KJ

Ganked from melinda_goodin, because we haven't had a good commenting meme in awhile.

If you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you.

Reposting is optional, but I'd enjoy seeing this one spread. :)

Go look at your blog journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

The last fandom I posted about was Dragon Age.

Considering that the main accomplishment of those characters was stopping their universe's version of a Zombie Apocalypse, I think we're good.

Last night, at 1am, with a great deal of enabling from renay, I created my first Tumblr.

http://fuckyeaholdspiceguy.tumblr.com/

Not... exactly how I expected to get my start with a new online service. And maybe I'm a little behind the times, but I don't care. More Isaiah Mustafa in the world can only be a good thing, really.

Another recent foray into uncharted waters: writing for Babylon 5. I can't quite believe it myself, but there you are. Two stories posted yesterday on AO3!

Title: Anniversary
Rating: R
Characters: Susan Ivanova
Pairings: Marcus/Ivanova, Talia/Ivanova
Spoilers: Yes, through the end of Season 4
Notes: Written for Porn Battle XI. I was browsing the prompts, looking for Final Fantasy mostly. But I always check B5 prompts on multi-fandom projects, just in case, and the prompt "Susan Ivanova, memory" jumped out at me and worked on my brain for a couple of days, until I just couldn't not write it. So I wrote it in one day, posted it on the Battle page, then cleaned it up a little and put it on AO3.

All alone in the night, Ivanova remembers. AO3 version / Commentfic version

Title: The Living and the Dead
Rating: PG
Characters: Susan Ivanova, Marcus Cole
Pairings: Marcus/Ivanova
Spoilers: Yes, through Season 5
Notes: Alternate Universe. It was probably inevitable that I would write this story someday. ( Cut for major spoilers. ) Also written in one day. Mostly because I was afraid I'd lose my nerve if I sat on it for too long...

Ivanova gets a visitor on the Day of the Dead. On AO3 only.

Probably brought on by too many watchings of Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. But I've always had this idea that Leblanc reminded me of another character in another medium, and I finally figured out today who it is: Miss Piggy.

Wait, where are you going?

No, really. I'm totally serious about this. And I don't mean it in a derogatory way at all -- Miss Piggy has long been one of my favorite characters. I love how take-charge she is, that she doesn't take crap from anyone, her confidence and determination. And Leblanc shares all these characteristics with Miss Piggy, along with a love of pink and a willingness to use The Heel to get her way. ("Hiiiii-ya!") These are two women who know what they want and will stop at nothing to get it.

And what do they want? Among other things, the affections of a man (or frog) who does not appear to return their feelings. Vociferously in the case of Kermit, whereas Nooj seems more indifferent, but the final result is the same. Not that this stops either Piggy or Leblanc in their mad pursuit -- Miss Piggy, at least, seems to get more determined the more her "Kermie" protests, and though we don't have as much history to go on with Leblanc and Nooj, the parallel is at least suggested, down to the goofy nickname for the object of her desires.

So, thoughts? Am I torturing the comparisons, or is it a parallel that makes sense?

Also, I am trying really, really hard not to consider the crossover possibilities... Down, brain! Down!

So after a hard-fought first round, we're down to eight.

( Are you ready to RUMBLE? )

Vote early, vote often, send your friends! Poll open until Thursday at 11pm.

Clearly I depend more on LJ than I knew, because I spent two hours in an online meeting longing for a distraction.

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