5th Annual Numb3rs Slash Ficathon: Idea Toss

[spikedluv]

Yep, as the subject line implies, this is the place to toss around ideas for your reversal. Whether you’ve already signed up and are boggling over the sheer number of possibilities, or if you’re still sitting on the fence, come on in and throw your ideas into the hat. Offer up suggestions for other people, or tell us about the reversal you’re thinking about writing.

(You might think that I already knew who I was going to reverse when I decided to use this theme for the ficathon this year. You’d be wrong. *g* I found myself coming up with ideas and getting really excited about this theme when I was going back and forth with Andi, so I decided to create this post to give everyone someone to toss ideas around with.)

I listed some suggestions in the Sign-up Post, which I’ll repeat here to get the ball rolling:

~Charlie is the FBI agent and Don’s the math genius
~Charlie’s the student and Amita his thesis advisor
~Megan is the elder Eppes and team leader, while Don’s the profiler
~David’s the spy and Colby feels betrayed
~Colby’s the grad student and Amita the FBI Agent (Charlie struggles with his attraction to his grad student Colby Granger)
~Edgerton’s the profiler and Megan the sniper (write sniper!Megan/Amita, or profiler!Edgerton/Larry) [reversal idea snagged from admiralandrea]

The possibilities are endless! (And I know, that’s part of the problem. *g*)

Some of you may not want to share the ideas you’re writing, and that’s fine. But if you do want to toss the idea around to figure out where you’re going with it, that’s great, too.

So, if you want help narrowing your ideas down, or you want to flesh out your reversal, or you want to throw out some reversal ideas that you’re not going to use for others to ponder, this is the place to do that.

Comments

[swingandswirl]

Aww, darn, I had planned on writing that one. *pouts*

But Charlie on the Janus List sounds fab, but poor Don... *pets him while encouraging bunny*

[umbralillium.livejournal.com]

Sorry! *pets*

And think of the added angst from him losing his FBI credentials after sending Professor Sanjrani's work to Pakistan. Will he have a harder or easier time getting his credentials back? Food for thought. ^__~

[spikedluv]

You could both write it, and we could see how two authors handle the same premise. *g*

[swingandswirl]

That's possible? Yay! *claps*

Just how much of a role reversal does there need to be, though? Can I still have Colby in the Army and pursuing a slightly different but still related field? 'Cause I don't think I want to make him a white male version of Amita... *plays with bunny some more*

Edit: Also, is there a beta sign-up list somewhere? We've got some new folk participating so it might be nice for there to be a resource like that so they don't get lost in the usual beta/author shuffle...

[spikedluv]

Sure! If it hadn't been mentioned here, you both may have written it anyway, we just wouldn't have known until the fic were posted.

The main reversal (Colby = grad student and Amita = FBI agent) is the important thing. The backstory you give them could be the same (as you say, Colby being in the Army), or completely different. If, for example, Amita was switched with Don, and she was Charlie's older sister, I wouldn't expect her to have played baseball and hockey, though she could have (it might have to be softball and field hockey, though *g*), if you wanted to write that for her.

I could do a beta post here, if you think that it would be helpful.

[swingandswirl]

*gets to plotting*

And yes, a beta post would be awesome, just to make sure no-one's left in the lurch. *is willing to volunteer her own services*

[spikedluv]

Okay. I'll probably wait until sign-ups close to post the beta post. *g*

[mercilynn]

If I don't sign up for it, remind me to list my services as a beta!

[spikedluv]

Oh, lordy, you expect ME to remember?!!! O_O I might need help remembering to MAKE the post, lol!