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How about let's do a meme? Here's one that's going around:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. crossovers!
15. High School / College AU

I found out I could purchase Snacky's Law on a mug or a t-shirt or a mousepad from Urban Dictionary. I want a mug but... I don't feel like I should pay. They should be paying ME! Goddamn, the most well-known thing I ever did, and someone else is monetizing it. My life, so hard. :D

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While I mull over lawsuits, let's play the lyrics game! You all know how this works, right? I put the iPod on shuffle, give you the lyrics to the next 20 songs it plays, you guess the title and artist.

Ready, set, GUESS!


1) The beating of my heart is a drum and it's lost / And it's looking for a rhythm like you Making Love Out of Nothing At All by Air Supply, guessed by noelleleithe

2) Right here, right now, Elvis brings his children home

3) now I'm sleeping on the sidewalk and I know why (why man?) yeah hey!

4) I get stupid, I shoot an arrow like Cupid / I use a word that don't mean nothin', like looptid Humpty Dance by Digital Underground, guessed by noelleleithe

5) Now the working classes are obsolete,they are surplus to societies needs / So let ‘em all kill each other and get it made overseas

6) Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds. Redemption Song by Bob Marley, guessed by loafing_oaf

7) We pack and deliver like UPS trucks Paper Planes by M.I.A., guessed by st_aurafina and icecreamprincss

8) You will see him on TV any given Sunday / Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundai Gold Digger by Kanye West, guessed by timesink

9) I didn't know I was finding out how I'd be torn from you when we talked about things we were gonna do / We were wide-eyed dreamers and wiser too

10) 'Cause you need to get back in the arms of a good friend Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet, guessed by timesink

11) We got engaged on a Friday night / I swore on the head of our unborn child that I could take care of the three of us Runaways by The Killers, guessed by misachan

12) One foot in the hole, one foot gettin' deeper / crank it to eleven, blow another speaker Better Days by Citizen King, guessed by tephralynn

13) And love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen, guessed by comice and torachan

14) Reach for the golden ring / Reach for the sky / Baby just spread your wings

15) I opened the fridge, I opened a beer / and played a tape I couldn't hear

16) Life is a test, and I confess / I like this mess I've made so far Boss of Me (aka the Malcolm in the Middle theme song) by They Might Be Giants, guessed by marakara

17) Just because everything's changing doesn't mean it's never been this way before / all you can do is try to know who your friends are as you head off to the war The Call by Regina Spektor, guessed by autumnia

18) Y'all don't know what it's like / being male, middle-class and white Rockin' the Suburbs by Ben Folds, guessed by jaiden_s

19) Shake the hand that shook the hand of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan U.S. Blues by the Grateful Dead, guessed in a team effort by dorothy1901 and msilverstar

20) When you take me in your arms and talk romance / my heart starts doing the St. Vitus’ dance

Here, let's have a meme:

Post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around.

( Untitled Narnia/L'Engleverse crossover )

( We Got The Kind of Voices That Are In Your Face, Young Avengers. In which our heroes decide to start a band… )

( Untitled Caspian/Peter fic, Narnia… )

( The Girl Is Crafty Like Ice Is Cold, Avengers, Natasha/Clint )

( Untitled Tirian story, Narnia (this one is kind of long) )

Maybe that will inspire me to finish some of them. :D

Seen around the flist:

1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!

You all know how it works: I give you the lyrics from the last 20 songs iTunes played on shuffle, you give me the song title and artist. Ready, set, GO!

1) cuz i'm tourin' around the nation on extended vacation / I got Elsa the dog who exceeds my limitation Waiting for My Rocket to Come by Jason Mraz, guessed by naienko

2) I asked her her name, she said blah-blah-blah / She had 9/10 pants and a very big bra Just A Friend by Biz Markie, guessed by sorchar

3) Let's go, let's go, let's go / I think we've found it, I think we've found it, I think we found / We found the edge of the world Mr. Columbus by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, guessed by lone_lilly

4) All your sanity and wits they will all vanish / I promise, it's just a matter of time Start Wearing Purple by Gogol Bordello, guessed by msilverstar

5) the creature in the sky got sucked in a hole / now there's a hole in the sky / and the ground's not cold and the ground's not cold Monkey Gone to Heaven by the Pixies, guessed by musesfool and herdivineshadow

6) Let me tell you 'bout some friends I know / They're kinda crazy but you'll dig the show Animal House by Stephen Bishop, guessed by marakara

7) A lot of people get jealous, they're talking about me / but that's just 'cause they haven't got a thing to say

8) We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man / We got a kinder, gentler, machine gun hand Rockin' in the Free World by Neil Young, guessed by dorothy1901

9) Buy the sky and sell the sky / And lift your arms up to the sky / And ask the sky, and ask the sky Fall on Me by REM, guessed by chaosdancer

10) Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse Swing Life Away by Rise Against, guessed by jaiden_s

11) And you'll be Persephone / watch me work through eternity

12) Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found / my occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around A Pirate Looks At Forty by Jimmy Buffet, guessed by zillah975

13) December boys got it bad

14) I can tie a knot in a cherry stem / I can tell you about Leif Ericson Handlebars by Flobots, guessed by deepbluemermaid

15) I've never been too good with names / but I remember faces It's a Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads, guessed by musesfool and lilydale

16) Jesus rides beside me / He never buys any smokes Can't Hardly Wait by the Replacements, guessed by musesfool

17) So come in and play the song of the siren

18) Put this on my life, the air that I breathe in, all that I believe in / I promise I'll give my life, my love and my trust if you was my boyfriend '03 Bonnie & Clyde by Jay-Z ft. Beyonce, guessed by bludrummergrl

19) What a curious life we have found here tonight / there is music that sounds from the street In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel, guessed by torachan

20) I will never be Captain, but I will be King / And I’m gonna achieve the most wonderful things that don’t involve playing football in the rain

I have nothing of substance to report, people. Instead, let's meme:

Give me a pairing and I will tell you:

who is the big spoon/little spoon
what is their favorite non-sexual activity
who uses all the hot water in the morning
what they order from take out
what is the most trivial thing they fight over
who does most of the cleaning
what has a season pass in their DVR
who controls the netflix queue
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
who steals the blankets
who leaves their stuff around
who remembers to buy the milk
who remembers anniversaries

Hit me up.

Well, a podcast, actually! The wonderful ladies of Narnia Fan Fiction Revolution had me on their podcast, AsCast. If you want to hear me talking about The Silver Chair, fandom in general, and how I met J.K. Rowling, you can download the episode here. It's AsCast Ep. 18: We're Firing Liam Neeson and Hiring Jane Lynch. Yes. As you can imagine, it's a lot of fun.

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Meme time, meme time!

1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.


musesfool gave me the letter S for characters: ( They're back here! )

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Music meme: Comment and I'll give you a letter. Then, post five songs that start with the letter.

musesfool gave me C: ( Five songs back here... )

Here is a fun meme:

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, a short excerpt, or something else that I want readers to know.

By way of vonniek

Here's how it works:

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.


Jolie Louise by Daniel Lanois
I drink the rum 'tilI I can't see / It hides the shame Louise does not see

Just Like a Pill by P!nk
I can't stay on your life support, there's a shortage in the switch / I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me itch

Jet Boy Jet Girl by The Damned
I took his arms and kissed his lips / He looked at me with such a smile my face turned red

Jackie Wilson Said by Van Morrison
I'm in heaven, when you smile

Jane Says by Jane's Addiction
Jane says I've never been in love / I don't know what it is

( Of course I couldn't limit myself to just five songs, so have five more behind the cut... )