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I feel I should say that the end of last night's episode of Numb3rs has made me start writing another CSI:NY AU. This is fun!

...in a, uh, depressing sort of way. Everything's tilted a few degrees to the left.

Okay, but I mean, seriously? That was a cop. That was the way to pay tribute to a dead friend. I mean, most of the ep was just okay, but the end? Oh God. Except for Don getting lucky, but oh, God. That is it. Jesus Christ.

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Maka was fantastic, and she and Danny got along really well.

Try searching through LJ interests for NUMB3RS, and go from there in the communities? I'm sure there are comms with that pairing as the central focus.

Omg you temptress. I cannot read the fic because my mother is yelling because I am late and must get to my appointment (emergency dental surgery =/= fun. at all.). If I had a printer, I'd print it off to read in the waiting room. I'm seriously bookmarking it, though, to read as soon as I get back home :D!!

Oh, I know that feeling. It's worse when it's Friday night and you want to go out with your friends to a movie or whatever, but realize you have an essay due Monday that hasn't been started on...

*crosses arms* Angell keeps screwing me up because she looks slightly like Aiden. When I first saw her, I had one of those moments when I'm like, "Hey, did you just invalidate your own canon?" I want Maka back.

Oh, there are. I just hate most of the writers -- I'm one of the pickiest readers you'll ever meet.

Gleh. Have fun with that!

Oh, Friday night's not bad because I almost never do homework till Sunday anyway -- especially papers. Unless they're big, major papers...no, I mostly still do them on Sunday, depending how long they are.

Yeah, she does sorta look like Aiden, though she definitely doesn't have Aiden's attitude. Where did Maka go? I don't remember her leaving the show... she just stopped showing up suddenly.

I'm usually picky, but in limited fandoms, like CSI: NY (where there are maybe a dozen decent writers total), I'll read almost anything I can get my hands on.

I just don't watch TV on Fridays. No real reason, just nothing on that I'm eager to watch, I guess. But I usually end up doing frantic homework over the weekends because I always put essays off until the last minute.

*shrugs* Just randomly disappeared. I wish they'd have a bit more consistency with the detectives -- either more of them, or have the recurring ones...well, recur. Same with the lab personnel; I miss a lot of the S1 labtechs.

I'm just picky. Especailly in a fandom I write in. With most fandoms, I'll browse for maybe a few weeks at most, then settle in to lurk in the LJs of the writers who produce the most and best 'fic. Usually I get lucky and fandoms overlap. I'm just...I'm seriously picky.

Fridays I tend to do some hardcore lazing about -- either that, or frantically trying to write lots of fic, which I've done at least twice in the past month. *sneaky look* Not often before that. I watch Numb3rs, and occasionally I'll catch Close to Home and Ghost Whisperer, although I don't care too much for those two.

NY has Flack as a recurring detective, but it's like Vegas with the rest of the cops, having them randomly come and go. I like the techs this season, though, especially Adam (who makes me want to hug him because omg adorable). I miss Marty, though... another randomly vanishing character.

I go through fic too quickly to be picky. Usually I re-read over and over again the ones that I really like (like the Bardverse, which I've read a gazillion times, or like various SGA fics, which I bookmark to read again and again).

I write a lot of fic when I should be working on other things. Like right now, I have a random Danny-centric fic open to work on, and a random Eric-fic based on tonight's CSI:M, when I SHOULD be studying for my midterm on Wednesday.

Oh, but Flack doesn't really count. He's more a part of the crime lab than he is homicide, which is part of his fun psychosis.

I reread. And reread. And reread some more. Then I go see what else those authors have written.

I...don't write a lot of fic, not usually. This past couple months is kind of unusual for me. Oh, I'm so not going to have time to write that V-Day AU with Danny as a chem grad student TA and Flack as a sullenly returning to New York math major. Usually I do original fic.

Flack is part of the Crime Lab, but every so often he really jumps out as a homicide detective, as though just to remind us that he is a cop, like the episode with the dirty cops and the drugs.

And I hit [enter] before I finished that, oops!

There's just not enough good novel-length fic in the CSI universe, especially in Miami and NY.

I used to write a lot more fic, and sorta stopped writing for a while, though I'm starting to get back into it now. Why don't you usually write a lot of fic?

Oh, I'm so not going to have time to write that V-Day AU with Danny as a chem grad student TA and Flack as a sullenly returning to New York math major.

Arg, you tease ;D

I write a lot of original work, novels and short stories, but I enjoy working with fic so much sometimes.

I will admit that I almost never read CSI:NY fic. I read

stellaluna_; that's it. Which is something that's weird about me.

It's only really recently that I started being able to write short pieces of fic; usually I think in novel arcs (like the bardverse), and I don't have the energy or the time to commit to writing something like that if it's fic. At this point in my career I'd really rather concentrate on original fic for various reasons, one of which is that I don't really like what's going on in the CSI:NY verse right now. As for non-CSI:NY fic, it's one of those -- well, I do think in novel arcs, and I actually would really like to write a "season three" for Dark Angel, but it's not going to happen because I don't have the time or the energy. And I always feel like someone else knows the characters better, or just...I write a lot of AU, so it's relatively easy to transpose into originals (see: spaceforce).

Arg, you tease ;D

I know. I'm evil. I don't know enough about college to write it, anyway.

I'm a giant fic ho, I'll admit it. I adore reading fic, plain and simple. I like original stuff more, mind you, but fic has a totally different purpose behind it, which is why I like it so much.

I always want to write longer stuff, but I usually lose interest in whatever I'm writing after a couple of days, so it's usually best for me to write a 5k word fic in a day or two, or something shorter. I do the NaNoWriMo for the same reason (www.nanowrimo.org).

Hey, hey, I KNOW ABOUT COLLEGE. *hint hint?*

:)

Yeah, it's always nice when you can write fic and then shift it over to OC if you decide to.

The interesting thing is that with a lot of fic, I don't know the original canon too well, and with originals, I tend to read series, so they kind of blur together in my head. Er, yes, I'm aware I probably have issues.

I do NaNo! This year was my fourth one, I think -- I wrote my original, Dangerous Heroes, which I need to make less of a rip-off of the fic I'd like to write.

Er. But I don't know what I need to know!

I try not to read fic unless I know the canon that it's based on well enough to understand the entire thing.

I adore NaNo... I'm the ML here in Ottawa. Someday, I'll get something good enough to publish out of it, I hope.

I was kidding... you have school and stuff to focus on :D.

So I'm just weird then. *nods* I have actually read whole fandoms where I've never seen the source material at all (Buffy). Yay for the Internet! Usually I just doublecheck the characters, enough of the canon to figure out what's happening -- the basics of what you need to know.

If a fic is going to be good enough to make me want to read it without knowing the canon behind it, I'll download some of the eps to watch, so I can understand :)

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