Uh Oh

[przed]

So one thing that happened at MediaWest this year was a little conversation I had with m. butterfly, one of my best friends, fannish and otherwise. She'd been trying to pimp everyone we talked to into the Spartacus fandom, and was bemoaning the fact that while I'd managed to suck her into a few of my fandoms (Pros and TT chief among them), she'd never successfully managed to get me into any of hers.

As a joke, I said "Well, I could write you a Take That/Spartacus crossover."

Except apparently my muse didn't realize I was joking and immediately started pointing out how awesome Howard would be as a gladiator, and how great a Roman Jason would be, and wouldn't Markie make a cute little slave boy.

Then yesterday I wrote the first scene.

I now have 650 words of TT/Spartacus slash, and need to find time to watch all of Spartacus, and do extra research on Spartacus' rebellion and the era of Roman life in general so I can write the rest of what will no doubt turn out to be another fucking epic.

And if anyone has any brilliant ideas about how I can turn Howard into a Roman gladiator name, I'd appreciate it. (I don't think Howardus is going to cut it. *g*)

::headdesk::

Comments

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

You could try using Horatius or Hadrianus or something like that and rely on the capital H! Don't forget a lot of gladiators would have come from all over the empire and might have had names that would have sounded foreign to Romans. I will definitely be reading a TT crossover with slave boys...

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I might give him a D name close to Donald (Donatus) and an original Scanadinavian name (Havaror or Havard). I've got so much research I'm going to have to do with this one, it's not funny, but I do enjoy the research.

So glad I'll have at least one reader for this bit of insanity. *g* (Why does my brain like throwing the TT boys into historical settings so much?)