#meme_responses

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URL Playlist Challenge

I was tagged a while back by @froggydarren​. I made a deliberate choice to only use one song per artist, or this could have been an all-Billy Joel list (just for example).

Girlfriend in a Coma — The Smiths Never Going Back Again — Fleetwood Mac Oh Very Young — Cat Stevens Mad About You — Belinda Carlisle Eleanor Rigby — The Beatles Rock Lobster — The B-52s It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me — Billy Joel No One Is To Blame — Howard Jones Old Friends — Simon & Garfunkel

Anyone who wanted to do this has probably already been tagged, but if you want to play the game, go ahead. :-)

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14 ?

14: Have you chosen birthdays for any of your characters? If so, when are they?

I haven’t. I’m thinking now that I should, for plot-related reasons.

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2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 34, 36, 40, 41, 44!

2. Favorite genre of fic? Oh, that’s hard. I like hurt/comfort, I like fluff, I like all sorts of fic.3. Favorite fandom? That’s like asking me to pick a favorite child. I mean, I love all of my randoms, and I still go back to many of them. Each fandom that I have been active in has gained me at least one long-term friend, many of whom I am still in touch with. My favorite *recent* fandoms have been “White Collar” and “Glee,” but my Sorkinverse fandoms are still very much in my heart.4. Favorite pairing? Ever? I can’t choose. Favorite to write? Probably Dan/Casey (Sports Night) or Josh/Sam (West Wing) or Neal/Peter (White Collar). I love Kurt/Blaine from “Glee,” but while I wrote a bunch of fic with them, I am still not sure I have their voices down.7. One-shots or longfic? Both, depending on my mood. But if I have to pick one, longifc.8. Do you read WIPs? Not any more, unless I know the writer has a strong track record of finishing WIPs. (“Dancing on Glass,” I’m still looking at you after all these years.)10. Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic? The slow burn. Especially in friends-to-lovers or enemies-to-lovers fics. I love me some slow burn.14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst? (This question is specifically about angstfic) I can’t read really angsty stories, honestly. I read fic for escapism, and I can’t really escape into an overly angsty story. 16. How do you feel about character death in fic? Other than canon deaths, I’m not really in favor of them. 34. Do you like UAs (universe-alterations, when the main universe and characters are the same but one plot point/decision/outcome is altered)? Yes, very much so.36. Do you like crossovers? If so, favorite crossover? I do love crossovers, if they’re done well. I’ve written a bunch of them (and it’s up for debate whether I did it well). It’s hard to pick one, since I love them so, but I have to choose the one by @hugealienpie, because she wrote it as a gift for me: The Sporting Life. 40. Do you like fluff? Yes! Give me the fluff! All the fluffy fluff!41. Favorite fluffy tropes? Stranded alone together; meet cute; a case of mistaken identity44. How fluffy is too fluffy? I’m not sure there is such a thing as too fluffy.

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11, 22

11. do you listen to music when writing?

Usually, yes. I use lyrics for titles a lot, often from one of the songs I was listening to when I was writing the story.

22. favorite story you’ve ever written

Ugh! I can’t really pick one that is my favorite. I think my favorite that I wrote knowing that it had almost no audience was “Say What You Need to Say,” which is a “Glee”/“Sports Night” crossover. Once it started bubbling in my head it wouldn’t let me go, even though I knew it had a very tiny potential audience.

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9, 20, 26, 37

(This is from the fanfic writers’ meme from last week. I was mostly offline last week due to an acute attack of SmallChildren caused by SchoolVacation.)

9. do you set yourself deadlines?

I love deadlines; they keep me focused on the project at hand. But sometimes deadlines make me crazy, too, so I’m more likely to set myself a word count to hit rather than an actual deadline.

20. favorite character to write

Ooh, hard question. I have so many. Josh Lyman and Neal Caffrey and Kurt Hummel and Burt Hummel.

26. story you’re most proud of

“All in a Night’s Work.” I had more than one paramedic/ED doc tell me that it rang true to them, and that really made me proud.

37. canon or AU?

Usually canon. Though I do love the occasional AU.

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I assume you are a COOL PERSON who does COOL THINGS. And knows language things and

Heee! Thank you!

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For the Assumption Meme - You are an awesome person. Kittens, Judaism, B'omer. And for many other reasons, too.

Aww, thanks! :-) You are awesome, as well.

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for the memeing geriatric wing of tumblr. :D 2 and 17!

2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?  I first got onto USENET when I was a freshman in college in 1990. At the same time, I got my first e-mail account. That was the first time I used computers to connect with other people.

17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear? I have a black skirt with red flowers that came with a matching scarf. I bought them when I was in high school, and I still wear them periodically.