Wherein I answer questions about writing. Ganked from questofdreams.

( writing meme. It's my inner mind, ooooh. )

Copied shamlessly from scribe_protra: Give me a fandom and I will tell you my...

One True Pairing Ship:
Canon Ship:
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship:
"I am one sick bastard" Ship:
"I dabble a little" Ship:
"It's like a car crash" Ship:
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship:
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship:
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship:

From scribe_protra:

1. Reply to THIS post, and I'll pick four or five of your userpics that I like.
2. Make a entry and talk about the icons I've selected.
3. Other people will then comment on your entry and you'll do the same as I've done for you.
4. Thus, we will help create a NEVER ENDING STREAM of icon squee.


Who doesn't like talking about their icon choices? :D

So, I got:


This one's awesome for using on fanficrants whenever there's a rant about people's reactions to m/m pairings (or the odd one where the rant is about m/m pairings, hehe). I ganked it from somewhere, and I've seen it around but never discovered the actual maker (I credit the person I yoinked it from). Whoever made it was a genius though. XD


I like crack. And Iroh enjoys humor. So I found this icon and pounced, because it's the perfect expression for how I feel at those "WTF... I want to see!" moments (as opposed to the "LOL CRAAACK" moments, which are distinct!).


OMG, I made this one, all on my own, in freaking mspaint. Very shocked to have it picked to tell about. First, well, I love Usopp. He's my favourite. I think he's funny, I like his (admittedly unconventional) looks, and because he is the coward of the series (to his credit, he acts like any sane person should at all the weird shit on the Grand Line, his badass brave moments mean so very much more. Zoro and Sanji will always charge in and beat stuff up. When Usopp does it, it's amazing.
This icon's rough and not awesome, but I love it.


Okay... The Usopp/Luffy fight killed me. I'd found out about the rift from watching the Kokoro no Chizu opening clip, downloaded the fight episodes, which nearly killed me, after which I didn't watch or read much at all for about two year (unrelated RL distractions). Then I read the scanlation from Water Seven through Enies Lobby, and talk about your emotional rollercoaster. The roof scene with Robin is my favourite Team Strawhat moment, but this one in this icon is my favourite fraught/angsty/oh-thank-god-this-is-happening moment. I knew they would reach Robin. I didn't know what was going to happen to Usopp. ::hugs him::


Bwee! I made this one myself too :D from a scan of one of my doujinshi (Ace/Smoker as you might imagine). It's just so goddamn cute, and the fic for these guys tend to vacillate between the angst-ridden hurt/comfort fics and the flat-out humour fics. I have a more serious shippy one, I wanted a silly one. Aren't my cropping skills sooper awesome?!?


This meme has reminded me that I want a new default icon. Hmm. Not easy to find.

1. Go to Google.
2. Type in your answer to the question in the "search" box.
3. USE ANY PAGE. :D
4. Copy the html and paste for the answer.

( Image heavy! May break layouts. )

Another meme from pacificpikachu:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

She managed to really grab a sci-fi theme for this one!

( Here are mine. Wordy as ever. )

From pacificpikachu: Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. Afterward, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

I did it, and thus here is my pasted (and severly bla-bla-ful) list. I had the letter "N".

( Bit tl;dr, there! )

1) Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2) Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3) Post them here for everyone to guess.
4) Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5) NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions to answer!

Two movies I really love--My Neighbor Totoro and Whisper of the Heart, didn't really have any quotes of substance to choose from. :/ But I found a few others instead!

1) "Why are you staring at me?"
"I don't know. It's just that... it's like you escaped from a Hallmark card or something." - Enchanted, guessed by questofdreams

2) "I'm sorry I bit you... and pulled your hair... and punched you in the face..." - Lilo and Stitch guessed by caitlin_chan

3) "A group of cybernetic creatures from the future have traveled back through time to enslave the human race... and you're here to stop them?"
"That's right."
"Hot damn! You're heroic." - Star Trek: First Contact guessed by caitlin_chan

4) "You don't remember your name?"
"No, but for some reason I remember yours." - Spirited Away, guessed by questofdreams


5) "How many cats can wear boots? Honestly?" - Shrek 2, guessed by questofdreams


6) "The bright circle must pass over us many times, and we must follow it each day to where it touches the ground." - The Land Before Time guessed by caitlin_chan

7) "Let's face it. You've gotta be a man to wear tights!" - Robin Hood: Men in Tights, guessed by oodicious

8) "What exactly are you a professor *of*, 'Professor Logan?'"
"Art." - X-2! Guessed by blue_hobbit, pacifikpikachu and questofdreams

9) "You speak French?"
"No, not really. I had a small gadget installed in my brain and I see subtitles under people when they speak." - Bon Cop Bad Cop guessed by caitlin_chan

10) "Right now, as we speak, your daughter has entered a hotbed of moral... turpentine." - Hairspray (2007 movie musical) guessed by caitlin_chan

11) "The music. I thought if I could play it, they would know I was alive. And find me." - August Rush, guessed by ansemaru

12) "What is your sexuality?"
"Well, Jan's straight, and I'm... controversial."
"Are you trying to tell me you speak fag?"
"Oh, fluently." - Bring it On guessed by oodicious

13) "In the dark I heard your voice, what did you say?"
"I said, 'Hey, you, on the other side - let her go. Because for her I will cross over, and then you'll be sorry!" - Hellboy, guessed by grey_sterling

14) "It just be raining black people in New York."

15) "I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else."
"Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know."

BONUS: (Because I can't count and had #3 twice:
16) "What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh?"
"*Po-tay-toes!* Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew... Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. Even you couldn't say no to that."
"Oh yes we could. Spoilin' nice fish. Give it to us raw and w-r-r-riggling; you keep nasty chips." - LOTR: TT, guessed by blue_hobbit and questofdreams

Meme :D

List ten things that have recently made you happy and then tag ten people to do the same. LOL I don't even know ten people to tag.

1. Watching all 16 episodes of Reboot Season 3 on Saturday. Good times.
2. Doing NaNo. It's just... awesome. I love it. I'm going to do it again next year.
3. Finding a nice deal on Pokemon zukan sets on ebay!
4. Watching the Avatar finale (leaked, hehehehe). OMG AWESOME.
5. Buying stuff for some people on holiday_wishes
6. Pinning some art by myrafur up in my cubicle at work. Naru/Neji ftw
7. Finding pomegranates for 99 cents each at my local supermarket. Yummmmmm.
8. My work PC was finally upgraded. It doesn't run Windows 2000 on 250 megs of ram anymore!
9. The books I had shipped to my buddy in the US are finally in my possession! :D
10. Random things in my NaNo just happening. Amazing how organic it all gets when you just go. One of my characters accidentally met another in line for food at a stand in the street. I didn't even know the other guy was in line until he spoke up and then--voila. Free-kee.

Just came across this when snagging icons made by seldra

Name a fandom we both know and I'll tell you:
1. The first character I fell in love with.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now.
3. The character everyone else loves but I don't.
4. The character I love but everyone else hates.
5. The character I used to love but don't anymore.
6. The character I would shag any time.
7. The character I want to be like.
8. The character I want to slap.
9. The pairing that I love.
10. The pairing I despise.

(though given the odds that people will be saying "Naruto", there might be some copypasta in the comments, lol)

Ganked from pacificpikachu. Summarize 10-20 of your fandoms in one sentence, see if people can guess them. Alright.

1. Sort-of immortal man who changes bodies every few centuries travels through time in a police box with a rotating cast of companions.

2. Boy used as container for a massive demon grows up and makes friends by kicking their asses, except the one guy he wants to impress the most, who betrays everyone rather than get sense beaten into him.

3. Misanthropic, crippled, painkiller-addicted doctor verbally abuses his doctor minions and friends while simultaneously trying to diagnose patients' strange conditions.

4. Stretchy man, swordsman, kicking cool, genius navigator, brave coward, magical reindeer and mysterious archeologist form a pirate crew and have awesome adventures.

5. People begin manifesting strange powers and start coming together in a non-random series of coincidences while a hot Indian guy narrates and an evil guy tries to eat their brains.

6. Human guy is shot through a wormhole and pursued by an insane military commander who thinks human guy killed his brother, but he finds a sort of refuge with a bunch of misfit aliens on a living ship who variously help and hinder him as he tries to get home.

7. Women with the power to use paper as a weapon kick serious ass against a conspiracy to control the world with books.

8. Ten-year-old girl opens book of cards that magically vanish, then is informed by tiny lion that she has to retrieve them, and ends up in a rivalry with a male classmate who is trying to do the same, while her hot older brothers "best friend" is not what he appears to be.

9. Slightly insane midget nineteen-year-old genius from a planet that hates anyone not "normal", who also is the Emperor's cousin, accidentally forms an army on the way to visit his grandmother on another planet, and manages to finagle them as a secret arm of his cousin' army and proceeds to command them for the next ten years in a serious of crazy shenanigans.

10. Anthropomorphic representations of various aspects of human experience wander through a plot by one of them that ultimately ends in the death-and-rebirth of one of them.

11. A pair of guys, one with electric powers, the other with an evil eye power, team up to try and earn money by running a service where people hire them to retreive things.

12. Girl and her parents take a wrong turn to a seemingly abandoned amusement park, then the girl is forced to work at a bathhouse to try and regain her parents' freedom and figure out what is up with the cute but apparently aloof dragon-boy.

13. Beasts that are stone by day and flesh by night are magically awoken in Manhattan after 1000 years under a spell and proceed to adopt the city as theirs to protect, aided by a police detective and alternately hindered and helped by the crazy-rich man who discovered them in the first place.

14. Goofy doctor narrates his way through life while dealing with a neurotic female friend, beloved male friend, male friend's wife, misanthropic doctor boss and crazy janitor.

15. The last human is reawoken from a 3-million year stasis to find the massive ship he worked on is drifting, the computer AI has gone silly, and his only companions are a hologram of the roommate he hated, a being that evolved from the cat and kittens he'd hidden in the ship's air vents, and a neurotic service robot, and decideds to try and get back to Earth.

16. Half-Japanese detective begins work at a New York police precinct, adopts an eight-year-old delinquent and tries less and less convincingly to deter his bisexual male partner from coming onto him while they all get embroiled in various unlikely cases.

17. Sprites inside a computer lead lives dealing with beating games that the computers user downloads, until a virus infects the city and the two youngest are lost on the net, only to return later all grown up to take their city back.

18. In the late 1800s, a man and his son wash up from a shipwreck on an island inhabited by both humans and (mostly friendly and intelligent) dinosaurs.

19. Humans mind-bond with hatchling dragons to train to burn falling spores from the sky before they destroy all organic matter on their planet, and have very peculiar sexual mores that the author turns out to be completely insane about.

20. Archeologists dig up a big ring that turns out to connect to a network of interstellar wormholes, which is eventually used by a team of people, including an archeologist/anthropologist/linguist who knows 23 languages, a female air force major who is also a technological genius at engineering and quantum physics, a male air force colonel who makes sarcastic quips and a taciturn alien, to explore a series of other planet that seem oddly similar to British Colombia, Canada.

Okay, some of those are sort of overdone and obvious, but it was fun to see what I could cram into on sentence.

Tagged by atticus_frog. Erk.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

I tag... uh... I don't know seven people who have me on their flists, but how about myrafur and pacificpikachu! And caitlin_chan if she spots this!

1/ I have four tiny frogs in a fishtank on my desk. Afican Dwarf Frogs. They are awesome.

2/ I have trouble writing porny fic when my BF is in the room, so I bought a laptop to be able to do it in the TV room. (And so I could play Pokemon in front of the TV and check stuff online at the same time).

3/ I love opening things when I don't know what's inside. Presents, scratch cards, collectible card packs, treasure chests and lockboxes in World of Warcraft...

4/ I'm always vaguely worried I'll get my toes caught in sewer grates, so I step over them or go around them.

5/ I like shiny things, but I hate wearing jewelery.

6/ All my World of Warcraft characters are named after fandom characters, (Inuzuka, Rodney, Ekaterin, Saganami, Boq, Broadway, Bronx, Seregil), except Tonko, who's named after my fic handle, which came from a spell name in FFXI Online (so it still sort of counts)

7/ I wore braces from the age of 18 (2001) to last month.