It's another meme! From the lovely joonscribble (again).

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

You can find my fics via memories (not up-to-date) and tags (links to the left).

From the lovely joonscribble.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.

2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

The Characters
1. Harry Dresden (Dresden Files TV)
2. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
3. Tony Stark (Iron Man)
4. Cal Lightman (Lie to Me)
5. Ray Kowalski (due South)
6. Anna Murphy (Dresden Files TV)
7. Kaylee Frye (Firefly)
8. 10th Doctor (Doctor Who)
9. Rick Castle (Castle)
10. Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood)

You might want to choose your characters now, if this meme interests you. Otherwise you'll see the prompts when you read the fics.

( 15 words or less. )

First, from joonscribble

Comment with what you believe I should write next. A drabble? A oneshot? An epic? The next chapter of a WIP from ages ago? Want to see me write in an old tried and true fandom or dip my toe into a different fandom I've praised but have yet to fic? Specific character? Specific genre? Give me your suggestions and poke my Muse.

Next, from featherjean

Give me a fandom I'm in, a character or pairing (or threesome/whatever), and a prompt (word, image, phrase, poem, reference, whatever) and I'll give you something creative made of words. (Meta? A line of fic? A paragraph? A drabble? A ficlet? A full story? We'll see.)

From the lovely joonscribble:


Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

( She asked... )

From joonscribble: what TeeVees I'm watching this fall.

( Shows. )

I just literally spent two and half hours combing/brushing/coercing a knot out of my hair. Two and a half hours. Literally. And there is a still a large portion of it left untangled because I cannot reach it. This is a warning to all those people out there who say 'Oh, you're so lucky, I want curly hair.' NO YOU DON'T. You do not want curly hair.

Friends don't let friends want curly hair.

My brother identified the problem with my computer as being motherboard related and my dad went to buy me a new one today, only to find that my computer is so old, it's obsolete. They don't make parts for it anymore. So, I'm getting a new computer. Which is, in the long run, awesome and probably much needed. He's going to get it tomorrow.

A moment of silence for Shelby, the computer which kept me sane during all those years I was sick and house-ridden. I love you.

In other news, it's Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. There will be sugar-free pun'kin pie. And dinner rolls. Also, I'm going to a baby shower for my friend tomorrow, which will be fun. I've never been to a baby shower before. And finally, I had my second ASL class last night and I am enjoying it supermuch. Also, Zip sent me Spaced, so Ama and I watched Series 1 today. There will be iconage. When the new computer arrives.

So, all in all, things aren't that bad. Hope everyone else is doing well!

From joonscribble:

Take a few of your original characters and tell us...

1. How you thought of their name
2. What made you create the character in the first place
3. How the character has changed over time (if they have changed)
4. Any random fun fact about that character

Characters Playing:
Miranda Dresden
Dr. Forrester
Fay Dresden

( To the backstory repository! )

Memes soothe a frazzled soul, so I went looking for one to help ease my computerless pain. I am typing in Notepad on my 'rents' computer and it doesn't look right! The font is wrong and the screen is stretched out. But I will persevere for the good of meme kind.


1. Choose a few of your own characters. Five at the most.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Then tag three people.
4. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!

Characters playing:
Dr. Forrester
Fay Dresden
Dylan Cartwright

( Questions! )

I am typing this from my parents' computer because mine will not turn on. At all. And, it being nearly 11:00pm, we can't call my brother the computer guru to come fix it. I'm not too worried about file loss, since a quick Google suggests it's rarely a hard drive problem. Unless it got fried during the power outage we had this afternoon. cleolinda has just gone through a huge fiasco under similar circumstances, so I am a bit worried about my poor computer. It's mostly just annoying. I will not be able to get the WOW Brewfest achievement, since I won't have enough tokens. Plus, I have to post an icon challenge tomorrow and all my coding is on the computer I can't access.

This is not a pleasant way to start the week.

Fingers crossed, people!

Poor Shilling. I forgot to take him for a walk yesterday, and I was going to take him for a walk a few minutes ago. He's so cute when you put his leash on:

"Oh,arewegoingforawalk?Canwegonow?Doyouneedhelpgettingready?MaybeIcouldgoaheadofyouandyoucouldcatchup?OrIcouldjustgoandtakemyself,youdon'tneedtocomeatall!"

So, I put the leash on and go to find some walking shoes. In the time it takes me to go down the hall and back, it starts to rain. I think, 'well, it's not that bad, I could just take an umb-' and it starts to pour.

I apologize to Shill and take his leash off. He's like:

"Oh,areyoutakingmyleashoff?Dadusuallykeepsiton,butIguessthat'sokay!Canwegonow?Doyouneedhelpgettingready?MaybeIcouldgoaheadofyouandyoucouldcatchup?OrIcouldjustgoandtakemyself,youdon'tneedtocomeatall!"

I take my shoes off and he's still dancing around. I go the basement and he's all:

"Oh,areyougoingtothebasement?Isthereanalternateexitdownthere?Canwegonow?Doyouneedhelpgettingready?MaybeIcouldgoaheadofyouandyoucouldcatchup?OrIcouldjustgoandtakemyself,youdon'tneedtocomeatall!"

So, now I'm at the computer, typing this tale and Shilling has come downstairs and trotted up to me.

"This is a weird place for a walk, why are you sitting down, can we go now? No? We aren't going are we?"

Poor Shilling.

From joonscribble:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

For anyone needing clarification: you make up the title of this fic I never wrote and what you liked about it. I'll take care of the rest. (thanks to joonscribble for the clarification, too)

Title: Distractions
Characters: Kaylee, Wash
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Word count: 408
Summary: When the crew goes out on a mission, those left behind have to entertain themselves somehow. Pre-Serenity Pilot.
Author's notes: A little ficlet written for bringthehappy. The prompt was 'Kaylee and Wash, puzzle'.

( And that suited them just fine. )

Title: Study Break
Characters: Uhura, Spock
Rating: PG for brief swearing
Spoilers: None
Word count: 679
Summary: Spock discovers jelly beans. Spock/Uhura. Pre-movie.
Author's notes: A little ficlet written for bringthehappy. The prompt was 'spock/uhura, jelly beans'.

( He seems to be having trouble with that logic – or lack there of. )

Hello f-listites! My icon challenge over at still_epics could use some votes, so if you have a minute, could you wander over and put in a vote? The theme is Miyazaki films and it's a pretty straight forward process of voting for the ones you like. The voting post is here. Thanks muchly!

Answers to the Top Five Meme.

( Lists! )

Stolen from joonscribble:

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

dvd_commentary is having another around and I've given permission for my stories to be commentaried, should anyone get the urge.

Stories can be found through tags, at The Archive (DF only), and FF.net.

Don't forget to come play at bringthehappy! There's lots of fun to be had. Here's what I've written so far (for my own organizational purposes):

Coffee Table Science (Eleventh Hour, G, Rachel/Jacob 'experiment' prompt)
Study Break (Star Trek (reboot), PG, Spock/Uhura 'jelly beans' prompt)
Good Different (Doctor Who/Torchwood, G, Ianto & Rose 'jam' prompt)
Expectant (Star Trek (reboot), G, Kirk 'acting like a real captain' prompt)
Distractions (Firefly (pre-Serenity pilot), G, Kaylee & Wash 'puzzle' prompt)
Untitled (Iron Man, G, Pepper 'vacation' prompt, Drabble Tree drabble)
Untitled (Stargate SG-1, G, Major Davis 'promotion' prompt, Drabble Tree drabble)

Meme from _medley_

Choose your genre show, answer the questions using episode titles from that show--if possible, don't repeat any.

( Is due South a genre show? What is a genre show? )

Still not getting comments. How can I be a comment whore if I don't know when I have comments?