For the lulz.

[rosiedoes]

From lillystars:

Put your MP3player or stereo random. The songs which play in the following order represent...

1. The song which plays during: Opening Credits
2. The song which plays when: You Kill Your First Zombie
3. The song which plays when: You Are Being Chased By A Horde
4. The song which plays when: You Have To Kill Your Loved One
5. The song which plays when: You Find A Group Of Survivors
6. The song which plays when: You Meet A New Love Interest
7. The song which plays when: You Make A Final Stand
8. The song which plays when: You Think You've Survived It All
9. The song which plays when: You Discover A Bite Mark
10. The song which plays during: The Closing Credits

My results (edited for more info):

1. Meatloaf, 'A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing to Waste' This was mislabelled in my phone, it was actually 'You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth', which starts like this.
2. The Damned Things, 'Black Heart' <- Totally spot on. Lyrics in the video.
3. The Academy Is, 'Down and Out'
4. Fall Out Boy, 'Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy? - acoustic'
5. Motion City Soundtrack, 'Time Turned Fragile' - "I wonder of your whereabouts and hope like hell you're happy where you are/You used to say that you're just fine/But I still wonder all the time."
6. Florence+the Machine, 'Dog Day Are Over'
7. Four Year Strong, 'Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die' <- HA. Perfect track.
8. Laura Veirs, 'Galaxies'
9. U2, 'Angel of Harlem'
10. Spitalfield, 'Simple Minds, Simple Lives'

Comments

[elethe.livejournal.com]

Some of those are very apposite!

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Some of them are, yes. Some of them are ridiculous.

I was well amused with the first one, though - because it's actually labelled incorrectly in my phone, and it should be 'You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth' which starts like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6tKH9kBOGs

[lillystars.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love it!

I still need to do this too. I should use my ipod, my computer has way more songs on it. I should do this tomorrow. *writes on list of a dozen or so things i should be doing instead of reading fanfiction* sighs.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

I've been procrastinating from writing fanfiction all night, which is ridiculous, because I really want to get this done!

[lillystars.livejournal.com]

I've got a crossover fic still in progress which has been on the shelf for months now. I need to finish it, but so far lack the muse. :/

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Which fandoms?

I'm working on a peculiar one - it's an AU set on Earth about two really obscure characters from Stargate: Atlantis.

[lillystars.livejournal.com]

It's not from a show. Hehe. It's RP slash fic (don't hate, please) and I used to write a lot of it some time ago, but not so much now. And under a different pen name in case you're wondering. It was 'tangerine' and I wrote Cure slash fic. The crossover is that with Lou Reed, Anthony Hegarty, and Tokio Hotel. The setting is in a western style bar with a flaming neon sign of a bucking bronco and it's rider. :)

I've watched Stargate! Not a lot, so I doubt I would be familiar with the characters. My brother is the Stargate fan though!

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Not hating at all. I spent years slashing members of Fall Out Boy; they were total enablers about it, too. :)

Before that I used to write in a few other fandoms - Harry Potter, X-Men, Stargate: Atlantis (I was never as into Stargate: SG-1), Lord of the Rings to a degree, although I've no idea where that fic would be, now...

The characters I'm writing are so obscure that most fans wouldn't even recognise them if they weren't slashers themselves. They're a bit of a cult pairing.

[lillystars.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about a cult pairing is there are more aspects to the characters, inside jokes and the dialogue has a kind of intimacy which you don't always get with two people thrown together because the writer thought it would be fun to 'pair' them.

Oh, Harry Potter and LoTR, huh? Are you a purist when it comes to pairing characters or do you go way left?

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

The characters I'm writing were only ever in one ep together, but they nearly died together and it spawned them as a fanon ship that is always mentioned as a secondary or tertiary thing in other fics about the main characters. My old stuff is at damagereport; I don't think there's anything truly awful there (and it's mainly SGA and FOB stuff, but I do plan to update it with the X2 stuff at least).

The one I'm writing at the moment you could probably follow, because it's designed to be almost original fiction it's set far into the mountains of Idaho, and is essentially post-Stargate. The characters have virtually no canon backstory, so everything in it, except broad references to things that happen when living in another galaxy, is new.

I tend to go for obscure pairings when I write fic. In Bandom, most people shipped Patrick with Pete, because Pete went to great lengths to prompt the slashers; but paired him with Joe, instead. In HP I was more of a Sirius/Remus shipper and although I ship Harry/Draco a lot, when I was writing the epic fic I never completed, I made it damn hard on them and ended up pairing both with other characters. In Draco's case, with George Weasley (sounds impossible, but it made a lot more sense in context).

For LotR, I was very much a Merry/Pippin shipper - I was all for Sam/Frodo, but less interested in it.

More recently, in the Sherlock fandom, I completely ship Mycroft/Lestrade, and they haven't even met on screen!

[lillystars.livejournal.com]

I actually loled at this. Draco and George? Would this have been post war? (trying to remember which twin died - and I'm still outraged that JKR killed off a twin AND Hedwig. I loved that owl, dammit)

In the Bandom, are you saying that one of the actual band members encouraged slashers? That is pretty funny. I suspect that a lot of bands in some way, do things to facilitate fan fantasy. Wait, what am I saying, of course they do.

Merry/Pippin sounds more interesting than Sam/Frodo I must say. I still can't think of the scene at Mt. Doom without giggling though, mainly because my BF kept groaning at the OTT scene.

[to-eat-fire.livejournal.com]

*Sings* God knows they got to you- *Looks at bite mark* FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Gonna try doing this :D

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Hehe - looking forward to seeing your answers! :D