It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...

I am SO writing my essay on vicarious trauma right now! (Actually, reading the Memitim's bio on FG just actually gave me the missing start of my novel wouldn'tyouknowit, so I did that too. Essay and novel. And...this. Hush :D) I am continuing my 30 days of RP meme!

day 03 - your favorite female pb - This one is hard. I prefer to play men, and I think my male characters are always more well-rounded. My first original character I used in roleplay, however, was deirdre_ionuin my Deirdre Gallagher. She's now a rock star. When I started her in April, 2005, she was just a shy 16-year-old girl who didn't know what was going on. I stated that she was a redhead because I modeled her on my Kara Kent character from Superman (DO SHUT UP) and she had red hair. I used stock photos forever, until I saw all these lovely icons of this redheaded model on Leah's journal. And I thought...oh, I could use the photos of HER even though Deirdre is supposed to have green eyes and the model has blue eyes.

I had no idea that this was not a strange concept. It was called a played-by or PB. I thought I was being so clever to use an actual person for her photos, I am not even kidding. And the PB I found? Cintia Dicker. I think EVERY ROLEPLAY has or has had a Cintia in it. Because she is beautiful, she makes more than one face, and there are photos of her everywhere. So I thought I was being original and I was, in fact, being so unoriginal it's insane. Still, I love her. And over the past five and half years I have lived with Deirdre in my head, Cintia has become synonymous with her for me. I could never use her as anyone else, even though I can use Dylan Moran as someone other than Peter (which is mind-boggling). She's the perfect fit. Some PBs fit mostly and you just fudge the rest, but no. She is so perfect, Deirdre's eyes are now blue. Is she my favourite, however? I am not sure. I love using Emilie Autumn and Amanda Palmer as well. I just use Cintia more. And that is that!

day 04 - your favorite ship - HAH! Yeah, no contest. My Flynn myeyesarehollow and his husband, Quinn quinntaessentia. I will try to make this not so tl;dr. Flynn was in the PIRA. He met Quinn (they both had different names then but changed them for legal reasons oooOOOo) and had the hots for him. They made friends and Quinn showed Flynn violence isn't the way. Flynn's brother Frankie was angry and framed Flynn for several things including his own arrest. His parents kicked him out of home and Quinn went with him. They were homeless in Dublin and Flynn watched Quinn deteriorate. When he was sure Quinn might die, Flynn called Quinn's parents who had reported him as a runaway and he told them where Quinn was. Thus leading to six years of separation in which Quinn was loved by his family and Flynn was homeless.

Cut to three years ago when they reunited. They are, without a doubt, the sweetest thing I have ever written. And Quinn wasn't even supposed to be the random boy Flynn mentioned to his friend when talking about his past. I had created the character of Quinn a year before I made Flynn and suddenly Quinn was adamant he was this 'Ardal' Flynn kept talking about. I checked his backstory and everything he had said and it actually fit without me realising. I had no idea. I was creeped out. So I threw them together to see what would happen and holy crap, you guys. When I write them, I feel better about the world. They just love each other and I can't get enough.

Which is why I do terrible things to them sometimes, shhhh. They conquer all. Their tag is here with the oldest stuff way back, obviously. There are so many scenes there because I am insane.

OMFG I love them. Seriously. I love them waaaayyy too much.

I also love Spectre/Thomas and Aly/Peter. (And Noah/Daria YAY) They don't even come close to the love I feel for these guys though!

I am late to the game with this meme because I didn't look at it closely enough to understand and Ren just had to explain it to me because I am a dork... So choose a fandom for the first part and a character I play (let's stick with FG for now unless you happen to be Clare!) for the second one and I will answer the below questions.

( my fandoms )

A) My OTP
B) The runner up
C) The anti-ship
D) My unpopular fannish opinion on said character
E) One person he/she never fell in love with, and why

AND:

Pick a character of mine and I'll answer:

01. What would your character die for?
02. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances?
03. What do they dream about?
04. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
05. What is their fondest memory?
06. What is their worst memory?
07. What or who was were their most significant influence?
08. What would be their biggest nightmare?
09. What makes them laugh?
10. Who is the most important person in their life?
11. Is your character a virgin? If not, who was their first?
12. Ask whatever question you want!

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
artemisofluna goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Superman.
_honeyspider tricks you! You get a clothespin.
armageddonriver tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
athenarising gives you 7 brown lemon-flavoured gummy worms.
darclady gives you 1 red-orange tropical-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
father_peter tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy!
moment_of_sen gives you 10 light orange lemon-flavoured gummy bats.
phfa gives you 1 dark green blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
potatoeangel tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!
roselet gives you 9 dark blue blueberry-flavoured nuggets.
sancta_terra gives you 17 light green apple-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
artemisofluna ends up with 38 pieces of candy, a clothespin, and a scratched CD.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Peter, you jerk!! (Apparently I selected too may people because I didn't get everyone I selected. Humph!

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Fun!

Also? Last night? I hurt my neck trying to breathe! Stupid asthma. Now I can't turn my head left. :| So I went to the doctor AGAIN for the third time in a freakin month to get my lungs sorted out. And they tell me "Oh, yeah, the inhalers you have been on would have opened your airways, sure, but they wouldn't have reduced any mucus in your lungs. Which is why you would feel better for a while and then worse again. So here, let's prescribe you with an inhaler that will do both.

WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE DONE THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE! I feel better now, but if I get worse in two weeks again I am going to CRACK IT AND HAVE A HISSY FIT THE SIZE OF EUROPE :D I spent the entire night awake, struggling to breathe. Blah cubed.

But I did get a free swine flu vaccination because I am in the risk factor group meaning if I did get it, I could suffer from complications. YAY free things! And since injections are like...one of the few things people are normally afraid of that I do NOT fear, this pleased me. Because I am strange.

Stolen from keldaryth

Since all my music is either old, alternative, or in other languages GOOD LUCK WITH THIS! I have a feeling only a group of five people will be able to guess them ;)

* Put your music player on random.
* Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
* Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
* Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
* Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
* Skip instrumentals, foreign language songs (FScrew you, I'm a German major!), and songs where the title is the first line.

( Come on, I DARE you )