Daily dose of WTF, WIP meme, icon meme

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Man, it's spring and I'm feeling the urge to change stuff again.

Meanwhile, here is your daily dose of WTF:

Playing softball could make you gay, or something.

Yeeeeeeah.

When you see this, post a snippet from your works-in-progress.

One of a Kind. Doctor Who, Amy & Eleven.

Kind, she said.

It is a strange word he can't quite make stick on himself. Good, sure. He's been good (except when he hasn't). He's been so good it's been bad at times. Unselfish, yes. Unselfish to the point of making him selfish about it. Benign, certainly. Benign to the universe and as so, not at all benign to his own people.

Kind?

Amy Pond doesn't really know him, like Donna can't without her mind burning, like Martha understood she couldn't, like Rose could spend a lifetime disbelieving. They can't know him, when he has hundreds of years of life and they only see a fraction. Even then what they see sometimes make them leave, and he thinks of Martha and Tegan and Jo, and so many others.

Five Futures Olivia and Lloyd Didn't Have (and One Present They're Living). FlashForward, Olivia/Lloyd.

"Bollocks!"

It is, Olivia reflects, an unusual choice of words for a first meeting, but then, this is not the most usual first meeting she has ever had. She doesn't crash into strangers carrying Styrofoam on a very frequent basis, that's for sure.

"I-I am so sorry," the stranger says, the tilt in his voice revealing he is British, if the choice of curse hadn't already. His hair is delightfully windswept (an not uncommon occurrence in Greater Boston) and she has a strange urge to lace her fingers in it.

Instead it's him that lifts a hand to her hair, and she has a moment to blink in confusion before he lowers it again and she sees what he has removed.

"You got a lepton in your hair," he says apologetically.

She blinks for a moment, then smiles a little. "Physicist?"

"Yes," he admits. "Does it show?"

"Only a little," she says, lowering her gaze to the Styrofoam massacre at his feet. "What did I break?"

"You didn't," he says, smiling, and she finds herself thinking the word gentle, "I-I should have looked where I was going. It was rubbish anyway, just a Styrofoam standard model."

"I crushed your Styrofoam representation of the standard model?"

He nods, looking a bit downcast despite the declaration it was rubbish. It makes it all but irresistible to want to fix it.

"Maybe I can help you rebuild it?" she offers and he looks at her with a gaze that makes her toes curl a little.

"I'd l-love that," he says, and she has an absurd thought that that isn't the only thing he could love.

"I'm Lloyd," he continues, extending a hand. She takes it, feeling the warmth of his palm seep into hers.

"Olivia," she says, and his smile wides.

"Olivia," he repeats, as if her name is something to treasure.

Later, he will say her name again in the same way, and she will kiss him while holding a Styrofoam quark. Later than that, she will stumble with him onto her bed and sleep with him for the first time on top of her Common Complications After Extensive Surgery textbook and the second time on top of his draft paper on photons. Much later, she will marry him and the never-quite-repaired standard model will remain a household item in the Simcoe house, to much amusement for their children.

For now, she just smiles as she helps Lloyd pick up the pieces scattered around them, never noticing the stranger watching the scene from a corner, a strange smile on his lips.

Matters of Size. Star Trek reboot, Spock/Uhura McCoy/Kirk.

The day the entire Enterprise ended up speculating about Vulcan penis size actually did start normal enough, strange as it may sound.

There was a new planet to chart, normal enough. There was a brief adventure involving unfamiliar fauna, also not out of place. There was a debate on the stubbornness of a certain starship Captain going planetside, and the lack of logic in wanting to go again even after just narrowly avoiding being eaten by a very large hairy creature, and that too could be considered normal, or at least following a normal pattern.

"Captain, I must insist again..."

"Spock, Spock, where is your sense of adventure..."

"Jim, you can't just..."

Spock, James Kirk and doctor McCoy could together drive anyone mad, Uhura reckons. Utterly mad. Yes. That's her excuse.

"Could we treat this a little less like a dick-measuring contest, please?" she says, and all three men look at her.

"Why? That might be a bit more fun than this," Kirk says, managing to sound mischievious and serious at the same time.

"Because you would lose," Uhura says with absolute certainty, and then wishes she had said nothing at all.

Spock looks at her with a raised eyebrow, McCoy looks at her with weariness, and Kirk looks at her with wounded pride.

"Nevermind!" she says rbightly, lifting up her hands and walking away.

She should have known that could not and would not be the end of it.

Five Historical Events Amy Kissed the Doctor During (and One She Got Shagged During). Doctor Who, Amy/Eleven.

"You said you would stop kissing me!" the Doctor says indignantly, and Amy sighs.

"I was overcome by the massive virility of horned helmets and couldn't help myself," she says. "It's your fault for taking me to the raid on Lindisfarne."

"Amelia Pond," the Doctor says, sternly now. "Vikings do not have horned helmets, that is merely a popular myth."

"Then I must have snogged you just because I wanted to," she says after a breath, and kisses him again. It takes two seconds before he is kissing her back, horns or no horns.

Next time, she is going to blame the spears, she decides. They're certainly pointy enough.

Icon meme, which I did with two people because I am naughty.

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six/seven of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

denorios and idreamedmusic picked amongst mine.

denorios's picks:


Icon by silvergreen.
Ah. Well, this is an icon of Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper on set of Doctor Who. It's quite protective and huggy, and my BFF lotus79 got a similar one with different text. Over the years it's become our mutual wub icons. She posts hers, I post mine in response, we wub each other.


Icon by 10000_pixels.
This is a quote from the Lord of the Rings books on a screenshot from the movies. I love the shot and the quote - it has something hopeful and optimistic in it. No matter how shit your day is, tomorrow will bring a new one.


Icon by dragonlp86.
There is no secret I love the BBC. I grew up with a lot of BBC stuff airing on Norwegian NRK (which is a public channel like the BBC) and I will always have a certain fondness for it due to that. In addition, I like a lot of what it currently airs, respects its newsservice and support a non-commercial channel out of the principle that there should at least be one.


Icon by vands88.
Top Gear quote! Top Gear is wicked fun at times, and 'how hard can it be?' is one of Clarkson's common lines. It captures that sense of thinking a project will be easy when you go to it - and then you discover it's so not. Been there, done that, keeping the quote to remind me.


Icon by piecesofalice.
This is from The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, a show I think most of my flist don't know too well, but I really liked. I like the icon for the sense of distance in it - between the two sitting on the bench, and to the city in the background.


Icon by paper_ducks.
This is Mummitrollet, or the Moomin in English. It's the main character of a series of Finnish children's books and several cartoon adaptions. I grew up reading and watching them, and still love them very much. It's a lot of childhood nostalgia and a lot of indulging in innocence again. Plus, they're wicked cute.

idreamedmusic picked eight, in a blatant show of rule-breaking:


Icon by furriboots.
I don't drink coffee. I know, shock horror. Instead, I drink and love tea. Naturally, I must have a tea icon. This was my pick, as the colouring was gorgeous. (I have a thing for blue.)


Icon by furriboots.
I got this icon for two reasons: 1) the newsposts I do from time to time and 2) because I do have a bachelor in journalism. Times sure have changed since selling newspapers with that slogan happened, though.


Icon by sexualcarnival.
Eleven and his newest companion Amy looking out over London during the Blitz. I don't think any of us younger ones living in relative peace can quite imagine that time. It looks like an alien London, and the colouring gives it a certain 'old photograph' feel as well. I like it.


Icon by avaruusvirta.
This is a very angry-looking chicken. I do on occasion become very angry, but the chicken expresses it better than me. Therefore it gets to be one of my angry icons.


Icon by queensjoy.
As you may or may not know, I will one day rule the world through the power of awesome Vikingness and lutefisk. I will establish worldwide social democracy and have a harem of hot males. So, beware. Vikings will come again.


Icon by lily_winterwood.
During the Olympics, the Norwegian curling team became quite the sensation through the power of unusual pants. I hail the pants, for they show the power of doing something unexpected.


Icon by lily_winterwood.
I like British accents, I do. I like them a lot. They make an attractive guy doubly so. I am not the only one who thinks so, and thus this icon is for everyone who shares this accent fetish.


Icon by littlespank.
Tigh realises Roslin is sexing the Admiral and has a WTF moment. Tigh in general had some glorious facial expression, and since they beat mine, this is one of my WTF icons. Don't we all need one?