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

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

i like that, the biology and science and art of language. i've never heard of canadian rising. i'll wiki it later. i dunno, i just like finding the similarities between languages with the same roots, and stuff. like, interlingua's awesome. also i think faux amis are potentially interesting (though probably volatile) as a tool of cultural analysis. and i wonder at how the french word for present ('cadeaux') sounds exactly like the indonesian word for present ('kado'). but i guess that could be a false cognate.

does he end up in dead world narnia or aslan's country, do you think? omg, probably Jadis picks him up. you know how those crazy witches like to pick up little boys for their nefarious purposes, and skandar is pretty much edmund IRL. what if it's dead world narnia, and Jadis promises him they can rule over it together? "there's nothing here to rule," skandar points out, but the witch just says, "have patience, little king."

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

Canadian rising is not that interesting in itself... it's just this phonological phenomenon that took me a few minutes to even be able to hear, and I still can't describe it, and it's these sort of things that I learn about linguistics that make it seems absurdly complex to me. fascinating, but a bit much for me.

Interlingua is awesome. And Esperanto is pretty exciting too. Invented languages are really interesting. Were the french present in indonesia? there's an observable french influence on vietnamese...

I dunno about Skandar being Edmund irl, I imagine Edmund is a bit more serious about things? while Skandar is a total goofball. But yeah, he'd totally get picked up by Jadis or the Lady of the Green Kirtle or some bewitching archetype. What would happen to Dead Narnia that they could possibly rule it? Does a dead world ever grow again? Does it go in cycles, like an expanding and contracting universe? Does it take the arrival of some new god in the darkness?

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

naw, it was the dutch who was all over indonesia. the portugese set up shop in east timor, but it's mostly dutch influence. the dutch and indonesian words for office and sink (kantor and wastafel, respectively) are the same. and the indonesian birthday song has the same melody as the dutch birthday song, things like that. there's also a lot of arabic and sanskrit language on indonesian, in terms of language and names (and also folk tales! *RESISTS GOING INTO TANGENTS ABOUT FOLK TALES*).

actually what's interesting about indonesia is how its independence ended up impoverishing its language. under dutch rule, society was more pluralistic, and words from chinese and other languages were part of the dialect, etc. but after independence, indonesia purged its language of 'non-indonesian' words and like. i dunno. essentialism = urgh. under suharto's rule, the chinese community couldn't display store signs in chinese, and they had to have a special mark on their ID that marked them as chinese. they were foreigners in their own country, were sometimes even officially referred to as such, like how some schools are only allowed to enroll a certain number of 'foreigners'. it's gotten better, but there's still a lot of anti-chinese racism. so a lot of the chinese flee the country because of a) racism and b) they can afford to because they, like, own most of indonesia's private sector. (the patterns and stereotypes of the chinese diaspora kind of reminds me of the jewish diaspora sometimes. there is an indonesian word that pretty much literally translates to being 'Jewed'. if you've been jewed, someone was a cheapskate to you.) funny story: an indonesian friend of mine of malay descent was studying in the UK and met someone who didn't believe she was indonesian because she didn't look chinese.

narnia. i think the world goes through cycles. maybe jadis/kirtle lady deliberately infuses the world with life and magic again, but even then, she's just a tool of the cycle? or maybe the world has always been sieve, and things cross the veils all the time. basically, one man's trash is another man's treasure? it is not the same narnia of course, and it is not better or worse, just different. and this can be embodied in jadis/kirtle lady, her and the land, dying and being reborn (and kidnapping young boys), it's just how it is.