I am suspicious about the origins of this meme, because nobody's said where they got it, AND YET somebody on my flist/rpage was soliciting lists of "favourite" tropes the other day. CURIOUS. Also, I don't know if I'm supposed to just talk about my general feelings on these tropes, or specifics about writing/reading them??? Idk. Blind memeage!

I got it from kanata, anyway.

( trope meme! )

Probably I'll do the end of year one in a little bit. First, I have to heat up some roti and veggies'n'squash-in-jalfrezi.

...I am suddenly craving crusty cheesey bread sticks. Wtf?

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Meme, for a lark. Via saffronra.

Destructions:

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their lives, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-word answers seldom help anyone out.

( Aye aye, meme! )

Oh journals and friends, do you feel ~enlightened about my life???

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Using the above lyric as a subject line gives me an uncomfortableness in my OCD, 'cause, like, I make it a Thing to not use the titles of songs in subject lines. IDK MY BRANE.

Anyway. Meme.

( no we're not ready for fair distribution! )

AFI are coming here in January. *frownyface of consideration*

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1. I know there are a few "Being Erica" viewers on my flist (and almost all of you are American, which I find endlessly amusing), so here's a neat article about it. "Why 'Being Erica' Deserves to Be: It might just be the most realistic portrayal of a woman in her thirties on TV."

2. Maybe it's ridiculously obvious, but I just noticed the connections and continuity between my interests in post-traumatic-colonial Africa and relations between First Nations/occupying populations. BRANE U HAS PATTERNS, WUT.

3. I'm taking pictures of the new addition tomorrow and then you get to meet it!

4. So, how about a meme:

The first ten (10) people who comment with a prompt will get something written by me in ten (10) minutes. This will hopefully help me get rid of many, many of my Wriso! minutes.

Prompts can be characters, pairings, words, phrases, songs, or images, for any fandom I've written or expressed interest in writing. You can even be mean and prompt for something original (since I haven't been hit in almost a week).

I promise I'll post whatever I write. No hanging meme tiems. Pinky swear.

5. Okay, SPN, wth was that? I'm not saying I didn't like it, but really.

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1. I--just. WHAT? Library without books is not library, Headmaster Failpants.

2. Meme! Missed yesterday, sorry!

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Gay Top Gun. No, seriously. I watched Dr. Horrible's for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and was underwhelmed (by the content; NPH and Fillion were amazing, because they just are). This shit? Fucking awesome. I especially love that they use an incredible amount of original dialogue (and the "In the Navy" bits are hi-larious). Warning for Ice Man/Maverick shippers: this adaptation stays true to canon, sry.

'Kay, laters, bye.

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day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

So, this is the guy who'll be directing the video for "Great Whales of the Sea," from Vancouver, which will apparently not be a single (yeah, no, I agree with that decision). Idk, guys. I'm largely unimpressed. Which is not to say that Mr. Cudmore isn't good, he's certainly got an atmospheric aesthetic I can appreciate, just that his video for The National's "Fake Empire" was probably his best one (what he did for Sloan comes a close second, though), and it's still (nearly) entirely peopled by young, attractive, heteronormative white folks. GAH.

Anyway. I really have to go do something about my laundry now. Bye!

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1. Oh, also, re: "Document." Everyone who was just hanging around to see if I'd finish it? You can go now. (Except for you. And you and you. And you too, if you really want to stay.)

2. Seven-day meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

I was going to take a picture of myself downtown in the rain, but my phone battery is dangerously low, so. Have some PStump+Stump-O-Matic instead.

( inappropriate workplace desktop is possibly extra-inappropriate. )

3. I hope all the rain doesn't give Tillie huge culture shock upon her return from New Mexico, and/or make her get back on the plane. Haha.

(I meeeeeeesed her!)

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I don't really know what to do with myself now? I tried watching the Melrose Place re-pilot, but a commercial for Jennifer's Body came on and I had to e-mail Tillie about it (we like GingerSnaps? And I like faily horror movies?), and then I got distracted by the internet. So I guess I'll try to watch it at nine.

Though, Pete, I don't know if I'm that dedicated to making sure Bx can eat my advertising dollars (this also applies to seeing Jennifer's Body, as Decaydance appears to own half the artists on the soundtrack).

Anyway, a meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

"Don't Look Back in Anger (Live)" - Noel Gallagher. I don't really care who's the actual asshole in the Brothers Gallagher Comedy of Dickery. Noel Gallagher is a musical genius and I will always take his side. He sings pretty good, too. This song makes me cry, sometimes.

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All over the ole flist a week or so ago, most recently via elfiepike.

1. Post ten pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
2. NO CAPTIONS! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
3. They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no Googling or Flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
4. You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

( symbology! symbolology! NSFW. )

Variation on a meme via sarken.

1. Pick something I've written whose ending left you with unanswered questions (fic here and here and here).
2. Leave a comment on this entry telling me what you've chosen asking me the questions.
3. I will write back with three possible "what happens after" scenarios answers.
4. Copy this to your journal. Optional meme is optional.
5. Solid gold.

I'll actually do this one, guys! I will answer any and all questions! Because it doesn't require picking songs or thinking up in-character bad dreams or killing people.

And now I have to go to work, bye!

Oh yes, we love the WIP meme. Most recently via linzeestyle:

When you see this, post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

( the dim possibility of showing some restraint. pxaxp, baby-free. )

( doooooocument. )

( the drive au. )

( one today and tomorrow another. mtf!pete. )

( praise you. aka, the 'lord knows' se/prequel. )

( the thing about a service. aka, leatherdaddy!patrick. )

You wonder why I can't get anything finished? Look at all that shit. Fuck's sake.

I'm gonna go watch Property Virgins now. Laters.

Hi, hi, today is the day I post nine hundred times, and most of those are memes!

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

I fixed my hair a little bit, but not enough that you can't tell I need a haircut around my ears a little. Sigh.

( you also can't see my wee little nose piercing. no picture is perfect. )

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

playfullips gave me M.

1. "Me and Bobby McGee" - Janis Joplin - Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.

2. "Miss World" - Hole - Courtney Love is really good at writing songs. I don't know. Also, Melissa Auf Der Maaaaaaaaur, marry me.

3. "Moon Over Marin" - Matthew Good - DEAD KENNEDYS COVER. DEAD KENNEDYS COVER. To quote a reviewer: who knew anything written by Jello Biafra could sound quite so sweet? (Obligatory Matthew Good song.)

4. "My Body Is A Cage" - Arcade Fire - Definitely my fourth favourite song on Neon Bible. Uh.

5. "My Music At Work" - The Tragically Hip - Obligatory Hip song. Also obligatory Patrick song.

(Bonuf Arma Angelus: "Misanthrope" [v.Where Sleeplessness Is Rest From Nightmares] It's such an awesome song. Um. If you're generally inclined to think metalcore is awesome at all, I mean. I understand if you're not. *sadface*)

I've had a really incredibly shitty couple of weeks (not as shitty as these same couple of weeks were last year, granted, and I'm glad I just remembered that--hey, self! Nobody's dying this year!), and I would like to make a thread in the Say Nice Things Or Whatever meme, but it's wrong to do that if I'm not going to go say nice things about other people, which, let's be honest, I probably won't. Because I can never think of anything nice to say that isn't stupid. Or already been said (I don't like being unoriginal, guys).

WHINE WHINE WHINE. The internet cares about my Special Problems, I know.

Anyway. Tomorrow, in order that I might pay the rent and eat next month, I'm going to apply to work as a cashier/stocker at the liquor barn across the highway. It's behind Wal-Mart. And here I thought I'd escaped from Hicksville, oh my god.

Also, I stole One Hundred Years of Solitude and Children of Men from my parents' bookshelves today. What? They're putting everything in storage! I need something to read!

Um. Hopefully warmingweather and iamjeannebopp don't mind sharing a drabble? If you do, I'll write another one. Just. This is 765 words, so.

"Lord Knows" universe, The Very Next Night. Patrick's POV.

( you can dish it but can you really take it. )


eta: No one will ever read this because of the stupid content strike. WOES.

Good wishes and best thoughts for lordgroovius. She's a champ.

Uh. Meme. No guarantees on word count.

Comment with one of my fics and a drabble you'd like to see from that universe, and I'll write it for you. Or, you can give me a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll tell you what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

Fic tag.

I should go--clean things. Or something. Blah.

*Wallet (money, Starbucks, loyalty cards, ticket stubs, pictures of my family--no, you do need to see the family photo my parents and brother and dogs gave me two Christmases ago).
*Cell phone (even if the battery is dead. IT MIGHT MAGICALLY START WORKING, you never know).
*Keys (there is the car/home/parents' house/anti-theft device key chain, and the work key chain. Because otherwise I have ninety keys and spend five minutes looking for the one I need in any given situation).
*Painkillers (classical migraines ftw. Also, regular headaches. And cramps. And the ever-fantabulous dairy allergy. I like Advil Migraine-Strength Liquigels, though Motrin is pretty awesome too).
*Lip balm (either Lobello or something mint-flavoured. I like mint).
*iPod (MUSIC).
*A book (just finished GenderQueer, starting on In Search Of Respect: Selling Crack In El Barrio, which is a very educational book. Also reading The Amber Room, because Nazis and WWII-era Soviet shenanigans are awesome. I think I need a fic where Patrick is a Russian antiquities curator in that period. REALLY. Next up is How Societies Remember. No, I'm not in school. I just like reading textbooks).


Unrelatedly, why do people rec WIPs and not mark them as such? Today, I spent a couple of hours reading a really awesome "Ghost Of You" AU, only to discover that it's been stalled at Chapter 3.2 for months, wtf.

(Uh. Is my irritation hypocritical, since the incessant posting of snippets? Maybe a little. Whatever. Owning Renting-to-own it.)


Big Bang: 3397/20000.

Still not done het fic. Stupid Patrick, being stupid.

Also, I think the next thing I need to write (after Big Bang, haha), is The One Where Ashlee Isn't Awesome And Amazing All The Fucking Time. No, seriously.

( anyway, tmi meme. )

Well. That was--fun. And--informative. Back to the beating Patrick over the head with a spatula and a copy of The Ethical Slut (Pete sez: "No, really, it's a good book, besides having 'slut' in the title.")

Dude, two entries in one day! This one doesn't count, though. Not really. It's just memes (the thing about which is--I love reading the responses, but I am so not good at actually participating. So. I don't feel bad if people don't respond when I do them, since goose/gander, etc. Whatever).

Ask me a question about each of the following and I will answer it! Probably!

1. friends;
2. sex;
3. music;
4. drugs;
5. love; and
6. LiveJournal

Either/or/and, the top fives one. I dunno. It keeps me off the streets?

Privilege meme, yoinked from everybody and their gardener:

( the shocking truth about how trailer park i am. )

Hey, wow. That sure was depressing.