Imaginary Gardens

*feeble wave* So, not dead yet. Sick with a cold and sunburnt all to hell, making clothes an instrument of torture, but alive. The Cliffnotes of my life are:

1. the phone interview went terribly and I sucked and it was aweful


2. consequently I've been unable to do any more jobhunting, meaning I fail at everything


3. everything is The Avengers and Loki and everything hurts, but it's a better thing than points one and two so yays


4. speaking of which, I wrote fanfic drabble thingies for The Avengers because I had questions and feelings


5. I also finally finished a Supernatural fanvid I started sometime in 2009 \o/


6. I'm also working on putting seschat and my Sherlock headcanon to sickle_stories. Part 1 of 18 is up.


7. so it kinda looks like I'm being productive.

So have some thingies:

Fanfic and Meta: Seschat and Sickle's Holmes Bros Headcanon, Part 1 of 18

Fanfic: In the Mountains There is the Promise
Fandom: The Avengers
Word Count: 1,223
Summary: What happened between Loki's defeat and his and Thor's departure? (i.e. I had a lot of questions)

Fanvid Title: More Than This
Music: "Push" by Moist
Fandom: Supernatural
Summary: You have become your father's gun. A study (of sorts) of John Winchester's effect on the boys and the hunter's life. "Is this what you want / what you need / what you wanted me to be?"


Quote of the Day: greygirlbeast, here

If I have to be someone other than who and what they would have me believe their god made of me (or made me weak enough I might become), if it's all that sick and twisted and sadistic, why would I want to dwell in the house of that lord? Maybe the truest mark of human intellectual evolution is giving our "gods" the middle finger.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Misfits: ( Read more... )
The Avengers: ( Read more... )
Other Fandom: ( Read more... )
Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )


* "Under the Bright Lights", Empire

Wee! I managed to whip up some edits of my waaay-on-the-backburner fanvid for all of one verse yesterday. Sure, there's a scary-long (almost one minute) guitar bit coming up which I have no idea how to fill, but... Oh, who am I kidding, it scares the bejeebus outta me. On the other hand: progress!

Today I finally edited the introduction entry of amboseli and finally caved and made a separate Spanish-version amboseli_es. That one is still very much not-worked-on, but I've promised myself (again) to do this.

I've decided that sickle_stories ought to be better organized in terms of prompts and WIPs and scenelettes. As if I had time, right? Oy. I've done the Fanvids Prompt Masterlist, and flocked it. (Shock! Horror! But really, I don't think I want my plotbunnies running free.) I'm working on the Fanfic Prompt Masterlist, and there's a lot of summeries where I can only write "Fuckery ensues." Oy again.

And I've also printed out guitar chords, but haven't had time to practice. Oh, Betsy...

I've sworn up and down I'll wake up early tomorrow. It's now past midnight. This doesn't bode well.


* Marcus Aurelius

Caitlin Kiernan's Threshold and Supernatural would go fantastically well together, particularly Dancy Flammarion's past.

I'm working on collecting quotes and screencaps from both sources. See the maddness here!

One day, I swear to my dear and fluffy Lord, I'll actually sit down and do more than just note down and neurotically expand on ideas. I'll actually do them. Shock! Horror!

I'm actually quite serious about wanting to do some fanvids and fanfics, but I get can't sit the muse down to focus on one project. Instead she takes crack and rambles on and on about different ideas that's be pretty swell.

This SPN/Threshold concept is one of those I'm pretty serious about, although I've got a clearer idea of it as a fanvid or fake trailer than I do as a fanfic. *sigh*


* greygirlbeast's Threshold

For once, I made good on my "will write fic" threat.

Green and Purple Argyle, Of All Things, Or: Covetting the Joker's Socks for capn_mactastic. Alas, very little crack or sock-covetting, but the main image got typed.

Also, I'm pleased and disappointed that I managed to not have the Joker say a single word in the whole thing. (Why? It looks damn hard.)

PS: lienne, darling, thanks for holding down the Digger front for me. ♥ I can take it from here.


Links of the Day:
TDK Review


* Batman, TDK

Just got harder and harder each day*

I'm in a really bizarre set of moods today, which is a not-nice continuation of yesterday's set of moods. While yesterday I was incredibly bored, distracted and somewhat "oh, woes", today I woke up defeated, scared** and miserable. And incapable of working. Yays. Work on the presentation hasn't even started today, and I'm just too overwhelmed by the amount of summary that I have to do to even try. I guess it's not that hard, but still. (I managed to do some snazzy tables yesterday, which is nice.) I'm going to see if I can muster enough energy and care to jot down some ideas I've got scribbled over onto sickle_stories (which has all of two friends, thanksverymuch).

Oh, and wtf_nature has infected me with horrible deformed!baby images again. *sigh*

Meme via fallen_iceangel: ( Ye 1930's wife. )

ETA: Just read this on Lostpedia: "Lostpedia has arranged an interview with Michael Emerson, the actor who portrays Benjamin Linus." How awesome is Emerson? Very.

ETA 2: We've progressed to crying in the public bathroom. I have vending machine!coffee, peanut M&Ms and an iPod. I doubt I'll do any work today, but I need to try. Another reason I may be feeling like shit today is that I slept like shit, and then prior to falling asleep failed at both watching Doctor Who (unexpected death of mainland internet) and any Lost episodes I might have on cd because my computer utterly failed at opening them! The cd itself, not even the video. And one CD it'd opened before, so I don't know wtf is going on. Just that I'm covered in a Slimey Coat of Suckyness.


Links of the Day:
Animals in formaldehyde: high quality
ConvertTube converts YouTube to mp3. Brought to your attention by blizzardcake, who adds, "The only thing is you have to wait 9 minutes between conversions, but whatevs! The thing is free!!"
bachlava's Fanfic: Leaves; Fanfic: All that You Can't Leave Behind - Summary: "Through the Looking-Glass" and what Alex (and Danielle) found there. Rating: PG-13 overall, for various themes and occasional language. It's adsgdfgkladgly good.


* "Calendar Girl", Stars
** Like, "I don't think I can make it out of the house today".

I've finally updated sickle_stories with all those plot bunnies that kept cropping out of memes. I also wrote a little plot outline and think-through about a Life on Mars/Doctor Who crossover. Mainly a conversation piece, going into the concepts of time and paradoxes.

And, in comemoration of the "Really, I'm not dead" muse-wave, let's give this meme another chance:

Words make the best porn. - Meme via lienne

Find that one fic (or OOM, or thread) of mine that you really like, and find a sentence or a paragraph that presses your prose-buttons in the right way, and comment here with it? Don't care how long or short. Don't care if you pick one fic or seven.

Quote a bit of my writing at me?

It doesn't even have to be a fic, seeing as I've also got plot outlines, dialogue snippets and a few not-actually-rhyming things. I realize this means you might have to read my fics. My nefarious plan, let me show you it.


Links of the Day
girlgreybeast writes about Earth Day
04nbod's Doctor Who icons (multifandom post)
ghost2 compiles fics of rare pairings in Doctor Who and is venerated as a minor fandom deity
meddow posts picspam love for Donna of Doctor Who
ivoryvampire's post on how to make your own board game, "Who's Who"
( Doctor Who fanfic )


* James Blunt, "1973"

Wrote a little Hero's Manual interlude over at sickle_stories. This is what happens when you abandon your characters for an indefinate period of time, the poor things. It's much sadder than I expected; I thought Quasi would be able to inject a bit of funny, but he was just the most depressing butler you ever did see. And Uncle Mycroft isn't in it 'cause he's dead and happily sucking a village dry.

A light switch finally flicked on in my brain and I hunted down I Am Legend trailers on YouTube. I'm so dragging Brother to watch it. Will Smith, vampires, what's not to love? ( The love continues )

Also, why does spinach taste like dirt? I like spinach, really, I do, but often mushed-up cooked spinach tends to have a distinct dry dirt flavour. Ugh.

My right foot is freezing. Left foot's pretty happy, though. The rest of me is pretty cold too. *sigh* You would not believe how lacking in fun today's walk home was. All near-one-hour of it. Big Damn Wind-tunnel effect the whole way, and the dykes are finally frozen over. So, cold. And did I mention my tuques** are on the wrong continent? *clutches ears* Owie.

I have a meet' tomorrow with Lady of Some Department about the possibility of doing a literature research internship for that department. I'm going in pretty blind as to what I want, expect, or am interested in, which sucketh and reflecteth sorely. I'd like to catch Martina, though, and ask her if she's found anyone to do the literature research 4-month internship on earthworms and moles (no yays, btw). Although, 2 literature internships are a no-no, I'm sure.

*pout* ninth_wonders pimpage appears to have been ineffectual. Granted, "Fandom Analyses" wouldn't make me run for the clicky. "Mohinder gets beaten by the Science Stick for Greater Justice", however, would. *sigh* It takes two to share, apparently.

And so ends the uneventful post. (Except to say that I need a totally kick-ass icon of Sylar. And I mean Sex-on-Legs kick-ass. Ditto for Dr Who. Can't go about posting bunnies on these fandoms, now can I?)


Links of the Day:
cleolinda is interviewed by Cauldrons and Chocolate Frogs, a Harry Potter fandom ezine.
evadne_noel spreads the Christmas song hate. It's practically tradition for Evadne to wax witty about the topic, and now she's brought evidence!
Firefly meets Moulin Rouge: The Love Medley

* William Arthur Ward
** Not to be confused with or spelt as - and I don't care what you say - toque. I know English spelling is funny and wierd weird, but damnitall, it's a tuque***, not a plumed velvet cap.
*** And I'll have you know, dictionary.com, they're also worn in many other places other than Canada. It's like saying a "boot" is the curious empty spot at the back of a car in England, in no way at all to be confused with a "trunk". *sigh*

Gods know I don't like inflicting bad poetry on the poor undeserving masses. Still, if any of you'd be kind enough to check out this post on sickle_stories, I'd appreciate it. It's a rearrangement of a "spam poem" - i.e. a mess of lines gotten in spam - which seems to be the spam spawn** of a load of winter poems from the Chicago Press Winter Poems Collection.

I've got a few different variations for one stanza I'd particularly like input on.

But, you know, no pressure.

I also got a Hallmark E-Card from "tokenblackchick" - she who promised to do so for all who replied to her Valentines YouTube post on how much singles rule. That was very nice of her.

Dreamt I took the train one station too far and instead of Cubelles I exited in Montreal. Momentary confusion gave way to blissful joy and a sense of coming home.

Also, ( what a drawing says about me - purportedly*** )

Links of the Day:
A Shoggoth on the Roof, a Lovecraftian Broadway musical
Cthulhu on wiki, in popular culture, on film and as My Little Cthulhu figures, along with My Little Victims.
Wiki: Shoggoth.
Wiki: The Kraken
I Am Bored Sites

* The Idea of Florida During a Winter Thaw by Gail Mazur
** Tee-hee. "Spam spawn" :)
*** Is this a word? Does it mean what I think it does?

Posted new chapter prompts based off of children's games over on sickle_stories. Currently a tad rushed as meeting ma' and bro in a sec. Will write more (waaay) later.


* Neil Gaiman