Bored bored bored bored (repeat to fade)
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jadesfireWhen I'm working, it's about this point of the evening that I really start climbing the walls. I've read my f-list several times, and have to stop myself from pressing 'refresh' every two minutes as I try to remember that other people, you know, have lives and things. I still refresh my email every two minutes on the basis that you never know.
I've shelved every book that was out, I've checked and rechecked the renewals email account (nada) and I'm just starting to contemplate the various ficlets I want to write. The Watching Years is completely and utterly stalled, but I've got a few other thoughts to play with. But the boredom overtakes even that.
I've decided that the discussion group should have its own comm, so as not to interfere with the smooth running of the library - I'm going for "tw_fic_club" unless anyone has any more inspired ideas. Will create tomorrow, ready for chatting next week some time. I could do coursework, but the notes are at home. *sigh*
I am therefore forced to fall back on memage:
[gakked from pretty much everyone]
Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.
Fictional or original characters (all the minor characters in The Waiting/Wandering Years have full back-stories. yes, really, all of them), or pick someone random from my interests list.
If you get no reply, I've actually died of boredom. Or gone home.
EDIT: The latter is now true! Thanks guys, you're lifesavers :)
jadesfire has left the building...
I've shelved every book that was out, I've checked and rechecked the renewals email account (nada) and I'm just starting to contemplate the various ficlets I want to write. The Watching Years is completely and utterly stalled, but I've got a few other thoughts to play with. But the boredom overtakes even that.
I've decided that the discussion group should have its own comm, so as not to interfere with the smooth running of the library - I'm going for "tw_fic_club" unless anyone has any more inspired ideas. Will create tomorrow, ready for chatting next week some time. I could do coursework, but the notes are at home. *sigh*
I am therefore forced to fall back on memage:
[gakked from pretty much everyone]
Name a character and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal pseudo-canon.
Fictional or original characters (all the minor characters in The Waiting/Wandering Years have full back-stories. yes, really, all of them), or pick someone random from my interests list.
If you get no reply, I've actually died of boredom. Or gone home.
EDIT: The latter is now true! Thanks guys, you're lifesavers :)
jadesfire has left the building...
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Still bored?
Date: 2007-05-17 07:11 pm (UTC)Re: Still bored?
Date: 2007-05-17 08:15 pm (UTC)Re: Still bored?
Date: 2007-05-18 06:45 am (UTC)Tosh:
1. She's allergic to strawberries.
2. She's always wanted a pet - something small and furry like a rabbit or a guinea pig - but her parents would never let her have one and now she doesn't think it would be fair as she's not at home enough.
3. She never told Owen about her crush on him - they're good friends and she didn't want to spoil it.
Will that do you? :D
Re: Still bored?
Date: 2007-05-19 07:04 am (UTC)Would you like to ask me about a character? I'd be happy to reply in a comment!
Re: Still bored?
Date: 2007-05-19 07:07 am (UTC)I'm intrigued by your dark!Jack - definitely interested in his 'canon'
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Date: 2007-05-19 07:21 am (UTC)The sequel to As the Daylight Falls is going pretty well, incidentally, and I even have part of the THIRD Dark!Jack story written too. And tonight I ended up writing something about him and Laura Roslin as per my friend's request. It was meant to be a drabble; somehow, however, it ended up being 8 pages long (double-spaced, anyway). Perhaps I'll post it at some point. I may also wake up tomorrow and realize that it is TOTALLY BAD, though, as I am currently in no state to judge anything.
Lastly, would you mind adding As the Daylight Falls to the TW Library thing? For some reason I didn't get any readers (HELLO FEEDBACK WHORING!) and I'm hoping that might do the trick. I blame Dark!Jack for this sudden desire for attention, yes I do.
on dark!Jack
Date: 2007-05-20 05:28 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm going to begin with three main points, some of which you may already know from what you've read.
Here goes:
1. On January 31, 5015, Jack was born on Arcadia, a remote colony plagued by political instability and civil war. He joined up with the Rebel army as a young teen along with his best friend Jeff. Only Jack survived the war, after which an aid organization placed him with a foster family living in the capital city of his system's largest colony. Upon graduating from college, he joined the Time Agency.
2. He worked as a Field Agent for three years, visiting all sorts of different times and places. The job excited him, and, for a while, he was happy there. Then he broke the rules. He doesn't know what it was he did, because once the Time Agency caught up with him they removed the relevant events from his memory. After that, Jack decided to leave. He waited until the right moment; then he seized his chance and escaped.
3. Jack fell through a Rift and ended up in the BSG universe while attempting to run from a team of Time Agents, all of whom had been relentlessly pursuing him since he departed. He thus never got a chance to meet Rose and the Doctor or have crazy stuff happen to him on space stations. As a result, he ages normally and is not immortal.
And now, five random facts:
1. Jack was 12 years old when he saw two men kissing for the first time while waiting outside Arcadia's most notorious bar. His parents never found out where he and Jeff had gone, but they were certainly scolded for having run off when they caught him trying to sneak back into his house in the morning. If they had found out, Jack would have been in real trouble; the small village in which he grew up, needless to say, was not particularly tolerant.
2. Jack is very good with technology. He loves tinkering with things, though he hasn't had much time to do it lately.
3. If he could have his choice of professions, he'd probably choose to be a pilot. He also adores singing and is pretty damn good at it, and has consequently contemplated trying to make a career out of that as well. Alas, he's not exactly in a position to go for either possibility at present.
4. Jack hasn't cried in three years. He often wants to; he simply can't. This inability actually makes him feel even worse when he's at a low point.
5. Above all else, Jack wants to feel connected. He wants all the experiences that he's had to come together, and he wants to feel close to the people that surround him. But he's moved about so many times --- and feels like such an outsider in BSG land --- that he feels very detached, as a result, rather depressed. What first drew him to the drug to which he's addicted is that it creates exactly the feeling of connection he so craves.
And that's all! I hope that I haven't bored you too much. If I can manage to get dark!Jack out of his current predicament, I should be done with Part II soon. If you'd like to give it a read-through, just let me know!
Re: on dark!Jack
Date: 2007-05-20 05:55 pm (UTC)I'm happy to have a look, if you'd like. I'm going to be swamped for the next week (coursework, ugh) but after that, things should calm down.
Re: on dark!Jack
Date: 2007-05-23 08:00 pm (UTC)Re: on dark!Jack
Date: 2007-05-23 08:22 pm (UTC)and now for something random!
Date: 2007-05-19 07:06 am (UTC)God. My JB obsession is even making me like musicals, to which I am normally pretty indifferent! At least musicals like THIS one. Bring on the cynicism! Yeah!