Ahaha I said I'd do this and then immediately forgot about it. OOPS. Anyway.

For Dec 11, makamu asked: Say somebody is trying to understand what makes you as a fan tick. What 5 canons or fanworks should they consume to get an understanding of teyla the fan?

( Answer under the cut. )

That's it! That's a lot of media to consume xD. If you wanted to analyze for themes and stuff... I suppose I like oddball over-the-top melodrama with wild tone shifts and a lot of plot, though the plot making sense is optional. And I will always be happy about depictions of relationships that are so close they transcend friendship, but that are not traditionally romantic.

Is it too late to join the December Posting Meme? I am going to try anyway xD Though I have reduced the days to weekends since I am going to get overwhelmed if I have to write a post every day. The Dec 24/25 may be a few days late. Snagged from various people on the reading list!

I'm soliciting questions for this year's December posting meme - your chance to ask me an interesting (or boring - I don't judge), impertinent, unusual or usual question! Can be about a fannish opinion or headcanon, about me, a top 5, or my thoughts on anything that strikes your fancy. Please pick a day and give me a topic!


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Dec 11 - Say somebody is trying to understand what makes you as a fan tick. What 5 canons or fanworks should they consume to get an understanding of teyla the fan? from makamu
Dec 17 - What tags (beyond relationship ones) will inevitably make you click on a fic? from solo
Dec 18 - Which video game or video game series have you never vidded but would like to, and what would you want to vid about it? brokenmnemonic
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There's a meme going around on Twitter where you post a list of your WIPs (exact title of your document, no fibbing) and people ask about the ones they're curious about.

I have a lot of WIPs, and no titling discipline, so this one was amusing to collate, and also far too long for Twitter. I am adding the fandom to be slightly less cryptic. This goes back at least to 2016; I dug up some stuff I'd completely forgotten about.

Pick any you're interested in, and I'll tell you about them, and post a snippet!

( Entirely too-long WIP list )

(Sorry for just dropping a meme in here without interacting on anyone's posts or, well, anything. At some point in 2021 I will remember how interacting on the internet works. Until then, all I got is memes.)

I did the ultimate trope showdown!

1 Enemies to Friends to Lovers
2 They Break Up (but then They Get Back Together)
3 Seemingly Unrequited Pining
4 Hurt/Comfort
5 Snowed-In Cabin/Isolated Together For Extended Period of Time
6 Pride and Prejudice AU
7 Amnesia Fic
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No real surprises there. All the tropes with people being hella antagonistic but also horny for each other and possibly in love go up top, middle ground is where all the fluff ends up, and everything supernatural-y comes after. Kind of surprised that "Actually Unrequited Pining" isn't higher up in the list, but then, I do like a happy ending. :D

Bit late to the game, but here I go with post one of the Snowflake Challenge!

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

I posted links to a few of my recent fanworks in my last post already, so forgive me for including two of those works in this rec. They're my most recent, and therefore the ones I'm proudest of at the moment.

1) FANFIC: Jessica Jones Femslash

I'm including this because it's my first femslash fic and I found it quite freeing to write. It was nice to tell a story about awesome women for a change.

Title: Proxemics
Fandom: Jessica Jones (TV)
Rating: PG
Pairing: Jessica Jones/Trish Walker
Word Count: 14,833
Summary: Proxemics: the study of personal space. In which the aftermath of Kilgrave’s death prompts Trish and Jess to redefine some boundaries.
AO3 Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Self-Worth Issues, Self-Destructive Behavior, Trauma, Recovery, Canon-compliant portrayal of PTSD, some hurt/comfort and some pining but mostly ladies being awesome and overcoming shit, plus a lot of lesbians, explicit and non-explicit, trust me all non-explicit lesbians are in fact lesbians, and of course there’s a happy ending because yuletide

2) FANVID: Ten/Simm!Master Time Lord Angst

Ten/Simm!Master will remain my forever OTP. I know fandom opinions divided on End of Time, but I love those episodes with all my heart. Time Lords are ridiculous.

Title: Weapon
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Tenth Doctor/Simm!Master
Summary: The Master was Rassilon's last weapon in the Time War, but it backfired.

( Vimeo stream under the cut. )

3) FANART: Holmes/Watson Crossdressing

This is very recent and was a quick one-off more than anything, but I quite like the way it turned out, and it did not get a lot of attention on Tumblr, so I'm sharing it here. Besides, Holmes/Watson in any incarnation are always appropriate.

Fandom: Guy Ritchie!Holmes
Medium: Digital art, Photoshop CS5 and Wacom tablet, pencil and watercolor brushes

( Fanart under the cut. )

I love theorizing about characters. :3 Might take me a bit to answer, depending on which character you pick, as I'm kind of busy atm. But I love the concept of this meme, so I didn't want to pass it up.

Pick a fictional character from a fandom I know and I'll answer the following questions.

1) What is your opinion of this character? If you like, explain why you like him/her. Likewise if you dislike the character.

2) Is he/she important to the general plot?

3) Can you relate to this character at all? Do they grip you emotionally?

4) How much do you like the fandom that this character comes from?

5) Do you ship this character with any other character? Or, are you particularly intrigued by their relationship with any other character(s)? (romance-wise or platonic)

6) Is there anything about the character you would change?

7) If you were in the fandom with this character or knew this character in real life, how do you see yourself interacting with him/her? (Would you get along well? Fall in love with? Dislike? Friendly rivalry? etc etc)

8) Does this character make the cut as one of your all time favorites (if you like) or least favorites?

9) Would you hype up this character (if you like) or warn about (if you dislike) to someone who's new to the fandom?

10) Is this character popular with the fanbase?

I don't usually post meme-type things, but this one amused me.

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How did Ace die horribly? As far as I remember, Seven took her to Gallifrey and got her enrolled at the Prydonian Academy. Oh well. If she stayed on Gallifrey, I'm sure she died horribly eventually.

I have decided I want to knit this. To this purpose, I bought some knitting needles, some tapestry needles and some yarn today. (I bought blue yarn because the red yarn the pattern wants me to use costs £5 a ball, and I'd need 10 balls. The yarn I bought, I got the same amount of yarn for £7.50. Be awed by my bargain hunting skills.)

Anyway, I'll see how that will go. I've bought all the yarn, so I should have an incentive to actually finish this. I do like the eyelet pattern. I knitted a hat that used it; it looks pretty.

In other news, no news. I've been watching Burn Notice and can't quite decide if I like it. Fiona is awesome. I also acquired the new SPN episode, but I can't get myself to watch it. I want Robocop Sam back. Right now, it feels like they're just rehashing the same emotional arc they based their last four seasons on. But then, it's SPN, so I probably shouldn't be expecting anything else.

I don't usually post on Valentine's Day, but I felt like it today. So . . .



HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Meme? Give me a pairing from a fandom I know, and I will try and come up with a Valentine's Day scenario for them. (I say try because I don't know how creative I feel today. I can give it a shot, though!)

I bought a set of Tarot cards. It's Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck, and I freely admit that I picked this one mostly because a) it was created by a dude called Crowley, b) it had pretty pictures, and c) it came in a pocket deck version that is smaller than the usual card size, and was cheaper than all the others.

( Tarot cards. )

Speaking of plots, yesterday, when I was in Roanoke with Jasper and sirdoctoroftardis, I remembered a game I used to play with my sister. One player would name a character, or a pair of characters, an object, and an event/something that has to happen. So, for example, player one could name Dean and Castiel, a bible, and a condom being blown up like a balloon. Player two then has to take the character(s), the object and the event and integrate them in a plot outline. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's fun, and sometimes you come up with really cool plots that will spawn bunnies and make you end up wanting to write fic.

So! Let's play? Character(s), object, event, and I will come up with a plot outline. If I successfully manage to do so, I will give you a character, an object and an event in return. (Only if you want me to. You don't have to reciprocate if you don't feel like it.) If you're lucky, commentfic might happen. Maybe.

1. Reply to this post and I will pick 6 to 8 of your icons.
2. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts, creating a never ending cycle of icon squee.

mind_the_tardis gave me:


( Eight icons under the cut. )

More 5-question-meme answers.

euclase asked:
1-ten years from now, you're the producer of a popular show. what's the show about, and who's in it? and how awesome is it? :D
2-what writers, apart from rtd, have had the most influence on you?
3-what qualities make the best/sexiest/most interesting characters, in your opinion?
4-you've just experienced the most relaxing, wonderful day of your life. what happened?
5-which places or experiences in the us were your favorites?

( Answers for euclase. )


mind_the_tardis asked:
- What does marriage mean to you?
- What way would you least like to die? Think common death reasons: car accident, cancer, old age with senility, heart attack, etc. Not "I would least like to be eaten by a shark after being shot several times by mob bosses and dumped in a bay."
- Really, where would you most like to live, once you get out of school?
- What episode by RTD did you like least? (And, if I can cheat, what episode by Moffat did you like best?)
- Will your Cas muse call the Master an 'assbutt' if he threads with him?

( Answers for mind_the_tardis. )


allaroughdraft asked:
1.) For any or as many characters as you'd like to answer -- what's five things you always try to keep in mind while playing [x character]? (Apparently I'm just going to ask everybody this.)
2.) What does being married mean to you?
3.) If your life was a television show, what would your fandom be like? What would people ship? What sort of cliches would pop up in the fic? What sort of fan would you be, if you were in that fandom?
4.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, why would you change it, and how do you think the loss of it/the difference involved would change you overall, for better or worse?
5.) What five shows/movies/books would you never touch, short of someone paying you a million dollars to watch/read them, and why?

( Answers for allaroughdraft. )

THAT WERE A LOT OF WORDS THAR. Kudos to everyone who got through all of that.

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Q&A MEME
- Leave me a comment saying you want to participate.
- I'll respond by asking you five questions.
- Update your journal with the answers to your questions.

daphnie_1 asked:

1) If you went on Mastermind, what would your specialist subject be?
Iii dunno? There's nothing specific I'm good at; I'm more a general knowledge kind of person. Maybe geography. Or Doctor Who. If I can pick a television show. I have to admit that I've never watched a complete episode of Mastermind.

2) If you could run away with: The Doctor, the Master, the Rani or Romana, who would you choose?
The Doctor. The Master's too nuts, the Rani's too fixated on science, and Romana's a pain in the ass. Yes, I would even run away with Four. I would probably push him off a cliff, though.

3) As a future television producer, which TV show do you think has had the most defining effect on you?
Definitely Doctor Who. Or, to be precise, RTD's era. It was the first television show that gripped me not only on a fannish level, but on a level where I looked past the characters at the production team and decided that yes, this is what I want to do. The confidentials helped--watching them, and seeing how much effort people put in this project, and how many people are involved in creating it, made me realize that this is a process I would love to be part of. So, yes, RTD's Who.

4) You have the chance to say anything to any historical figure. Who do you pick and what do you say?
Even if I could talk to historical figures, I probably would fail to see the point. Nothing I could say would make a difference, since history has already happened. That said, I might go back and tell Gandhi that I think he was a wonderful, smart person, and that I hope that his work and his ideas will continue to be remembered far into the future.

5) What do you think makes a good story?
( This gets a cut because it's long. )

Also, if you're a role player; an f-lister linked to a survey an academic friend of hers is conducting as part of her research for her master's thesis. It's about gender and sexuality of players and characters in role play games. It took me about an hour to fill out. If you have Thoughts On Role Play, you can totally knock yourself out in this survey.

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Comment, and I'll give you a colour. And then you post ten things that colour that you like.

recrudescence gave me "brown". If you want a color, please tell me so in your comment--so feel free to comment even if you don't want to do this meme.



( Big image under the cut. )

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Meme stolen from wihluta.

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. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions!

It's actually much harder than it sounds to pick your 10 favorite movies. The ones in this meme aren't necessarily my all-time favorites ever, but they're movies I like and appreciate and would watch again. Also, feel free to throw some quotes my way in the comments! Guessing movie/TV series quotes is always fun.

( Quotes under the cut. )

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SecretAdmirerAnonymeme

Haven't done one of these in a while. Please, stroke my ego! :D? In other news, two people linked me to this today:



You think they were trying to tell me something?

God, internet, I am so goddamn unmotivated and bored today. TELL ME A STORY. Or post a funny gif or a macro in the comments, or something. FREE FOR ALL. 3, 2, 1, go for it.

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Give me a character from any fandom I know at least fairly well, and I will tell you:

A) My OTP
B) The runner up
C) The anti-ship
D) My unpopular fannish opinion on said character
E) One person he/she never fell in love with, and why.

And, so you can get something out of this as well, I'll also tell you which television, movie or book character you remind me of. With pics, if I can manage.

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One I snagged from tinnny and the other from mind_the_tardis.

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strikethrough the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

( Twenty items, coming up. )

And to keep with the trying-to-write-more idea, here's a drabble prompt meme.

1. Put your mp3 player on shuffle and take the first 25 (I went for 10) songs it gives you.
2. Link to the lyrics. (And I also linked to the songs. Because I'm just a nice person like that.)
3. Let your friends assign you a song and character(s) to write a drabble to. (Is this point awkwardly worded or what?)

Characters/Pairing: Whoever you feel like throwing at me. I THINK COLONY SHOULD BE A TRANSFORMERS DRABBLE. Disregarding the fact, of course, that I've never seen any of the movies or read any of the comics. >_> (Terminator, then, maybe?)
One Rule: Uh . . . no rules. Go for it.

( Ten songs. )

Bed now. Drabbles tomorrow. Night!

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I've been talking to a lot of people over the last few days who were really down. Not just having a bad day, but really tired and worn out by everyday life. I get that, being down, and I know it sucks. It's horrible. And there's nothing you can do about it, not really.

Right now, I'm not down. I'm about to go on an awesome vacation, and I'm doing a course that even after a year is still keeping my interest. All the more, every time I talk to someone who's not doing so well at the moment, I feel that I should do something. I should help somehow. Because apparently, I seem to have found out about some trick to not be down that I could share with them, which would make their lives so much easier to bear. That's nonsense, of course, but it's an emotional response I have to seeing people depressed--wanting to talk to them, and wanting to help.

Now, I don't know how useful this will be to anyone, but I thought I could give it a try. I'm screening all comments to this post; I'll turn anonymous comments on, and IP logging off. And if anyone feels like they need to get something off their chest, please, leave a comment. If you don't want me to reply, put a note at the bottom of your comment and I won't. I also won't talk to you or to anyone about what you put into your comment outside of this post, unless you want me to.

Free-for-all confession meme; have at it. I kind of got the impression that quite a few people could use something like this right now. <3

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Is it Monday? It's not Monday. The Doctor says it isn't, and the Doctor speaks TRUFAX. Everybody come party in the TARDIS, because the TARDIS is timeless and has never seen a Monday in her whole long existence.


IT'S NOT MONDAY RP MEME


<b><big><u><font style="color: #3333ff;"><a href="http://t-eyla.livejournal.com/281198.html" target="_blank">IT'S NOT MONDAY RP MEME</a></font></u></big></b>

Feel free to tag in with anything that isn't RP as well. COMMENTPORN. Or just commentfic. OR YOU CAN ALSO JUST TALK TO ME. I will talk to you, too. *nods* AND PIMP IT YO. EVERYBODY NEEDS LESS MONDAY.

And now I will go to work where there will be no internets for 8 hours, hur hur hur. I EXPECT TAGS FOR WHEN I GET BACK.

Remember this meme that was all over LJ about a month ago? Yeah, I forgot that I requested a tag for it as well. So, this is me, answering a month-old meme. >_>

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them on your LJ and explain what they mean to you. If you simply wish to comment on something I've said but don't want to participate in the meme, that's fine. I will only give you five words if you specifically comment you with "Words!".

( Explodedpen gave me: Creative, The Doctor, Germany, Fandom, Stephen King. )

I'm at neery's, and there's going to be a fangirl meet-up with tinnny, zeroambi and aryshtin. Should be fun! And then, on Monday, work again. Ugh. But I booked my flight to the US--31st of August until 22nd of September. I am very much looking forward to it! Which is making work bearable.

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