Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

All my friends have been doing this meme, so it's made me want to fill it out too :) Unsurprisingly, my answers to several of the questions are the same as Rachel's :)

( 100-question meme )

I finally finished that Lord of the Rings meme I started like a billion months ago! Drew the final picture last night. It was so much fun XD

( Looooong image. In format, it's pretty much just like the Sherlock Holmes drawing meme I did last year. )

I love you, LotR! Bendy chibis are much easier to draw than serious full portraits XD And LotR lends itself so well to silly parody not-taking-self-too-seriousness. Luckily, since it sometimes wanders into THIS ARE SRS BOOK territory.

I painted and played LOTRO with astillac and caitirin all day, and it was absolutely wonderful, and now I fall into bed!

Hey, I found a meme that I completed all but a sentence of before November began and then forgot to post! *posts*

OMG, I never do memes anymore. But this is an informative one! Gacked (or ganked, or Gackt) from coastal_spirit.

1. My username is elaby because I yoinked it from Katharine Briggs's A Dictionary of Fairies. They had a copy of it at the library in one town over from where I grew up, and I used to clamber into a window that was only sort of sit-in-able and read it over and over. "Elaby" was just listed as "a fairy name" that you could presumably use, like Rumplestiltzkin, to gain power over a fairy. I just thought it was pretty, and my e-mail is elaby_moon (yoinked, similarly, from Sailor Moon, because I am a dweeb). The LJ username was a shortening of that and it stuck.
2. My journal is titled Elaby's LiveJournal because I call it like it is, I suppose ^^;; That one's very boring.
3. My subtitle is 57 Academics because of Doctor Who XD There's an episode where the Doctor and Martha go back to the 1500s and meet Shakespeare, and at one point Shakespeare leers at the Doctor and makes a suggestive comment about flirting with him later, and the Doctor says "Fifty-seven academics just punched the air." And I was one of them. \o/ _melisande_ showed me the episode on purpose because she knew I would love that line!
4. My friends page is called "Goodbye and Hello, As Usual" because it's the last line of the first Amber series, by Roger Zelazny. Reading that line gives me goosebumps every time. It's such a Corwin line, and Corwin is a hard-boiled detective cleverly disguised as a power-hungry prince of a fantasy world. It used to be "You won't see me comin..." which was a line from the Gankutsuou ending song I had stuck in my head one day.
5. My default userpic is Anthy from Utena, with a wing from CLAMP's manga Clover, and background traily flowers from the old-school yaoi Kaze to Ki no Uta. It's my default because I made it and I think it placed in an icon contest, and it's all purply-blue, and Anthy is special to me in all kinds of ways that would require a whole lot of text to explain. Maybe I'll try someday :D

Fantabulous day off = word count met AND time to actually watch TV this evening! Starsky & Hutch it is XD

caitirin did this meme the other day with Konata and Kagami and it was awesomesauce, so I'm trying my hand at ten-word Holmes, er, thingies. I wouldn't dare to call them stories.

Rules: Take the major fanfic categories and write something for each using ten or fewer words.

I used ten for all of them, and it was painful. I'm particularly skeptical about the first one, but I was done and didn't want to think about it anymore.

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson (some of them are slashy, but it's all innuendo, so I'm not sure what to rate it.)

( Ten words is not terribly many, I find. )

Stolen from the lovely redpiratemel :) I never get sick of this meme!

1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence."

Seriously, this is going to surprise no one, but The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes was the closest book to me. The quote is from "The Boscombe Valley Mystery." It was a Christmas gift from _melisande_ who really is my dealer in all things awesome :3 It's illustrated with the Paget drawings, and is a reprint of the original Strand publication, so it's got all the font and spellings (Llama! XD) and formatting from the original magazine. Bweeeeee.

Well, I've asked for drabbles, so I'm posting this :) I'm delighted to.

The first 5 people to comment on this post get to request a drabble from me. In return, you have to post this meme in your journal. Post all fandoms you're willing to write for. A prompt would be lovely!

Fandoms: Original characters, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Firefly, Utena, Sailor Moon... suggest an anime or a literary thing and I'll probably do it :)

I have the day off tomorrow! So does caitirin! I am SO HAPPY. We just decided to take the day off.

OMG, it's not Holmes-related! SHOCK.

Significant Other Survey!

( Meeeeme )

coastal_spirit asked me to post this meme :3 And she challenged me to do Ouran and Fruits Basket! And also to Kenshin and Utena.

Name a fandom, and I'll tell you my:

One True Pairing Ship
Canon Ship
"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship
"You are one sick bastard" Ship
"I dabble a little" Ship
"It's like a car crash" Ship
"Tickles my fancy but not sold just yet" Ship
"Makes no canon sense but why the Hell not" Ship
"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship

( Ouran and Fruits Basket )

( Kenshin and Utena )

I feel less dizzy today :) I'm now only dizzy when I turn right, as opposed to randomly feeling like I'm on an elevator. Improvement, yay!

OMG I HAVE MAJOR BUG BITES AIEEEE. I took a nice LUSHy bath and Caitirin put calamine lotion on me.

Tomorrow is Lammas. There will be bread!

Book meme :3

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
( Hooge meme! )

Tagged by scaree!

1. I am a lazy non-tagger! I tag whoever wants to fill out this meme ^_^

2. What is your most guilty pleasure? If we're talking food, it probably depends on how recently I've had it before. As a rule, Chipotle's burritos. At this moment, Tagalongs. Girl Scout Cookie season is a killer!

( Twenty questions! )

caitirin LICKED me! Guess I should pay attention to her :)