i'm goin' to toontown

So, um.

Some of you already know that dotfic and I have been working on an epic SPN fanfic together.

It's actually close enough to done that Dot has posted a teaser scene in her LJ. We're thinking the whole thing goes up within 5-7 days.

Uh.

*flail*

Two new drabbles for the Heroes S1 Title Project!

The first one turned out way too long. I'm calling it a double drabble.

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Fandom: Terry Pratchett's Discworld (with a non-spoilery shoutout to somebody else)
Title: ( 1. Genesis )

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Fandom: Firefly
Title: ( 18. Parasite )

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I need some ideas for additional fandoms. *considers*

Next drabble in the ongoing project: the other one they told me I'd never be able to make work.

Fandom: Marvel Comics (specifically the current X-Factor title)
Title: ( 23. How To Stop An Exploding Man )

So! Since nobody seems to think I particularly need a filter, I'm not making one.

Here, therefore, are the first few entries in the Heroes Season 1 Episode Title Drabble* Project. ...Which needs a new name, because that is a long and clunky name. I'm taking suggestions!

I'm not writing them in order, so the first one is #5. I'm also not introducing them with the fandoms; they should be recognizeable, but not always immediately. [ETA] ON SECOND THOUGHT: as mtgat points out, people may want to avoid spoilers. So: introducing with fandoms after all.


Fandom: Supernatural, pre-canon
Title: ( 5. Hiros )

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Fandom: Quantum Leap
Title: ( 3. One Giant Leap )

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Fandom: Doctor Who, revival version, Season One
Title: ( 15. Run! )

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Fandom: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, post-canon
Title: ( 13. The Fix )

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More coming as I write them.

[ETA the second] *Drabble: yes, I am aware that strictly speaking a drabble should be precisely one hundred words. I subscribe to a somewhat looser interpretation, to wit: if it's between 75 and 150 wordcount, I don't feel too bad about calling it a drabble. Call them postcard fics if you prefer that.

By request!

(For those of you going "recipes for whatnow?": Cholent.)

These are not so much recipes as vague descriptions. It's about as specific as I ever get.

( My standard cholent: )

( This past weekend's Improv Cholent: )

From the last panel of yesterday's comic on Questionable Content, rearranged so as to fit in a square.

If you've known me for any length of time at all, you know I have days like this. Occasionally entire weeks.

...but was too tired.

Am back from California. Am not dead, despite stated intent of my hosts to sacrifice me atop Mt. Diablo. (Kind of sorry I missed seeing Mt. Diablo from the top, though.)

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, ladymondegreen and I parodied cadhla's "Fly Little Bird" thusly. (Original lyrics here.)

My pants are well and truly bankrupted. If you posted anything since Wednesday that you think I should have seen and didn't, give me a holler.

She didn't know she could do that. But she did.

*stares at self*

Started it on the plane on the way back from OVFF, continued it once we got home, finished it last night. I've got a working tune, which I have the unsettling feeling is stolen from something else that I can't remember. I've got three verses and a wordless-vocals chorus and a bridge, and I think either the bridge needs to be longer or I need a fourth verse.

But. Dude. I wrote a song. This is so weird.


[Also, just to keep y'all informed: I am home sick today with mild fever and vomiting. But that's not what I came to tell you about!]


Am putting the lyrics up under my brand new Fellow Filkers filter. If you want to be added to it, sing out! (No pun intended.)

This is what happens when you listen to Beatles music while cleaning house for Pesach.

Set to a possibly recognizeable tune:

Winter's here, spring is coming
The whole house is humming
The Passover season is due
And at the end of the day
I will seal things away,
And I'll sell all my leaven to you.

I'll be cleaning my kitchen
My dishes I'm switchin'
(Remember that dairy is blue!)
And at the end of the day
I will seal things away,
And I'll sell all my leaven to you.

All my leaven, I will sell to you.
All my leaven, 'cause you are not a Jew.
All my leaven, ooh, all my leaven...

*facepalm*

Meme ganked from genarti.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
--Robert Heinlein

( Look what I can do. )