Two memes, no waiting

[bktheirregular]

Found from honorh and elsewhere:

Pick a fic of mine for which you'd like a sort of DVD commentary-type deal.

And from taraljc and finabair: the Life as Fandom Meme:

If my life had a fandom:
a. Who would the 'shippers pair me with?
b. Who would the slashers pair me with?
c. What would a Mary Sue in my fandom be like OR who is mostly likely to be turned into Canon Sue?
d. When did I / will I jump the shark?
e. Write a one sentence summary of the story that would win the Best Fanfic Award in my fandom.

Anyone who would like to answer can just leave a comment. < g >

My answers:

a. The shippers would, I believe, pair me up with a kitchen stove.
b. The slashers would hook me up with ... come to think of it, I have absolutely no idea. Maybe a floor lamp?
c. A Mary Sue in my fandom would be rich, beautiful, and agonizing over social trifles while taking time out to belittle people who don't rise to her level of popularity. Think of the rich folk from 90210 or something like that.
d. I jumped the shark three days before high school graduation, I think, and have gone downhill since.
e. No clue.

In more personal news: backed up just about everything on my laptop (but forgot my bookmark file, which I will have to painstakingly reconstruct over the next few months), and finally gave up and reformatted it and reinstalled the OS. There are still many, many programs to install, so tonight may well be another hellishly late night ... but I intend to have it all done tonight.

Close entry.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

How or why would one jump upon a shark?

Obviously this is some sort of idiom that I'm not grasping.

[bktheirregular]

"Jumping the shark": apparently it's TV business slang for the moment beyond which a show begins to decline - or perhaps to put it better: the moment when people know that a show's not what it used to be.

The phrase came from a moment on "Happy Days" when the Fonz took a motorcycle and jumped it over a huge water tank containing a live shark. Or so I recall reading once.

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Pick a fic of mine for which you'd like a sort of DVD commentary-type deal.

*looks around*

Okay, I know someone's going to mention "The Scarab."

(If that's too much of a headache, what about "Mending Fences" instead?) ;)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

a. neonhummingbird or tv_elf, depending mostly on the individual fan's geographical preference.
b. That guy in the second row of your bar review class. He's not in the credits and in fact doesn't even get a name, but the LOOKs speak volumes!!!!
c. An exact double of Morena Baccarin who moves in next door, miraculously solves your whole family's problems with a few precious nuggets of utterly hackneyed advice, and convinces her boss at the most prestigious law firm in town to take you on as a full partner.
d. Three words: Supreme Court Boogie.
e. bktheirregular gets a chance to see what life would be like if they'd given those ferries more interesting names.

[bktheirregular]

Oh, yeah, that reminds me: check your mail in a few days. I finally got around to boxing something up. :)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Yay! :: happy dance ::