Everything is really conspiring against me getting back to my original fics, huh? XD

Stolen from orphan_star

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people: wiseheart, esda, moorlicht, roeskva, seekingeden (mwahaha, revenge for tagging me!)

I have "Der Schatten von Toth" (The Curse of Toth) by Michael Peinkofer lying on my computer desk from when I put it up for sale.

"Non, das ist nicht wahr. Ich hasse Bücher nicht." Du Gard schüttelte den Kopf. "Es ist nur so, dass ich glaube, dass man von Menschen besser und mehr lernen kann als aus einem Buch."

Yeah, so I should have known that the many different Transformers canons would come back to haunt me - in other ways than just melting my brains by trying to make sense of them (well, the ones you come across the most in fandom at least, that is) and keep them straight.

The convoluted Doctor Who/Torchwood canon? Batman characterisation confusion? They have nothing on Transformers!

But I haven't tried to write fic for these, except some "how to mesh universes" research for that TW/Stargate x-over I considered a while ago.

So yesterday I tried to write G1!Skywarp/Rumble because orphan_star and I decided that Rumble needs to get laid. But when I wrote Skywarp, he came out sounding and acting like Animated!Skywarp. Which I haven't even watched. Shouldn't have read these fics, I have him stuck in my head since then. Which is a problem, since Ani!Warp has a completely different personality.

And why is the only muse that cooperates in the Jazz/Soundwave story the Prowl muse? *bangs head against keyboard*

After the productive writing day yesterday, my Jazz muse vanished back to Cybertron today.

Didn't even manage four pages of very stilted and pointless scenes that don't do anything for plot or character development. They don't even count as proper filler.

On the up side... at least I feel confident that he's semi-IC in one of the scenes. Which shouldn't comfort me so much, really.

Writing fanfic is frigging hard! Why can't the plot bunnies stick to the original fiction I feel comfortable writing and have been perfectly content with for the last several years? (Not to mention have far too many WIP and a few thousand words would go a long way there.) Yeah, so after you haven't written on a fic for a while, IC is also a concern, but not as much as with fanfic.

Gah! Muses, why do you mock me so?

I just checked to see how much I'd written yesterday, figuring it's maybe two or three pages, and saw it's...

10 pages!

Wow!

Alright, it's in Arial 12, with lots of spaces, and I spent the whole day writing, but still, that's awesome! I haven't written that much in a single day in ages. It's in English AND fanfic, too - the latter of which kills me, since I totally lost my ability to capture the proper POV of other people's chars in the years I've only written originals.

Alright, just checked and saw it's just 4300 words *hangs head* I thought it'd be more, way more, even with Arial 12 and the spaces.

Ah well, I'll just forget about the word count and only remember the 10 pages!

Found this while browsing fanfic LJs yesterday. Can't remember where, though.
The Microfic Meme
Try to write different categories of fic (angst, fluff, UST, etc) in 10 words or less.

Categories:
Angst
AU
Crackfic
Crossover
Death
Episode Related
First Time
Fluff
Humor
Hurt/Comfort
Smut
UST

I utterly failed at the objective of the game, but I had fun trying lots of new stuff.

First time trying my hand at microfic, Megatron, G1 and Shattered Glass. Not bad for one day, eh? :D

First line is G1 Megatron, second line Shattered Glass Megatron.

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tagged by seekingeden
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
But however could I become an evil mastermind if I don't callously disregard the rules of good? So with the power of evil, I tag "whoever wants to do it", mwahahahahahaha!

1. I'm a master of denial.

2. My fic ideas always sound better in my head than on paper.

3. I'm lazy. Seriously. Very lazy.

4. Love to bake, hate to cook.

5. I hate mornings. I hope evolution wipes out morning people.

6. I'm masochistically fascinated by fandoms that break your brain.

7. I'm a control freak.

I came across a trailer for the A-Team movie when I was looking for more about that Tobey Maguire as Bilbo Baggins rumour and became curious. I loved that show once like crazy.

And to my delight, it looks like they managed to capture the atmosphere of the TV series.

http://www.trailerspy.com/video/7502/The-A-Team-Teaser-Trailer-HD

Also, I found out that they're going to go back in time with Spiderman to his high school years and there'll neither be Maguire nor Raimi (director) on board :(((

Damn, I love the Spiderman movies, they and PotC are my absolute "watch time and again" feel good movies. I'd been looking forward to Spiderman 4 ever since the amazing Spidey 3. Ah well, it works as a trilogy, but still, I'd been so sure there'd be a fourth movie! *sulks*

Stolen from thalassa_ipx on Livejournal

Your main fandom of the year?
Didn't really have one, I kept switching fandoms all the time. Transformers comes closest.

Your favourite film watched this year?
The Dark Knight, which I only got to watch this year

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Torchwood

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Star Trek. It's fun, but it didn't rekindle my Trekkie craze as I'd expected.

Your TV boyfriend of the year?
Jack Harkness, of course! (Torchwood)

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Thirteen (House)

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Thirteen/Foreman first kiss

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Supernatural, because I just keep waiting and waiting for German TV to air the next season, but they don't *sniffle* I'm beginning to suspect SPN was cancelled here.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
I've heard a lot of talk about Dollhouse, so I'm curious about it.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Would be nice to get at least one of my long stories finished (yeah, sure, I wish!)

Wishing you all a happy New Year!

Don't blow yourself up with the fireworks :P

Title: The Value of Our Eyes
Author: Artemis1000
Disclaimer: Naruto doesn’t belong to me.
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Sasuke/Hinata
Rating: G
Summary: AU futurefic. Sharingan and Byakugan don’t mix well. The villagers pity Hinata and Sasuke for the sacrifice they made for their love. They, however, know that their children are worth more than their eyes.( Read more... )

Title: The Worst Driver Ever
Author: Artemis1000
Fandom: Transformers movieverse, sometime post ROTF
Rating: PG for some Cybertronian curses and squishing fantasies
Summary: Barricade hides as a human’s car. Too bad he ends up with Candy, Autobot fan girl who can’t drive straight and has a penchant for sickening pet names. Who knew that the pit reeks of dung?
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...finally re-uploaded my homepage after... half a year or so of talking about it?

I even braved the FTP uploader, which frightened me out of my mind since I never used one before. FireFTP is really easy to use, though, it works just like Windows Explorer.

So now it's on Arcor and I made a de.vu domain (which I should've done ages ago, was just too lazy). It's www.artemis1000.de.vu

I'm going to keep the homepage as main storage bin for my original fiction, while I'll focus with my more recent (read, no embarrassing ancient Mary Sue stories *lol*) fanfic on Archiveofourown.org.

Feeling really proud of myself right now!

So you know when you have a midget-sized plot bunny hopping around in your head and maybe even a few lines of text and it sounds neat in your head?

And then you try to write it and you realize the plot bunny is really amoeba-sized and whatever idea you had just... unravels right there in front of you?

That's what keeps happening every time I try to write Transformers fic.

*headdesk*

And the plot bunnies still keep harrassing me, taunting me with ideas only to cruelly snatch them away every time I get within three feet of a keyboard. They're evil plot bunnies who like to play mind games with me, I swear!

So I finally decided to give myself a kick in the ass and see about getting my homepage re-uploaded.

Forget about the complete overhaul, after it took me months just to get that far, I'd never get done if I tackle that right away.

I took a look at Google and while that seems to have an easy method for creating new pages, well, I just want to upload the complete .html pages I already have. Which I can't figure out how to do easily with Google.

So does anyone know a reliable free webspace provider that has fanfic-friendly TOS? Not like I'm much of a smut writer (I wish! XD) but it'd be nice not to have to worry about having to transfer once more after the next big purging.

So I finally get around to copying the tags and user pics to Dreamwidth... And then when I go to the "import" feature in Dreamwidth, I see that this can be done automatically *bangs her head against the keyboard*

And this is why you should read the instructions first...

Weather forecasts were right for once, it's been snowing all evening. First snow of the year. According to the forecasts, it's to continue snowing until Friday morning.

Thank you very much for the beautiful snowflake, roeskva!

Der Schneidezahn, den ich mir vor ein paar Monaten bei dem innigen Kuß mit der Steintreppe schief geschlagen hatte, war wieder fest angewachsen. Aber ich glaub, jetzt hab ich ihn mir wieder gelockert mit einer harten Brötchenkante *seufz* Wackelt, zwar nur minimal, aber trotzdem. Ich dachte, die Sache wäre erledigt.

*grummel* Wenn er jetzt wegen dem blöden Brötchen doch noch ausfällt, nachdem ich ihn monatelang geschont hatte, werd ich echt sauer sein!