We are shining stars

HI EVERYBODY HERE AT LIVEJOURNAL, HOW Y'ALL DOING.

Not going to spend a lot of time listing the new and improved methods of flaking out that I discovered during this most recent month, but needless to say yet again I am behind on KHR reviews, and this is mostly the fault of work, tumblr, and Skyward Sword (in that order). And to top it off I derped out on NaNoWriMo as well, though I did manage about 12,000 words of fic out of it, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately the fic in question is long enough that it's still like maybe halfway done, if that. But I'm gonna try to get that finished in December anyway because I feel really weird not having posted at least one (non-crack) fic during this whole year. AND HEY WHAT DO YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT OF SAID YEAR, WHAT IS EVEN UP WITH THAT ANYWAY.

But before that! I've been craving a good meme lately, but the thing about memes is that I keep derping out on them too. And I got to thinking that one of the main reasons for that is because when it comes to typical fandom memes, there are always parts of the meme that I LOVE, but also parts of the meme that FEEL LIKE HOMEWORK. Like for example, I will ramble on endlessly about my favorite characters, but with most fandoms I really do not have an OTP (because in a lot of fandoms I'm either PANSHIP...UAL, or I do have one or two favorite pairings but I'm not HARDCORE SHIP-IT-TILL-I-DIIEEEE enough to have any interesting insights or opinions regarding those ships), and I don't know enough about the online fandom to know what my unpopular opinion regarding the series is, and I don't remember enough about the canon to pick my favorite quote or top three scenes, etc.

So I was pondering all of this and then I thought WELL FUCK IT, THEN I'LL JUST MAKE UP MY OWN MEME. A MEME FILLED ONLY WITH QUESTIONS THAT I LIKE TO ANSWER! MANIACAL LAUGH, MANIACAL LAUGH.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HERE IS THAT MEME:

Comment with one of my favorite fandoms and I will tell you the following:

1. My favorite character.
2. ANOTHER favorite character!!
3. My favorite character relationship, and by "relationship" I don't necessarily mean pairing and certainly not OTP, but on the other hand, depending on the fandom MAYBE I DO!
4. The moment/character/THING/WHATEVER that first hooked me on the fandom.
5. One of my favorite moments.
6. A song or track that reminds me of this fandom.
7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.


HMM, that seems like enough questions, I should probably just STOP NOW ALREADY. So anyways, please post some fandoms if you are so inclined and I will GET TO ANSWERING over the next few days or so. :)


P.S. Since I still did not get to the HS question on my last long-since-died-who-am-I-even-trying-to-kid-anymore meme, for this meme HOMESTUCK IS A GIVEN. Meaning YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO ASK THAT, I am already typing out my Homestuck response to this meme as we speak, because lol THAT SHIT'S OVERDUE.

o/

From mikenno (who has the best fucking memes lately):

Pick a character I write, and I will give you the top five ideas or concepts or factoids I keep in mind while writing that character that I believe are essential to depicting him or her accurately. This includes original characters and characters about whom I write fanfic.

I WANT TO DO THIIIIIS

And also there is one from rikasaurus!

the "what icon do you associate with me?" meme!
• do not look at the comments.
• take a look at my userpics.
• post a comment with the icon of mine you associate with me. leave commentary if desired.
• repost with your default icon.

This one I'm just curious about, idk. And I didn't use my default icon for this post, but I used one of my newer ones that hasn't gotten around as much so I figure it's all right.

WHY AM I DOING THIS oh my god. Stolen from a lot of people with more interesting/less obnoxious voices than my own:

Make a voice post with the following things so that your F-list can hear how you pronounce them (and laugh at you, of course):

01. Your name and/or username
02. Where you're from
03. The words "roof", "aunt", "direction", and "naturally"
04. Your favorite song
05. Your favorite character
06. A word in a different language

D:

It was awesome, even though it rained on the last day (we just packed up and headed to an indoor arcade to ride bumper cars and play laser tag instead). BUT ANYWAY, I AM BACK NOW, and in a post-ish mood. So have a post! With some memes and stuff.


1. Late as usual with this (though only a day late, which actually isn't that bad for me XD), but Happy Birthday, windgoddess688!


2. Why oh whyyyy did I decide to finally catch up with the One Piece manga (I had stopped a few years ago shortly before the end of Thriller Bark, so I had a blast reading through the Impel Down and Marineford arcs) right when Oda is about to take a one-month break to prep for a timeskip? SOB SOB CRY. At least the timeskip in question sounds fucking awesome.


3. Meme! From smilypie:

Reply and I'll give you four fandoms. You then have to make an entry writing about your favorite character from each fandom, and why.

She gave me Avatar: The Last Airbender, Death Note, Durarara!!, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

( So for once I won't be rambling about Gokudera in this entry! :O )


4. And since the previous meme put me in a character ranting mood, have one more, from aroundight:

Give me a character from any fandom I know at least fairly well, and I will tell you:

A) My OTP
B) The runner up
C) The anti-ship
D) My unpopular fannish opinion on said character
E) One person he/she never fell in love with, and why

I love this kind of meme. Possibly too much. XD


5. I swear I didn't forget about the other meme I was also in the progress of doing! I'll resume that tomorrow, promise. I JUST COULDN'T RESIST THESE. I'M SORRY.

Since KHR is still annoyingly not out yet, I took a meme from amcw177!

I. Pick 30 of your favorite movies
II. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
III. Post them here for everyone to guess.
IV. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
V. No Googling/using IMDb search or other search functions. In other words, NO CHEATING. D<

( As I happen to love both movies and quoting them, I enjoyed this. )

ETA: sob it took me more than two hours to notice that there was a really obvious typo in the first sentence of this post. SO EMBARRASSED AHHHHH.

ETA 2: Well, that's pretty much all of them. |D

Taken from ekmisao and several others!





I used Down the Stairs to start out with, since it was one of my more recent(...ish) fics, and the longest one I've done. I AM INCREDIBLY HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS. I freaking love Rowling, okay.

So then I fed it some more fics just for kicks and I got hilariously varied results that included H.P. Lovecraft, Margaret Atwood, Chuck Palahniuk (twice), Douglas Adams, and James Joyce.

But by far the best result was when I tried First Impressions, my GokuHaru fic. And got this.





XDDDDDD

THIS MEME MAKES ME WANT TO WRITE MORE THINGS, I THINK I WILL GO TRY THAT.

THIS IS THE MEME THAT DOESN'T ENNNNNNNND.

( Yes, it goes on and on, my friiiiiiiend... )

And the chapter 289 recap will be up vaguely soonish probably.

HERE WE GO AGAIN.

1. THE RP USERNAME MeME

2. From makemegray:

If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.
Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you. While there is a risk that disobeying this part of the meme will result in CRIPPLING GUILT, it's a chance I'm willing to take.

( I HEREBY TAG ANYONE WHO FEELS LIKE GETTIN' TAGGED. )

3. And because daigranon posted a character meme (MY WEAKNESS!1)...

Pick from any of my fandoms and ask me to answer the following:

Favorite character:
Least Favorite Character:
Character with the best hair:
Character with the best eyes:
Character I'd most want to kiss:
Character I'd most likely screw:
Character I'd make lunch:
Character I'd go singing in the rain with:
Character I'd go shopping with:
Character I'd go dancing with:
Character I'd take over the world with:
Character I'd most want to cosplay as:
Favorite Pairing:
Favorite Yaoi pairing:
Favorite Yuri pairing:

Guys this meme is my destiny. 8(

:O

From enough_space

Comment if you'd like a color. Then list ten things that you like/love which are that color.

( SHE GAVE ME PURPLE. )

And I got tagged by irtiolre to do that meme that everyone and their grandma has already done before me.

The Meme:

♠ If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.
♠ Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you. Haha that's not going to happen. XD BUT ANYWAY.

( Click here for random questions and random answers! )

Lastly, I took this meme because everyone was doing it.

❝i've always wanted to tell you❞

Haha. Well, that was fun.

Holy shit there's so many!!

From erisabesu:

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 that others can play along.

( She chose Stephen King, Hibari/zombie!Kusakabe, The Chronicles of Narnia, One Piece, NaruSasu, Theories, and Manga. )

And then cleartempest gave me KHR, Naruto, and Phoenix Wright for the three fandom meme that probably all of you are familiar with by this point. :P

( Wait, all that rambling, and I'm still only a third of a way through this post? )

And cleartempest gave me this one too because I asked her because I am addicted to rambly memes:

Leave a comment saying, "I'M ON A HORSE" and I will give you five words I associate with you. Then post about what they mean to you, along with this, at your journal.

She gave me Radiohead, REBORN, black belt-ery, general geekery, and books you like, so I will type about those things.

( Almost done now...! )

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST:

anon meme

Oh my god that took hours. XD Let me know if you want to do any of the memes. o/

ETA: OH WAIT I FORGOT TO WISH AN EXTREMELY BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO chuu AND A NOT-SO-BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO vaultedthewall. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY FAIL.