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]

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. ^_^;;