Writing In Twilight

Letter me!

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.
E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?
F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?
G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?
H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?
I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)
K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)
M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)
T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V - Which character do you relate to most?
W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)

adafrog How about your thoughts on pets.

Pets are a responsibility and a pleasure. I mention the responsibility first because they're a lifetime committment - the lifetime of the pet. Yes, circumstances change and sometimes you have to give up a pet for reasons, but when you take an animal into your family it should be with the firm intent and willingness to give it a Forever Home.

( I never needed this explained to me )

Talkmeme Masterpost

I haven't got time to rack my brain in December - too many things on right now. However, I have two weeks free over Christmas/New Year during which I'm hoping my sanity will come back for a while.

So give me topics to talk about in January.

No date for posting (unless you're really really stuck on a date), just a topic. I'm planning spread them out according to how many I get, because I'm really not anticipating a mad rush to hear my opinions.

Commentfic fest over at stainofmylove's journal.

1. I've left a comment on this post with a list of fandoms and/or pairings I feel like writing.
2. Reply to said comment with requests and a prompt, and I'll do my best to write something.
3. If you want to write as well, then post your own list of fandoms and/or pairings you're in the mood to play with as a separate comment to this post--so that people can request something from you!

My thread is here.

I've decided that March is going to be letter writing month!

Anyone want to receive a letter, card, or thing from me in the mail? Or possibly from a character of your choosing?

(Just for the record, the character of your choosing will inevitably be in Sydney, Australia at the time. I may or may not explain why. eg. If they're a SHIELD agent, there almost certainly will be no explanation, although possibly some mysterious hints. On the other hand, if it's a character doing some sightseeing, you may very well get a complete travel dialogue.)

Leave your address and (if you'd like something from a character rather than me) the character you'd like to receive mail from.

Comments are screened!

I was going to leave this until I'd finished the story. But it's turning out to be one of those days, so I'm going to throw the door open to all and sundry who'd like to play.

Pick one, a fandom and character/pairing, and I'll tell you the story I'd write for that trope. (Since I've been a bit of a shocker at actually writing stories for the memes where one is supposed to write stories, this should be easier.)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College

You all know the fandoms, characters, pairings, and groupings that I'll write: go for it!

so far:
1. Maria/Steve, huddling for warmth for grav_ity
2. Steve/Maria, drunk!fic for tidal_race
3. Pepper Potts, Amnesia for mizz_destiny
4. Avengers cast, High School AU for camshaft22
5. Teyla & Vala, pretending to be married for schneefink
6. John/Teyla, huddled for warmth or forced to share a bed (turned out to be a Black Jewels fic) for lizbet0
7. Clint/Natasha, Accidental Baby Acquisition for crazy4orcas

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Under my 'fanfic' folder, I have a number of subfolders:

fanfic
-> merlin
--> on hold
-> other
--> on hold
-> stargate
--> on hold
--> discarded

'On hold' generally translates to "not on the current TO DO list and is one step away from discarded."

'Discarded' is code for "I'm never going to get around to this but I don't want to delete the file and whatever I've written in it."

Most of the files in the Stargate->on hold folder are actually discarded. However, since they have anything from 1000 to 20,000 words in them, I can't bring myself to actually label them 'discarded'.

( the long and the...well, no, there's only the long of it... )

Anyway, after that very long listing, if you ask me about any file, I will tell you what's in it, or what its story is about.

bodycount: 0
crashed systems: 0
billions of dollars lost: well, there's that $60 billion dollar shortfall in the federal budget, but that's not my fault...
number of articles read on SMH and MSNBC: countless
number of words written at work: quite a lot during lunchtimes (hint: Write Or Die!)

I don't know how to describe my week. It's been...long and tiring, but I suspect that regular work is like that. I miss talking to my American friends, who I won't otherwise see now, except on their Friday nights, and all through November, I'm off at NaNo write-ins. Life feels strangely disconnected without the internet, even if I can post to this LJ or comment on other peoples' LJs.

--

Meme time:

If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for? Answer me, then post to your own journal and see how many crimes you get accused of.

I can't really imagine myself getting arrested for anything. Possibly speeding. I'm very much a goody two-shoes in my own eyes...I'm just curious what others think...

Two cups, with cream and sugar. *g*


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*laughs hysterically*

I blame allisnow:

Find the opening sequence for one of your favorite old TV shows and post it to your LJ. Bonus points for datedness or obscurity. Play as many times as you like.

Sadly, obscurity is unlikely. Well, maybe not for the first one.

One of my friends, now married with a son, would probably be surprised to find that I remember him and I leaping about his living room in front of the TV singing this themesong when we were around seven. *g*

I'll be very surprised if no-one remembers this one, though! :)

And, just for the fun of it, try here and here. Classic 80s stuff. Aren't they awful now? But we thought they were so cool back then! :D