Friday, January 8th, 2010

Year in Fic: 2009

Eight days late, but whatever, it's mostly for my benefit anyway.

Fannish Stuff What I Made in 2009

Fic )

Fanmixes )

Q&A )
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Monday, September 28th, 2009

Another meme. Good Lord.

Stolen from Puck.

Pick a fandom I'm in or an rp I'm in, and I'll give you...

1. One True Pairing Ship:
2. Canon Ship:
3. "If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
4. "You are one sick puppy" Ship:
5. "I dabble a little" Ship:
6. "It's like a car crash" Ship:
7. "Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
8. "Makes no canon sense but why the heck not" Ship:
9. "Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Another meme yay!

meme ho )
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009

*yoinks some memes from eponymous_rose*

Meme Number One: Pick any one of my fanfics and I'll write a DVD commentary. Just for yooooou.

I'm tagging this post with the "fanfiction" tag, so you can more easily find the stuff I've written.

Meme Number Two: Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

I expect exactly no response to this, but that's okay.
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

O HAY LOOK A MEME

Post one or more sentences from each of your WIP's because if you do you might be magically inspired to finish them.

Hoo boy. )

There turned out to be so many that I ended up splitting them into fanfiction and original fiction. )

11 and 17 may actually end up being the same story. I'm still percolating that one.

Also, if you can guess the fandom for the fanfics, I will... I don't know, do something nice for you. Maybe write you a drabble. Be careful: some of the obvious ones are less obvious than they look. :D

Anyway, which ones intrigue? Any of them look like I'm wasting my time?
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009

OKAY FINE

First ten people to comment with a prompt on this post get a short ficlet from me.

Fandoms I'm willing to try include the Vorkosigan Saga, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, the Dresden Files (FG and WW, just because I quit doesn't mean I don't still love the universe), Tamora Pierce (beware; I haven't read Bloodhound), Codex Alera (up until halfway through Academ's Fury, anyway), the X-files, Firefly, Hot Fuzz, the Mummy, the Sarah Jane Adventures, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Middleman, Star Wars, Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series, Elemental Mages series, and Five Hundred Kingdoms series, and oh, hell, if I've read it or seen it, I'll probably write it. Except Lie to Me, Avatar, and the West Wing. And Star Trek.
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Monday, May 11th, 2009

Interactive Meme!

1. Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. Totally cheating, you dirty cheaters.

Here we go! )
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Baaaaah!

1. Post about something that made you happy today.

2. Repeat for eight days. No, don't say the same thing every day, numbskull.

3. Tag six people to do the same. I ain't tagging nobody. Do it if you like.

Terry Pratchett made me happy today. Specifically, rereading Interesting Times. I always forget how funny the man is in between re-reads. Also, putting a bunch of books on hold at the library, and realizing how lucky I am to essentially have books on demand for free. \m/
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Monday, April 27th, 2009

Women I Admire

I finished reading a biography today, about the same time as Miss Cam sparked a new meme here after this fandom secret and this long discussion bordering on wank (randomly, I love how everyone pulled out their favorite female character icons in that thread). It was fortuitous timing, so now I'm going to tell y'all about women I admire, who may or may not be fictional. I'd stick with fictional women, but again, the biography. I do hope you'll talk about women you admire, too. I think we can't talk enough about women we admire.

I've restrained myself, with great difficulty, to one per fandom. )

Looking back at these women, and at the ones who didn't make the list (Zoe Washburn, Inara Serra, Dana Scully, Virginia Wolff, my Doctor Who gals), I can see a couple of trends. I tend to admire smart women, who can maintain strong and loving relationships, but neither quality is a deal-breaker if it's lacking (Kaylee, Karrin Murphy). I admire women who are women, not men with breasts. I admire women who aren't afraid or ashamed of their sexuality. I admire women who are more than competant, women who hold their own and demand respect. I admire exceptional women who aren't afraid to be exceptional.

I feel like today, most women and girls are afraid to be exceptional. I don't know why this is so, or why women get boxed into subordinate roles that they aren't comfortable with or happy in. I feel like every girl should know that she can be exceptional, and I feel like these woman are a good start.

In short, I admire exceptional women, and I have every intention of being one.

What women do you respect? Why do you respect them?

ETA: Honorh talks about the same thing here, and so does selenay936.
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009

I'M BACK, BITCHES! And I'm still sick. I am typing up a long summary post for y'all, but in the meantime, have an icon meme.

Follow the pretty pictures! )
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009

let's have another meme!

1. Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. Totally cheating, you dirty cheaters.

Quotes ahoy! )
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

icon meme

Lots of pictures, all that jazz. )
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Year-in-Fic meme 2008

WARNING: HERE THAR BE SPOILERS for everything under the sun that I write about. Seriously.

Fic )

Fanmixes )

Q&A )
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Meme

Nicked off awanderingbard.

Character Questions Meme
1. Go here to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 100. DO THIS FIRST.

2. Choose a character that I write or have written, be it canon or an OC.

3. Comment with the character and the numbers, and then I will answer the corresponding questions from here.

If you choose anyone underage, any questions inappropriate to ask a child will be answered as though they were adults. You can choose a few characters if you so choose.
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Friday, October 10th, 2008

meme!

When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride. Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

I'm torn.

Either

"INCONCEIVABLE!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

or

"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
"You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die."
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Ship meme! Comments are love.

1. List your top seven ships
2. Put all of them in order of your love for them; 7 to 1, 1 being your favorite.
3. Name their fandom.
4. Supply photos for said people.

These are really in no particular order: I ship them all about equally. AKA, like burning )
And, of course, the traditional Super Secret Really Really Really Embarrassing Slash Ship below the cut. )
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Writing Meme!

To pass the time for you while I reread His Majesty's Dragon and sequels and finish Victory of Eagles.

Post the first lines from your last twenty-five fics and see if there's a pattern (or something like that).

Here we go, in reverse order. )

Hmm. General patterns seem to be me playing with language more and more. I start out messing around with Space Between the Seconds and by the Dalek Invasion of Discworld I've nearly gone overboard. Thank you, darling beta! A few of these, namely all the Dresden Files fic and The Dalek Invasion of Discworld are me consciously trying to mimic the author in question. Interestingly, I've only started out with dialogue in three fics; I was under the impression that I did it a lot more. I also seem to start out right in the middle of the story and explain things later. Very Doctorlike of me, I think. So! What do you think?
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I Have a Books! Icon!

This is inspired by the Big Read meme going around that prompts people to select 'classic' books from a list that they have read. With that in mind, I'd like you to list the ten books that have had the most influence on YOU, personally. It doesn't matter whether or not they're classics, adult books or YA. This meme is not asking you to be a literary critic. These are the books that have made an impression on you, that stay in your mind, that have had an impact on your life. The books that taught you how to write, that molded your ideas about life and love. The books that you *always* have a copy of on your bookshelf, and invariably read until the binding is falling apart.

1) The Fire Rose, Mercedes Lackey
Lackey has a way with language that always strikes me, even when she's writing about certain Mary Sues I could name (Vanyel, anyone?). She's splendid with description, and even when her plots fall flat, which this one doesn't, the language carries the day. I also love Beauty and the Beast, and this reinterpretation of the legend has the benefit of being impeccably-researched historical fiction as well.

2) Persuasion, Jane Austen
Guh. Just guh. One of the best love stories ever, and a wonderful, wonderful book. Jane Austen makes some of the most memorable characters I have ever read. A pitch-perfect romance.

3) Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
Plot! Jim Butcher teaches me about Plot! Proven Guilty has the added benefit of just being fun.

4) American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Likewise plot. Neil Gaiman weaves everything together skillfully and near-seamlessly. I will admit to having problems buying the climax, but I'm just too in love with his concept and execution that I simply can't care.

5) His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik
WOW. Amazing language, great plot, a climax that never fails to make me tear up, wonderful characters, just wow. Seamlessly weaves dragons into British history. This is precisely how the Napoleonic wars would have gone had Napoleon in fact had dragons to deploy.

6) Magic and Malice, Patricia C. Wrede
See above. Wow. Also has a wonderful love story that His Majesty's Dragon doesn't. Both take place in the Regency; a coincidence? I THINK NOT. So does Persuasion. I'm terribly fond of the Regency, so having so many of my favorite novels take place there is a bonus.

7) Crown Duel, Sherwood Smith
Some of the best damned worldbuilding since Tolkein. Tolkein and I don't really get along for various wordy-related reasons, but Crown Duel is so wonderfully written and just right with the world.

8) Matilda, Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl is a master storyteller, and Matilda is my favorite story of his. A bright little girl and the people who believe her, the people who don't, and her revenge on the idiots of the world. Clearly Roald Dahl was at some point a bright little kid, because this book resonates with me so much. Hands up, who else tried to move chalk with their eyes after seeing this?

9) A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
I don't know. I love Sara, I love Becky, I love the coincidences, I love Miss Minchen and Amelia Minchen, I love the whole book. It's just so well done and such a childhood memory. Maybe that's it. Either way, the binding on mine is kind of dead.

10) The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Oh, Michael Shaara. A heartbreaking story of Gettysburg. The language is exactly right for the time. The men he's writing about are so right for their time and yes. Amazing story.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Meme!

Go here and refresh until you get five quotes that resonate with you, then put them up in your journal.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Hannah More

We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

ETA: And another! Nicked off eponymous_rose who nicked it off someone else.

I feel like writing meta, but I'm entirely too tired lazy to pick a single subject and coherently analyse it.

SO. Throw a fannish topic at me, and I will ramble about it! Hopefully in an entertaining way.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Meme! (of doom!)

Comment here, and I shall...

a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
g) In return, you must post this in your LJ. (If you want. I won't hold you to it.)
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