My 5 favorite fics meme.
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lizamanynames to do this. I'll have to limit it a bit, as some of my old stuff isn't on the net & it would take ages to hunt them up. Just looking over what's on the net took hours.
WRITER'S MEME: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of the top five favourite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most.
Ok, here's 5, in the order in which I encountered them.
1) 'Divide and Conquer, or Plan 9 from Andromeda'. Slash, found at Hermit Library. I'm mildly surprised to find it a favorite, but once I started reading it, I was enjoying it all over again. Avon angst, one of my rare ensemble efforts, meant to be silly, but somehow it's serious as well, and Orac gets to terrorize poor Tarrant.
2) 'Coma Avon Nights, or Kiss of the Avon Lady' is another slash also at Hermit (think they omitted the second half of the title, but eh, whatever.) I like this for various reasons. Partly because it was serendipitous- starting out as a series of vignettes which I frugally decided to reuse, but felt it would be more economical to merge into one long story with some sort of framing device than to expand each into a story. A few of the vignettes did become separate stories, but I can't remember their titles or where they are. Mostly I like it because it is totally shameless sexploitation of Avon and puns. It makes no apologies. It just leers and you and keeps running wildly down the halls, stealing underpants and putting them on its head.
3a) 'I like the Sprite in You AKA The Sprite Stuff' this is a collaboration- actually a fictionalization of an RPG done withblakefancier I love it because it's silly and hot, and Avon makes a delightful airheaded, dragonfly-winged fairy—named Phuck. Subtle I was not. (Since this is a collaboration, it only counts half)
*hmm* interesting how three of my favorites have double names
3b) 'Avon-in-a-box' Another collaborative effort with blakefancier. Even as a computer program, Avon loves Blake.
4) Persistence of Memory android Avon PGP. Gen and a bit angsty.
5) As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap It's rare a story that works out so well to do what I intended, which was in this case to make the reader yelp and have a blinding light of realization go off, making the whole story suddenly invert and mean something entirely different.
I've got stuff on the net in several places, some of which I'm not bothering to look at cuz there were only a few of mine there, like Liberated. So mainly I'm looking through Hermit, my website, and my LJ memories.
I'm looking through the Hermit Library first. I've got gen under my real name and slash under Willa Shakespeare and a few bits under ORmAC and at least one silly anagram pseudonym.
This is tough. Some I like because they said things about me, like 'Limits', some I like because I felt they were funny, like 'Mary Sue Meets the Language Barrier', some I like because other people liked them, like 'Pre-generation', and 'Dupe', some I like because they were so very different, like the 'Alphabears' photo story, and 'Furtling through Space', I like a few because they actually won awards in the days when you'd get a printed certificate saying fen liked it, like 'Dead Reckoning' (hmm, that's not at Hermit even though I thought it was, must see if I can find it & translate it [the old stuff is in such ancient mac format I may not be able to do it] to put up, must have been one of the ones in Anne Wortham's zines which she asked me not to put up so long as she was still making money off them, but that's what—10 years since the zine went in print? Time enough to reclaim it for the world, I think. Just have to get around to doing it.)
On my own website I always get a chuckle out of You Only Hurt the Ones You Love There aren't many Avon/Egrorian explicit sex farces around.
And I still enjoy the Alphabet series (MUST get back to it) and the Simultaneous Secret Diaries.
And the BALJAUs (Blake/Avon LiveJournal AlternateUniverses). *Sigh* How to choose? I love 'What Comes After Hell' and all the strange Avons like the merman in 'Net Profit' and the Santa-loving Avon in 'Jingle Balls' and the satyr in 'Lost and Faund' and the cat turned human in 'Familiar'.
EEp. I've got over 200 entries in my LJ memories for fic.
Mmm...I quite liked this 30 Dayna drabbles that made up her life-story.
Oh, and Oracula! I did like this one, another slashy giggle.
And for sheer evil I like this short story Old Age and Treachery
And for silly, I like this short story A Little Chess
Mmm. Have things to do today, must stop re-reading.
lizamanynames to do this. I'll have to limit it a bit, as some of my old stuff isn't on the net & it would take ages to hunt them up. Just looking over what's on the net took hours.WRITER'S MEME: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of the top five favourite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most.
Ok, here's 5, in the order in which I encountered them.
1) 'Divide and Conquer, or Plan 9 from Andromeda'. Slash, found at Hermit Library. I'm mildly surprised to find it a favorite, but once I started reading it, I was enjoying it all over again. Avon angst, one of my rare ensemble efforts, meant to be silly, but somehow it's serious as well, and Orac gets to terrorize poor Tarrant.
2) 'Coma Avon Nights, or Kiss of the Avon Lady' is another slash also at Hermit (think they omitted the second half of the title, but eh, whatever.) I like this for various reasons. Partly because it was serendipitous- starting out as a series of vignettes which I frugally decided to reuse, but felt it would be more economical to merge into one long story with some sort of framing device than to expand each into a story. A few of the vignettes did become separate stories, but I can't remember their titles or where they are. Mostly I like it because it is totally shameless sexploitation of Avon and puns. It makes no apologies. It just leers and you and keeps running wildly down the halls, stealing underpants and putting them on its head.
3a) 'I like the Sprite in You AKA The Sprite Stuff' this is a collaboration- actually a fictionalization of an RPG done with
blakefancier I love it because it's silly and hot, and Avon makes a delightful airheaded, dragonfly-winged fairy—named Phuck. Subtle I was not. (Since this is a collaboration, it only counts half)*hmm* interesting how three of my favorites have double names
3b) 'Avon-in-a-box' Another collaborative effort with blakefancier. Even as a computer program, Avon loves Blake.
4) Persistence of Memory android Avon PGP. Gen and a bit angsty.
5) As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap It's rare a story that works out so well to do what I intended, which was in this case to make the reader yelp and have a blinding light of realization go off, making the whole story suddenly invert and mean something entirely different.
I've got stuff on the net in several places, some of which I'm not bothering to look at cuz there were only a few of mine there, like Liberated. So mainly I'm looking through Hermit, my website, and my LJ memories.
I'm looking through the Hermit Library first. I've got gen under my real name and slash under Willa Shakespeare and a few bits under ORmAC and at least one silly anagram pseudonym.
This is tough. Some I like because they said things about me, like 'Limits', some I like because I felt they were funny, like 'Mary Sue Meets the Language Barrier', some I like because other people liked them, like 'Pre-generation', and 'Dupe', some I like because they were so very different, like the 'Alphabears' photo story, and 'Furtling through Space', I like a few because they actually won awards in the days when you'd get a printed certificate saying fen liked it, like 'Dead Reckoning' (hmm, that's not at Hermit even though I thought it was, must see if I can find it & translate it [the old stuff is in such ancient mac format I may not be able to do it] to put up, must have been one of the ones in Anne Wortham's zines which she asked me not to put up so long as she was still making money off them, but that's what—10 years since the zine went in print? Time enough to reclaim it for the world, I think. Just have to get around to doing it.)
On my own website I always get a chuckle out of You Only Hurt the Ones You Love There aren't many Avon/Egrorian explicit sex farces around.
And I still enjoy the Alphabet series (MUST get back to it) and the Simultaneous Secret Diaries.
And the BALJAUs (Blake/Avon LiveJournal AlternateUniverses). *Sigh* How to choose? I love 'What Comes After Hell' and all the strange Avons like the merman in 'Net Profit' and the Santa-loving Avon in 'Jingle Balls' and the satyr in 'Lost and Faund' and the cat turned human in 'Familiar'.
EEp. I've got over 200 entries in my LJ memories for fic.
Mmm...I quite liked this 30 Dayna drabbles that made up her life-story.
Oh, and Oracula! I did like this one, another slashy giggle.
And for sheer evil I like this short story Old Age and Treachery
And for silly, I like this short story A Little Chess
Mmm. Have things to do today, must stop re-reading.
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Date: 2007-03-12 07:35 pm (UTC)I wonder how many people in the history of B7 fandom have actually written Avon/Egrorian. I didn't even remember I'd written a drabble (http://snowgrouse.livejournal.com/504201.html) just because it'd be Wrong;).
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Date: 2007-03-12 07:49 pm (UTC)I've done such evil things to Avon. Avon/Keiller, Avon/Brian, Avon/Egrorian... :^)
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Date: 2007-03-12 07:44 pm (UTC)I figured out how to do 2 sided printing on my old set-up. Have to figure it out all over again, I'm pretty sure it's possible.
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Date: 2007-03-12 08:14 pm (UTC)If all you see is the titles, does that mean you don't have a visible address bar? I think you should be able to have an address bar in any browser. Do you have it turned off? I like to keep the address bar visible as it's useful for many things.
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Date: 2007-03-12 09:11 pm (UTC)Browsers vary a *lot* (and I'm on Mac), but I think you should have a menu that includes 'View' and under 'View' you should be able to find a drop down menu that includes an option to 'show address bar'. When the menu bar is visible that option should change to 'hide address bar'.
It's always a good idea to look at all the dropdown menus and try to familiarize yourself with all the subdivisions.
I like to keep control of my cookies and browser cache, too. Cookies need to be enabled for many sites to work, but quite often they are keeping track of stuff you don't want kept track of (and I feel that if you have too many they actually slow your browser) Cookies are located in many different places in menus, so your best bet is to use the 'help' that should be on your menu to find where they are and how to remove them individually. I usually go through mine every couple days and remove any I don't recognize as belonging to something I want (I leave the LJ addies and ones belonging to my emails & paypal, ebay, etc.)
The browser cache keeps a memory of sites you've visited to enable you to reload them faster. But this can take up a lot of memory and slow you down, and if most of what you're doing is LJ, where the pages constantly change, there is no advantage to it, so I clean out my browser cache about as often as the cookies. Again, it can be hidden on the menu in many places, so use the help to find it, and how to manage it.
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