Cass, if we want to start earlier on Monday, you might want to kick it off since I'm not free until late in the eve. Le sigh...
Gail, glad to have you join us in this fine literary endeavor. Soon I will also be wailing about the original travesty we are spoofing.
Lovely. Joy. Can't WAIT to read FSoG. Indeed. Quite.
I will be delighted to kick it off. I can tell you now that I plan to do a total spoof of FSOG's opening -- except with oddball fantasy/horror characters and random LOTR touches. That's fitting, given the title of our spoof.
I see a virginal but feisty zombie, Thanatophilia Morte (Thana for short) with pale green skin that tends to shed whenever she is touched. (Heroine of FSOG is Anastasia Steele, Ana for short, btw.)
I see a wealthy, kinky, micro-managing, accordion-playing, legal-document-obsessed dwarf with a tousled copper-colored beard he can't
bear anyone to touch. (Name to be determined, but I'm seeing a Latin legal term here, preferably one that could be given both a raunchy and a horror twist -- possibly Corpus Delicti Bane. Or just Corpus Bane, which has a similar ring to "Christian Grey," the hero of FSOG, but with a legal touch, a corpse-y horror touch, and a vaguely dwarflike sound. The Delicti might be too much, though the sound is a tad pornographic, isn't it? Since Corpus means body, and Bane means a cause of ruin or harm, that works rather nicely with our theme. Oh, and he might be electrically charged. Or perhaps that will be someone else. We'll see.)
I see legal teams, contracts, and non-disclosure agreements at every torrid plot twist. And a kinky dwarf equivalent to the Red Room of Pain -- name to be determined, but probably on the order of Golden Cavern of Bane unless something better crops up.
And Winks, if it happens you had a different idea about how to kick it off, the glorious thing is that you can use your idea anyway -- we can do a POV switch (any number of them, actually) and figure out how to tie the plot threads together later.
Gail, I'm thrilled you're joining us. Looks like we'll have at least four cabbies in on this endeavor -- and I'm guessing at least six, since I can't believe Angie and Jaycinth won't want to sink their teeth into it.
And Winks? You will let me know periodically how you're enjoying FSOG, won't you?