Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

Meme time:
1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.

canis_takahari gave me the letter M:


Macbeth
I know he was a historical figure, but my Macbeth is always going to be the iteration from Gargoyles: a noble warrior with good intentions tricked into immortality by the Weird Sisters, with a nihilistic edge honed over a thousand-year war with the woman who betrayed him, who slowly finds his way back to heroism again.

Seriously, what's not to love? That he was voiced by John Rhys-Davies just made him more epic.

Morgaine
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley was one of those books that will change your life whenever you read it, but when you read it during your formative years? It will probably explain a lot. And talk about the road paved to hell with good intentions: she wanted to protect those she loved, champion her people and her goddess, and increasingly isolates herself from her friends, family, and loved ones by continually doing the wrong things for all the right reasons. When she finds a measure of peace at the end, it breaks your heart every damn time.

Melisande Sharizai
My favorite villain of all-time: a gorgeous, brilliant Machiavelli who I always wanted to know more about. She plays a major part in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart and is a peripheral character ever afterwards, always manipulating people through love and blood, able to play the game six moves in advance. I'd love to meet her, be charmed by her, and then get the hell out of her way.

Marie Penthièvre
The heroine of Gillian Bradshaw's Wolf Hunt, loosely based on The Laies of Marie de France, she is good-hearted and clever, and learns to look into the truth of people by overcoming her own prejudices. And then she falls in love with a guy stuck in the guise of a wolf. It's like Beauty and the Beast, but somehow better.

Malcom Reynolds
The original Captain Tightpants. Dark, bitter, brutal, slightly psychotic, funny as hell, with his own brand of honor. Damn you, Reynolds, I'll love you til the day I die.

Thanks to amine_eyes

THE RULES:
1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question

2. Tag five people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

And I tag: gadgetorious, tocourtdisaster, dramapunk, avictoriangirl, blue_jack.


1. Make a list of 5 things that you can see without getting up:

-cd rack
-bottle with seashells
-Old English dictionary
-my cell
-post-it notes

2. Why do you name all of your pets after World of Warcraft characters?

I'm painfully nerdy and married someone even nerdier.

3. What are you wearing now?

Pajamas.

4. What's your occupation?

Scifi curator/professor.

5. What do you hear right now?

Supernatural 2.15.

6. Who was the last person you hugged?

Uh...I dunno.

7. What is/was for dinner?

Leftover Mexican food.

8. What did you do today?

Turned in revisions to editor, had meeting with P&T committee about my yearly eval (I'm awesome, but we knew this ;)), word warred with tocourtdisaster, watched TOS and Supernatural with Evi.

9. Dog person or cat person?

Cats.

10. If you had to change your name, what would you change it to?

Jim Kirk. (I'm assuming gender issues aren't an issue?)

11. What was the last thing that you bought?

A tall white mocha. Num!

12. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

*blink* For how long? And why? *scratches head* Can I got to San Francisco and read in cute cafes all day?

13. Where do you see yourself in five years?

In a phd program with a finished book?

14. Favorite book?

Um, tonight? It is... *thinking* Edward Gorey's The Bug Book.

15. What are you doing this weekend?

Visiting with Scott!!!!

16. If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?

Guitar.

17. Favourite Colour?

Dark red.

18. What are you doing tomorrow?

Same thing I do every day, Pinky, trying to take over--Er, I mean, going to work. Oh! I'm going out to lunch with Wy and there's a committee meeting in the afternoon.

19. What are you looking forward to the most?

Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!!

Stolen from weepingnaiad.

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

Hahahaha.

Okay.

Trek fic:

a Selkie tale - AU, possibly modern? In which Bones and Jo and are in California and a strange man saves her from drowning.

Chat fic 1 - So me and gadgetorious had talked about doing a series of ficlets drawn from the boys' comm transcripts. We had decided the best way to do this was for us to role-play in chat, then copy and paste. This is even more hilarious considering the fact that barring pronouns and some technobabble (and a little bit of sexual tension), we ARE the boys. ANYWAY. This is the first of those.

Federation Games - A mashup with The Hunger Games series.

Field theory of Leonard McCoy - Originally a counterpoint to A Field Theory of Jim Kirk, part of the Log!verse.

friends - Started when I saw a prompt on the buckleup_meme about Bones being the instigator of the boys' epic friendship.

Gatherings of Leaves - Epic sequel to Common Grounds, taking place during and after that story.

Heaven is Bloodless - My project for thepurpledove, a sequel to Love As Thou Wilt.

Long Way Home - Part of the Log!verse, in which the Bones McCoy of TOS and the Bones McCoy of AOS find each other in one another's universes and are deeply unimpressed. Planned to build in some timey-wimey stuff with universe-shapingness. It's like two-thirds done and was my original STBB.

Man From the Stars - A Jim/Eomer story/AU.

Ossipagina - Another log!verse story, in which Joanna is pregnant, Juno-like, and the boys deal.

Piaolang - Part pf First Rule of Flyin', in which Gaila comforts Kaylee. A lot. Unfinished femmeslash pwp.

The Devil's Arithmetic - The epic Tarsus and Khan fic o' angst and pain.

The Other Captain - Sequel to The Wrong Shirt, in which the AU boys meet the AOS boys and they are all bewildered and confused.

The World Ahead - Epic sequel to That Which They Defend, taking place some twenty years later, in which the boys discover unexpected bits of history and Jim meets his son.

Vox - Unfinished comm sex pwp.

Western - Western au, loosely inspired by True Grit.

Wonderful Life - Unfinished Christmas present for gadgetorious. There's always next year, right? Right?

Zuowenzhang - Part of the First Rule of Flyin' verse. In which Jim and River dance.


Original Fic:

Space guinevere - a combination creative essay about permutations of Guinevere in literature, my ruminations thereof, and my own story built in.

Man from the Stars (folder) - The word files from my epic rewrite of TWTD as original fiction.

Cos I'm bored and feeling kinda gross. Most of the day has been a continuous sort of thing of making tea...making more tea...a nap, tylenol, tea. Sigh. I hope I can beat this thing cos I do NOT have time to be sick right now. *grumps*

In the MEAN time, if you have no interest in televised sporting events, entertain me?

Stolen from thistlerose:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage between... let's say 200 and 600 words) from anything I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

Stolen from gadgetorious:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and your feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any or all of the following: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, and possibly a short excerpt as well.

Tagged by thistlerose:

If you read this, you're tagged. Take a picture of you in your current state, no changing your clothes or quickly putting on makeup. NO PHOTOSHOP. Show your f-list the real you!

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