Bookworm's Musings

Signed up for Yuletide, perhaps foolishly. EEK! Short post today b/c am using my phone to post. More tomorrow!

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drusillas-rain asked, "How long have you been writing? Have you written original fic? Can we expect to see more stories like Spooky Little Girl or was that a one-off? How do you and arionrhod collaborate together (the process)?"

I've written about our collaboration process before here, and even though I wrote that in 2007, it's still pretty accurate regarding our process. The only thing that's changed in the last two years is that we've moved toward writing more single POV stories than the alternating RP style.

As for more SNB next gen stories... We'd been kicking around the idea of writing one for a while, and we finally got around to doing it. "Spooky Little Girl" was a lot of fun to write, and we like the characters a great deal. Although we don't have concrete, specific plans for another next gen story, I'd say it's likely we'll write the kids again. Some of them proved to be quite... vocal about having their stories told, although I can't say when we'll get to it.

I wasn't sure if the first two questions were for me alone or for me and Arionrhod together, so I'll answer both ways.

I've been writing since I was old enough to hold a pencil. My earliest memories of writing is of writing what could be called Disney fanfiction. As I grew older, I branched out into bad hobbit, bad dragon rider, and bad wolf rider fanfiction, with a dollop of bad teen angst rhymed couplet epic poems thrown in for good measure. I've dabbled in original writing and had a few short stories published, and I got thisclose to getting a Regency romance novel accepted before the publishing company I submitted it to closed the Regency line. I've got a manuscript I've been tinkering with for years, and some day, I would like to finish it and try to get it published.

Arionrhod and I have been collaborating since August, 2004, and we've actually toyed with some original writing. We've played with the idea of turning the "Blood Bathory" concept into a novel, and we've done some brainstorming on a steampunk idea, but I think we need to stop getting distracted by fanfiction if we want any hope of finishing some original writing, either together or separately. There are only so many hours in a day, after all, and we're both busy with our jobs and relatives (and knitting! *G*), so if we focus on fanfiction, the original writing goes by the wayside and vice versa.

Maybe we'll get the original muses in gear after we finish all our holiday fest writing!


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My brother is stationed at Fort Hood, he was working there today. He is fine, but things are all crazy down there. Those guys have been through shit with all these multiple deployments and now this. I have no idea what the government is thinking, but this was the inevitable result. If they keep it up, there will no doubt be more. Our service personnel deserve better treatment and they are not getting it.

This is a disgrace on them and that poor soul who did this. My heart is with the families of all the victims.

A quick one, because it's been a long and busy day, and I'm running low on brain cells.

Lore asked, "I know you love Johnny Depp, but what made you pick that particular quote and title for your journal?"

This refers to my Insanejournal only, because I haven't transferred the title/quote over to LJ or DW.

For those who haven't seen it, the title is "Upsetting All the Buffalo", and the profile quote is "The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo", which is from Ed Wood.

I have a fondness for Ed Wood and his movies (ditto William Castle, king of the gimmick), and I went to see the bio pic (Burton directed; Depp played Wood) when it was released. A while back, I realized it had been ages since I'd seen it, and I was in the mood for it, so I rented it from Netflix.

There's a scene where Ed Wood is poring over random bits of stock footage, including a scene of a buffalo stampede and a scene of bombs going off, and he makes up a story on the spot about what he's watching and starts thinking about how to turn it into a movie script. I was vastly amused by the sheer badness of the story, but also impressed that Wood was such an enthusiastic storyteller, he'd make something up about anything and try to make it work, no matter how crappy the end results were. He wasn't a good writer, but he had passion, so it was the juxtaposition of something that's awful and funny and pathetic and yet somehow inspiring that struck me enough to preserve the quote.

It serves to remind me that passion and determination trump talent. You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't use it, it's wasted and no good to anyone. Meanwhile, someone who's utter crap can get things done if they have enough enthusiasm and drive to do it. The mere fact that Plan 9 from Outer Space is still available, aired, and watched attests to that.

It serves to remind me that I need to get off my ass and upset some buffalo while I still can.

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Title: Who The Hell Are You?
Author: Lopaka Tanu
Disclaimer: I do not own BattleStar Galactica and Star Trek.
Characters: Spock, Gaeta, McCoy, Kirk, and Sulu.
Words: 4105
Prompt: Goderator Rap wanted a crossover with ST XI and BSG.
Fandom: BattleStar Galactica (2003)/Star Trek (2009)
Pairing: pre-Spock/Gaeta
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Language, Loss Of Control.
TimeLine: BSG post Series/STXI post movie.
Summary: The Enterprise comes across an ancient ship and a secret about humanity's past.
Author's Note: A series of one-shots strung together.
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After nineteen months, I have finally ventured back to post on LJ once again. I even sighed up for that damnedable LJ IM. Heaven help the lonely.

This sucks.

Back to writing.

Purplefluffycat asked, "If you were to meet Snape in real life (canon Snape or 'your' Snape, as appropriate) how would you react to one another? Do you think you could become friends?"

Recently, I saw an online discussion about Sheldon** from The Big Bang Theory in which a lot of women chimed in, "I love him!", and a guy asked something along the lines of "Why do women love Sheldon so much, but not me? I'm like him, but I can't get a date!"

My first thought was, "Because he's fictional, and we don't have to live with him." I think the same applies to Snape, whether canon or fanon.

Also, I think I'm too much like Snape in certain, fundamental ways - especially if we're talking about meeting "my" Snape - and we'd clash. I suspect we could spend a few hours swapping horror stories about our respective teaching experiences and making fun of particularly idiotic students, though. On that topic, we'd probably be in full accord!

But for a long-term, sustainable friendship, I need a Lupin-type - a yin to my yang - which is, I suspect, part of why Arionrhod and I have gotten along so well for so long. We balance each other out nicely, and she's patient with my quirks.



**For those who haven't seen BBT, Sheldon is an anal retentive, arrogant genius geek who has no social skills and doesn't care that he has no social skills because everyone else is less intelligent than he is and therefore not worth his time and attention anyway. Things must be done a certain way Or Else, and despite everything, he somehow manages to make everyone around him conform to his quirky demands, probably because giving in is easier than arguing with him. He lives in Sheldon World and is quite happy there.

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Shadowycat asked, "How about pets? Do you have any? Have you ever?"

Yes. My very first pet was a black cat named Peter (as in Peter Pan, my favorite Disney movie when I was a Very Small Child). I was less than six years old at the time, so I don't really remember him well. My mother had 3 poodles and 1 shih-tzu (consecutively, not concurrently) while I was growing up, but while I played with them, they weren't really mine.

I didn't have a pet of my own until I was in my late 20s, when I adopted a tortoiseshell cat from the Humane Society, and she's still with me. There was some question about how old she was when I got her; the Humane Society people said she was around 6 months, but the vet said she was at least a year old. At this point, I can't remember whether I got her in 1996 or 1997, so I generally just assume she's 14-ish and leave it at that.

Sweetie is anti-social, only wants to be touched on her terms, and is very vocal about what she wants when she wants it; she's definitely not a lap kitty.

In May, 2008, I got a shih-tzu puppy whose name is Min-mei but whom I call "Ham Hock" because she's big (bone structure; she's not overweight) and heavy with muscular thighs. She's stubborn, vocal about what she wants when she wants it, and a born care-taker; she seems to know when people are sick and "hovers" over them.

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Keeping this one short because it's been a long, busy day, and I'm wiped.

World of Warcraft added a new holiday this year: Day of the Dead. My Blood Elf Death Knight was turned into a Mariachi skeleton and, after baking Bread of the Dead, earned a wee "macabre marionette" companion. Unfortunately, it sounds like the marionette is only active during the 2 days of the holiday. Alas.


( Mariachi Blood Elf )

Hello all,

What a year it's been. All I can seem to think to say is, 'Wow'. Some of these most extraordinary things have happened and I'm not even sure where to begin. It's all happened so fast and the only thing I've realized is how out of touch with things I've become.

Oh, not that I'm old and it's one of those generational gap things, not at all. I'm just...I'm not sure how I can explain it. People in the world today are so different in their views, they seem to think that everything happening is new or some how unique. Bad guys getting away with the loot, politicians acting like children, world gone mad, freedoms being experienced for the very first time, it's all so much to take in.

It's little wonder we're starting to question, well, everything. The saying goes, I think, 'these are the times that try men's souls'. I don't know about men's, but mine is sure feeling a little used. See, I made a little joke. It's what some people do when they're nervous and not quite sure what to say. Guess it just helps to have someone to say it to.

Do you need someone to talk to? I've got a free ear and some cheese cake.

Thanks for listening,
Rose Nylund, ask_rose