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Icon Meme: approximately ONE MILLION icons as requested by an Unstoppable Army of Lizzens.



( seriously, one million )

Still no actual content, but I did this meme the other day, Comment below with a song request that you think I'd be able to provide, something like 'a song that reminds you of someplace you went on holiday when you were little' or 'a song that never fails to give you the shivers when you listen to it' or 'a song in a language you don't speak but would like to learn,' and thought I would share the links for everyone.

For ilana, a song that I associate with my sister: Can You Picture That? - The Muppets.

For Fahye, a song that I feel kind of ashamed about liking as much as I do:
菊花台 by Jay Chou; and bonus: Bus Stop by The Hollies.

Accidental upload: Moving Right Along by the Muppets.

answers to this meme:

Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.

( edmund pevensie )

( duncan atreides )

( miss piggy )

( sydney )

( miss parker )

( the princess irulan )

( ghanima atreides )

( billy keikeya )

( elliot stabler )

( seymour birkoff )

still accepting, if you want them, either in this post or in the original

from here

annavtree asked for the view from a window:



This is the view from the study. I like to think that this light post is the edge of Narnia's forest.



fahye asked for the corner of my house that I like the most:



(this penguin is so big, I can only just put my arms around him)



she also asked for my bookcase:





kittu9 asked for hands:



K, this morning at archery



flaifire asked for the view from my computer:





koalathebear asked for a picture of me. I'm never happy with self portraits, so until I find a timer, it will not happen.

Signups for rpfremix are open here. I would sort of like to sign up, but I don't have three 500 word fics in any rpf fandom. I've got two in a couple (in Narnia, and in BSG), but not three. So if anyone has any ideas for anything that I can write in the next couple of days, that would be great.

Speaking of, hobviously talks briefly about why she loves RPF. <333

I wanted to say, thank you very much to everyone who said lovely things about me in the love meme. It made me feel all glowy inside. :o)

The Pretender 2001 and Island of the Haunted are available on DVD as of Tuesday. WOO.

I updated unproductive with 12 x Firefly recs (including crossovers) and 6 x spy fandom recs (LFN, Spooks/MI5 and James Bond).

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I wasn't going to do this, but then I found myself reading other people's responses and reading their fic, so I thought, why not? Let me know if you do follow my links, just for my own curiosity.

Post a list of your top five favorite fics 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.

Cutting it down to just five was very difficult, and I know that five was probably just picked as an arbitrary number but nonetheless I did my very best to stick to it. I decided it would help if I only allowed myself one from each fandom, allowing crossovers to blur the lines.

The Wreck Keeps Running. Miss Parker and Jarod in the fleet, a BSG/Pretender crossover. I will never love another fandom the way I loved BSG, so bright and so fast, but there will always be a distant fondness, reminiscent of the way I feel about Roswell, perhaps. This fic, a combination of my oldest love with one of my newest loves, was self-indulgent but written with love, and the love/hate that Miss Parker and Jarod feel will continue until they're both dead.

A Restaurant with White Tablecloths, Smallville/DCU. This fic, about Chloe and her mission to find her place in the world, is kind of sordid and a little bit skanky and secretly my love letter to Gotham City. This took me months of constant picking and carving, and the end result makes me grin every time I think of it, and contains my favourite opening line (of my own fic) ever: Chloe's house phone rings, and she answers it before she realises she's never had it connected.

Out From Under (天高皇远), HP. Cho Chang, growing up and trying to fit into her own skin. There are no words that I can say to describe what this fic means to me, and every time I read another treatise on how Cho is crap, and every time I see Cho's significance and presence pushed aside like she's nothing, I hate fandom just that little bit more.

Divided, But with Half a Heart, Children of Dune. Because the years will be long, and Leto will miss his sister very much, and the twins are so beautiful and Frank Herbert was so crazy and I will admit it, I arbitrarily picked this one because I see all of my Dune fic as one long, never-ending story, even this one and this one, though they're crossovers.

Joining Hands as Nations, Narnia. Because Susan loves Narnia, no matter what, even though Aslan later keeps her away. I wish we had seen more of Susan, seen what plans Aslan had for her after her family had left the Shadowlands, because how could Aslan have loved her and cared for her and seen into her heart and then thrown her away?

BONUS: Slowly Creeping In, X-Men Movie. I love Kitty in all her incarnations, and though she was a bit too attracted to Bobby in X3 I feel that with this fic, I managed to reconcile who she was in the movie to who I see her as (ie, AWESOME).

That was very difficult.

I would not usually tag anyone, and please, if you want to do this meme, feel free! I certainly was not tagged. But I would like to see what hobviously has to say, and what voleuse has to say, and if she ever comes back to us, I would like to see what stars_like_dust has to say.

I'm still asking, because I love finding out what questions people are going to ask. And I'm still interviewing, if it tickles your fancy.

from sangga:

1. people say you are introverted?/extroverted? and isn't all that personality testing stuff a pile of hooey anyway?
I honestly don't know how to answer this question! It's all a lot of poo anyway, you are who you are and you live how you live.

2. someone asks you to 'do that William Tell thing' at a party. your response is...
I kind of need more space than this. And about six hundred dollars worth of equipment.

3. you are going to be stuck on a desert island for a month with limited food options. what comprises your a) favourite fruit, b)favourite sweet dish, c) favourite savoury. (these are not separate questions! shutup!)
a) oranges
b) vanilla ice cream layered with raspberries
c) avocado, tomato, lettuce and cheese sandwich
Please note that I have specifically chosen all of these because it's a desert island. :o)

4. Nietzche says, on the nature of good and evil...nah, i'm just kidding. in a fight to the death, who wins - Hannibal Lecter or Cyrus the Virus?
Hannibal.

5. after buttering his toast, your Beloved scrapes the excess butter off his knife back into the butter container. this is...grounds for separation? what normal people do? acceptable, because love is blind and everything? just gross, and you wish he would stop?
Just gross. After years of spreading spreadable of choice on toast, a person learns how much is required.



darling loki013 asked:

1) If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would you go?
I cannot answer this question. I want to visit everywhere! I want to go to BrisVegas, and drive to the Gold Coast with piecesofalice and go to SeaWorld to see the penguins and Movie World to see Batman; I want to live in Germany with my partner and learn German; I want to go to China and speak Mandarin; I want to go to Malaysia and see my family; I want to go to the US and be horribly, incorrigably touristy; I want to go to Italy and to England and I want to go somewhere, anywhere, to see snow. I want to go to Antartica and meet Emperors! And then I want to come home again.

2) Tell me the story of your vegetarianism!
My partner went away to Spain, and came back uninterested in meat. So I stopped cooking it, but gradually the smell of it was making Z feel ick, so I stopped eating it when we went out. Now I wouldn't go back. I am sad that my family doesn't understand, and that Z's brother thinks that eating vegetables is freaky; I am always disappointed in those friends who believe that they haven't eaten a proper meal if there is no meat in it (and as a result have had to stop inviting them to my dinner parties); and I miss the variety in the food I can order at the restaurants my father loves. But I have learnt too much to ever go back, and just last week I stopped buying eggs because even freerange egg farms kill the boy chickens at birth, and how can I love dogs and cats but want to see a cow harmed? See how I just ramble? This is why I never talk about it. BUT I love the exciting adventure that cooking has continued to be, experimenting with things I never used to like, chickpeas and avocado and eggplant, and pumpkin on pizza and pumpkin curry and a thick, creamy pasta sauce made of blended cauliflower and no dairy products.

3) If you were food, what would you be? ('chopped penguin' or 'bantha [synonym for fodder]' are not valid answers :p)
A curry.

4) Has Britney passed the point of no return?
NO. I love her.

5) If you were going to take over the world, who would you make work for you? (either fictional or otherwise)
Lex Luthor (Smallville), for his power and his influence and his money; Miss Parker and Jarod (The Pretender), Miss P for her drive and Jarod for his genius; Henry Spira (deceased animal rights activist), for the way he always knew exactly how to get a large organisation to do what he wanted them to do, and for the way his campaigns always took into account the long term; Lizzen, because apparently she can be really charming.

Whilst waiting for the noodles to boil, I've been doing this. I DON'T KNOW WHY. I don't usually do memes (unless they relate to writing):

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You will update your lj with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

anr asked:

1. If you were an Evil Overlord, would you have a moat full of angry crocodiles or a complement of 21 armed commando's protecting the entrance of your secret lair?
21 armed commandos. I mean seriously, how do you make the moat of crocodiles angry at all times? Plus, that sounds pretty mean to the crocs.

2. Favourite celebrity pairing (real, rumoured or rpf)?
Alan Rickman/Emma Thompson, hello. Have you all read the thing that Lizzen wrote for me? Page 596.

3. If you worked in the police force, would you give your mother a speeding ticket?
If she was speeding, sure. She's a leadfoot, is my mum.

4. What would you like your (infamous) last words be?
I'm not trying to be trite, I was seriously going to leave this bit blank. I don't really care what my last words would be.

5. Most played song in your iTunes (or equivalent)?
The World is Not Enough, Garbage.

I am reclining on my couch, thinking about going to sleep, ignoring my rather large to do list and instead admiring my icons. I recalled that darling Carrie did this meme earlier today, and thought perhaps others would like to admire my icons too (or at least criticise them).

Please feel free to check out my icons. Then comment with:

one that you (the reader) like just because;

one that you (the reader) thinks fits me (pen) best;

one that you think fits you (the reader) best;

one that I (pen) should use more often.

In addition, because Carrie's icon post also included a query whether she should watch The Pretender (going for only nineteen US dollars per season on Amazon), I too am going to include a comment about The Pretender, to whit:

It is about the adventures of a genius who is kidnapped as a child by a corporation which exploits his intelligence for their financial gain, when he escapes as an adult. COME ON GUYS WHAT IS THERE NOT TO LIKE?

This is that "summarise ten of your fandoms in one sentence" meme. If you guess it and give me a prompt, I will on the spot write you a ficlet about that fandom until I run out of words. Please play! Or I might find myself actually doing something useful on this fine Sunday morning.

1. He's not the Kwisatz Haderach, he's a very naughty boy. - Dune - AnguaLupin
2. Our primary objective: to oppress you. - BSG! by Shleeeeeeemeri - drabble: lee in the rec room (100 words)
3. He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, and then falls in love with his enemy.
4. They lived through a golden age, and then they went home. - Narnia! - guessed by eldritch flame - fic: Jill and Eustace!
5. There was that time in the Everglades I tied you to a pole and then you ended up in a cage. The Pretender - guessed by medie
6. Semper Fi, FOX YOU FUCKERS. - Space: Above and Beyond - guessed by annavtree
7. And unlike typical vampires, her fangs are located in her vagina. Blade: Trinity - guessed by aj, whom I THOUGHT was away.
8. She was set up to lead a life of awesome trickery.
9. AAAAAAANGSTCAAAAKEES. - SVU - as guessed by kovsky
10. Sometimes, the tilt of her head and the way she presses her lips together are familiar and he feels sick; he tickles her until she laughs, and the feeling goes away.


I will admit that I did not try very hard, so only one guess, if you want ficlets or something.

Over here, people have been asking me for fannish top fives. And usually when I do memes like that, I don't do "follow up" posts or anything, but this one has been so fannishly pleasing that I am going to!


esso asked: ( top five pairings. any fandom. ever. )


an unstoppable army of lizzens asked: ( Top five ways Lucy saved Edmund )


annavtree asked: ( top five ways that CJ and Toby end up together )


daygloparker THAT ENABLER asked: ( top five things that never happened to Parker and Jarod )


Outrageously, mandysbitch asked: ( Top five people (any fandom) Miss Parker should be paired with if she can't be paired with Jarod )


kirbyfest asked: ( Top five Parker moments. Real or imagined )


PEE ESS MORE PRETENDER THINGS TO FOLLOW