Before & After & Inbetween

I'll be working from home for the foreseeable future, so I expect online time to go up - as 1.5 hours commuting time are freed for other tasks.

Alphabetical watching meme taken from solo filled with... well, see for yourself. :)

( Name a TV show you like, starting with each letter of the alphabet )

spotted at rheasilvia:

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined.

1. Tokyo Babylon (X/1999): Sakurazuka Seishiro
2. Galaxy Rangers: Shane Gooseman
3. Robin of Sherwood: Robin of Loxley
4. StarGate SG-1: Col. Jack O'Neill
5. FAKE: Randy "Ryo" McLean
6. Babylon-5: G'Kar
7. StarTrek DS-9: Gul Dukat (but it's a tie between him and Elim Garak)
8. Yami no Matsuei: Tatsumi Seiichiro
9. C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner: Ilisidi (very close 2nd: Bren Cameron)
10. C.J. Cherryh's Gate Quadrology: Morgaine
11. C.J. Cherryh's The Dreaming Tree: Arafel
12. Ai no Kusabi: Katze
13. Barry Eisler's Rain series: John Rain
14. C. L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series: Steeli
15. Markus Heitz' Die Mächte des Feuers: Silena (tie with Ddraig, actually)

This was fun, though the list of fandoms probably says more about my current (or most recent) reads than about my closest ties. :-)

It's solo's fault!

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?

Depends.
If referring to a possible fandom within a longer, non-fandom-oriented post counts, then it would be Ryoma Sakamoto from Ryomaden, swift-minded, innovative, and very good with swords.
If referring to the first post dedicated to fandom, it would be Seishiro (and Subaru to keep him in check), so *shrug* and...
given that whoever it is, would be teamed up with me:

It's a scientific fact that a killer fungus turns Amazon rainforest ants into zombies (Warning: graphic pictures!). Therefore, zombiism = fungal infection.
Hence, I'd get a family pack of industrial grade fungicide, a spray cannon, a very good breathing filter for chemicals (recommended anyway in case of zombies, because of their *stink*!), ignore environmental protection laws on a widescale basis for at least 30 mins, then cover the de-zombified remains with a fungicidal strain of bacillus subtilis and return to my current projects. *vbeg*

taken from jeldi.

The rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to the page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences to LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

The result:

Cade stood calmly. The big man was an inert lump on the pavement outside. Her wail died away almost comically. There was only the sound of the broken glass falling out of its frame.
The receptionist huddled against the door.
"I'll call the police," she said, nearly shrieking.

Book: Christopher Farnsworth, "Blood Oath - the President's Vampire", ISBN 978-0-399-15667-0

...and I would like to add that the book is a lot better than the single excerpt above suggests. It's a rapid moving, imaginative combination of terror thriller and paranormal (vampire & co) action novel that proved to be a very delightful read after years and years of the vampire genre being repeated and soft-rinsed, creme-colored (and finally sparkly!) vampire books. This is tough, fast paced, breathless and decidedly unsparkly! I love it.

Taken from jeldi, who gave me the letter R. The last one was actually tough. I never noticed, how much of my interests start with S, T, and L. :)

Comment and I'll give you a letter, then you have to list ten people/places/things you love that begin with that letter, afterwards post it on your journal and fill out letters of your own.

( dear R. )

...taken from ranalore:

Name 10 OTCs and ask people to see what trends they notice about your characters. Try to pick different fandoms.

1. Sakurazuka Seishiro (Tokyo Babylon/X)


2. Shane Gooseman (Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)


3. Liosliath ("The Dream Tree" by C. J. Cherryh)


4. Robin Hood (amalgamate from J. Roberson's "Lady of the Forest" & "Robin of Sherwood" tv series, season 1 & 2)


5. Atlan (homonymous paperback novel series, mostly written by Hanns Kneifel


6. Morgaine ("The Morgaine Saga" by C. J. Cherryh)


7. Tatsumi (Yami no Matsuei - actually he's still battling for my favors against YnM's Earl!)


8. Chakotay (Voyager - actually equal off with Gul Dukat from DS9!)


9. Randy "Ryo" McLane (FAKE)


10. Judi Dench's "M" (Casino Royale)

In lieu of the increasingly available option to set "access controls" for fics not suitable for all audiences, I wonder how you rate multi-chapter fics.

I know that when people click on a fic rated NC-17 and find no content they consider "for mature audience", they tend to be annoyed (or even angry) about the false rating - often independent of whether or not they liked the fic in question - but what is considered mature depends a lot on the cultural background. For example: the US rates a lot more restrictive on sex and drugs than on (bloody) violence, whereas in Germany it's exactly the other way round. How do you rate your fics in that regard?

And what to do about multi-chapter fics? Not all chapters contain NC-17 material, some are just R or even PG, but such a chapter is merely a part of the whole story, which won't work without the mature parts. Do you rate chapters be rated strictly by what's in them - thus granting younger readers access to story parts, all the while knowing that they can't read the whole thing - or do you rate the story as a whole like I do?

How do you do it? :)

...ganked from LJ's elbales: the Nerd-Test 2.0



Not really surprising... ;)

taken from sakanagi

( the fanfic meme )