I just wanted to point out that this is the best icon in the world. Bonus points if you actually know what I'm on about. *dies*

ETA - Omfg best montage ever.

Title: for a hundred indecisions
Rating: PG
Characters & Pairings: Rose/Ten, Donna
Spoilers?: Yeah, 4x13, I'm not cutting anymore because it's my own journal so sux 2 b u.
Summary: Rose and her Doctor discuss the fate of Donna Noble.
Excerpt :“That’s – that’s not fair, you can’t show someone those things and then take it away. Those memories are the only thing that got me through the last three years!”

( for a hundred indecisions )

SO.

sweetcherrytree IS AT SOME SCIENCE CAMP IN A FOREST SOMEWHERE, and for a field trip they came to my city. We were all EXCITED until we realized that she was going to the museum place for a ~special tour~ and it would be closed to the public, so I couldn't meet her there, and that i worked the next day when she had her free time, so we couldn't hang out then. It was all very sad.

There was also some MISCOMMUNICATION and I will not place any blame because the jury is still out on whose fault this is, but BASICALLY it turns out that on Friday, while I was very much NOT WORKING, she was very much EATING at a restaurant that is a ten minute walk from my house.

That's right. KELLY WAS A TEN MINUTE WALK FROM ME AND I HAD NO IDEA AND WE FAIL EPICALLY. WORDS CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN.

Title: this brave new world
Rating: PG
Spoilers?: Yep, through 4x13
( ahoy, spoilers )

( this brave new world )

Title: to keep on breathing for
Rating: PG, I am so boring
Spoilers: Journey's End
( when is it cool to stop cutting for spoilers in my own journal? )
( to keep on breathing for )

I just got the "call me in ten minutes, I'm going to pretend you're my mom" text from my friend who was on a date.

...Hahahahaha.

Title: Made of the Same Stuff
Rating: Oh, just G
Length: 753
Spoilers?: Yes! Gigantic, spoilery spoilers for Journey's End.
( the rest of the summary etc is spoilery, so it's under here. )
Author's Notes: So this is the second time I've ever written for this fandom, and the first time was about 100 words. So I still feel very awkward about it and very unfamiliar with... everything. Which, um, makes me nervous, and such, but I fear it might become more of a habit. So do let me know how it is!



( or you could just skip straight to the fic if you want instant gratification. )

This was so disorganized I decided to make it a list, a la spadul and inksplotched nad everyone else from Twilight on my flist, ha.

1.I bought the new Alkaline Trio CD! It's been like... years... since I bought a new CD, it's pretty exciting. Huzzah for new music of the legally purchased variety! I've only listened through once so far but I seem to like it so... rock on, Alkaline Trio. I kind of neglected you for a very long time. Oops.

While I was at CD warehouse looking for the album, I noticed they had the second season of Doctor Who -- that's the first time I've seen it, or indeed anything Doctor Who related ove here -- for the LOW LOW PRICE of $115. What the hell? $115? Fail. I know full seasons are expensive, but they're usually in the neighbourhood of $50-$60. I GUESS I'LL JUST KEEP STREAMING FROM RANDOM ASIAN SITES, F U BBC.

2. I finally used a portion of my Chapters gift card and got The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, because classic lit makes me feel smart and the cover was pretty? I AM SO DEEP. Actually it's also because I have a "you have to interest me in the first two pages" rule and she won at that, plus I've had people recommend it to me before. And anyway I'm goign to have to read it in the future at some point. That said I've still got $24 -- suggestions?

3. I started watching How I Met Your Mother after repeated insistances from Joe that it is THE GREATEST SHOW EVER OMG. ...it's not. But it is pretty entertaining, even if it's not much more than your average sitcom. I think I just like Barney. Once upon a time I saw an icon of Ten that said "suit up!" and I wish I had somehow foreseen the future when I would want that icon and saved it.

4. I think this is another instance of "I want to update but I don't have anything to say, really". So for the couple of you I've picked up in friending memes (I am addicted, it's disgusting) --- hellooo! To give you the brief overview I'm Kali, I'm Canadian (if the Canada Day post didn't give it away) and I'm a student which is not really as exciting as it sounds. Probably the only contribution I make to fandom ever is the occasional fanfic, and I mention this primarily because anythingbutgrey didn't know that I write for about fifty years and that makes me sad inside because once-upon-a-time I was actually prolific and I identified as someone who wrote, and now people on my flist don't even know? QUELLE HORREUR. Other than that, um, I'm boring.

( here's a meme Sara tagged me for that might teach you marginally more about me! )

5. ...Tomorrow/today is Saturday! I'm excited for the finale, but also kind of sad because when this is over I'll be devoid of OMG speculation and fandomness for quite some time. Damn.

Happy Canada Day!

I'm off to go frolic around in the capital and see fireworks that are strategically placed to be half-blocked by the Parliament buildings. Fun stuff, really.

Enjoy July 1st, my fellow Canadians!

Mostly I just want to pimp a couple things:



The Harry Potter Drabble-a-thon! Because I know all you HP fans are mourning the days of fandom activity and sending jealous stares in the general direction of Twilight, so go! Drabble away! Remember that other better fantasy series you used to love! HURRAH!

Um, I think that's it? I'd offer up fic but I haven't really got any. I'm sort of slowly making my way through that meme and eventually I'll get there, maybe. Or something. I don't know, go find my muse and then we'll talk.

Also, how excited am I for the remaining three episodes of Doctor Who and/or Rose's return in general? If you guessed "stupidly" or any synonym thereof, you are correct, my friend.

I'm off to a wedding out of town tomorrow, so I'll be MIA until probably Sunday. It's the first time I've been to a family wedding (weird, I know) and it should be interesting. It's my cousin Christina's (who prefers to be known as Kris, or possibly Krys, I can never keep up) and she's the second-youngest of five kids, four of whom I haven't seen in quite some time. I love the cousins on my dad's side -- they all have my dad's sense of humour, and thusly my sense of humour -- but we see each other so infrequently and they're so much older than me now that it tends to be awkward more than anything. That, and my paternal grandma's going -- the same paternal grandmother I met for the first (real) time only last December, and incidentally the same grandma that did not talk to my dad or the Kris' mother for something like 20 years.

...Yeaaaaah. Oh, families. So much drama.

Meanwhile, in the realm of TMI, buying a dress and bra for this wedding was my first real experience in "@#$#% boobs, gtfo, HDU get in my way". I knew this day would come, but it's still kind of sad. All those years of relative contentedness. Shame.

If you can read JKR's scrawl (which I can, but I guess some people can't), the prequel is here.

it's kind of nice to see my flist explode with something that isn't Twilight, not gonna lie.

Title: the ghosts that broke my heart before I met you
Rating: PG
Characters, pairings & fandoms: Jacob/Bella, Edward/Bella (Twilight), Remus/Tonks, Sirius (Harry Potter), Jim/Karen, Jim/Pam (The Office), Martha/Doctor, Doctor/Rose (Doctor Who)
Length 480. I am lame.
Notes of which there are many: Okay first off, this is the first thing I've written that wasn't the result of a meme in way too long. Secondly, this is my first time trying my hand at The Office or Doctor Who, and only my second time with Twilight, and I feel weirdly self-conscious and insecure in a way I never do with writing. Ha ha. Also, I'm going to go ahead and say this is mostly for anythingbutgrey because a) I'm pretty sure she wrote a multi-fandom fic a while ago and that's what sort of gave me the idea to try this, b) crazy anons keep harassing her, c) she always names her fics after song lyrics or something and I feel like I'm stealing it from her and d) I never actually wrote her anything for her birthday like I said I would, so here. OOPS MONTHS LATE, SORRY.

Title comes from 'Ghosts' by Laura Marling, which I uploaded and suggest you listen to because a) it's pretty and b) it was what gave me the idea.

( read a written warning saying 'i'm still mourning' )

I present to you three of the (many) requested fics from that meme everyone's doing. Unfortunately I'm not doing them in, um, order they were requested or anything, just kind of... order of when I am ~inspired~.

( jacob/tanya, for sharon, aka the first twilight fic I've ever written wtf )

( draco/ginny, for austin )

( sirius/lily, for crys )

--

Whoo.

Sidenote: ZOMG CANON MARAUDER ONE-SHOT, GUYS, I AM SO EXCITED.

Haven't made a public/fandomy post in a while so here goes!

Has anyone ever watched that show "The Moment of Truth"? I just saw about ten minutes of it and I can't get my head around how stupid it is. For those who are unaware, here's what I understand the premise is: someone agrees to answer X number of obscenely personal questions while connected to a lie detector. The show then "randomly" selects 1/2X of those questions to ask them on air. If they answer everything honestly (and basically don't chicken out by refusing to answer or lying) they get half a mill. Questions include "have you cheated on your current girlfriend?" and other life-shattering inquiries. I just... I don't get it. Okay, so you could win half a million (before taxes) -- but you also potentially destroy all your interpersonal relationships. Why? Why? And of course the audience boos angrily whenever someone answers "yes" to a bad question, and of course there's a woman who goes "THAT ANSWER IS ... [insert unneccessarily long pause for dramatics].... TRUE..." and of course the show picks all the questions where the answer was embarassing.

Did I mention I hate reality TV and game shows?

Except The Mole. Fuck yes, the Mole was so awesome.

What else? For anyone who's seen Hairspray or had to listen to the credits music constantly for five months and watches Doctor Who: this is so comically appropriate.

Also the first chapter of Breaking Dawn is failtastic. All I want from Breaking Dawn now is for Jacob and Tanya to hook up and be totally awesome, leaving Edward and Bella to wallow in their failure marital bliss. And lawl, northern Canada. Sup Jake?

Whatever muse I once had has apparently died a violent death. It's like pulling teeth to write five coherent sentences, I swear. It's basically to the point I don't even want to write. I don't know, but it sucks. I also fail at writing commitments because of it -- I didn't finish anythingbutgrey's birthday fic on time, I've owed pirate_smile a letter for like ninety years, and I only just finished the letter I've owed latine for one hundred years. Not to mention Silly Love Songs is rolling in a pit of failure, haha.

I also mean to write a Harry/Hermione fic for afterthree's "someting unexpected" challenge, because coming from me there's nothing more unexpected than an uncanon shippy fic about the Trio, wtf.

Anyway, in the spirit of attempting to kick myself into gear, here's a meme:

Reply with a character or pairing i'm familiar with and i'll write a few sentences of fic.

Note the "few sentence" part; I promise nothing complete or whole in any form, I just kinda wanna... force myself to write stuff. Yeaah. And if you happen to give me a Twilight pairing, please note that I have never, ever written Twilight before because that would mean I'd have to actually put thought into Smeyer's characters.

Today the list of Hourglass Award Winners was released, huzzah! Congrats to everyone who won, especially my homegirls christycorr and afterthree. christycorr gets an extra pat on the head because she is the one who routinely slaves over putting these things together for UR, so huzzah!

And omfg, bluebellflames, I am totally in love with your banners. So pretty! *fawns* Which is not to say that last year's were ugly, of course.

And here's the awkward part where I mention that my fics won without sounding like an asshole:



Thirteen Steps to the End of the World was my contribution to UR.org's Holiday Fic Exchange last Christmas. PG-13, Marauders, in response to the prompt "the only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire".



Puzzle Pieces, a rather large collection of drabbles/short fics/basically anything that doesn't fit somewhere else.

Yay! I am shallowly excited that I get one of each colour of banner. Good job, everyone. Er, same time next year?

ETA - I forgot that to add that this year there's a popular vote award, so go vote on which of the winning fics you liked best. You don't have to have read all of them; you can select "I have not read this". Go go go!