eight facts meme

[vaznetti]

cameragrl tagged me with the "eight random facts meme" a few days ago, and it's been a while since I've done one of these so here we go:


1. I really hate providing personal information about myself, and will usually deflect questions about myself with stories about my parents, grandparents, cousins, great-aunts and great-uncles, most of which seem far more interesting to me than anything that I would say about myself.

2. I watched I, Claudius when I was fairly young, with my parents, and it made a huge impression on me. For a long time, I wanted to be just like Livia, when I grew up.

2a. It is perfectly safe to eat food I've prepared, though. Really.

3. In fact I am a pretty good cook, although my mantra whenever trying something new is, "I don't think this will turn out well."

4. I reread my own fic; recently I've been doing a lot of that, since I'm pulling my webpage together and trying to update it. I find that I like most of what I've written. Not that it's as good as it could be, perhaps, but very little of it fills me with horror.

5. I tell myself enormous, overwrought, Mary-Sue-centered crossovers in my head every night before I go to sleep.

5a. Luckily for all of you, I will never commit these to text: for one thing, if I did I couldn't change them to suit my interests.

6. I think it's perfectly OK to split an infinitive every now and then. The comma-splice, however, is another matter entirely.

7. When I was in second grade, my teacher thought I might be hyperactive, because I kept jumping out of my desk and running to the front of the room and then back to my desk. In fact the problem was that I needed glasses, and had to get closer to the board to see what it said.

7a. I am so nearsighted that now that I'm getting older, my eyesight is improving. Perhaps if I live long enough, I'll be able to see clearly!

8. I am having an incredibly difficult time thinking of an eighth fact.

8a. OK. I have a weirdly competitive relationship, as a fan, with the shows I'm fannish about and the creators of those shows. I do see fanfic as a way of "fixing" things I don't like, or solving problems I perceive in the canon. It's not that I don't like the shows I'm fannish about -- indeed, I become less and less tolerant of negative comment, the longer I stay in fandom -- but I do sometimes look at them and think, "You know, I would have done that differently. And you know what else? It might have been better." I am not a very respectful fan, in part because I'm used to thinking I'm about as smart as my contemporaries. I reserve my real respect for the classical authors.


Other information about me can be found in the ten things I assume you know about me meme and generally via the formative lists tag.

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Since I mentioned that whole website-building exercise, I might as well ask a question. Do I give drabbles their own page? do I post them at all? some of the Supernatural drabbles I wrote last summer can be grouped together into a loose series, and some of them I like enough to post on their own. But there are all kinds of random short pieces scattered here and there, and I just don't know what to do about them.

Comments

[fourteenlines.livejournal.com]

I put nearly all of my Farscape drabbles up. I also added a word count to the information I post under the link - along with things like summary, rating, general category, etc.

[vaznetti]

I do have word count (or size in K) for each story, so at least people know that it's a drabble before they click. I'm enough of a clompetist to want to add everything I can find, I think. At least, everything that's a story.

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

I put my drabbles up, but I do keep them in their own section on the page marked, conveniently enough, drabbles. *g*

[vaznetti]

I may do this -- since I already have "crossovers" and "non-crossovers" as sections on each page!

[destina.livejournal.com]

I ended up putting all my drabbles and snippets of 1000 words or less on one website page, with a 'jump-to' menu at the top. It seems to have worked out pretty well.

[vaznetti]

I write enough shorter pieces to think of them as stories, but I like the idea of putting drabbles and some of the shorter pieces together on a single page, just to reduce clutter.

[cofax7]

I did this too, for each fandom, although I got lazy and didn't do the internal bookmarks. Seemed to work out okay.

[vaznetti]

I'll have to see how much random stuff I end up with, I think. I keep finding bits of things lying around here and there on my hard drive.

[rhi]

For tarsh's site, I did what Destina did: one page of drabbles, sorted by fandom, with named anchors to the titles.

[vaznetti]

This does seem sensible, and I may do it.

[elishavah.livejournal.com]

I've got my drabbles up on my "miscellaneous" page, along with crossovers and random fandoms (i.e., those with less than five stories). They're in their own section on that page, and then grouped by fandom. Each title links to its own page with headers, just like any other story.

[vaznetti]

I have a miscellaneous page -- although I had to give the crossovers their own page, as there are so many of them!

(I like the idea of five stories as the cut-off for getting a page of one's own, as well.)

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

For a long time, I wanted to be just like Livia, when I grew up.

Oh my god I'm dying here. I adored Livia. I wanted desperately to be that awesome and dangerous and smart. She would never have a fit of the giggles the way I'm doing now, for one thing.

Your short works are a thing in themselves, imo. I think they need their own page.

[vaznetti]

Ha! It really was a wonderful role, and a powerful performance. Even though Graves made the whole thing up, and it's all his issues playing out all over everything. It works, though, which is the important thing.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

6. I think it's perfectly OK to split an infinitive every now and then. The comma-splice, however, is another matter entirely.

Ohhhhhh, yes!

[vaznetti]

And don't get me started about the misplacement and overuse of of "however"!

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

How old were you when you finally got glasses? I was five, because the teacher noticed that I ignored anything that was on the board in favor of what was on my desk.

[vaznetti]

I got them that year, when I was seven. I'm not sure whether I'd needed them the year before or not.

[cameragrl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for playing! I really enjoyed reading your MEME. :D

[vaznetti]

You're very welcome!

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

5 & 5a -- Hah, me too! Though generally not crossovers.

[vaznetti]

It's not uncommon, as fannish behavior goes.