Stolen from a person who commented on my icon journal:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

JUNE 1ST

FACTS
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1956 – First international flight (to Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - YUL) from the Atlanta Municipal Airport (ATL); now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and currently the world's busiest airport)
1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

BIRTHS
1801 – Brigham Young, American colonizer and religious leader (d. 1877)
1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor

DEATHS
1968 – Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)

Comment and I'll pick one (unless you want more) of your fandoms, post the answers to your journal and so on and so forth.

donutsweeper gave me The Dresden Files (bookverse)

( The Questions. )

01. put your music player on shuffle
02. the first lines of twenty songs = a poem
03. the first line of the twenty-first song is the title.
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"Been Working So Hard"

You talk tough to me
Is it the wind?
Some days aren't yours at all
Can you feel it?
I'm watching sis go pitter pat

No more questions
I've paid my dues
In the still of the night
I've got a girl and Ruby is her name
No one mourns the wicked

What have we done?
There are giants in the sky
If you're feeling lost in the darkness
I've got a handful of songs to sing you
This was the last chance I would give

This is hard to say
Go to sleep
So many nights I have stood in the moonlight
Forgive, sounds good
We have all the time in the world

India Foxtrot Yankee Oscar Uniform Charlie Alpha November Uniform November Delta Echo Romeo Sierra Tango Alpha November Delta Tango Hotel India Sierra, Charlie Oscar Papa Yankee Alpha November Delta Papa Alpha Sierra Tango Echo India Tango Tango Oscar Yankee Oscar Uniform Romeo Lima India Victor Echo Juliet Oscar Uniform Romeo November Alpha Lima

Tango Hotel Echo Bravo Alpha November Delta Whiskey Alpha Golf Oscar November. India Alpha Mike Oscar November India Tango.

( 2009 Fic Round-Up + Meme )

First time I didn't have to correct any html code before posting. Booyah!

From featherjean:

Please comment with one word. (Scrabble rules do not apply - the word can be a person, place, or slang.)

I will write a drabble-ish length reply. It might be fic, it might be original, it might be memory, might be, I don't know, a definition? A recipe? A made-up word origin?

Answers up now, so utah_yoda doesn't go insane.

From featherjean:

1. Put your iPod/iTunes/music on shuffle
2. DO NOT write down the lyrics of the first 10 songs to come up.
3. Describe what the song is about. Be creative.
4. Cross out the songs when your friends guess them in the comments.

If you like, when you guess correctly, I'll make you an icon or graphic of your choice.

I've tried not to include anything too obscure and nothing in a foreign language.

( This is hard. )

From featherjean. This is always fun. Don't forget to post your own so that I can gift you.

( Guidelines )

( My wishlist. )

It's another meme! From the lovely joonscribble (again).

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

You can find my fics via memories (not up-to-date) and tags (links to the left).

From the lovely joonscribble.

1. Write down the names of 10 characters.

2. Write a fic of fifteen words or less for every prompt, using the characters determined by the numbers. Do NOT read the prompts before you do step 1.

The Characters
1. Harry Dresden (Dresden Files TV)
2. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
3. Tony Stark (Iron Man)
4. Cal Lightman (Lie to Me)
5. Ray Kowalski (due South)
6. Anna Murphy (Dresden Files TV)
7. Kaylee Frye (Firefly)
8. 10th Doctor (Doctor Who)
9. Rick Castle (Castle)
10. Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood)

You might want to choose your characters now, if this meme interests you. Otherwise you'll see the prompts when you read the fics.

( 15 words or less. )

First, from joonscribble

Comment with what you believe I should write next. A drabble? A oneshot? An epic? The next chapter of a WIP from ages ago? Want to see me write in an old tried and true fandom or dip my toe into a different fandom I've praised but have yet to fic? Specific character? Specific genre? Give me your suggestions and poke my Muse.

Next, from featherjean

Give me a fandom I'm in, a character or pairing (or threesome/whatever), and a prompt (word, image, phrase, poem, reference, whatever) and I'll give you something creative made of words. (Meta? A line of fic? A paragraph? A drabble? A ficlet? A full story? We'll see.)

From the lovely joonscribble:


Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

( She asked... )

From joonscribble:

Take a few of your original characters and tell us...

1. How you thought of their name
2. What made you create the character in the first place
3. How the character has changed over time (if they have changed)
4. Any random fun fact about that character

Characters Playing:
Miranda Dresden
Dr. Forrester
Fay Dresden

( To the backstory repository! )

Memes soothe a frazzled soul, so I went looking for one to help ease my computerless pain. I am typing in Notepad on my 'rents' computer and it doesn't look right! The font is wrong and the screen is stretched out. But I will persevere for the good of meme kind.


1. Choose a few of your own characters. Five at the most.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Then tag three people.
4. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!

Characters playing:
Dr. Forrester
Fay Dresden
Dylan Cartwright

( Questions! )

From joonscribble:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

For anyone needing clarification: you make up the title of this fic I never wrote and what you liked about it. I'll take care of the rest. (thanks to joonscribble for the clarification, too)

Answers to the Top Five Meme.

( Lists! )

Stolen from joonscribble:

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

Meme from _medley_

Choose your genre show, answer the questions using episode titles from that show--if possible, don't repeat any.

( Is due South a genre show? What is a genre show? )

Still not getting comments. How can I be a comment whore if I don't know when I have comments?

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. (If you want a letter, just say so)
2. List (and upload) 5-10 songs that begin with that letter. (I'm just linking to places you can hear them.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

featherjean gave me 'M':

Man Like Me (Robert Downey Jr.)
Marcher Dans Les Flammes (Buffy Musical Episode in French)
Meadowlark (Liz Calloway)
Muddy Water (Big River OBC) [on a Horatio Hornblower fanvid]
Mort de Roméo (Roméo et Juliette OCR)
My Heart Belongs to You (Hayley Westenra)
Morgen på Atlantis (Atlantis OCR) [Danish]
Misunderstood (Robbie Williams)
Many the Miles (Sara Bareilles)
Men of Harlech (Charlotte Church)

First off, anyone else not getting comment notifications?

Second: Meme!

Taken from featherjean (who is blogathoning today, you should check her out if you're interested in sponsoring her):

( Writing Five. )