Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

This weekend lilacsigil and I gave our creativity a kick in the pants. We made up our own drabble prompt table with words randomly picked using dice and a dictionary, and matched them up randomly with characters from many fandoms, some that we know well, and others that we wish we wrote more for. There are twenty words and twenty characters shared between the two of us. I feel rebooted.

So ten ficlets in a range of fandoms. Spoiler warnings for: Veronica Mars S3, Supernatural S2, American Gods and Torchwood. Nothing rated over PG.

( Blindness - Low Key Lyesmith (American Gods) )

( Foxglove - Joyce Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) )

( Hybrid - John Constantine (Hellblazer) )

( Island - Henry McCoy (X-Men) )

( Iron - Matthew Murdock (Daredevil) )

( Saturn - Ellen Harvelle (Supernatural) )

( Rising - Ianto Jones (Torchwood) )

( Stretch - Keith Mars (Veronica Mars) )

( Unite - Miranda Zero (Global Frequency) )

( Marry – Padmé Naberrie (Star Wars) )

It's been unspeakably warm the last few days, and my allergies are going wild already. *dreads spring*

On the positive side, it's cold and rainy today, and lilacsigil made an orange poppyseed cake. I have coffee, cake and cuddly cats. It doesn't get much better.

I'm thinking about signing up for this multi-fandom Halloween ficathon, which looks really relaxed. I want to get my 1602ficathon fic under control, and my xmmficathon story properly birthed before I sign up, but sign-ups don't close until September 12th. lilacsigil says she won't beta a zombie fic (she's still recovering from 28 Days Later), so I'm trying to not think about zombies. It doesn't work - all I'm getting is zombie plot ideas.

We downloaded the Global Frequency pilot and watched it on Thursday night. It was amazing, really beautiful and grungy-looking, reminded me of the Hellblazer covers when Warren Ellis was writing. It was a great adaptation of the GF comic, and Michelle Forbes as Miranda Zero was brain-splittingly amazing. I think I'm in love with Miranda Zero. Also, I can't believe that I could love a show that was even more doomed than Firefly. Firefly had one season and a movie. Global Frequency never even got picked up. *weeps*

So last night, I had a dream about how Emma Frost and Miranda Zero had to escape from zombies, and hide out on a tropical island. Emma was having a shower. My brain is awesome that way.