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Sunday Memeage
Oh, because I don't already spend enough time on lj talking about how clever I think I am:
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lindenharp:
Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
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Yeah, so, er this came out of another meme I did where you asked people to suggest crossovers, and then you wrote them a drabble or something on the subject. The ones that were Who-related, I ended up posting on the Teaspoon as a little collection. And, well, I did one about Romana I meeting Arnie Rimmer from Red Dwarf, at I think lostspook's suggestion, and someone who responded said, well, why not one with Ace Rimmer in it. And, well, here it is.
It's sort of modelled on that scene from the start of the (Series 7?) Red Dwarf story "Stoke Me A Clipper". Now, the Dwarf had maybe started to lose its lustre a bit by that point, but that whole sequence is genius. Ace Rimmer vs. a load of Nazis (led by Ken Morley who used to be in Coronation Street!); he jumps out of a plane without a parachute, surfs to ground level on the back of a crocodile (!), then gets on a motorbike, rescues a princess from a firing squad, some Nazis get hit on the head by the aforementioned reptile...it is, in the quite literal sense of the word, awesome. So, Ace is reenacting this scene (off camera) vs. a load of Sontarans, just before the bit lostspook selected above (which is the bit I really ought to be talking about, I guess...)
It's worth mentioning that whenever I feature Nine in fic (the couple of times I have), it always seems to be Nine accompanied by Rose and Jack, as in the end part of NuWho Season 1 - I just like that grouping. I think they were a great team.
Naturally, we have Jack smarming over the new arrival, because it's Jack, but Ace's response, especially that remark about what side his bread's buttered is a bit of a reference to the first Red Dwarf story he appeared in, "Dimension Jump", where he has an exchange that features the other guy saying something like "my bread's happily married with two kids, but someone like you can really turn a guy's head!" Ace has that effect on people...including Jack here, a man who, I suspect, doesn't blush at much. And the way he calls Jack "big guy"; it seems that everyone Ace had dealings with falls naturally into the role of adoring sidekicks, and he gives them suitably sidekicky nicknames - in "Dimension Jump", he took to calling Dave Lister "Skipper" for some reason. "Smoke me a kipper, skipper..." Normal-Rimmer's reaction to that was priceless.
And Rose is practically speechless. It's another thing I get from "Dimension Jump", where everyone who meets Ace just falls into helpless hero-worship as a matter of course, and being a true hero as he is, he's always terribly modest about it as he is here. And really, if you've seen the aforementioned thing with the Nazis, in Ace Rimmer vs. 100,000 Sontarans, the Sontarans are probably the underdogs.
And the famous "smoke me a kipper" catchphrase; it's Ace Rimmer, folks; it's what he does!
Oh yeah, and Nine is, predictably, not impressed at all with Ace. This is sort of based on the normal Rimmer's reaction to him in Red Dwarf, the only person who didn't fall over themselves admiring Ace (but then he had personal reasons to be bitter). Maybe Nine's a bit jealous, the way Rose reacts to Ace, maybe he has a point; Ace is a fairly ludicrous figure, and his brand of macho heroics aren't really the Doctorly way.
And absolutely, positively, the only line on which it is possible to end a scene featuring Ace Rimmer is an adoring chorus of "What a guy!"; it's the rules!
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Still, at least, unlike other people, I'm not actually evil yet. Erm... aside from use of this icon, which aside from Spooks-realted reasons, I got to use in the hope that it would provide the same sort of effect as you using your Delgado icon on me. (Which comes out very weird and wrong now I think of it... I mean, the Master looking all innocent... I believe him every single time. The Doctor would not approve.)
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But yeah, well, as you can see, my thought processes behind that whole fic didn't really go much deeper than "Ace Rimmer - what a guy!", but, well, it's true, isn't it, so that's all right then! ;D
How could you pick something evil, when you claim not read that sort of thing? Hmm? Eh? ;D
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And I don't read that kind of stuff, but I read your fic because you claim you never write that kind of stuff... and then every now and then you do. What's a reader to do? 8-o
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What can I say? I'm a man of few principles! XD
And it is a cool icon.