Did No One Get The Memo To Be Nice To Students For The First Week?

[redbrunja]

Aren’t teachers supposed to ease us into college? This quarter was more like starting a race than anything else. “Ready... set.... 100 pages of reading, a daily response and an essay due, stat!”
 
I can’t believe I’ve only been at college a week.

So far, with one exception, my classes seem really cool. My teacher for my Japanese Film and Culture class seem fun, and Cross-Cultural Psych will be very interesting (even if the book is confusing as hell).  My Prospectus class (how to publish a novel) is less fun, because the teacher is kind of wishy-washy and hard at the same time, and keeps assigning personal assignments that are very time-consuming.

I actually think the hardest part about this quarter is going to be scheduling; I have a lot of things that can’t be done until something previous is done, which can be difficult.

For example, on Wednesday evening I watch anime, then I have Swing Club and an exercise class at the Rec center (following by collapsing into bed). Then on Wednesday, I have work, class until 5:00, go the to gym (and then it’s Supernatural night; how am I supposed to delay my weekly Dean fix?).

But somehow I’m supposed to manage to write a response to the anime I watched on Wednesday prior to Friday at 10:00 am.

So, that was probably more than you cared to know about the minutiae of my life.

Also, penknife was discussing compatibility here and refering to The Broccoli Test (from gwyn_r’s lj):

“As legend, and my mind filling in blanks, would tell it, Sandy and C were at the grocery store, on opposite ends of the produce section, and Sandy was trying to tell C to pick up some broccoli without shouting across the store at her. No amount of pantomiming and mouthing of the words could get the point across to C, and Sandy apparently told her (we were all in the midst of Professionals-mania then), "Doyle would have known Bodie wanted him to pick up some broccoli with just a raise of his eyebrow!" or something like that. Hence, Bodie and Doyle would have passed the broccoli test.”

Now, I’ve never felt that passing the Broccoli is is necessary for me to ship a pairing, (hell, half the fun is the tragic misunderstandings) or even for me to think it will work, but it’s interesting to see which couples do this.

Romantically, Brennan and Booth (as long as it doesn’t involve pop culture), Max and Logan (they disagree, but they understand what the other person is thinking), and Veronica and Weevil. Non romantically, Zoe and Mal are the epitome of the Broccoli Test and Dean and Sam have perfected the art of the raised eyebrow.

So, which pairings do you love who communicate with just a glance? Which pairings do you love who wouldn’t communicate with a bullhorn and a dictionary (but still might be happy together someday)?

Also gacked from fannish5:

Name five totally self-indulgent story ideas. (The fanfic you would write if you didn't care if you had an audience and also had no shame.)

1.) That epic Goyjo and Tain fic. I would love to write Goyjo falling for someone just as intimacy -phobic as he is, as well as playing with the idea of a female sanzo (not Tain) because there are two sutra’s wandering around somewhere and historically there were (and still are) monasteries of Buddhist nuns. The challenge to writing this fic would be to write Goyjo and Tain snarking at each other and then manage to make it clear they actually cared about each other without losing the witty, sexual-innuendo-laden banter.

2.) The rest of my HP fic, staring Trillium. It’s another novel length fic that no one (judging by the reaction to “Welcome to The Grey World”) would read. Plus, I started it before I had read any of those Mary-Sue tests on lj, and while I don’t think she’s a Mary Sue because she’s not badly written and doesn’t warp the world she’s in, I don’t want to have to continue to defend her. Also, I don’t have time to write a novel-lengh fic.

3.) The resurrection of the Impala. Because you know it would have taken an act of the devil to get it back to the way it was (Dean’s mad skillz notwithstanding). So, demon kidnaps girl + person she’s supposed to be protecting, kills the latter to get the car back to it’s former glory (even demons need rides sometimes). Later, after various traumas, girl kills demon and escapes in the Impala, which is now housing the spirit of her best friend.

4.) That NC-17 Klaus and Lucrezia-in-Agatha’s-body fic. It would involve lots of bondage, and is-this-actually-consensual sex. It would have Klaus unable to decide what to do with Lucrezia and Gil’s love for Agatha getting twisted up with his need to kill that Mogfish bitch, and Lucrezia doing her best to fuck them both over (in both meanings of the word). I’d write this, but I don’t know if I can torture Gil as much as I’d need to.

5.) Goyjo and Yaone get shanghighed into a gladiatorial game. I’d write this, because I love to see the Sanzo Party and Kougaiji and his team working together trying to rescue their various wayward members. Meanwhile Goyjo and Yaone don’t know help is out there and are trying to escape. It would be a great chance to do some cool fight scenes. However, since I can think of one movie and three books who have done this already, I would feel I was being derivative.

So, what stories would you write if you were a shameless hussy and had lots of feedback guaranteed?

Comments

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

They build some weird toy together, Uncle Barry calls Agatha to come with him, they're moving again. Agatha and Gil are dissapointed, and Agatha decides that, since she keeps having to leave stuff behind with all the moves, it's best that Gil keep it.

Years later, possibly while moping over Agatha's "death", he comes across a box of his childhood things. Among them is the weird toy, and he remembers . . . then angsts out even more.

I need to go write this.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I want to read that so much.

Plus, he could be realizing that she was what he was looking for in Paris (I love the scene where Gil's angsting about Agatha's death and bemoaning how hard it is to find a girl who understand what he's talking about, all 'you can't even find her in Paris').

Write it, write it, write it! That sound so in character and adorable.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yes! After Paris, he'd started to believe the girl he'd met was just an imaginary childhood friend or something. . .

*salutes* Getting to work, Ma'am. Gotta restart my computer first, something weird is going on with the display.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I can totally see Gil thinking that he made Agatha up- after all, you can find anything in Paris, and she wasn't there.

*streightens collar of white capitan's coat.* See that you do, and make it snappy.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

*bows, presents fic's head on a platter (http://community.livejournal.com/mollyscribbles/6697.html)*

A thousand apologies for the delay, but . . . it is done.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Sweet! (And they say threats get us nowhere.)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Hey, now -- I was gonna write it anyway, since the plotbunny sank its fangs in. And I still haven't finished your drabble for that meme, so nyah! *sticks tongue out*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Okay, so wishing really hard works? Putting on the captian's coat works?

(I have outstanding fics to. Is ashamed. Is very ashamed.)

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I think it's a matter of saying "Write it!" to someone who takes more than a paragraph to describe what they have so far.

(I take pride in the fact that I only have a grand total of three outstanding meme ficlets for the past two years.

. . . next step: Change that two for the past five months)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Okay, so just saying "write it" works. Sometimes.

I actually only have 1 outstanding meme fic, but I have one challange fic that's going to be due soon, and another request that I'm going to get on the 9th.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but due to some combination of writer's block, ADD and clinical depression, I haven't written much of anything in the past six months!

*stares at self* And the fact that this seemed like a perfectly valid excuse for having outstanding meme fics tells you how unstable my brain can be.

Plus side: It's useful when writing irrational Sparks!

And I've given up on writing for anything that has a deadline besides Yuletide.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Writer's block sucks. But those sound like good excuses to me.

This is actually the firs time I've tried writing something with a deadline- we'll see how it works out.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

It's more that I try not to use them as excuses. Still, I have a lot of work I'd like to get done.

Good luck -- and may you have more luck than I did.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thanks. WIth all the (motherfracking!) essays I have to do right now, I little luck is needed.