Flippant Friday: Because That Would Be Wrong

[sabotabby]

I have a lot of fandom-type people on my friends list. Not as many as political-type people, though, and there's a significant overlap between the two groups. So here's a meme that's been going around on the fandom end of things, and I'm doing you all a disservice by bringing it into the political realm.

Translation: It's the Pairing List Meme, which essentially works if you have a lot of fandom-based icons and write or read strange fanfic pairings, like Sirius Black/George Bush. Given the subject matter of most of my icons, it works surprisingly well. So:

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc.*



Anne Bonny (a pirate lass) / Boilerplate (Victorian-era robot)

Buenaventura Durutti (Spanish anarchist) / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (rebel girl)

Emiliano Zapata / Emo Dalek (Doctor Who)

George W. Bush / Guy Fawkes
This is funny for one reason, and one reason alone: Guy Fawkes Day Party, 2004. If you don't get the reference, you don't get it.

Handala (Palestinian cartoon character) / Hello Kitty
It’s a testament to how demented I am that I can actually see this working. They’re both cute little cartoon characters that are emblematic of their respective cultures. And did I mention cute? Okay, this is my new OTP.

Hugo Chavez / Jesus of Nazareth
Ahahahaheheheh eh.

Joe Hill (Wobbly bard) / Kareem Said (Oz)
There are many reasons why it is Bad and Wrong to write about Joe Hill in Oz, and why it’s only slightly less Bad and Wrong to write about Said as an IWW organizer in Salt Lake City. But the real reason why this plotbunny needs to be taken out back and drowned is that there’s a grand total of one person who’d be interested in reading something like that. Me.

Leila Khaled / Leon Trotsky
She’d probably like that, too.

Nikita Khrushchev / Marinetti the Cat
This seems a little less wrong given that there was a movie (After the Revolution) that is basically one long LeninCat fanfic. It answered the eternal question: Why aren’t there more stories written about the LeninCat, anyway?

Mary Read (another pirate lass) / Michel Bakunin (Russian anarchist)

Mr. Lies (Angels in America) / Pancho Villa

Phil Ochs / Reg (Monty Python’s The Life of Brian)

Sergei Nechaev (Russian anarchist) / Simon Adebisi (Oz)
Yeah that would end well.

Subcommandante Marcos / Tom Waits

Uncle Sam / Vladimir Lenin
And there you have it, people. The inside of my psyche.

E-cookies to anyone who so much as writes a paragraph of any of these.

*Process note: Alphabetized by first name where applicable. Certain characters, like the guy from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea, omitted because they don't have names. Marinetti the Cat is in there but I'm not, because it paired me with Sergei Nechaev and I so don't want to go there. Also, I needed an even number.

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[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

Buenaventura Durutti (Spanish anarchist) / Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (rebel girl)

That one would be sexy, but by the time of the Spanish Civil War, Gurley Flynn had turned her back on her Wobbly past and become a Stalinist hack. She probably would have blindfolded Durruti and shot him in the back of the head.

[sabotabby]

There. You already have conflict.

Except that Durruti was a paranoid, violent mofo and wouldn't have let Liz get that close. I think. She really turned into a Stalinist? How dreadful.

В Россию, С Любловью

[xturtle.livejournal.com]

Star-crossed. He moved through the mausoleum as slowly as the hearding guards would allow. Star-crossed. The thought buzzed around his head like an insect drawn to death. And indeed, he was dead inside. The cold war between their families had finally come to and end, years after the crushing news of his lover's death. Sam stared into the glass tomb, stepping on a few shuffling feet in the crowd that surrounded him, unable to look away from the eerily well-preserved body. And yet, he had been dead for decades. No kiss would wake him; there was no poison to wear off, now that the absurd war of accumulation had been renounced.

In a fit of despair, he "misplaced" important intelligence, and was thrown in front of four airplanes.

[It's possible I'm going to hell for this. I'm pretty sure I broke my brain. Also, title = "To Russia, With Love," though it's been years since I spoke Russian with any regularity, so it may not be perfect.]

Re: В Россию, С Любловью

[sabotabby]

Oh dear Lord. You deserve more than e-cookies for that. Maybe an e-pie or something.

Re: В Россию, С Любловью

[xturtle.livejournal.com]

I keep ficcing for friends, even though I don't/shouldn't write fiction. It's the power of teh internets, I swear.

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

Joe Hill (Wobbly bard) / Kareem Said (Oz)
There are many reasons why it is Bad and Wrong to write about Joe Hill in Oz, and why it’s only slightly less Bad and Wrong to write about Said as an IWW organizer in Salt Lake City. But the real reason why this plotbunny needs to be taken out back and drowned is that there’s a grand total of one person who’d be interested in reading something like that. Me.

Hell, I'd read that.

[sabotabby]

It would be songfic, too. I'd call it either "The Imam and the Slave" or "Let's Get Organized."

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Well, there are only three icons - Trevor Howard (as Sir Henry Rawlinson), Richard Feynman and BBC cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld - on mine, being the cheapskate that I am. That could make for very interesting three-way slash, though "slosh" would be nearer the mark.
I would like to see the Durruti/Lenin slash though! Big Buenaventura would so pwn Vlad. Leila Khaled/Leon Trotsky, on the other hand, is a pairing worthy of Portnoy.

[sabotabby]

That could make for very interesting three-way slash, though "slosh" would be nearer the mark.

I just see tea. Lots of tea. I'm sticking to that.

Also, you just broke my brain envisioning who would top vis a vis Durutti and Lenin. That could be debated in political circles for decades. "This is for Kronstadt, asshole!"

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Where is your Don Cherry icon?

[sabotabby]

I'm anti-Don Cherry. They actually wanted to deport me over it.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I always found it hard to believe that the CBC employed Don Cherry. Watching Hockey Night in Canada was like listening to crazy Christian preachers on the radio (as in Hubert W. and Garner T. Armstrong, if you ever heard them).

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

If the CBC didn't have Don Cherry doing hockey, there probably would be much less support for CBC funding. It's pretty good the way it's setup anyway: the people that watch Hockey Night in Canada are a much different constituency than the people who watch the rest of the channel. (I mean, there's overlap, probably the least of any other CBC program.) The CBC somewhat achieves its goal of catering to all Canadians, while making sure they don't actually have to deal with one another.

[sabotabby]

Besides, it's 2005. The top CanCon slash pairing is Ben Mulroney/Justin Trudeau.

::shudders and goes off to bleach brain::

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Hugo Chavez / Jesus of Nazareth

Pffffffttt! Perfect.

[sabotabby]

It scares me how perfect.