beyond the wide world's end

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

I already did this on Tumblr, but I'll repost here.

Okay, in no particular order, and counting series as one:

Star Wars Episodes I-VI
Indiana Jones 1-3
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe & Prince Caspian
The Mummy & The Mummy Returns
Totoro
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The Lion King
Sweet Home Alabama
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Miracle (2004)

And hey, let’s go with some trivia, since I’m here.

* My favorite Star Wars movie is Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I’m not even ashamed of this anymore, it is a hot mess and I will still defend it to the grave.

* The only Star Wars movie I saw in theatres was Episode IV: A New Hope, when it was rereleased in…1997? Something like that. And I only remember seeing it because of one specific shot in Mos Eisley that for some reason is really vivid in my head.

* The only Star Wars movie I can remember seeing for the very first time is TPM, at my grandma’s house in West Seattle over Christmas. (Probably Christmas of 1999, but it could have been 2000.) I grew up watching the OT, but I didn’t see AotC or RotS until way after they came out.

* My favorite Indiana Jones movie is Temple of Doom. I identify with Willie Scott more than any of the other Indy girls.

* I saw Prince Caspian four times in theatres, mostly because I won a $50 gift card for the movie theatre during one of the post-graduation shindigs.

* For most of middle school, I could quote any given line from The Mummy. My first fanfic was written in elementary school and was basically The Mummy, but all the characters were dogs.

* I grew up watching Totoro, but I have never seen it dubbed in English or with English subtitles and I have no desire ever to. (I don’t speak Japanese; we had a copy of it on VHS.)

* The scene from Jason and the Argonauts with the gods in Olympus playing chess with the Argo was hugely formative for me. (I am pretty sure this is Jason and the Argonauts and not an Odyssey movie.)

* Favorite Disney movie. I feel a person’s favorite Disney movie says a lot about them. LIONS. KINGS IN EXILE. How can you go wrong here?

* Sweet Home Alabama is one of about two or three quote-unquote chick flicks that I can actually watch, because most of the others hit my embarrassment squick so hard I can’t get through the first ten minutes.

* While I am not overly attached to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I’m 99% certain I wouldn’t have gotten into fandom without it, even though I was already reading the books. My entry into online fandom can be dated to the movie’s release in theatres in 2001.

* I saw Miracle about thirty times in one year and this is the fandom that got me on LiveJournal probably in…2004? 2005? (I’d check, but LJ just kicked me off for forgetting my password and failing to login too many times.) My Miracle fic is still hanging around somewhere. (Yes. My second online fandom — the first was HP — was hockey fandom.)

Honorable mentions: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The 10th Kingdom, Lonesome Dove (actually, this one should probably be on the list, but I kept it and 10th Kingdom off because they're miniseries, not movies), Independence Day, Dante's Peak, Lord of the Rings, Titanic. Look, I didn't say my tastes were refined, per se.

I just felt like doing that meme where you take a screenshot of your desktop and share it.

( what? WHAT? )

I'd pull out the baby netbook and screenshot that desktop too, but it feels like a bit too much hassle. (It's this, though. This is the first time in more than four years I haven't had Narnia desktops.)

Shamelessly snagged from highlyeccentric.

( meme )

And another end of the year (fannish) meme, snagged from various peoples.

( a new meme )

And the first lines of the first posts of each month of 2012 meme:

( the meme strikes back )

And first lines of fic from the first fic written each month (uh, this seems unlikely, I'm just saying).

( the return of the meme )

Snagged from basically everywhere.

1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!

Hey, it's finals time, it's always nice having something to procrastinate on. (Plus, you know, I as ever live in curiosity of how many people are still reading.)

I have made a list of fifteen characters. You should post questions in the comments! For example: "One and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", or "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", or "Zombie Invasion! Six and Eight are trapped in a department store: what do they do?" I will then fill in the characters and answer the questions and hilarity will ensue.

So the WIP meme. Yeah. That's going around again!

Post a random sentence (or three whole paragraphs) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIP. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!

( Star Wars: genderswapped time-traveling lady Jedi )

( Star Wars: sequel to What is Lost )

( Narnia: Border Wars (NBB fic) )

( Narnia: Dust in the Air 28 )

( Narnia: the one where Rilian presides over divorce court Narnia )

( BSG: Cally and Helo at the shipyards, pre-series )

( BSG: the Agathon family reunion fic )

( BSG: Ghost in the Machine )

( BSG/Dollhouse crossover )

Okay, so I'm never allowed to complain that I have nothing to work on ever again.

2011: not quite as dire as I thought it was.

Dust in the Air: 23 (6181) | 24 (7156) | Interlude (2230) | 25 (5827) | 26 (7979)

Second Sight | Narnia; Jill, Peter, and Susan and dream interpretations (1896)

Be Bold, Be Bold | Narnia; Rilian, the one with the poetry (4164)

Our Impudent Crimes | Narnia; Rilian, the one with the artwork (5073)

The White Harvest | Narnia; Golden Age, Osumare Seaworth, Peter, and others, the conquest of Terebinthia (18444)
- To the Victors | Narnia; coda to Harvest (1154)

Written in the Dust | Narnia; OCs and Caspian I the Conqueror, the one with academia (5500)

Peaches and Cream | BSG; Helo/Sharon, the one with makeouts (807)

The Dog Days are Done | BSG; Apollo and Helo, the one where Helo has PTSD (2222)

Nightfall | BSG; Helo/Sharon, the one with the haunted cabin (3939)

I also posted a giant stack of Narnia UFOs, the most significant of which was Be Like Water, the 70K girl!Peter genderfuck PC AU.

Total wordcount: a respectable 72,572, out of which 29,373 was part of Dust and 6968 was in BSG.

( fannish achievement meme )

Snagged from everywhere. Like musesfool said, stories what I would actually write, not the ones where I tell you why I would never write it.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I will give you 1-3 sentences from or about it.

Dude, mostly I'm just curious to see how many ships I actually have, since I tend towards gen. Er, and I'll try for the less obscure stuff.

1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your audience guess as many of the ships as they can.
4. Fandom hints will be given if asked in the comments.

( I am seriously surprised I came up with twenty of those )

Snagged from everywhere:

Alfred Hitchcock said, "If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach." If I wrote a story today, what would the readers immediately look for?

Probably still a body in the couch! *laughs* What do y'all think?