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Things that happen in chat when you're supposed to be sleeping: Castielfest, ya'll! Raise your hand if you'd be interested in a Castiel-centric fic exchange. Gen, slash, het, whatever -- as long as Cas is top-billing. We're thinking sign-ups begin a few days after the S5 finale airs, stay open for a week or so, then participants have a month to write at least 1000 words upon receiving their assignments. vikki has a poll here to gauge interest, and it would be awesome if you could fill it out and let us know your questions/concerns/disagreements/suggestions.

It's Three Weeks For Dreamwidth time, trying to generate more Dreamwidth activity to celebrate its 1-year anniversary, hence the cross-posting. If you, like me, are still like "Dreamwhat?", it might behoove us to check out stepps's Lonely Planet guide to Dreamwidth. And, here's something cool that DW-clicking did for me recently: ephemere's thoughts on Filipino identity and writing about other cultures led me to the post that sparked it ('No Foreigners Allowed' by Charles Tan), which in turn led me to the sidebar of Charles Tan's blog, which is stuffed full of links to Filipino speculative fiction fkdjsfklkjk AWESOME.


This old meme:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

maboheme asked me five fannish questions ( under the cut. )

[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/19904.html | comments]

Dreamwidth snippet time. Some of these, you might have seen before. I'm transferring a lot of old snippets to the DW for easier linking. The following are all rated PG13 or lower.

19th century RPF
with friends like these | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, after Marx fired Ruge from the cool kids' table. 118 words.

Hetalia
life is like a japanese vending machine | Germany and Japan take a walk around Tokyo in the winter. WARNING: fluff. 285 words.

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Metamorphosis | So the first thing I did after I watched the movie was go on sherlockkink, where someone was like, "Write the one where Watson is turning into a snakeman." Perhaps someday I'll extend this into something full-length. 174 words.

Merlin
missing scene #4 | From Just Lie Back and Think of Camelot (Arthur/Merlin, R). 223 words.
It's Pronounced Woostah | Road trip! Merlin, Will, Morgana, and Gwen make a stop in Worcester, Massachusetts. I'm not sure if this is AU or crack. 485 words.
Once, in Manila | Arthur, Uther, Lancelot, and Gaius go on a family vacation of sorts in Manila, Philippines. Again, I'm not sure if this is AU or crack. Now with the commentfic addition I wrote for Nix! 1650 words.

Narnia
between here and there | Post-TLB. Susan traveling the world. 156 words.
no matter of yours | Golden Age. In which Tumnus is smarmy and Edmund doesn't want to know. 114 words.
missing scene #1 | From this room has many windows (Edmund/Peter/Susan, PG13). 149 words.
more missing scenes | From and sometimes you hear the silence speak (Edmund, Susan, Jadis, magic; PG13).

multifandom
missing scene #2 | From A Guide to Modern Living (Gossip/Boondock Saints, Travis/Connor, R). 221 words.


I've been leaving sekrit one-sentence fic in my boyfriend's phone iTouch. (I keep forgetting it's not a phone! After all it has all the basic phone tools, like chess and instant stock market updates.) They are in the key of:
19th-century RPF: Karl looks at the box suspiciously and says that he hopes Friedrich knows this doesn't mean he'll be getting a gift in return.
Baseball RPF (Red Sox): "Well," Pedroia says with a knowing smile, "in America, Daisuke, a home run can mean many things."

Baby's first DW cross-post! I'm just experimenting and checking this sucker out. So far I like that DW allows 15 icons. That's pretty sweet.

+ I've got 2 1 Dreamwidth invites and 21 GoogleWave invites. Who wants in?

+ Voila my fandom stocking! If you have one, comment here with a link to it plz. Click here to sign up for one of your own!

+ I know we just got over Solstice and are wrestling with Yuletide, but if an Arthur/Gwen fic exchange is still relevant to your interests, agficexchange sign-ups end on December 18. YAY ARTHUR/GWEN

+ re: Parks & Recreation. WHERE IS THE APRIL/ANDY FIC, GUYS.

+ I am nowhere close to finishing SPN S1 and already I am contemplating crossovers and fusions, I can't help myself. LIKE. Uther hires them to kill warlocks or something and some Sam/Morgana happens. And, this 3-sentence fic has convinced me that the Winchesters and the Pevensies need to hang out, or walk some miles in each other's shoes. I NEED TO KNOW MOAR.

+ There should be fic about all your favorite characters being BFFs with Wall*E, y/y.

+ It's...
☼ Memetime with Mordred & Morgana ☼
Come play!

1. Dreamwidth sent out more invite codes, so here they are: TPNTRC9NDKZVVAAAEJ7C, FY5A4M4VJKKFSAAAEJ7D, EEQK7368624N4AAAEJ7E

2. I'm catching up on comments in a meandering sort of way, but FYI now I'm not being emailed comments so the meander has slowed to a sort of dazed wandering.

3. Against my better judgment and aspirations towards improved time management, I've signed up for camelotsolstice. Woo? Speaking of Merlin:

4. I think I'm being linked up to the trailer for Merlin series 2, but no, it's clips from series 1 with bits from Legend of the Seeker and Lord of the Rings incomprehensibly thrown in. Fuck that shit. On the other hand!:

5. A TRAILER FOR MOTHERFUCKING BOONDOCK SAINTS 2?!?! It's been in development hell for fucking ages and now there is a traaaiiiiler?! I'm ready to be pleasantly surprised, sequel! Oh BDS, my long lost fandom! OH NORMAN REEDUS <33!

6. Ramadhan's been going on for a while now, and I still have to drabble something out for it. They're having an Eid fic sign-up post on Livejournal and on Dreamwidth.

7. I finally started catching up on this season's ( Leverage ) I wish there was more episodes of The Office and Parks & Recreation.

8. Speaking of The Office! Someone submitted an application to sorting_elite as Dwight Schrute.

9. I'm thinking of doing a DVD commentary of The Ink Still Drying because Merlin and Arthur are unreliable narrators and there's more going on than they notice. Would you dig it?

10. Hmm, I think that's all?

I did the "things I'll never write" meme a few weeks ago, though it was just an excuse to request the strangest prompts people can think of, because as history shows, I'll write anything. So, I wrote Peter&Jadis near the end of the Golden Age for bedlamsbard (Bed, I may still actually owe you fic, since this isn't technically Peter/Jadis), and Ororo between X2 and X3 for dirty_diana.

Then everyone else gave Narnia crossover prompts, so I've compiled those all here in a section subtitled 'people they never loved'.


Another Shore

- for marycontraire, who said Edmund/Effy (Narnia/Skins)
( Neither Edmund nor Effy are surprised that their older brothers don't get along. )

- for animus_wyrmis, who said Edmund/Hermione (Narnia/Harry Potter)
( 2 people who objected to Edmund and Hermione's relationship )

- still for animus_wyrmis, who also said Edmund/Luna (Narnia/Harry Potter)
( She's safe, that much is sure, but he isn't sure how she's safe: whether it's because she would believe him, or because no one would believe her. )

- for be_themoon, who said Nimueh/Jadis (Narnia/Merlin). With visual aid!
( Nimueh whispers an incantation and the cut on her palm closes itself. )

ETA: FUCK IT. Here are two codes to start a Dreamwidth account: DRQKSWTQPJHVZAAACZU9 and QFTXMA3ZGR9NJAAACZVA. I cast them to the wind and wash my hands of them!