Massive Update! Includes a MEME! Holy crap!
Dudicals. It’s been awhile. It is high time for an update, yes? Or no, you can ignore. This is wicked long, so I am breaking it into chunks. There’s polls (hopefully)! There’s pictures (well, one)! There’s links! STOP THE MADNESS!
( Five Questions Meme )
( Five Questions Meme )
Okay, five questions:
1. In honor of "Far and Away," (very loosely) what is the one country (or two) that you would really, really, really like to visit? Would you ever consider moving there? What if Nicole Kidman went w/ you?
2. What was your favorite scene in "Torchwood" and why? I think I already know it, so I'm adding a bonus -- which was your favorite scene not involving either Jack or Ianto, and why?
3. Can you stand on your head? If not (I don't think I ever have), what is your go-to weird thing you do to concentrate?
4. You're driving somewhere you've never been before and get lost. Do you stop and ask for directions? Do you consult a map? A GPS? Or do you flip a coin and go in that direction?
5. Since you're from Louisiana -- do you ever get the urge to find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat, and when it lifts you up, are you gonna find your feet? When you hear that fiddle, are you gonna beg for more?
Sorry about that last one! Mary Chapin Carpenter. :)
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It is epic, and it's romantic (and I am a closet sop), and it's a great story. It's fun to take that story and its plot and rework it with the Whoverse peeps peopling it and Our Beautiful Boys in the leading roles. It's challenging, too, and that's part of why I chose it; I have to keep them IC while maintaining the original characters' conflicts. The subtle undercurrent of UST is being amazing to write, because J/I in the TW 'verse are not exactly hiding it, even if they're not exactly advertising it.
The bastard's topped 10k words in less than a week of writing. Oy vey. O.o
And... it's in SPACE. :D
Questions!
1. I'd really love to visit Wales (duh, eh?) and the rest of the UK. I'd also love to see much of Europe and Asia, parts of Africa, South America and Polynesia / Oceania (Easter Island!). There's so much of the world I've not yet seen. If someplace I visited resonated with me on the soul-atomic level, I would so relocate. Oh yes.
2. My favorite non-Jack / Ianto scene would have to be the one with Owen on the roof with the suicide girl, because it showed him beginning to claw his way out of the I'm-neither-living-nor-dead-poor-me blue funk he was in since Jack resurrected him. Talking this girl down allowed him to talk himself down, as it were, and made him focus on the truth of the words he was saying to her. It was, to me, about Owen finding hope in a very uncertain situation, and it made me love him more than I already did. (While Owen could be a real cock most of the time, I liked him at once. I cannot even say why. He has nice eyes, though.)
3. Only by accident. ;-) I did it once when I got knocked ass-over-teakettle down the side of a hill. I am not the most graceful person alive. (<--- understatement of the millennium) My go-to weird concentrate-y-thing...it's rather strange. I rest my chin in the webbing between my thumb and forefinger, with the finger alongside my nose and its tip between my eyebrows. I didn't even realise I did this until my roommate's sorta-gf (and isn't *that* a story in itself, oy vey) laughed about it, and he pointed out that I've been doing it for 20 years (since we met in high school). I think it gives the third-eye something to occupy it and decreases the "oooh-butterfly-shinything" moments. Because I'm a bit OCD and have the attention span of a gnat on crack.
4. I'm one of those strange individuals who studies a map for about five minutes before I go anywhere new, then put it away and just drive. My brain has this spatial-orientation mojo that helps me almost never get lost and know in which direction I'm facing at any given time. My father said that's an inherited trait. *shrugs* I just thought everyone could do that and it took years before I realised there was actually a basis for the 'stop and ask for directions' jokes. Really, I'm not bragging - just saying. I'm a weird one, I am... That said, I have a fondness for Old-World cartography. 'Here there be Dragons'. ;D
5. LOL! I cannot two-step for the life of me, although there was a time (back in the day) when I could waltz like a motherfucker. This is especially amusing, given the waltz and two-step are, like, first cousins. (And is that not one of the catchiest songs ever?! MCC is awesome!)
*hugs*
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Oh, wow, your Far & Away is in space! That sounds awesome. Best of luck w/ your writing! I'm glad it's going so well. :)
(And yeah, MCC is great! I really like her.)
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