Who you texting, Aja? Why does your hair clash with your accessories?

[whynot]

1. It's Saturday and I'm going to spend all night figuring out statistics software. UGH SO GROSS. But you know what's not utterly vile? The Gen Battle! It's like the Porn Battle, but you can't rely on sex to make things awesome, which is great because then you just have to be awesome for real! Also, I love how 'zombie apocalypse' has been a popular prompt. You can only post prompts until Feb 14 11, actually! Quickly now!

I have posted approximately 50 gajillion prompts and I'm gonna compile a few of them here just 'cos I can, 'cos I want to bring them to your attention in the hopes that they strike your fancy and you feel the sudden burning need to write them, omg. That would be splendid! A lot of these prompts are things I have drabbled or contemplated writing before, but am too lazy to follow through on, so I will just read what you write about them instead! PERFECT. Be free, prompts!


Disney, Donald, Goofy, & Mickey, live action, good old days, adapt
Crossover, Disney/Warner Bros, Donald & Daffy, I hate people with big ears, vodka

Merlin, Merlin, Morgana, Arthur, & Gwen, Narnia
Merlin, any, nonprofit organization AU, OH NO OUR BUDGET
Merlin, any, communist revolution AU

RPF, Andrew Zimmern & Anthony Bourdain, eww, your mom, tapeworm
RPF, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, blank stares, we will move mountains, you were only supposed to write 20 pages
RPF, John Lennon & George Harrison, afterlife

Johnny Maxwell, Yo-less & Bigmac, geography, don't press the button, where are my shoes?

Crossover, Merlin/House, Gaius and House, leeches, imbalanced humors
Crossover, Merlin/Harry Potter, Uther and Lucius, my son is better than your son, it's difficult to find good help these days
Crossover, Merlin/Harry Potter, Arthur & Draco, outprat, collaboration, daddy issues, insufferable dark-haired wizards
Crossover, Merlin/late night talk show RPF, any, the Merlin characters are interviewed on a late-night talk show
Crossover, Merlin/RPF, Uther & Barack Obama, not amused, vacation
Crossover, Merlin/RPF, Arthur & Barack Obama, lol democracy, negotiating with swords
Crossover, Merlin/The Office, any, what do they put in these things, quest, rescue, Uther will not be pleased
Crossover, Merlin/Monty Python and the Holy Grail, any, basically the set-up/side characters of MPatHG with the Merlin core cast

Crossover, Harry Potter/Matrix/Star Wars/Narnia/Merlin/X-Men, Dumbledore, the Oracle, the Dragon, Aslan, Yoda, Professor X, worst roommate ever, I'm voting you off the island, quest

MacGyver, MacGyver, six toothpicks, stick of gum, paperclip


2. I am taking a fabulous class called 'Women in Nonprofit Management'. I love it, mixed messages about gender solidarity and all. It also makes me want to write more nonprofit AU.

Edmund gets a phone call in the middle of the day and he's like, "Shit!" and Lucy's like, "What's wrong?" Edmund's like, "The whales got the money." And like, suck for Narnia, 'cos Peter is going to be pissed when he gets back, because the board (a.k.a... Aslan?) has been like, "Why so fail lately, Pete?" and this is just the icing on the cake. Great, just great.

Peter stomps into the office and Lucy bounces up to him and says, "Pete, I know it was a hard blow, but just remember: don't h--"

"Lucy I swear if you say 'don't hate, advocate' one more time I will feed you to the paper shredder so help me god."

...Yeah, that's all I got. To be maybe continued?

3. The internet tells me

In 2009, lassiterfics resolves to...

Cut down to ten lotrips a day.
Go to the caper movies every month.
Give up crossfandom otps.
Give some motherfucking pendragons to charity.
Apply for a new slash.
Give up commentficcing.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

are my new year's resolutions. Lollerskates @ things I will give up. NEVERRRRRRR!! Giving some motherfucking Pendragons to charity is a pretty boss idea, though. Who doesn't need some motherfucking Pendragons in their lives? I know I do.

4. statistics software + period + URGH IT'S SATURDAY AND I HAVE TO STAY IN = worst ever :(

5. And just to make it 5 things, I'm a-gonna do this meme: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

Comments

Re: communism is MAGIC

[allothi.livejournal.com]

I can see it.

They are students. They have pamphlets. It begins with someone disappearing, and it takes three days for them to find out that he's all right, he had to flee but he's safe now, the Nationalists didn't get him. There are secret parties that get crashed by the polics, and Morgana has to climb out of Merlin's flat's bathroom window, and shimmy down the drainpipe. Arthur starts writing bad communist poetry, and has to destroy it when he hears his father coming down the hall to his room. Gwen is actually much better at all the covert stuff than the rest of them -- she never takes stupid risks, always shows a nice front to the Nationalists, and no one ever suspects her. Lancelot is possibly the person who disappears at the beginning, and she just takes it and keeps going, and Morgana just can't understand how.

I am going to fail life.

It will be your fault.

(Would you like some chocolate? No -- seriously. I'm getting a load of free napolitans, I think Cluizel, and I could send some to you when they arrive if you don't mind giving a scary internet person your address).

Re: communism is MAGIC

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

jfdskjflksjfljsd YES PLEASE. I will give random strangers on the internet my address at the soonest promise of chocolate! Kids, do not my follow my example. Gah, how did I survive childhood?? You can edumacate me on fine chocolate! How are you so awesome??

Argh, I should very much try not to fail life right now too but I cannot help myself when Arthur reads his bad communist poetry at open mic in this proud booming voice, and afterwards the applause is kind of awkward and the cafe regulars are just facepalming inwardly. So he's chilling at the cafe and someone's like, "Hey, aren't you Pendragon's kid?" and Arthur is like OH SHIT. "No! I am... Karl... Zedong. My name is Karl Zedong, nice to meet you."

Re: communism is MAGIC

[allothi.livejournal.com]

*grin* Brilliant. Just send your address in a message -- or I think my email is displayed in my profile -- and let your education begin! (Is there Pygmalion AU fic for Merlin yet? Or Pygmalion crossover fic! IT WOULD WORK! The dialects of Albion could be CATALOGUED! While Eliza terrifies Arthur, on an hourly basis (even during the night. She has infected his nightmares, made than ten times worse than before. The only thing worse than being slowly devoured by a fearsome magical beast is being devoured, exactly thus, and having the beast wrinkle up its nose at every bite and scream, 'ORRIBLE! and then go on) -- and Morgana falls a little in love with her).

Life. Fail. Oh god.

My name is Karl Zedong, nice to meet you.

Oh Arthur, how so faily and yet so wonderful?

...I started writing more about this, too, but I am stopping myself and DELETING IT.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

I've never watched Pygmalion, I only know the story of him and Galatea.

Oh, and the Neil Gaiman story, I can't remember the title, but it's about a fantasy writer in a fantasy land except that the fantasy that he writes is, like, the mundane stuff in our world. So.

ARGH I KNOW, RIGHT. All I wanna do is talk about Camelot's wacky communist hijinks BUT I MUST NOT I MUST NOT. resissssssst. D:

[allothi.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'm quite fond of George Bernard Shaw. I am weak for class struggle. *strains to resist Communist Camelot*

...don't talk to me about Greek myths. I keep wanting to write a fic where they start happening in Albion, and Prince Arthur and his trusty manservant, Merlin, have to investigate.

I also kind of want to write a Heroides for Merlin. I blame my degree.