These things are necessary for all of our lives

[zolac_no_miko]

Does anyone remember this meme going around several months ago, "My fandom is really good at what I do" or "My fandom is really good at my job", or something of the sort? And everyone wrote AU fic where the characters of [FANDOM OF CHOICE] did whatever it is the author's real-life job is, and the point was to just dive right in and do as little 'splaining as possible? (I tried to go find this thing, but my Google-Fu has let me down.)

...Does anyone think it's been long enough since that happened that we could do it again? Because the last time it went around I really loved my job at the time, but it didn't really inspire me for fic, and anyway all of my fic-writing time and energy was wrapped up in That One Story, so I sort of let the meme pass me by. But now I have a different job and I'm done with Pō Pouli and all of a sudden I'm inspired and OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, I WANT TO DO THIS NOW, I have sooooo many ideas for Five-0 Does Hawaiian Forest Bird Ecology, CAN WE DO THIS MEME AGAIN, CAN WE? ...WHO'S WITH ME? Because I really want to write this thing but it feels dreadfully self-indulgent and silly and I would feel less ridiculous/embarrassed if I had some company. T_T

Anyway, it's about time for the Angela Reblogs Awesome Things Found By Cooler People post. GET READY TO GET RECC'D!

-First off, most importantly, "Shia LaBeouf" by Rob Cantor (on SoundCloud). LISTEN TO IT. OH MY GOD JUST TRUST ME YOU GUYS, IT WILL BE THE BEST THING YOU'VE HEARD ALL YEAR.

-Cover of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" by Noah. Fair warning, you may abruptly find yourself encumbered with the UNCONTROLLABLE URGE TO HAVE SEX WITH THIS PERSON. I'm serious. Just... just wait until he starts singing. And playing his guitar. SO UNF.
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-"Kicked Your Monkey", a Bad Lip Reading of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know". FREAKING HILARIOUS. You may need to turn on captions, though.
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-Music video for Genki Sudo, "World Order". THESE GUYS ARE SO COOL. It's like if Ok Go were Japanese. And robots.
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-Doctor Who Theme on eight floppy drives. Guaranteed the nerdiest thing to caress your eardrums all week.
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-FIC REC! The Tale of X by thehoyden on AO3. An XMFC AU that takes place in old Japan. A+ use of mythology, and basically SO DEEPLY APPROPRIATE OMG.

-A pretty excellent article for those of you interested in Hawai‘i stuff: Paul Theroux's Quest to Define Hawai‘i from the May 2012 issue of Smithsonian. He's... mostly right, at least in his observations.

-From mangocianamarch on Tumblr. BEST EVER.


-The AMAZING card look_alive drew me for my birthday. In case you were wondering, this is why she will always be my favorite. ♥

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Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Ah man, I wish either of my jobs were interesting enough for that meme. (Also, I need a fandom that isn't a bike shop whose proprietor is no longer mostly a product of my own imagination.) BUT ANYWAY!

That Shia LaBoeuf song is just amazing. I don't know why it exists, but it is amazing. I should probably not sing it out loud too much at work, though. (The rest of those things I will need to listen to later, since I'm sitting outside in a heavily-populated area just barely maintaining an aura of respectability.)

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's not always as much about the job as it is about bosses and coworkers. And I remember enough of your job-related posts being fucked up to the point of surrealism that I think you'd have pretty good material... you just need to think of a character with enough AUGH FML to be entertaining in that environment.

IT EXISTS BECAUSE ROB CANTOR IS A GENIUS, AND ONE DAY HE WOKE UP AND SAID, WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE, SWEET LOVE A SONG ABOUT CANNIBAL SHIA LABEOUF, I AM GOING TO DO THE WORLD A SOLID AND MAKE THIS SONG RIGHT NOW. It's just... so perfect, Shia is exactly the right kind of obnoxious to make this song work. ...It's really weird though, I've been playing this song around my housemates and my mom, and no one reacts. It's really confusing, I'm like... do I need to play the song again? Do I need to play it louder? HOW CAN YOU BE BLANDLY AMBIVALENT ABOUT THIS?!

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

P.S. Respectability is SO OVERRATED.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why I'm so concerned with seeming respectable. It's probably because I know, deep down, that respectability is just one of those traits I'm never going to possess in spades, and so I cling too hard to the few shreds of dignity that I do have (I am currently recovering from having to sit around Old Town in spandex shorts waiting for my bike to get fixed).

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

...Honestly, I shouldn't give you heat about it, I too spend a great deal of time pretending to be... well maybe not respectable, but less weird than I actually am. I don't pretend to be something I'm not, but I keep a lot of stuff under wraps around Normies. I figure I'm just being polite, not inflicting my weirdness on them unasked. ^_^;;

But respectable? Pfff, I will go to the store with wet hair and bleach-stained baggy sweatpants if I want, NO ONE CAN STOP ME.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh... I have a hard time being out in athletic clothes, let alone anything bleach-stained and baggy. I think my mom did that to me... she's very fastidious when it comes to "looking presentable."

On the other hand, I used to be very good at inflicting my weirdness on others. I kind of miss that. College sort of ruined that for me, oddly enough (stupid first-year dorm had more back-stabbing people than high school ever did, wtf).

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Blagh, but then I'd have to focus on my absurd bosses and coworkers. And it'd end up being a story of which boss could have the most blatant affair (totally going on now. One pair is making smoothies. The other fights over cake icing. Both deny there is anything going on, but mock the other pair endlessly and complain about their public displays). I think it's best for me not to relive such things until I'm far, far away from them.

Dar and I just keep quoting it at each other. I'm not sure what I'd do if I met someone who was ambivalent about it. I wonder if it's the speak-singing? That seems to cause some people to just automatically stop paying attention (fortunately, it's one of the things that kind of automatically makes me like a song, or at least express interest). ^_^

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Good news! I looked up the original fest, and it doesn't have to be a job/work thing, it could be a hobby or a sport or an extra-curricular activity, just any piece of your life, a little world that you happen to know a lot about that maybe other people don't, gardening or quilting or leading a Girl Scout troop. ...So you could... write about stalking a bicycle shop! XD Or DI or something. ...YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO, CARRIE. Once I get permission from the host of the original fest, and come back from my expedition to the jungle (so, like, June), I am totally going to try and do this thing, YOU SHOULD DO IT TOO.

I just... even if you're not paying attention, how can you miss phrases like MY GOD, THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE or YOUR LEG, IT'S CAUGHT IN A BEAR TRAP, I think this would manage to catch my attention even if I were totally distracted by something else. ...Idk, I think these people are just not weird enough, they don't know what to do when confronted by weird, so they pretend they're not seeing/hearing it. Like when I walked around campus in my cloak and Guy Fawkes mask that one November Fifth and I would see people's eyes turn towards me... and then just sliiiiiiiiide away. XD;

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha. I will definitely join in whenever you get a chance to set this up, then. I'm not sure what fandom I would choose, but the world does need more Ninja Detective Bikeshop (and maybe by June I'll have found a way to apprentice myself there (-; ). I think I'd have a hard time not making it a really cracky Naruto fic, though, because of the fixation the shop has on the color orange... and on being a ninja. But... no, actually that's probably entirely appropriate, in its own special way. (I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that I spent actual time this afternoon thinking about this. A non-crossover version of Ninja Detective Bikeshop is probably going to end up being my tongue-in-cheek script pitch in LA I'm justifying this as un-creepy because I've done a pretty decent job of getting the actual shopkeep separated from his internet alter-ego in my mind.)

Or, alternately, there's always the Hulk Destroys a Bike Shop for Improperly Installing Brake Pads option (which I'm rather fond of at the moment, since I know I don't have the powers necessary to hulk-out on them properly for that particular idiocy).

I've learned the pretend-you-don't-see-it thing pretty well, living in Chicago, but there are still things that get a reaction from me no matter what. Especially "MY GOD, THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE." And also "actual cannibal, Shia LaBoeuf." I guess I'm just weird, though.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

YAY!

Both of these sound like fantastic ideas! ESPECIALLY HULK DESTROYS BIKE SHOP, OMG, I JUST LAUGHED EMBARRASSINGLY LOUDLY FOR AN EMBARRASSING LENGTH OF TIME. Bike shop Avengers, omg yes! Tony can design bikes. STARKCYCLE! And you can give Loki the hipster fixie he so badly wants/needs/deserves!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Do not encourage me on Bike Shop Avengers (yet)! I'm already spending far too much time staring out of windows and laughing to myself. I could definitely see Tony sitting around designing something like this, only blingier, while Steve biked around on an old Masi and sort of angsted about completely missing cycling's heyday, or at least Eddy Merckx's. Meanwhile, all their enemies would be trolling around on these. (I will have to make sure I'm allowed to co-opt Hipster Loki before I can include him. ^_^)

I might just write Hulk Destroys Bike Shop now. Or on Friday, after I fail to destroy the bike shop myself.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod yeeeeeeeeeesssss~! See, there we go, THIS IS PERFECT, Bike Shop Nerd Avengers, IT WILL BE AMAZING.

Haha staring into space and giggling is basically my Writing Process. Is it so fucking ridiculous I can't contain myself? Yes? QUICK WRITE IT DOWN.

I AM SO EXCITED FOR HULK DESTROYS BIKE SHOP.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

It's good that this isn't happening immediately, though, since that paragraph exhausted most of my bike-nerd knowledge at this point. (-;

I'm pretty sure that is the best writing process. I wish it worked for things other than what I write for the express purpose of amusing myself (and sometimes others).

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Well you've got two weeks to brush up. SNAP TO IT.

See, I guess that's the thing about fanfiction that makes it so addicting; that's all it has to be. Amuses Self Plus Maybe A Few Others: Check! SUCCESS. It doesn't even have to make money or anything!

Clearly, though, you need to manage to get yourself a writing gig where ridiculousness is encouraged. Because you're right, I can't imagine the Does It Make Me Giggle? writing process working very well with your current job. ^_^;;

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

0.0 WOW THAT GUY. I wouldn't have believed that voice would come out of his mouth, especially after hearing him speak.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, RIGHT? GUH. HE IS MADE OF MAGIC. ...SEX MAGIC. @_@

[drownedcities.livejournal.com]

Shia Labeouf should have been an option in Cabin in the Woods.

Joss Whedon.

Get on this.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

OH MAN OH MAN YES!! OH I WANT THAT DELETED SCENE SO HARD.

Bb, you are a genius. ♥

[greeneyes-fan.livejournal.com]

I had a lot of fun with the "Damn, your fandom is good at what you do" meme. Much crackfic was written. Doing it again is a plan I approve of!

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yay, I was hoping someone would know wtf I was talking about! Any chance you could link me to the original meme? (I'm remembering there was a community for it, right? Or am I hallucinating?)

[greeneyes-fan.livejournal.com]

I don't REMEMBER there being a community:

http://leupagus.livejournal.com/99028.html?view=3660500

http://leupagus.dreamwidth.org/98281.html

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

RIGHT. Well of course it was leupagus, no wonder I was confused... her LJ practically is a fandom community. XD

...Well, this should be interesting, I definitely don't have the legions of Friends she does, and I've never tried to host any sort of fandom party before... on the other hand I've got friends in a few different fandoms from hers, so maybe I can get some exposure with people who missed it the first time around, and maybe I can get some help from people spreading the word. ...Guess I'll probably want to ask leupagus' permission first.

Hmm, well, something to think about. I'm probably going to have to wait until early June, when I'm back from my expedition, but I think this could be really fun!

[greeneyes-fan.livejournal.com]

You don't know me, by the way. I friended you the other day because I've just branched out into the H50 fandom, and I liked your writing a lot.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Haha, I noticed when you friended me the other day, but my internet access is pretty limited so I hadn't had a chance to stalk your journal and see just who is this mysterious person~? I assumed you'd friended me because of recent fic; thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

And welcome to H50! EVERYTHING IS RAINBOWS AND OHANA HERE~! Please do enjoy your stay. ♥