maggie touches grease with her hands

turps did this, and I thought hey I haven't done a meme in a while, so why not:

If you had to delete all but five of your fanworks, which five would you keep and why? (Or ten if you're more prolific.)

. run for yer life [the beatles] - if there was one single project that Lori and I agree is our complete and utter absolute pet baby favourite, it's this. Because this thing is the product of our entire fannish lives together, from when we were wee girls in Trinidad watching that god-awful Beatles cartoon to when we were teenagers hunting down cheap books about the group to now when we've discovered all the bounty of YouTube Beatles footage and can look at their drug use and breakup with grown-up, indulgent eyes. Plus, they are serial killers, because apparently that's how we show our love: plotting George Harrison the unrepentant murderer in a sunny kitchen while making breakfast one weekend, you know, the way sisters do.

. brains go great with aquavit [popslash - I've written a lot of popslash that's more, like, artsy and meaningful and whatnot, but this smush of travel memoir and Practical Magic rip-off holds a special place in my heart because writing it was so, so much fun and Beth beta'ed it for me, which is always a delightful experience (she is seriously the best editor EVER). Also I spontaneously decided to draw a crappy Venn diagram and use that as a punchline, and I'll stop there before I get bitchy, lol.

. keep your palms flat [futurama] - If I were ever going to podfic my own work (which won't happen b/c I suck COLOSSALLY at podficcing, I've been working on one for over a year), anyhow this would be the one I'd do, super-shitty character voices and all. Y'all don't even WANT to hear how bad my Zoidberg is. But the voices in the story sound like the show, and all in all it just makes me happy to have written it, because I can't believe at this point in fandom people will STILL read good Simpsons or Futurama fic and be like, "Whaaaaaa? Good, serious fic in this fandom? WHAAAAAAAAAAA?!?!?"

. three-part disharmony [homicide: life on the street] - This was the fandom where I wrote my first (fairly) sophisticated grown-up fics -- which of course seem so clunky and juvenile now when I go back and read them -- and allowed me a space to explore race/class/gender that comicfandom was ... not so hot on, back in the day. Anyhow, going back to that fandom after years of writing resulted in something that's much better than my earlier stuff and still felt so comforting and satisfying to write!

. to serve the gods [road to el dorado] - My little dark horse of a story, post-movie and focused on Chel. Like, what? I just remember watching the movie -- which I adore -- and realizing that I wanted to know more and see more, how in the world Chel could reconcile loving these two (lovable!) guys who basically heralded the genocide of her people. Plus, there's a lot going on with Chel in the movie that's only hinted at, so I always wondered. I'm not generally that type of fic-writer, I just like to write rambling silly things about food and pop culture, but one in a while I get one off that took more thought, heh.


Yay, everybody should do this meme!

. Have been bonking about on AO3, which is pretty neat. It's nice to have one Rilly Big Archive again, where you can go and search for whatever you might want at a given time -- plus the we-own-the-servers aspect is great. I sincerely hope everybody decides to archive there.

. For those of you who are techie-minded: when you get a surround sound system, do you absolutely need to hook it up through the DVD player thing that comes with it? Or can you use, say, your PlayStation3 instead?

. CATPOETRY. I love this idea so much!

. ( gratuitous icon meme )

I like seeing these stroll across my friendslist uncut, so I'm not cutting mine either!

m'icons.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite

how many icons do you have?: 135
out of how many available icon spaces?: 135
would you buy space for more?: naturally!
do your icons make a statement?: when i need them to. Often the statement only makes sense to me.
what fandom is represented most?: simpsons/futurama
and the second most?: popfandom
what pairing is represented most?: it's an even split between chris/justin, pembleton/bayliss, justin/bitsy, and oddly, merlin/arthur. I need another marge/homer icon!
are your icons mostly from other people?: nope.
do you make icons?: yep.
are they any good?: they do what i want them to do.
animated icons are: usually not for me, but who could say no to vince and shamwow?

do the meme.
coding can be found here

In situations like these, I always think longingly of an icon that callsigns used to have of Marge looking gleeful in front of her laptop. If she still had it I would steal it from her, but instead I stole a writing meme from turps33.

( You keep using words like 'pasghetti' and 'momatoes'. You make numerous threatening references to the UN, and at the end you repeat the words 'Screw Flanders' over and over again. )

I am on the verge of making a rage-filled post about the correlation between sitcoms and sexualized violence against women, but desperately holding back because I am SO not emotionally hardy enough for that right now and mostly feeling white-hot anger instead of logic.

So instead, I will do an icon meme! And to soothe myself further, I will do every sixth icon instead of every tenth, because that's how many can fit in a browser window while I'm looking at them. ( Boo-yah! )

I also made minor updates on the multifandom website, because wow -- I totally forgot I'd ever written some of that stuff! Good Lord.

It seems I am averaging one commentary a night -- last night it was silveryscrape's Oh, The Places You'll Go. Fun!

And now, I believe I shall do that ( fic-naming meme! )

As seen on cathybites' journal, the TV Quotes Meme!! Go ahead and guess -- the comments are screened. *g* I will put up what show it is once three people have guessed correctly!


1. "I wish you had died instead of mom!"
"Well, I wish I had too, you little bastard!"
- Everwood (callmesandy, edie22, throughadoor)

2. "And in a gutless act of political correctness, Pizza Day will now be known as Italian American Sauce Bread Day."
- The Simpsons (_jules_, kaelie, darlita)

3. "Look, I'm not much good at big speeches, and I know I haven't always been an easy guy to get on with. And I know that, given the choice, I probably wouldn't have chosen you as friends. But, I just want to say that over the years, I have come to regard you as ... people ... I met."
- Red Dwarf (ciderpress, sarahcascade, tenebrio)

4. "Living with you is like living in a living nightmare!"

5. "D____, last night I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop, and awoke to discover I was chewing on one of my foam disposable earplugs. Perhaps I should consider moderating my nighttime coffee consumption."
- Twin Peaks (katemonkey, jeez_louise, kaelie)

6. "I'll be glad when Pride's over so we can all go back to being ashamed."
- Queer as Folk US (throughadoor, kaelie, darlita)

7. "God got you through your stroke."
"No. God, as usual, was in the next county making hurricanes and hunchbacked babies."
- Homicide: Life on the Street (callmesandy, cocoajava, ciderpress)

8. "You know, we're all descended from fish. It would be no trouble at all to flip back in time, find the fish you descended from, and stuff it into a Cuisinart."

9. "Why is there yogurt in this cap?"
"I can explain! You see, it used to be milk, and, well...time makes fools of us all."
- Futurama (kaelie, indirajames, ciderpress)

10. "You think I wanted to be called 'Black Vulcan'? That was Aquaman's idea. I said, well, maybe we oughtta call you 'Whitefish'."
- Harvey Birdman (kaelie, cathybites, unholyglee)

glockgal wanted me to make a poll specifically to ask two questions, but she forgot what one of them was. Still, I remembered the other.

[Poll #691057]

I was outside just now and it was lightly snowing. OMG WTF

Anyhow, it is once again time to do one of my dumbass polls that cover stuff like food, cartoons, and bad movies. ( Come one, come all! )

Here you go, friendslist -- have an entry crammed full of meme answers and crappy half-completed fanfic!!

Thank you, lance_nerd for tagging me. Heh.

1. thank the person who tagged you.
2. list 5 random/strange/weird things about you.
3. tag 5 other people.

I will skip step 3, but here is #2:
- i could drink hard liquor all the live long day and be fine, but a glass or two of wine and i'm on my ass. it doesn't even have to be *good* wine.

- at all times, i carry with me a toothbrush, toothpaste, hand lotion, Advil, a tiny sewing kit, nail clippers, travel wipes, and some candy (which i mostly end up feeding to other people). AT ALL TIMES.

- i usually choose to be professor plum in 'clue'. once i was forced to be miss white and i insisted on playing the entire game using a high, shrill voice with an english accent.

- over the holidays, i tried eating goat guts. they tasted like if you doused a goat with curry and then licked its fur.

- I grind my teeth. which is how i ended up with a fractured molar, which then needed to be root canaled and capped; i've never had a cavity.


Well, that was refreshing! And now for some WIPs.

( the most juvenile and angsty Weiss Kreuz story EVER!! )

( also, have some pointless meandering on the 'lost' island! warning: 50% dr. jack!! also warning: song lyrics!! )

( and in conclusion, a popslash au where the boys are angels! who go to high school! also, there's mpreg! I SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED FREE THOUGHT!!! )

My only excuse for that last one is that I was writing it purely to entertain beth666ann. In retrospect, that's probably not a good enough excuse.