Fire in the Hole

At Pottermore, that is. It's all hanseatic_keks's fault that I signed up and now I want other lemmings those on my flist who are Harry Potter fans to join! Anyone who's on there and here on the flist, add me (RuneMirror3850), please? Yes?

Because I'm a little lemming, I couldn't help click on the link to the Fanfiction Personality Test that yappichick had in her profile. Here's my result:

The Mindgamer

Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.

Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.

You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?

You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.

And, just for the fun of it, the rest of the analysis:

You scored 46% on Slasher, higher than 18% of your peers.
You scored 57% on Weirdo, higher than 29% of your peers.
You scored 80% on TrueFan, higher than 87% of your peers.
You scored 84% on Mindgamer, higher than 92% of your peers.
You scored 69% on BarelyFF, higher than 85% of your peers.
You scored 32% on Immature, higher than 16% of your peers.

WTFseriously? Okay... What...ever...

Seen at rodlox's and hollymac79's journals:

I'm running a test to see who's reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don't just post a word and not copy - that's not as much fun!

So. Since the last one went a little... suboptimal (let's not talk of the still missing fics), I thought I'd start a little earlier this year. This will remain fixed here until November 30 (or until it's full) and until that you have a chance to post your prompts. This time around, let me say a couple things. Or just one. Anyway. Let's talk about crack. I don't do it. Or I do but I'm really not good at it. And I don't like to write it. Everything else is fair game. Uh. Until I say otherwise, yeah.

Also, to give you some inspiration, have a look at this:

( Holiday Fic Request Meme 2011 )

before you get to this:

( Holiday Fic Request Meme 2012 )

And anyway, if it were, it would be my rightful reward for finally working my way through mackenziesmomma's prompt for Dec 2 for the Holiday Fic Request Meme. Holy crap, I honestly didn't think those short two pages would be so hard to get into writing. That's what happens when authors ruin a perfectly good show the way they ruined EUReKA. Anyway. Not-meme now.

Snagged from anuna_81:

1. Reply to this post and I will pick six 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.

( Icon talk! )

Also, that other meme isn't fully resolved yet...

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Oh, whoa. Too many to choose from, actually. I'd love to spend a day with Jo March, preferably on a New England winter day, with snowball fights and an evening of reading from books and telling stories in the March home. Or blowing shit up for a day with Laura Cadman. Or a day at Camp Half Blood with the bunch from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. Or seeing the way the world was altered after the end of John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy, preferably in the company of Karen Halabi (since he killed off Jürgen Müller :P Oh, spoilers... oops).

I'm not sure if I'd like to meet Eowyn, seeing as how she and I bitched at each other during the last days when I tried to write sgteam14283's first prompt for the Holiday Fic Request Meme. But, ooooooh, I'd love to meet Sam Carter and Helen Magnus! I'd ask Sam how to become a soldier like her and how the hell she is so awesome and I'd never stop asking Helen about the centuries she lived in. She'd probably have to talk about WWI and WWII for at least a year or something and she'd be the best ressource ever for that WWII original story I still have on my hard drive (or my dad's NAS, since my laptop is still out of commission...). Oh yes, definitely Helen Magnus, over tea and biscuits (not cookies) by a blazing fire in the fire place in her library ♥

Stolen borrowed from abvj:


Comment with: a day, a fandom (can also be crossover), a character/pairing (can also be my OCs... but do try to take someone else than the farm kids, mackenziesmomma :P), and a prompt (can be everything from lyrics to pictures) and I will write at least 300 words for you, to be posted on the day you claimed. Any fandom/pairing that I am familiar with is fair game (just look up my interests in my profile and the comms I'm a member of), but I might ask you to choose another prompt if you leave something I feel uncomfortable writing, or if it is a fandom I haven't been into in a while. You can, of course, request more than one.

(and no, I haven't forgotten the other still open meme prompts, such as this one)

December 1 - abvj, Leverage, Parker, like a blister in the sun
December 2 - mackenziesmomma, EUReKA, Zane Donovan/Jo Lupo, a forever
December 3 - sgteam14283, The Lord of the Rings, Faramir/Eowyn, The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
December 4 - yappichick, Star Wars, Delvin Sandwalker, anything with him being a badass
December 5 - ancient_leah, Stargate, Laura Cadman/Carson Beckett, If the first kiss was a lie and the last kiss made you cry well then for god's sake get away tonight
December 6 - sgteam14283, Stargate/Army Wives, Evan Lorne and Chase Moran, Special Ops training
December 7 - mackenziesmomma, Star Wars/Stargate, Delvin Sandwalker and Evan Lorne, playing nice with others
December 8 - mackenziesmomma, Stargate, Joe Simmons and the boys, Tell me have you ever wanted/Someone so much it hurts?
December 9 - apinkpanthress, Stargate/Leverage, Evan Lorne and Eliot Spencer, beneath a comfortable blanket of ongoing death and destruction
December 10 - hanseatic_keks, Stargate/Army Wives, Rodney McKay and Katie Moran, those kids were going to be the death of him
December 11 - 02thedestiny1, Firefly, River Tam, Reamonn - Through the Eyes of a Child
December 12 - mackenziesmomma, Stargate, Anna Williamson, For passion tempts and troubles me/A wayward will misleads
December 13 - sgteam14283, Battlestar Galactica, Helo/Sharon, how the couch got into Sharon's cell
December 14 - mackenziesmomma, Stargate, Evan Lorne  (and Thomas Moore, Joe Simmons or John Sheppard), I am the great and powerful Oz, fear me!
December 15 - rodlox, Warehouse 13, the Bering family, a million thank-yous and bonus points if you can tie in Vitus Bering
December 16 - mackenziesmomma, Leverage/Stargate, Eliot Spencer and Laura Cadman, More alike than you know
December 17 - failegaidin, Stargate, Laura Cadman/Evan Lorne, I'd rather kiss you than yell at you.
December 18 - pingulotta, Warehouse 13, Pete Lattimer and Myka Bering, Katzenjammer - Play My Darling Play
December 19 - rareb, Harry Potter, OC (not Lavinia or any other EDeN character), Orgy - Blue Monday
December 20 - mackenziesmomma, Stargate, Thomas Moore and Laura Greenspan, Come on you're my best friend what was I supposed to do lock you away in the tallest room of the highest tower and beset you with a dragon?
December 21 - rodlox, Leverage/Warehouse 13, Parker and H.G. Wells, Parker and H.G. watching Stargate Universe
December 22 - keylafirefly, Mulan, Fa Mulan, I never want to see a naked man again.
December 23 - rareb, Harry Potter, Lavinia McNeil, Try me.
December 24 - mackenziesmomma, Stargate, PAS/MC cast, a time that Christmas wasn't quite what they imagined
December 25 - sgteam14283, Stargate, Evan Lorne/Laura Cadman and Kassandra Wilson/Joe Simmons, Are you serious? I'm your knight in shining armor!
December 26 - rareb, Harry Potter, OCs, A Gryffindor student and a Slytherin student falling in love with each other, No place for beginners or sentimental hearts
December 27 - sgteam14283, Stargate, Joe Simmons/Kassandra Wilson, best/worst day of their lives
December 28 - pingulotta, Warehouse 13/Iron Man, Claudia Donovan and Tony Stark (bonus points if H. G. Wells makes an appearance), The suit is not an artifact. -  Not yet...
December 29 - mackenziesmomma, Stargate, Charlie and Anna Williamson, the shower is big enough for six
December 30 - hanseatic_keks, Stargate/Army Wives, Katie Moran and Ronon Dex, my daddy is more bad ass than you
December 31 - apinkpanthress, Stargate, Evan Lorne and Laura Cadman, Rodney also knew that she was sorts of off-limit because Lorne would kill him if he tried anything stupid on her

I really tried to talk myself out of this one because of the topic of the question but mackenziesmomma wouldn't let me chicken out so I figured I should just get it over with write it and be done with it. Also, until now I tried to find a fitting song for the aformentioned story tag for ancient_leah but I feel so alone without my laptop and my music and most of all my playlists (oh God, the playlists! They were so many I actually had to scroll, even in half screen size oh God) and last.fm isn't really helpful, either so I can just as well write another "30 Days" entry until I get a new laptop (hopefully in the next two weeks because seriously, I don't think I can make the big bang otherwise). So here we go.

( First eleven under cut because the list of answered questions threatens to become longer than the actual answer... )


And the newest one:

12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you’d like to share?

( Brave new worlds... )

Anyway... any of my verses you'd like to have included this? Any verses you didn't like, regarding world building? Give it all to me!

Eh. Well. Um. It's a second "30 Days" post in a week. But to be honest, I feel like I have a lot more to say about the next question than I had about the last. While that was more of a blah post, this one could become a veritable rant, seeing as I have to say a lot about the character I like to write least... but let's start at the beginning (also, tons of spoilers, mostly for Minor Characters, so if you want to read that series in the correct order and unspoilered... better skip this one).

That is, the first ten questions:

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What’s your favorite genre to write? To read?
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!

And the newest one:

11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?

( People are people... )BTW... who's your favorite character to read, Stargate or non-Stargate? Of mine, that is. Tell me?

Righty-o, mackenziesmomma asked for another "30 Days of writing" entry, and because she's a really fabulous beta, she will get her wish. Although I'm not quite sure how much I can answer to the next question because I never really thought about that part of writing before but just did it, which is, in light of the question's content rather weird...

(and if you're following Protect and Survive and Minor Characters only on LJ, please be warned of spoilers for both series)

Anyway, those are the first eight answered questions:

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.
2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?
3. How do you come up with names, for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)?
4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters!
5. By age, who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
6. Where are you most comfortable writing? At what time of day? Computer or good ol’ pen and paper?
7. Do you listen to music while you write? What kind? Are there any songs you like to relate/apply to your characters?
8. What’s your favorite genre to write? To read?

And that's the current one:

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.

( You can run but you can't hide... )