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This is actually more flash fiction than doodle, because it's complete and stands on its own, but anyway, the prompt was the first sentence, and maybe it was the prompter and the mood I've been in lately but I read it in Christopher's voice.

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( 329 words of silliness )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: we're on our way - Radical Face

I spent Valentine's Day running around campus and the adjacent woods with two friends. At one point we were in a classroom drawing on the chalkboard and I wrote a short story because I love writing in Japanese on chalkboards. It flows well.

昔々子供の時俺様は神じゃなかった。あなたのような人間の子供だった。でも生き過ぎておじいさんになった。俺様の子供は自分の子供が生まれ俺様は死においた。幸せだった。

でも死なかった。

生き過ぎた。今、神になった。寂しい。

終わり

There are a couple of spelling errors and I couldn't quite get the essay-style right. Oh well.

Roughly translated:

Long, long ago, when I was a child, I was not a god. I was a human child like you. But I kept on living, and became an old man. My children had their own children, and I prepared myself to die. I was happy.

But I did not die.

I continued to live. Now, I am a god, and I am lonely.

End

I don't know, I read it to my friends, and they thought it was good, so I like it.

~**~

Unrelated, I just bought Gay Pride and Prejudice off Amazon for a ridiculous amount of money because it is literally the only place to buy a physical copy of the book. Yikes. But judging from the preview, it looks like it'll be a fun book to read, and I'm dying for queer Regency romance. I just hope that it's got Bingley and Darcy as a couple. That would be lovely.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Snow is Gone - Josh Ritter

In the category of "nerdy pieces of fanfiction that I will never write": The Canterbury Tales, Community Edition. Medieval AUs make everything better. Everything. Fucking love ‘em. And the Canterbury Tales is the perfect material for a fusion! It’s a bunch of ill-matched people who all have a common destination but not much else, held together by the promise of food and a prize. Caveat being: I’ve taken a few courses in Medieval literature, including the Canterbury Tales, but it’s far from extensive, and I’m sure that I’ve made some errors in giving people’s backstories.

The Greendale Seven are, of course, the pilgrims. I put in parentheses the characters in the General Prologue to whom I thought they corresponded most closely.

( so much fun writing this, i can't even tell you )

Oh! And Troy somehow acquires a small but persistent band of followers who, following his dramatic and entirely accidental exorcism of a local priest, have declared him to be a prophet of the Lord.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Asi soy yo - El Cuarteto de Nos

Title: The Con Man and the Piemaker
Fandom: Supernatural/Pushing Daisies
Characters: Dean, Olive, Sam, Ned, and a bit of Chuck and Emerson
Wordcount: 2.8K
Summmary: Dean Winchester, age twenty-six years, eleven months, five days, thirteen hours and forty-seven minutes old, had not intended to hunt for graves to desecrate when he picked up the local paper that morning.
Notes: So. Much. Fun. I narrated this in my head in Jim Dale's voice, and wrote this solely for the proposal scene.

( read more ... )

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Rant and Roar -- Great Big Sea

( massive keysmashing below )

Current Mood: ecstatic

Emerson Cod is my favorite because he knits. I like men who work with yarn. (See: Dumbledore, Aerich, Merlin, etc.)

( quotes from episode two, because why not )

Now it is NaNoWriMo time again.

Current Music: Furr -- Blitzen Trapper

Martha Jones and the Year That Never Was: Multifandom Crossover Edition
[Doctor Who, Sherlock. Community, Supernatural, Young Wizards, House]

This has such potential for all of the crossovers, ever and I guess it's not as appealing because Martha Jones is not the Doctor, so she can't have shiny adventures the same way, but I'm big on ordinary people saving the day and beating the grand schemers, so here we go. Martha's Adventures in America!

( bobby, sam, shirley, abed, cameron, cuddy, kit, nita, and wizardly cats )

I don't actually have that many fandoms, and of those that I do, I can't really include the ones that don't take place on earth, which precludes a lot. So the only one missing that I didn't do is Glee, because I honestly don't think it would be worth mentioning. They're just a bunch of show choir kids, and their world is so small and self-contained that it wouldn't be anything outline-worthy.

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Flinty - Anya Marina

I found shitloads of longfic to read from really great authors who can write stories that have amazing plots which are not overwhelmed by shipping what is this heaven I am grinning like a lunatic right now

Also one of the stories has Lovecraftian Horsemen

And the other one writes non-explicit slash

Of the characters that I actually ship

Happily

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh my god

Life is good

(Supernatural is going to be like Merlin in that I'm in this as much for the better-constructed, less problematic fanfiction as I am for the actual show. Difference being that (a) I refuse to actually watch Merlin past S1, and (b) I am not down with Supernatural AUs as a general rule. Exceptions will always be made for ragrprufrock, who wrote Homemaking for Sherlock and It Doesn't Mean You Can Explain the Ocean for Supernatural, both of which are the best stories to listen to at the gym. If they want to write character-based AUs, then I will read them all.)

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: The Cave - Mumford & Sons

This is mostly a celebration of Dreamwidth having no word limit to its posts.

Tomorrow, I go on a quest to fix up all of the medical shit. That ought to involve revising a substantial percentage of this, but I've discovered Wikipedia, so this ought not to be as arduous as I was first expecting.

(Remember when I said "Just to be clear, there are no plans to write more than one or two scenes from this"? Ha ha, me neither.)

( in which there are four acts with wildly disparate lengths and gigantic medical inaccuracies where I just did not give a shit )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: The Difference Between Us - The Dead Weather

Holy hell, this got long. Like, nearly three times as long as either of the previous acts. Some serious reformatting will need to be done when I edit this. ~~Or else I could just ditch the script format and turn it into prose.~~ Either way, the pacing is seriously wonky here.

( act three )

On a related note, my family and I just watched the series finale of House, and oh my god. ALL OF THE FEELINGS about the ending. The ending, that ending was the best possible outcome for this show. Just ... OH GOD. I want all the post-series domestic House/Wilson fics now. ALL OF THEM.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Be OK - Ingrid Michaelson

Like I said, I'm only doing the scenes I feel like doing - namely, the ones that depend on character interactions, rather than research. Because fuck research, I just want to see people bounce off of each other. So here are the fun parts from Act One. It's in script format, although without the indentation because that would take actual, you know, effort. It's easy enough to read anyway, I think.

( act one )

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Money Maker - The Black Keys

This is my list of things that I want to achieve in the near future of my writing career. Or else just things that give me want-to-write blues. I'm not really sure; this was today's initial attempt at killing the writer's block.

( list of things )

The two shows are so similar, and I just read a Supernatural/Community crossover that did a really good job of balancing the two universes so that everyone was fully absorbed into the others' universe, and everything was wonderful and good. And then I ended up plotting out an episode of both which takes place at the same time. It's four pages of rambling right now, but I'm transcribing it into a more coherent format here. Except not right now. Because it's 12:30 and I'm going to sleep so that I can wake up at a normal-person hour.

(Just to be clear, there are no plans to write more than one or two scenes from this. It was just a lot of fun to plot out and clear my head because it's insisting that Supernatural fanfic is a good and proper way to spend my time, and I frankly have a lot of other things I'd rather be doing.)

( Mostly because Sam fits the 'overprotective irritatingly clingy family of the patient' model to a t )

Welp. That was fun. I tried to include as many tropes native to each show as possible, but in the end, I decided that because it's a crossover, I had to cut out the House-centric B-plot that usually ties in to the patient of the week in order to make room for the supernatural-investigation B-plot. Hoping that they balanced out well enough.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: I Cut Like A Buffalo - The Dead Weather

I finally went to see the Avengers yesterday. I had ridiculously high expectations and they were actually met, which was fantastic! They were met in unexpected ways, which was even better! And then the ending few scenes broke my brain, so instead of a massive long post about all of the feelings that the movie gave me, have a massive long essay about mythological Loki vs. movie Loki and queer theory. (Spoilers ahoy, especially for the ending)

( mini-essay about loki )

In other news! I have been spending most of my recent time wandering around in a haze of Supernatural-induced feelings that have brought on a sudden need to consume blues and garage rock. Why? I don't even know. I was happily listening to nothing but Fun. and Scissor Sisters up until two weeks ago, when my brain abruptly switched gears and decided that the Black Keys and the Dead Weather were the new most exciting thing.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Send Me On My Way - Rusted Root

( Supernatural and Game of Thrones )

Current Mood: amused

"Crees que afuera hay colinas de hielo.
sueñas con el aire acondicionado del Hilton,
con la apariencia fugaz de un platillo de lujo
que alguien lleva a tu habitación mientras tú
escuchas al mar en la coladera.
A nadie necesitas.
Prefieres caminar por tu avenida
de rascacielos y palmeras."

"You think there are mounds of snow outside
You dream of the Hilton's controlled climate,
of the brief appearance of a golden platter
that someone brings to your room while you
listen to the sea in the drain.
You don't need anybody.
You prefer to walk down your boulevard
of skyscrapers and palm trees."

I don't know what the poem is about, because this is an excerpt of an excerpt from a magazine, but I thought this particular set of lines was beautiful.

( musings on introversion )

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

( Typed Story Snippet )

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I'm at this fantastic stage of the story where suddenly, things started happening, and I realized that if I nudge them just a little in this direction, everything suddenly clicks into high gear and I have a plot to hold up the character interactions of Tanwen's side of things (and really, all I ever ask for in life is to be able to write stories about characters who don't get along, getting along) that starts as a plot on Meilen/Tsuya's side of things, and then crosses over into Oboureon, and it all fits together and is an interesting dilemma that will involve both lots of action and lots of dialogue and thinking.

Also after everything is done I am going to hide in my room and read aloud every single conversation and rewrite it so that it sounds like normal human speech and not me reading off a speech.

( 'Wicked' flailing )

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( Another Snippet )

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I have so many Wicked-induced feelings right now it isn't even funny. It's tragic. I'm all muddled up inside like an impressionist watercolor dunked in a bucket of fish.

EDIT 02.06.12: I was going back through old entries to find something, and I would just like to make it clear that I have no idea what I meant by a bucket of fish. None.

Current Mood: ecstatic

Aaaaagh. Stupid clip I found on tumblr made it seem like it would be something fun to watch on a Friday night.

WRONG.

I really liked it and will probably watch it again when my internet connection is better. But aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh I want to give Heinz an enormous hug even if he was blatantly trying to get the hell out of Berlin.

I wasn't too fond of some parts in the beginning, and in particular I was confused by Christopher's relationship with Caspar because I didn't realize they had an ongoing thing until Christopher got upset at him near the train tracks. But there were a couple of wonderful scenes. The conversation where Jean tells him that Bobby left her, and that she's pregnant but going to get an abortion ... I know that it probably has to do with the fact that you just didn't talk about that sort of thing openly back then, but the not-talking about it and the whole montage that followed was awful.

Duuuuuude. Wikipedia has informed me that Isherwood also wrote A Single Man, which is also on my gay-movie watch list. God I'm dumb, watching movies of books and stuff. Whatever. AGH I'm going to go have feelings now.

Also as a side note, there were exactly two points in the movie where I remembered 'Oh yeah, that's Matt Smith playing Christopher': once at the beginning, and once towards the end. That's it. It was good.