stunt_muppet

Happy Christmas Eve and Merry Christmas, flist, and Happy (late) Hannukah as well!

Things:

1. Presents: Mostly bought (I'm still not sure what I'm getting a couple of people, as making a bracelet or necklace feels insufficient especially when the giftee is, well, of the masculine persuasion).

2. Presents for family: About half-wrapped, as I forgot to buy boxes for Mom's sweaters.

3. Obscene numbers of cookies (sugar-frosted and peanut butter): Baked.

3.a. Obscene amount of cookie dough: Eaten. Urgh. (I hope the one time I finally decide to splurge on cookie dough does not coincide with the one time it decides to give me salmonella poisoning.)

4. Hole in my windowshade: accidentally burned, via electric window candle. Oops.

5. fandom_stocking fic: Not written, ack. I'm going to still write something for those on my flist with stockings, however, so if I don't make it before fandom_stocking  closes, know that I'm working on it. I just haven't had lots of time to write recently, what with the presenting and baking and sleeping very, very hard and all that.

6. Firefox's "Bork Bork Bork!" Plugin: Is possibly the best thing ever.

7. Muse's "Take a Bow": Is not as good as I would have hoped from the Watchmen trailer, boo. (The awesome, arena-glam-rock instrumentals are marred by really rather unimaginative (especially for Muse) protest-music-wannabe twaddle.)

7.a. That one Philip Glass symphony they play in the trailer before "Take a Bow": Totally is.

8. Realization: You can sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun". Really. Try it. I think I like that version better, actually. (That's the sort of thing I think about on the drive home.)

9. Meme, pinched from livii long ago: Doing. Post an opener for something you'd like to see written, but can't/haven't the time/haven't the plot for to do yourself.

There's actually dozens of fic snippets lying around my hard drive, since I'm good at thinking up plots and titles and ideas and very, very bad at actually writing them, but precious few of those are actually openers, so I'll just include the one that is:

They are each at once a punishment and a mercy afforded to the other.

There was a war - no, there were many wars, fought with soldiers stolen out of time. Displacement on a massive scale - enough to throw time out of joint over and over again.

He had to stop it somehow.

(from "Nothing Lasts (But Nothing is Lost)", a welter of explanatory fanwank disguised as a Theta/Koschei - Two/War Chief!Master - Three/Delgado!Master - Four fic. Also, I think I had the vague intention at some point of writing it trippy and dreamlike and nonlinear, given that I pinched the title from a Shpongle album and all.)

10. Sleep: Happening. Soon.