some people see the revolution

First genderswap meme response up here: Golden Age Pevensies & Queen Cassia, picspam & accompanying fic. Yes, that is a new community. I wanted someplace to dump things that wasn't my personal journal. More genderswap replies coming later for: Supernatural, Merlin, Downton Abbey & White Collar.

and now for the Awesome Ladies meme!

the list:

1. Susan Pevensie (Narnia)
2. Keladry of Mindelan (Protector of the Small)
3. Jesse Flores (T:SCC)
4. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
5. Nikita (Nikita)
6. Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
7. Anastasia "Dee" Dualla (Battlestar Galactica)
8. Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)
9. Anna Milton (Supernatural)
10. Diana Barrigan (White Collar)
11. Kono Kalakaua (Hawaii Five-0)
12. Holland Donaghue (OC)
13. River Song (Doctor Who)
14. Jenny Lewis (Primeval)
15. Eowyn (Lord of the Rings)

(do you know how hard this was to narrow down? I wanted to put EVERYONE on there. I switched names in and out for probably half an hour before settling on this. SO MANY LADIES.)

and responses!

( 11 responses. ) 

and that one meme with your WIP titles. I don't really have a WIP folder, just a writing one, but let's see what I've got in there. 

( I have got to finish some of this stuff. )

 So this Tuesday starts my senior year of high school. The fall is going to be interesting - I'm only taking three dual-enrolled classes (Astronomy, American History to 1876, and Pre-History to Medieval Humanities), but I have to study for the SAT, the ACT, and the World History, Literature, and Mathematics Level I SAT Subject Tests. Also get applications for colleges together, and figure out where I want to go. I'm a big fan of Yale and Brown, and my chances are a lot better now that [redacted awesome news not allowed to tell until Wednesday], but I still really need to have third and fourth and fifth choices (I don't particularly want to apply to more than five schools, but I will if necessary). Hopefully I'll be visiting colleges some weekend this fall, which should help me figure out. Part of the problem in finding the schools I want to apply to is that - well, I have no idea what I'm going to major in. If I do Social Work, I would go to grad school for it, so my majors in college are wide open. Aaaaah.

Also, I really, really like teaching people. It's in my genes, guys! All girls in my family are doomed to teach. :P This Friday at co-op, I went in so that they wouldn't have to come back and pick me up before going somewhere else, and one of the Chemistry students had forgotten to do his homework, so I sat down and helped him with it. It was loads and loads of fun, and I don't even really like Chemistry. I just... enjoyed teaching it to someone. I didn't even mind that it was taking over an hour of my limited computer time that day. 

Okay - in the next few months, you can expect my NFE, one White Collar vid, and one as yet unknown fanfic and vid (from help_pakistan). And then I'll probably be pretty quiet on the creation front for a while, though I might do some casual vidding for relaxing purposes.

(AAARGH can I be 18 now stop it LJ with the adult notifications it is less than two months!)

So Aidan's gone as of Friday afternoon (Mary's staying for three weeks, yay!). We went to the beach, to the springs, played Ultimate Frisbee, had a party, and played possibly illegal amounts of board and card games. I socialized for what ended up being almost five days. Still utterly exhausted and anti-social. I slept badly Friday night, woke up three times or so.

Yesterday night I didn't get enough sleep either, for other reasons. Mostly involving The Roach Saga. (I HATE roaches, guys. SO MUCH.) About five in the morning today a roach took it into it's head to be as obnoxious to Mary as possible, including running across her face. *shudder* Then it got onto my bed, and things spiraled out of control from there until Mary was sleeping on the couch in the living room and Katherine and I had the lights on and were watching Primeval (the last four episodes of Season 3) and White Collar's first episode on my bed, while encouraging our dog to kill any roaches she found in our room. So yeah. I got... six hours of sleep last night? I've been alternating between hyper and looking drugged all day. Anyway, that all led to the Great Roach Hunt, wherein Kat and Mary and I spent large portions of today clearing out my room. Really thoroughly.


It's going to be pretty fabulous, guys. There have already been some great meta-pieces, and I know there'll be more. You should drop by! 

Vid recs! I have four.

Your Ghost by charmax is a devastating and beautiful Winchester family epic. The lyrics are utterly perfect, the song is beautiful with the right melancholy to it, and the story told is wonderful. Three generations of Campbells/Winchesters, with all their utter tragedy!

Never Gonna Leave Me by lee_fragilidad is a Syfy Alice vid, Alice/Hatter, and it's just the right mix of upbeat running/fighting and wishful glances. The cutting is sharp and the whole thing is really well-constructed.

Bad Romance by such_heights may have me convinced that I need to finish watching S2 of Merlin. (I'm.. .not sure why I haven't, actually.) But I definitely have to watch the Morgause episodes, and this vid is why. Gwen/Morgana/Morgause love triangle! WANT.

Lullaby For A Stormy Night by such_heights is the tiny!Amy and Eleven vid we all knew we wanted. So adorable, omg. ♥

On TV-watching fronts! White Collar 2x01 was quite lovely. Neal and Peter were in fine bickering form, Mozzie played a great role. I only wish there had been more (MUCH MORE) of El and Diana, and that that one Scare hadn't happened at the end.( spoilerrrrrs )

Primeval is pretty wonderful - I wish it was more racially diverse, but they are fairly decent on delivering Awesome Ladies Being Awesome and there is no shortage of handsome men and I am shallow. ( spoilers through 3x03 )

Femgenficathon it is! this needs to be DONE. I need to move on! wait what why am I writing Claudia Brown/Jenny Lewis fic all of a sudden. *eyes* but I wanted to write Rosalie fic? except... I guess that's not happening. 

+ I have my Remix assignment! I am quite pleased. We are matched on fandoms I am quite excited about writing in, wheee!

+ Last night I dreamed about my entire family being home, all together, doing crazy awesome things together, with a guest appearance by Mary, who had magically transported us all to New Zealand. Well, that didn't take much interpreting. *misses Mary*

+ Mary, you couldn't have warned me about 2x01? D: oh, CAMERON. John! PB&J KEEPS THE RESISTANCE OKAY. I finally get that icon of yours. :D

+ I have a very short poem tonight, and then tomorrow I get a Criminal Minds! which has so far been having favorable reactions in areas I trust, so YAY!

it is not so much that I miss you by Dorothea Grossman

It is not so much that I miss you
as the remembering
which I suppose is a form of missing
except more positive,
like the time of the blackout
when fear was my first response
followed by love of the dark.

Hey! would anyone be interested in beta-ing a 1.5K Susan/Edmund zombie apocalypse fic? warnings for character death and incest, etc.

Testing 1.. 2... 3... Yay, crossposting works! I'm be_themoon over on DW too, so yeah. XD I'll be using this lovely crossposting tool I suppose, and I'm considering keeping my fic mostly over here. Why? I don't know. We'll see. XD

I could find Lassiter and Bedlam on here, but I can't remember everyone else's. Anyone with DW, can you drop me a comment with your username so I can add you there please? Thanks muchly!

whynot , thanks for the invite code! In other news, I'm just going to be messing around for the rest of the night, dealing with hopelessly up and down emotions, eating mint chocolate chip ice cream and finishing that ridiculously long HP fic what the heck argh.

Reading "A Prince of Our Disorder" by John E. Mack on recommendation of almostinstinct , and enjoying it greatly. The excerpts from Lawrence's letters have a very lyrical feel to them. My two particular favorites so far-

"And you can never be quite the old self again. You have forgotten a little bit: or rather pushed it out with a little of the inspiration of what is immortal in someone who has gone before you." -about reading books

"So I fall between them into the nihilism which cannot find, in being, even a false God in which to believe." -on differences between Bedouins and the 'overcivilized' Europeans

I feel like something's just out of reach and I've no idea what this something might be and I'm fairly certain whatever it is I'm heading straight into the metaphysical existential quandary territory again and I'm very tired of that, thanks very much.

Happenstance Harbor is shaping up more in my head. I've finally figured out where the starting point is going to be, and how I can condense the plot into a reasonable timespace (before it was trying to spread out over THREE YEARS. At least!).

While messing around, figured I'd list my WIP's, whether they're ever getting completed or not.

At the First Glimpse of Thunder, original fic
So that's... 7 WIP's, at least 150K (because I completed three NaNo's) in just under four years. That's also not counting two completed stories co-written with a friend and two others started with her. Or was it three others? We had a lot of trouble finding another one that worked. Also not counting NaNo '05, about 2K when I was ... 12? and was ridiculous, the alternate NaNo '07 where a girl wrote a NaNo novel (oh, but I loved the plot of her novel, I wanted to write that one instead of her writing it if that makes any sense at all?) and the original NaNo '08 which ended up being about 12K and a lot of moralizing and gray areas and like A Song of Ice and Fire in that nobody was good and everyone was bad and it was a mire of political manuevering and evilness and gray and battle and ohgodohgodwe'reallgonnadie! At which point I was like 'WHATEVER' and started writing the one where people were COOL. And not necessarily bad or good but still. COOL.

OH WAIT. I'm also forgetting that one where everyone died! ... what was that plot? I should go look for it. I think it was something about the Young King and Ned and didn't Ned's father get his tongue ripped out? Oh yeah he did. I liked Ned, which of course means that I was evil to him. Oooh, and there was that half-god leading the Westmarch! He was cool! I really need to go looking through my papers and catalogue them somehow because my goodness where did this all come from? I... I really don't remember how I got half of this figured out or started and I'm pretty sure I'm counting somewhere around 300K in all here. I shall think more about this tomorrow. It's summer, after all! I have time to catalogue all my papers!

Anyone on my f-list interested in beta-reading an HP fic? Hermione-centered, Padma Patil as the other MC I suppose, currently somewhere around 1.5K and buildling. It won't be multi-chapter, just a one-shot, but it will be long. Mostly gen with some subtext and Hermione/Ron, some language, images of war, etc. Probably rated PG-13.

Rewards: my undying thanks, etc. etc., possible fic in the offing for you if you want one, etc. etc.

I went through my icons, cleared out, added new, etc. Now have 1 each of Mulan, LotR and Avatar, 2 of Merlin, and 5 of Narnia, plus five spaces. I have yet to decide what will go in those, but I think a Galadriel icon is definitely in order. *loves Galadriel*

almostinstinct , I should hopefully have your fic up by tonight. katakokk , yours will probably follow shortly.

Idea in my brain that wants to be written despite me telling it to shut up: Peter meets Eustace. Eustace is overly enthusiastic about how pretty Narnia is, how it was a smashing adventure and all. Peter gives him the 'I will beat you to death with a shovel' look. Shenanigans ensue, possibly.

Started work on the first chapter of Happenstance Harbor 'verse (tentatively titled 'At The First Glimpse of Thunder'). Yay for writing in chronological order and all that!

A) I have three prompts so far, and hopefully will have the first by sometime tomorrow (depending on how demanding Revolutionverse is and how well my muse cooperates).

B) My cat is sitting on me. Or was. Apparently it was very important to curl up on my lap for ten seconds and then get off and instead try to bite my fingers as I type. Of course. Cat logic makes so much sense. :P

C) My word, where has my sanity gone? Revolutionverse (which owes it's current name to katakokk ) is growing much more quickly than I'd expected, with everyone gaining personalities and interactions and ... awesomeness. LOTS OF AWESOMENESS. (Warning: about to link to TV Tropes. Go only at your own time-consuming peril.) My breakdown of their characters. Sebastian Monroe. Cedric Monroe. Holland Monroe. (In short, the Monroes.) Adam Bardsley. Cecilia Bardsley. (In short, these five.) Yeah, I love my charries. *hugs them all*

D) One of these days, I'm going to have to post my list of Narnia music. There's 13 songs (and 2 orchestral pieces) that I listen to pretty much nonstop when I'm writing, but especially when I'm writing Narnia.