stunt_muppet

So mainly I've been watching movies and waiting around until someone hires me. Occasionally writing, and going to parties, I've been doing that too.

I've been to see The Other Guys, Despicable Me, and The Expendables; really enjoyed Despicable Me, both because I'm a great big sucker for adoptive families and unlikely parent figures and because I want a crowd of Minions all my very own. The other two were okay; The Other Guys never really topped its first fifteen to twenty minutes and a lot of the jokes went on too long, and The Expendables was...okay, let me put it like this:

Me (thinking): You know, considering how completely straight this movie plays masculinity and gender roles, you could read some interesting commentary on the ways that the masculine ideal uses - indeed requires - the feminine Other/object for self-definition.
Stuff Onscreen: *bang bang pow punch*
Me (thinking): The woman becomes a metric by which masculine worth is measured; perhaps, beyond the simple morality via object-response and the ideal of the innocent or pure "Other" untouched by human (ergo male) life, you could see an element of the idea of anima, or feminine soul - I mean, it's certainly still not a benign view, but -
Stuff Onscreen: *KABOOM*
Me: *leans over to brother* Wait, why did they blow up the church again?
Brother: ...I have no idea.

...So yeah. That happened.

Oh, and a pair of wasps of some variety mated on our chives today when I tried to take their pictures. I thought about taking pictures of that because I'd never seen it before and it was the only time I could get them to hold still long enough to photograph, but really, I like it to think I haven't reached such a disastrously low point in my life that I'd spend time photographing wasp pornography. Still perversely interesting, though.

It's rather dejecting, sitting around filling out more and more applications and having nothing really to do except wait for reply e-mails and calls. I go out with my friends, and it helps and I love them all to bits, but there's still that feeling of inevitability; I know that eventually I'll probably get a job, even if it's in retail (because even the retail and restaurants around here don't have many openings), but it just feels like I shouldn't even bother applying because 'm overqualified for one-quarter of the jobs and underqualified for all the rest.

I should have finished my double major. Even if it made me miserable, even if it took me an extra year of school. Maybe at least then I'd be qualified to work as a lab assistant. I don't know.

Since the ficlet project has appeared on my flist a couple of times, I thought I might give it a try. I really shouldn't, since I'm finally making progress (slow, inching progress) on one of my springkink  fics, but the thing is I've been writing mostly scenes and disconnected fragments, nothing complete. And I need to work on that, or at least on writing something short so maybe when I write fic claims I can stop letting them balloon out into thousands and thousands of words.

So, here it is:

The first commenter on this post gets to request a ficlet by naming a fandom from the list of fandoms below, a character or pairing, and a brief prompt. I'll write a quick ficlet based on that prompt, and the first commenter on that post (you don't have to comment on the fic itself when you do so, though if you wanted to do it later I certainly wouldn't complain) gets to name a fandom, characters, and prompt, and so on and so forth until I get tired.

Fandoms I'm comfortable writing:

Doctor Who (First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors)
Transformers (G1, up to the Movie, mostly core cast; TFA TV canon; Beast Wars first season)
NCIS (Up to Season 5)
Bones (up through Season 3)
Eureka (Season 4; Season 1)
ReBoot (Season 1; I've seen more but am not as comfortable writing it)
Star Trek Reboot
Inception
Iron Man Movieverse
Toy Story
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (anime only, up to second tea party)


A few notes on preferences: I'd prefer not to go any higher than PG-13/light R for this project (smut takes time and frustration); I'd also prefer not to write noncon, heavy kink, deathfic, babyfic, or anything above PG for the Toy Story stuff.

So, yeah. Let's see how this goes.

For once it's not 1 a.m.! I'm impressed.