Hmm.

[eruthros]

Over the loudspeaker, regarding my flight, which has been delayed for ages: "If you're waiting for flight whatever, we are under an aircraft maintenance delay."

graycastle, over IM: "They are under it? How are they under it?"

So, what do you think? How exactly are they under it?

(Bored at airport, can you tell?)

Comments

[lysimache.livejournal.com]

Well, I would say that it's a phrase like "under a tornado warning" or "under a flash flood alert," meaning that the stated condition is under effect.

Is there something odd about it?

[isagel.livejournal.com]

Well, in my dirty mind, this is of course code for the pilot being under one or several of the mechanics responsible for maintenance. They're feeling the need to do a thorough job. Also, it goes without saying that in my mind, the pilot bears a strong resemblance to John Sheppard.

Sorry about the delay and the boredom.

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

I second this explanation! Whenever bored, just imagine that the nearest pilot/ice cream vendor/waiter/kangaroo trainer/hotel manager is John, and the nearest mechanic/ice cream aficionado/short-order cook/zoo administrator/hotel interior designer is Rodney, and then picture them having sex. Boredom gone!

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

It is SO TRUE. This also goes for dispelling any negative emotion whatsoever, from rage to general malaise.

[isagel.livejournal.com]

You realize of course that you are now morally obligated to write the kangaroo trainer AU? I'm sure it will fit somewhere on your kink bingo card. *g*

(Also, I think I failed to leave feedback, but the fucking machine story = GUH! Not because of the fucking machine, but because you hit about a zillion other kinks of mine. And you pulled off a fucking machine story with style, which I applaud. *squints at own fisting story open in other window and hopes it will learn something*)

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

I WAS AFRAID that someone would pick up on that kangaroo trainer au! Sadly, I do not have "animal play" on my kink bingo card. Or else I would totally write . . . kangaroo fetish porn. Facepalm. Actually, I also kind of want to read the one where John's a hotel manager and Rodney's the finicky but brilliant interior designer who's overhauling the place.

I'm psyched that you liked the fucking machine story! Yeah, I mixed it in with a bunch of other kinks that I like, in a sort of spoonful-of-sugar philosophy of kink writing. :D

And I am sure that any fisting story that you write will be brilliantly hot and stylish, so am v. excited about it.

[isagel.livejournal.com]

This is making me remember the Smallville Alien!Clark story in which Clark turns out to be a marsupial. I'm not entirely sure I wanted to be reminded of that. (Although, I may have to make my centre square a xenophilia story, since that kink is so sadly missing from the list.)

I find that any story idea I conceive for the bingo actually has at least two kinks in it. It's almost impossible to keep them separate.

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for reminding me of that story so that I could share in the pain.

I love that you phrased it "xenophilia is so sadly missing." Dude. Awesome. Actually, we talked about that one, but didn't want to include it in the list because of the possibility of extremely racist interpretations. But yeah, you should definitely make good use of that centre square. :)

I find the same problem - well, I mean, you saw the fucking machines story. It's very hard to keep kinks separate. OH WELL.

[isagel.livejournal.com]

I just couldn't bear the pain of Clark's marsupiality (marsupialism?) alone. It's too much for one fangirl to carry.

I know what you mean about xenophilia and racist interpretations. There are things that people could have done with that one that I'm very glad I'll never have to see. The kind of xenophilia that involves hot space aliens and the humans who love them (and vice versa, because of course xenophilia works the other way around, too) has always been one of my bullet proof kinks, though. It's not a coincidence that my major on-going SGA story project - the story that actually has plot *g* - is an AU off of "Conversion".

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

The aircraft is being maintained... in the sky?