LOVE IS POISON

Not too long ago a certain lady asked me to write Inception fic. I told her it was probably a bad idea, but did it anyway. Yes, obviously it was a bad idea.
Two song meme fills and one tombola prompt from which you can easily deduce that:
1) I multiship;
2) I love Ariadne;
3) I can't write Ariadne.
Ergo, I'll probably stick to Arthur/Eames in the future and cry a little.

Arthur(/Eames) - Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch me for darkmagic_luvr
Ariadne(/Arthur) - Servant of Evil for mizunosakura
Grass green for the prompt... grass green (Inception, Ariadne)

All PG-rated and very much drabblish. The bulk of my writing effort today was the epic steampunk saga. I've written the opening scene, or at least part of the opening scene. It's 1,500 words where nothing at all happens. I'm all, man, you have to go out there and get shot! And my characters sit around making idle conversation and refuse to get the plot going. WTF.

I think I need a beta. Yesterday I ordered my sister to read my latest opus and find some damn mistakes to correct but she said it was all fine by her. NOT HELPFUL DUDE. I know I barf mistakes all over my stories. It's fine for short pieces but if I'm really going to write the epic steampunk saga I need to get off my butt and start doing things like proofreading and possibly find one of those anal betas that complain about every sentence they read. Why do I never come across those?

The next couple of meme ficlets have been posted! This time I filled both Castle prompts. I loved the Beckett one, but the Castle one ended up being one of the longest. I don't even know why. Uh, whatever. I even managed to avoid spoilers, am I awesome or what?
Kate Beckett - All the Right Moves by OneRepublic for gallifreycalls
Richard Castle - Hurricane Drunk by Florence and the Machine for bizarre_esque
With this I'm halfway through, and it took me just a month! So maybe I'll be done in another month and then I can do this Christmas prompts thing... Except I don't do Christmas, so it'd be for New Year. Whatevs. I'm rambling now.

Watched Inception again, in English - finally managed to download a nice clean rip! Obviously I'm getting the DVD too, but I'm bad at waiting. Anyway, Inception. ♥
Yeah, most likely the next fills will be the two Inception ones.

Lastly, if you're a Merlin fan you reeeally should head over to camelot_fics and vote so I can break the three-way tie that I have. It's really bothering me and I can't (for example) say that there is a tie for third place because my own fic is one of those tied. :/
So, either the tie get broken or the tie gets broken.

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ETA: I finally made a custom icon for my layout so I wouldn't have to suffer LJ's ugly default one that always stretched the text. I totally still have pixel skillz.

Also I'm sad because I wrote this awesome fic for thegameison_sh's challenge but it might not fit the monthly theme.

And I don't know if I'm signing up for next round because I like Sherlock but I'd like to write other stuff too but it's short and usually the themes inspire me but I want more time for Glee but IDK.

FIRST OF ALL WELCOME EVERYONE FROM THE CRAZY merlin_land_ot FRIENDING MEME! I'm totally friending everyone I wasn't already friends with because it was the greatest thing ever.

And speaking of memes, since I was talking about this with Jen earlier:

1. Make a list of 15 characters.
2. SHOW THAT LIST TO SOMEONE AND YOU DIE.
3. Let the people of your FList comment one (1) number and one song they've chosen.
4. WITHOUT SHOWING YOUR LIST, write something about the character, using the song to inspire yourself.
5. You done? Good. Now you can go and show which character or couple it was.
6. It's a meme with a twist!!

Yeees, it's the one I've already posted before but since I only got one reply (#13) and I've friended like 12 new people since then I figured it might be worth a shot to try and get your interest again. The fandoms are Merlin, Doctor Who, Torchwood, SPN, The Big Bang Theory, Inception, ASOIAF, Temeraire, Locke Lamora. And also Castle which I totally forgot about.
HIZA I SWEAR YOUR FICLET IS COMING! Kinda sorta.

#14 is still open! Not that you probably know that character anyway. :|

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ALSO EVERYONE SHOULD JOIN sherlockmas BECAUSE I SAY SO AND BECAUSE I'M ENTERING TOO MANY EXCHANGES AND I NEED SOME COMPANY IN MY DESCENT INTO MADNESS.

And no, I still haven't watched Merlin, though I did watch SPN but I keep forgetting to post about it because I find the vampire plot kinda boring. Also watched Children of Earth today. Russel T. Davies owes me three hours of my life back. And I'm just 4 episodes away from finishing Doctor Who S5, what am I going to do after? D:

Oh, I see it's midnight right now. Here, have a totally useless manip: