A Little B2MeM 2012 Meme Quiz Thing.
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1. Number of responses you generated (WiPs also count).
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
3. Favorite card?
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
6. You're still going to write it, right?
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
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Date: 2012-04-01 11:21 pm (UTC)2. I also plead laziness.
3. My most successful cards were Adunaic, Women of the Silmarillion, Economy, and TVTropes. I also really liked Controversial Topics, Powers & Underpowers, and Silmarillion vs. Harry Potter.
4. Hmmmm...
5. Oh, goodness, there were so many inspirational prompts that didn't get called that I can't pick just one!
6. These cards are definitely going to be used for further stories.
7. Progress was made for a couple more pieces of this (http://archiveofourown.org/works/9636/chapters/12296), and they were really fun to start.
8. The rise of the Feanatic hive mind. :D
9. I really like my piece for N33 (Infrastructure // Sauron vs. Bellatrix Lestrange) because I got to write fusion: the Black Sisters (my favorite HP character is Andromeda Black Tonks) as daughters of Numenorean nobility.
10. Body Language (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/147895.html) by
Sweet summer child, this was so powerful and visceral that I had to immediately re-read it. Amazing fleshing out (pun intended) of Orc society.
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Date: 2012-04-02 12:10 am (UTC)2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.) Around 250
3. Favorite card? Anything to do with Aragon, Here we come a Carolling, Injuries and other Ailments, Beasts, All Ocs all the time
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why? Several on the Canon Couple cards, for couples I'd never heard of or only knew the names. I wanted to answer every prompt on my cards!
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't? 25, 53, 42
6. You're still going to write it, right? maybe
7. Most fun prompt to write for? blackberry
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.) I wrote a drabble about Feanor and Nerdanel. My Ocs took over. That the quality of the writing was so high.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with? Lavender's Blue,Protectors, Of Ancestors and Toothache, Twists of Fortune, Beneath the Stars
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable. Too many to name, but I've had especial pleasure from reading Grey Wander, Starlight, Nath and Cairistiona's Works.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
Anyone else hoping we will does this again?
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:17 am (UTC)And Bellatrix LeStrange v. Sauron, eh? Not that I think Sauron is lacking power, but who am I to cross Helena Bonham Carter in full Chewing-on-couches mode?
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:04 am (UTC)2.) Too lazy to go count exactly, but estimating around 25 to 35 prompts a day...775 to 1085 prompts. Probably somewhere in the middle of that.
3.) Either crack pairing one...
4.) Any of the ones to deal with dwarves, because I just plain don't like writing dwarves.
5.) I can't narrow it down to one.... see here: http://brookeoflorien.livejournal.com/10262.html
6.) This summer....probably May and July.
7.) I don't know, there's been so many...Genre - Poetry, was rather fun: http://fav.me/d4s2nbb (Rated G, Celegorm should never attempt to write poetry at all).
8.) How friendly everybody was...I'm used to having to be persistent in order to be able to fit into a community, not just wander right in.
9.) Hmm...all of the ones that I've published so far, I'm pretty happy with...and I'll be happy with most of the others once I finish them...
10.) :blush: ...I actually haven't read any, between writing my own and school. I'm a bit of a failure in that respect. Edit: Just remembered that I love Huinaire's pictures posted on her latest journal, especially the one of Saruman asleep. And also, my new goal, once school is over in a month is to just go on a mass reading spree.
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:58 am (UTC)Holy crap!! Go you!
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:18 am (UTC)3. Sons of Feanor, Book Titles, TV Tropes, Snippets of Verse.
4. Oh gosh, I think I must have been the earlier ones, when I wasn't quite sure what to do with.
5. AH SO MANY. Like G56, which was Caranthir after Uldor's betrayal and slash. Which blew my mind! I actually wrote the start of it. And then there was O74, where the Valar and the Greek gods were going to have a fight... And I24, which would combine "Maglor as regent" and A Clash of Kings, i.e. I was going to write that bit of the story as if it was an episode of some highly sensational HBO program. (Which premieres tonight!)
6. Heck yeah! (Maybe.)
7. Heh, the poems.
8. I read -- if not exactly wrote -- out of my comfort zone. Not just tragic elves, but men! And hobbits! And other people! It was great.
9. The twins thing! Maedhros is Doriath! Nerdanel's artistic frustrations! Caranthir's wife!
10. Oh man, I knew I should've bookmarked more consistently. I really loved
How are you all feeling? Good? Triumphant? Yes? You should!
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:18 am (UTC)Sleepy - also, omg, how is there all this stuff still to do?! Oh right... B2MEM ate my brain.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:48 am (UTC)ETA: And yes, feeling triumphant and totally giddy. It beats NaNoWriMo, honestly. ^^
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:28 am (UTC)25 published, 28 started.
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
Many.
3. Favorite card?
I loved playing the Femslash card, but I GOT NO BINGO ON IT! Magic and Real gave me a bingo, though.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
Mmmmm.... well, I'll go with:
a) Femslash: kink - so hard for me, I wrote an essay to explain why (http://dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com/2506.html).
b) Aspects of Aragorn: Lover - writing embarrassment from the inside is hard for me, and I'm sure there was some involved in some of these episodes for Aragorn. My tendency is to flip over into angst to get around my limitations, but that would've defeated the purpose of writing the series, which was to try to write Aragorn and Arwen as having to deal in as straightforward a fashion as possible with Aragorn's PTSD, political life, and the fact that they're not a young married couple. Arwen's perspective is frankly easier for me to write in this regard; Aragorn's, I think, would've been impossible for me for most of the story.
c) Aredhel and Malgwen/Eöl genderbender break-up, a.k.a, the end of the affair: too long and involved, and I was exhausted.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
G54: I wanted that bingo on the Economy card, and it would've given me "Easterling" on the Languages of Arda card, too! And I would've taken just about any number off the Deep Thoughts Card or the Femslash card (especially B2 for bingo, although different numbers would've challenged me more).
6. You're still going to write it, right?
I'm sure something will be written, at some point, on topics like these.
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
Hard to choose, but I'll say that in general, I enjoyed the Femslash card because it let me world-build in a different way, while foregrounding women's political roles, and that let me take a look at Aredhel for the first time, or see female orcs for the first time on their own terms (I've written one female orc before, but she was, um, not in the best of shape by then...).
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
The fact that we're all still conscious after the ficfest mania.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
I liked Body politic and Body language for what they did with characters/genres I've never written before; I enjoyed deconstructing Aragorn and Arwen in their post-Ring War married life, and I was happy to write Winter queen, which in some fashion or another has been with me for awhile.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Total War (http://tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=5994) by Altariel has forever changed how I'll think about what Denethor saw in the palantír, and the Denethor-Faramir relationship.
Your WWI juxtaposition fics are likewise amazing, as is the Fallen gapfiller, The way to the river (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/10375.html#cutid1), which stands nicely alone.
There were two really memorable Mîm fics I read: A Decayed House (http://tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=6000) by Altariel and Curse from Afar (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/170300.html#cutid1) by Elleth.
Dreamflower's Fine feathers make fine birds (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/173792.html#cutid1) for its irony.
Grey_wonderer's Everything is better in space (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/68107.html#cutid1) crackfic story.
I can't possibly name everything, because the list would be so long, but there were some fantastic responses out there.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
How are we all still conscious?
(Okay, seriously: are you now, or have you ever been/known an/-y Aredhel fan - ever?)
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:29 am (UTC)Well, to be honest, I'm more fond of her eldest brother, but I suppose I could be called her fan. ;) Why? She's one of the characters you can't stand?
Er... you're not going to hate me, if I tell you I adore Eöl as well, are you? *runs for cover*
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:46 am (UTC)47 finished responses, and I'm only counting finished pieces, since many of the WiPs are 300-odd-word-snippets that I may end up merging with others or discarding entirely, so it's hard to get a final count there - excepting twenty+ or so that will stand mostly as they are - two chaptered fics that still need adding to, twelve drabbles that need revision and a handful of fics or ficlets that need either finishing or revision.)
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
361, though I may have miscounted. Something around that number. (I had 40 cards, don't judge meee.)
3. Favorite card?
AU, Economy, Fëanátics, Femslash, Four Words and Write What You Know, among others - and it just occured to me that I totally forgot about Last Lines, which was a definite favourite as well!
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
G50 from Let's Get Meta, borrowing another author's character - because the character I picked (an Easterling woman of GG's) is a) from a culture I never thought about a great deal, and because GG has done a fair deal of worldbuilding and character creation that took a while to get into.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
G47 for a Varda/Ilmarë cosmogonic femslash fic.
6. You're still going to write it, right?
Hmmmm. :D
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
O62, Femslash AU. Genderbendy elf cousins passing the Bechdel test, and B1 - working title being the Lembas Wraith fic.
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
The quality of the writing - the Tolkien fandom is ridiculously creative and talented, but seeing it all in one place and mostly on short notice was an eye-opener of quite monumental scale. I loved that the month went past absolutely drama-free, the enthusiasm everywhere, and the ability to discover new authors I hadn't read before as well as reading outside my usual Silmarillion margin. With my own writing - I probably wrote three or four months' worth of fic in March alone, so that was an amazing experience. (And people actually enjoyed it, which made me boggle - happily, but still!)
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
One of the unpublished ones, Idhlinn meeting an old friend in Nargothrond.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Ecstasy (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/48477.html), by
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
Are you going to keep posting your fics to the community even now that the month is over?
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:21 am (UTC)There are a couple I'd like to write still, and if I do succeed, I will post them here, absolutely! Once again, glad you enjoyed Winter queen.
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:48 am (UTC)2. I'm guessing I answering 50ish prompts, but no real clue.
3. My fave card was Alternate Viewpoints.
4. "Thuringwethil and other vampires" (Horror card). This spawned a short-story-in-progress, and the only work I've not posted any of yet. It was challenging because a good vision of Thuringwethil has hitherto always eluded me. My brief mentions of her in my work have usually been intolerable for some reason or other. I did finally hit on a Thuringwethil I really like, but the story requires a lot of work still.
5. The number I really wanted called (B15) popped up halfway in...I'd no other particular number-related desires.
6. But I will definitely be sifting my uncalled prompts to find good ones to finish my Istari novella thing.
7. How to choose? It was definitely fun to write for the I18 combo of “Hawk” (Beasts), “Hill” (Landscape), “Splintery” (Texture); that set the tone for abovementioned novella thing. Can't beat wizards falling off ships.
8. I was surprised to find myself writing a bit about hobbits (and every mention of hobbits in my work was, like, incredibly complimentary...could the little fellows be growing on me?).
9. Of my works, I am most pleased with:
- "The Jay and the Moon," which I wrote largely because it bothers me how Bombur is stereotyped.
- "Istari, circa 1040 Third Age" (hey, at least one knows exactly what one is getting with that title), the WIP that ate my soul for the first three weeks
- "A Water of Cirith Ungol" and "The muddled last thoughts of one Gelmir of Nargothrond," which kept my more grisly muses happy.
10. Recs of others' work? aokyujqmhphmo!!!!1 there's too many...um...this is why I should have been diligently bookmarking.
At risk of looking like an ingrate given the author of this survey, I did love Aliana's drabble (which I now cannot locate) responding to (I believe) "what if Tolkien read one of your works?" Short, simple, to the point, and encapsulates beautifully the interesting relationship our fandom sometimes has to its originator.
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:23 am (UTC)Ditto - this is one of the problems I'm having writing Thuringwethil/Ungoliant slash.
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:34 am (UTC)2. 34 prompts...some of which I had sworn I wouldn't do. Tolkien triumphs over self-discipline.
3. Steward and his Sons! Also, though I didn't write them, I really liked Here we come a Caroling, Adunaic, the two animal cards, and Deep Thoughts.
4. Toothache, because I know so amazingly little about them. And ecstacy because I so rarely use that word and that emotion comfortably.
5. B5 and N37
6. Both of them. Multiple times. :)
7. Whoa, that's hard. Captain of Ithilien, ecstacy, apprehension, Winter Festivities, Captain General...those are probably my favorites so far.
8. The incredible communal feeling in this, well, community. I have never experience such an endless feedback loop of entusiasm and encouragement and inspiration. Also, the amount of writing this generated. I knew it would be a lot, but by the Valar, I am impressed! I had so much wonderful work to read every day! I was astounded I managed to write so much, that one of my OCs (who prior to this month didn't exist) apparently has 5 siblings I did not know, and that some of my work actually was postable at speed. That never happens. :) This month was amazing.
9. I am pleased with both of the two I posted, probably most with "Washed Away," because it deals with emotions and ideas that I have struggled to write before.
10. Ah, now I wish I had kept track of these better. There are so many that I liked, and that fascinated me, only a few of which I can recall. I know that there was a drabble by altariel called "Self Medication" which I liked a great deal. Altariel's drabble of Denethor and the Palantir completely blew me away. I loved cairistiona's Halbarad everywhere he appeared. I was fascinated by the many depictions of unnamed and/or underdeveloped female characters. There were so many others that I liked, but I cannot remember them.
I agree with Linda, I am so very excited to do this again in the future.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:36 am (UTC)dancing around to Kelly Clarkson in my bedroomattempting to do my homework. Please don't judge me. Oh, fine, you can judge me. I totally deserve it.1. Number of responses you generated (WiPs also count).
21 posted, I think maybe 1-2 WiPs. (Really good considering it's me!)
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
Yes. Lazy.
3. Favorite card?
I loved Femslash, and wish I could have written more for it. Also, Song Lyrics, and Crackfic was tremendous fun.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
Probably "Kink" in Femslash, and various Silm-related prompts, just because I've never been a huge Silm person and I had to dig a little deeper for those--but I also enjoyed them a lot!
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
Wish I could have written Finduilas as Lady Ruling Steward! Also, G47 on the Femslash card with that Rita Mae Brown quote, and O71, which would have allowed me to write a horrifically angsty epistolary AU to my own work (actually, probably better that that one didn't get called).
6. You're still going to write it, right?
Hope so!
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
IN SPACE!
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
The fact that I really enjoyed getting out of my writing comfort zone, and doing Silmfic Elf Femslash, etc. People's creativity in combining different prompts. How many new fandom connections I've made, and how much I've enjoyed talking to everyone (okay, so that last part is not a surprise, but was an added bonus).
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
I actually still really like my silly Harlequin Romance photomanips--it was fun to do something visual, which I very rarely do in fandom. I'm also quite pleased with my Witch-Queen of Angmar piece that I did for the "Kink" prompt.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
I read so much great stuff this month, but I especially remember Huinare's Finduileorn story, partly because I might have goaded her into it, but mostly because it is hilarious and awesome. I'm going to second Dwim's recommendation of Altariel's Total War, above, and also Dwim's sharp, unsentimental and totally spot on To my friend, who did not save my life. Because who doesn't love a good Halbarad deathfic, right?
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
WHAT WILL YOU DO TO FILL THE GAPING VOID? I plan to
dance around to Kelly Clarkson in my bedroomwrite my remaining prompts?(EDITED multiple times to take out all hyperlinks and almost all html because LJ HATES MY GUTS. Sorry, guys.)
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:49 am (UTC)I second that! She would certainly be something!
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:56 am (UTC)2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.) 76 prompts finished, 21 still in progress, 21 unclaimed
3. Favorite card? Difficult to say, I got most responses on Causes of death.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why? The Textures card. I decided to use that for Arwen and Aragorn on their wedding night, and romance is well outside my writing comfort zone... I must admit I missed a few prompts on that, or used them elsewhere.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't? N34 - Causes of death: burning. That was the one that made me go "Ooh, must write limericks for this card!"
6. You're still going to write it, right? I did (http://mrowe.livejournal.com/707682.html).
7. Most fun prompt to write for? Probably the Causes of death card.
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.) How little sleep one actually needs...; that I managed a reasonable number of responses; that I produced about three months worth of wordcount; how much fun this was.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with? Ummm... none? I'm not yet done editing (or writing...) and while there are a few that make me wince, I am mostly happy with much of what I wrote, but I can't pick one.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable. I tried making a list, but it kept growing out of control, and I'd probably still forget half, so... (not to mention that I haven't read everything yet...)
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.") merely echoing what's been said (*looks up*) How is it that we're still conscious?
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:32 pm (UTC)2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.) 75 :)
3. Favorite card? Maglor in History cards, Silmarilion fanon card and I oogled the tv tropes card, fancied the crackfic card when I stamped those the most.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why? The first prompt that ran off with me on the Feanatics card: In Beleriand... Freedom Fighter starring Celegorm. Imagine this: haven't written any fan fic for over two years and he just pounced me and ran off with this prompt. It just felt as if I was riding a horse that had bolted off. So many ideas, lines of dialogue came crashing over me that I felt rather overwhelmed. And it is still not done, that story. The good thing is that I got some insight about an older story I once wrote, this somehow ended up as a back up story for that one.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't? Oi! Hahahaha, G56 of the Fëanatics card: Dior, pretty but stupid. I would have loved to have used G35 on both the femslash and powers and underpowers for a novella that I started to write some years ago. I28 on Maglor in History because it would have been about the Trojan war!
6. You're still going to write it, right? When real life allows me to, yes. I just popped up for my regular beta who hasn't seen me for over a month LOL
7. Most fun prompt to write for? Maglor in the Roman Empire prompts (3 of them), the Maglor in history one for the Tudor court. The femslash Kink one basically wrote itself.
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.) That I actually managed to get writing done on an almost daily basis. I can attest that getting 4 hours of sleep per night with everything else to balance is not enough, but my family still recognises and loves me.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with? I loved creating 'Healing of Moonlight', I enjoyed the progress made on current wips, realising that I have another verse in which I can fit stories...
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Date: 2012-04-02 01:32 pm (UTC)10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable. I haven't been able to read more outside keeping track of bingo stamp claims, but what I read was just amazing. What comes to mind is Elleth's Communication Log of Patient01000001 01110010 01100101 01100100 01101000 01100101 01101100 (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/78090.html) , Dawn's "The Bearer of Light" (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/86319.html), Winter queen (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/170159.html) or Onen i-estel Edain (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/144615.html) (because I love love Gilraen in this piece) by Dwimordene, Himring's Nellas and Maglor (http://hhimring.livejournal.com/11374.html), or her poem Utulie n'aure (http://hhimring.livejournal.com/10416.html#cutid1) or Elfscribe's amazing Apprehension (http://elfscribe5.livejournal.com/208526.html#cutid1), Havamahal's manips and artwork: Fëanorian lamp (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/146061.html) and death of a loved one (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/85199.html), or poor Rochallor (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/111524.html), Independence1776's Assignment (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/184523.html#cutid1), Pande's From The Book of Lost in Translation Tales, footnote 15 (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/139383.html#cutid1) Oshun's icons and images... and many many more that still needs to be read or to be seen!
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
This year's B2mEM has been very memorable, also for those who worked behind the scenes. We always start planning and working on this early and it is so great to see that this has been so warmly embraced and enjoyed by many. We can only imagine how participants might like it, but to see it come to fruition like this has been... wow. We can organise this, but it takes the participants to really make it work. So a big thank you to all!
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Date: 2012-04-03 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-02 08:17 pm (UTC)84 (or is it 85?) stories - most of them not finished, of course, 4 reviews and 7 pieces of terrible artwork.
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
186. Or something like that.
3. Favorite card?
Too many to count! AU card, Crack Pairings 1&2, Cause of Death, Fëanátics, Sons of Fëanor, Women of The Silmarillion, Love in Middle-earth...
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
Nerdanel/Aredhel from Crack Pairings 2. Why? Because I was terrified Fëanor might find out about this! (if he threatened to kill his own half-brother just because he was bad-mouthing him, what do you think he would do to someone, who slashed his wife with his niece?!)
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
Probably N45. :( Come on... just look at the prompts:
Bow of the Galadhrim (Archery in Arda)
Illuin (Lamp of the Valar) (Artifacts and Weapons)
Boromir never died on Parth Galen. (AU)
The Witch King isn't killed on the Pelennor (AU: Who Lives and Who Dies?)
The Parentage of Gil-galad (Controversial Topics)
Maedhros/Melkor (Crack Pairings 1)
Fingolfin/Anairë (Favorite Couples)
"I love him. He's like that, and sometimes it shines through, somehow. But I love him, whether or no." (Love in Middle-earth)
… by someone whose work you admire (Review a Story)
Can I start crying now or should I save it for later?
6. You're still going to write it, right?
Absolutely.
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
Number B1 - It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. (First Lines) I think I became just slightly obsessed with Fingon's (non-existent) wife. :/ But I really enjoyed writing about her wedding. :) Oh, and writing about Morwen Steelsheen was also very enjoyable experience.
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
About myself - that I managed to write so much and actually finished a lot of what I started. And that I actually went and wrote stories about characters I didn't even noticed before or even worse - couldn't stand them. *throws a glance in Lúthien's direction* About others - their enthusiasm and ability to include insane number of prompts in their stories. About community - pretty much everything. How kind everyone is, supportive, creative... I was completely blown away by everything that was going on this month.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
With all the artwork I did. I suck as a writer (just ask Dawn, if you don't believe me), so I can't say I'm particularly proud of any of the stuff I did. But it's a start and they'll get better once I'll spend more time on them.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
I only started reading and reviewing last night, since I had no time for it during the event itself. Two of my favourite fics so far have to be Out of the Dust (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/9177.html) by Elleth and "To Market, To Market... But Perhaps Not Today" (http://b2mem.livejournal.com/8389.html) by cairistiona. And then there was that Beorn/Finduilas story that really cracked me up... I'm not sure who wrote that one. It was the only time I took 2 minutes to actually read something that was posted that day. Didn't regret it one bit. ;)
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
Nope. They're safe from my questions.
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Date: 2012-04-02 11:41 pm (UTC)That'd be me. Glad it amused!
I don't know if the number for that one was ever actually officially called, but I had to write it anyway.
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Date: 2012-04-03 07:22 am (UTC)That would require me to stop writing to count. I'll let you know later.
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
Again. counting. silly. I have Feanorian muses living here who were not here in February. Counting is out of the question.
3. Favorite card?
Feanatics (Finrod came in second)
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
That Celegorm/Aredhel came up twice in quick succession, and I didn't want to cheat and use the same story for the twin prompts.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
O76. Never seems to come up. (also, N40)
6. You're still going to write it, right?
Of course. O76 deserves it.
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
War of Telerin Aggression \o/ It's a new household term
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
That I spent an entire day burning a single piece of paper that I had so carefully written tengwar on, then spilling 'blood' on it on the patio. Certain my neighbors are concerned.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
I'll have to let you know later, but there's an urn at my feet that I think is going to end up amazing. Or, sucky, in which case, we'll agree never to speak of this.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
Eventually, when I have time to go back more and look at things. /o\
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
*shines flashlight around bingo parlor looking for the other uncalled balls* How's April 9th looking for my fellow extra-crazy bingo ladies.. you know that of which I speak... ;-)
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Date: 2012-04-03 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-03 09:00 pm (UTC)1. Number of responses you generated (WiPs also count).
Thirteen stories, no WIPs.
2. (You can also count up the number of prompts you answered, etc, but I'm lazy so I'm not going to do that.)
102
3. Favorite card?
Song Lyrics, Femslash, Winter Wonderland, and some others.
4. Most challenging prompt(s) you answered? Why?
Good question. It was more of which story was the most challenging (I wrote mostly two long stories, not short ones), and the answer to that is my Silmarillion/Doctor Who crossover. It was like pulling teeth, and I’m not sure I like it well enough to edit.
5. Number you most wish had been called, but wasn't?
Poetic Form’s found poem, Femslash’s OFC and quote on G47, pretty much the whole of Crackfic (especially genderswap and “you in M-e”), In a Manner of Speaking’s “not all there”, and pretty much the whole of Winter Wonderland (especially “winter tales”).
6. You're still going to write it, right?
Maybe. I don’t really have ideas for most of them; they’re just things I’d like to write.
7. Most fun prompt to write for?
Crackfic’s Jedi powers and lightsabers combined with Silm fanon’s Maglor +Daeron = (not) BFF. It pretty much wrote itself.
8. What surprised you the most? (About your own writing, others' writing, the prompts, the community, anything.)
The sheer volume of writing posted to the community. I hadn’t expected that much of a deluge.
9. Which of your B2MeM works are you most happy with?
My “A Kind of Poetry” ‘verse story. It needs to be edited and expanded before I post it, but I would probably have never gotten around to writing it without B2MeM.
10. Recommend a couple of things other people wrote that you found memorable.
*blushes and shuffles feet* I’ve only read a handful of stories. My life was rather hectic at the end of the month, and being a tagger as well as writing meant that I only had time to write and tag, not write, tag, and read/review. One of my April goals is quite simply to read what’s posted here.
Anything else you want to ask your fellow B2MeMers? (Because you can't spell "B2MeMer" without "Meme.")
Not that I can think of.