Pettiness

There's a certain piece of popular media, and I'm being vague, but maybe it's a well-known poem, or song, or cartoon, just...short work that is not in the public domain, but well-known enough that I think one could make a winking allusion to it without breaking copyright. It is very popular among some quarters. I personally happen to find it very overrated. We get a little sketch of two "characters," and like...the more I think about them, the more I'm curious what their backstory is, how do they know/what do they think of each other. So I keep toying with writing some flash fiction about the arguments between these two. And the punchline is...these aren't just any two strangers, they're the protagonists of [redacted]. I don't really want to do it as fanfic because that would give the punchline away, but I also don't really know what the outlet would be for the "original fiction" version, it would be more humorous than speculative. But anyway, maybe someday I will find a place for it.