Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Help keep a girl entertained? Snagged from everyone:

Ask me a fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific, general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Questions can be as wacky as you want. Ask me about tv shows, characters, fanfic, fandom issues/meta, anything about any of my stories specifically. Whatever you want.

I love writing, and I love talking about writing. I thought this looked interesting.

Snagged from trobadora.

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

And it seems like a lot more fun to do that than to do working.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions! Anon commenting is (always) on, if you feel shy. Or ask your flist to ask you questions.

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? And so on.


Or, y'know, feel free to ask me what happens next on a fic, or why Character A did this instead of that, or anything fic or writing related at all. If you have a question, ask!

Reply and I'll give you four fandoms. You then have to make an entry writing about your favorite character from each fandom, and why.

mithrel gave me: ( Supernatural, NCIS, Inception, SGA )

I'm still trying to figure out five scenes/moments from Inception that are significant to me and my top five hottest human beings (why is that so difficult??), but...

Snagged from my flist.

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or personal or pointlessly random. And I will answer them!

Unless they are too personal, and then I might ignore you. ;)

I'm in the Seattle area and loving the fact that it's the end of June and I'm cold.

Snagged this off my flist. I could use some prompts to help keep the creative juices flowing. (Uh. Even though I think I have a few non-meme ones I haven't filled...)

The first ten people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. Some other equivalent gift, like icons or mini-fanmixes or quickie meta, would make sense for people who don't write fic themselves. (Or if the writing doesn't come...)

I don't care about the "in return" part. Obvious fandoms are obvious: NCIS and Supernatural (including Jensen/Misha). I wouldn't mind Southland, either. Or Due South, though I haven't done that for a while. I'm pretty open to whatever. :D

01. spacefragments: WRITE ME SOME SUIT!PORN PLEASE. i don't care if it's jensen/misha or dean/cas, the suit stays on during the sexytimes.
02. qthelights: Jensen/misha first time (kiss and/or more)!
03. krystalicekitsu: Supernatural- Sam & Dean with the prompt 'He's procrastinating and he knows it. The longer he hesitates the more blackmail ammo he's going to be shot with later, but, well...'
04. love_jackianto: Oh, Southland please. How about Cooper and/or Sherman in dress blues.
05. jack_infinitude: NCIS, McGee/DiNozzo, are you sure want to put that there?
06. lattimore: due South: Fraser/RayK, maybe involving the time when Ray dressed up in the mountie uniform?
07. x_shorty1013_x: Supernatural, Dean/Cas, trapped in a small space
08. ember_firedrake: Supernatural, Dean/Cas. Ferris Wheel. Kissing.
09. mulder200: SPN, Dean/Castiel, Dean stakes his claim when another man tries to make a move on Cas and gets turned on in the process
10. bientot: Misha/Richard Speight playing with the underwear back in their hotel room

I totally stole these from jack_infinitude.

( 21 questions about writing )

This was a lot of fun, and I am posting it before I obsess about it MORE.

I wish I was artistic!

1. Comment to this post with "I surrender!" and I'll assign you the basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. Create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. Add in any actor photos, character bios and show synopsis that you want.
4. Post to your own journal.

mclachlan's prompt: The world is populated by both humans ("3-dees") and live cartoons ("2-dees"). 3-dees are horribly prejudiced against 2-dees and have committed heinous crimes against them (robbery, vandalism, rape, and murder (erasure)).

A high school 2-dee discovers that 2-dees used to be revered in "animated films" (now extinct and buried) and embarks on a cross-country journey to find the birthplace of her kind: Warner Brothers Studio.


Drawn to Life
Theme: Smile, Darn Ya, Smile (updated)

High school senior Cate Coney hates her life. Besides being one of the only anthropomorph 2-dees at Maroon High, she's recently been paired up with 3-dee Maureen "Mo" Benson, a girl who's tormented her since kindergarten, to work on a genealogy project.

What they find changes both their lives, and soon they find themselves on a journey cross-country, looking for answers to questions they didn't even know to ask.

Press release snippet: Babs Bunny, best known for her comedic work on Tiny Toon Adventures, takes on her first serious role as Cate Coney in the new series Drawn to Life airing this fall on Not-Fox.


( Cast of Characters )

( Notes )

I got tagged by marynyu

I tried to come up with really random things I haven't used on variations of this one before.

- List 7 habits/quirks/facts.
- Tag 7 people to do the same.
- Don't tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag 'whoever wants to do it'.

01. When I play any Legend of Zelda game with Tris, I do the leg- and brain-work and make him take care of the bosses. Because I AM A WUSS OVER-EXCITABLE. We had a lot of fun with Twilight Princess (which we never finished. sad.), and I wasted lots of valuable schoolwork time. Thirteen year olds are a bad influence.

02. Hermann Corrodi's Venice is one of my favorite paintings. I'm not even exactly sure why. Something about the color and light, the water, the sky. It's part of the founding collection at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and I could stand in front of it for hours just...looking at it.

It's the first one on the top left here.

03. My writing notebooks are color-coded. An idea comes to me and it just...feels like a certain color, so that's the color I use. Then if I continue it, I'll continue using that color for the ease in finding all the related parts scattered through the notebook.

DiNozzo and McGee often end up in blue ink. Maybe it's a suit thing?

04. I hate not knowing words when I'm reading. If I come across one, I have to mark it, write it down, or look it up because otherwise my brain'll get stuck and I won't be able to move on. The dictionary app on my iPhone has saved hundreds of sticky notes from ending up in a pile with page numbers and words written on them.

05. I like things (books, movies, episodes, etc.) that make me sad. I think it's a cathartic thing.

For example, I love the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company's Swan Lake I've seen it twice. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and the ending kills me. I don't think I'd love it nearly as much if they didn't go for the heartbreak. (They talk about it here, with a clip of the final scene.)

06. I have weird issues with frogs. Live frogs freak me out. If you want to know the thing that freaks me out the most EVER, do a search for "surinam toad." ::shudder:: When the females lay eggs, they get embedded on her back and then skin grows over them, forming pockets in a honey-comb like pattern. The eggs hatch and the tadpoles grow up in those pockets and emerge from her back as fully-formed toads.

On the one hand, kinda cool. On the other hand, FREAKS THE HELL OUT OF ME. THEY ARE CREEPY.

Oh, god. Just thinking about it...

07. I have never been able to get past chapter eight in Sense & Sensibility. I've read every single other thing Jane Austen has written, but I cannot get through S&S.


I don't really like tagging people (though I don't mind being tagged; memes keep me entertained), even though I know there's the option to ignore. But I'll do it anyway: ember_firedrake, ginnith, jack_infinitude, mclachlan, olivelavonne, sdrohc_ratiug, spacefragments.

Sorry for the post spam, but I had to get that fic posted before I could do the end of the year fic meme.

Fic, ficlets, and drabbles included, I wrote and posted 42 (life, the universe, and EVERYTHING clearly) fics in 4 fandoms this year: 21 SPN, 13 NCIS, 5 Merlin, and 3 Due South. (I'm counting "Not Dudley Do-Right" as NCIS since it's Tony's POV.)

And 60 newspaper articles.

Last year I wrote 16 fics. To go from 16 to 42 is just...crazy. I don't know. sdrohc_ratiug says it's due to the goal I made at the beginning of last year: write a little every day. You do that and you're bound to end up with something finished.

Perhaps most amazingly, I managed to complete something over 5000 words. I have never done that before! Outside of classes or school projects. (I really should get a wordcount on my play...)

This year has been very strange for me, writing-wise. Strange in a good way. I don't know quite how to describe how I feel about it without sounding a bit looney toons. But I love where I am right now, creatively. (Except for that fic that just refuses to work. Bleh.)

Anyway. ( Fic round-up, organized by fandom )

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( Writing Meme 2009 )


Also, I think it's fun to note that at least one Supernatural fic began life as Without a Trace fic (Time to Spare) while another was meant for Due South (Busted). I'm not really writing those now though, but each one either had a particular scene I still wanted to use (WaT) or an almost complete fic (DS). I was very happy to be able to use both.

Snagged off sdrohc_ratiug. She tagged me.

1.YOUR REAL NAME
Mary

2.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:(mother and fathers middle names)
Maureen Joel

3.NASCAR NAME:(first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
Lawrence Robert

4.STAR WARS NAME:(the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Marwa

5.DETECTIVE NAME:(favorite color, favorite animal)
Purple Heron (I don't have a favorite animal, so this is the first one that came to mind.)

6.SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, town where you were born)
Frances Wenatchee

7.SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Blue Martini

8.FLY NAME:(first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Mans

9.STREET NAME:(fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Phish Food Snickerdoodle

10.SKANK NAME: (1st pet's name, street you grew up on)
Rosie Dinah Frenchman Hills

11.GANGSTA NAME:(first 3 letters of first name plus 'izzle')
Marizzle

12.YOUR GOTH NAME:(black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Lady or Black Ginny

I am going to break the cycle of abuse and not tag anyone. ;)