stunt_muppet | I hate you, April Fools' Day.

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I hate you, April Fools' Day.

Two reasons why.

1) One. More. Rickrolling. And I will stab someone. In the face. That was entertaining once, guys. Five times? Not so much.

Plz to be having a new joke now, internet. (Ironically, she conveys this sentiment in lolcat speech from the DAWN OF TIME. a.k.a. a couple of years ago.)

2)

My uncle, who I previously thought loved me and wanted me to be happy, sent me a link this afternoon.

The detail text on the link was as such: See if you can spot the difference between the two pictures! Can you find all five differences? Be sure to turn your sound up before you do this - if you get it right, you'll hear a "beep".

Now, my uncle normally sends me at least amusing (and sometimes fantastically geeky) links, so I figured this would be something fun, like finding five differences in a Hieronymous Bosch painting or 'spotting' really comically obvious differences. I had, of course, completely forgotten that it was April 1st.

I should have seen this coming. But I didn't.

So I turn my speakers on (they're normally off), click the link, and started scouring the two innocuous-looking pictures for differences.

I looked in vain, because it turns out there weren't any. The whole thing was just a clever ruse to ensure that I was staring right at the screen when a bright red bloody grinning demon face thing suddenly filled the screen and started pulsing in and out. And to ensure that I had the sound up when a combination of roaring and screeching came pouring out of my speakers.

This all sounds very tame now that I write it down, but it REALLY WASN'T when I wasn't expecting it. Which is how I justify my reaction, anyway - I screamed, slammed my laptop shut, and then continued screaming when THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE SOUND GO AWAY.

And then the image went away and a SpongeBob laugh started playing.

Once my pulse went down, I managed to call him and demand what the fuck he thought he was doing. He laughed at me.

Oh, but just you wait. Next year, he's getting The Subliminal Adventures of Captain Howdy. WHO'S LAUGHING NOW.

Ahem.

On a more cheerful note, I caved (again) and signed up for a round at

churchontime, in spite of the fact that I have this thing where I never finish ficathons. My prompt is: "Stop this wedding! The bride is already married...to me!"

I've got three ideas so far, and I kind of want to write all of them:

1) Curse of Peladon AU. Jo ends up agreeing to marry King Peladon to save the Doctor from execution. As their wedding day approaches, the Doctor is quickly running out of ideas for how to stop the wedding without wrecking diplomatic havoc - but there is one thing that might work...

...the question is, who would believe that a princess and a diplomat could maintain a secret marriage?

2) Prison in Space AU - although technically not an AU, since the story was never made. Jamie and Zoe have both been hypnotized by the Skeery Alien Feminists, and now Jamie's about to become the bride of the Queen (yes, bride). Only the power of Gay Marriage in Space can save him now. (I love this idea, but I really don't think I could write it well.)

3) Susan and David's wedding was going so well until that cosmic paladin she forgot she was engaged to showed up. Grandfather may not be able to fix this one...(Again, I like it but I very much doubt I could write it, as I have no Susan-voice.)

It's not my favorite of the prompts, and there are several others I'd rather have done, but most of the prompts I really like I feel like I'd end up making into Srs Fic, and

churchontime's all about the crack. I'd love to write the wedding between Liz and the Brig, for example, but considering that this would involve the Brig leaving his wife for Liz I don't know if I could play it for laughs in good conscience. And the Three/Jo AU where she didn't marry Cliff? I'd be all over that, but I couldn't write crack for it. I feel positively guilty writing crack for it, because I don't want to become one of Those fen who transform the series into "Newlyweds In Space". I want to take the emotional complications and sheer impossibility of the Doctor/Companion relationship seriously, I want to acknowledge the alien-ness of the Doctor, and the vast mental and emotional gulf between human and Time Lord...

...and yet at the same time I don't. I want to make it crackish and fun and lighthearted. But I feel like I shouldn't. Does that make any sense?

Alas, Who!fic. You instill doubts in me that I never have while writing for crime dramas.

(Now the "all ten Doctors crash Barbara and Ian's wedding" prompt, I could definitely write crack for. And I'd claim it, too, were it not for my lack of practice writing any Doctor who isn't Three, Four, Nine, or Ten. Someone please claim it. It needs to be written. Yesterday.)

A PSA, now: if you write for the fandom, kindly get yourself over to

churchontime and claim a prompt. Because this promises to be a month of insane matrimonial who-am-I-marrying-again LOVE.

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Which is how I justify my reaction, anyway - I screamed, slammed my laptop shut, and then continued screaming when THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE SOUND GO AWAY.

And then the image went away and a SpongeBob laugh started playing.
I think the SpongeBob part might be the most horrible thing in all of that. Ugh, that sounds quite unfun. And I sympathize with the screaming, because I would have done exactly the same thing.

And apologies for my ignorance, but what is Rickrolling?

The SpongeBob laugh really was the worst part of it, becaise (since the computer was shut) I had no idea if it was coming from an insane clown or whatever and so was still too scared to look. It wasn't fun at all. *shudder*

Oh, I didn't know what Rickrolling was until today either, so it's not ignorace, don't worry. "Rickrolling", apparently, is linking to a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", while Cleverly Disguising the link as something else. It seemed to be the April Fools prank du jour this year, but I've no idea why.

Oh, so that's what the LJ news was about. I didn't even realize that was a joke. I just saw there was a video (which naturally I ignored), shrugged, and promptly lost interest in finding out whichever new person they'd hired. The only thing I didn't get was how/why they made a link to a community go to a personal journal.

RS: combatting April Fool's with the power of non-curiosity

Yep. I ignored it the first time too; I'm inclined to ignore lj_news posts unless/until people in the personal journals I watch start complaining about whatever was in them. It wasn't until someone pointed out that there was an April Fools' joke involved that I bothered to click the link. And thus began a long, long string of the same damn joke. All day.

RS: combatting April Fool's with the power of non-curiosity/

*salutes*

It wasn't until someone pointed out that there was an April Fools' joke involved that I bothered to click the link.
That would be me, I guess. But yeah, it was funny then, as it was a solitary situation, but it's the kind of joke that very quickly outstays its welcome. For that same reason, I refused to check out YouTube's April Fool's joke, as I'm sure it must have involved some Rickrolling as well.

Er. I hope it didn't sound like I was mad at you or anything; I just know some people don't like having the content of their journals mentioned, and I didn't know how you felt about that.

But no, I did get a giggle out of it when you showed it to me, and I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. It wasn't until every other LJ community started doing it that it got old and annoying.

Don't worry, it didn't sound like it. And I appreciate the thought - I don't usually mind when people mention this kind of entries, but I know a lot of people who get upset so I'm always glad to find people who respect that.

Yeah, even the funniest things usually lose their charm when repeated ad infinitum - and in this case the fun factor is much more limited.

Your uncle is cruel and must be punished.

I'm doing

churchontime too! I hope it'll be cracky enough, because right now it's a bit funny and fluffy. But I suppose as soon as a wedding becomes an imperative, that'll help.

Provided I get this one done in time, I plan to write as many of the prompts as I can get to. This is the best idea for this fandom, srsly. XD

Lastly, mind if I friend you?

Oh, I'm already planning my return salvo for next year. (Not that I actually know any suitable websites, but whatever.)

This is the best idea for this fandom, srsly.

It is. And I love that this fandom is capable of even producing this kind of crack without anyone raising an eyebrow.

I can't wait to see what you come up with! You've got Five/Nyssa, if I remember correctly?

And sure, go right ahead! New friends are always welcome.

Yep! And their perfect cute perfectness is getting in the way of my good-natured mockery, too.

Whee!

055. Much to the Doctor's shock, his bride is...the Doctor!

This would be cool with SarahJane!Doctor.

I'm just saying. Not volunteering, or anything.

:(

Also, a Quark would be the cutest flower robot evar at a Dalek wedding (006).

considering that this would involve the Brig leaving his wife for Liz I don't know if I could play it for laughs in good conscience.

The Brig's wife left him and moved to Canada five years ago. He never told anyone. Except Benton, who had to come cook for him. Wait, that... still isn't funny. She left him because of his silly moustache? And the Brig breaks down into silly man-tears whenever he's reminded of it? And Benton wears a frilly apron and burns the stew.

P.S. If the jilted Brig was marrying Sarah Jane instead of Liz, Benton would still have to cook for them. Sarah Jane certainly isn't going to do it!

I'm just saying. Not volunteering, or anything.

*nudge*

Mrs. Brig initiating the divorce does solve a few of those problems - at the very least, it prevent the Brig from looking like he's trading up wives.

But! His wife ends up divorcing him canonically anyway (he's remarried by the Seventh Doctor's era), but I don't think it's specified when that happens. So, after the papers go through, a rather frustrated Brig marches himself up to Cambridge, finds Professor Shaw and...well, doesn't propose precisely. More like throws the idea out there after a half-page of sardonic banter or so. Liz laughs him off at first, insists that she's not going to be his rebound wife, and...eventually relents.

Of course, because the Brig's still a soldier, his wedding ceremony still has to have full military honors, so most of UNIT has to be there. This gives the Doctor an opportunity to laugh at Liz about her wedding dress, and for her to greet him with "You mean they haven't fired you yet?"

Also, domestic!Benton must fit in here somewhere. Because we all know that he was very supportive of his boss during that difficult time.

*continues to nudge you about the Dalek wedding and the SarahJane!Doctor wedding*

P.S. for your uncle:

on an unsuspicious day, a day which is not April 1:

Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemon party. All the classics. (I suggest classics because, no offense meant, your uncle sent you a pretty old prank.) Hey, maybe Meatspin would work as well? Spread them out over a few weeks, with plenty of legitimate, fun links in between to lull him into a false sense of security.

I thought about the Pain Series but it's very difficult to imagine what someone could do to deserve that. DO NOT Google that phrase, by the way. (I know you already know Goatse, and I'm assuming you know Tubgirl and Lemon Party as well.) Oh! Due to RECENT DEVELOPMENTS you can send him Two Girls, One Cup! If you can ever find the actual and not a reaction video, that is.

Or, you know, wait until the next time you visit him and pop a balloon beside his head.

I thought about sending him Goatse/tubgirl/lemon party, but that sort of seems like responding to a thrown rock with a nuclear warhead. Plus, he checks his e-mail at work, and my desire for web-related vengeance is checked by my desire not to get him in trouble.

I'm completely clueless as to what meatspin is, though. And Wikipedia is failing me.

I thought about the Pain Series but it's very difficult to imagine what someone could do to deserve that.

The UrbanDictionary entry on the Pain Series - which is rather entertaining - sort of made me guess as such. Though apparently, Encyclopedia Dramatica has all the actual images and everything. No, I didn't look. Or rather, I made the window really small before I clicked the link so I didn't see anything.

P.P.S. (because i enjoy to spam your journal)

"The Doctor must marry Jamie in order to prevent the theft of his spermatazoa" would be a nifty prompt. Tentacles optional.

Well, you know, you CAN write fic without a prompt for this ficathon.

Nudge nudge nudge.

Ugh, I don't think I'd be able to handle that demon link. That's even more evil than repeated Rickrolling.

And you have to do the Prison in Space AU. The power of Gay Marriage in Space compels you.

At least Rickrolling isn't laughing at you. *shivers*

Prison in Space AU it is, then! That was the one I liked the best, really, as it had the best crack!fic potential. Not sure how it'll actually turn out, though...

Ugh.

I think that one makes for perfect crack!fic, and it seems like something that's bound to work no matter what :P

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