tempus fugit

Stolen from Mith, and from various others around the interwebs. Will post actual content soon, really.

Right now I'm just glad it's the weekend, because I've gotten maybe ten hours of sleep total over the past three nights. Possibly less.

NAME A FANDOM (or ficverse) AND I'LL TELL YOU:

01. The first character I fell in love with:
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
05. The character I would shag anytime:
07. The character I'd slap:
13. Who are my 3 favorite characters:
15. What are my 3 favorite pairings:
16. What are my 3 least favorite pairings:
17. Which character I'm most like:
a. The coolest thing about the canon:
b. The lamest thing about the canon:
c. My guiltiest pleasure in this fandom:
d. What story I wish I could read (or art I wish I could see):
e. What story I wish I had written/still want to write (or art, respectively):

Any fandom, seriously. If it's in my tags or mentioned on my profile, I'll talk about it, though I'll probably have more to say about more recent fandoms. (Heck, even if I haven't mentioned it in either of those places, as long as you know I'm familiar with the source material, I'll go for it.)

Ask away! Opinions, I has them!

My father is getting married next weekend!

Finals are right around the corner, too! And oh boy do I have a lot of final projects and papers to contend with!

And I'm helping my friends out with our newest machinima* project!
Machinima: Think Red vs. Blue. But we're using Fallout 3 because Microsoft dicked us over so badly with our last venture.

I am not going to have a life anymore! Not that I really have one now!

ahahaha. Ahaha. Aha. Ha. ohgodwhyyyy.

(Also, it would be now when I finally feel like writing again. Which makes a certain amount of sense, come to think of it. I find I generally end up writing more, and being more productive, when I'm juggling lots of things at once, because I have to manage my time well.)

Meme, from a_white_rain --
Comment, and I'll:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. -- only if you want to.

I'm not crossposting this here because I don't want to try to track responses over two journals, but I am taking ficbit requests (le gasp!) at my LJ and I'm trying to not fail at them this time, so if you're interested, feel free to leave a request?

So Mith is doing drabble requests now, and it occurs to me that I haven't done them in a long-ass time. Or, well, I've tried, but it hasn't really worked. I come across a request that I can't quite make work and my contrariness kicks in and I refuse to let myself do anything else until I've solved that particular problem and I end up not doing anything.

Really, the smart thing to do would be to only write the prompts I find compelling, but I worry that not selecting someone's prompt will come across as "you're not good enough." Which is stupid, I know, and I am not obligated to write fannish things that don't compel me, and fandom is not my friggin' job, but. I swear, I am too neurotic to live sometimes.

Anyway, all of this is a long lead-in to another meme. Not drabble prompts, yet. In addition to everything mentioned above, I have to remember how to keep things short. And I also should not take drabble prompts during dress rehearsal week, with a huge-ass fic backlog, and a fuckton of reading to do, and midterms a lot closer than I want them to be.

But I will revisit an old favorite of mine, partially because I saw a_white_rain do something similar:

Give me a character I have written, and I will list three facts about them from my personal headcanon.

Again, any character I've written is good, and no fandoms are verboten, though characters I've written recently or written extensively will get better responses than those I haven't. You can ask about as many characters as you'd like, but wait for me to finish your first request before you make a second, just so I can keep a better handle on things.
You can ask for characters I haven't written if they're in fandoms you know I have a lot of headcanon for, but I reserve the right to ask you to pick someone else.

Have at it! This will be a good antidote to long-ass rehearsals.

(Also, I'd like to apologize to everyone reading on IJ for generally being pretty fail at replying to comments lately. Hetalia fandom is pretty much exclusively on LJ, and I've pretty much been in Hetaliamode since the beginning of December, so. I'm going to try to get back to everyone over the next few days.

...it's funny. About eighteen months ago, I was keeping my LJ around as a backup for my IJ. Now it's the opposite.)

Stolen from Mith and a host of others:

Apparently in reaction to fandom_secrets and other trivial and incendiary wastes of net-time, TK has started a meme to the effect of "These are some unpopular/controversial opinions that I hold and am unafraid to voice."

As I generally like signing my name to things, here we go.

( unpopular opinion time! )

I am sure I will think of more things to add to this.

So it looks like I'm writing that England, Will, and Kit thing, then. *grins* Not that doing so is any kind of hardship, mind.

Am currently watching Superbowl, along with lord knows how many others --

HOLY FUCK CARDINALS WHAT THE HELL AND HOLY FUCK STEELERS

Tournament is over, mostly -- full retrospective coming later. Made it to the semifinals, which I'm happy about, since this was the first tournament I actually sponsored in. I wrote somewhere around 35k for the thing, and I'm proud of most of it. Even if Suzaku did some really boneheaded things, but then again, Suzaku's lapses in judgment are, well, canon.

Also, I feel like doing a meme -- even if I'm still working my way up to writing things that other people request; I'm not there yet, but I might be eventually -- so I'm stealing this one from etrangere:
Ask me anything: all types of fannish opinions, good, bad, and ugly. Anything in the tags list or any fandoms you're certain I've mentioned in the past are good, as are thoughts on general themes and trends in fandom/fiction.
Be as general (why do you like crossovers so much?) or as specific (how would the American Civil War work in Hetalia terms?) as you want, as serious (if CLAMP ever resumes X, who's making it out alive?) or as silly (who'd win in a pilotfight between Suzaku and Kara Thrace?) as you want, as metalicious (what do you think about the nature of the creator/creation relationship in Digital Devil Saga?) or as not (on a scale of one to "OHGODWHY," what are your feelings on Ladd Russo obtaining immortality?) as you want.

So go ahead, ask away. I want to talk to people.

Petition to Studio Deen and Genosha

The nationalistic groups in Korea whose protests against Hetalia seemed to lead to the show getting yanked off the air in the first place are now seeking to halt Hetalia's mobile and online distribution, and certain elements within that group advocate attacking Japanese websites to further that goal. This petition is meant to encourage Studio Deen and Genosha to continue Hetalia's distribution, and not to accede to the wishes of a small group willing to employ illegal tactics to gain what they want. Regardless of your position on Hetalia (and there are valid reasons to be offended by it, and I know about Korea's history with Japan even if I'll never personally understand the full ramifications of it), I think it's important that companies not buckle before threats of cyber-terrorism, and that any threats of that sort are unwelcome and unwarranted in civil discourse.

Okay. Serious business out of the way.

( That 15 OTPs meme that's been going around )

I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TELL YOU....

I knew I should've done this like two hours ago. Late Puel is laaaate.

Also, Neil Gaiman won the Newberry Medal and episode one of Hetalia is friggin' adorable. Classes are good, I think I'm going to get to take everything I want to, Suzaku is going DELIGHTFULLY CRAZY, and I am generally in a good mood right now.

Actual reflective stuff about non-fic stuff will come later. I've been working on this masterlist thing for a while. I say "for a while" because I wrote 38 full-length fanfics this year, 46 if you include ficlets, and -- a lot more if you count all the commentfic. (This also discounts original work, school stuff, cowritten works, and fic I never ended up posting.) Total fannish wordcount? 146,760. (That puts my average fic wordcount at about 3190.) 22,000 of those words are Wayward Dawn, but still. I'm rather proud of myself.

( Fics, from January through December )

( The meme part! )

Well, that's 2008. Bring on the new year!
...also, time to write 1000 words like I said I would. Hold on, I think I hear Potsdam calling...

So that's pretty much it for finals. I have a few papers left, all due next week, but they are things I can write in my sleep, not huge gigantic drafts of plays. (Sixty pages for the first act. Professor asked for thirty to forty-five. um. I am an overachiever? Though I think the iambic pentameter inflated the page count.) THEREFORE, I can finally write fanfic again. My god, I feel so backlogged. And I am getting neurotic that I have, like, wasted all my fandom goodwill because I have been so bad about commenting on not-Mith people's journals and responding to my own comments and getting things done that I owe people and blah blah blah paranoia. orz.

Also, did in fact get cast this semester. Did not get cast in Metamorphoses. Got cast in two roles in the annual ten-minute play festival our university sponsors that very much play against my usual type -- except for the fact that I AM A(N EX-)DRUG ADDICT AGAIN in one of them ahahaha -- which is cool, but still. Loved other show so hard. Wanted to do it. D: Am wondering if I should have thrown the In10 callback, but no, I find the idea abhorrent...jeeeeeeealouuuus, though.

Also also, I napped from about three to five and thus feel horribly lazy. But well-rested.

Finally, because I should stop whining and because I want to interact with people s-sorry if I come across as desperate here, I'm just still getting over finals-crazy and am feeling lonely as a result, a meme that I made up!
Give me a character from any fandom of mine (check if you aren't sure), and I will talk -- probably at length -- about what they're like in bed.
Some characters (and those of you who've been following me for a certain amount of time can guess who) will net longer responses than others, of course. You can ask me about as many characters as you'd like; my only caveat is that you wait for me to finish your first request before making a second, just so I can manage things a little better. Other than that, go ahead! This is the kind of analysis I'm not burned out on doing. <3

I HAS A NOCTURNE, BITCHES.

Have I mentioned that I love my girlfriend? Because I love my girlfriend. Best anniversary present. <3

...I will totally wait until after finals are over to play it. Right. Totally. Because I'm crewing a show this week. And have papers to write. And a play to finish. And outstanding fic obligations. And am not going to spend all my time dungeoncrawling.

Still. eeeesoexcited.

Things I Should Do Today: Print out paper for Intro to LGBT Studies, haul lazy ass to gym, finish at least one of the half-finished scenes in Ardent, memorize audition monologues, Latin homework, pester Financial Aid, pester mother to deliver my missing cell phone charger.
If, by some miracle, I still have time: memento mori. OR THE livelongnmarry FIC YOU DUMBASS.

Things I Should Not Do: Crack open Nocturne, crack open Suikoden V, crack open Vagrant Story, spend all my free time researching Sino-Soviet relations for Hetaliafic, browse the Hetalia kinkmeme, drink more coffee.

Speaking of memes, though...
List the first ten series that come to mind. Your friends will comment with the character from each series that they know that they think you are most like. No, you don't have to pick a character for me from each series.
1) Avatar
2) Axis Powers Hetalia
3) Baccano!
4) Battlestar Galactica
5) CLAMP (any)
6) Code Geass
7) Digital Devil Saga
8) Final Fantasy (any game)
9) Persona 3
10) The Sandman
Decided not to do the "guess my favorite character" version of this meme, as my favorites are RIDICULOUSLY obvious. (And if you'd like, I can also do the meme for you.)

As is probably apparent from the post yesterday, computer is deAIDSified. All my files are intact, I just need to get my programs back and find out where I put the CD that has the drivers for my sound card, because I miss watching movies on this thing.

Silly Jade.

Am sort of doing mass comment catchup now (which includes all those Object of Desire ficbits I never got around to writing, because I actually am in kind of a porning mood now and I have hours backstage where I will be sitting in the dark and doing NOTHING so therefore!), because I have been a Failpuel at talking to people. *headdesk*

Also ended up watching the first four episodes of Season Two of Stargate SG1. It is TV popcorn: buttery and kind of addictive but not terribly substantial. Still, it's fun, and I'm rather fond of Daniel Jackson, which should not be surprising to anyone. I may watch more later.
(I keep replacing "Gou'ald" with "Yeerk" in my head. Anyone else do that? shut up Animorphs is awesome.)

Oh, and apparently Tour of Duty is up for Best Tragedy at the Genesis Awards, which is pretty cool. Totally did not realize it until the mod contacted me through my account at the Pit -- and had not thought of the fic in months, really -- but still, quite flattering.
...man, I haven't written FFVII in what, a year? Almost.

Speaking of things surprising to people who are reading me:
What has surprised you the most about me (if anything) since joining my flist/"friending me"? Was anything completely unexpected or have I always fit the picture of me you have in your head?
I am very interested to hear the answers to this one, so go ahead and share. (Meme stolen from lots of people.)

So lately, I keep on bouncing back and forth between "I am SO READY TO WRITE RIGHT NOW and I am going to do it until my fingers fall off" and "oh god too much to do I am never going to finish it all I have no more inspiration or drive or desire aaaagh." I think I am overwhelming myself by thinking in terms of Big Vast Projects I Must Finish, because then I'm daunted by the sheer magnitude of it all. I think I'm just going to try to set smaller goals for myself: write this much today, work on this much today, don't worry about the other stuff until it becomes pertinent.

And above all, self, do not let fandom feel like a job. It's okay if you don't have a new fic to post every week. You're in school, you're trying to keep up your GPA, and you're writing a fricking play. In verse. You don't have to do everything.

Really.

(I think I need to start an Overachievers Anonymous support group.)

I've always been in the habit of carrying a journal around with me everywhere, but now I'm getting into the habit of just writing in it randomly again, like I had to do during my senior year of high school as part of the literary arts program I was in. Things that aren't necessarily stories or aren't necessarily polished and perfect, just -- stuff. Just so I'm in the habit of doing it. Just so I'm not spending all this time staring at a blank page and fretting that everything I put on it has to be just right. Because my perfectionism is really what's killing my write, I think.

I might also start posting writing to-do lists for myself here -- not ones where I list every project that I'm working on, but ones with like three projects maximum on them. Breaking stuff down into manageable chunks.

TODAY'S WRITING LIST
1) Cultural Anthropology paper. Not optional.
2) Ardent, finishing scene ii or at least getting close to it. (Again, don't worry about making it perfect, you're going to have time to revise this before you submit it places. Just write it.)
3) Minato - music - songs defined his life for kinkfest. You know what you want to do with this. So go ahead and do it.

I think this will help. *crosses fingers*

Also, I did this meme a year ago, but I'm interested to see how the answers might have changed since then, especially since I'm no longer writing almost-all FFXII, almost all the time. And because I have so many new friends. (Hi guys!)
What do you think are the quote-unquote "trademarks" of the fiction that I write? What type of themes or characterization notes or quirks keep on manifesting in my writing? Essentially, what do you think is a stereotypically Puel way of writing fic?
(Fic tag is here, for reference.)

(I will also try to tell you what I think the trademarks of your fic are, if I've read enough to determine that -- if not, feel free to link me to your stuff so I can assess that for myself.)

Okay, day. Please don't suck. *knock wood*

I. Someone with actual talent at making AMVs needs to make one for On the Rise. With Lelouch singing Billy's part and Euphie singing Penny's.
I'M JUST SAYING.

II. My writerbrain refuses to function today, and I have no idea why. Halp. Maybe it's linked to how tired I seem to be getting lately. I think I'm not drinking enough water.
Really, though, I need to stop fretting about my work being inadequate and, you know, actually do the damn work in question.

III. Meme!
( Ten, Nine, Eight... Hey, you might learn something interesting about me. Maybe. )

IV. And finally, a snippet from That Semester Project, which I think I'm going to title Ardent because I'm a NERD like that. I love switching between iambic pentameter and prose for this, partially because of what the switches mean.

I think that's all of (moderate) importance. So, um, how are you guys? What kind of stuff are you working on? It is Monday night, and it is tradition that I talk to people instead of do homework.

In New York and having a lovely weekend, as I tend to have up here. Am waiting for girlfriend to come home from work though I refuse to greet her in an apron and high heels or something else along those ridiculously impractical lines, not that I think she'd ask me to do that, am stealing her computer while she's away --

-- and have realized, "fuck, I haven't taken drabble or ficbit requests in months. Almost three, to be exact."

Therefore! I pilfer from girlfriend even more than I already have and ask you to pick a character or pairing, then pick a common household object from the list below. I then write a ficbit in which I do all manner of undignified things to the character(s) in question involving said object. If you don't pick a pairing, I reserve the right to stick the character you asked for with whomever strikes my fancy. (Yes, Puel is actually writing porn again. Rejoice. Or despair.)

Fandoms I will do, with caveats in parentheses:
Baccano! (I don't have a good handle on the comedic cast, or on Graham)
Battlestar Galactica (DO NOT WANT Lee)
Code Geass (asking for Nina or Xingke will earn you D: face)
Digital Devil Saga (I have a hard time with Cielo's voice)
Persona 3 (no Yukari)
The Sandman (I don't really porn the Endless except Desire, but asking for Desire is cheating, and not all the characters are suited to the format of this request, so just make sure it makes sense?)
Tokyo Babylon/X (any)
Yami no Matsuei (any)
You can try me on other fandoms (check my profile if you want to see the list; I just updated it), but I make no guarantees.

The objects in question, a slightly different list from the one on LJ:
1) plastic wrap who_shot_kr, Kara/Leoben
2) clothespin lassarina, Mitsuru
3) ice white_aster, Destruction
4) hand mirror calligraph, Muraki/Tsuzuki
5) necklace shellydkitty, Baltar/anyone
6) mosquito netting
7) high-heeled shoe mitsuhachi, Bana/Sub-chan
8) straight pin
9) nail scissors
10) extension cord

I will do each object once.

Hopefully this should be fun. And perverse. Mostly perverse. But that's me.

Headaches + cramps = I hate you, body. I hate you so much.

So there was a meme going around a while back where you posted the first sentences from the last twenty-five fics you wrote and drew some conclusions about your work at the end of it all. I -- went overboard with it, probably, but I felt like meta-ing tonight.

Generalizations: I like establishing conflict right off the bat; I like providing a sense of evident discomfort; I play with repetition and redefinition a lot; when I start with short sentences, I go back and elaborate on them in the sentences following the initial one; I like to start things out with dialogue in shorter pieces so I can get right into the action.

The longer version is under the cut, and I've provided handy links to all the fics in question. Fandoms represented: Code Geass, Tokyo Babylon/X, Yami no Matsuei, Baccano!, The Sandman, Digital Devil Saga, Battlestar Galactica, Death Note, Persona 3.

( I have a deer. It is teal. Also, I talk a LOT about the various things I try to establish with first sentences. )

Off to New York this weekend, which I anticipate. Highly. Will work feverishly on x2009 entry, memento mori, and maybe some of the Geass plotbunnies in the upcoming week. Let's see how productive I can be.

i) So my knowledge of Jpop and Jrock and Japanese music in general is seriously, seriously lacking. I mean, we're talking "fits on the head of a pin" here, and even that might be a generous estimate. Thus, I ask: what kind of music and what artists would a Japanese high-school boy in 2009 listen to?

*points to icon* That high school boy, in particular. So I'm thinking bands and artists that are a little off the beaten path, a little dissonant, maybe a little darker, music that's somehow off even if you can't put your finger on just how. (Admittedly, that's my interpretation of Minato, but.)

Classical music suggestions are also appropriate, 'cause the Minato in my head appreciates classical? I DON'T KNOW, IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. He's a silent protagonist, he has really diverse tastes.

ii) Also, because I am a h0, a meme:

YOU KNOW YOU'RE PUELLA_NERDII WHEN..

And I have not played writing games in a while, or that's what it feels like. I don't know if I'm up for doing comment-drabbles yet, because really I should be working on memento mori/the Joker thing/the Minato thing/the kicking-the-shit-out-of-Suzaku thing/my HOMEWORK, but I can do simpler stuff!

Also, playwriting class is making me kind of miserable, which I hate, and I want to feel good about my work again.

Ask any character that I have written a question, and I will provide an in-character response to that question. Questions can be silly (Akihiko, what's the worst kitchen-related accident you've ever had?), serious (Hisoka, what's your favorite book?), sexy (Kamui, what do you want your first time to be like?), or whatever else y'all can come up with. Also -- well, for the sake of my woefully disorganized head, I'd prefer it if you only asked one question per comment, but there's no limit on how many questions you can ask. I'm doing this until I get bored, so have at it!

Because I am a sheep tonight. Or possibly a big old h0. And this meme is actually really sweet. And my write is coming back, and I want to celebrate by poking Tsuzuki with sticks by poking Subaru with sticks by doing this.

Pass a Secret Note ✘ Meme

ETA: I don't want to be a spam-monkey, but there's a version of this going around on IJ, too, and it is also awesome.

hi; have a word

So I'm feeling vaguely disconcerted and am not entirely sure why. I am also failing hard at doing the things I should be doing. Thus, I steal a meme from Luna and Onyx.

Pick a character that I write, then 5 random numbers between 1 and 100. Comment with the character name and the five numbers, and I'll answer the five corresponding questions from this site.

Extra-special-rule: If you ask for one of my OCs, you get to go twice.

Oh, and happy birthday, lassarina! May it be filled with shinies and awesome.