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A book meme that's just talking about books? SOUNDS LIKE MY PERFECT MEME.

A. Author You’ve Read The Most Books From
B. Best Sequel Ever
C. Currently Reading
D. Drink of Choice While Reading
E. E-Reader or Physical Books
F. Fictional Character You Would Have Dated In High School
G. Glad You Gave This Book A Chance
H. Hidden Gem Book
I. Important Moments of Your Reading Life
J. Just Finished
K. Kinds of Books You Won’t Read
L. Longest Book You’ve Read
M. Major Book Hangover Because Of
N. Number of Bookcases You Own
O. One Book That You Have Read Multiple Times
P. Preferred Place to Read
Q. Quote From A Book That Inspires You/Gives You Feels
R. Reading Regret
S. Series You Started and Need to Finish
T. Three Of Your All-Time Favorite Books
U. Unapologetic Fangirl For
W. Worst Bookish Habit
V. Very Excited For This Release More Than Any Other
X. Marks The Spot (Start On Your Bookshelf And Count to the 27th Book)
Y. Your Latest Book Purchase
Z. ZZZ-Snatcher (last book that kept you up WAY late)

(I did this meme on Tumblr and already answered K, M, T, U, V, and Y.)

Kinds of Books You Won’t Read:

Uh….I don’t read most modern lit, especially not ones I suspect are written by white male authors with manic pixie dream girl obsessions. I also don’t read horror because I’m a wuss.

Major Book Hangover Because Of:

Hmm, I am not sure what this one means? Like, is it the last time I felt hungover because I got too deep into a book that it hurt to come back to reality, because in that case, the latest one would be Tom Reiss’s The Black Count.
If it’s the last time I devoured a book series over the course of a weekend/a few days, drunk on prose and world-building, then, hm. Probably when I had my Sutcliff binge this summer and read all the Sutcliff novels I could get my hands on!

Three Of Your All-Time Favorite Books:

(Les Miserables is a given, right? Right.)

• Regeneration by Pat Baker
• Eight Days of Luke by Diana Wynne Jones
• Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede (with the caveat that I no longer buy any of her new books because of race issue stuff)

Unapologetic Fangirl For:

Rod Albright Alien Adventures, the entire quartet, by Bruce Coville. No, I don’t care that it’s aimed at children ages 8-12, or that the prose is pretty basic, I LOVE THIS SERIES and will always be convinced Snout and Grakker are married and that Elisabeth grows up to join the Galactic Patrol as well, and that Madame Ping is the best ever.

Very Excited For This Release More Than Any Other:

The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones and completed by her sister Ursula Jones after her death. A whole new DWJ book, guys! A NEW ONE.

Your Latest Book Purchase:

Well, I purchased a bunch of books in one go after discovering a gift card in my desk drawer, haha, so:

• After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda under Napoleon by David O’Brien
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• The Other Mozart: The Life of the Famous Chevalier de Saint-George by Hugh Brewster
• The Hundred Days: Napoleon’s Last Campaign from eye-witness accounts by Antony Brett-James
• The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and Bow by Gabriel Banat

2007 -- my first Yuletide!

The Flash of a Distant Camera (RENT, Mark/Maureen, het)

2008

As Long Ago As Forever, There Lived a Prince (Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea, gen)

2009

Such Delight As Prisoned Birds Must Find in Freedom (Pat Barker's Regeneration, gen)

Swept By the Tempest Of Your Love (Yozakura Quartet, Hime Yarizakura/Kyosuke Kishi, het)

2010

Here Thy Hands Let Fall the Gather'd Flower (Greek Mythology, Hades/Persephone, het)

Once a Goddess (Diana Wynne Jones's Chronicles of Chrestomanci series, gen)

2011

Variations on the Word Love (Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective, Madelyn/Nora, Thorny/Nora, femslash and het)

in this world of hope and risk (Hanna, Hanna/Sophie, femslash)

1) Discover the #1 single in your country of origin in the week you were born.
2) Find it on YouTube.
3) Post it on your LJ/DW page without shame. Or for some of you, with shame.

The Glory of Love by Peter Cetera

From the second Karate Kid movie, no less. Awesome. *laughs*

As seen on all over LJ, the AO3 meme, where you post a list of your 10 most read fics on AO3 and then talk about them!

1. Here Thy Hands Let Fall the Gather'd Flower (Greek mythology, Hades/Persephone, 2209 hits, 81 kudos)
2. The Aftermath Job (Leverage gen, 587 hits)
3. Once a Goddess (Chrestomanci gen, 451 hits, 35 kudos)
4. Hat Trick (Glee/High School Musical, Kurt/Ryan, 358 hits, 10 kudos)
5. A Memory That Wasn't Ours to Claim (Hot Fuzz/Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, Danny/Nicholas, 338 hits, 8 kudos)
6. Such Delight As Prisoned Birds Must Find in Freedom (Pat Barker's Regeneration gen, 331 hits)
7. Bright Lights, Big City (Glee/High School Musical, Kurt/Ryan, 289 hits, 4 kudos)
8. Where Sister and Brother and God-kin Know Us (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood gen, 276 hits, 1 kudo)
9. Outnumbered Like the Alamo (Stargate Atlantis, John/Rodney, Elizabeth/Radek, 254 hits)
10. The World Was All Playthings (Stargate Atlantis, John/Ronon, 242 hits, 7 kudos)

I am...honestly not very surprised by this list! *laughs*

-Numbers 1, 3, and 6 were written for Yuletide
-4, 7, and 10 were written for the two more recent Porn Battles
-2 and 5 were written for ficathons
-9 is my only McKay/Sheppard

The one nice surprise is my Fullmetal Alchemist fic, because it's about Scar and also gen, which I don't know is particularly popular in FMA fandom? But Where Sister and Brother and God-kin Know Us is one of my favorite fics, so I'm glad to see it in the top 10!

I figured I'd do this meme, post a sentence or two from your WIPs to try and get yourself in the mood to finish them. Especially since the majority of these stories have been languishing on my computer for a year or so. ^^;;

Dust You Know By Name (Star Trek: Reboot, Amanda/Sarek)

In Arizona, [Amanda] spent most of her time outside with one of her father's precious books in her lap, her gaze devouring its words and the landscape around her, committing it all to memory. She felt like she was one of those alien flowers that needed only the sun to bloom, soaking up the heat as the sun warmed her neck, shoulders, bare feet. The Arizona sun freckled her unblemished skin and earned scoldings from her father and warnings from her mother about her health.

Amanda had inherited her father's ability to charm and persuade as well as her mother's analytical mind and interest in nature and the unknown, but she had also inherited her father's love for literature. With the sun warm against her skin, she read first modern literature and then the classics: Plato, Kempe, Shakespeare, Wilde, Cather, Wheatley, Tolstoy, Woolf, Heimirsson, Nejem. She read her father's copy of Catcher in the Rye so many times that her father finally took it away from her, saying she would crack the spine from overuse, and gave her an electronic version of it instead. (He smiled sympathetically when she argued that it wasn't the same without the weight of the book in her lap, but didn't let her have the book back.)

Where the Sea is Sharpest (Stargate: Atlantis gen)

Ronon grew up on the outskirts of the capital city, where the wind whispered through the tall golden-green grains in the fields and knocked gently against the window of his bedroom. At night, after his mother had tucked him and his brothers into bed, he would creep to the window and open it, let in the night's scent of nearby greenery and sometimes smoke from a bonfire or someone else's chimney. Most nights he fell asleep to the plaintive cries of the black-winged langris as they called out for love and companionship, the calls following him into his dreams and giving him wings.

When he stood on the balcony of his quarters in the City of the Ancestors, all he could smell and hear was the sea, the taste of salt filling up the back of his throat and making his eyes sting. Back on Sateda, in a city that was only ashes now, he would have had to travel three days in any direction to reach the sea. One of the strangest things about being on Atlantis (out of the many strange and wondrous things) was the fact that the city is itself an island.

Another Bargain (Nero Wolfe/Madelyn Mack crossover, Archie/Madelyn, Madelyn/Nora)

I figure I would have met Madelyn Mack eventually, when it comes right down to it. Not that our meeting was fate or anything sappy like that, but when you're working for Nero Wolfe, you're bound to run into other detectives from time to time, whether they're horning in on your cases or coming to Wolfe for advice.

Of course, it happens that I met Madelyn Mack first, but the point stands.

Amid the Thieves and Outlaws of the Land (Life, Charlie/Ted)

A flash of red caught his attention, and he lifted his head from where he’d been studying the dust beneath his shoes. He’d heard of people having red hair, but this guy’s hair looked practically on fire, it was such a bright, striking color. It was almost ridiculous, like maybe it wasn’t a real hair color and the guy had just dyed it to make a statement.

Ted couldn’t help but stare. The guy stood out like a-- well, like a redheaded stepchild, though he wasn’t sure if that term was really applicable here. A sore thumb. The guy stuck out like a sore thumb.

Go to your icons page in Livejournal and look at the first two icons (the one on the right and the one on the left). Pair up the characters in the two icons. Go to the next two and do the same until you have a list of ships. Then...well, write 'em.

(I'm using my LJ icons for the meme, since, uh, my Dreamwidth one would just involve a lot of classic actors RPS.)

Radek Zelenka/Vala Mal Doran

....Yeah, I already wrote that: Making Mischief

( More pairings behind the cut, involving The Closer, SGA, The Man from UNCLE, Community, HIMYM, Babylon 5, and Life )

Or not. There's a meme going around to show how many box sets you own. I want to wince at how much I own, but then I console myself that about 90% of those were bought on sale.

( TV! )

*eyes list and laughs* I guess folks can tell what my favorite type of TV show is!

Also, I have gotten my friends into Life and The Magnificent Seven, and to celebrate I am going to go post my two Life fics and one Magnificent Seven fic on AO3. It figures that the only fanfic I've written for a TV series about seven men is...a femslash story. *laughs*

Give me a character or a pairing, and I will write you a one-sentence fic in each of the following genres: Angst, AU, Crack!Fic, Crossover, First Time, Fluff, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Smut, UST.

Fandoms: The Closer, CSI, HIMYM, Leverage, Stargate, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I am throwing myself at original stuff and trying to write, and it's making my brain hurt. So I now have a list of 15 characters from varying fandoms.

If you want to, comment here with something like "1, 6, 7, and 9 form a superhero team. What would their super powers be and who would be in charge?"

*grins*

ETA: ALEC HARDISON/PENELOPE GARCIA wound up one of the suggestions on my LJ. This MUST be written!

Stolen from, uh, everywhere.

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.