protomeme from rodlox

[scarfman]

This isn't a meme...at least not yet, but you can make it one if you want to. (every meme has to start somewhere, right?)

Have any passages from books or movies influenced you so strongly that you feel the influence shows in more than one of your stories?

(The time I tried this, I just presented it as if I'd seen it somewhere else. I did see at least one flister respond to it. No, I'm not telling you which it was.)

Not so much a single passage, but The Once and Future King has given my fanfiction a propensity for happy, amicable threesomes (Riker, Troi and Worf; Archer, T'Pol and Trip; Spock, Uhura and Kirk; but never Buffy, Angel and Spike).

Comments

[bewarethespork.livejournal.com]

I can't think of a single passage, but I know that David Eddings' sense of humour and Mysterious Disembodied Voices have made their way into some of my crackfic. That's the first example that comes to mind.

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

>The time I tried this
I feel strangely relieved that I'm not the first person to think of it.

now I should probably actually read The Once and Future King.

very interesting. and thank you for tackling this meme.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

For my comic writing, I can't point to anything immediately.

For when I write full text, though, one line springs to mind as having a tremendous influence:

"The ships hung in the sky in the exact same way bricks don't."

[omorka.livejournal.com]

And it's specifically amicable M/F/M threesomes, too, which is something of a rarity.

[scarfman]

Which reminds me of the Star Trek threesome I forgot to link to in the post.