The Smith Awards voting is now open! The Smith Awards is a nifty idea; voting is done by anonymous reviews, which means one gets actual reasons to go with the votes, and one ends up with a whole bunch of reviews at the end. Which is cool.

So go and join in!

Because I'm curious.
If you had me at your beck and call, and could induce me to write a story for you, what would you want me to write? Do not include impossible ideas, such as fandoms I don't know, or ratings and genres I don't write.

And, no, this is not an offer, I'm just curious. Mind you, if you had a compelling, killer idea, maybe that would get the Muse interested...

From jedi_buttercup:
Pick up to 15 OTPs/OT3s/etc. pairings, OT3s and friendships.
Describe them in less than 15 words.
Have your flist guess the persons and fandoms.

Like jedi_buttercup, have mutated this meme to include friendships as well as "pairings". It does not include crossovers; that would make it too difficult.

1. Brains but no heart; heart but no brains. Thieves. Avon & Vila (guessed by vilakins)
2. It started with a vintage car. Larry/Megan (guessed by izhilzha)
3. One loves high open spaces, the other loves the depths. Legolas & Gimli (guessed by jhall1)
4. One could talk someone to death, the other uses explosives. 7th Doctor & Ace (guessed by astrogirl2)
5. Flirt, flower, wander.
6. Crossing swords with beer and scotch. Duncan & Methos (guessed by tptigger)
7. He taught him to use the power of the imagination.
8. They're as different as felines and canines. Jim & Blair (guessed by izhilzha)
9. Intuition versus logic; idealism versus pragmatism. Avon/Cally (guessed by astrogirl2)
10. These elements are blue and grey. Sapphire & Steel (guessed by astrogirl2)
11. One makes dead things come to life; the other makes live things dead.
12. Investigative reporters; their boss is white. Lois & Clark (guessed by jaxomsride)
13. Defending democracy with recipes and code-words. Scarecrow & Mrs King (guessed by mistraltoes)
14. She saved his life, but their relationship gives timesharing a whole new meaning. Jacob/Selmak (guessed by izhilzha)
15. He thinks she wants someone to save, but that isn't it at all.

I was tagged by feliciakw for this earlier this week:
Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
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I'd be curious to hear from watervole, vilakins, lizbee, jedibuttercup and jinxed_wood but you don't have to do it, only if you want to.

Alerted by astrogirl2 I have signed up as a "commentable" author for the dvd_commentary 2008 challenge. So if you would like to do a "DVD commentary" of any of my stories, I'd be delighted if you would do so.

I have just seen episodes 10, 11 and the Special of Operation Love, a Japanese time-travel love story. And no, I hadn't seen the earlier episodes, and I still liked it a lot.
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Some thinky thoughts I had in the bus this morning...

I don't believe in One True Pairing; not in fiction, and not in life, either.
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Cool article about how fandom is like a picnic. (thanks to taraljc)

Well, I've just found a combination of things that will cause me to stop reading a piece of fanfic, even if it's been recommended and the writing style isn't bad:
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I'm not sure whether I should reveal the name of the offending fic or not.