i'm building a body where our design has failed

Today has been A Day. I thought I was gonna have actual stuff to say at one point, and then it was A Day, and I am just too drained. I am staring at a twitch stream and failing to make myself do things.

I am not tired enough to sleep, though, and I'm rambly lately, so have another meme? I don't know guys. Memes are all I got.

Give a fandom, I will tell you:
1. the character I least understand
2. interactions I enjoyed the most
3. the character who scares me the most
4. the character who is most like me
5. hottest looks character look I'm gonna come up empty on this one basically every time, so instead, how about a character I'd have liked to see more of
6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
7. one thing I like about my hated character
8. a quote or scene that haunts me
9. a character I wish died but didn’t
10. my ship that never sailed

I feel like this could easily end up a spam-Dreamwidth day. I am weirdly rambly and thoughtful and also tired which makes actually talking easier. That or a spam-Tumblr day. I guess we'll see. In the meantime, while I try to figure out exactly what I'm gonna be doing, a meme:

• Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
  
• Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie. (Ones that did not have IMDb quotes are *'d.)
  
• Post them here for everyone to guess.
  
• Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
  
• NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions

( Sitting in the darkness, popcorn on your knee )

I still plan on going back and doing a bunch of old ones, but my recent desire to worldbuild, and specifically character-build, got brought up, and a thing coalesced, so. I'm gonna paste together and bastardize a couple of old memes in the service of character and world development.

Here's the game. I have a set of characters, numbered from 1 to 20. They come from 5 different original worlds and stories that I want to be working on this year. Some of them know each other; some, even from the same world, don't; some of them have been kicking around in my head about a decade, and some of them are sitting on that list with a three-word character description in the hopes I'll have named them by the time I'm done here.

You can:

• Ask questions about what they're like/what they like. ("What's 4's favorite ice cream flavor", or, "What was 9's family like".)
  
• Ask questions about their role in the story. ("What is 11's driving motivation".)
  
• Ask more meta questions about what they're like. ("What House would 19 be in" or "What would 12 think of 8".)
  
• Propose scenarios and I will describe how they'd go. ("1, 5, and 10 are on a roadtrip together; where are they going and how does it go?" or "16 has to pick someone else on the list to go on a date with; who do they choose?")
  
• Ask any other question you can come up with.
  
• Ask multiple questions about one character.
  
• Ask questions about as many characters as you'd like.
  
• Ask the same question about different characters.
  
• Jump in on another thread and ask additional/tangential questions that occur based on what someone else has to ask.

At some point, when I have a fair few questions, I will either edit this post with the list and start answering questions in the comments, or put up a new one with the list and answers - it largely depends on how many questions I get. (And once that's done, you're free to toss in additional questions, either before looking at the list, or that come up in response to previous answers.)

Today has been a super awful day for absolutely no reason I can give anyone; it started out okay but sore and low on energy, and the snowball just rolled from there. I've basically spent all day watching game theory videos on Youtube and playing stupid browser games. I can't even summon up the energy for work, and literally all I need to do for work on a daily basis is update social media.

I'm just leaving it for right now and hoping that if I don't push myself, tomorrow will be better. I'm damn sure if I try to borrow against future spoons, tomorrow will be worse.

But I also kind of twitch at how little I've done creatively lately, so have memes. I don't promise responses tonight but I'm hoping doing something vaugely related to creativity does something good for my brain in the long run this week.

Stolen off tumblr: Give me an AU idea, I'll give you 5 headcanons for it.
Or else: That meme where you give me a character and I tell you three random pieces of personal canon about them: let's do that.

My fandoms + also open to original verses if anyone's familiar enough with them.

There was a tiny problem to work around, because nobody informed me that you need an actual letter, but my two weeks have officially begun. My last night of work is Friday, May 20th. And then I'm done. No more Walmart for me. Ever.

(And I mean it. Fucking ever. I will work retail and stocking and jobs that hurt me physically again if I need it. But I am done with Walmart. My store is a mess of communication problems, awful management, and impossible demands -- and we are one of the consistently highest-rated stores in our entire state. I am not dealing with a version of that that probably has its shit together even less.)

Anyway, if anyone's curious/for my own benefit/for people to poke me into sticking to, this is what the next month or so looks like:

( Schedule )

At some point there's a couple of other lists I'd like to make, but they are more abstract than this, and I am thinking about them. Soon, though.

I am still a little terrified, but I am starting to get excited, too. I'm beyond ready to be on to a new phase. It's long overdue.


And on an unrelated note, writing is difficult, and I'm pretty sure most creativity (and... general life things that are not either impossibly to avoid or coming really easy for the moment) is on pause til the move is done, but I'd like to do something vaguely creative, so have a meme. Yes I know I suck at memes, but I will eventually go back and respond to others, and for now:

Leave me a character, get three headcanons about them. Fandom or original. (Bonus round: Leave a character and either a topic or an AU setting [whether it's one I already play around with or not], get three headcanons on that topic/in that setting. Otherwise you get random things that come to mind.)

Ask me for any character I write or have written and I will tell you, if they existed in the Harry Potter universe:

1. Sorting Hat: what house would they be sorted into?
2. Expecto Patronum: what form would their patronus take?
3. Riddikulus: what form would their boggart (read: their deepest fear/the thing they find scariest) take?
4. Amortentia: the three smells they find most attractive/appealing.
5. The Mirror of Erised: deepest desire.

Fandom or original, go for it please. HP AU rambles may ensue on some of them. Sorry not sorry at all.

Will return to last meme later. I claim stuffy headedness allowing me to nest in youtube for a while. However, I am also nesting in nostalgia, and I like this meme, and I haven't seen it in forever, so I'm stealing the thing.


Give me scenarios, and I'll tell you three things ____ did after the world was ended by ____.

e.g., Three things Remus Lupin did after the world was ended by nuclear war, or Three things Sam Wilson did after the world was ended by zombie ducks.

Fandoms! (Original characters also welcome if you know 'em.)

What the hell, I really need to write anyway.

Leave me a person/ship (fannish or original) and a kink (or more than one) and get a ficlet.

Stolen shamelessly from Tumblr, because I'm slightly more likely to get responses here and I could use cute things to consider. Leave me a ship & I’ll answer the following:

who starts putting up decorations in october?
who buys the advent calendars?
who places mistletoes all around the house?
who wraps the presents for other people?
who puts the final star/angel on the top of the christmas tree?
who’s the one that hates eggnog?
who’s the one that bakes christmas cookies for guests?
who sends out the christmas cards?
who knows all the words to twelve days of christmas?
who’s the better snowman builder?
who starts snowball fights?
who’s the one that wakes the other on christmas morning by playing christmas songs really loudly?