Exactly 1500 words. Angst galore. Apologies if Al is OOC; I tried my best.
( A Memory of the Smell of Smoke )
"I can’t go back. Not now. I need to live my life, and I can’t live it for her."
~600 words; contains massive, huge, gigantic spoilers for Listener 1x5 "Lisa Says", consider yourself warned.
> One week from yesterday will be my 6-months-on-T anniversary.
> I posted a vlog on YouTube a few days ago if you missed it.
> Yesterday I got my name change petition notarized (apparently at WaMu/Chase, the notary's free for customers); we (Dad and I) will be going to Dallas on Monday to get me fingerprinted and file the petition.
> It's way too hot outside.
On the TV front, ( Spoiler-free, cut for length. )
Randomly, this article/video is hilariously awesome and win: United Breaks Guitars. XD
And finally, JuNo. ( My fail, let me show you it. :D )
- Location:Home
- Music:"United Breaks Guitars"
( Reflections in a Broken Mirror )
- Location:Home
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:Fear Zero (who are, coincidentally, from Canada)
I thought I had this one done earlier, but I ended up fiddling with the last two words for a while. I think I have it the way I want it, now. :) Yesterday's (that is, Wednesday's) theme at comment_fic was "occupations", and I thought "how about Toby actually using his ability to help in his actual job?" and, well, I bunnied myself. Then I spent ages doing research (ended up using the first illness I'd thought of, anyway, just my luck), so I couldn't very well not write the thing.
Double-drabble (and I'm proud of that; it was over 260 at one point!), spoiler-free.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
creative - Music:The whirring of the desktop's CPU.
( List )
Anyone's welcome to comment, whether they've looked at the list or not, with anything they'd like to see.
Oh, and I remembered belatedly how much I adore bank-robbery plots, so for ease of reference, have one more:
11. X is present at or involved in a bank robbery.
(And for what it's worth, no one needs to suggest "Toby Logan, 11"; I'm all over it already. :))
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benebu for this idea! "I've made a list of sentences refering to 10 characters from 10 fandoms. (Example: 0. X is the new DADA teacher.) Comment and give me a character, or two, or ten (preferably from a fandom I know, or at least, have basic knowledge of^^), and a number associated with each character. (Example: 'Yoda, 0'. Then, I try to write a drabble where Yoda is the new DADA teacher.)"
FYI, this was originally a crossover meme, but I made it more of an AU-meme (more "situations" than actual fandom stuff; think "X is abducted by aliens"). Pick from the numbers 1-10, and for characters, I suggest looking at the characters/fandoms I chose for the last meme, but you're welcome to pick anyone you think I'm more or less familiar with (e.g., Crowley is fine, Spock is not). Thanks! :)
ETA: And to make it even more fun/weird, feel free to combine 3, 4, or 5 with any one of the other numbers (including each other), if that strikes your fancy. Further ETA: Feel free also to choose pairs or groups of characters that go together (e.g., "Shawn and Gus, 7", "Mulder and Scully, 10", etc). Likely won't work as well for prompts 1, 2, or 4, but you're welcome to give it a shot. :) PS, please don't do both of the above in one prompt. That's just too much AU right there, lol.
- Mood: amused
( Your bunnies, I wants to adopt them plz. )
In other news, Mental was pretty awesome last night, and then today I watched eps 8-13 of Listener (and jeez, that sounds like so many more than it felt), and am officially caught up on Season 1. Not bad, not bad. "Inside the Man" was... wacky and disjointed, but damn, that finale. Every time in the last ten or fifteen minutes the screen faded to black I would freak out that it was over and then sigh in relief when it came back. Man, it was so good; I don't know how I'm going to wait for Season 2. (At least it wasn't too bad of a cliffie!)
ETA: Oh, and if you don't know any of my fandoms, I'd still like to hear from you! All else fails, you can just pick a couple fandoms, suggest a crossover, and see if it means anything to me. Anything and everything helps! :)
- Location:Home
- Mood: amused
2. ( Hulu is my enabler; aka The Listener is great. )
3. ( And then there were twelve [spoilers for Harper's Island episode 10, 'Snap']. )
4. Finally, Zera's coming over tomorrow! We're gonna watch the complete Lost Room straight through and it's going to be glorious. (I can only hope my newfound addiction to Listener isn't going to inhibit my enjoyment.) Television is an amazing, wonderful thing, isn't it.
Oh, and btw, if you missed the answers to that character meme, those are up. It was a blast. :)
- Location:Home
- Music:"Alone by the Ocean" - Fear Zero
My 15 characters are:
01. Fox Mulder (from The X-Files)
02. Dana Scully (from The X-Files)
03. Joe Miller (from The Lost Room)
04. Dean Winchester (from Supernatural)
05. Sam Winchester (from Supernatural)
06. Sam Beckett (from Quantum Leap)
07. Dexter Morgan (from Dexter)
08. Michael Westen (from Burn Notice)
09. John Mitchell (Mitchell, from Being Human)
10. Mick St. John (from Moonlight)
11. Peter Petrelli (from Heroes)
12. Sam Braddock (from Flashpoint)
13. Johnny Smith (from The Dead Zone)
14. Cal Lightman (from Lie to Me)
15. Patrick Jane (from The Mentalist)
And here's the questions and answers.
Thanks for all the great questions, guys!
Also, some fun, spoilery interviews [link text includes spoilers, mouse over at your own risk]:
Interview, with #9.
Interview, with #10.
Also, I wrote more of that Castle/LR crossover, got to the part where my OC, Dante, encounters a cop and Things Happen, and had a question. So I got online to ask the good folks at
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ask_a_cop, and while I was there, did some research. Lo and behold, I'd forgotten again that Castle's set in NYC. I don't know why I have such a hard time remembering that, honestly. It just seems like all my shows are either set in California, D.C., or Miami, so I get confused, I guess. At any rate, this could pose a problem. And I don't have a comm yet to ask questions about NYC, although I contacted the mod over at newyorkers to see if they'd be open to that. (If so, I'll be sure to add them to the list, along with law_questions and lawquestions_au.) While I wait for a response, anyone else up to answering a lot of random questions about NYC? I sense a lot of rewriting in my future if I got the right impression from Google Street View, so I may as well get it right. Finally, have a meme (stolen from
sashataakheru): Character List Meme:
1) Make a list of 15 characters and assign each character a number.
2) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them, i.e. "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?"
3) Post list and answers.
Anyone want to give me questions? You know you want to! ;)
ETA: And I still have no idea what I'm writing for JuNo next month (that would be the pseudo-NaNo Zera and I are doing). Your cracky plots, suggest them to me!
- Location:Home
- Mood:
curious - Music:Fear Zero
1. Still grounded. Gonna go out looking for a job next week, and with luck I'll find one and they'll ease up.
2. Last weekend, over the space of two days, I watched the entire six-episode miniseries The Lost Room. (Half the reason my parents want me out of the house; so much TV, and all the time in the world for it!) Can I just say, it was FANTASTIC. Relatedly, I'm now a ways into a Castle/LR crossover fic that's going to hopefully be equally awesome. Fingers crossed, anyway.
3. Also watched a bunch of XF this week ("Irresistible" through "Paper Clip" over the span of three or four days). Still haven't found my first-ever ep, though. I could've sworn I'd recognize it if I saw it, too. Dunno. At any rate: "Irresistible" was awesomely creepy, the makeup in "Dod Kalm" was damn near unbelievable, "F. Emasculata" is definitely in the top-5 most disgusting eps ever (not bad, though), "Soft Light" was pretty awesome, and "Fresh Bones" was really awesome. All in all, not bad at all.
4. For anyone not in the loop: Chastity Bono is transitioning (plus commentary from Jamison Green).
5. Oh, and we got a free month of premium channels, so I caught Stardust last night. You know that surrounded-by-puppies-and-flowers, warm-and-fuzzy feeling happy endings give you sometimes? That one that makes you feel like a ten-year-old girl but god it feels wonderful anyway? Yeah, that one. That's the ending of Stardust. *sappy happy expression* Yeeeaah. Great movie. *nod*
6. Finally, just remembered: my dad lost his job, so our insurance is changing, and I'm worried I'm going to have to switch to injections. D: So I'll definitely post more on the topic if there's anything new and different to note. Still on the gel for now; it'll be five months in three days. ( T update; cut for TMI. )
- Location:Home
- Mood: creative
- Music:Random music I downloaded from Ares ages ago.
( The More Things Change )
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And the second, the sequel, a drabble written 5/28:
( Shades of Grey )
- Location:OU
- Mood: accomplished
( Fire All of Your Guns at Once )
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And the sequel, a double-drabble, written 5/26.
( Taking Flight )
- Location:OU
- Music:"Somebody Told Me" - The Killers
( Don't Ask, Don't Tell )
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MTF!Jules, double-drabble, completed 5/31/09.
( Security )
- Location:OU
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:Fear Zero
Caught up on ( Harper's. )
Also caught up on Mental. It was even better than the first one. ( Spoiler cut. )
And I think that's everything. Oh, except I'll probably post the FP fics later today; I'm
But speaking of writing, I'm also thinking of doing a little summer-NaNo thing with Zera. Especially with being grounded from the computer once I get back (parents aren't happy with the GPA situation, y'know), might as well give it another shot.
- Location:OU
- Mood:indescribable
( Blood, guts, and red herrings, oh my! )
( Mental )
And I decided to switch fandoms at w_g at 20 points instead of 40, but I might switch back at 60, so I'll probably hold off on posting till the board closes, just in case.
Finally, unrelatedly: awesome (re: Prop 8), hilarious (re: viral Amazon pages), and trufax (re: Prop 8).
Okay, time to go watch LTM for my paper! (These are the days I love school.)
- Location:OU
- Music:Fear Zero
( TV )
( Comm class (assignments, trangst, and The Cute Kid Whose Name Is Not Sam) )
Finally, I've been writing quite a bit of FP fic recently for the newest w_g board (60). It's all FP transfic, and I'll post it here when I'm officially done (i.e., when I switch fandoms over there), just so I can make sure all the sequels and so on are organized properly. So keep an eye out for that if you're interested. It's been a lot of fun, I can tell you.
ETA: Further update: Grades are up. I made a C in Java II. I calculated every possible GPA and several impossible ones, and apparently the only way I could make a 3.25 is if I got an A in Comm (which I will), an A in Dynamics (which is possible), and an A in 13 more hours worth of classes (which I can't even possibly take that many classes). So, yeah, that sucks. ): *sigh*
- Location:OU
- Mood:
annoyed - Music:My station on Jango.com
( Merry Meet )
- Location:OU
- Mood: accomplished
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