meme: the prompt

[timepiececlock]

You give me the title to a story I didn't write (or that no one wrote, it doesn't have to be a real title to anything), and I'll give you a synopsis of what the story would be, were it written by me.

((stolen from minim_calibre))

Comments

[mswyrr]

No! Wait. Invisible Cities. Ignore the others. That's the one I want to know about. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

It would be a Doctor Who fic, and the title would be quite literal. There's a world everyone thinks has been abandoned but in fact the cities are merely invisible due to some weird affect of the atmospheric properties mixing with pollutants made by the waste of the populations (like CO2 that makes things invisible) . For thousands of years they were ignored by the universe but now they're all dying of a disease, and The Ninth Doctor has to find the person/plant/animal that brought the disease to their world. Like...the monkey in outbreak! But it's hard because there's lots of invisible stuff and people are always tripping on things. At some point the Doctor wears really silly goggles while explaining to some local how stupid his entire society is for allowing this to happen.

[mswyrr]

Love it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The goggles would let him see through the invisibleness, of course.

[mswyrr]

The goggles would let him see through the invisibleness, of course.

And look silly while being all funny and peevish. :D

Meanwhile there would be a symbolism underlying the title, where the cities would be be the giant metropolises of LUV between the Doctor and Rose, but they'd be invisible because they never talk about it. So just like invisible stuff leads to people tripping physically, emotionally the Doctor and Rose are tripping over themselves while avoiding the city-sized elephant in the room.

Better and better! Gah, if only describing it like this could make the story spring, fully-formed into existence.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

If you want it it's yours. I present the bunny to you. ::holds out soft fuzzy fluffy animal::

[mswyrr]

::startles::

::squeaks::

::flees in terorr::

::still traumatized by Of Mice and Men incident::

(very kind of you to offer, though. :))

...and just cause I'm a romantic sap

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile there would be a symbolism underlying the title, where the cities would be be the giant metropolises of LUV between the Doctor and Rose, but they'd be invisible because they never talk about it. So just like invisible stuff leads to people tripping physically, emotionally the Doctor and Rose are tripping over themselves while avoiding the city-sized elephant in the room.

[mswyrr]

The Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is an awesome book. There's much discussion/exploration of what cities/peoples evolve and de-evolve into over time, which leads to my favorite bit of the whole book. It's an interesting response to the "hell is other people" idea.


"He said: It is all useless, if the last landing place can only be the infernal city, and it is there that, in ever-narrowing circles, the current is drawing us."

And Polo replied: "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno we live every day, that we form by living together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, and then make them endure, give them space."

[drewsilla.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'll play!

What To Wear While Eating Ramen,

Calling All Pixies,

and

That's Not a Coke In My Pocket!