Grabbed from kawaiispinel and allfireburns.

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.


Keywords: cookies!
by nikiness
Once upon a time there was a metaquotes post that involved the phrase "We're having hot lesbian sex. And by lesbian sex we mean tea. But it's still hot." This amused a great many people and inspired a great many icons. Teh Niki and I were discussing it, and we were both amused by the phrase, and one or the other of us said, "It's totally about us! Except neither of us drinks tea!" So at some point in this conversation I suggested the substitution of cookies, and she made the icon, and lo, you have our relationship in a nutshell.
Also, the cookies are chocolate chip, if there was any doubt.

Keywords: The X-Files - chicafrom3
by fandomfrom3; don't take, plz!
There's another story behind this one, and again it's weirdly convoluted. My first solid introduction to online fandom was the official X-Files message board, way back in the day when I was very young. I needed a screenname, thought about it for a while, and finally impulsively decided to name myself after Kristen Kilar, the vampire wannabe Mulder hooks up with in the second-season episode "3". Rather than actually try to register a variant of "KristenKilar" or the like, I called myself chicafrom3. The name stuck, and still does, as you've noticed. This icon's really nothing more or less than a nod to the origins of my screenname -- Mulder and his vampire love interest.

( more icons! )

Random Doctor Who thoughts/beliefs/bits of personal canon! Lots of stuff about sexuality and romance contained within.

( you can't change history )

Yesterday I bought a new hat and a new scarf as part of my ongoing attempt to become the sort of person who wears hats and scarves. I would like to be the sort of person who wears hats and scarves, and every so often I buy new ones (or am gifted new ones) and start trying again.

But the sad fact is that so far I have totally failed at being that sort of person. There is an art, or possibly a knack, to wearing hats and scarves, a knack that I do not possess. I keep trying to teach myself this knack, but it has so far not worked. Maybe this time it will work? If anyone has any tips on how to become the sort of person who wears hats and scarves, feel free to share advice.


I also bought a lot of other things. Next Sunday is the end of the Busch Gardens season, so I went in early yesterday and abused my employee discount buying things. Since I barely used it this summer, except occasionally to buy myself a meal when I didn't want to go to the EBAs.



Anyway. Happy-making fandom-related things:

Pictures of the Torchwood gang at the Hub convention. THEY'RE ALL SO PRETTY, and how happy am I to see Kai so well represented in the pics? Why can't I live somewhere or have the kind of money that I could go to events like this?

New SJA to watch!! I am very excited about this. I'm liking Rani a good bit although her name throws me off and I am still missing her predecessor a lot. A lot a lot.

I now own an official [title of show] shirt and poster. Which make me almost happy enough to forget momentarily that Broadway was stupid enough not to give them a long, long run at the Lyceum.

In other [tos] news: click me!

I have been binging on M*A*S*H episodes recently. Why? Because I like to. The show was a major part of my childhood, and it remains completely awesome as I grow up. (Although I have difficulty watching the really old episodes with the relentless laugh tracks. I know when to laugh at their jokes on my own, kthnx.)



...I feel like I had more things to say, but I don't remember what they were, so here, have a bunny suicide.

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

morgeil asked me about:

speculative fiction -- or, in other words, science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, horror, superhero fiction, and all that other awesome stuff. The kind of fiction that asks "what if?" I've always been fascinated by this, in a way I tend to sum up as "I'd like some escapism in my escapism pls" although that doesn't do the full awesomeness of the genre any justice at all.

chess -- the musical, not the game. Not that I don't like the game, I do, although I'm not very good at it. But no, I love the musical much more. It's my favorite musical, I collect it obsessively, I'm in love with all the characters and the music and the utterly cractastick nature of the seventeen million different scripts. (Sydney Chess? CRACKIEST THING EVER.)

catholicism -- I was raised Catholic, I went to a Catholic college, I still identify as Catholic even though I kind of fail at the going-to-mass thing and don't actually recall when I last went to confession. I'm very interested in the history of the Church and doctrine and the way things have changed and how spirituality and religion differ from each other.

crack pairings -- a good portion of my fannish love comes from shipping pairings that make no logical sense, the "you'd have to be on crack to see it" kind of pairings. Like Michael/Shannon (LOST). Or Ignatius/Maru (Andromeda). Or Babs/Martha/Tosh (Doctor Who). Or Kevin/cereal/sandwich/jacket (Black Donnellys). I could go on for a while but I'll shut up. I do, in point of fact, ship based on personalities and possibility as much as chemistry, so it's very easy for me to go from "these two characters have such and such in common" or "huh, you know, this canon relationship could be seen as a parallel for this other totally untouched-upon and cracky pairing" or "hi, awesome and hot characters who are not appreciated enough" or "wow, he has amazing chemistry with inanimate objects" to "OMGLOVESHIPPINGTHISNOW".

theme parks -- I work for one. Yes, it's just that simple.

nipple erectors -- notable for being Shane MacGowan's first band (and we all know how I love my Shaney Mac) as well as having the hit single "Gabrielle" and only one officially-released album. They recently had a reunion concert with Shane! I wish I'd been there. :(

bad movies -- the campier and worse the writing and special effects, the better. This specifically refers to the sci-fi/horror/Bruce Campbell end of the spectrum although I can on occasion be persuaded to particularly bad examples of other genres. Fun on both the "point and mock" level and the "I could do this better!" level. And usually full of comedy gold.



And another meme from a few different folks on my flist:

Name any character from any of my fandoms and I'll tell you...

(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon
(b) a reason he/she sucks
(c) a reason he/she is awesome
(d) five things that never happened to that character and/or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and why

So, that 15-unpopular-Doctor-Who-opinions meme that's going around. I don't actually know how unpopular these particular opinions are, but nevertheless they're ones I don't see being talked about much.

( under here )

In honor of International Day of Femslash...

Picspam! (Not quite as long, involved, or varied as I'd like it to be, but I stuck to canon (or at least canon-ish) pairings that I happened to have caps of, so...yeah.)

( WILL EAT YOUR DIALUP. But is lots of pretty girls! )

Most awesome-tastic thing heard in a while: The Pogues covering "Do You Believe In Magic?" *laughs*

Close second: The radio-friendly version of "Boys From The County Hell", mainly because the lyrics stop making sense when you replace all the profanity. "We got him out the back and we beat him 'til he bawled"? Really?



Some old fannish5 entries, just because:

( cut to spare your flist )


And, fandom_memes!

Pick 10 characters from whatever fandoms you like -- and pick LJ usernames for them. Don't peek at the questions until you've made your list!

1. Martha Jones (Doctor Who/Torchwood) - walkedtheearth
2. Spot Conlon (Newsies) - spot_the_con
3. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies) - losingatmo
4. Seamus Harper (Andromeda) - supergenius
5. Joanie (The Black Donnellys) - junkie_girl
6. Florence Vassy (Chess) - worldcitizen01
7. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood) - tw3techie
8. Desmond Hume (LOST) - yourwonderwall
9. Tobias (Animorphs) - lonelyhawk
10. Karen Vick (Psych) - interimchief

( questions! )


And
You ever write a fanfic where you think certain lines are just fantastic, but nobody seems to have noticed or commented on them? Comment on this thread with a link to your fanfic, and I'll give you a full-fledged line!post with at least 5 of my favorite lines from that fic.



...I have to go in to work for Kinetix in, like, an hour and a half. *makes face*

I can has disjointed opinions?

There were things that made me go "glee!" Like ( SPOILERS OF GLEE )

There were small, minor things that bothered me. Like ( SPOILERS OF WHY? )

And then there was the mind-boggling bad. Like ( SPOILERS OF WTFNO )

I just...*flails a bit more* It was very disjointed and my reaction to it is also very disjointed. I'll rewatch it eventually and form a more coherent response...but can I just mention again how glad I am RTD is giving up the reins?

...but today was a very silly day at work, so that helped me recover, at least.

...I need a "Donna Noble, Most Important Woman In The Universe" icon. Or maybe a Doctor!Donna icon. Or both!

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x08: A Day in the Death )


In conclusion: why is it impossible for the new Doctor Who universe to have any adult women as main characters without their being in unrequited love with a man?

Company was incredibly awesome. And Raul continues to own my soul. And I cried. And I'm going to rewatch it tomorrow. ♥


But in the meantime:

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x07 Dead Man Walking )

In conclusion: MARTHA! And I am now convinced of Jack/Owen's Epic Love. And child actors are always creepy. And MARTHA!

Happy Beka Day, Singles' Awareness Day, Valentine's Day, Ingest Your Weight In Chocolate Day, February 14th, or whatever else you celebrate. Or don't, as the case may be.

Now on to the good stuff: last night's Torchwood episodes! And tons of capslock abuse!


MISS MARTHA JONES!

I finally managed to watch both episodes, and now my Martha glee threatens to make me forget everything I wanted to say about them, but I'll try, k?

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x05 Adam )

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x06 Reset )

( non-spoilery general comments on both episodes )

I feel there are things I probably forgot to say, so feel free to remind me in the comments if you like. But MARTHA! ♥ SQUEE WITH ME! ♥ MARTHA JONES!

...also I now have two Martha tags because apparently I can never have too many. Despite the fact that I don't think I tag for any other individual character. *blink* ...I should start tagging for Babs, just to be fair, because Babs is also MORE AWESOME THAN YOU. *tags*

Three episode reaction posts in one!

I was going to do a full-length reaction to last night's Torchwood (2x04 'Meat'), but really all I have to say can be summed up as follows: ( This is quite homoerotic )


And then there's tonight's LOST, 4x02 'Confirmed Dead'. ( If you're going to sleep with my daughter, I insist you call me Ben )



Annnd, tonight's episode of Eli Stone, 1x02, which I can't be bothered to look up the name of. Reaction is short but sweet? ( If I can't overreact over a brain aneurysm, what can I overreact to? )

fandom_memes time!


Choose five series (no peeking before you choose them), list them, and then answer the questions behind the cut.
1. LOST
2. Doctor Who
3. Pushing Daisies
4. The Black Donnellys
5. Andromeda

( don't talk to me if you ain't got the answers i need )


Choose 10 characters (preferably from the same fandom) and answer the questions that follow. No peeking until your list is done!

Same fandom is no fun. Here's different fandoms!

1. The Arbiter (Chess)
2. Alfredo (Pushing Daisies)
3. Claire (LOST)
4. Rommie (Andromeda)
5. Toshiko (Torchwood)
6. Barbara (Doctor Who)
7. Angel (RENT)
8. Tank (Zanna, Don't!)
9. Molly (Dresden Files)
10. Gus (Psych)

( yeah, i got problems, can't you see i'm tryin' to solve them )

( SPOILERZ for Torchwood 2x03 To The Last Man )

Conclusion: Well, Tosh-centric episodes will always get high marks from me. And this one had a really wonderful love interest with clean motives, a pretty love story, some nice Jack/Tosh and Jack/Ianto moments, and Gwen and Owen being actually likable. So I think we can definitely call it a trend towards higher quality than last season. (Right? Three is the number needed to call something a trend? Something like that, anyway.)

But why do I have the feeling that 90% of the icons to come out of this episode will be Jack/Ianto instead of Tosh/Tommy?

( spoilers for Torchwood 2x02 Sleeper )

So Torchwood continues its second-season trend of Not Being Complete Rubbish, which is nice. Wait, can we call it a trend after only two episodes? Anyway characters are being consistently characterized and becoming better rounded, "tell" and "show" are matching up a little better, people are getting screentime, Torchwood isn't getting into messes completely out of their own incompetence...I like this trend. If a trend it is.

( Torchwood-y thoughts, with spoilerz for 2x01 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and the trailer for the rest of the season )


In conclusion: This show is pure insane crack, I love it, and I'm thrilled to have it back!

...I want an icon of Martha at Torchwood that says 'I'm surprised a bright and charming girl like you hangs out with these slackers'.

My desire is somewhat hindered by the fact that there aren't really any appropriate pictures of Martha at Torchwood yet.

But I still want it.


...I also kind of want to write tl;dr meta about Roger/Collins in the hopes that someone, sometime, will read it and write some fic for me. But, er. Yeah. Contrary to popular belief, I can actually occasionally resist my impulses.


...I feel like there was a meme I wanted to do, but I can't remember where I saw it or find it again, so, apparently not happening.

Iiiiii feel like I've been run over by a truck. Good times. I hate being vaguely sick. I'd almost rather be blatantly sick, because then at least you know what's wrong and people sympathize and let you stay in bed all day and not wonder out loud why you're curled up in a tiny ball on the couch. *flail*



fandom_memes time, bitches!

1) The Fanfic Pairings of 2007 Meme

List all Pairings you wrote/posted in 2007 (whether they are blatant or implied pairings)
( list of pairings )


( funnest, crackiest, hardest, etc. )


2) Year-End Fanfic Meme

( favorite, best, most fun, etc. )

--

3) Year-End Fanfic Wrap-up

Name the fics you've written this year, a little bit about them and what inspired you to write them. Provide a link if you wish.

( cut for length )

YAY! The Joyce/Yeats essay is done! Finished! It's five pages of BS and a really awful conclusion, because really what I had to say could be said in maybe three pages but I had to stretch it out, but anyway it's done and I can stop thinking about it!

That was way too many exclamation points!


OKAY. Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to get gifties uploaded for those of you who are awaiting gifties. Today I be selfish; I know when I posted my wishlist a handful of people asked for specific fic requests, so under the cut find a ridiculously long list of prompts for the fandoms/pairings/whatevers I have been craving most recently.

( some of these I don't think anyone on my flist writes, but oh well! )

I'm not actually expecting anything (although kawaiispinel already wrote me TOTALLY AWESOME Olive/Alfredo fic of the UTTERLY PERFECT kind), but just so it's out there, y'know?

...yeah, I'm gonna shut up and go to bed now.