help i'm alive

In defiance of the latest LJ notif shenanigans and as a means of healthy distraction from work stresses:

Pick a prompt, pick a character/pairing/fandom, and receive ficlets.

1) escape the clutches of a name
2) pleasure to meet you, but better to bleed
3) we were the kings and queens of promise
4) it's a brave new world from the last to the first
5) nothing but the beating of our hearts
6) would you kill to save a life
7) I will never regret
8) were you ever a traitor
9) a million little pieces, I stole it from you
10) if I could end the quest for fire
11) running out of time

(Why no, these aren't all cribbed from lyrics from my new favorite album, why do you ask?)

Also, I have not yet given up on smut prompts; your patience will be rewarded, and if you missed it the first time around, I'm still up for requests.

It's official. Work is going to be goddamn insane until December 15. Expect frothing at the mouth, nervous tics, and caffeine overdoses. 30 Seconds to Mars' new album next week is going to be my 'halfway mark' present to myself. Until then, I need smaller benchmarks.

Yoinked from ceitfianna:

Give me a pairing and a word/color/lyric/location/kink or cliche and I will write you at least 100 words of smut. You heard me.


Because nothing cures your ills like porn.

Stolen like a luxury car Inspired by doihearawaltz, and because it's been six days since my last meme...

1. Pick a prompt.
2. Pick a character/pairing.
3. ????
4. PROFIT! (Or in this case, DRABBLE!)

( keywords )

The answers to the book meme are now up for your reading pleasure.

Things I wish to share!

- Trailer for Prince of Persia

- My thoughts on the above, to Mr. Bruckheimer et al: PLEASE DON'T SUCK. I played the PoP game you based this film on to the point of insanity. My mother got addicted to watching me play and was my loyal backseat driver for a huge chunk of it. This game is my high school years. Looks like you've fed the story some steroids, which is fine, because it looks like you've got the visuals to back it up. So you changed the princess's name for no reason, your "Persian" prince is white like wonderbread and everyone speaks the king's English. You preserved the witty banter and the crazy parkour platforming. JUST PLEASE DON'T SUCK. (Also, did he seriously say "a-sand-ssins"? Say no, Mr. Bruckheimer. Say no.)

Songs!

Muse - Uprising : in my head, this is a fantastic fanvid for Star Trek XI. Who's with me?

Florence and the Machine - Drumming Song : (as I move my feet towards your body/I can hear this beat, it fills my head up/and gets louder and louder)

Florence and the Machine - Hardest of Hearts : (there is love in your body but you can't get it out/it gets stuck in your head, won't come out of your mouth/sticks to your tongue and shows on your face/that the sweetest of words have the bitterest taste)

Finally, a meme!

Pick a pairing from my fandoms (including whatever RP 'verse you care to throw at me), and come up with a location and/or situation, and I will write you between 50 and 250 words about the kiss that happened in that context.

I adored this one when I did it a year ago; gimme prompts, people!


Pea Ess : New favorite song lyric. "I'm tryin' to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful."

Stolen shamelessly from lienne


Take four I LIKE TEN books off your bookshelf.
- Write the first sentence
- Write the last sentence on page fifty
- Write the second sentence on page one hundred
- Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
- Write the final sentence of the book
- Let your friends guess what book it is.

( iRead )

Go to town, kids. Will let this run until about Wednesday or so and then will start revealing titles one at a time.

Swiped from God and everybody:

Pick a character/make up a pairing from the list below your braaaaains, and give me some kind of prompt (a line of poetry, a lyric, one word, a kink or cliche), and I will attempt at least 100 words of fic for you.

Stolen shamelessly from Rog:

(1) List 10 celebrities you'd bang without even asking questions
(2) Put all of them in order (10-1, 1 is the hottest)
(3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you
(4) Supply photos for said people

( hotness under the cut )

I finally saw Jennifer's Body on Friday night. I went in expecting popcorn harmless fare and came out both more amused, scared and meta than I ever anticipated. It is (to steal my friend Jaci's description) like Mean Girls meets Ginger Snaps with a dash of The Exorcist. Go see it.

Also, because this looks like a fun meme:

A. Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of him/her?

B. Pick one of my characters and I'll answer the following questions about him or her (to the best of my ability, with the understanding that if the character just looks at me, that's the answer you're getting).

1. What would your character kill for? What would they die for?
2. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances? Why?
3. What do they dream about?
4. What's their biggest fear?
5. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
6. What is their fondest memory?
7. What is their worst memory?
8. What or who was their most significant influence? Expound.
9. What do they believe makes a successful life?
10. What makes them laugh?
11. What are their religious views?
12. What is their greatest strength?
13. Do they have a fatal flaw? If so, what is it?
14. Who is the most important person in their life?
15. If they died, who would miss them most? How would they die?

C. Pick a fandom, any fandom I'm in. I will tell you some stuff that may involve canon ships, fanon ships, fanon trends, and whether or not I think things jumped the shark or went absolutely nuts, or where I myself stopped watching and why!

This is what happens when I don't stay caught up on my internet.

(Also, if you haven't been following st_xi_kink religiously, this post may have no meaning for you, so feel free to scroll.)

Two days ago, the great st_anon announced she would be closing the Star Trek XI Kink Meme. I completely understand her reasons and the fact that she's kept up with this juggernaut since May is astounding to me. Still, it's the end of an era, and the end of an era deserves to be commemorated.

I had planned on making this post on Star Trek Day (November 17th), but today seems more appropriate. Under the cut are the six things I wrote for the kink meme. Please heed all warnings.

( go boldly )

Because you can never have too much meme in your diet:

Ask me about a pairing I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or what they order from the Chinese place down the street, etc, etc.

Because I still haven't gotten the chance to make a music post yet (btw, OH MY JESUS GOT THE BSG SEASON FOUR SOUNDTRACK BEAR MCCREARY IS MY GOD NOW) but memes like this are always awesome:


Ask a character a question, any question, and they HAVE to answer completely honestly. Have to. It's the meme rule. Even if they'd normally lie, they suddenly have been hit with a truth serum of some kind and must tell the truth. Bwaha.


As a refresher, my girls are:

Milliways
Mary Anne Bell song_tra_bong
Artemis untiedtheknots (also available for questions specific to Firefly!Artemis)

Mixed muses
Aife born_of_swords
Dollface got_your_tongue
Kite spareprincess

Have at, kids. Real entry tomorrow. Probably.

Because this is a fucking shiny bandwagon and tonight is finish your goddamn kink meme entry writing night:

Give me a pairing and a prompt and I will write you a fic that is no more than three lines long!

Note: Doesn't have to be a pairing; can just be two characters.


Later, I think there will be music.

Because nothing says THREE DAY WEEKEND BITCHES like meme time!!

PICK ONE OF MY CHARACTERS AND I WILL TELL YOU:
→ why I decided to play this character
→ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
→ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fcs)
→ the last thing they did "off screen"
→ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow
→ what the next thing I'm doing for them is (narrative, post, shelving, whatever)

BONUS ROUND:
» I will tell you what character of yours I'd like to play mine against
» you may ask me a free question ♥


And there will be that ten sexy people pic!meme later, now that I have the patience for html.

And the Memorial Day Weekend fic dump continues! Remember the 30 prompts meme? Well, two of the requests ended up merging in my head so now I give you:

Supernatural (time and scale, both altered out of reckoning) and Artemis (a place beyond fear)

( gods of the new world )

This is what happens when I've got a job; the wank is over by the time I get home. And that's all I have to say about that.

Also, I have not forgotten the writing meme! See, here's one now.

#26 the structure of her nose alone (Sweets/Doll)

( she had my face )


The others will be fluffier :D? The other ones I'm working on now are actually linked--#29 time and scale, both altered out of reckoning (Supernatural) and #3 a place beyond fear (Artemis). I'm pretty psyched with how they're going and hopefully they'll be up in the next few days.

Arg. Have been meaning to put one or both of the girls into the bar for days and keep failing. Tomorrow--come hell or high water! (Also, I may hurl Kite back into m_m; I kind of adore her.)

Also, anybody got any music recommendations?

Finished Havemercy tonight. Cried through the last chapter. Listening to this song on repeat the whole time probably didn't help, but don't care. Book was marvelous. (Also, if there is any particularly awesome fanfic/fanart/fanworks out there that I might have missed by being late to this marvelous party, hook a girl up yo?)

Have been made of fail when it comes to the internet this past week or so. Blame the girl parts. Will try and correct that this week. In an effort to fail less, and also because these prompts rule, I'm stealing that writing meme that everyone else stole.

Choose one or two or however many and a character/pairing and I'll try and write something for it. You can also ask for original if you're interested in seeing what my pretty little brain comes up with myself.

( awesome!list beneath )

My fandoms consist of: Life, SPN (although I am not most-recent-episode-compliant), Iron Man, Milliways, Downside, Greek Mythology...and most other things I fangirl; just ask and I'll see what I can come up with.

I have a few tags I want to catch up and then I'm heading to bed. Happy Easter, everybody.

EDIT: If you haven't seen the new assassin for Assassin's Creed 2, DO SO. We're going to Renassance Italy, motherfuckers. We get to hang with da Vinci, Machiavelli and the Medici, and have TWO stabbity wrist blades. (Also, if that outfit were not so goddamn complicated--and undoubtedly too warm for EVER--would be more eager to cosplay it.)

That damn musical number already had me primed to cry (no, I don't get why either) and then they gave Heath his award and I was just keeping it together when the Documentary montage starts up...with Metamorphosis One. In an effort to get perkier, I'm finally answering my damn meme. (Also, speaking as someone who was planning on watching pretty much none of the Oscars this year, is it just me or is this year actually really really good?)

From ceitfianna, ( Mary Anne, music, tarot, strong women, women alone )

And from lienne, ( Downside, Dollface, hot asskicking women in general, Milla Jovovich, and Tony Stark falling on his ass. )


Also, I may have just added five Princess Kraehe icons to my lineup.

Pea Ess - Pyth, haven't actually read it yet, but JESUS CHRIST YOU SENTENCED EUPHIE.

Three things in this post.

One: Trailer for "Tales of the Black Freighter. Fucking sweet, my sons. Fucking sweet.

Two: The track list for the Watchmen soundtrack is also up. (Not to be confused with the score.) I think I almost cried a little when I saw they had included Nina Simone's "Pirate Jenny."

Three: You know that meme floating around? Name five things you associate with me and I'll elaborate on them in a later post. Consider this my attempt at making LJ posts more regularly.

Okay, thing about work that makes me sadface? The fact that that by the time I get home from work, Back Room DEs are basically over. I rise up against this fact and say NAY! By which I mean:

You know my characters; respond with AU thread/scenarios you've thought of involving them.

Um...there may have been some other thought of actual substance that wanted to post here, but I totally forgot what it was. Will edit in later as needed.