psa x2, plus some internetty dumbassery and a fic rec

[tsuki_no_bara]

happy (slightly late) birthday shenya, writing kiwi! here's to, you know, more writing! :D and cake, natch.

dancing boys: *do-si-do*

but also, rip pete postlethwaite, who was younger than my mom. O.O and who will always be brother gilbert to me. [1] you were a fine, fine actor, man. you were a standout in the town, a movie with many, many great

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[marnanel]

Now I want to read Cambridge/Oxford slash.

[tsuki_no_bara]

it's probably out there!

[halfshellvenus]

Hee-- thanks for the pimpage!

I tell you, as those pinch-hit requests went by through my email, it got to the point where I felt lucky if I recognized any one of the fandoms/ideas in some of the requests. Especially, again, with the 1000-word minimum... a fic based on a single song? On characters in commercials? 1000 words of cat-macro fic?

Thank god for Yuletide Madness, because some of the more off-the-wall requests are very doable in shorter lengths, where 1000 words possibly requires more imagination on the "weird" front than I usually have. :0

[tsuki_no_bara]

cat macros? seriously? that seems like something someone would ask for just to fuck with the other writers.

i am constitutionally incapable of participating in yuletide - for one thing, i can count the fandoms i've ever written for on one hand, and that's even separating spn from cwrps - but i love reading about people's experiences with it, and the weird fucking fics that occasionally result just crack me up. so i had to share. :D

[halfshellvenus]

cat macros? seriously? that seems like something someone would ask for just to fuck with the other writers.

I've had that thought myself. I don't think it's necessarily deliberate, but I think you should ask yourself (when requesting) whether there's any possibility YOU could write the thing you're asking for. If not, perhaps your request is... unreasonable. The cat-macro one really sticks in my mind, because the comedy is 1) visual, and 2) verbally microscopic.

How do you stretch 1- to 2-sentence humor into 1000 words? Though I mentioned it to our Wincon roomie, desertport, and she said she had an outline for a cat-macro fic that was extensive. So, it can be done. But not by me. ;)

The Beowulf/Old Spice Guy story was one of the most random results I saw from this year, and I hardly looked at any of the offerings! But there's still time...

[cantarina1]

Oh, I love bakebakebake! I've got so many recipes bookmarked to try out.

Good luck with all of your fic plans :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i love the comm but it makes me hungry!

there is original fic in my immediate future and then, uh, possibly white collar fic because i am crazy. and if no one else is going to write neal's origin story for me, i'll have to do it myself.

[georgiamagnolia]

oh hey! writing communities, yay! *ahem* Sorry, got all excited.

I started a 200 fic challenge last April and last January decided to write 250 words of fiction a day (a goal that I much surpassed by halfway through the year, but that is neither here nor there) and your community sounds wonderful. May I pimp it to my fanfic friends? And how would you prefer that done, just a link to the info page?

Thanks in advance,
~gm

[tsuki_no_bara]

no, excitement is good! we like excitement! and of course you may pimp! you can link to the comm or the profile or the faq or wherever you think is most convincing. :D

[ephemera]

Pete Postlethwaite is such a loss - I hadn't realised until I read the paper this morning that he has two quite young children, too - even sadder, somehow.

[tsuki_no_bara]

it does always seem worse when someone dies and leaves small children behind. i didn't even know he had kids! i knew nothing about him as a person, just that he was a really good actor.