there will be a fish

Dear Brain,

What the fuck. I gave you a really awesome massage and an early bedtime to catch up on missed sleep, and you gave me back 10 hours of stress-dreams and seriously epic heart-pounding zombie apocalypse nightmares. Not cool.

No love,
Me

Have 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 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.

( cut for lengthy speculation on Hikaru no Go, The Mentalist, Generation Kill, Criminal Minds, Life, Castle, Lord Peter, Burn Notice, Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves & Wooster, and The Middleman -- all WITH ZOMBIES! )

( ETA: Band of Brothers and 30 Rock )

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.

1. Zombie fic! I'm one of those folks firmly in the "everything is better with zombies" camp, so imagine my delight at running across these three ficlets. Especially because one involves Jeeves & Wooster, of all people, and another involves Holmes & Watson. My only regret is that they are not longer, but YAY ZOMBIES!

2. So apparently Lord Peter Wimsey kinda started life as an OC in unpublished fanfic. I find this hilarious. :D

3. Discovered: an online glossary of WWI slang. It's an Australian publication, so it skews toward that country's vocabulary, but there are lots of general/American/British terms as well. I've been amusing myself looking up bits of slang that Bertie Wooster uses, and comparing the meanings for words like "bung" and "old bean" and "biff." Also: WWI is apparently where "cooties" originally came from (see this page). Who knew?

4. I've been running into a lot of characters recently along the lines of this trope and this one, in such bizarrely different sources as the Temeraire series, Georgette Heyer's Devil's Cub, Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion – even James Bond, and a little bit of Jeeves, weirdly enough. It's been making me think about how pretty much all of my favorite fictional characters run along these lines: burdened with an superfluity of principles and a shortage of self-interest. (They tend get really battered along the way.) The rest tend to be rogues, thieves, con artists, and the morally-ambiguous-but-good-hearted types. I wonder what this says about me.

5. Did you know that Mark Twain forbid his autobiography from being published until 100 years after his death? I sure didn't. But apparently this is the year, and it finally will be published. Isn't that cool? Talk about outrunning death...