Random Association Meme...
Feb. 19th, 2009 06:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ht_murrayThis where I officially give up on keeping up with everyone's birthdays. I fail so hard. I get the little notifications, make a mental note, and then a week later... well, you get the picture. And I feel bad wishing X,Y, and Z a happy birthday when I know I totally snubbed A, B, and C. I'm officially saying, I love you all, and you're all welcome to request something. Don't be afraid to say, "You forgot my birthday, bitch, now pay up!" Cuz I totally would. If it makes you feel better, I once forgot my hubby's birthday. Even scarier, this year I said to him, "Wow, next year you'll be the big _0(insert scary big number)." And he said, "I'm _0 today."
So, it ain't just y'all. Last year, I also thought I was a year older than I actually am. *is ded* And just why are so many of you born in February? LOL.
Now, on to the meme. I got prompted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lovelylora
Random association meme.
Ask me to associate you with five things. When I do this, post this meme and an explanation of your interest in those five things in your journal.
My list was:
1. Jensen
2. Fanfic
3. Farm
4. Wincest
5. Manny Skerrit
1. Jensen
If I was to list my interest in him, the entry would go on forever. Let's just say, I have no other fandoms and no other shows, and I came here by way of Jensen, so that's saying a lot. Just now staring at his name, I totally had the song, "I only have Eyes for You," start playing in my head. So, rather than say how much I love him and why, I'll tell you how I "discovered" him.
This is going to sound utterly ridiculous. Feel free to laugh. When I was in college at University of Wisconsin-River Falls, I used to sing in the church choir. It's very much a suitcase college which is dead on the weekends, because everyone goes home. But I couldn't because I lived to far away and I had to sing on Sundays, so I'd come home from church on Sunday and turn on television, and there'd be nothing on. I stumbled on a little show that reminded me of when I was really little... only not. It was the remake of "Flipper." It became a Sunday tradition. Church and Flipper. Stop laughing. Okay. Laugh. So, I watched it and taped a few episodes, because the kids on the show were the same age as my little sister. Over the summer, I watched 'em with her, and she kept going on and on about Maya (Jessica Alba's character). Maya's hair. And Maya's clothes. And how pretty is Maya, so when I saw the first Dark Angel promo, I didn't really care what the show was about. What I cared about was, "OMG, that's the girl from Flipper!"
So, along came Dark Angel and then Jensen. I have to say, I didn't really pay any attention to him until Berrisford Agenda. Though he did break my heart in Proof of Purchase. After the show ended, I spent way more time trying to figure out where Jessica Alba went. Shut up. Then, I didn't see Jensen again until Supernatural. Okay, I saw a couple episodes of Smallville, (OMG, the guy from Dark Angel!) but even he couldn't make me watch Smallville. When Supernatural started, I fell asleep on every episode, because it was on at 11:00 at night, and I had a 9:00 bedtime. (Hey, a girl needs her 8 hours, and I get up early.) I didn't really have a favorite brother. Just watched the show, cuz it seemed like my kinda thing. Then "Faith" happened, and I have had tunnel vision ever since.
2. Fanfic
Before I ever wrote fanfic, I just wrote. I completed two novels and had done the whole query and submission thing. Never got any takers. I didn't even own a computer, did everything on a word processor. I got a computer in October of 2005, mostly only went online to read the Parelli Forums and then shut it down to write on my word processor. LOL. Then Supernatural happened, and then Faith happened. And I got bored one night and went Googling Supernatural. I came across Supernatural.tv. I read all the forums which were dead back then, and stumbled on one that said, Fanfiction. I was like, "Huh?" And I read some, and went, "People actually do this? They write stories about something they like and post them for other people to read?"
And I have to admit, I'd been doing that in m head forever. I always had alternate endings, missing scenes, or codas in my head, but I never wrote them down. I knew fanfiction was sorta illegal, but I have to say, after doing the two novels and hundreds of submissions and not getting one person to even READ the novel, just the stupid query letter, I really, really wanted someone to read what I was writing. It was so frustrating for me that I got rejected over and over again based on a letter and not on the actual story. So, I took the plunge and wrote a fanfic. And people read it. And they liked it. And I liked that. To be honest, my first few were bad. I thought they were supposed to be, because ya know, I'd only just discovered fanfic. Anyway, a hopeless addict was born. I keep trying to give it up, but when inspiration strikes, I write it, because you never know when it will strike again.
3. Farm
I say I grew up on a farm. Truth is, I grew up in a lot of places, but the farm was home. We never owned any of the places we lived in, so eventually, my parents would just stop paying the rent or whatever, until we got kicked out, and then we'd move somewhere else. We did (when I lived with my parents) once have a farm. A great uncle or something owned the property and let us live there and farm it for free. We got a bunch of heifers from my uncle, and we were dairy farmers. Only my dad was never cut out to be a farmer. He just never had any work ethic, and I doubt he'll ever have one. I love him, but he's about as responsible as a twelve-year-old. My mom knew nothing about farming and still ended up doing all the work. We kids were too little, and I'll admit, some of my best memories are of running through the pastures all summer long in my underwear and swimming in the creek. I absolutely loved that place.
Then, my parents separated. We moved to a lot more places, mostly in town. Then, my parents got together again, and we moved to the country, but didn't have a farm, but my dad worked on one. WE had ponies. So, I was happy. Then, my parents divorced, and we moved with my mom in town. Then we moved back with my dad. Then, one day the electric company came and turned off the power, and my dad took us to Grandma's for the weekend and pretty much never came back. So, then I spent my last two years of high school living and working on my grandparents farm. And since my grandparents lived there my whole life, I say I grew up on a farm, because that's the only real home I remember.
My uncle runs it, now, and I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I adore the man. I would love to go back up there and help him run it, but I could never convince Dan to do it, and I know a lot of the family drama I ran away from will just come back to kick me in the ass, so it's probably a bad idea.
4. Wincest
I read it and I write it. It's a funny story, actually. I had just discovered fanfic, ya know? I didn't know about headers and warnings and stuff. And the first wincest fic I read actually did have a warning for wincest, but I thought it was a typo. I had no idea what slash was either. So, I read the story, and it was actually pretty tame, but I did finish it and review it by saying, "Did Dean just kiss Sam?" And the authortigriswolf replied back and said, "Oh, they did a lot more than that."
I probably should have been shocked. I dunno. I just wasn't. I said, "Hmm, people write them as a romantic couple? I wonder if there's more of that." So, I never had any aversion to it. I dunno if that makes me sick.
I converted my Tracer to reading it. I discovered![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sn_slash and read it religiously. Probably every fic that was posted in 2005 and 2006 in that comm, I read. And when I found some I liked, I'd send her the links. And she said she read 'em but skipped the sex scenes. So, I started copying them into word and editing out the sex scenes with little things like "Ooh, they have sex here for a really long time." It really didn't take long to convert her. Then, she turned me onto J2 by saying, "Don't hate me... but I read this and I liked it..." And I read it, and I liked it, and yeah. Now I hardly read Gen at all. I just like an extra layer.
I had never written any sex before, so it took me awhile to get up the nerve to write any wincest myself. But well, I took the plunge. Most of my stories are still pretty tame, because I believe the story has to be about the relationship first and the sex has to be a natural extension of the relationship. I don't write a story just to have the excuse to get them having sex. If it feels like I need the sex, then I put it in, if not, I'm fine with a nice fade to black.
5. Manny Skerritt
Okay, I loved Castiel from the first time I saw him. It took me awhile to watch any of the Misha vids or interviews, cuz I felt a little like I was cheating on Jensen. LOL. But then I did, and I ADORE HIM. See, I'm the Mishus now. I still don't watch every vid with him in it, because four years of being on dialup made me video leery. I'm getting over it. And I actually used to watch Nip/Tuck. (Ironically, I let my hubby get DirecTv because I refused to watch the Fox channel after they cancelled Dark Angel, lol. Ah, serendipity is amazing.) I think the first season of Nip/Tuck started airing right after we got the dish, and I was ridiculously stuck on F/X cuz they had Buffy showing like four episodes a day and I hadn't seen Buffy since season 2, because we moved out in the country and didn't have cable. I only watched the show the first couple seasons, but when I saw the Manny Skerritt promo with Misha... HAD TO WATCH.
And I'm so glad I did. Cuz bendy Misha is the most awesome Misha ever, and while Jensen will always be my number one with a bullet, Misha can totally stay around as long as he wants. And I probably will check him out in any future projects. Though now I totally want to see him in like a Kung Fu movie playing Master to some Grasshopper and demonstrating the way to... align his chakras.
So, man, I talk a lot when I get going. I should probably post a little every day instead of saving stuff up until I break my LJ, but oh wells. I'm going to bed now, so I won't get right back to you, but if you wanna play, please do. *smooshes*
So, it ain't just y'all. Last year, I also thought I was a year older than I actually am. *is ded* And just why are so many of you born in February? LOL.
Now, on to the meme. I got prompted by
lovelyloraRandom association meme.
Ask me to associate you with five things. When I do this, post this meme and an explanation of your interest in those five things in your journal.
My list was:
1. Jensen
2. Fanfic
3. Farm
4. Wincest
5. Manny Skerrit
1. Jensen
If I was to list my interest in him, the entry would go on forever. Let's just say, I have no other fandoms and no other shows, and I came here by way of Jensen, so that's saying a lot. Just now staring at his name, I totally had the song, "I only have Eyes for You," start playing in my head. So, rather than say how much I love him and why, I'll tell you how I "discovered" him.
This is going to sound utterly ridiculous. Feel free to laugh. When I was in college at University of Wisconsin-River Falls, I used to sing in the church choir. It's very much a suitcase college which is dead on the weekends, because everyone goes home. But I couldn't because I lived to far away and I had to sing on Sundays, so I'd come home from church on Sunday and turn on television, and there'd be nothing on. I stumbled on a little show that reminded me of when I was really little... only not. It was the remake of "Flipper." It became a Sunday tradition. Church and Flipper. Stop laughing. Okay. Laugh. So, I watched it and taped a few episodes, because the kids on the show were the same age as my little sister. Over the summer, I watched 'em with her, and she kept going on and on about Maya (Jessica Alba's character). Maya's hair. And Maya's clothes. And how pretty is Maya, so when I saw the first Dark Angel promo, I didn't really care what the show was about. What I cared about was, "OMG, that's the girl from Flipper!"
So, along came Dark Angel and then Jensen. I have to say, I didn't really pay any attention to him until Berrisford Agenda. Though he did break my heart in Proof of Purchase. After the show ended, I spent way more time trying to figure out where Jessica Alba went. Shut up. Then, I didn't see Jensen again until Supernatural. Okay, I saw a couple episodes of Smallville, (OMG, the guy from Dark Angel!) but even he couldn't make me watch Smallville. When Supernatural started, I fell asleep on every episode, because it was on at 11:00 at night, and I had a 9:00 bedtime. (Hey, a girl needs her 8 hours, and I get up early.) I didn't really have a favorite brother. Just watched the show, cuz it seemed like my kinda thing. Then "Faith" happened, and I have had tunnel vision ever since.
2. Fanfic
Before I ever wrote fanfic, I just wrote. I completed two novels and had done the whole query and submission thing. Never got any takers. I didn't even own a computer, did everything on a word processor. I got a computer in October of 2005, mostly only went online to read the Parelli Forums and then shut it down to write on my word processor. LOL. Then Supernatural happened, and then Faith happened. And I got bored one night and went Googling Supernatural. I came across Supernatural.tv. I read all the forums which were dead back then, and stumbled on one that said, Fanfiction. I was like, "Huh?" And I read some, and went, "People actually do this? They write stories about something they like and post them for other people to read?"
And I have to admit, I'd been doing that in m head forever. I always had alternate endings, missing scenes, or codas in my head, but I never wrote them down. I knew fanfiction was sorta illegal, but I have to say, after doing the two novels and hundreds of submissions and not getting one person to even READ the novel, just the stupid query letter, I really, really wanted someone to read what I was writing. It was so frustrating for me that I got rejected over and over again based on a letter and not on the actual story. So, I took the plunge and wrote a fanfic. And people read it. And they liked it. And I liked that. To be honest, my first few were bad. I thought they were supposed to be, because ya know, I'd only just discovered fanfic. Anyway, a hopeless addict was born. I keep trying to give it up, but when inspiration strikes, I write it, because you never know when it will strike again.
3. Farm
I say I grew up on a farm. Truth is, I grew up in a lot of places, but the farm was home. We never owned any of the places we lived in, so eventually, my parents would just stop paying the rent or whatever, until we got kicked out, and then we'd move somewhere else. We did (when I lived with my parents) once have a farm. A great uncle or something owned the property and let us live there and farm it for free. We got a bunch of heifers from my uncle, and we were dairy farmers. Only my dad was never cut out to be a farmer. He just never had any work ethic, and I doubt he'll ever have one. I love him, but he's about as responsible as a twelve-year-old. My mom knew nothing about farming and still ended up doing all the work. We kids were too little, and I'll admit, some of my best memories are of running through the pastures all summer long in my underwear and swimming in the creek. I absolutely loved that place.
Then, my parents separated. We moved to a lot more places, mostly in town. Then, my parents got together again, and we moved to the country, but didn't have a farm, but my dad worked on one. WE had ponies. So, I was happy. Then, my parents divorced, and we moved with my mom in town. Then we moved back with my dad. Then, one day the electric company came and turned off the power, and my dad took us to Grandma's for the weekend and pretty much never came back. So, then I spent my last two years of high school living and working on my grandparents farm. And since my grandparents lived there my whole life, I say I grew up on a farm, because that's the only real home I remember.
My uncle runs it, now, and I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I adore the man. I would love to go back up there and help him run it, but I could never convince Dan to do it, and I know a lot of the family drama I ran away from will just come back to kick me in the ass, so it's probably a bad idea.
4. Wincest
I read it and I write it. It's a funny story, actually. I had just discovered fanfic, ya know? I didn't know about headers and warnings and stuff. And the first wincest fic I read actually did have a warning for wincest, but I thought it was a typo. I had no idea what slash was either. So, I read the story, and it was actually pretty tame, but I did finish it and review it by saying, "Did Dean just kiss Sam?" And the author
tigriswolf replied back and said, "Oh, they did a lot more than that." I probably should have been shocked. I dunno. I just wasn't. I said, "Hmm, people write them as a romantic couple? I wonder if there's more of that." So, I never had any aversion to it. I dunno if that makes me sick.
I converted my Tracer to reading it. I discovered
sn_slash and read it religiously. Probably every fic that was posted in 2005 and 2006 in that comm, I read. And when I found some I liked, I'd send her the links. And she said she read 'em but skipped the sex scenes. So, I started copying them into word and editing out the sex scenes with little things like "Ooh, they have sex here for a really long time." It really didn't take long to convert her. Then, she turned me onto J2 by saying, "Don't hate me... but I read this and I liked it..." And I read it, and I liked it, and yeah. Now I hardly read Gen at all. I just like an extra layer. I had never written any sex before, so it took me awhile to get up the nerve to write any wincest myself. But well, I took the plunge. Most of my stories are still pretty tame, because I believe the story has to be about the relationship first and the sex has to be a natural extension of the relationship. I don't write a story just to have the excuse to get them having sex. If it feels like I need the sex, then I put it in, if not, I'm fine with a nice fade to black.
5. Manny Skerritt
Okay, I loved Castiel from the first time I saw him. It took me awhile to watch any of the Misha vids or interviews, cuz I felt a little like I was cheating on Jensen. LOL. But then I did, and I ADORE HIM. See, I'm the Mishus now. I still don't watch every vid with him in it, because four years of being on dialup made me video leery. I'm getting over it. And I actually used to watch Nip/Tuck. (Ironically, I let my hubby get DirecTv because I refused to watch the Fox channel after they cancelled Dark Angel, lol. Ah, serendipity is amazing.) I think the first season of Nip/Tuck started airing right after we got the dish, and I was ridiculously stuck on F/X cuz they had Buffy showing like four episodes a day and I hadn't seen Buffy since season 2, because we moved out in the country and didn't have cable. I only watched the show the first couple seasons, but when I saw the Manny Skerritt promo with Misha... HAD TO WATCH.
And I'm so glad I did. Cuz bendy Misha is the most awesome Misha ever, and while Jensen will always be my number one with a bullet, Misha can totally stay around as long as he wants. And I probably will check him out in any future projects. Though now I totally want to see him in like a Kung Fu movie playing Master to some Grasshopper and demonstrating the way to... align his chakras.
So, man, I talk a lot when I get going. I should probably post a little every day instead of saving stuff up until I break my LJ, but oh wells. I'm going to bed now, so I won't get right back to you, but if you wanna play, please do. *smooshes*
