Variations on the same theme

Gakked from just_katarin:

Give me two characters I write (from the same or different canons), and a prompt, and I'll tell you about one time they kiss.

Should I really list all my fandoms all over again? Let's see, a non-exhaustive list: Buffy/Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, The Vampire Diaries, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cowboy Bebop, Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl), The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, A Knight's Tale, Saving Grace, Lucifer Box, The Authority, Highlander, True Blood, Boy Meets Boy, Doctor Who/Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica/Caprica, Misfits, Nikita, La Femme Nikita, Pirates of the Caribbean, Queer As Folk UK, Sherlock, Shakespeare in Love, Spooks, Skins...

I'm going to stop listing here. You know a fandom I know and love, try your luck.

EDIT: I need to add Hellcats to the list, just because, so many people there that should be making out. And Glee because, yeah. Teenage snogs for the win.

To celebrate the fact that I have just written a tiny minuscule fic, after so long spent not ficcing, people, ask me for drabbles before the writer's block comes back.

Fandoms I will write for, in no particular order: Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Misfits, Skins (preferably the 'old' guys), Sherlock, Harry Potter, The Authority, Lucifer Box, the Nightrunners, Warchild and co, Alias, Spooks, Heroes (up until Adam's death), A Knight's Tale, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human (the original pilot only), Pitch Black, Dark Angel, Doctor Who/Torchwood, The Lord of the Rings, the Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Chuck, Sons of Anarchy, Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, True Blood, Shakespeare in Love...

I'm going to stop listing fandoms. Most of you know what you can ask from me. Ask me for a fandom, specific characters if you want, and give me a prompt.

Pretty please?

Grey's made me cry again, Skins made me squee, BSG made me its bride (I swear I will love that show 'til death do us part). Hustle is disappointing me, so is Leverage (finally watched more than the pilot). Time for Dollhouse yet?


Comment with a fandom, character(s) or pairing, and a prompt (word, quotation, picture, etc.) and I will try to fill as many requests as I can. You're allowed to make more than one request. Crossover requests are also allowed.

Gods, I need distraction from my life.

--Pick up to 15 OTPs.
--Describe them in less than 15 words.
--Have your flist guess the OTP.

1. He calls him 'Sir' and means 'I love you'. (Lucifer Box, Lucifer/Charlie, by esoteric_vae

2. Sparks flying, body writhing. She smiles; his eyes are cool.

3. The love story of a lifetime; wine and wings, faith and fear. (The Vintner's Luck, Sobran/Xas, by the_grynne)

4. Epic: the sun meets the darkest night; in violence, in blood, in love. (The Authority, Apollo/the Midnighter, by yoritomo_reiko)

5. A love that never has to die: unrequited. (Queer As Folk, Vince/Stuart, by esoteric_vae)

6. Flexible loyalties; unflexible love. She sneers; he laughs. (Alias, Sark/Sydney, by the_grynne)

7. He shows her the path, and she runs. Away, she thinks, but forward, in truth. (Battlestar Galactica, Kara/Leoben, by the_grynne)

8. Some things run beyond her programming. Even he cannot reach that. (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cameron/John, by the_grynne)

9. Wordsmiths both, of great skill and greater fame yet; inky fingers, busy mouths. (Shakespeare In Love, Kit/Will, by shadesofbrixton)

10. He watches her, a monolith; she pulses with life, and fascinates.

11. A love that dares, behind bars and beyond all. (Oz, Beecher/Keller, by the_grynne)

12. A ballad of fallen angels. A scar from the past, an eye to the future.

13. Light feet in the night; cloak and dagger, friends and lovers. (Nightrunners, Alec/Seregil, by shadesofbrixton)

14. Teacher and pupil, wingless among the winged; always in love, never lovers. (Warchild, Niko/Jos, by shadesofbrixton)

15. One for words, one for actions. It doesn't mean what you think it means. (A Knight's Tale, Geoff/Wat, by shadesofbrixton)

Movie meme gakked from the_grynne:

1. One movie that made you laugh: Most recently, it'll have to have been Wall-E. Right before that, Wanted.

2. One movie that made you cry: there have been very few times when I managed to watch Dead Poets' Society without crying. Yes, I've watched this movie an undecent amount of times. It owns a little piece of my soul.

3. One movie you loved when you were a child: Hook. I still know it by heart (the French version). "Toi tu as vraiment vraiment besoin d'une maman." "J'vais t'dire c'que c'est qu'une paramécie bicolore, m'sieur." "Hé, Rufio, va donc casser les noisettes de l'écureuil d'à côté." Etc.

4. One movie you've seen more than once: At the cinema? Casino Royale.

5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it: I should be embarrassed for enjoying Waterworld as much as I did, shouldn't I, but I can't quite pull it off. I'm a tiny bit ashamed of liking Wanted, though, because it's so... yeah. But it was fun! And there was Jamie and Thomas! Also the High School Musicals. What? They're ridiculous and fun and I blame this on Joey.

6. One movie you didn't like: Before the Devil knows you're dead. I was really looking forward to it, but wound up being utterly bored. Also Capote. I guess PSH movies tend to disappoint me.

7. One movie that scared you: The Ring. The Japanese version, I haven't seen the American adaptation.

8. One movie that bored you: Apart from the above mentioned PSH movies? The Incredible Hulk. It bored me to tears.

9. One movie that made you happy: Wimbledon. I walked out of the theatre wanting to dance. It's been too long since I've watched it, I really should watch it again.

10. One movie that made you miserable: La Vita è bella. And the Pianist. And I love them to heartwrenching bits. They're movies that make you miserable and yet. Also every Ken Loach movie I've ever seen apart from Ae Fond Kiss, which is not miserable-making.

11. One movie you weren't brave enough to see: Borat. I started it, but couldn't finish. I just don't have that sort of courage. How utterly not funny.

12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with: Chaucer, from A Knight's Tale. Rupert Everett's Marlowe, for all that he had one tiny scene and is hopelessly gay. Charlie Prince out of 3:10 to Yuma. I could keep listing them.

13. The last movie you saw: At the theatre, The Dark Knight.

14. The next movie you hope to see: I wish I could say Watchmen, but it's a long way until March. I wish I could say The Vintner's Luck, but still no news on a release date apart from "2009". Which is also a long way away. So it's going to be a filmed production of King Lear with Barry Lynch as Edmund. There shall be much, much squeeing. (Thanks again, Vae!) At the theatre? Babylon A.D. Mathieu Kassovitz and Vin Diesel doing sci-fi, I've gotta give it a try.

The first 15 people to comment on this post, with a fandom, character or pairing and prompt of some sort get to request a drabble from you. If they feel like it, and only if they feel like it, requesters can post this in their journal and write a drabble for you.

Fandoms I'll write in: Buffy, Angel, Firefly, The Tudors, Skins, Being Human, Highlander, Alias, Lost, Dexter, Hustle, Queer As Folk UK, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Rome, the Nightrunners, Boys Meet Boys, Battlestar Galactica, Carnivàle, Heroes, Harry Potter, Lucifer Box, The Authority, The Pirates of the Caribbean, Pretty Handsome, The Lord of the Rings.

Crossover prompts totally welcome.

Gakked from queenspanky: go here and refresh until you find five quotes that have meaning for you.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
Frederick Locker-Lampson

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
Robert Jackson

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch Albom

I can't stop watching Deadwood. The only reason why I have is that I needed to rip JJG's En Passant album. Tout Etait Dit is quite simply one of the truest songs I have ever heard and either I'm gonna keep listening to it on a loop or I'm going to go back to Deadwood. Or alternate both. That sounds likely.

( Lyrics. )

I wanted to ask, and forgot. Those of you on the flist who've read (...or are reading, seeing as it's not quite over yet) Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, who would you love to see cast in what parts if HBO does adapt it? I'm curious.

...maybe Miranda Otto for Cersei, I'd be curious to see if she can pull her off. Tyrion would have to be either Michael J. Anderson or Peter Dinklage. Nobody is striking me as right for Jaime just yet but if they miscast him I will SCREAM. Oh, and the Hound, they need to cast him right. Orly for the Knight of Flowers! That's all I have right now. I need to track down physical descriptions and make with the thinking. ...after my exams.


Edit: because I like this meme, although I probably won't get around to answering any requests until after Wednesday. Gakked from yahtzee63.

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

Please go and tell me who my celeb boyfriend/girlfriend should be.

In other news, I'm OBSESSED with Chris Cornell's You Know My Name. Like I have rarely been. I keep listening to it. I never listen to just the one song this much, on a loop. Except I do this one.

I love Casino Royale far too much for a movie which I didn't think was all that good. And yet. Lovelovelove. And I want to marry that first chase scene. Through the construction site and all. Oh, god, I love Parkour, and that was one of the best scenes of characterisation with no dialogue ever. Possibly I'm using a superlative when I shouldn't but it was just brilliant and yes, I want to marry it. I also want James and Felix to have hot sex already.

The Prestige was no Memento, but it was still highly enjoyable. The cast helped. A lot. Borat is really not that funny. I'm sorry, it's just not. I don't think I actually got to the end of it? Wedding Wars is adorable and totally a TV movie and not that good but who cares it's fun and Eric Dane looks reaaaally hot in a tank top (I have a thing for wifebeaters, I'm sorry) and Sean Maher has never acted so much like himself as when he acted gay. Go read Joey's LJ for a lot more on the subject.

FLIST. I love you. Your virtual Christmas presents made me grin like a lunatic. Oh, god, so much love. Thank you.


If you take a life do you know what you'll give?

I've been so out of LJ I feel like I haven't memeed in absolute ages. Gakked from the_grynne:

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2006 (not including memes of course). Post the first line/sentence of it in your journal, and that's your "Year in Review."

January: Happy new year, everyone. You all deserve the best - or at least the very very bleedin' excellent.

February: A break from all the hotties to talk films and series for a minute.

March: I do not know why it is snowing that much.

April: So. First of all, quick update for those of you not French who might not really be in the know of what's going on in France these days.

May: So, I'm back. And I took notes, because I love you all and wanted to share the Alan and Ron goodness.

June: Tell me, are all football matches that GAY?

July: Happy birthday, houses7177! And happy Canada day, Canadians!

August: It shows how geeky I am that I keep expecting the hoover here to come to life and go "Exterminate, exterminate!"

September: 1. Snakes on a Plane? I genuinely enjoyed myself. I'm wondering if I should feel ashamed about that.

October: I've been able to read The Authority - Human on the inside thanks to [info]kirke_novak, which I am ever so thankful about, and I am in love with the art.

November: So I've been shite at keeping up with the flist for the past week and then some, and I don't think I'm going to catch up.

December: ajktgfhgaémjgfahgfadjhf

Thanks to everybody who helped with their lists of hotties! I've now got all my guys figured out and more or less ranked, I think. I'll start making posts some time soon with the guys.

For those of you who have seen the spoiler pic for Torchwood (THE spoiler pic OMGSQUEE), how awful is it not to be able to icon this on account of spoilers? I've been staring at it for way too long.