Grabbed from kawaiispinel and allfireburns.

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.


Keywords: cookies!
by nikiness
Once upon a time there was a metaquotes post that involved the phrase "We're having hot lesbian sex. And by lesbian sex we mean tea. But it's still hot." This amused a great many people and inspired a great many icons. Teh Niki and I were discussing it, and we were both amused by the phrase, and one or the other of us said, "It's totally about us! Except neither of us drinks tea!" So at some point in this conversation I suggested the substitution of cookies, and she made the icon, and lo, you have our relationship in a nutshell.
Also, the cookies are chocolate chip, if there was any doubt.

Keywords: The X-Files - chicafrom3
by fandomfrom3; don't take, plz!
There's another story behind this one, and again it's weirdly convoluted. My first solid introduction to online fandom was the official X-Files message board, way back in the day when I was very young. I needed a screenname, thought about it for a while, and finally impulsively decided to name myself after Kristen Kilar, the vampire wannabe Mulder hooks up with in the second-season episode "3". Rather than actually try to register a variant of "KristenKilar" or the like, I called myself chicafrom3. The name stuck, and still does, as you've noticed. This icon's really nothing more or less than a nod to the origins of my screenname -- Mulder and his vampire love interest.

( more icons! )

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:

( cut to spare your flist )


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

( questions! )


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*

Fandom year in review!

( it's vaguely long... )


I went to the mall with my daddy today and spent the entirety of my Borders gift card and got Niki-babe's Christmas present, so now I just have to, you know, see her and give it to her.

YAY! The Joyce/Yeats essay is done! Finished! It's five pages of BS and a really awful conclusion, because really what I had to say could be said in maybe three pages but I had to stretch it out, but anyway it's done and I can stop thinking about it!

That was way too many exclamation points!


OKAY. Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to get gifties uploaded for those of you who are awaiting gifties. Today I be selfish; I know when I posted my wishlist a handful of people asked for specific fic requests, so under the cut find a ridiculously long list of prompts for the fandoms/pairings/whatevers I have been craving most recently.

( some of these I don't think anyone on my flist writes, but oh well! )

I'm not actually expecting anything (although kawaiispinel already wrote me TOTALLY AWESOME Olive/Alfredo fic of the UTTERLY PERFECT kind), but just so it's out there, y'know?

...yeah, I'm gonna shut up and go to bed now.

Blegh. Never take a flight that requires that you be awake at 3AM. I'm serious, when at 10:30AM you're wondering why the day isn't over yet, and you still have a class and work to get through? Not fun.

Stuff!


Meme 1 (snagged from kawaiispinel):

List twelve characters without looking at the questions. Then answer the questions by replacing the corresponding number with the character.

1. Michael Dawson (Lost)
2. Peri Brown (Doctor Who)
3. Tom Collins (Rent)
4. Svetlana Sergievsky (Chess)
5. Brendan Lahey (Andromeda)
6. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood)
7. Kevin Donnelly (Black Donnellys)
8. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies)
9. Jeremy Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
10. Grace Hall (The Chronicle)
11. Burton Guster (Psych)
12. Quinn Mallory (Sliders)

( questions here )

Meme 2 (snagged from trascendenza):

List 7 songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to in absolute random order.

( 7 songs )


Meme 3 (snagged from martoufmarty):

( everything about Chica you were never curious about )


...okay. I should probably do homework. Instead I'm gonna finish putting together the next article for Firefox News.

...so I totally suck and still have a bunch of e-mails and comments to reply to. But *flail*. I don't want to talk about how much flying home yesterday completely sucked. But it did. Biiiitches.

On the bright side, it snowed in Weston yesterday before I left, which was very nice and pretty and gives me hope that I'll get a decent snowstorm before I graduate.

...um. Happy Thanksgiving, to all the Americans on my flist! And happy November 22nd to everyone else! Why should you get left out of being wished a happy day just 'cause the holiday bears absolutely no cultural significance for you, amirite.


Quick fannish stuff:

( Pushing Daisies spoilerz )

( Dirty Sexy Money spoilerz )


...yeah, things.

DSM vid to "Freddy My Love", y/y? ...I don't actually have the footage to do this, but, y'know, just spitballing ideas here.

He is WAY TOO AWESOME for Karen. And I like Karen.

Note to self: When someone gives you a handful of sugar, it's perfectly okay to mention that you were just listening to "tick tick...BOOM!" which contains a love song to sugar. It's not so okay to segue into a total synopsis, cast analysis, and comparison to "RENT".

Yeah, I really do have a problem with giving people wayyyyyy more information than they needed. I can't help it! That's just the way my brain works!


Formally started work on "Dracula" today. Ran sound for tonight's rehearsal, but starting tomorrow (at 10AM...) I'll be the light op. No, I'm not getting paid for this. But it's my last chance to work on a Regis show as a Regis student, and I get to work with Amanda (coworker Amanda, not roommate Amanda), and Natalie and Sam are both in the cast, and, yeah. Besides, what else am I going to do with my time...seeing as I don't have an outside job yet... *is depressing*


Yesterday: intense migraine and nausea. Went to bed at 6. Didn't get up until 8 this morning. That's 14 hours in bed. Yeah.


In less depressing news, it's holiday season again! If you've posted a wishlist, let me know. ladyfiresprite, I have yours bookmarked and am contemplating what I can get you. I haven't seen anyone else's, so if I missed it, let me know!! Mine will be going up soonish. I'm compiling it in my head. Ys.


Also coming soonish: keep an eye out for flocked posts filled with links.


I...don't have anything fannish to talk about except for the strike and I promised myself I wouldn't talk about that in this post. But, yeah. I'm horribly behind on Heroes and need to get caught up (question, flist: is it worth the bother of getting caught up? should I just start watching with this next episode and hope everything I missed was of no consequence? or are Matt/Mohinder/Molly adorable enough to make it worth watching all the episodes I missed?). PD and DSM didn't air this week. And...that's all I'm watching first-run right now.

No, wait! That's not true! I'm also watching SJA, and I am caught up on that, and all I can say is: Sarah Jane is LOVE. Young!Sarah included in that. I am a little bit in love with Alan and hopes he admits to his crush on Sarah v. soon and then maybe they fall in love and Maria and Luke can be sibs ys? Also I am confused as to whether I should ship Clyde with Luke or Maria because either has the potential to be ridiculously cute. In a nonsexual-young-person way. Ys? Or am I creepy for thinking about shipping them at all?

Also: How long 'til we get Raul back on Pushing Daisies? I want my Cheno/Esparza duet, dammit.


I want to write fic but words are not coming to me. :( It's v. sad, ys. I also kind of want to vid--I have two Sweet Charity vids to do--but my two bidders haven't gotten back to me on music choices/themes/etc. And I don't feel right working on an impulse vid while having the SC vids hanging over my head. Does that make sense or is it just my Catholic guilt kicking in again?


On the bright side, I've been listening to a ton of music lately and have almost completed my goal of making sure that all 5000+ songs in my iTunes have at least one playcount. The fact that I keep adding music while trying to reach this goal doesn't help, but I believe I can make it!!


(Oh! And another RL note: Regis is offering some RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME classes next semester. Including a literature class that lists "Princess Bride" and "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" on the reading list, and a sci-fi film class. *flails* This is OF COURSE the semester AFTER I graduate. Of course, they couldn't offer these RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME classes while I was here to take them... *sigh*)

...theatre humor is so inappropriate. :D



Instead of doing homework like I should have done and like I'm still not doing after work and before rehearsal, I vegged out and watched my new Hair DVD. OMG I LOVE RAÚL SO MUCH. And him singing "Hair"? SO MUCH LOVE. If those jeans were any tighter they would cut off circulation, and grabbing his crotch on the line "Down to there"? SO MUCH LOVE. *dies*

(Major props also to Adam, Julia, Shoshana, Jai, and Lillias, but OMG RAÚL.)



Anna meme (from fandom_meme), because I am a meme whore:

Choose 12 characters and put them in a numbered list. Once you've chosen, go behind the cut and grab these questions to answer them. No peeking until your list is complete!

And because I'm in a Mood (specifically exhausted), characters I don't usually throw onto these lists!

1. Penny Widmore (Lost)
2. Doyle (Andromeda)
3. Ian Chesterton (Doctor Who)
4. Jeremy Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
5. Olive Snook (Pushing Daisies)
6. Florence Vassy (Chess)
7. The Archive (Dresden Files)
8. River Tamm (Firefly)
9. Juliet O'Hara (Psych)
10. Quinn Mallory (Sliders)
11. Joanie (Black Donnellys)
12. Rhys Williams (Torchwood)

( the questions )


And from fannish5: What lost episodes (or lost issues, or cut scenes) would you most like to see discovered?

1. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
2. Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
3. Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
4. The Black Donnellys: ANYTHING EVER
5. Newsies: all those scenes that originally gave Sarah a personality