Super Duper Bowl

[apple_pathways]

It has just occurred to me that, though I am going to a Super Bowl party tomorrow, I have no idea which teams are playing. (Shh, don't tell me! I want to get there and annoy all the men by being completely clueless! Last year I won 30 bucks in a pool, despite having never heard of the player I chose! It was EPIC!)

In other news: QUIT SNOWING, GODDAMMIT! I want to go bowling! :P

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[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

*clings to you*

I have fic to write. Maybe tonight. I am such a loser lately but yeah... in the worst mood possible for me to be writing in.

DAMN SNOW... (yes, it is still snowing here and potentially threatening my daughter's Doctor Who party!)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

YOUR DAUGHTER IS HAVING A DOCTOR WHO PARTY AND I WASN'T INVITED??? Oh man, I want a Doctor Who party SO BAD... (Maybe next year for my 30th, eh? :P)

Oh man, you know how much writing I'm signed up for? You know how much I've finished? *counts* 4 lines. Yeah, FOUR! (Tell me: why did I decide to write my fairy tale entry for dark_fest in verse? WHY???)

And Oh God, Mince Spies...it's JUST NOT HAPPENING. *sigh*

So, what should you be writing? Let's commisserate!

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

Not the shit that I have been!

Uhm... the Sherlock Holmes one, Mince Spies, Quit Pining and my Hot Chocolate entry before tomorrow.

Sherlock Holmes one is pretty much plotted and in my head. Oh wait they all are! Also, I have plans to write 10,000 words of Big Bang this month. And my Glomp Fest fic too... that I keep wavering which story to write.

I wish you could come. Her party is going to be at my bookstore and she is having a Tardis cake and I wanted the most recent Doctor Who special to watch but it doesn't come out in time.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

What are you writing for Mince Spies? I signed up for a hard-boiled detective story, but I am tempted to cheat and change to something sci-fi or fantasy, as I have characters for my detective story but no plot! It's very difficult to get started when you have nothing for your characters to do!

TARDIS cake! How will I convince my friends, who've only even heard of the show due to my excited babblings, to get me one?

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

Pictures bb! The lady who is making the cake had no idea what it was. The power of google is your friend. :D

I am writing fantasy... hee!

I started a hard-boiled detective story once and it turned into a dub-con erotica story that isn't finished yet. I have no idea what or where my brain has gone but it is totally on vacation!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

You know, turning my story into smut just might be the best way to save it...

At the very least, it'll mean I won't have to worry about anyone reading it! :P

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

I do know which teams are playing, but the only reason I do Super Bowl parties is for free alcohol, lots of good food, and the commercials. :D

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

That is as it should be!

[turante.livejournal.com]

No idea which teams are playing, no idea the Super Bowl was in this period and no idea on the rules of the game, only that is vaguely reminiscent of rugby and that the players wear a lot of fancy protective gear. :)
Betting on someone you had no idea and winning? EPIC!! (will you attempt it this year too?)

Have fun! And you can send me the extra snow!
XXX

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Ugh, you are SO WELCOME TO IT! It is STILL SNOWING, and if it doesn't stop within half an hour, it looks like my friend's birthday celebration will have to be postponed. >:(

[turante.livejournal.com]

so sorry to hear that :(

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Eh, it happens. The snow has now slowed down to a gentle trickle. (Either that, or it has gotten too dark for me to see it properly!)

Anyway, we'll see what happens!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

The only reason I know who's playing the Superbowl this year is... well, actually it comes up at work a lot, but mostly I'm geographically required to hate both teams. So my best-case scenario is that no one wins the Superbowl. (-;

It's still snowing on you? I figured the sky would be all out of snow by now.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT!

Last Wednesday's Snowpocalypse turned out to be not as impressive as they'd hyped it to be. Yes, we got a lot of snow; but no thundersnow and no theatrics! The roads got plowed quickly and efficiently (the most astonishing part of it all!), the sun came out, we all moved on with life.

The snow is just determined to fuck with ALL my plans! Why couldn't it have snowed last night, when I was just sitting around drinking wine and making virtual valentines?

Oh, and your clue to the Super Bowl teams: I am still drawing a blank. I didn't realize Illinois had any geographic rivals. Indianapolis I'm guessing?

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I'll trade you roads. They only just got rid of the three-foot hill in the middle of my street last night.

I can't confirm or deny your guess as to the team, since you don't want me to tell you who's playing. ^_^

Btw... I am... I don't even want to say this publicly but it's your fault... I am sitting here researching Glee because I am actually considering the idea of picking up one of the dark_fest prompts. Whyyyy why why why?? I don't even know all the character names!

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you'd want to trade roads at the moment, as they are currently full of slush and at least 5 inches of snow. Apparently, Wednesday's burst of productivity was a fluke. :P

I've already been spoiled for one of the teams! I now know that the Steelers are one of the teams competing. (One of my friends I saw tonight is from Pittsburgh.) Though why Pittsburgh should be your geographic rival, I can't guess!

Whyyyy why why why??

It can only be because you love me very, very much!!! ♥

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Ah right, the "snow only gets cleared well once" rule. I guess that applies everywhere. (-; How about retroactively, then?

I used to live in Northeast Ohio, so we kind of hated the Steelers a lot. The only time the Browns didn't suck was when they didn't exist, but to add insult to injury, there was a team just a couple of hours away that always won.

You are the worst possible kind of internet friend. ♥ (I had to watch the Christmas episode.)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Did I force you to watch the show in the first place? No. Your Glee addiction has nothing to do with me, and the sooner you admit that, the sooner you can get help! :P (What's the prompt you're considering, anyway?)

Detroit has the worst football team in the history of...ever...and therefore, most of us like to pretend that the NFL doesn't exist. Consequently, I know next-to-nothing about professional football! (Despite my mother being a masochistic Lions fan.) College football is much bigger, as we have two teams that occasionally win things. (Go Blue! Go Green!)

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

No, no, I admit that it's entirely my fault I watched the show. I wouldn't call it an addiction, though! More a sociological/literary curiosity paired with a need to break it. The only thing I can possibly blame for having watched it is Hulu, because it was there. But you're the one that told me to write darkfic for it, and for some reason I find that an appealing idea. So, since Hulu isn't a person and it's only my fault that I like darkfic for light fandoms, naturally the blame falls to you.

The prompt is "Glee, Kurt Hummel, Someone/Something starts killing off all of the people that ever hurt Kurt Hummel." I want to build it into this idea I have about the new school he's at secretly being a conformist cult that wants to cut all his ties with his old life, but 1) it's kind of a stretch for the prompt and 2) someone else has claimed the prompt as well, and chances are they actually know the characters. So I'm thinking I might just devote my energy to "Doctor Who, Simm!Master/Rassilon, trapped in the cusp of the time lock, the master has eternity to exact his revenge on the lord president." Except it's phrased as a pairing and that worries me. I dunno. I've got a lot more of an idea for it than the former (though I do have a wonderful playlist for the former. And what's a Glee project without a playlist? Okay it's an excuse to accost Glee fans with off-kilter music. The only reason it's stuck in my head this long is because I keep coming across good songs for it.)

But anyway, back in normal territory: what is it with areas that have excellent college football teams having such craptacular pro teams? (Though I don't mind, because when I do watch football, I much prefer college games anyway. The players still play like they have something to prove.)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

So, since Hulu isn't a person and it's only my fault that I like darkfic for light fandoms, naturally the blame falls to you.

*sighs* All right, I give up! The blame is mine. I gladly accept it if the end result is more dark!fic in the world and a writing buddy with whom I can commisserate during the fest. ;)

Oh, you know you're going to end up writing that Glee prompt! (And you should!) Sure, someone else is writing it: but you have a unique spin on it. Anyway, the fest seems to be rather quirky and appreciative of out-there approaches, so I wouldn't worry about this being another Yuletide-esque situation. (If that is the worry.)

For Christ's sake, I am writing my fairy tale fic IN VERSE! Why am I writing something there's a very slim chance anyone will read/appreciate? Because my brain is like a dog with a bone, and just won't let this one go.

I have no idea who Rassilon is (I know, I know: I'm a bad Who fan! I'll self-flagellate later...) so I'm not quite sure if there's a big push to pair him/her/it up with anyone or not. (The Master, especially the Simm!Master, appears to be the fandom bicycle who gets paired with everyone. Oh, and Jack: The Master and Jack.) Anyway, you could probably assume a broad leeway for "pairing" the characters together: the prompt seems rather plotty, and doesn't really even seem to imply a desire for sexytiems and/or handholding, so I wouldn't be too worried.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

It's very noble of you to take the fall for this. (-; I'll be sure I shake my fist at you extra-hard when it turns out I've claimed both prompts. (I kind of knew this several days ago when I made my sock journal... sigh. Like a dog with a bone.)

Dude, I am so looking forward to seeing this IN VERSE story of yours. And I think I may not be the only one who'd read anything someone had tried to write in verse.

Basically all you need to know about Rassillon is that he's more or less the founder of Time Lord society and is (was) a morally and existentially ambiguous figure (also something about the Matrix and vampires and all sorts of lovely nonsense pseudo-canon stuff). The only bit he's had in New Who is that they apparently resurrected him during the Time War. He's the guy in The End of Time played by James Bond, who put the drumming in the Master's head.

But anyway, my main worry is that they want twisted Master!sex and... I'd rather just not go in that direction because you're right, the Master is surpassed only by Jack as far as these things go. But mostly I just don't see it being a proper form of torture for Rassilon. Blah blah random fanon blah blah pseudotimelordpsychology blah. (-;

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I really do hope more people make claims for Doctor Who--it's my favorite fandom to read in, and there aren't more than a couple claims at the moment. I really should have claimed a Who prompt instead of the Hunger Games one, but I promised I was going to 'branch out' for this fest. (Why did I do that?)

I think I have about eight lines of verse at the moment. I've been doing some research, trying to get the hang of dactylic hexameter, and I think I'm finally making headway. I keep wanting to make iambs, though, and am finding it very hard to begin each line with a stressed syllable.

Oh yeah! THAT GUY was Rassilon! I don't wanna him sexing anybody, personally: I think it's the funny costumes that seem to rob the Time Lords of any sex appeal. (I'm doing my best here not to start ranting about that disastrous return. What a waste of a plot line! "OMG, the Time Lords made it! They're not dead after all! BUT WAIT THE DOCTOR'S GOING TO KILL THEM ALL OVER AGAIN!" Stupid emo bullshit...)

There is far too much 'the Master is evil and sexy' fic floating around out there. There needs to be more, 'the Master is just evil' fic. (Evil, and psychologically complex: we know dude's got issues.)

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who is my favorite fandom to write in... though you wouldn't guess it, really, since I've only written about one fic for it.

The compulsion to "branch out" is evil. (-; So far I've managed to channel mine into working in different genres, but it still doesn't completely shut up.

I've been doing some research, trying to get the hang of dactylic hexameter, and I think I'm finally making headway.

I love you. That is all.

Back when I was rping Simm!Master I had a hugely hard time playing him because of how very sexual he is (no doubt meant as a contrast to the Doctor's general (quasi-)asexuality). So I get nervous about writing him in a context that might require exercising that characteristic. But, I mean... revenge!fic. If there's any slashiness, it's going to be in the form of past hero-worship and the Master getting off a bit on being bloody evil, not... well, okay I guess I can see it in that context now that I think about it. But I don't see him going through with it. (I should probably spend some time writing tonight so I'm not sitting around entertaining ideas for these two prompts, the space opera, and my fic for the game is on all at the same time.)