a++ would smuggle into space again

newredshoes did this a while ago, but with Shakespeare. I am much lower-brow. And also I have had this song stuck in my head for two days.

Pick a lyric below and prompt me with a fandom, character, or pairing. No promises on timeliness of completion. You know how I do.

1. The cat calls through the night
2. And two chicks in the parking lot crack wise on the price of fame
3. They stood to gain
4. The phonebook's been ripped off
5. And two shapes in the dark across the way know the price of flight: Margaret/William, Hazards of Love, seekingferret
6. Its weight and size: Civil War generals RPF, newredshoes
7. If you've got something that sheds some light
8. Use it tonight, tonight
9. Heads down, thumbs up
10. Two sips from the cup of human kindness and I'm shit-faced, just laid to waste: Harrowdown, pushingmetaphor
11. So wait here, wait up
12. Stock tips from the credit checks come next in the logic's line
13. And all on my dime
14. If you've got will and a little time: Jackathan, marina.
[Use it tonight, tonight]
15. You had to send a wrecking crew after me: Tony Stark, soda_and_capes
16. I can't walk right: steampunk Harrowdown, deutscheami
17. Phantom of the heart
18. Four beats from the parting lungs and mind: Katara, meej.
19. Since I was a child; just grew there wild
[So heads down, thumbs up]
20. Four beats from soft, and get set to exercise your right
[Use it tonight]
21. If there's a choice between a chance and flight, choose it tonight, tonight

BONUS NO CHILDREN FIC: I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us, Kirk/Spock/Uhura, for thingswithwings

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, post exactly one sentence/paragraph/whatever from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

( I am the Queen of Unfinished Projects! )

In terms of this being tempting, I hardly think so, 'specially as I may not ever finish most of these, argh.

...I want to finish the Gratuitous Tragedy Catharsis Play.

THERE IS A REASON IT WAS ONLY THE CATHARSIS PLAY.

dammit.

The prompt was Juilliard--my RP character for no_mans_land_--and damn, this was fun. I like Juilliard. I had to throw in the reference to his poofter status at the end, because I did, so nyah.

( Finicky Work )

So this was a lovely and quite fun challenge, this, and I would like to open it up again, since I got mostly Discworld suggestions. Which, by the way, were beautiful and lovely, and made me very happy, and yay for my apparent Breakfast on the Disc theme, which I didn't notice until the Vimes/Sybil was done. But the bunnies are still lurking, and I once again say: Challenge me anything! (Except for Discworld. For now. Watch this space, things to change as events warrant, etc.) Lyrics! Fanfiction for those of you whose writing I've read! (Yes I KNOW I owe you, erythros. I mourn myself.) Colors! Pairings! Fandoms: Harry Potter, Good Omens, and, um, Shakespeare? *trembles* And original fic. As see above. I know some of you have NOT yet, and, well, I'm free. Really.

We're reading MAUS in English--for me, it's the fifth time or something--and I was suddenly inspired to write a graphic novel.

Duuuuuuuuuuuude. I've finished the first page, and it's actually...pretty awesome. I'm very proud of it--good dialogue, readable handwriting; my mom thought the main characters, husband and wife, were mother and daughter, but not throughout the page, and the opening "montage" is really, really pretty.

This, though, brings up my catalogue of unfinished...things to a lot:
1) THE NOVEL.
2) The NaNo Fun Novel. Of joy.
3) The short story about wormholes and fundamentalists and Asimovean scifi.
4) The short story about the skatepark and the kid's story.
5) The song that's bouncing around my head, which lyrics include "tell me who you want me to be, and I'll be it--but don't ask me to be me," only with rhyme and meter.
6) The illustration for mumuchan's parody story.
7) The (unstarted) fanfic for A Heart Apart, erythros's baby.
8) The vocab list for my pet language, Kilis-Ai.
9)...And the roleplay, which has had its first major subplot all climaxed and gone, and needs an infusion of plot, fast.

I'm sure there's more I can't think of. But this makes me inexpressibly happy and feeling creative.

Nine, baby. NINE CREATIVE THINGIES. How can that NOT be cool?

Dear NaNoWriMo Novel,

When I said I was going into you without any planning, I did still mean for your plot to be one of the many ideas I've had floating around my head since second grade. Not for it to be completely out of the flying blue. And to be set in sort-of-Russia. And to be about what happens to a society when you can't dream. And to be about the dangers of technology versus the dangers of lack of technology. And to feature a society with automatic abacuses, engine-drawn carriages (you heard me--not propulsed, drawn. Like pod racers.) and instead of microphones, sophisticated projection techniques.

In short, what the fuck?

Yours truly,

Emma the HIGHLY Confused

P. S. When I suggested you be about dreams, I did NOT MEAN for you to force me to listen to incredibly trippy music to get the language to sound right. I hate you.

I have made a resolution.

I WILL STAY FIRM.

It is thus: Lo, I shall not speak unto a soul (heh) about the novel I am herewith writing (1), for lo, I am long wearying thine ears about it, but thou'rt patient with me, o world, and do not box me about mine ears, as thou shoudst. So that no word on such subject shall cross my lips till five chapters are finished, and then again unto ten chapters.

So therefore and therewith, I shall type exceeding much unto my livejournal about mine "novel" and moan herein about such things, for the pain and suffering of writing thou, my mighty friendslist, knoweth well.

If any of thou wish not to be burdened with such moaning, thou must post immediately and forthwith, and I shall remove thee from a filter, or some such thing, so that I may not whine in thy ear.

Lo, henceforth so be it, world without end.

*hums the v'ahavta*

(1): Except unto Anna, for she is exceeding kind, and wishes to be let known about such mad things. She is also quite mad.

There was no one there. The door was hardly even open; the wind had passed five minutes ago. Robert scratched his hand uneasily, where his hair was prickling.

In fact, the room was much more empty than it had any right to be…

He sighed. “Cassie? Get out of there, you’re not fooling anyone. Honestly.”

The ghost that materialized in front of him was too sheepish to speak, but not too much to grin.

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(The prompt doesn't even matter--this has hardly anything to do with it.)

I have an SOV language, which means it should be postpositional (right?) The problem is that I'm not quite sure how this applies.

Example:

Shiyos Kilis-po latisiku

Shiyos=flame, -po=to, latisiku=traveled

"Flame traveled to Kilis."

That seems clear. But what about "The flame traveled to Kilis"? Would that be shiyos-ai or ai-shiyos? And what about "and" & conjunctions?

Meme gacked from [Unknown site tag]mctabby:

Put the last lines of the past ten posts on your friends list. (Not counting mine.)

1) Fudge never changed.
2) <3 Heather
3) She was living like it was her last night on Earth … because maybe it was.
4) Plus, it's funny, needs to be shared, and I don’t want to study for finals.
5) The goggles do nothing!
6) And it was the best and brightest day of his life.
7) It wasn’t what he’d planned originally, but it worked.
8) And I was...
9) No Hufflepuff bashing!!!
10) "Get Malfoy for me, Harry."

This sounds like a fic. I'm going to write it tomorrow.