Title: Lost at Sea
Characters: Harry, mini!Dresdens
Rating: G
Spoilers: References to 'What about Bob?' (I think). Set in my mini!Dresdens 'verse.
Word count: 2527
Summary: Aren't vacations supposed to be relaxing?
Author's notes: Written for the Water challenge @ dresdenflashfic. Thanks to Ama, who informed me I needed to write some fluff and then gave me the idea for what to write.

( We don't do normal. )

Go see Iron Man. That is all.

First, from _medley_

( What kind of thinker am I? )

Second, from joonscribble

Everyone has things they blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by asking me about something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on slash, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

A woman my mum works with sent her home with Series 5 of QI and some episodes of I'd Do Anything on couple of disks. I watched the first two episodes of I'd Do Anything tonight and I am totally addicted.

It's sort of like American Idol for musical theatre. It's a British show, and they're trying to find people to play Nancy and Oliver in the new West End production of Oliver!. They've done two previous series, one to find Maria in The Sound of Music and one to find Joseph for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. They need one woman for Nancy and 3 young boys to play Oliver. John Barrowman is one of the judges/coaches, so that's kind of cool, mostly I'm finding the show itself really interesting. It's like American Idol, but I care, you know? I love musical theatre. So I'm up to the Top 12 now, where the women and boys are going to be started to be voted on by the public. I decided to wait until my mum could watch it with me, since I thought she'd enjoy it.

I haven't watch any of the QI, yet, but I know that'll be good because QI is love.

In other news, I am having the worst time with my Water fic for dresdenflashfic. I started with one story which went absolutely nowhere, so I talked it out with Ama and she gave me a new idea, which I've now written, but it's way too long and I'm trying to cut it down so it has a nice, clean plotline and...blargh! I haven't missed a challenge there yet, but I wasn't terribly happy with the last one I wrote (for the Fire challenge), so I'd rather not submit one than submit one I'm not happy with. Hopefully the fact that it's driving me crazy is only because it's late. Maybe tomorrow everything will look better and I'll be able to edit it into something submittable. If not, oh well.

My dresdenficathon fic is coming along nicely now, though, after a rough start. I realized I was coming at it from the wrong angle and now it's going along quite quickly. I'm pretty confident I'll have it done in time.

Also, I got a 97 on my Philosophy exam! Whoot! I don't know my final mark yet, but I'm obviously very pleased with that.

I missed doing this yesterday, so:

Happy Birthday, Journal!

It became one year old on April 27th.

I'd just like to thank everyone on my f-list for letting me read your entries and talk with you. You are wonderful, fascinating people and I enjoy the time I spend here. Thank you to everyone who's left me a comment as well, you always make my day. :-)

Doing one of my question round-up posts, this time RE: the Dresden Files bookverse. Spoilers for up to and including White Night.

PSA: I haven't read all of Small Favor yet, so please don't spoil any plot points in the comments. I know some of the answers might be found in Small Favor and I just haven't reached them yet, but I'm working at reading it in bursts and I want to make sure I have some idea of the answers in order to have enough time to finishing writing before my ficathon deadline.

( Fishing for opinions... )

Title: Part of the Bargain
Characters: Murphy
Rating: G
Spoilers: None.
Word count: 536
Summary: The things one does for a friendship.
Author's notes: A little ficlet written as a sequel to Life Support. Rather fluffy. You won't understand this unless you've read that, I don't think.

( His crazy is rubbing off on you. )

joonscribble does book rec's quite often and I'm always impressed with her well-readedness (well-readitivity?). I thought I'd offer a list of some of my favourite books of all time, not to show off my well-readedness, but to share the book love.

( Books! )

Title: Life Support
Characters: Murphy, Harry, Anna
Rating: PG
Prompt: Air
Spoilers: None.
Word count: 1699
Summary: Somethings don't need to be said.
Author's notes: Written for the 'air' challenge at dresdenflashfic. It includes an OC from a story called Somnus that I wrote, but you don't need to have read that to understand this one. Thanks to my mum the nurse for helping me out with a bit of the medical stuff, even though I might have fudged a few things for the sake of storytelling. Harry/Murphy friendship and more if you want to read it that way.

( Sometimes I wish I had her faith... )

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. And so it goes.

Stolen from two people...

( In which I ramble in a rambly fashion... )

Stolen from joonsribble, who is an enabler. ;-)

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows" ever. Below is the list and here be the rules.

1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of, or as near as makes no difference.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least some episodes of. (I'm going by: seen a couple all the way through)

( Can you tell I don't watch a lot of TV? )

The second part of the Character Meme I posted awhile back. I was looking through my file folders, found it and decided to finish it up. Characters were sort with the randomizer since I'd already seen the questions before I chose my characters.

Choose 12 characters...
1. Carlos Ramirez (Dresden Files Bookverse)
2. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
3. Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)
4. Dr. Forrester (my Somnus story)
5. Karrin Murphy (Dresden Files Bookverse)
6. Jack Harkness (The Fandom of Jack Harkness, referred to as 'Jack' in the questions)
7. Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1, referred to as 'O'Neill' in the questions)
8. Fay Dresden (My mini!Dresdens 'verse)
9. Harry Dresden (Dresden Files TV)
10. Hrothbert of Bainbridge (Bob) (Dresden Files TV)
11. Rodney McKay (Stargate Atlantis)
12. Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

( Answer 24 questions... )

Stolen from gusthemoose's Murphy RP journal and manipulating for my own purposes. (Muhahaha!)

Character Questions Meme
1. Go here to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 100. DO THIS FIRST.

2. Choose a character that I write or have written, be it a canon person (Mal), an OC (Dr. Forrester, no matter how small) or whatever.

3. Comment with the character and the numbers, and then I will answer the corresponding questions from here.

If you choose Mal or Fay or Graylin (or anyone of a minor age), any questions inappropriate to ask a child will be answered as though they were adults. You can choose a couple of characters if you want.

Taken from joonscribble.

You have to use 3 words to answer each question. No more, no less. It’s harder than you think.

( Under here, please. )

So, Easter went very well for me. My mum had to work on Sunday so we did the family thing on Monday. We had brunch...at 6:00 at night. We were going to do it in the morning, but my brother had school and then we were going to do it after that but Amalie's brother George (who is rooming with Adam and Ama for awhile) was working, so we ended up doing it at night. We still had breakfast food though - fried potatoes, sausages, toast, bacon, scrambled eggs and pancakes. Plus some key lime yogurt bars for dessert that I made for my dad. He's diabetic, so they were sugar free and he really likes key lime things. Note to the world: juicing key limes is a bitch. The Easter bunny came at night too, and there was much chocolate to be had.

On Sunday, Amalie, Stacey and Erica came over to dye Easter eggs. I found out a few years back that Ama had never done it as a kid, so I started the tradition. It turns out Stacey and Erica had never done it before either, so it was a bit like being a kindergarten teacher. I spent more time instructing and watching than actually doing anything. Which was fine, because it was a total, total, total blast. At one point I was laughing so hard I was crying. Total fun.

Then we watched Enchanted (which is sooooo good) and had much merriment before Stacey and Erica left so Stacey could go to her Easter dinner thing. It's sort of awesome how four 21 - 24 year olds can have that much fun doing totally childish things. I love my group of friends. Ama stayed for a little while longer and let me read my stories to her and chatted out some of the ones that aren't completed yet. She's good like that.

And now I'm off to school to be historical. Hope everyone else had a lovely Easter for those who celebrate it. If you don't, I hope you had a lovely weekend. :-)

Title: Buried Treasure
Characters: Harry, mentions of his parents and Justin
Rating: G
Spoilers: Not spoilerish really, but won't make much sense if you haven't seen 'What about Bob?'
Word count: 967
Summary: Harry buries the past. Pre-Series.
Author's notes: Done for the 'Earth' challenge at dresdenflashfic. Set about a month after Justin's death. Introspective.

( Harry’s Box (as it was always referred to in his mind) was full of things... )

I am done my Philosophy course! I still have to write the exam, but all the work is done.

Take that, Philosophy course! You think you could break me with your nonsensical questions and your misnumbered answers and your strange lack of quotation marks in certain articles, but I have prevailed! I stand upon your smouldering remains and laugh, laugh I say! Muahahaha!

On to World History. High school diploma, here I come! Boo-yah!

From donutsweeper.


Tell me the title of a story I haven't written, details optional, and I'll give you a summary. If you're really lucky, I might even write the story for you.

Feel free to be as specific to characters or fandoms as you wish and to suggest a few.

I'm not seeing quotation marks or apostrophes on some people's entries for some reason. It makes it very hard to read stories. I'm guessing it's maybe only posts composed in Word or maybe with a program like Semagic. It doesn't seem to be on my own posts, I can read them fine. The quotations and apostrophes look like periods or dashes. Sort of like .Jack,. The Doctor.s voice said. It's hard to read. Any suggestions on what the problem might be and/or how to fix it?

ETA: It looks like this if that helps anyone.

Excerpt is from donutsweeper's journal, a story that can be found here.

Taken from joonscribble.


When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

A very selected selection because if I did excerpts from all of them, we'd be here until next January. Keep in mind these aren't edited yet are subject to changes. Also, don't hold your breath for their completion. ;-)

( From the depths of my file folders... )