dynamite with a laser beam

I think I've done this meme before. Anyway, I hope everyone does it so I can catch up on the stories I've missed!

In 2010 I wrote 14 stories, totaling 32,400 words (plus Yuletide, but I'm not counting that yet, or WIPs).  So. Fewer stories, but more words than last year, but there is a lot of shortfic. The things I co-wrote, with XT, Shane, Sam and Anya, were the best and the most fun.  <3  I also loved beta-reading for so many awesome writers;  thank you for letting me read your stuff first involving me in your fiction-writing process.

My first femslash and a ton of threesome action. (You have to say action like Alicia Bridges. ACK-SHON!)

January:
Connected - Torchwood - (canon pairings)
It took almost dying to make him realise what living really meant

At the Still Point - TW/Doctor Who - (Ten/Jack) with copperbadge and shane_mayhem 
On the eve of regeneration, the Doctor has one last gift for Jack. (Go on, guess what it is.)

March:
Keep It Like A Secret - Torchwood -  (canon pairings)
Who'd have thought?  Drabbles about everyone's filthy little secrets. So I guess this is a quintuple-drabble.

April:
Different Strokes - Torchwood - (Jack/Ianto, both genderswitched by alien tech) with xtricks 
6,000 WORDS OF PORN  <3  Seriously, this came from an RP and is part of a larger, plotty arc. It makes me wonder if Jack/Ianto would be a huge pairing in fandom if they actually were women.

99:00 - Torchwood (Ianto/Gwen) - written for dark_fest 
The more things change, the more they stay the same (This ate my head for a month and I'm sorry my friends had to endure my interminable whining over it. Still the longest story I've ever written.)

( cut for length, said the master tailor  )

It must be short sentences + mucho dialogue, or something.

ETA, via kita0610  : It's a marketing ploy for a Christian self-publishing (read: shady vanity publisher) company, and the more hits they get with your linkage, the more publicity for them.

Ah, well. None of you guise would vanity-publish, would you?

Coincidentally, I just read apiphile's Fight Club fic, Echo.  It was very goooood.

I ripped this meme off of kel_reiley  and echo her disclaimer: I don't know if these opinions are unpopular or not.

If you disagree, I still love you!  I don't expect my friends to agree with me about what sort of pizza to order, let alone something as earth-shatteringly major as fandom opinions!  ;) 

( Canon, confidentials and the duderus )

Stolen from szm 

Give me one character and I will tell you:

1. OTP for them.
2. Runner-up pairing.
3. Honourable mention(s).
4. Crack pairing(s).
5. Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't.

I usually don't have OTPs. This sounds haaaaard.

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2009. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review." Stolen from hawk_soaring .


January: ahthankyew. So much
February: I had a dream last night about Ianto showing up at Dunder Mifflin as a temp (investigating an alien tech report in Scranton?)
March: Yesterday I took hungover neighbors to breakfast and then the beach at 7am, twittered, finished my first Doctor Who fic (it's more than a little cracky because: bodyswap!) read great recced fic, watched Dollhouse and scoffed a few drinks.
April: New focus! And a shiny new journal header to match. (It was April 1, ok?)
May: It's Friday! YAYS!
June: So anyway, I love me some threesomes.
July: It's big reveal day for ask_captainjack
August: So, what say you to another porn battle?
September: Back to my hotel for some overpriced gin and tonic I bought at the liquor store downtown* a breather after a busy stretch.
October: "'Ache,' 'pang,' 'prick,' 'twinge'-- how ironic the Victorian vocabulary of behavioral pathology now so perfectly described the palpations of her own desire." - Phillip Padgett, Milagro.
November: There are Torchwood-y things to read!
December: The Fanfiction Love Meme is groovy, but I'm not doing it myself.


Well, that was predictable... booze, porn, practical jokes and parody. And slackerdom. Yeah, I learned shit-tons this year! :D

You Would Be a Witty Celebrity

There's a good chance that your big break would come from being funny. You have a well crafted sense of humor. And while you may branch out into other areas, your cutting insight and sarcasm would always be your trademark. As a celebrity, you would not be afraid of publicity stunts and working the press a little. You wouldn't take any of it very seriously. You'd be a celebrity in the mold of Tina Fey, Sara Silverman, Seth Rogen, and Will Ferrell.

Good. Because I find the concept of celebrity to be pretty fucking hilarious. :D

kel_reiley selected icons for me to 'splain.


(I  can't cut this post. LJ  HATES ME today.)




1. Scully is my default "eating/talking about food" icon, but I love that she's pausing here as if to say: "Wait. WAT?!?"

2. John Hart and Gwen Cooper. Hate!sex! I've written it and really want to see more filthy porn fic. I'm now the mod at call_me_vera and unfortunately the archives were cleared, so we need to restock it with links.

3. My only Donna icon!  I really ganked this because the manip, by dana_cz is so incredibly good. It's really Tennant/Tate, technically. But I like it.

4. Gwen and Ianto ("this is a very sexy icon!" - kel)    IKR? LOOK at all of that tasty welshness! It will come as no surprise that lucy_locket made this, since she ships them like FedEx. I <3 Gwen/Ianto friendship (or anything) fic, though I have to say I ship Jack/Gwen/Ianto more.

5. Andie and Steff from Pretty In Pink. I made this to go with a fic I began writing because of an anonymous Fandom!Secrets request and I never got to the GOOD PART.  I feel so guilty.

6. This is a quote from the BtVS S4 episode The Harsh Light of Day. Harmony is writing Spike loves Harmony on his back with a lipstick, and he's like... WHY? She protests that he loves his work or quest more than her, and he tells her: I love SYPHILIS more than you. It's so mean, but a really funny line. I feel sorry for Harmony more often than not, but she'd drive me up the fucking wall, too.

Comment with ICONS if you want me to pick 5 or 6 of yours. Limited, I think, because I have a huge hangover. Syrah. *headdesk*


And PLEASE go vote in writerinadrawer Final round! Nick, Sam and Kali. They're all good, but there can be only one ring to rule them all. Or something like that.

I've stolen a meme from rodlox   :D


The first 5 people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character from one of the listed fandoms. It would be cool if those people would post this on their own journals, in return -- but not required. (Remember drabbles are 100-ish words.)

What I need from YOU:  (Post in comments) 
Fandom
Characters/Pairings you want
Rating
Prompt - It can be an idea/song/picture/anything (but put in a link or the pic itself if it's a pic!)
Genre - fluff/angst/romance/etc....

Fandoms I'm willing to take a whack at:

The Breakfast Club
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Casablanca
Clerks
Doctor Who (new Who)
Hell's Kitchen (ha!)
Repo Man
South Park
This Is Spinal Tap (LOL'ing at possibilities)
Supernatural
The Office (US or UK)
Torchwood
The X-Files

It is the peer-pressure packaged food meme. (I don't even know. I made that up). Try some manufactured commercial foodstuff your friends endorse, even if the picture on the box freaks you out.

I mean, look at it. It doesn't look that creepy, just kind of unappetizing. Or am I wrong?




Yup, I am trying Kraft Bagel Fuls. I'd never heard of them or seen the commercials. copperbadge mentioned their handy breakfasty nature first, but how could I resist these glowing testimonials from snaxcident ?



Once you try the Bagel Fuls you will all be glad. You will wonder how you managed in the Before Times

Once you go Bagel Ful you can never go back to not knowing. It's like taking the red pill or the blue pill. But it's not a pill, it's a tube made out of bagel. - Claire


Claire should write their ads. That's even better than "My husband gives me one every morning." She made a chocolate cake with Diet Coke and Pimm's in it, so she is adventurous.

REVIEW!

Name: Bagel Fuls. Bagel Full Of Cream Cheese and whatever (mine has cherry jam-like stuff.) There are other flavors.
Packaging: See above. Each Bagel Ful is individual wrapped in a foil packet for carrying. "Hey, baby, is that a Bagel Ful in your pocket, or..."
Prep: They can be microwaved or toasted lightly, or shoved in your pocket right out of the fridge for portable munching.
Look: Golden brown pre-toasted appearance. They are about an inch shorter in length than a standard hot dog bun. They look better in the flesh for realz than as pictured on the box. On the box they look dry where they're ripped open.
Smell: Hardly any scent at all. I've got my nose pressed against one, very hard. Hmm. Most plain bagels don't SMELL anyway, though.
Texture: Not really dry nor moist. Smoother than a baby's bottom, but an unmoisturized baby. Resembles a frozen commercial bagel like Pillsbury's/Lender's'.
Taste: Unremarkable. Stretchy/chewy when you bite into it. Like a... plain bagel bun stuffed with cream cheese and cherry. The filling is like Toaster Strudel Cherry and... cream cheese. Not terrible but not ZOMG NOMMY! I can see having these for breakfast if you commute and don't have time to sit down and toast a bagel then spread cream cheese on it. (Though... 5 minutes.)
Grade: B. I will eat the rest of these ($2.50 per box) but probably won't buy them again.

Claire, have you tried the ONE POUND HUNGRY MAN DINNERS YET?

Tried anything different lately?