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Wow, I'm surprised this didn't occur to me sooner. I decided what actors played what characters in Ecstasia pretty much the first time I read it. Of course you'd probably have to take five to fifteen years off these people's ages, but anyway...



( A carnival-this town / Only a playground / Stay young, stay up above / Before it takes you down / Underground )

Okay, it's been a very long time since I read this play. So, fadeintodawn, there's going to be a lot of IIRCs going on here.

( Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven. )

Okay! And that wraps up another meme. And just in time too. Because I'm headed to Cancun in the morning. See you Friday, my darlings!

I think I've got time for one more before bed. So here we go. Much Ado About Nothing (or Parade of Red-Heads, as it became) for c_quinn.

( I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle's. )

Okay, sometime tomorrow hopefully I can finish up with Othello and All's Well that Ends Well. G'night!

Stolen most recently from hermione_vader:

Take 15 of your ships and deliver a quotation from each. Guess the ship from the quotes!

Okay, just so you know, one of these quotes is not from the dialogue but from the narration. But it's the quote I most associate with the pairing, more than anything the characters actually say, so... IT COUNTS, YEAH.

( You're my favorite person. )

Okay, off to bed. Oh, another thing- today I drove for the first time since the accident. Took my mom's car to drop off my tax stuff at a more secure mailbox than the one at the end of the driveway. It went well, to my relief.

You know, I don't think it's possible to write a fic without any "backstory" as the meme describes it. What on earth can the characters talk about if you don't give them something to do?

Title: The Petrelli Heist
Rating: PG
Word Count: 331
Summary: Neal & Peter Petrelli for saena17. Small cameo from Moz.
A/N: Set pre-series for both shows.

( You really wanna know? )

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Title: Sub-Contracting
Rating: PG
Word Count: 649
Summary: Michael Westen and Claude Rains for englishmuffin2. Off-screen Sam and Fiona.
A/N: Set during the series for Burn Notice, but pre-series for Heroes. Which.. doesn't really work, temporally speaking, but oh well.

( All right, let's see a demonstration, then. )

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Title: Busted
Rating: PG
Word Count: 694
Summary: Sam Vimes and Mozzie for visiblemarket, with cameos from Neal and Carrot.
A/N: Look who didn't chicken out! Hope this works for you, hon.

( You know, I used to have a lot of respect for you, until you sold out. )

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Title: An Arrangement of Time
Rating: G
Word Count: 444
Summary: Simon Tam and Rube for c_quinn, plus River.
A/N: Okay, River stuck her nose in and kind of stole the show (which I'm sure Simon's used to). If you want to, c_quinn, please give me another prompt and I'll try again.

( That makes you S. Tam, right? )

I'm watching about six very adorable deer eat corn out of the container my stepdad likes to put out in the backyard. He entertains dreams of hand-feeding them one day. All I can think is that those same deer are going to make a mess of the garden in a few weeks.

Anyway, I've gotten a good group of questions for my fifteen characters meme, so here are my answers. They come in the following categories: funny, interesting, and OW MY BRAIN.

( rionaleonhart's questions )

( visiblemarket's questions )

( englishmuffin2's questions )

My calendar and DVD came! Yay! All... well, more is right with the world. Now I'm just wondering about my Microsoft Office software. Would've expected that to get here real quick. Anyway, reviving a meme, because it's a very fun one:

- Write a list of characters and number them.
- Input the number of characters into this random number generator as the maximum and generate two numbers.
- Ramble about how the corresponding pairing/partnership/general interaction would (or, indeed, wouldn't) work. Perhaps write a snippet/one-sentence fic for it if you're feeling brave.
- Repeat to your heart's content.

( Fandoms represented: Middleman, Firefly, Discworld, White Collar, Dollhouse, Burn Notice, Doctor Who, Psych, Hot Fuzz, Jeeves & Wooster, and Heroes )

BRB, showing my little brother The Middleman! XD

Also, after years of pining following a single near-miss encounter, I finally found the audio CD of World War Z! John Turturro, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins- oh boy! I've never actually bought an audio CD of a book before, six hours seems a bit long to just sit and listen to.. much of anything, really... Even making cookies only takes up maybe a third of the time.

Oh well, I'll think of something. ;)

Ahh, well. Halloween turned out much more interesting than I thought it would be. Ended up going to see Amelia with visiblemarket. The movie.. really was not what it could've been. It was very pretty to look at, but also riddled with what a friend of mine would call "emotional plotholes," and TBH the basic story-telling was just not.. coherent, almost at all. As Tom Servo said of Terror from the Year 5000 (and Amelia bearing any similarity to something from MST3K's canon is pretty telling in itself), "All these random scenes simply abutt each other to form a movie." Then there was the fact that every time Amelia spoke more than two sentences at once it sounded like Hillary Swank's Oscar Clip, and that's not even going into how painfully forced and saccharine the dialogue was in way too many places. And CE's American accent made me cringe just about as much as I thought it would, my goodness. All in all, really not worth the $10.75 I had to shell out to see it.

Aaanyway, after that mild unpleasantness, we bopped around Georgetown for a while, which was fun. At this one place we spotted Rorschach chatting up a devil woman at the bar, and Silk Spectre II mingling with the crowd nearby. Good times. I had my first Malibu Pineapple in the States, and it's just as delicious and just as expensive as I remember. I think only one person verbally recognized my costume, but a few folks were sure curious to find out about it. I was hoping to have pictures to share, but unfortunately I don't. For the record, I was a member of Team Zissou from The Life Aquatic. A red sock cap, my light blue Team Zissou tank top, and a pair of light blue scrubs pants- another readymade costume to go with my Mad Scientist from last year.

And then I lost my car keys. Not so fun. Had a small adventure failing to find them, and then calling AAA and having a locksmith open my car door. Looks like I'll be relying on my valet key for a while. I need to buy a new set and my mom also wants me to pay to replace the locks on our house since my house key was on the ring with the car keys. That's fair, but I think I'm going to hold off on all of it until I get a couple of paychecks. I already dropped quite a bit of money on movie tickets, dinner, and books yesterday (a cook book for my dad, And Another Thing for me- H2G2 re-read, ahoy!), and there's still the NYC trip to think about. And some bills that need taking care of too. Woof.

Otherwise, I've got dusting and vaccuuming to do and submissions to read. I also have Psycho Beach Party and Night of the Living Dead to watch and fic to write. And I have too few hours left before it's time to go out for my dad's birthday. And after that, it's another week of work! Sheesh.

1. Had an interview at this one place that.. was actually less of an interview and more like a skills test. I talked to the boss lady for a little while, and then she gave me a flyer about this event that will be happening soon and told me to write a thirty-second radio spot for it, make a brochure, and write a letter to distributors of said brochure. I think it went pretty well. It was fun to write a commercial again, took me straight back to my internship days. And I discovered my cell phone has a stopwatch function- neat! (ETA: Got a call back and it looks like I'll get a second interview that I have to schedule tomorrow. So, yay!)

2. I finally got my copy of Unseen Academicals! I scampered down to the store yesterday morning, but for whatever reason their shipment of the books hadn't come in yet. Luckily, the guy I was talking to (who surprisingly enough was a neighbor of mine I haven't seen or spoken to in years but used to be friends with as a little kid) put me on an email notification list and reserved a copy. It actually worked out nicely, because my route back from the interview place goes right by the store, so I just had to swing in and pick it up on my way home. And now it's here, in my hands, and I'm trying desperately not to idly flip through it and spoil myself as I've been so good about not doing so far.

3. My copy of the new Real Tuesday Weld album The End of the World came waaaay earlier than I expected it to! I would recommend that... uh, well, visiblemarket, since she's the only other person I know who listens to The Real Tuesday Weld... I would recommend she buy the actual CD, not the digital version. There's this awesome little snatch of prose written on the jacket that holds the disc. Very weird and cool. And in any case, my copy cost less than five dollars and I only had to wait four days for it, and I can listen to it while driving even when the GPS is plugged in, so overall, I'm a crafty consumer, yes I am.

4. New Mythbusters tonight! Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Is it just me or does it seem like new episodes just cut out really unexpectedly and leave us with reruns for untold amounts of time? Can they really be that hard up for myths to bust that they have to cut each season short? Hmm...

Evidence that the next few days will be pretty good too:

5. I'll be hitting the Rifftrax live event encore tomorrow night, and this time I'll have company! It's gonna be great, visiblemarket, I promise. When do you want to meet? Do you want to try our luck at the food court again beforehand?

6. Last night I discovered an honest-to-goodness cornucopia of fabulous old movies on YouTube. At the time, I was looking for films Cary Grant was in, and came up with Holiday (him and Katharine Hepburn), She Done Him Wrong (him and Mae West- his break-out performance), Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, and The Philadelphia Story. I also spotted It Happened One Night (Clark Gable at his snarky best), A Song is Born (Danny Kaye being adorkable, plus superb old-timey music), and Shop Around the Corner (Jimmy Stewart also being quite cute). Fantastic stuff.

7. One of my most favorite plays, Much Ado About Nothing, is the Renaissance Festival's chosen performance for Shakespeare Weekend. I don't have any definite plans for going yet, sooo.. any takers?