#a bastard's carol

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

Xmas Fanfic Plug Alert 🚨

Ho ho ho! 🎅 With it once again being the season of long, cold nights and shopping stress (and a bit of festive cheer, too, for the kids), I thought I'd take the opportunity to shamelessly plug this little old fanfic I once wrote and have since never shut up about:

After the deaths of his parents, Rick certainly isn't looking forward to Christmas this year. Nothing and no one can put him off his misery - not even Vyvyan, whose relationship with Rick has changed monumentally since the near-fatal bus crash. The house's only chance at a happy Christmas has somehow fallen into the hands of a certain imaginary friend. Hopefully, Fred knows what he's doing...

A Bastard's Carol is, unsurprisingly, a Young Ones parody of A Christmas Carol. Well, I say a Young Ones parody - there are characters from across the Rik 'n' Ade 'verse running amok in this. I wrote it in 2019/2020, a time period now an almost scary number of years away from us.

Don't get me wrong, ABC is by no means worthy of comparison with the work of the great Charles Dickens (or the work of the great Rik Mayall and the great Ade Edmondson, either). Yes, it is overwritten (why'd you think it ended up double the size of A Christmas Carol?); yes, it features too much interiority (Rick is one of my darlings okay); and, yes, maybe sticking to the five stave format, thus ensuring some of the chapters hit 15K, when I was writing for people whose attention spans meant they'd ditched traditional novels for fanfiction was a bit of a mistake (love you guys).

But that all being said...

It was written with love, and passion, and a quite large dollop of staying-up-'til-the-sun-rises-to-get-this-next-bit-finished-damnit. Despite its imperfections - and there are many - I am still proud of it. I wrote it for me, but I also wrote it for this fandom as it existed at the time. As I said above, 2019 was a while ago, especially in fandom terms (back in the B.C. years), and I'm sure most Young Ones fans on Tumblr now have new and vastly superior fanfic to get stuck into. I'm just offering ABC up to you this December as a ghost of scumbags past, if you like.

I know I've slagged it off a bit, but seriously: there's at least one person who read it and had their GCSE-fuelled hatred for A Christmas Carol somewhat overturned by it.

And it's got Rick and Vyv being gay. I probably should've started with that...

Happy Holidays! ❤️

[marvelmaniac715]

Random thought that makes so much sense. They casted Curt Mega as Jim in VHS Christmas Carols, a character obsessed with his watch.

And do you know who else he played? Tinky, the Bastard of Time and Space…

@curtmega was this part of the casting process or just an incredible Christmas coincidence?

[sword-in-a-hoard]

Netflix animated stuff i think you should watch pt. 3

(Part 1, Part 2)

Blue eye samurai

Pluto

Pokemon concierge

Ooku the inner chambers

Dungeon meshi

Blue period

Tekken bloodline

Lost song

Carole and Tuesday

Centaurworld

BNA

Great pretender

Nimona

Bastard!! Heavy metal dark fantasy

[molinaesque]

“Come on. It is Christmas, after all.” “Christmas? Really? If only I’d known. This changes everything.” - Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)

[karniss-bg3]

A BG3 Christmas Carol

🎶On the twelfth day of Christmas my True Soul gave to me:

Twelve Karlachs Swinging

Eleven Shovels Swearing

Ten Tadpoles Squirming

Nine Volos Screaming

Eight Scratchs Fetching

Seven Gales a’casting

Six Wylls a'dancing

Five Owlbear Cuuuubs

Four Vamp Bites

Three Netherstones

Two Bhaal Spawns

And a Kar’niss preaching at meeeee! 🎶

[ruins-and-rewritez]

"The Bastard of the Barrel" Kaz's song, in my dream musical, would be eerily similar to Scrooge's introductory song in The Muppet Christmas Carol. As in its literally the ensemble singing about how scary and relentless he is with a killer beat to bop to in the background

[ickypuppi3]

tommy and carol i miss you all the time

[radiantlyrey]

Watching Doctor Who’s “A Christmas Carol.” I’m almost at the end, and I get to this bit:

Kazran: One last day with your beloved. Which day would you choose?

[A few beats as the Doctor looks slightly stricken, because of course he has to pick which day he will take River Song to Darillium and see her for the last time.]

Abigail: Christmas Day.

At which point I remember “The Husbands of River Song” and the day the Doctor finally takes River to Darillium.

Christmas Day.

[awigglycultist]

Starkid Show Bracket

Round 2

AVPM V AVPS

MAMD V Starship

Twisted V TTO

Firebringer V VHSCC

TGWDLM V Watcher World

Time Bastard V Killer Track

Black Friday V Yellow Jacket

WITW V Abstinence Camp

Here's where you can find round 1 if you want to see the exact results

[icewitcher]

Good pulls today on HSR

I've won the 50/50 on Huohuo's banner.

And look who came on the perma banner....

Bailu my vidhyarian child, I'm so happy to see you. Don't worry you'll get all the sweets you want.

Natasha will soon stay on Belobog forever.

(Early) good luck to those pulling for Huohuo and Argenti and for those who are in the 1.6 banner waiting room as I am skipping the 1.6 banners because Penacony is not far away.

[portuguesedisaster]

Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen are two idiots who have the most luck ever. I love them :3

[pinkytoothlesso11]

It's been a hot minute since I've posted any art, but I thought it was about time to contribute to the Scrooge bandwagon.

So here's some slightly late Christmas themed art of Scrooge and Prudence, because there's a lack of that in the tags.

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

I'm obsessed with her

[mswyrr]

Fandom 🤝 Disney

Calling unrelated adults who met as adults siblings to put the kibosh on a ship they don't like

[molinaesque]

Lmao I've seen so many tags of ppl in DiSMaY over Scrooge being daddyfied in the new animated Christmas Carol movie and are like "why???" Like there aren't a gazillion other accurate adaptations that you can go back to AND also... why the fuck not? Let the man be a DILF for once

[capitalist-bastard-showdown]

Capitalist Bastard $howdown:

Round 1, Match 4

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