thatotherperv

madame_meretrix tagged me on this fics I love meme, and for her, I oblige :) plus, I kinda like this one.

The Rules: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

meretrix's amendment: After each story, add a little something about what you learned about writing in the process. Or, if you didn't learn anything, add something that fits contextually with the time of writing the story (i.e., tell me about the song that inspired it, the mood you were trying to capture, which part of the idea came to you first, problems you encountered, etc.).

"fics I love" is really different for me than "fics I'm proud of." the latter only includes...maybe 2, at this point, and on some days, none at all, haha. but I was going with the spirit of the meme here. so, going off pure internal squee, my five (*cough*six*cough*), in reverse chronology:


( 3 buffyverse, 2 CW and 1 spn, because I like to stretch the rules )

I wasn't gonna tag anyone, but then I started thinking about people whose writing I missed and how nice it would be to hear their thoughts on their own work. so I'm tagging incasink, eyezrthewindows and toobusy2write, knowing full well that they might not even be around, as well as nyghtpet and denied_heaven, because I take any excuse to snog their brains. :) anyone else who wants to play, consider yourself tagged!

stolen from all over, mad lib drabbles. some of my words actually make perfect sense in context, haha

I should also say, nothing but love for my spuffy friends. *snorfle*
*pets you*

( There was nothing left for him anymore, nothing licked him, all was frothy. )




( For seven days and seven nights, Angel nursed Spike, cleaning his hip and feeding him Blood-brand rat chow. )


( Angel paced up and down, jiggling his armpit. )



( He smiled to see a rat hopping along, carrying a stake in its mouth. )



what do you think, guys? I think this may be some of my most ingenious work yet! *waits for copious praise to roll in*

yoinked from cafedemonde because the answer amused me. add lustfulness. hee!

How to make a thatotherperv

Ingredients: 3 parts intelligence 5 parts courage 5 parts beauty

Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Top it off with a sprinkle of lustfulness and enjoy!

ok, not that I don't have plenty of things to write, but I'm feeling a little restless. I'm going to put out another drabble call but uh I don't make any guarantees about what I'll write. because clearly when I make promises about that sort of thing, I can't keep them. so um. throw stuff at me, and hopefully it'll spark something.

it's other-fandom again, because I feel like flexing new muscles. NO crossovers. and I'm leaving out spn, because I don't do that unless it's a crossover, really. um. this means the fandoms are kind of odd and I'm afraid no one is going to give me any prompts. hahaha.

gimme a pairing, and either a kink, or...a funny situation.

Bones - Booth/Zack, Booth/Bones, Booth/Angela, Angela/Bones...erm...that might be it. Booth/OMC I can do.

Battlestar Galactica - Laura/Lee, Lee/Starbuck

Oz - Keller/Beecher, Keller/O'Reilly....um. there are so many people it's hard to remember. other than those two, hit me with something and I'll let you know. oh! the priest is hot too. lmfao.

Pirates of the Caribbean - any combo of jack, will and elizabeth.

Queer as Folk - I can probably work with any combo of brian, justin and michael. i also adore emmett and his little football guy. ehh...try me with other pairings and I'll let you know.

yoinked from felisblanco. I've done this one before, and well...I'm a cocktease. I can't help it. *ducks*

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

( snippet from I Burn - not spoilery )

( this Booth/Zack thing I've been trying to write forever )

( a very freaky snippet from Hostage )

yeah, I think that's enough for now *snicker*

ETA: I'm closing the call down now. it filled up super fast, plus I promised Steph 4 since I suck and can't produce a ficlet for her like I promised. I might reopen the prompt call later tomorrow or what have you.

so I try to write *something* every day, or at least every other. key word lately being try. but if I'm blocked and I don't make the effort until I feel like it, I'm always a little scared I'm gonna hit another long dry spell. for me, it's better for writing to be at least partly habitual. anyway, I've been beating my head against a wall mostly, whatever I tried out, and then last night I wrote something I was happy with at the time, only to reread it just now, wail and beat my breast in lamentation.

okay, so that's a little melodramatic. but you get the point.

but the prompt call worked for me...I think because I have no personal investment whatsoever in what yall want, and it forces me to post right away, thereby bypassing my second-guessing.



ETA: NO MORE PROMPTS NOW

two choices...and we're talking drabble-length probably. either:

give me a pairing and a kink (yes, again, but it worked like a charm the first time)

OR

give me a pairing and a location. however you want to interpret that. I'll aim for porny, but some things might strike me another way.

Things I Won't Do:
if you ask for Giles, you're not getting sex. sorry. uh, just to cover my bases, the same goes for Andrew. cuz...ew. or any of those geeks, actually. and I can't slash Gunn. that's about all for my "won't"s. OH. I won't touch fisting with a 10-foot-pole, cuz...ew. and I can't make Xander dom. I'm gonna stop now. haha. I really will do most things/pairings. if you hit on one I just can't, I'll give you another try.

*shifty eyes* did my misdirection work? because I don't do memes. so this is not a meme. this is just....a post in which I tell you why I have some of the icons I have. *shifty eyes*

now that I think about it, this meme is very telling of my fannish life, haha.

( no meme here! )

I'm bummed about fandom the past week, dude. there's so much bad energy flying around, and some of my favorite people appear to have flown the coop several months ago, and things are just slow this week. it's sucktastic, and everyone I've talked to is feeling drained.

but let's not talk about any of that at all. really. not a word. what I want to do is cheer us up.

I want to know 5 things that made you fall in love with Spike and Angel, as individuals. five for Spike, and five for Angel. for those of you who like one and not the other, by all means just do the one you like. but if you love em both, gimme em both.

no physical attributes. we all love James' abs and David's puppy eyes. we know this. I'm talking characterization, people. and also uh...since the exercise is feel-good vibes, no picking on each other's characterization, no matter how wacko you think it is. if you love Angel for wearing stripey socks, I will not remind you that you're thinking of David :D

...oh, I suppose I should kick us off first, huh? ok:

Angel:
1. I love that he has a sense of humor that no one expects and therefore, that very few people get.
2. I love that, despite knowing he should find Spike's shenanigans completely unconscionable, he still gets a kick out of them sometimes, even though he'd never let Spike know it.
3. I love that even when he was soulless, and even though he didn't believe he was capable of love at all, he loved Darla as an equal and a partner in crime, Dru as a spoiled daughter (no, really), and Spike in spite of himself.
4. I love him as a dad, and everything that went with that.
5. I love that stubbornly, inevitably, he will always be a cowboy at heart.

Spike:
1. I love that he is so freaking pussy-whipped. but he won't hesitate to conk Dru over the head, and then lovingly settle her against his side as they ride off into the sunset. *snerk*
2. I love that when you get him around Angel, he's 12. in all senses of the age.
3. I love that he's a pathological liar when it comes to his image. how'd you get that soul again, Spike? he's so good, he convinces himself.
4. I love that he's a weeble. *watches him wobble*
5. This is probably wrong of me, but I like his tendency to reach for a bottle of liquor as soon as things go wrong. *snickers* what? I like my fantasy men dysfunctional.


*leans her head in her hands and waits for all of you to share.