The Tradëscan Codex

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you’ve seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own on DVD (or VCR tape).
4. Post your answers.

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 . . . wisdomeagle, who gave the meme the best subject line ever.

[01] -- Look up TEN of your favorite movies on IMDB.
[02] -- Click the "trivia" link in the sidebar.
[03] -- Post a fun and random bit of trivia from each film.

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This journal is three years old today.

To say the same thing in slightly different words, three years ago today, I created this journal. Before I go on, let me recognize that this journal would be nothing without the people reading it. You all read it for slightly different purposes; some people are here for the fic, some for the meta. Some have know me offline and God bless you for scrolling through all the fannish content.

Let's trace the history:

YEAR MINUS ONE: Alixtii O'Krul, a junior in college, posts his first fanfic at Fanfiction.net: the first scene of Windows of My Soul. Other works follow.

YEAR ZERO: At some point--and I'm not sure if this was in Year Zero or Year Minus One, Alixtii begins to read around LiveJournal, following favorite FF.net authors like likeadeuce and hjcallipygian. Using hjcallipygian's flist--including the su_herald--as his own and his base of operations, he reads fic and follows meta discussions, leaving signed anonymous comments all over the place, so that people come to recognize him. wisdomeagle, who is not on hjcallipygian's flist, gets bookmarked as a regular reading stop as well.

Alixtii travels to London, where his following LJ is reduced to the time in the FSU center's computer lab. He still manages to learn about the death of Andrea Dworkin and mourn her on LJ. Derrida dies too, but I don't remember anything LJ-related.

( Alixtii: Year One )

YEAR TWO: Alixtii graduates from college. He writes more fic. He picks up more fandoms.

YEAR THREE: Alixtii is baptized. As a Christian, he goes on to explain why the Bible says incest fic is okay.

OTW is founded. Strikethrough2007 happens. Alixtii organizes the Cross-Gen/Incest Porn Battle! and the (first annual?) 'Cest-a-thon!.

YEAR FOUR: Alixtii makes a long boring post summing up the history of his LJ ending in a self-referential sentence.

Everyone has things they blog about. [Except my Aunt Sandy.--ed.] Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favourite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc.

The question and answer meme which has been going around my flist as the "Buffy Interview" meme and related names, even though I think only one of the questions explicitly refers to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mostly it's on my method and history as a fanfic writer.

1. What was the first story you ever wrote? What inspired you to write it? ( Answer )

2. Which of your stories received the best response? Why do you think that is? ( Read more... )

3. Which of your stories received a less favorable response than you expected. Why do you think that it? ( Read more... )

4. Which character do you enjoy writing the most? Why? ( Read more... )

5. Which character do you enjoy writing the least? Why? ( Read more... )

6. You wrote it and you loved it. Quote your favourite opening line. Quote your favorite closing line. Your favorite title. (Again, links to the stories are always welcome.) ( Read more... )

7. Do you identify with one pairing? If so do you tend to write mostly that pairing? When you don't- what inspires you to step off the beaten track. ( Read more... )

8. Do you re-read your fic? Why or why not? Do you have a favourite fic to re-read? ( Read more... )

9. Some writers find writing difficult. For others, it comes easily. Tell me about the experience of writing for you. How do you write? When? Where? Do you plot your stories or just start writing. Which of your stories was the easiest to write? Which was the hardest? ( Read more... )

10. How has the delivery of fanfic changed since you first started in fandom? Where did you first start posting? Do you have a web site? Do you maintain it? Did you belong to lists? Do you now? How do you find new fic to read? ( Read more... )

11. No shows = no inspiration. Let's face it, it's all been done, right? Or has it? How do you find inspiration in the Buffyverse? Do the comics help? Do you consider them canon? ( Read more... )

12. Feedback - how important is it to you? What sort of feedback do you like to receive? Do you leave feedback when you read? ( Read more... )

14. Do you write professionally? Did you before you started writing fanfic or did fanfic pave the way? ( Read more... )

15. Final thoughts. I am sure I missed something- talk to me.( Read more... )

12a. And so to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right, and justice, and peace, until the gods create a race of men that can understand.

12b. Go, Ptolemy. Always take a throne when it is offered to you.

( And the answer is. . . . )

15a. All my life I've done what's expected of a traditional Patusani girl. And who do my parents think they are, telling me who I'm going to marry? I'll decide who I'm going to marry, not them! That is if I marry. I mean that was a really swell kiss and all, but I just didn't want to hurt your feelings about the marriage thing. But we can still date, right?

15b. Don't make me come out there and beat you with a leg of mine that no longer works, 'cause I'll do it! No you get in here and clean up your bloody rooms 'cause I know best because I'm 37!

( And the answer is. . . . )

( my ideal boyfriend )

I've never seen Gossip Girls, so I don't know if its on the right track or not.

( images )

Elizabeth! Tina! Michelle! Eliza! Amy! Kate! Jewel! Ellen! Iyari! Sarah and Felicia! Summer! Eve! Amber! Kristen! Amanda! Aly!

Guh.

I've found myself googling my own journal a lot lately. Now partially this is because I can do this; I'm the only Alixtii on the web, so I know that if I'm going to google "dawn roslin alixtii" I'm going to get some blast from the past. Now there are other ways of finding the specific post I would have in mind, comparing Dawn Summers to BSG's Laura Roslin, if I googled that--for example, there's the "monsters" tag, which I know I tagged that post with, and there are more recent posts which link back to that one (but which might themselves be difficult to find). Although that's not the best example, because apparently I mention Dawn and Laura in the same breath a lot (which is why I have a tag for specifically that kind of conversation, after all).

Similarly, if I want to find a fic, I'm much more likely nowadays to type in "alixtii" followed by a few words from the title, rather than go to the fiction index (which is linked in the sidebar of my journal) and find the link. Again, the fact that there's only one me ensures all the displayed hits will be relevant.

I've gotten so dependent on using Google to find things in my own journal I'm not sure how those of you who have the robots turn off actually manage to find anything.

. . .

One of the places I've mentioned Dawn and Laura in the same breath when I wasn't talking about the ethics of monstrosity at all was this (relatively recent) meme, where one tracks how many times one has written a number of female characters. I'm still not sure what to make of the fact that I've written Dawn (in just the completed fics) 37 times, Faith 25 times, Buffy 14 times, Kennedy 14 times, River 13 times, Drusilla 11 times, Harmony 8 times, Vi 8 times, Lilah 8 times, Fred 7 times, and Kitty 7 times. Other than the fact that I clearly do have one true characters: Dawn for Buffy/Angel, River for Firefly, and Kitty for X-Men.

And now I'm interested in doing a male version of the meme:

( male characters I've written )

The highlights of the above being that I've written Giles 27 times, Mal 10 times, Wesley 9 times, Xander 7 times, Andrew 7 times, Ethan 5 times, Angel/us 5 times, and Joss 5 times (soon to be 6!). Obvious conclusion: I write male characters a lot less than I do female characters. Less obvious conclusions: I'm surprised at how many Mal stories I've written--more than River stories, even! It's kind of hard to argue from the data, then, that I don't have male One True Characters, even though I sort of feel I don't. I can explain away Giles as less the result of being a One True Character than just being shipped with one, but not all of my Giles stories are Giles/Dawn. And Joss is clearly my OTC for RPF. (I've written Summer all of once.)