lynadyndyn

So I have been dissatisfied with Supernatural's current season for a while now. I've been meaning to make a post, but then my friends and I had a conversation that essentially summed up everything I think went wrong. Since they are often more eloquent than I, I decided just to reprint it.

Also ladysisyphus has to put a dollar in the Jonas Jar (the jar in which you put a dollar every time you mention the Jonas brothers in polite company).

Also, spoilers. Obviously.

( cut because we apparently had a great deal to say on this topic )

So goodbye, Supernatural! It has been an awesome trip and I will treasure the memories, but I don't want to waste more of my time being mad about how you've gone downhill when I can waste it being mad about more entertaining things.

I Love You Man was wonderful, but I think I am the only person in the entire world who thinks it is delightful for specifically certain reasons I found sections of it extremely delightful.

So I believe you all know I like to jaw it up with that beeblebabe

beeblebabe: frustration squiggle!
lynadyndyn: ack!
lynadyndyn: so does JT live in new york or something what is he always doing on that show
beeblebabe: He must.
beeblebabe: where he can just be boyfriends with Andy Samberg all the time
lynadyndyn: beffies
beeblebabe: ack!!
lynadyndyn: It makes me happy that they are beffies, since Justin Timberlake would have so beaten Andy Samberg up in high school
beeblebabe: Man, Justin Timberlake was in a boy band, he's not tough.
lynadyndyn: He would have been on a sports team
beeblebabe: And on the tapdancing team
lynadyndyn: man, American tapdancing isn't nearly as hardcore as European tapdancing. They don't wear all that protective gear over there.
beeblebabe: The rules are completely different.
lynadyndyn: In a way I feel like the above exchange epitomizes every conversation we've ever had.
beeblebabe: God, I know, right.
beeblebabe: Some bizarre conversation speculating on the inner lives of celebrities that devolves into surrealism.

The first real piece of fanfic I write in over a year and it is silly, oh lord it is so silly. Gen, but some clumsy insinuations tucked in there. Also it makes no sense if you haven't seen Resident Evil: Degeneration, which is a terrible movie I saw twice in four days.

I love Leon Kennedy. I fundamentally do not understand anyone who doesn't love Leon Kennedy.

( Pharma )

Writing RE fanfiction is naturally absurd, but it is convenient in the sense that if any of the dialogue ends up purple and unrealistic that is just following canon.

It was basically impossible for me to watch Merlin after the fourth word of John Hurt's prologue-y voiceover was warlock.

... Plus it was pretty boring.

Tonight beeblebabe reminded me about a fic I had totally forgotten I had written. In rereading it, I think I sort of like it, so I thought I'd throw up a link.

I wrote it for a DC comics crossover challenge. It is, of all the things, an X-files/DC mash-up with Tim Drake as Scully. No, really, that's what you read. Worksafe.

The Truth

So I've been laid up with some sort of death cold and I've watched every single episode of Arrested Development. And now I'm bored. So ask me a question - fandomy or writing-related or not - and I will answer it, probably.

So... hoo, yeah. Here's another original story, very much fitting into my current trend of writing things that are long, thinly-veiled and absurd. Written with and for beeblebabe, because she said it helped.

Title: Cheat the Camera
Word count: 17000+
Rating: R
Disclaimer: Oh god, I swear none of this is liable. Also, everything I know about the inner-world of celebrity culture I learned from this one time someone told me about an episode of Entourage.
( Cheat the Camera 1/2 )

lynadyndyn my new game is inserting Shia Lebeouf into movies I haven't seen but know he hasn't starred in.
lynadyndyn check it, give me a movie.
beeblebabe she just told me that Shia LeBeouf triggers schizophrenia.
lynadyndyn I did! I did say that.
beeblebabe says, "Flashdance!"
lynadyndyn young woman who is a steel worker by day, stripper by night, but in her heart secretly longs to be Shia Lebeouf.
beeblebabe says, "Fight Club!"
ladysisyphus queries, "Citizen Kane?"
lynadyndyn 1) Narrator turns out to be Shia Lebeouf 2) Shia Lebeouf is the sled
beeblebabe says, "Star Wars!"
lynadyndyn It turns out that the force was just about Shia Lebeouf in your midoclorians
ladysisyphus cries, "Run Lola Run!"
lynadyndyn German woman has only sixty minutes to pay off her boyfriend's mob debts with Shia Lebeouf - I'm cheating a little, I've seen most of these movies.
beeblebabe says, "Highlander!"
lynadyndyn comments, "A bunch of Scotsmen play an eternal game in order to win Shia Lebeouf."
beeblebabe says, "Pineapple Express!"
lynadyndyn states, "A bunch of loser stoners are on the run after they witness.... Shia Lebeouf."
ladysisyphus clamors, "Hiroshima Mon Amour!"
lynadyndyn er, Shia Lebeouf gets dropped on Japan?
ladysisyphus claps enthusiastically for you.
beeblebabe says, "Indiana Jones!"
lynadyndyn asserts, "He was in that!"
ladysisyphus not the first one.
beeblebabe pffft impossible
lynadyndyn Harrison Ford plays an archeologist searching for emblems of judeo christian lore, who's only afraid of Shia Lebeouf.
beeblebabe shias... why does it always have to be shias
ladysisyphus wants to know, "Dr. Strangelove?"
lynadyndyn says, "Slim Pickins rides Shia Lebeouf as he is dropped on Russia."
ladysisyphus yeah, that was pretty much how it went.

I've seen this meme around and it looks pretty much tailor-made for me and my crazy AU-making mind:


The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in (or think I should), and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, etc). I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU.


For integrity of the exercise, you should probably stay away from AUs I have actually participated in.

Movie Reviews!

Eagle Eye: I'm sorry, even though watching Shia Lebeouf be scruffy and feel inadequate amid exploding things for 118 minutes was pleasant, I am used to a higher grade of evil omnipotent computer. However, Shia Lebeouf as the protagonist of a Portal game would be acceptable.

Transformers: Watched it because of the alluded to and vaguely inexplicable Shia Lebeouf fascination. Fell asleep during the first twenty minutes. I guess I am not a proper child of the eighties.

Stardust: Quite an entertaining and charming fantasy movie! Roger Ebert was all huff-and-puff, this is not up to Princess Bride standards. And of course I agree because The Princess Bride was seared into my neurons at a tender age and Stardust didn't quite have the same wit. But I can see this having a similar appeal for romantic and gentle nerds in ten year's time.

Well, that's all I've seen this weekend. Back to reading about death for me.

These are the collected ficbits from this go around. I'm pretty proud of some of them! I cleaned them up a little and put them here for your easy viewing pleasure. All of them are work safe; I don't think there is even any kissing. A lot of them won't make sense unless you're familiar with my bb_shousetsu stories and their universes, sorry.

Also it has brought to my attention that my lazy refusal to tag things is annoying some people so... I guess today is the day I start doing that.



( (OC: Guitar Hero) Asclepius's Father )

( (OC: World's Finest) Better Not to Pry: Zac/Elias implied )

( (OC: World's Finest) Identity Crisis: Zac/Elias implied )

( (OC: World's Finest) Titular City Stories: Pat/Susan )

( (OC with beeblebabe) Kyle's Imagination Adventures )

( (Supernatural) Paved With Good Intentions: Sam/Dean implied )

( (Naruto) Housekeeping: Sasuke/Naruto implied )

Ficbit challenge! I'm having trouble focusing, so I figure I should put that to good use. Most of you know the fandoms I like, and requests for original stuff would be most welcome.

Clearly my mind's a little full of thinly-veiled superheroes at the moment. During the course of... all this, the Commandos have really coalesced in my ming, but one of the things I sometime regret about my writing style is how irrelevant details are largely ignored. But this time all the irrelevant details about the Commandos were still crowding around in my brain, so on the bus sometime last week I jotted down little character bios. And I typed them up tonight because I was bored! I'm only amusing myself over here, but this is my journal and I can post whatever I want.

Sterling and Silver are revised versions of characters beeblebabe and I came up with literally years ago. beeblebabe and I also collaborated heavily on the creation of The Wielder.

( WARNING: Contains no original ideas. All characters are either shameful rip-offs or shameful mash-ups of pre-existing superheroes or other elements of nerd fiction. IN JOKE WARNING: in jokes kept to minimum federal levels. )

I don't even KNOW anymore. I have a REALLY LONG train ride every day, okay?

So yeah, the ludicrously long non-porny sequel to World's Finest. Which I doubt will be my ssbb submission anymore, because of this. A slight change to the fetish mash-up; instead of a murder mystery this is a CRAZY SPACE OPERA. Even if that is your kind of thing I really don't expect anyone to read this.

So yeah. I don't know. This isn't even really that polished; I'm just tired of looking at it. Anyway.

Title: The Brave and the Bold
Fandom: Original Fiction
Length: 19023 words
Rating: PG-13

( Zacir-Sto Fahn, crown prince of the Outer Lucratiann Empire, met his uncle Pat when he was equivalent to a human twelve years old, and it had ended him. )

To survive the stress of two months of twelve hour days, I ended up writing something like a fetish mash-up. It is pretty silly and very dang long. F-locked because I suppose I'll submit it to ss*bb, seeing as there's not much else to be done with it.

Title: World's Finest
Fandom: Original fiction
Length: 15309 words
Rating: NC-17

( The first thing Keith Manning had taught him was the workings of the Lair's database. )

Another in the Guitar Hero universe. Based heavily on hebiserpen's much more clever Parapraxis, and from whom I also stole a couple lines of dialogue.

( Faces That We've Known Along The Way )

So this is by far the most self-indulgent thing I've ever written. Set in the Guitar Hero universe.

( Synesthesia Magazine - Issue 89 Nov. 2008 )