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inmyriadbitsHave I mentioned I love zombies? I do. I particularly love zombie alterations to stories I already know and love. I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies right now and having a very good time! I'm thinking about requesting P&P&Z for Yuletide, only with the characters from Sense and Sensibility instead, because I think Marianne Dashwood dealing with zombies would be hilarious. (Also on the Yuletide list: Fringe fic set in the noir!AU episode universe :D)
Along the same lines, this Leverage fanwork website is so much fun. It's meant to be co-read with an![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
apocalyptothon fic, Survival By Eliot; the website is basically the website Hardison would design for the Leverage gang's zombie-fighting endeavors in the case of a zombie apocalypse, and the fic is a narrative counterpart. Hardison's footnotes are HILARIOUS, and make sure to read the alt text for the links, too. SO GOOD. Creative fanwork, con artists, AND zombies, hooray!
When I start reading things like this, I inevitably start thinking of other fandoms + zombies, usually starting with the most recent.
Which means I'm imagining: Hikaru no Go – WITH ZOMBIES! Come on, Akira Touya would be the most badass, formal little teenage zombie slayer with a katana ever; Hikaru would flail around and people would laugh until they realized he was surprisingly effective; Sai would be not just a former Go player, but also a zombie slayer! His rival set him up to be infected, but he killed himself before he could turn undead, and now his ghost lingers, wanting to play Go and slay the living dead. (I am cracking myself up REALLY HARD over here, you guys.)
And then there's The Mentalist – WITH ZOMBIES! Finally, someone Patrick Jane can't manipulate! And you know you want to see Cho killing some zombies while making dry witticisms. How could you not? I think Van Pelt would be pretty awesome beheading the undead with a sword. I don't know why, I just get that impression from her. Lisbon is more the heavy artillery type. And Rigsby would look most excellent all battle-mussed and sweaty (see proof in Owain Yeoman's stint on Generation Kill).
And speaking of: Generation Kill – WITH ZOMBIES! I WOULD LOVE THIS SO HARD. Surely I can't be the first to think of it, can I? Surely someone has already written Brad rolling into battle with a sword against the undead. Surely someone has written Nate being the conscientious leader of a ragtag band of sailor-mouthed zombie slayers. Surely someone has written Ray monologuing on zombie pussy (ew), SURELY. Surely, somewhere on the internet, Poke is discussing the racial implications of the zombie apocalypse while protecting his tiny adorable daughters from zombie attacks.
And yet, I am bereft. This is terribly sad. :(
Criminal Minds – WITH ZOMBIES! Who wants to see Reid analyzing zombies speed, trajectories, and epidemiology? *raises hand* And Garcia would organize the internet, you know she would. OMG HOTCH. FIGHTING ZOMBIES. SOLD!
Life – WITH ZOMBIES! Charlie Crews making zen observations about the undead while Dani rolls her eyes and kills them. Yes, please.
Castle – WITH ZOMBIES! Ahahahaha. Castle fighting zombies. Oh, man. He's lucky Alexis and Beckett are around. Still, if anyone has made a plan to survive the zombie apocalypse, it's their family. Ooh, zombie apocalypse in New York. That's always fun...
Lord Peter – WITH ZOMBIES! Oooh. That's intriguing. It can't be worse than fighting on the Western Front during WWI, is all I'm saying. And Harriet Vane would be a sweet zombie resistance fighter, am I right?
Burn Notice – WITH ZOMBIES! Hasn't that been done? I can't find the link, but I could swear it has. So have Sherlock Holmes and Jeeves & Wooster, although more would be even better. I'm not even going to bother mentioning The Middleman, because I'm not sure you can beat fish zombies shouting "TROUT!"
ETA: So apparently I can't stop coming up with ideas now.
Band of Brothers – WITH ZOMBIES! Okay, this one actually legitimately creeps me out, because how could fighting in WWII get worse? If the battlefield dead started coming back to life, that's how. Especially in this fandom, because that means main characters would be returning from the dead and trying to kill their former best friends. *shudders* FOXHOLES, OH GOD. Doc Roe in "Bastogne" would be even more screwed over. Trying to defeat the Nazis AND slay the undead at the same time, that's intense.
Luckily, they have Spiers on their side, and Dick Winters is in charge. They've got this covered.
And now for a radical tonal shift! 30 Rock – WITH ZOMBIES! HAHAHAHAHA CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HYSTERICAL THIS WOULD BE? Liz would come thisclose to being the first victim, but clearly Jack has A Master Survival Plan, because he just knew those experiments at Pink Lawn Flamingos, Inc (eternal rivals of the Sheinhardt Wig Company) in the Viral Experimentation and Food Preservation division labs would come to no good end. Kenneth, of course, is secretly the best at killing zombies, but he usually refrains. It's just not Christian. ;)
Come tell me your own thoughts re: the above or your own favorite "X Fandom – WITH ZOMBIES!" scenarios in the comments. I would most sincerely like to hear them!
In conclusion: ZOMBIES.
Along the same lines, this Leverage fanwork website is so much fun. It's meant to be co-read with an
apocalyptothon fic, Survival By Eliot; the website is basically the website Hardison would design for the Leverage gang's zombie-fighting endeavors in the case of a zombie apocalypse, and the fic is a narrative counterpart. Hardison's footnotes are HILARIOUS, and make sure to read the alt text for the links, too. SO GOOD. Creative fanwork, con artists, AND zombies, hooray!When I start reading things like this, I inevitably start thinking of other fandoms + zombies, usually starting with the most recent.
Which means I'm imagining: Hikaru no Go – WITH ZOMBIES! Come on, Akira Touya would be the most badass, formal little teenage zombie slayer with a katana ever; Hikaru would flail around and people would laugh until they realized he was surprisingly effective; Sai would be not just a former Go player, but also a zombie slayer! His rival set him up to be infected, but he killed himself before he could turn undead, and now his ghost lingers, wanting to play Go and slay the living dead. (I am cracking myself up REALLY HARD over here, you guys.)
And then there's The Mentalist – WITH ZOMBIES! Finally, someone Patrick Jane can't manipulate! And you know you want to see Cho killing some zombies while making dry witticisms. How could you not? I think Van Pelt would be pretty awesome beheading the undead with a sword. I don't know why, I just get that impression from her. Lisbon is more the heavy artillery type. And Rigsby would look most excellent all battle-mussed and sweaty (see proof in Owain Yeoman's stint on Generation Kill).
And speaking of: Generation Kill – WITH ZOMBIES! I WOULD LOVE THIS SO HARD. Surely I can't be the first to think of it, can I? Surely someone has already written Brad rolling into battle with a sword against the undead. Surely someone has written Nate being the conscientious leader of a ragtag band of sailor-mouthed zombie slayers. Surely someone has written Ray monologuing on zombie pussy (ew), SURELY. Surely, somewhere on the internet, Poke is discussing the racial implications of the zombie apocalypse while protecting his tiny adorable daughters from zombie attacks.
And yet, I am bereft. This is terribly sad. :(
Criminal Minds – WITH ZOMBIES! Who wants to see Reid analyzing zombies speed, trajectories, and epidemiology? *raises hand* And Garcia would organize the internet, you know she would. OMG HOTCH. FIGHTING ZOMBIES. SOLD!
Life – WITH ZOMBIES! Charlie Crews making zen observations about the undead while Dani rolls her eyes and kills them. Yes, please.
Castle – WITH ZOMBIES! Ahahahaha. Castle fighting zombies. Oh, man. He's lucky Alexis and Beckett are around. Still, if anyone has made a plan to survive the zombie apocalypse, it's their family. Ooh, zombie apocalypse in New York. That's always fun...
Lord Peter – WITH ZOMBIES! Oooh. That's intriguing. It can't be worse than fighting on the Western Front during WWI, is all I'm saying. And Harriet Vane would be a sweet zombie resistance fighter, am I right?
Burn Notice – WITH ZOMBIES! Hasn't that been done? I can't find the link, but I could swear it has. So have Sherlock Holmes and Jeeves & Wooster, although more would be even better. I'm not even going to bother mentioning The Middleman, because I'm not sure you can beat fish zombies shouting "TROUT!"
ETA: So apparently I can't stop coming up with ideas now.
Band of Brothers – WITH ZOMBIES! Okay, this one actually legitimately creeps me out, because how could fighting in WWII get worse? If the battlefield dead started coming back to life, that's how. Especially in this fandom, because that means main characters would be returning from the dead and trying to kill their former best friends. *shudders* FOXHOLES, OH GOD. Doc Roe in "Bastogne" would be even more screwed over. Trying to defeat the Nazis AND slay the undead at the same time, that's intense.
Luckily, they have Spiers on their side, and Dick Winters is in charge. They've got this covered.
And now for a radical tonal shift! 30 Rock – WITH ZOMBIES! HAHAHAHAHA CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HYSTERICAL THIS WOULD BE? Liz would come thisclose to being the first victim, but clearly Jack has A Master Survival Plan, because he just knew those experiments at Pink Lawn Flamingos, Inc (eternal rivals of the Sheinhardt Wig Company) in the Viral Experimentation and Food Preservation division labs would come to no good end. Kenneth, of course, is secretly the best at killing zombies, but he usually refrains. It's just not Christian. ;)
Come tell me your own thoughts re: the above or your own favorite "X Fandom – WITH ZOMBIES!" scenarios in the comments. I would most sincerely like to hear them!
In conclusion: ZOMBIES.