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 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 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 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 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 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 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
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 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 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
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 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 02:24 am (UTC)I have this Remix that I haven't even thought about, oh boy.no subject
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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 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
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 02:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-02 02:51 am (UTC)Ooooh, yes, very good. But which elf cousins?
And thank you! ♥
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:58 am (UTC)Holy crap!! Go you!
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:02 am (UTC)And you're welcome. This is one of the fics from this month that will stay with me a while.
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Date: 2012-04-02 03:03 am (UTC)Yes! I only managed to finish two within the month, but I have many I hope to share.