing magic: a curse, or they're trapped in a warded house, or something.

2011-08-19T17:30:00.000-05:00

Sentinels are (and perhaps always have been) known to the public. John Watson awakened as a Sentinel while he was in the Army, where they take a very military approach to things (which is more than a little bit different from things for civilians); he's never experienced life as a civilian Sentinel until he's discharged. His therapist thinks his limp is because he's so traumatized by the death of

2011-08-18T15:58:00.000-05:00

Methos moves on to his next life, deciding he wants to be a tailor again, and starts up his business somewhere close to some community of mutants. Slowly word gets out to the mutant community that he's good, professional, cheap, and discreet. On the side he teaches a few mutants how to make alterations that aren't covered in sewing books. And then, without warning, he disappears, and the next

2011-08-11T02:47:00.000-05:00

Harry Potter was raised (with great difficulty) by dragons. No, not around dragons, or by dragon keepers. By dragons. Who are sentient, intelligent, and baffled by humans, but know that, as Harry is a human, they need to raise him in a humanish way: clothes (before he can dress himself, it's very difficult for them, and since he doesn't see other humans except from a distance, his clothes are

2011-08-10T22:02:00.000-05:00

Okay, so I just read In the Dark (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6373793/8/Toil_and_trouble), and now I kind of want to write something along those lines but extended--starting back in the HP'verse, year 4 when Harry and the horntail met, show how it went AU, and then follow it into the Temeraire verse. But the research...!

Gryffindor!Snape

2011-08-10T00:53:00.000-05:00

Before they go through 7 years of being stereotyped for their House while attending Hogwarts, witches/wizards are a lot more balanced. Snape was no exception (as a character who approximates a normal human, you can see elements of all four houses in him even in canon). He wanted to be in Slytherin like his mom, and didn't want to be anywhere near Potter & Black after meeting them before getting

2011-06-06T17:04:00.000-05:00

Simba grew up, ruled the Pride, yada yada...and then later he somehow became Aslan. Support: Simba and Aslan are both of the Jesus archetype both have a noncorporeal father that they talk to lions both rule over assorted animals, not just lions

2011-06-04T20:27:00.000-05:00

The apocalypse comes, and it's even worse than a lot of people are expecting because, hey, in the real world all of the fruit and vegetable plants they sell (including, or perhaps especially, those sold to commercial farmers) are designed to be sterile--as in, after the crop that's currently in the ground gets harvested, if there isn't any more seed to be bought then we're not going to have

2011-06-02T11:54:00.002-05:00

Wizards cosplaying muggles.

2011-05-31T21:59:00.000-05:00

Immortals can only sense pre-Immortals if they have a certain degree of compatibility. So, for instance, if Duncan had been holding some sort of Immortal party when Richie dropped by, only two or three of them would have been able to sense him. This pre-Immortal sense also draws at least one compatible close when it's close to the time for the pre-Immortal's first death. Of course, even with some

2011-05-26T22:26:00.000-05:00

AU: Buffy is not a cheerleader-type person. Instead, she's a straight-A nerd who is interested in moldy bookage in its own right, not just as a means to saving lives. She may or may not play on the "dumb blonde" image like in canon with people who aren't her close friends, but her in-group won't take long to realize what a nerd she is.

2011-05-23T08:16:00.001-05:00

After the apocalypse, most people are freaking out and running in circles like chickens with their heads cut off. Most Immortals don't freak out, just immediately start doing what they know has to be done. Preferably from the POV of Richie or an OC (Richie might be best...or a rotating POV) for contrast.

2011-05-23T07:01:00.000-05:00

Mulan & co. get bored of being ancestors, so they recorporealize in the modern day. (which, of course, takes away all of the fun issues of Mulan) Would preferably involve a lot of annoying the descendants, both on purpose and on accident. (Hmm, I guess I could do the last part in the Dinosaur verse...suddenly, Mulan shows up at the house of the descendants of one of her adopted kids/one of her

Potions Conference

2011-05-21T23:18:00.000-05:00