Fic: The Angry Spider by Malcolm Tucker
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meddowI was going to do an episode review, but ended up writing fic instead. Well, somebody had to write it.
The Angry Spider by Malcolm Tucker
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Rating: PG-13 for language (of course)
Warnings: It's a children's book written by Malcolm Tucker. So, strong language and violent sexual imagery.
Spoilers: For episode 3x08
Summary: 'There once was an angry spider.'
The Angry Spider by Malcolm Tucker.
There once was an angry spider.
This spider was angry not because he’d failed to catch a fly, or because he’d woken up on the wrong side of the bed.
Oh no. He was angry because he’d been swept down afucking drainpipe. Not just swept, he was fucking pushed. And he wasn’t angry, he was furious. His wrath, it could be felt in the hills and it could he felt in the seas. It could be heard on the plains and heard in the fucking coal mines. And it was known to all the little insects in little happy insect town in magic insect land.
And this wrath – this terrifying force of nature - was directed at the being that pushed him.
Fuck it, the publisher’s outline calls for a prey mantis, but this guy can be a rat. A big fucking plague carrying rat with two great big shiny fucking bald heads and psychotic tendencies. This rat was the handsome spider’s arch nemesis, a being so fucking evil, it’s plotting the murder of your parents and the fucking arse rape of your teddy bear right now.
But the cunning spider, he was not down and he was not out. No matter what thefucking hack journalists of fucking magic insect land said.
Because, you know and I know, kids, that spiders can spin webs. And this spider had spun a web. A web lined with black magic andfucking razor blades. For this spider was the best web spinner in all the land.
And one dark, dark night when the moon had risen and the wolves were howling, the spider called upon the dark lords of the underworld and he beseeched them, ‘send me the rat.’
The dark lords of the underworld listened to this humble spider’s prayer. They sent out a signal and the rat came running, running for the spider, lunging for the kill, only to become entangled in the clever spider’s web.
The web wrapped around the rat’s neck and its claws, getting tighter and tighter as the rat struggled, burying itself into the rats flesh and sawing through its bones. All the while the vengeful spider watched on.
It was purefucking carnage.
And when the bleeding had stopped and the rat ceased to writhe, the victorious spider climbed upon its mutilated hide.
‘I will not befucked!’ he roared.
And the pheasants of and villagers of happy insect town cheered for their two-headed, baldy, snivelling, plague-carrying oppressor had been defeated and their rightful ruler restored.
And they all lived happily ever after.
“It’s moving tale about the little guy overcoming oppression and adversity. Like Harry Potter.”
“But with more garrotting? Malcolm, I’m not letting my child or any child read this.”
“What? You’d rather have him read about an obese caterpillar? What’s that teaching them? Eat and eat and eat and eat and you’ll become a fucking butterfly? More like eat and eat and eat and you’ll be lifted out of your house one day by a fucking crane.”
“The dodgy moral of The Very Hungry Caterpillar aside, do I start with the language....”
“I edited it,” Malcolm interjected.
“...the violence, or the blatant self-insert that is your protagonist?”
“Everybody’s a fucking critic. Not even if I give you a signed first edition copy?”
Nicola shook her head.
“Well, if I can’t even get you the fucking queen of fucking shit ideas to endorse it, good thing I kept my day job, I suppose,” he said with a grin that managed to be both devilish and charming at the same time.
As Malcolm strode out of her office with his re-found sense of purpose, Nicola sunk back into her chair and wished that just once the lords of the underworld or whatever evil deity that kept Malcolm Tucker lord of Downing Street would side with her.
The Angry Spider by Malcolm Tucker
Author:
meddowRating: PG-13 for language (of course)
Warnings: It's a children's book written by Malcolm Tucker. So, strong language and violent sexual imagery.
Spoilers: For episode 3x08
Summary: 'There once was an angry spider.'
The Angry Spider by Malcolm Tucker.
There once was an angry spider.
This spider was angry not because he’d failed to catch a fly, or because he’d woken up on the wrong side of the bed.
Oh no. He was angry because he’d been swept down a
And this wrath – this terrifying force of nature - was directed at the being that pushed him.
But the cunning spider, he was not down and he was not out. No matter what the
Because, you know and I know, kids, that spiders can spin webs. And this spider had spun a web. A web lined with black magic and
And one dark, dark night when the moon had risen and the wolves were howling, the spider called upon the dark lords of the underworld and he beseeched them, ‘send me the rat.’
The dark lords of the underworld listened to this humble spider’s prayer. They sent out a signal and the rat came running, running for the spider, lunging for the kill, only to become entangled in the clever spider’s web.
The web wrapped around the rat’s neck and its claws, getting tighter and tighter as the rat struggled, burying itself into the rats flesh and sawing through its bones. All the while the vengeful spider watched on.
It was pure
And when the bleeding had stopped and the rat ceased to writhe, the victorious spider climbed upon its mutilated hide.
‘I will not be
And the pheasants of and villagers of happy insect town cheered for their two-headed, baldy, snivelling, plague-carrying oppressor had been defeated and their rightful ruler restored.
And they all lived happily ever after.
“It’s moving tale about the little guy overcoming oppression and adversity. Like Harry Potter.”
“But with more garrotting? Malcolm, I’m not letting my child or any child read this.”
“What? You’d rather have him read about an obese caterpillar? What’s that teaching them? Eat and eat and eat and eat and you’ll become a fucking butterfly? More like eat and eat and eat and you’ll be lifted out of your house one day by a fucking crane.”
“The dodgy moral of The Very Hungry Caterpillar aside, do I start with the language....”
“I edited it,” Malcolm interjected.
“...the violence, or the blatant self-insert that is your protagonist?”
“Everybody’s a fucking critic. Not even if I give you a signed first edition copy?”
Nicola shook her head.
“Well, if I can’t even get you the fucking queen of fucking shit ideas to endorse it, good thing I kept my day job, I suppose,” he said with a grin that managed to be both devilish and charming at the same time.
As Malcolm strode out of her office with his re-found sense of purpose, Nicola sunk back into her chair and wished that just once the lords of the underworld or whatever evil deity that kept Malcolm Tucker lord of Downing Street would side with her.
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:39 am (UTC)But: ILU. This was hilarious. I was hearing the entire story in Malcolm's voice, and the strikeouts were killing me even BEFORE I got to "I edited it." Forget the sneaky phonecalls to Yale, man, THAT was Malcolm's revenge for Nicola's not backing him up.
In conclusion: ♥
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Date: 2009-12-14 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 09:53 am (UTC)That's a great Malcolm-voice you got happening, there.
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Date: 2009-12-14 12:40 pm (UTC)Still, why do I get the feeling Jamie would end up illustrating it?
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Date: 2009-12-14 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-15 02:40 am (UTC)"Oooooh, the monkey's got it in the tree! They all drink lemonade! The end."
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Date: 2009-12-14 05:02 pm (UTC)"It’s a moving tale about the little guy overcoming oppression and adversity. Like Harry Potter.”
“But with more garrotting? Malcolm, I’m not letting my child or any child read this.”
“What? You’d rather have him read about an obese caterpillar? What’s that teaching them? Eat and eat and eat and eat and you’ll become a fucking butterfly? More like eat and eat and eat and you’ll be lifted out of your house one day by a fucking crane.”
Sorry for quoting a large chunk back to you, but yeah, hilarious!
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Date: 2009-12-15 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 05:17 pm (UTC)The whole thing made me snigger and giggle, and by the end with Nicola, I was grinning wildly.
This is hilarious and wonderfully well done, thank you for writing this! It's perfect!
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Date: 2009-12-14 10:25 pm (UTC)fucking arse rapeof your teddy bear".And boo what Nicola says. I will let my children read this (once I get some).
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Date: 2009-12-14 11:37 pm (UTC)This NEEDED to be written. Thank you. It was wonderful. Perfect.
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Date: 2009-12-15 02:47 am (UTC)For this spider was the best web spinner in all the land.
Yes, Malcolm. Yes you are!
I'm seconding the desire to buy this book. All my friends and relatives would be getting a copy for Christmas XD
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Date: 2009-12-15 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-15 11:10 pm (UTC)GENIUS. And the Malcolm-Nicola exchange is just perfect.
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Date: 2009-12-23 11:39 pm (UTC)Bloody brilliant, this is :D Hilarious, especially so when read in Malcolm's voice.
Great!
Date: 2010-04-18 07:56 pm (UTC)Re: Great!
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Date: 2010-05-18 10:46 pm (UTC)I've only recently got into TToI but I immediately shipped Nicola/Malcolm just cus that's the way I roll (and I can't have him, how bleak that I'm living vicariously through Nicola of all people...) and I LOVE their interaction here.
Could I possibly friend you please? I'd love to see anything else you do.
xx
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Date: 2010-05-19 11:06 am (UTC)And yes, you can friend me :)
Love
Date: 2010-06-05 07:40 pm (UTC)I want a signed first edition :D