lilairen, posts by tag: meme - LiveJournal

The closest thing I have to a fiction WIP does not have a page 77, so I cannot do the page 77 quote version of the "quote lines 7-14 of page 77 (or 7) of your WIP" meme.

But this is what I can quote:

"Yeah, I figured you would." She smirked at me over her empty mug. "That's about all we got, though. The Yuanese pissed off a block of gearheads recently and it's cost them in the kingdoms."

"And gearheads aren't interested in good beer."

"Exactly. It's an entire block of people who hardly give a damn about the meat economy over there, which means we've got nothing to offer them. Not a single tomato." She held out one hand as if cupping a fruit and then mimed tossing it aside.

Side note: KJ's eighteen-month checkup went spendidly, she is a healthy and mighty babe. I am not healthy right now, but I have been stabbed gently in the chest, throat, head, wrists, and feet, and seem to be not coughing anymore? Also I have tea.

So, jenett posted a questionnaire thing to her blog, and I read through it and was full of "Wow, a paganism religious questionnaire that doesn't suck horribly" and the sudden thought that I didn't know how to answer it anymore, because I'm in the middle of an intense period of religious turmoil. Which is, on one level, okay, and on other levels very upsetting.

I am answering the questionnaire as best as I can in order to see if I can sort my head out, because filing things neatly is good for thinkybrain and makes it stop panicking quite so much. Thinkybrain is full of panic.

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Tagged by erstwhiletexan. I don't tag others, but play if you fancy.

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.

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For lack of anything better to do, here's a first songlines thing. Everyone else is doing 32 in a row, but I got distracted by a shiny object (and releasing the Wrath of Sarge) so I just did 22, skipping instrumentals, which I was getting a lot of.

So, on to the game.

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Not many, but hey.

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This thing.

You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

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Keep forgetting to post this morass.

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Once again, a giant quizdump.

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So I'll just meme. In a really kind of meta way, for the most part.

Pick an artist, answer questions with song titles:
Nightwish

1.) Are you a male or female? "Beauty of the Beast"
2.) Describe yourself: "The Poet and the Pendulum" (artan_eter can have "Crownless")
3.) How do you feel about yourself? "Wish I Had an Angel"
4.) Describe where you currently live: "Sleeping Sun"
5.) If you could go anywhere, where would you go: "Dark Chest of Wonders"
6.) Your best friend is: "Whoever Brings the Night"
7.) You hate: "Two for Tragedy"
8.) Did You know that __? "The Pharaoh Sails to Orion"
9.) What's the weather like? "Dead Gardens"
10.) If your life were a television show, what would it be called? "Stargazers"
11.) What is life to you? "Amaranth"
12.) What is the best advice you have to give? "Live to Tell the Tale"
13.) If you could change your name, what would you change it to? "Nemo" (now that's meta)

(This is for long forgotten light at the end of the world ....)

Rather than blow off my state of angst and stress and all of that stuff, I will do the Bad Personals Ad meme. Hooray for displacement activity. Or something.

... what an appropriate bit of music to come up right now.

I'm so into you
but I'm way too smart for you
even my henchmen think I'm crazy
I'm not surprised that you agree ...

The rules: Write yourself a dating ad.


1) It has to make you sound as unappealing as possible
2) It has to be honest - you can't lie at all
3) It can't sound as though you're deliberately making yourself sound unappealing.

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