zombie killing machine

[terabient]

so uh

i don't know how to say this, but: in my spare time, i am committing genocide.



only 12,195 zombies to go!

and yes, this deserved its own entry. ZOMBIE EXTERMINATION: SERIOUS BUSINESS.

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and because i'm in an awfully fannish mood tonight, a meme:

Leave me a pairing [or two] and I'll tell you...

1. Two things that are awesome about it
2. Two things that are not so awesome about it
3. Two ways I'd love to write it

Comments

[theplaidsheep.livejournal.com]

OMG what is the game you speak of? Must introduce to Zombie mad husband immediately!!

Also Siegfried/Ivy and Siegfried/Raphael, also do you reckon you could talk me into Raphael/Ivy or OMG! all three together? (see, I'm not just a one note wonder!;op)

[terabient]

i mentioned it in another comment, but this is from Left 4 Dead, a FPS cooperative multiplayer game. i don't know what game system(s) you have but it's on Xbox 360 and PC.

you can see the very horror movie-esque introduction here and the super-gory introduction to the sequel here. both are full of absurd zombie mayhem.

...i looked around to see if the demo was still available but it isn't. but, you can download the demo for the sequel game from here if you want to see what it's like.

meme~

[terabient]

Siegfried/Ivy -

1. Older woman/younger man relationships = HOT. especially when said woman is topping. ♥ on a less shallow note, the way their stories intertwine is unique, difficult to reduce to simple, cliche roles and has lots of dramatic potential.

2. um. after SCI there's been very little in the way of canonical encounters which makes me sad. :(

and this is more a complaint against certain posts i've read regarding Sieg/Ivy than the pairing itself, but apparently there are a lot of people who don't like the idea because Ivy's choice of clothing is just tooooo provocative and Siegfried couldn't find that attractive, he's good now! (seriously this is the way in which their 'logic' operates.) :(

3. after SC: Legends i am very fond of the idea of Ivy teaching an eager-but-terribly-inexperienced Siegfried about...intimate relationships. XD

also, how Siegfried/Nightmare managed to convince Ivy to join him in SCI interests me. canon says it's because she wanted to pay him back for animating Ivy Blade but realistically (lol, realism in SC!) there must have been more to it than that. no matter how indebted Ivy might have felt i sorta doubt she'd just say 'sure ok' to killing loads of people.

Siegfried/Raphael -

1. squealing fangirl alert: they're hot. like, outrageously hot. like, 'i'd switch teams to hit that' hot. (both of them~) which, when it comes to slash, is like 99% of the reason to ship anyone?

but seriously, i'm a sucker for rival 'ships - i love reading about pairings that are intimate but aren't romantic at all, i love hate!sex, i love pairings in which canonical interactions have serious undercurrents of dominance/submission.

...i remember reading something about rival pairings in fandom, how there's often a certain dynamic, where one character is obsessed with obtaining something the other character has, and how it's not that hard to see the pursuer's obsession transferring to, or encompassing, the pursued character as well. that idea has always intrigued me and i think it's very possible to read Raphael/Siegfried in that manner.

phew!

2. THERE IS NOTHING NOT AWESOME!...j/k. there isn't a whole lot of Raph/Sieg fic out there, but there are a few that have really silly characterization, where they're written as, er, rather cute and fluffy. the mind boggles. BOGGLES.

there is also a disappointing amount of um, teasing fic. like, there are some mediocre fics that i read that where the author clearly intends to write a whole lot of sex and really that is the only reason to keep reading because the characterization is spotty and the plot doesn't exist, really, but then it ends just as things start to heat up. then i get all upset because i am one of those people who will suffer poor characterization and plotting if there is a promise of hot sex at the end. not delivering on the second part means said fics are all stick and no carrot. :(

3. i'd love to try some AU fic - not TOO AU, not like, 'SC characters in the modern era' but AUs where Siegfried doesn't just abandon Raphael for dead after their fight in SCII, or even something set earlier, like Nightmare laying waste to Rouen before Raphael becomes a fugitive. i'm not even sure i'd write it with the intent to slash them, just - i'd like to see how they'd react to each other at different times in their lives, under different circumstances.

...and i will probably inflict some outrageously PWP smutfic upon the internets at some point. i mean, to some extent i already have, but you know, there could always be more. for me. :p

anyway! this is getting really long, but i AM writing Raphael/Ivy for springkink AND my brain just melted from the sheer aesthetic hotness of Raph/Ivy/Sieg, so i will get around to helpless squeeing over the two at some point. XD