do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart

[chicafrom3]

Most awesome-tastic thing heard in a while: The Pogues covering "Do You Believe In Magic?" *laughs*

Close second: The radio-friendly version of "Boys From The County Hell", mainly because the lyrics stop making sense when you replace all the profanity. "We got him out the back and we beat him 'til he bawled"? Really?



Some old fannish5 entries, just because:

Name 5 characters you didn't like at first, but eventually learned to love.
1. Jimmy Donnelly (The Black Donnellys)
2. James "Sawyer" Ford (LOST)
3. Telemachus Rhade (Andromeda)
4. Jayne Cobb (Firefly)
5. Brian Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)

What were your five favorite resurrections?
1. The Doctor. Any. *cough* (Doctor Who)
2. Jack's first resurrection, after being exterminated on the Gamestation (Doctor Who)
3. Charlie Pace ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") (LOST)
4. Mimi Marquez (RENT)
5. Macchu Picchu ("High Wizardry") (Young Wizards)

What are your five least favorite romances, in canon?
1. Jack Shephard/Kate Austen (LOST)
2. Dylan Hunt/anybody (Andromeda)
3. The Doctor/Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)
4. Max Evans/Liz Parker (Roswell)
5. James "Sawyer" Ford/Ana-Lucia Cortez (LOST)

What are the five best uses of religion/religious beliefs in canon?
1. Charlie Pace's redemption storyline (particularly the Charlie/Rose scenes of "Whatever The Case") (LOST)
2. Young Tommy Donnelly praying for his brother Jimmy to recover (The Black Donnellys)
3. Rev Bem in general (Andromeda)
4. Rembrandt Brown seeking out a church at the end of the world ("Last Days") (Sliders)
5. Michael Carpenter in general (The Dresden Files bookverse)

What are the five love stories that you love the most, in canon or fan sources (fanfic, vids, other)?
1. Desmond/Penelope (LOST)
2. Guy/Girl (Once)
3. Hat Guy/Hat Girl (xkcd, and stop looking at me like that!)
4. Olive/Alfredo (Pushing Daisies)
5. Barbara/Ian (Doctor Who)


And, fandom_memes!

Pick 10 characters from whatever fandoms you like -- and pick LJ usernames for them. Don't peek at the questions until you've made your list!

1. Martha Jones (Doctor Who/Torchwood) - walkedtheearth
2. Spot Conlon (Newsies) - spot_the_con
3. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies) - losingatmo
4. Seamus Harper (Andromeda) - supergenius
5. Joanie (The Black Donnellys) - junkie_girl
6. Florence Vassy (Chess) - worldcitizen01
7. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood) - tw3techie
8. Desmond Hume (LOST) - yourwonderwall
9. Tobias (Animorphs) - lonelyhawk
10. Karen Vick (Psych) - interimchief

1) What's the title and subtitle of 4's journal?
"Trust In The Harper"/"The Harper Is Good". Obvious, I know, but hey! Nobody ever accused the boy of subtlety.

2) What does 9's default usericon look like? What other icons does 9 have?
Default icon: a flying hawk. Other icons: another couple hawk icons, a cat to commemorate Dude, and a few of Rachel (plus one of himself and Rachel).

3) What is 2's favorite community? (real or imagined) How does he/she participate?
Some NYC-pride community where he posts often and in great detail about how Brooklyn is the best place on Earth.

4) Give us a sample of 5's interest list.
heroin, jimmy donnelly, new york, drug rehab, falling in love

5) 6 and 1 get in a virtual slapfight about something. What is it? How does it end?
Florence and Martha?? I don't know, maybe about what it means to really be a "citizen of the world". It ends with them making up and becoming best friends for life. And Martha offers Florence a job with Torchwood.

6) 10, 3, and 7 are co-mods of a community. What is it?
Karen, 'Fredo, and Tosh...oh dear Lord. Um. It's a community for...I have no idea. The unlucky in love.

7) 8 posts a secret to [info]ljsecrets or [info]fandomsecrets: what does it look like and what does it say?
Desmond posts a beautifully-designed secret that says "(not!secret): sometimes i wonder if i could have saved you...
(secret): sometimes i'm glad i didn't."

8) of 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, who is most likely to
a) post every meme he/she comes across? Joanie
b) flock their entire journal? Tobias
c) write pr0n? Tosh. Slashfic, of course.
d) get banned from every community he/she signs up at? Tobias
e) attract anonymous stalker comments? Martha

9) 2 and 6 are in a relationship IRL, but 8 finds out that 10 has been sending sexy PMs to 2. 8 asks 4's advice, and 4 blurts out the gossip all over his/her LJ. Write a little of the comment thread that follows.
Spot and Florence are in a relationship IRL (what?), but Desmond finds out that Karen has been sending sexy PMs to Spot. Desmond asks Harper for advice (what?), and Harper blurts out the gossip all over his LJ (ohhh).

walkedtheearth: I don't believe it...interimchief is classier (and cleverer) than that.
lonelyhawk: Proof or it didn't happen!
spot_the_con: Listen, jackass, I'm going to go over there and rearrange your face for making up shit and spreading it around.
supergenius: Oh, yeah, Brooklyn? I'd like to see you try!

And then it devolves into a lot of Brooklyn vs. Boston stuff.


And
You ever write a fanfic where you think certain lines are just fantastic, but nobody seems to have noticed or commented on them? Comment on this thread with a link to your fanfic, and I'll give you a full-fledged line!post with at least 5 of my favorite lines from that fic.



...I have to go in to work for Kinetix in, like, an hour and a half. *makes face*

Comments

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

I actually got good comments on this one, but you never got to see it, so!

Sometimes You Hear the Bullet. Which is the sequel to Follow the Leader (Over the Cliff). I swear, some day I'll write a happy fic in this verse.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

...is that title a M*A*S*H reference?

(And, yes. It made me cry like a small child deprived of its mother.)

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

It is! It was actually something for writerinadrawer, where the challenge was to write a fic with the title of a M*A*S*H episode... and then it got too long and I wrote a different fic for that challenge, but you know.

...Though I'm still a little jealous of the other team, who got West Wing titles, and no one wrote a story called "Twenty Hours in LA". Or "The Crackpots and These Women". Or "What Kind of Day Has It Been". Or... yeah, I'm just a West Wing dork. But THAT TITLE. How could I not use it?

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Well, you picked the perfect title...that episode makes me cry about as much as your fic did, which is to say, a lot.

Oh man. *imagines a Torchwood fic called "Twenty Hours in LA". Or "The Crackpots and These Women". Those would be PERFECT.*

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The title breaks me too. I love when I can break myself.

I'm thinking about making a table of West Wing episode titles for myself and writing fics with those. A friend of mine's doing that with Buffy episode titles... It would be fun! ...As soon as I finish some other writing things that need done.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

...DO IT.

No, really.

DOOOOOOOO ITTTTT.

It would be AWESOME. XD

[thatsortofaman.livejournal.com]

AUGH. CURSE YOUR ENABLING POWERS.

...Also, hello, Doctor journal. Yeah, I'm too lazy to log out.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

MWAHAHA MY ENABLING POWERS HAVE SUCCEEDED ONCE AGAIN!

Hi, Doctor!

[ollie-xox-tv.livejournal.com]

HI HOW ARE YOU

i enjoy spot_the_con. i wish that was my lj name.

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

HI I'M GOOD HOW ARE YOU???

It just seemed too perfect to pass up. XD And apparently nobody's using it, so if you want to claim it for something, go for it!

I should say

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the post

Re: I should say

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Um?

thank you

[(Anonymous)]

thanks much, man

thanks much

[(Anonymous)]

i am gonna show this to my friend, man

Re: thanks much

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

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