meme blah

[flowrs4ophelia]

I did a meme similar to this before but am doing it again with none of the same material because I've written a whole lot more since then, including pages and pages of notes for my original novel I suddenly got serious about and was sucked into working on for a few weeks a while ago.

Damn, but this just makes me kind of depressed and reminds me of how much all I feel like doing is busting ten tails writing a lot of shit but I instead really need to put that kind of effort into school right now. All of you guys doing NaNoWriMo are awesome but also suck, because I'm jealous that you are typing your brains out. I guess my priorities are all fucked up different from a lot of people's because writing is usually the only thing I'm not putting off, so I instead made it a goal this month to get off the computer a lot and take care of everything else for a change. Anyway...


Post segments of all the fanfic you have yet to finish

1. "Out of Nowhere" (Queer as Folk)
"You a jazz fan, officer?" Chanders asked.
His brow narrowed. "Uh. You could say that."
Seeing his obvious confusion, she said, "I was just wondering if they call you Bird for Charlie Parker."
"No. For the car." He nodded his head toward the '53 beauty where it was parked within view of the window shooting sunlight off its flank.
She nodded. "Ah."
"And personally, I could never stand bebop," Brian added. "Sounds like somebody shaking a bunch of knuts around in a big fucking tin can."
Taylor laughed out a cloud of cigarette smoke.
He sighed. "Back to Eckhart..."

2. "What Music They Make" (Twilight)
"I guess you still love him more. Or differently. I don't even know if I would want you to feel that way about me. It's too much. You've destroyed yourself with that love."
Bella was silent a long time. "Yes, it's...different," she allowed. "I wouldn't destroy myself or hurt anyone else to be with you...But I would to keep you safe," she realized.
He looked to the side at her, not looking particularly surprised, just thoughtful. "Do you ever think there's a part of you that does actually love me more?"
"Don't you start. I've got a considerably better right hook than I used to."
He laughed. "I just mean because I'm only human. You can't have me forever, no matter what you do."

3. The Green Shadow (Original)
He landed right on the ledge of the balcony, and then turned to see Listelle had come outside and was standing there a few feet in front of him with the breeze tossing her night gown, looking at him in astonishment.
Abri raised a finger over his mask-covered lips. "Shhh."
The corner's of her lips tugged into the most subtle smile before he leapt away into a tree below and then went down into the shadow under the balcony just as he heard hurried footsteps on the ground. A group of soldiers appeared out in the courtyard and looked up.
"Princess!" one of them called. "Have you seen him?"
"Who?" Abri heard her say vacantly.
"The Green Shadow! Captain Semaron saw him here. You better get safely inside, lady. He's probably just trying to break out that Omiri prisoner, but you don't want to take any chances."
"Look, there!" shouted another soldier, pointing toward the wall far away. From where he hid in the shadows underneath the balcony, Abri could see what he was pointing at: the dark figure of the woman he was chasing before running along the wall and about to get away.
The soldiers aimed and tried to shoot at her, but just as soon as they tried she had disappeared behind the wall. Listelle's voice was heard again, sounding bewildered. "That isn't him..."

4. "Some Verses" (Queer as Folk)
Justin thought of Ethan practicing the piece for him in front of his own reflection in the mirror. And he thought of Brian letting him listen to the song in his car that day, not because he liked it, not because he wanted Justin to adore him for it, but just because Justin wanted to listen to it.
He thought of all the times that Justin stayed in his bed after they were done and Brian was lighting himself a cigarette, and Brian didn't say anything, but he didn't ask him why he was still here or tell him he had his own room at Debbie's house to get home to. He would even light a cigarette for him, too, sometimes. He would even drive him to school the next morning. Not once did he tell him he wanted him there. But not once did he tell him to leave.

5. "Poetry and Prose" (Twilight)
She spun around and glared at him. "I told you I didn't want to dance to that song!" she said in a low but smoldering voice, turning to walk off.
He kept following her, his face now stricken as he thought he now understood. "Hey, I'm sorry, I didn't...I thought you were just being stubborn about dancing at all, not because of something like that."
She stopped and turned to face him again, and her eyes were welled up with angry tears. "You made me embarrass myself!"
"It's a wedding reception," he said in an attemptedly assuring voice. "I'm sure nobody was even paying attention to anyone but Jared and Kim."
"Yeah, right, with the way I just raced out of there," she said, mortified. "I was trying not to make a scene out of it, but you were being so pushy. I didn't want to do that!"
"I didn't realize it was making you that uncomfortable, okay? How the hell was I supposed to know? Every goddamn song used to remind you of him."
The look on her face immediately made him regret it. "Oh, that's just great," she said without breath.
She turned again to walk away again, and when she heard him follow, she said angrily, "Can't you just leave me alone for a moment?"
"I didn't mean to say that," he said in a little bit of a panicked rush. "I mean I didn't mean to say it like that. Look, I'll stop acting like an asshole, just...Bell, honey, please - you're just going to trip and hurt yourself trying to get away from me in those heels."
"Oh, shut up. Don't 'Bell, honey' me."

6. "The Voyage To Fiddler's Green" (Pirates of the Caribbean)
"But you didn't do anything!" Elizabeth said.
"Aye, I didn't," Ada said. "I was no thief. But I was less than that. The wife of a thief. All the good 'n' pure deeds a woman does are for nothin', I suppose, if her name ain't pure. She's always only as good as the man who supports her. Which sure makes a woman wonder...what good is it bein' good when you can be thought bad fer doin' nothing wrong?"

7. "Children's Play" (Queer as Folk)
Back then going out at night started to be less of just the two of them laughing at bars and dancing together and more of Michael left alone while Brian disappeared into bathrooms or the back room at Babylon with a guy he’d just met. Somehow he had gotten used to it by now. But the night always ended with Brian draping his arm around his neck, almost apologetically, and smiling only for him, and then everything was good.
Brian hardly ever went a night without abusing his body with some kind of drug to make everything feel and look better and then finding some other body that looked better this way and withdrawing into some dark place with it to see how it felt this way. They were all its, never a he or him, and he never saw any of them again. He had already decided he would not live long, and that meant he had to enjoy all the physical pleasures of this world as much as he could while he still could.
Brian Kinney lusted for life. He did not love it.

8. "Fortress" (Harry Potter)
"Did she sing well?" she asked.
"Decently. Do you sing well?"
"Well...I mean, I don't usually sing. I just yell along to my kind of music."
Remus regarded her for a second, and then burst into a short laugh. "All right. Let's find out."
He started playing the song before she could protest. Tonks feebly tried to sing along, knowing nothing about reading music and therefore singing syllables of words at completely wrong times and never quite getting the hang out how fast she was supposed to be reading. When they finished the first page he stopped and clapped.
"That was terrible," he said, and she laughed loudly, hitting his shoulder. "But good try."

9. Never Fade (Original)
I reached the places of dead things of the past in Los Angeles. I saw glamorous mansions that I knew would be silent inside, no longer near the sound of camera flash, haunted by movie stars dead from drugs or plane crashes but made immortal by their thousands of lovers watching the silver screen. I got a room in a dump of a hotel more than fifty years old where it was said the ghost of the Black Dahlia wandered through the halls at night.
But most of the dead things here were dreams. As I was riding on a bus a little girl with red bows in her hair was staring at me, and I winked at her. She giggled and looked away, and I smiled. Then I thought of Lita and my smile went away. A woman I saw on the street later was also Lita, an older version of the little girl with a lot of make-up and tight clothes who returned my wink many years late and said, "It's yours, honey, what do you say?" I gave her some money and said, "That's okay. You get an hour's paid vacation." She looked down at the bill and looked like she was going to laugh; it was more than she was used to.

10. "The Gentle Flow of Time" (Harry Potter)
“Honestly, Simon, you’re not even worth a good snog,” she interrupted coldly. “Didn’t I make it clear enough I’m not interested?”
Simon just looked at her, appalled, and then looked at Ted for a brief moment as if wanting to ask if he could believe it either. Then he just turned and stomped away.
Andromeda saw the daunted look on Ted’s face. “He first pursued my older sister,” she explained. “Then when he couldn’t get her to date him, he switched his advances to me. Isn’t that rich?” she asked bitterly.
It seemed a very bad idea to contradict her. Even so, he said a little timidly, “But still you fooled around with him.”
She shrugged. “Well. What better way to teach him?”
He just looked at her a moment. “You’re sort of...proud, aren’t you?”