I got tagged by only_po

Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

I did this before, I think and came up with different answers… Ah, well, favorites of the moment include:

Balance (written under a different pseudonym, my first toedip into Harry Potter)
A Decided Genius (Sherlock Holmes! Some of the ideas I incorporated into it go back more than twenty years in my notes.)
Keeping Warm (definitely not G rated.)
Chosen (because it is that time of year, after all)
And cheating a little bit, five drabbles:
Old Friends, In the Girls’ Bathroom, Unexpected Encounter, Éomer at Cormallen, and my very first drabble Bag End at Night.


Tagging…. Er, I’m really bad at that. But I’d love to see Shirebound, Rubynye, Belegcuthalion, Febobe, and Surgicalsteel take this on, if they’re willing, among others. If it looks like fun to you, do it!

Edited to fix links... I hope!

gacked from shirebound

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Over at fanthropology they posted a link to a very random pairing generator. Here. Then they suggested that we defend some of the pairings we cam up with...

And I ended up drabbling...


( Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park) / Spock (Star Trek) )

( Jane Drew (The Dark is Rising) / Qui-Gon Jinn (Star Wars) )

Got ahold of bobo and they're going to discuss having professionals keep the hall clean out of the condo fees. He told her he hadn't actually started cleaning it yet, though. Could it be that he uses so much perfume he can't smell that carpet cleaner?

Ah, well. He can't say he doesn't know.

( memity memity meme... )

There's been a music meme going around. But as I'm too shy to tell you when I turned eighteen (at least today anyway, try me back in a week), I've come up with a variation, using www.popculturemadness.com's list of hits from the nineteenth century.


Now, which of these do YOU know? Bold the ones you can sing an entire verse to (add a * if you know a parody or variant of the original words), italicize the ones you can sing (or hum) at least one line of, if not the whole thing, and strike out the ones you wish you never had to listen to again. The ones you don't know (at least not from the title) will stay plain.

( Music alone shall live, never to die! )

fictualities got me going on the five questions meme. If you want to play ask me to ask you five questions. If you just want to comment, that's okay too.

1.If you could come up with a new (or little used) subject category for a children's library, what subject category would that be, and why do you think children should read about it? (It can be a compound category if you'd like, such as "Cheese in literature - Bulgaria - Essays.")

Well, for the middle schoolers it would probably be “Metagaming, theory and application”. (With a couple of titles on when metagaming is appropriate and when it’s cheating.) Or maybe we could call it “rule theory.” I’m probably the only librarian in town who lets them play YuGiOh in the afternoons, but I find that my card players are less noisy than the kids waiting for the computers and a lot quicker to pay attention when I say “the chairs get pushed in and put away or there will be consequences.”

For the younger children I want to be able to look up “Scary (But Not Too Scary)” and “Gross (adjective)” as opposed to “Gross (number)”. Doesn’t matter whether I think they should read those topics or not, they wants them, they does!


2. What street, real or imaginary, would you most like to live on, and why?

Baker Street, as a street Arab, perhaps? But only if I can be one of the Irregulars. Mostly though I’d most like to live some place where the street is a dirt road. (As long as I can get the internet by satellite, anyway!)

3. What's your favorite museum?

Well the Museum of Bad Art is pretty high on the list. And I will always retain a sneaking fondness for the Denver Museum of Natural History, if only for all the summer afternoons I spent wandering around in it as a child. Back in the days when a kid could get in without a grownup attached, anyway. The one I'm most likely to visit these days is the Boston Museum of Science.

4. What character in any of the fandoms you follow has grown on you the most over the time you've been in that fandom?

Hmmm. Snape, maybe, although I started to think he might be more interesting than he seemed about book three. Or Theoden. I didn’t really appreciate Theoden until the movies came out, and now I read for him. He's really quite amazing.

5. What woman in history comes closest to being a personal hero (or heroine) for you?

My mom. No wait, someone historical? Think think think… Elizabeth Kenny. Because it takes a lot of determination to look a bunch of doctors in the eye and say “You’ve been doing this all wrong for centuries.”

I have contracted...

Asian Wombat Flu

...A rare disease transmitted to humans by petting a wombat.

Find out what you've contracted!

Rec-Go-Round: Rec me one story you've written (preferably fan fiction, but if you've not written any fanfic, then you can rec an original piece instead) that you're proud of, any genre, here on my LJ.

Then go forth and ask the same in yours.

ETA: poems are also good. Or essays.

One Little Candle

It is better to light just one little candle,
Than to stumble in the dark!
Better far that you light just one little candle,
All you need’s a tiny spark!

If we’d all say a prayer that the world would be free,
The wonderful dawn of a new day we’ll see!
And, if everyone lit just one little candle,
What a bright world this would be!

Let’s all light one little candle,
Why stumble on in the dark?
When the day is dark an' dreary,
And your way is hard to find,
Don’t let your heart be weary,
Just keep this thought in mind!

It is better to light just one little candle,
Than to stumble in the dark!
Better far that you light just one little candle,
All you need’s a tiny spark!

If we’d all say a prayer that the world would be free,
The wonderful dawn of a new day we’ll see!
And, if everyone lit just one little candle,
What a bright world this would be!

What a bright world
this would be!

Music by George Mysels
with lyrics by Joseph Malloy Roach , Published 1952

( 1. Etaoin shrdlu )

( 2. Mud, mud, glorious mud )

( 3. Klaatu Barada Nikto! )

( 4. Poisoning pigeons in the park )

( 5. Once there was a shaggy dog, and one day he entered into the block shaggy dog contest... )

( 6. Beans in your ears! )

( 7. I'm not making this up, you know! )

( 8. I went to sleep with gum in my mouth, and now there's gum in my hair... )

( 9. Some are boojums. )

( 10. My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time... )

If there's a demand, I'll try to find links. When I recover from the hordes of children that were at the library today anyway...

ETA:
11: Five is right out! And oh, yes... Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

I think I'm getting old. Stuff I never had to explain to grownups I am now explaining to grownups.

*sigh*

Which of these do you recognize?

1. Etaoin shrdlu
2. Mud, mud, glorious mud
3. Klaatu Barada Nikto!
4. Poisoning pigeons in the park
5. Once there was a shaggy dog, and one day he entered into the block shaggy dog contest...
6. Beans in your ears!
7. I'm not making this up, you know!
8. I went to sleep with gum in my mouth, and now there's gum in my hair...
9. Some are boojums.
10. My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time...

ETA:
11: Five is right out! (courtesy of blackbird_song)

Double ETA, corrected number 8. Gah! Sometimes my fingers type faster than my brain works!

If you want to memify? (memeify?) the list, feel free. Do the "bold I know it, italic I've heard it but I don't understand it, and strikethrough I've never even heard of it" routine. And add your own "why am I the only one getting this joke?" lines too!

flipped through part of my flist and kept seeing this:

Get your own spectral analysis from Area 23®

And I thought, how nice that all these people are analysing themselves and me, but now that I've played the game I know that it does that automatically if you're signed in, but still, it feels like a bunch of extra hugs, so consider yourselves hugged.

Ten signs that you’re reading a fic by rabidsamfan

( this one was hard! )

So there is memage.

Ground rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "Five Weird Habits of Yourself" and the people who gets tagged need to then write a LJ entry about their five quirky little habits as well as state the rules of this game clearly. In the end, you need to list the next five people who you want to tag.

1. I check my flist in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.... what, you say? That's not weird?

2. I put hot sauce on my fish sandwiches, and tarter sauce too. Well, I do live in Boston!

3. I wear shoes until the soles have lost all integrity before I buy a new pair.

4. I like hats. Any kind of hats. But my black felt cowboy hat is best. (I miss the brown one, which I lost on a train one night, though.)

5. I've given up tag. Or at least I'm too lazy to try to figure out who to tag, whichever. So if your username or real name has a vowel in it, feel free to decide you want to play!

A lot has been said about how to prevent rape.

( cut for the sake of a friend who is getting too many reminders )

I should have known, LOL!

( Read more... )
ETA: If you enjoyed Monstrous Regiment, you should go and take a look at hyel's marvelous fiction! But bring a handkerchief...

The "Stump the Author" meme -- I gacked it from cara_chapel because it looks like fun.

A-- go to my LOTR fanfiction and pick out a line or two from one of my stories.
B-- I will respond with which story I think it's from.
C-- I'll write a scene (in this case, a ficlet of 100-400 words) for the LOTR characters of your choice with the plot point of your choice to anyone who stumps me.
D-- If I get more than ten responses, I will do the first ten ficlets who stump me.

Obviously, you'd do well to pick something challenging, but unless it's really unique, I'm going to say it should be more than five words.

Have at thee!