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[selenak]

There is a nice and mean-to-all-sides news-of-2003 Quiz here. See how you score.

londonkds made some good points about Jack Sparrow's presentation in PotC recently. This, together with some observations about certain fanfiction, produced the following silliness from honorh and yours truly:



Scene: The "We're No Saints!" Club, refuge of morally ambiguos characters whitewashed by fanfic. It looks like Quark's, to give you a mental image. Methos, aka The Really Old Guy from Highlander, sprawls on a bar stool, beer in hand, and certainly not of the root variety. Next to him, there's a chair covered with a leather-and-studs jacket. The owner, a certain Kerr Avon from Blake's 7, is not present at the moment. However, next to said jacket-covered bar stool sits Spike, aka the Vampire Who Launched A Thousand Fan Wars, nursing his own empy glass. The aforementioned gentlemen barely look up as the colourful figure of Jack Sparrow storms in.

J: I definitely didn’t deserve that! (Looks around). Where’s the rum, mates?
S: Out. We’re all freshly out of drink. Bugger me if it doesn’t get worse around Christmas. Enough to sink into a stupor.
J: But why is the rum gone?
M: (sotto voce, to Spike) He looks like he's had more than enough already.
S: Wears more eyeliner than I did back in the '70s.
M: He wears more than I did back in ancient Egypt.
S: (to Jack) Have a seat, have a beer, and tell us your woes.
J: I'll accept that offer, mate. Tell me, is that beer in want of a companion? (Points to a beer sitting alone next to Methos.)
M: That one? No, it belongs to Avon, along with all those empty shot glasses. He's attempting to find the facilities.
S: I've got a twenty that says he won't be back for another ten minutes.
J: (sitting next to Spike) Pity. I hate to see a good beer alone.
M: Don't worry; it's a bad beer.
S: Terrible. Better that way. Good beer won't get your mind off the fangirls.
J: Pray do not mention them until I have numbed myself. (Takes a deep swill of beer.) They keep going on about me, but the way they have it, butter wouldn't melt in my mouth. They forget: I'm Captain Jack Sparrow! Savvy?
M: Mad, bad, and dangerous to know?
J: On the nose, mate. And what a prodigious nose you have.
M: (defensively) Women love the nose.
S: It happens to us all. All you have to do is be British and have sex appeal and a dash of moral ambiguity--
M: --or more than a dash--
S: --done some bad things in my time--
M: --there was that whole mass-murdering phase--
S: --vampire! Need to eat, you know--
M: --and a fellow has to look out for himself--
S: --120 years without a soul; I didn't know from good--
M: --so I did a thing or two for MacLeod--
S: --fell for a Slayer--
M: --next thing you know, you're the Second Coming--
S: --object of every fangirl's desire--
M: --so, naturally, because they couldn't love someone
the way they love you if you'd really been bad--
S: --obviously, you were good all along and just Misunderstood.
J: I'm going to need more beer, then?
S&M: Lots.

I also tried my hand at this:


~Clio~
Your muse is Clio, the Proclaimer, the muse of
History. Her symbol is the scroll. You're
very interested in history; have you considered
archaeology for a taste of something new?


Which of the Nine Muses is your muse?
brought to you by Quizilla


Which turns out to be correct.

Comments

[rahael.livejournal.com]

S: It happens to us all. All you have to do is be British and have sex appeal and a dash of moral ambiguity--
M: --or more than a dash--
S: --done some bad things in my time--
M: --there was that whole mass-murdering phase--
S: --vampire! Need to eat, you know--
M: --and a fellow has to look out for himself--
S: --120 years without a soul; I didn't know from good--
M: --so I did a thing or two for MacLeod--
S: --fell for a Slayer--
M: --next thing you know, you're the Second Coming--
S: --object of every fangirl's desire--
M: --so, naturally, because they couldn't love someone
the way they love you if you'd really been bad--
S: --obviously, you were good all along and just Misunderstood.
J: I'm going to need more beer, then?

LOL! That was hilarious!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

I too am a Clio. I die of not surprised.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

History lovers of the world, unite.*g*

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I too am a Clio. But only because the quiz did not permit me to reply to every question (with the exception of the dance-related answers) in the affirmative.

I know what you mean.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

After all, loving homeric epics and tragedy and comedy is not mutually exclusive...

[kathyh]

S: Wears more eyeliner than I did back in the '70s.
M: He wears more than I did back in ancient Egypt.

Bwahahaha... Priceless. I can see why you needed to get Avon out of the way; he went for the leather gear not the eyeliner!

Guess what. I was Clio too.

Actually--

[honorh.livejournal.com]

The need to get Avon out of the way was mine. As I'm a poor American who's never had access to Blake's 7, I just couldn't write him. So blame me for the lack of same.

Re: Actually--

[kathyh]

As I'm a poor American who's never had access to Blake's 7, I just couldn't write him.

I forgive you then *g*. Seriously, I think Avon would have taken one look at Jack Sparrow and run away screaming, after having found out where he'd hidden his piratical loot, so I don't think he really belonged in this. In another incomprehensible Blake's 7 character reference, I think that Vila would get along much better with Jack.

Re: Actually--

[kernezelda]

He'd do well enough with Jack, but wouldn't much care for Spike. Methos - Vila might him find a good Avon-substitute, as Methos is also quite skilled at self-preservation. Er, depending on the B6 season.

Re: Actually--

[kernezelda]

Sorry - that was meant to be B7!

So, a question

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Draco Malfoy was left out because:

a) Below legal drinking age
b) Too unambiguously evil in canon
c) He's a "poncy little twit" (estimation courtesy Spike and Avon)

Re: So, a question

[selenak.livejournal.com]

All of the above, naturally! *g*

P.S. Also:

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The natural candidate from the HPverse would have been Snape. Who doesn't socialize.

[kitsune76.livejournal.com]

...OK, I *so* tyhink you should issue this as a challenge. If I wasn't too busy/tired to do research I'd write a Jack Sparrow fic for it.

[kernezelda]

Now that's a scene I'd pay to see. Which is appropriate, as my muse is Comedy (forgot her name since this afternoon).

Oh, one more small thing...

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

"I didn't know from [XXX]" is a strongly Jewish/Yiddish-influenced phrase in UK English, and probably not a construction SPike would use. Otherwise, great.