Writing rambling

[icepixie]

Hmmm. I am very tempted to sign up for schmoop_bingo and/or mundane_bingo once it goes online. Given the kinds of things I tend to write, they seem very appropriate. I probably won't, though, since any and all fic-writing challenges/exchanges/fests/prompts tend to make fandom feel like work, which is no good. (Which is not to say that I don't enjoy writing something suggested by one of y'all in the course of a conversation about something else, and sometimes a list of prompts will spark something, but the only deadlines/guidelines I like to have are self-imposed.)

However, of the four CI 'verse fics I have in progress at the moment (they just keep mushrooming! I will never finish anything!), three of them fit prompts from schmoop_bingo (well, assuming one likes their schmoop laced with political intrigue and the odd firefight, but hey, who doesn't like that?). One of the prompts also gave me an idea that I am resolutely tabling until I finish some of my backlog. The other in-progress fic is currently summarized as "Curtainfic with actual curtains, and other household objects," so it would likely fit mundane_bingo. Tempting, tempting. Eh, maybe I'll just pick and choose interesting prompts from the master lists and make my own personal card.

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[foursweatervests]

Girl, where did you get Susan Enan?? Did she finally drop an album??

[icepixie]

Yes! It's on iTunes. I assume other places are carrying it as well.

[foursweatervests]

I'm at odds as to how to express my excitement and frustration. On one hand - awesome! On the other - finally! After one of her songs was featured on Bones I googled and googled until I found the song. She had a myspace, and technically had an lp out, but had only pressed, like, a couple hundred and was selling them at shows. Which, of course, were nowhere near me. Seriously, I've been waiting three - four? - years. Okay, back to excited! (And less self-absorbed.)

[icepixie]

I...actually don't really like her version of "Bring on the Wonder," and had not even thought of the song/Enan since I watched whatever episode that was. (I've since broken up with Bones anyway.) However, Sarah McLachlan recently put out a new album, and she has an excellent cover of that song on there. I kept wondering where I'd heard it before, and turned up Enan's name on iTunes, which had a handy-dandy link to the new (well, apparently Sept. 2009) album.

I feel like I should like her more than I do. I got five of the songs from that album, but didn't feel the need to get the others. Of the ones I bought, I love the music and her voice, but the lyrics make no sense, which irritates me.

[foursweatervests]

Ohh, I love her version of "Bring on the Wonder". It might be because I ripped it off her myspace, but it's got this wonderful, rough quality to it that I haven't heard anywhere else. (I don't really watch Bones seriously anymore. The plotholes have gotten too large, and the breaks in character too sudden. Instead, I pretend it's a series of fics written by different authors with different takes on the canon that just happened to be filmed and shown on FOX.) Ehhhhh. Not so much a Sarah McLachlan fan. I really loved her in high school, and now I can't really listen to her because I'm just embarrassed for how awkward I was as a teen.

Hmm. Well, I can't really speak since I only have, like, three songs of hers, and I doubt any of them are on the album. I don't have that problem with the songs - I feel like they're written more with the evocation of a feeling in mind than telling a story - but that could definitely be something she developed later.

[icepixie]

I don't really watch Bones seriously anymore. The plotholes have gotten too large, and the breaks in character too sudden. Instead, I pretend it's a series of fics written by different authors with different takes on the canon that just happened to be filmed and shown on FOX.

Ha! That's a good way to go about it. Personally, I just wound up finding it completely dull somewhere in S4, and then the proverbial last straw was that episode where Sweets literally showed his scars. ACK. I had hated Sweets since he showed up; that was it for me.

[foursweatervests]

I had hated Sweets since he showed up; that was it for me.

Ahahahahah, okay, I'll give you the scars thing. That did get a little...wtf-ish. I missed that episode, thank god. It meant I could keep respecting Sweets. I'm really fond of his character because the actor (Francis whatshisface) was on Freaks and Geeks, and I used to watch that with my mother and my brother.