Fics I want to read, but my life is too short to write

[nineveh_uk]

It’s not that I haven’t got the ideas, but meanwhile there is a student attending a lecture on Dementors in Wittenberg who has been trying to get out of the door before he is sick for far too long.

So, without in anyway saying "Write it, write it, write it" to other people, this is what I have decided my life is too short to write and wish someone else would do instead:

(1) I want to know about the Vor maidens who are paraded past Gregor, but fail to do the job. Imagine it: excited and expectant parents, girls being shown as a favour to their fathers, would-be fiancés wondering what is going to happen, and of course the women themselves. We see it from the POV of Alys and Gregor, but not from the meat in the meat-market.

(2) I am incapable of reading the words “Lord Vorhovis” without thinking of his counterpart, “Lord Vorburton”. Fields of wheat (Wheat! Wheat! Fields of wheat!) on the Southern Continent.

Comments

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

You can't put a better bit of butter on your knife?

[caulkhead.livejournal.com]

That sounds suspiciously like something Peter Wimsey came up with for Greenfields margarine (Google tells me it's Country Life - must have missed that one)

'Wi'nowt taken out.' Possibly translated into cod Latin.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

That's Allinsons!

Now I'm looking at Hovis slogans through history (http://www.hovisbakery.co.uk/pdf/Hovis_History.pdf), trying to find one that could become a motto. "Promotes Digestion" would certainly be mystifying, and "Ensures a Healthy Race" has rather unfortunate connotations. I quite like the idea of the armsmen being traditionally known as the Sandwich Men ("Are You A Hovis Sandwich Man?"). How about "The Best of Both Worlds"?

I've also found out that Ridley Scott directed some of the Hovis TV adverts. Hovis Family/Bladerunner crossover, anyone? (Hovis Family/Gladiator would be too easy, what with his family disappearing into a field of wheat)