Three dollars and some change

22. Tell us about the obscure fandom/ship you love that you wish there was MOAR fic for. (Or any fic at all.)

A few years ago, when Unforgettable came out (the one with the woman who remembers every moment of her life and she’s a cop and it’s a thing) I was totally into and there was *no* fic. At all. I went through a phase where I wanted to write ALL the fic, and then I didn’t.

I also wish there was more genderswap fic out there. I love exploring those dynamics in characterization. My current love is female Tony Stark; there are some lovely fics on AO3 with a girl Tony, but what can I say, I’m selfish and want more.

When did you create your LJ, and what brought you here? How did you get your username? Has it changed?

I made this lj back on... *checks the log* 13 December 2004.

Okay now I feel old.

I had a personal blog before that on LJ and wanted to start posting my fics here, back when LJ was a fandom hotspot.

My username... I had been active in the Profiler fandom back in the day as Zarah, but I wanted to change that up as I had moved away from that fandom. I was on an old testament kick and wanted to use Malachi, but that was taken on LJ so I transliterated to Mhalachai (as my personal blog). When I created my fandom blog I added " 's words" onto my username only it ended up looking like "swords" and I was like whatever.

Been Mhalachai ever since (even on the tumblr)

Random fact of the day: Nothing makes me change the channel faster than the Juicy Fruit commercials. I hate that jingle so much.

Hallo the internet!

MEME:

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books I might get around to writing one day, women in my fandoms, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures.

In other news, work has swallowed me whole. I am madly in love with this season of Doctor Who. And still cannot write a freaking thing.

Anyway, MEME.

Oh, NCIS. You almost made it interesting. That said, I was almost about to watch the new NCIS spin-off Legend and then the END with the GUNS (before the Ziva bit) made me go "screw THAT".

That noise you heard at 4pm was me "saving my username" on Dreamwidth. I'll be posting everything at LJ, at least until LiveJournal starts kicking kittens for Satan or something similar. So please don't stop checking my updates here :)

And because I just wrote that, there will be fic of some kind this weekend. Promise.

PS: Thanks to foi_nefaste for being so awesome with the DW invite :P
pps CONTAINS SPOILERS for tonight's NCIS!!!!!1eleventy!

I'm re-watching season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and all those things I didn't see when I was eight are really apparent now. Like, the Holodeck's sex-doll potential? Yeah. Ew.

Have some unrelated potentially meaningful XKCD

I've declared November to be National "Work on my WIPs" Writing Month, or NaWoWriMo. It's sort of like NaNoWriMo, only with more of a lisp.

I've started out well. I hammered together a thousand words for Dawning Light 14, and this chapter is much more upbeat that past chapters, thankfully. I'm done with doing mean (fictional) things to (fictional) children. This chapter is going to be a good one, and we get some plot movement. Fun times.

I've also mapped out the next chapter of Physics of the Spin. I'm not utterly certain that doing a Ronon POV is a good idea as I have never really understood that character, but I'm trying. I'm also going to address Sam Carter's suspicions of Rory (from chapter 11)... I'm a little worried because it looks like Sam might be jealous of Rory and Rory's already verging a bit on Mary Sue territory... so I have to do that delicately. But maybe it's true to an outsider it could be seen like that. Say you're Sam Carter. Say you've worked as hard as you could over a career in the military and in science, and in comes this young thing who's smarter than you without the hard work. Doesn't a little bit of envy cross your mind? Especially if you were stuck in another galaxy for months on end while your former team is falling over themselves for this kid?

(okay so yes, I know that Rory has the potential to be more than bordering on Mary Sue. Trust me, there's a point of some kind to be had.)

I mean, McKay can be jealous all he wants. He's (somewhat) threatened by his own sister's intelligence. But with Sam it's different. Gender politics in fic are hard to balance.

What else am I working on.... Yeah, trying to write Inevitable. Those last four chapters are just stuck in my head.

Those are my WIPs that are going to be updated this month. I might also work on a few one-shots... I've got some ideas. We'll see.

I could have gone my whole life without seeing the sign up in my neighbourhood:



Which got me to thinking, so I present to you, the best of this week's Vancouver Craigslist's Lost and Found:

Lost camo shorts w/ Wallet and Ipod - Wreck Beach Saturday Night (Wreck Beach)
Hi, I lost my black wallett, no money, but ids and everything. Also, my really old ipod was in the shorts, Again, not worth much, but sentimental. Please call if found - reward - Josh Niemier 778 319 1241. Probably lost between trail 3 and 6 late Saturday night, early sunday morning.

It's the "probably" that gets me.

good sum of cash found (GVRD)
found large sum of cash.
tell me where and what its in and it will returned minus the my rent and car payment.

It's expensive to be an asshole these days.

Found Mug (New Westminster)
Custom Engraved Pewter mug / beer stein found on 12th Street in New Westminster.

Ahh, to be young and drunk in New West on a Friday night.

lost wallet downtown, probably by the Cambie bar (Downtown)
lost a wallet.
new zealand dude named Jethro.
please please please please please please please please please please please give it back if you have it. i will throw like $30-40 at you.
take care

Or downtown.

And the weird award goes to:

Chocolate found (North Vancouver)
Found something chocolate near 28th and Lonsdale. Can't keep it much longer.

Srsly, what?

K, so, anyway, this is a bit of an explanatory post about stuff these days and why the lack of writing the WIPS:

( Explaination cut )

So that's how things stand. Interestingly enough, I have an interview across town in 2 hours I need to get moving for! Wish me luck :)

And now a meme taken from m_ravensblood:

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in comments. It can be real life stuff (Top Five People I'd Like To Dine With, Top Five Musical Pieces Ever Written, etc.) or fandom (Top Five OTPs, Top Five Things Anita's Going To Hit Harry with once/if they get out of Hogwarts, etc.)

Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to all your Top 5 ideas, according to me.

Back in a few hours!

I never knew how many of my f-listers were from Australia until there was an election. Have fun with your new government, guys.

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Today's dictionary/historical lolz:

Parr, Catherine: (1512-48), sixth wife of Henry VIII, who married him in 153 and survived him.

[emphasis mine]

I'm such a nerd.

Yeah, I know. He only decpaitated two of his wives, but it's still funny :)

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If this week ever ends it will be a miracle of biblical proportions.

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