Res ipsa loquitur

I guess it's either memes or no content at all.

From spikedluv. Strong=yes, emph=sort of.

Appearance:

I am 5’4" or shorter.
I have many scars.
I tan easily. (I had a tan once! It was my senior year of high school! I've never forgotten it.)
I wish my hair was a different color. My hair is mostly gray, and what I really wish is that (1) I didn't feel like it would be a professional liability to stop coloring it, and (2) I didn't feel like it would be a professional liability to put a purple streak in it.
I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
I have a tattoo.
I am self-conscious about my appearance. Maybe a little? I'm aware that I'm neither thin nor young, but most of the time I don't care very much. I'm self-conscious about being kind of a sloppy dresser and spilling food on my clothes.
I’ve had braces.
I wear glasses.
I’d get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free, scar-free.
I’ve been told I’m attractive by a complete stranger. Repeatedly, when I was in the 16-19 range, by much older creepsters. Also about the same time period, the musician Mike Cross told me I had a pretty smile.
I have more than 2 piercings.
I have piercings in places besides my ears.
I have freckles


Family/Home Life

I’ve sworn at my parents.
I’ve been kicked out of the house.
I have a sibling less than one year old.
I want to have kids someday.
I have children. I have one.
I’ve lost a child.


Embarrassment:

I’ve slipped out a “lol” in a spoken conversation.
Disney movies still make me cry. OMG, "Lilo & Stitch," the waterworks! "This is my family. I found it all on my own. It's little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good."
I’ve snorted while laughing. Pretty much every time.
I’ve laughed so hard I’ve cried. Yes, but this is not embarrassing.
I’ve glued my hand to something. Mostly I've glued my fingers together.
I’ve laughed till some kind of beverage came out of my nose.
I’ve had my pants rip in public.


Health:

I was born with a disease/impairment.
I’ve had stitches. Some from a glass cut when I was 10, some from giving birth, some from slicing open my knuckle with a food processor blade.
I’ve broken a bone.
I’ve had my tonsils removed.
I’ve sat in a doctor’s office with a friend.
I’ve had my wisdom teeth removed.
I’ve had surgery. Gallbladder.
I’ve had chicken pox.


Traveling:

I’ve driven over 200 miles in one day. My record is Lexington, Kentucky, to Raleigh, North Carolina, which is not quite 500 miles.
I’ve been to Canada.
I’ve been to Niagara Falls.
I’ve been to Japan.
I’ve Celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
I’ve been to Spain.
I’ve been to Africa.
I’ve been to France.
I’ve been to London.


Experiences:

I’ve been lost in my city. My first couple of weeks here, I was lost all the damned time.
I’ve seen a shooting star.
I’ve wished on a shooting star.
I’ve seen a meteor shower.
I’ve gone out in public in my pyjamas.
I’ve pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
I’ve been to a casino.
I’ve been skydiving.
I’ve gone skinny dipping.
I’ve played spin the bottle.
I’ve crashed a car.
I’ve been skiing.
I’ve been in a play. I've done props and makeup, though.
I’ve met someone in person from the internet.
I’ve caught a snowflake on my tongue.
I’ve seen the Northern Lights.
I’ve sat on a roof top at night.
I’ve played chicken.
I’ve played a prank on someone.'
I’ve ridden in a taxi.
I’ve seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I’ve eaten sushi. I would like to have some now.
I’ve been snowboarding.


Relationships:

I’m single.
I’m in a relationship.
I’m available.
I’m engaged.
I’m married. 26 years come October.
I’ve gone on a blind date.
I’ve been the dumpee more than the dumper. Dumper once, dumpee twice, and one time we just sort of forgot to see each other for long enough that we de facto broke up without ever talking.
I miss someone right now. I miss my best friend terribly.
I have a fear of abandonment.
I’ve been divorced.
I’ve had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back.


Sexuality:

I’ve had a crush on someone of the same gender.
I’ve kissed a member of the same gender.
I’ve had sex with more than one person at the same time.
I am a cuddler.
I’ve been kissed in the rain.
I’ve had sex outdoors. Well ... unambiguously sex, sort of outdoors, and also unambiguously outdoors, sort of sex.
I’ve hugged a stranger. I've done quite a lot of this in churchy contexts.
I have kissed a stranger.
I have had sex with a stranger.


Honesty/Crime:

I’ve done something I promised someone else I wouldn’t.
I have lied to my parents about where I am.
I am keeping a secret from the world. I'm a very secretive person, actually.
I’ve cheated while playing a game.
I’ve run a red light. Not on purpose! Yelling out loud, "What the hell am I doing?"
I’ve been suspended from school.
I’ve witnessed a crime.
I’ve been in a fist fight. Yes, but only with my brother when we were kids.
I’ve been arrested.
I’ve shoplifted.


Drugs/Alcohol:

I’ve consumed alcohol.
I’ve smoked a cigarette.
I‘ve smoked pot. Twice. Made me feel just the way I feel when I don't take my allergy meds.
I regularly drink.
I’ve taken painkillers when I didn’t need them.
I’ve done hard drugs.
I’ve been addicted to an illegal drug.


This sort of reminded me of the questionnaires you have to fill out to give blood, where you get into the "Oh thank god no" section.

This is just the sort of thing I can't resist, and just the sort of thing that adds to my list of Stories That Will Probably Never Be Finished, but ... (taken from torch):

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

I'll take any of the fandoms I've written in plus ... let's see, in the past year I've seen all three Men In Black movies, plus seasons 1-4 of Buffy and the first few eps of Angel (yeah, so late to the party that the house isn't even there any more).

I didn't do this last year because I thought, "Hey, newer stuff will have more hits, isn't it obvious?" Well, it wasn't obvious.

1. Amenable. Sherlock (Sherlock/John), explicit, 6,100 words, posted January 2011. (25,228 hits)

2. Home. Sherlock (Sherlock/John), explicit, 4,000 words, posted January 2011. How did I have so much time on my hands in January 2011? (17,519 hits)

3. Breaking and Entering. Inception (Arthur/Eames), explicit, 8,600 words, posted July 2011. (15,091 hits.)

4. Exactly the Way You Like It. Marvel Avengers Universe (Steve Rogers/Tony Stark), explicit, 2,000 words, posted October 2011. (13,229 hits.)

5. Close Enough. Sherlock (Sherlock/John), explicit, 3,100 words, posted April 2011. (12,680 hits.)

Then there's a big hit gap -- from 12,000 down to 6,000 ...

6. Steve Likes Tony. Marvel Avengers Universe (Steve Rogers/Tony Stark), explicit, 3,100 words, posted January 2012. (6,212 hits.)

7. Accommodations. Marvel Avengers Universe (Steve Rogers/Tony Stark), teen, 3,600 words, posted February 2012. (5,541 hits.)

8. Contact. Sherlock (Sherlock/John), all audiences, 400 words, posted March 2011. (4,458 hits.)

9. Phatic. Stargate Atlantis (Rodney McKay/John Sheppard), explicit, 1,700 words, posted October 2011, co-written with cesperanza. (3,332 hits.)

10. Transfigurations. Harry Potter (Draco/Harry), explicit, 71,000 words (holy shit, really?), first posted April 2003. (2,994 hits.)

Things I expected to see in the top 10 but did not: Higher Education is #12, Advantage is #17.

Conclusions I draw from this:

- They're all in really, really active fandoms except for "Phatic," which is benefitting from the cesperanza effect, and "Breaking and Entering," which came in on the trailing end of a fandom that had once been hugely active and apparently had more eager readers than fanworks at that point..

- Obviously they're mostly explicit, because what else do I write? "Accommodations" got more hits than I would have predicted given its teen rating, but demand for Avengers content is really high right now.

- I don't really understand "Contact" (400 words of G-rated hugging) being in there.

- Fandom likes stories to be of meaty length. My ten stories with lowest hit count are nine with less than 1,000 words, plus one that's het. And yet ... I don't really have anything else Transfig-length to compare, but I'd be willing to bet that an 8,000-word story would get more hits than a 50,000-word story, all other things being equal.

- The huge majority of people looking at "Transfigurations" are still looking at it on In Medias Res rather than AO3.

- All but "Exactly The Way You Like It" are first-time stories, but I'm not sure that's significant, since, again, what else do I write?

Taken from ellen_fremedon:

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you several sentences from that story.

I love this meme. It's like getting to wander through the Slash Annex of the Library of Babel.

[edited to change the terms of the meme, because apparently I'm incapable of sticking to "between one and three sentences" unless I write torturously long and complicated sentences with an illegal number of semicolons]

from thingswithwings: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Funny how I can know quite well that a story idea is dead, dead, dead, and yet not be willing to delete the file!

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Upon request, I will post a random line from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.

First, thanks to whichever kind soul nominated Advantage, Girlfriend, and Reality for the McShep Awards. (Voting isn't open yet, but it's worth a click just to see the banner.)

Second, I got tagged not once but twice (by reginagiraffe and lucitania) for another one of those question memes. ( So I guess peer pressure still influences me. )

I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you feel like picking it up from here, feel free!

font made my day by picking me for the "you make my day" meme, so I'm passing it on:

Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award in no particular order. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.

(I'm going to try to pick people that I don't mention every week, and people other than font, on the theory that some of y'all already know you make my day, and those who don't already know it are the ones who need to hear it.)

celli
vulgarweed
paian
thefourthvine
theamusedone
tevere
kormantic
cereta
copperbadge
oxoniensis

from boniblithe

1. The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post it in your own journal.





Clearly my band is an all-acoustic group with folk/country roots but a high level of pretentiousness.

I know, I know, so two weeks ago, but I asked kassrachel for a letter and she gave me S. So here are ten things I love that start with S.

(If you want to do it too, ask me in the comments and I will give you a letter.)

( Shapenote singing, smut, strawberries, soup, snakes, speculative fiction, semicolons, sweaters, seasons, and of course slash. )

So skuf interviewed me, and now I'll interview you, if you like.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview Me!" (or something of that ilk)
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

( skuf's questions, my answers )