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Nonsensical enough for ya?
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Mar. 24th, 2009 @ 07:00 pm
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I've been here, but I haven't been here-here. |
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And more writing!
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Sep. 24th, 2007 @ 01:45 pm
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Because I've found another enablement tooloutlet for my creativity: ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) fanfic100. Prompt table behind the cut, because it's rather large.
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Internet/geek icons
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Sep. 17th, 2007 @ 09:45 am
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One of these might fall under the "too clever by half" category, but...well. There you go.
Please save these images to your own webspace/userpic area, rather than hotlinking. Credit to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) laughing_muse (or lethlogica, since that's my other identity.)
Cross-posted to many places, including text_icons, iconmakers, iconism. And Lethlogica on LJ.
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1000words: Prompts
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Sep. 13th, 2007 @ 01:14 pm
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Just as soon as I have these prompts in order, I'll post the entire list here. Though I know that one I'm using is 'font'. I already have an evil plan for them...
Okay, got them:
- font
- annoy
- beginning
- solitude
- devotion
- strange
- past
- reflection
- peace
- scent
Prompts for the 1000words fiction community. Feeling: amused |
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Cold, dark matter
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Aug. 29th, 2007 @ 01:54 pm
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For the 50episodes community.
Title: Cold, dark matter
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Doctor, Rose Tyler
Prompt: 009. Chance
Word Count: 424 (not counting the NRAO quotes)
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC.
Rating: G
Warnings and Notes: Spoilers for end of season two.
"We already knew there was something different about this spot in the sky."
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Qutoes taken from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory web site and press release.
Cross-posted to who_fic and 50episodes, and over at the LJ community time_and_chips. Feeling:  melancholy |
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The Laughing Muse
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Aug. 28th, 2007 @ 05:14 pm
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Which discourses on the origin of Muses in general, and on the tenth Muse in particular,
{with whom not many people are familiar;}
and treats with various events and personages of historical note and of scholarly mention,
whether or not the gracious reader has perused said tomes
The nine Muses were called into creation by the god Apollo, the lord of the arts, master of the hunt, and charioteer of the sun. The tenth, the Laughing Muse, crawled out of Zeus' sock drawer. Hera, the wife of Zeus, found the child trying to gum off the tops of her makeup vials and drooling enthusiastically, ruining her crushed pearl nacre face powder. In annoyance, disgust, pique, and an Olympian fit of PMS, she plucked the squirming sack of protoplasm from the dresser and went to her son Apollo, telling him to keep his pets out of her room. Confused at his mother's remarks, Apollo gave the child to his Muses - they being female, and so babies were, of course, their natural work.
Apollo was given a nine-middle-finger salute.
All nine Muses loved the smiling, bright-eyed child; but for one reason and the other she spent most of her time with Aunt Callie and Auntie Thal: Aunt Cory was always moving about; Aunt Polly was too somber; Aunt Nia always slept in the days; Aunt Clio got upset when her inkpots were constantly tipped over; and Aunt Erato, who positively doted on the child, just couldn't consistently produce quality erotic verse while babysitting. The other eight Muses all tried to keep the Museling from spending too much time alone with Auntie Mel, though, because they knew that depression therapy for the child would cost a bundle. When her aunts were all busy, the Laughing Muse would go find her demi-cousin Eris; and together they would diddle aimlessly with the Cosmos, causing all sorts of merry hell. Once, they put the mortal woman Alcmene directly into Zeus' path when he was roving around after proofreading Erato's latest works; which in due course lead to the birth of Hercules and also really cheesed Hera off.
The Laughing Muse chose her name one day after a long talk with her Aunt Clio about mortals, their socio-psychological neuroses, and their fictional characters. Two characters in particular, who hadn't yet come into being as the mortals reckoned time, caught and held her attention. One was a nonaggressive female empath who constantly stated the blindingly obvious, didn't act very bright, hid behind testosterone-pumped males when a fight started, and was an insipid sex object. The other was a counterpoint to the first: a nonpassive male empath who sometimes stated the obvious, tended to know a bit more than the other characters around him, finished some fights by eating his enemies, and wasa non-insipid quasi-sex-object. The Laughing Muse took the name Zylyn - both because the second character appealed to the Muse as telling society in general and stereotypes in particular to go stick it in their ear; and because the name "Anti-Troi" simply does not flow nicely when spoken.
For those of you who don't know your Greek and Roman myths (for shame!)
Apollo - firstborn son of Zeus and Hera, twin to Artemis, older brother of Mercury, yadata-yadata-ya. The Muses let him think that he was in charge of them because it was easier than trying to get him to understand the truth of his situation.
Calliope - Muse of eloquence and epic poetry; from whom the Laughing Muse got her tendency to run off at the mouth -er, pen -uh, keyboard
Clio - Muse of history. Talk really nice and she might tell us something cool - but then you have to decipher it...
Erato - Muse of erotic lyric poetry. You can tell when she was babysitting: the best she could manage then were smutty limericks.
Eris - goddess of Chaos. The Discordian schools of thought are founded on contemplation of her works. (Man, she rated a whole religion and all I got were some good verbal ripostes.)
Euterpe - Muse of music and lyric poetry (who is hurt about that "no country/western" crack; but hey, Aunt Terry, that's how the Cosmic Deck is dealt)
Hera - mother of the gods. Married to Zeus, who catted around a lot; and had a nasty temper - maybe Zeus' habits have something to do with that; but you'll never get him to own up to it.
Hercules - half-mortal, son of Zeus and Alcmene. This Mr. Buff Stud had tons of pictures and books about him that the mortals generated.
Melopomene - Muse of tragedy. She adored the whole PC movement: she provided the gestalt for thousands of slogans, bumper stickers, civic-yet-uncivil organisations, and speeches. It was like being given the keys to the world's largest candy store.
Polyhymnia - Muse of sacred poetry (also a bit pompous; I love her dearly, but she's too serious).
Terpsichore - Muse of dance. Even slamming; she'd just come back from a bacchanal, and was a bit lit.
Thalia - Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry. She's almost got that "fleecy little lambs skipping tra-la through the hills and dales" crud out of her system - it's been a few thousand years; that's a deeply-entrenched habit.
Urania - Muse of astronomy. She and her sisters used the stars and wrote out some pretty interesting information about Apollo in revenge for the "woman's work" thing: you think that constellation is Orion? Look ve-e-ery closely. You may not want to point this out to your kids.
Zeus - father of the gods, married to Hera. Had a nasty habit of seducing every mortal double-X chromosome, which resulted in many demi-deity children, brought him lots of mail on Father's Day, and failed to endear him to his wife, Hera. |
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