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hobgoblinn) wrote2007-03-14 05:17 pm
hobgoblinn) wrote2007-03-14 05:17 pm
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Meme
Ok, because if ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gileswench jumped off a cliff, I would of course have to do likewise:
A meme. (I still don't know from where the word "meme" is derived, btw, though I get the meaning from context, I think. Feel free to weigh in with that info, if you know. I'll pretty much believe anything.)
Respond with a comment and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/movie.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell my first memory of you.
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) In return, you MUST spread this disease in your LJ.
In other news-- none on the work front. I just stay in my quiet little cube and try not to piss anyone off. Is working well so far. I did have a very surreal dream last night in which I sat both my bosses down and gave them a stern talking to and told them to play nicely with each other. A plague on both their houses, I say.
gileswench jumped off a cliff, I would of course have to do likewise:A meme. (I still don't know from where the word "meme" is derived, btw, though I get the meaning from context, I think. Feel free to weigh in with that info, if you know. I'll pretty much believe anything.)
Respond with a comment and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/movie.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell my first memory of you.
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) In return, you MUST spread this disease in your LJ.
In other news-- none on the work front. I just stay in my quiet little cube and try not to piss anyone off. Is working well so far. I did have a very surreal dream last night in which I sat both my bosses down and gave them a stern talking to and told them to play nicely with each other. A plague on both their houses, I say.
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Ok:
1) I friended you the moment I got my LJ account up and running-- you and
2) Rise Up - Indigo Girls. Hoping the "there's life in the old girl yet" refrain proves prophetic.
3)You know what Giles smells like. And thanks to your generosity, so do I.
4)First memory? Exploring your journal and realizing we have an awful lot in common. And thinking how cool that is.
5) Cat, definitely.
6) Where did you get your early writing training? How did you get to be so good at this?
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n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
[Shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme, from Greek mimēma, something imitated, from mimeisthai, to imitate; see mimesis.]
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1)I friended you--probably because of a comment in a friend's journal or because I started reading "To Grandmother's House." Not clear which. It's been fairly recently, though.
2) Verdi Requiem, Dies Irae. You know, just when you're getting all comfortable and cozy and then-- wham! Bass drum and trumpets jolt you out of your seat.
3)You know what the subjunctive is, and you're not afraid to use it.
4)first memory? Things are a little hazy just now. I know I started a Raising in the Sun a number of times, but not having internet access at home made it hard to navigate back to the site and figure out what chapter I was on. I like your vision of Spike and your AU where a relationship between these characters can make sense and be reasonably healthy.
5) a badger. no idea why. Just like the way it sounds.
6) someone alluded to the fact that you write non-fanfic-- real stuff too. what kind? (Feel free not to give particulars if you don't want-- a generic answer would satisfy my idle curiosity too.)
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Technically speaking, in the sense that I received money for words, I've written non-fanfic - I used to churn out weekly adventure serials for the company newsletters of a play-by-mail gaming company. But I've never published anything otherwise. I know several other fic writers who have - anaross and lordshiva and Herself and Nan Dibble - but I ain't one of them. Maybe someday, if I ever get inspired.
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*jumps up and down*
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1) I friended you because of a comment you made in
2) John Rutter Magnificat. energetic, lyric, sparklingly bright.
3) random fact--We both have unfortunate exes. Sadly, I married mine first. (On a mostly unrelated note, I heard this joke this week-- why are divorces so expensive? Answer: because they're worth it. No, I'm not bitter. not at all....)
4) first memory? that faculty isn't working for me right now really. It just seems like we've always been in the same lj conversations and you've had interesting things to say.
5) tree frog. no idea why. Just because.
6) What brought you to live journal? How'd you fall in with this disreputable lot?
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6) Once upon a time,
Well, after listening to my friends go on about it, I started reading the recaps of the episodes on TWoP and found myself really enjoying them. On a whim, one day, I looked at their forums and read someone's comment on fanfic --something I knew nothing about. They linked to "Death Brings Clarity" and I was firmly and forever after a B/G fan. In fact, none of the other pairings does anything for me.
I went on to find BuffyGiles.com and read every single fic on the site. When I was done, I joined the yahoo group Together_BG and went back to the first post and read all of it. I caught up to the present postings and loved a fic being posted by Rainne. I realized I had never left feedback for any of the authors I'd read and thought I should start. She happened to be online when I emailed her, we emailed back and forth for a few minutes and then she asked if I had YIM. We became friends, she dragged me into an RPG where I met
Later on, she also made a friending meme where everyone posted info about themselves and friended anyone who looked interestng. That's where I picked up
Wow, that was a really long explaination! I probably could've done it in two sentences, but I am, if nothing else, long winded. LoL
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Ok, let's see:
1) because I already felt like I knew you from the GRB and ODD. And I wanted to keep an eye on you.
2) "I'm still here" by Stephen Sondheim (I first heard it on the Side by Side by Sondheim soundtrack-- not sure which show it was in originally. But it tells a story all by itself, as most of his songs do. "Good times and bum times, I've seen 'em all and My Dear, I'm still Here." That's you.)
3) random fact: You're one of the first fanfic writers whose work I read all the way through on ODD, without skipping stories that lost me due to bad mechanics, voices, premises after a couple of paragraphs. Except "...I'll be back for tennis". Never got that one, probably because I didn't know anything about the crossover part....
4) first memory: Getting a gracious response to feedback I sent you, or a welcome to the GRB. Can't remember which.
5) Silver Tabby.
6) When did you write your first story, and what was it? Which story do you think is your best? Which one is not your favorite, but seems to get a good response from other people? Have you written any non-fanfic? If not, why the hell not?
There you go.
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Watch a few eps of Red Dwarf (especially Dimension Jump) and you'll know all you need to for Stroke Me a Nipper...and the sequel which is underway in my Word files as we speak. But yes, that would be impossible to get through without having any clue about the Dwarfers! LOL!
My first fic was Knock, written in August of 2000. Three days of agonizing over every word was followed by three days of getting up the nerve to submit it to the New Buffy/Giles Relationshippers...and within three hours of sending it in, it was up, solo84 had sent a glowing note, and I got my first piece of FB. The rest is, as they say, history.
I still consider A Mile In His Mocassins my best single fic. It was a pain in the butt to write in so many ways, and it isn't perfect by any means, but it's my proudest piece.
I was flabbergasted by the huge response I got at the time to One More Time. I dashed it off as a cheer up piece for a friend who'd been in an accident, and I really don't think it's all that great. It's got a couple things that I still like, but even at the time I felt it was far from my best work. People wrote me like crazy for a couple weeks heaping praise. I stil don't entirely get it...but at least it's not something I'm sorry I wrote, so, well, there it is. You never know what's going to strike a nerve or why.
No, I haven't written any non-fanfic yet. I've tried a couple times, but so far each attempt has gone all flabby and unfocused and just plain not very good on me. Either that, or it gets way too literal to my actual life and not only is that not a very comfortable thought for me, it's also not terribly interesting to anyone who isn't me. In short, I need a character to crawl up out of the muck of my brain and talk to me the way the Buffyverse characters do. Once that happens, watch me fly! And possibly land splat on my face, but at least I'll get the wings out first.
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1) I think I friended you after you came out here from one of the yahoo groups and friended me. It hasn't been that terribly long ago, but the memory is hazy just now.
2) The St Crispin's Day theme from the Henry V soundtrack, composed by Patrick Doyle. Courage and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. Good song for a survivor.
3) You live somewhere where it is not snowing just now, I think. Somewhere warm. I'm trying to contain the unreasonable jealousy.
4) You asked a question on one of the yahoo groups and I pointed you out here to my journal. And you said thoughtful stuff about something I was working on.
5) a mama bear, who will protect her cubs no matter what
6) Which character's voice comes hardest for you? what do you do to overcome that? Or do you just avoid telling stories where that character plays an integral role?