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Via naye and solo: A lovely new meme!

List six ships using only emojis, and see if people can guess them. I had a lot of fun with this, and since two of my chosen ships are pretty obscure, I thought I'd include an additional one so there's a proper chance of getting six right. :-)



Come play! :-)

With a slight delay, I present my responses to the 15 characters meme! I absolutely love the questions I got - you guys are brilliant. :-) And I would so love to read some of these crossovers...

This was my list of characters:

1. Ray Kowalski (Due South)
2. Benton Fraser (Due South)
3. Lex Luthor (Smallville, early seasons)
4. Cameron (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
5. John Connor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
6. Harold Finch (Person of Interest)
7. John Reese (Person of Interest)
8. Erik Lehnsherr (X-Men)
9. Charles Xavier (X-Men)
10. Methos (Highlander)
11. Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
12. Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
13. Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
14. Morgana (Merlin, seasons 1 and 2)
15. Duncan MacLeod (Highlander)


( Benton Fraser is running for office; Harold Finch is his campaign manager. The opponent is Charles Xavier; Aeryn Sun is his campaign manager. What are their platforms, and who wins? )

( Blackmail! John Connor knows Erik Lehnsherr's guilty secret. What is it, and what does it take to keep it quiet? )

( Cameron is being interviewed and is asked which five of the other 14 people on the list she would invite to a dinner party. )

( Is Erik's marriage to Buffy doomed or blissful? )

( If Benton Fraser, Aeryn Sun, John Connor and Harold Finch were teamed up, would they fight crime or be criminal masterminds? Who would be the group leader? )

( How does Charles Xavier seduce Duncal MacLeod? )

( Ray Kowalski and John Reese are winners of [Country's] Got Talent - what is their act and what unfortunate country have they inflicted it on? )

( Lex Luthor, Cameron and John Reese have just been stranded on an abandoned space station! How do they cope and what do they do next? )

( Cameron and John Connor go on a road trip. Where do they go, do they get lost and argue about whose fault it is, where do they stop for food, and who forgot to pack the map, anyway? )

( Ray Kowalski, John Reese and Methos have a reality show. What is it about and what do they do on it? )

( Ray Kowalski and Lex Luthor are in a relationship. Benton Fraser, Erik Lehnsherr, Cameron, Harold Finch and Duncan MacLeod find out. What are their reactions? )

( All 15 characters have to compete in a drag queen contest. Who are the top 5 finalists? )

( John Reese bakes something for Aeryn Sun. What? )

( Ray Kowalski, John Connor and Buffy are stuck in an elevator. What happens? )

( Is Duncan still in love with Methos? How does Erik Lehnsherr feel about that? )

( Ray Kowalski and Benton Fraser have a love child. Which actor should play said love child? )

I'm pretty late to the party, but hope to find time to look through all the entries and meet some new people. :-) LJ has been too quiet lately!

Help me, Obi-wan Friendslist! I mean to drabble, and I could use some prompts!

Please give me:
- A pairing/combination of characters*
- An alternate universe, OR
- A trope, OR
- Another scenario or prompt


* I know me, and so I know that inspiration will not come if it's a pairing I have no interest in (or, of course, if it's people / a fandom I simply don't know). So do feel free to prompt whatever you want, but be aware that if it does involve a pairing of this kind - say, Sheppard/McKay or some such -, it may end in tears.**

** Just kidding. It will probably end in me looking clueless and going "uhm" instead. And in a wordcount of an even 0.


Also...

Day 8
In your own space, talk about setting yourself a fannish goal. Big or small, it doesn't matter.

So. I inadvertently started posting a wip last year, which, uhm. I'm not sure how that happened? Anyway, I most definitely want to finish "Perturbation Theory", because I well know the frustration an unfinished wip holds for readers.

Also, due to circumstances that don't need exploring at this juncture, I have fallen hopelessly behind in responding to feedback. I feel horribly guilty about this, and really want to go back to responding in a timely fashion to every comment.

I also want to shrug off my fannish guilt. Le sigh.

Day 2
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Drop a link to your post in the comments. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.


Have a completely mixed bag of wonderful fanfic in (relatively) rare fandoms and pairings!


The Hawk Killer by glitterburn
Onmyouji, Abe no Seimei/Minamoto no Hiromasa
Lovely, long, plotty and wonderfully characterized Onmyouji story that can (and should!) be read as original fiction. Slight AU.
Author's summary: Impoverished provincial nobleman Minamoto no Hiromasa arrives in Heian-Kyo to restore his family’s pride, but meets with resistance at every turn until the eccentric and wealthy Lord Seimei offers to take Hiromasa under his wing.

this is not a chick flick by bookesque
Greek Mythology, Hades/Persephone
Hilarious, wonderfully written, and unexpectedly sweet. Hades falls in love, but is clueless as to what to do about it. The other gods insist on giving advice. This goes about as well as you'd expect, considering that Zeus is the gods' foremost authority and his best trick is turning into a giant animal to abduct his crush.

The Death of Girl Number Two by cm(mumblemutter)
Profit, Gail Koner/Jim Profit
Twisted, disturbing, and sweet in a really disquieting way. Perfect, and perfectly Profit.
Author's summary: Jim Profit needs a wife. Gail doesn't volunteer.

My Elf Policy, by papersky, and
Elf Insurance by stakebait
Origfic poems based on misread spam - funny, witty and all-around lovely!

These Bonds are Yours by olavina
Teen Wolf, Danny/Jackson
Canon reinterpretation: Jackson comes up with a solution to the Kanima problem. Very short, but absolutely on target, and makes so. much. sense.

Dirty Work (and sequels Wait and See and Come and Go with Me) by kalena
Chuck, Chuck/Casey
Casey hits upon a sure-fire way to keep the asset loyal and calm: sex. Everything would be going perfectly, too, if Casey weren't getting distracted.

They Say of the Elves, by brancher
Lord of the Rings, Legolas/Gimli
The hazards of intercultural relationships. Sweet and poetic and funny, all at the same time.

My elbow and wrist are still not quite back to normal, but much, much better. Also, I now have very fashionable colored bandages in azure, Prussian blue, spring green, crimson, fuchsia and black. It makes all the difference. :-) Of course, I have not spent my weekend employing my returned ability to be productive in order to be productive. Instead, I have lazed about, drunk gallons of tea, read fanfic, watched Vampire Diaries, and otherwise frittered my time away. I also brunched with ellensmithee, and entirely failed to feed myself like a responsible adult. OTOH, that cake did have fruit in it, and there actually was fruit on top of the frozen yoghurt.

So, it is time for a meme to wake me up and get me back into the zone.*

Ask me questions from the list below! I've taken destina's example and helpfully removed the ones I don't want to answer ahead of time. Which doesn't mean that some of the ones I left in won't make me think, or that I might not have good answers for every one.

( Comment with one or more numbers and I will answer them. If you don't specify a particular fandom, I will choose one on my own to answer with. )

* I don't know what zone exactly, but it sounded good. So.

Meme found via executrix:

Ask one or more of my characters a question. I don't guarantee they'll tell the truth though...

I got this result for a page or so of an original fic I'm writing. Unfortunately, I have to say this is not true... And not just because I cannot ever hope to approach the man's dirty double entendres and lewd puns. But I am insanely pleased even so. :-)

The JE epic is supposedly written like Mark Twain, btw. Leaving aside the fact that Mark Twain wrote about a hundred times better than I - even though it could perhaps be argued we are at about the same level when it comes to dirty double entendres and lewd puns ;-) - I think I have a vague idea of the similarities in sentence construction the program might have picked up on.

Really interesting!

Three more "3 sentence" meme story fragments. Again, they are somewhat longer than 3 sentences, and are in order of striking inspiration. Four more to go!

Junno is an alien vampire baker, Ryo is a vampire prosecutor. Needless to say, sparkliness ensues. (for glitterburn)

( The cupcake was decorated with a smooth, glistening cap of frosting the color of arterial blood. It was topped with an anatomically correct white chocolate heart, all of it decorated by a drift of edible silver sparkles. )


Junno/Ryo in an office AU. (for lulumeow)

(  'You told me that you can deal with my shoulders looking the way they do, but that my cheekbones are just unfair. You, uhm, also announced to the marketing department that you were going to do tequila shots off of, errrr, uhm. And I, uh, well, I was kinda drunk too, so I - but fortunately they didn't have any limes, so you had to drink the tequila straight from the bottle instead. And then you -'  )


Alicia and Kalinda in the Star Trek:TNG verse (for jona)

(  'He's not Vulcan,' Kalinda said. She fairly vibrated with contained energy, her nose ridges flushing a dusky rose with the joy of discovery. )

1. Reply to this post with 'sparkles!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

killabeez picked these five of my icons:



( So, let me tell you about icons. *g* )