From joonscribble

Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Fay chose silver glitter instead of gold") or big (e.g. "and then Rose was arrested instead of Jack") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.

Stories can be found in memories, by the tags to your left and through the fic round-up tag.

I've been meaning to watch the BBC show 'Merlin' for awhile now, it sounding like something I'd enjoy. I never got around to it, but now they are showing it on CTV, so tonight I watched a couple of episodes. Unfortunately, I missed the first two episodes since they showed them on Father's Day last weekend. Thus, I was slightly confused...

( spoilers ahoy )

Stolen from joonscribble

Pick five characters (canon or original) and pick a song that reminds you of him or her. The song doesn't have to represent them as a complete whole. It can be about a certain point in their lives. Explanations and sound files optional.

( The Doctor, Mickey Smith, Tony Stark, Connie Murphy, Simon Tam )

Well, after eight billion years of toiling, I am now a high school graduate. I posses a diploma and everything. The ceremony was tonight and it was hot as all hell, but I managed to get through it by waiting at an outside door until it was my turn to go up on stage and I didn't faint or get sick, so booyah! I am also an Ontario Scholar which was unexpected and very cool.

My parents, Ama, Adam and Stacey came to cheer me on and a lot of my old teachers were there, including most of my favourites, so I was glad to see them and they were glad to see me. I would have liked to mingle a little more, but it was too hot to stay and I managed to talk to most of my favourite teachers.

Just woke up from a WOW/Jessica's Cupcake Cafe themed dream/nightmare in which I was being chased by dragons and forced to make them cupcakes while members of my group were picked off one by one. I managed to survive to the end and the dragons left us a nice photo album to commemorate our time/forced enslavement together.

I finally saw Star Trek last night. I loved it. Squee behind the cut:

( Spoilers! )

Title: Forget the Flowers (TVverse)
Characters: Anna Murphy, Murphy (referred to as Mom)
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Word count: 583
Summary: Anna Murphy knows by what criteria her mom's dates should be judged. (Implied Harry/Murphy.)
Author's notes: A little ficlet written for the 'flower' challenge @ dresdenflashfic.

( Flowers, Anna had decided, meant you were trying too hard. )

Title: Modern Day Knight (TVverse)
Characters: Sonia (random OC girl), Morgan
Rating: PG (for some violence)
Spoilers: None
Word count: 1, 348
Summary: When her boyfriend turns out to be less than knightly, a young woman is saved by a very unusual rescuer.
Author's notes: Done for the 'Morgan' prompt @ dresdenflashfic.

( When she played pretend, the knight never tried to kill her. )

joonscribble did this one with books, but I've modified it and done it with movies.

( Movie Countdown )

Yesterday (as of 18 minutes ago) was my birthday. I am now 23-years-old. I don't feel any different from 22-years-old, although I am one year closer to that 24-years-old that has always seemed to be 'grown-up' to me.

I had a nice, mellow day. Adam and Amalie joined us for supper (Mum's spaghetti and a Dairy Queen blizzard cake, both very excellent). Adam and Amalie got me a WOW game card and the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, which is nifty. I'm so broke, I couldn't afford a subscription lately, so that was very cool. From my parents I got a new lightbox (Dad accidentally sent mine to Value Village) for costuming and a beautiful butterfly bedecked portfolio to put said costuming in. I also got a Casino Royale DVD and a Gift Card for Jumbo Video rentals, much nail polish, The Princep's Fury by Jim Butcher and a gorgeous leather make-up case for all my beauty stuff. Plus money. Money is always good.

Ama and Stacey are coming again later in the week for a girls' party. Stacey had to work tonight and couldn't come.

Thanks to everyone who wished me well and/or gifted me! I really appreciate it.

I went to see Angels & Demons with Mum today. We had to decide between that, Wolverine and Star Trek. Mum doesn't dig Star Trek so much and I'd already seen Wolverine, plus we'd watched The Davinci Code on TV last week and Mum doesn't have a great memory for plot details, so she thought we should see it while it was fresh. I had read The Davinci Code, and seen the movie, enjoyed both as not great works of literature/cinema, but entertaining enough. I haven't read Angels & Demons. My brother said it was the worst book he's ever read, so, you know, not highly recommended to me. However! I really enjoyed Angels & Demons. It works much better that Davinci Code, because there is a time limit. It's race against the clock and so it's more suspenseful. Plus the consequences are more dire if they fail. It was slightly too long, I could have done with one or two less plot twists, but I would recommend it if you enjoyed Davinci Code and/or enjoy history and symbology and such. Plus, Ewan MacGregor.

In other news, I've started posting in my dreamwidth journal. At moment there are song translations/rambles about Roméo et Juliette, which is a French musical I'm very fond of. The icon I'm using is from there.

Hope everyone had a good weekend and will have a good week!

From, surprisingly enough book_memes.

Life of Books Meme:

( Under here. )

Title: Firefighter
Characters: Pepper, Tony, Jarvis
Rating: PG
Spoilers: The movie, I guess. It's set pre-movie, so not plot spoilers, really.
Word count: 2, 169
Summary: Pepper Potts goes on a job interview. PRE-MOVIE.
Author's notes: This has been sitting around half finished for awhile and, for some reason, last night, I was able to finish it. I hope you enjoy it!

( I mean, you’re probably blushing like crazy right now. )

I has a Dreamwidth! I'm royalsongstress over there, if anyone feels like friending me. There is absolutely nothing there, yet. I have to decide what I'm going to use it for. Existential ramblings? Thoughtful essays? Stuff? I don't know. But it's pretty, at least. That's the most important part.

One of my questiony posts, requiring information from the Yanks, regarding: hospital/Health Care visits and, uh, macaroni and cheese. I never said they were intelligent questions...

( Questions! )

I've been meaning to do this for ages, but I never got around to it until now.

Since I think most of my flist is flisted on my flist's flists, I think a lot of recs I would give to LJ stuff would be known to most people. So, I thought I'd do some recs from FF.net, since they would be less likely to have been read before.

( Recs for Firefly, Stargate, SAJV, LOTR. )

I love live theatre! Mum and I went to a local production of RENT tonight. It was the School Edition version, so all the cast members had to be under nineteen and the show itself was slightly toned down (less swearing, and no Contact number). This did not diminish the enjoyment at all, since the cast was excellent. The guy playing Roger was great, an awesome singer and a good actor too. Angel was hysterical, and considering it was a teenage boy, was really brave in embracing the role. Collins and Mimi could NOT sing. They were wonderful actors and everything, but some notes were painful. I respected the fact that they went for the notes nonetheless though. Joanne had an awesome voice, she sing the solo in Seasons of Love and hit the high note perfectl - twice. Maureen was very good and she had a great voice, too. Benny did a good job of making his character sympathetic and Mark, while not a great singer, carried the show very nicely. There were a few problems with mikes and lighting cues, but it was opening night, so I can forgive that.

There's nothing like live theatre, is there? It makes me glee!

From joonscribble:

Comment to this entry and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

1. What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2. Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3. Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?
4. Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5. Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

She gave me: Firefly, Dresden Files, Stargate

( Rambles. )

Title: God Laughs
Characters: Dr. Forrester (OC), Samara Forrester (OC), Harry
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Word count: 587
Summary: Forrester learns that being a wizard's pet doctor can be hazardous to one's dinner plans.
Author's notes: Written for tigerkat24 who asked for 'Forrester - oh, ye gods, it's him again' and for the 'Work' prompt on my occhallenge table.

( No, it’s never lupus )

Taken from donutsweeper with her modifications intact and mine added:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble or ficlet, or something of a pairing/character of their choosing from me (within reason, and a word prompt or suggestion along those lines would be nice). In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (You really don't have to do this though, unless you want.)

You know what I write and don't write for the most part, so go forth and request. I need to get my word faerie on the treadmill or something. She's slowing down.