Do Fish Burps Echo?

Evidently I'm on hiatus right now, who knew? ;p Yeah, I'll try to un-hiatus at some point *waves hands vaguely into the future* (I'm fine, just busy. Really really busy.)

To tide you over until actual content resumes, would you like to read a story written for me for help_pakistan? Correct answer: Yes! It's for a song, one that's fairly old-- it's thought to be a variant of one of the Child ballads. (And at some point I'll put actual links in here.) I love the song and I love where snow has taken this story. ETA: The fic would probably make much more sense if you've heard the song or at least read the lyrics. (A lyrics link can be found in the author notes.) /ETA

Fic: Jane Barbour or To Hell With All Your Land
by: Snow // snow // snowishness
Fandom: John Barbour (Song)
Etc.: General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply (no Fish-specific warnings apply either), Jane Barbour/John Barbour, 766 words
Summary: "I would if I could," I say, knowing as I do it that it's not good enough. "But she chose to marry a sailor, and that's what I am." // "Decide what's more important to you, your wife's health or your sailing."
My notes: HELL FUCKING YEAH! Anything else would be spoilery. (I'll try to come up with an actual note when I repost this to my recs comm, but in the meantime, I'm too busy going :D about the final line to say anything else.)

Because I am horribly indecisive sometimes, I ended up giving Snow ten billion songs to choose amongst for her prompt (which I then subdivided into two separate playlists, because I may have been indecisive, but at least I was indecisive in categories!). Would people be interested in seeing those playlists?

I was wondering why no-one had commented on this entry and then I realised that not only had I not posted it yet, I hadn't even finished writing it up. Ooopsies. Anyway, here, have an entry.

A few days ago some of my friends were watching a tape of a stand-up comedian (I was curled up against the arm of the couch mostly falling asleep because it had been a long day). I think I got the better end of the deal because I like napping and what little I heard was mostly offensive and not actually funny. But I did catch one small line of his which had potential-- 'wrappers are like clothes for candy'. And so my brain went to the 'how 'bouts writing filthyhotguuuuh candyporn' place. (Evidently all I need to contemplate writing explicit sex is candy?)

And thus I bring you a poll (first person means the poll-taker, second-person means fish_echo):
( poll behind the cut-text )

I've got my FFFA fic sitting open (Dear Parker, Yes, I'm finally writing that rappelling scene! Love, Fish) but I've got this idea in my head that I think I might be plotting out, but knowing the POV character would be really helpful...

So! Poll!

Who should be the POV character?

A) Lilo
B) Ianto
C) Captain Jack Harkness
D) Rotating POVs
E) The Death of Rats (would be mostly an impartial 3rd person POV but with occasional SQUEEKs and CHEESE)

ETA: I'm not sure if you are teasing me or if you really want more information, but I did [put up a post where I talked about this bunny]. You should feel free to take the poll without clicking on that link, though :)

Since I've got the paid account at DW for a bit I thought I'd do a poll.

One of the things I decided after I [polled fandom] about recs was that I would make a comm to rec things on, since my journal seems to get filled up with posts on various sorts of things. So I set up fish_recs and proceeded to ignore its existence. I have since imported all of my rec posts to that comm and have occasionally updated or otherwise cleaned up the entries. I'm not finished with that process (so some of the entries are still locked), half because I really hate doing that sort of fiddling detail-work and half because I forget about it. But as in theory I have it up and putting along slowly, so I should post my next rec set there. Which has got me thinking...

Lately I've been wondering if I've put the comm in the right place. I prefer DW but most of my flist seems happy on LJ. Hence, poll!

(note: first person means the poll-taker. Second person means Fish)

( Poll goes here! )

Right, that's a long poll and I'm stopping now, really. :P And the comments are open for any further thoughts you have.

And if you like, feel free to send others this way, if you think they might be interested in my recs. Larger sample size => better statistics, bo-yah! Especially for the final question on the poll, I'm especially worried about the quality of my statistics for that section.

I'm not sure if DW allows non-DW users to take polls. It may well allow Open-ID. If you can't take the poll but have thoughts, just leave a comment with your thoughts. (Or something. It's not like I'm running a totalitarian regime here.)