I have two days...

[laligin]

... until the end of the current Jantolution challenge. I'm frantically working on a fic for the My Immortal prompt, and busy turning over a few drabble ideas as backup in case I don't type quick enough, and I've already covered Himalaya, Crack!fic, and Jack Returns with Tourism in Lockdown, but - and this is the key point - I have no idea what to do with the Harry Potter prompt.

None at all. This doesn't usually happen to me.

Hmph.

Anything you guys want to see (preferably a reasonably short idea...)? Otherwise I'll have to try and think of something very quickly, and it probably won't be any good.

But I have to have a fic ready for it! I've completed every Jantolution challenge so far, it's a matter of pride/obsessive-compulsiveness now... (Mara, you have me more than hooked. *shakefist* :P)

Darnit.

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[laligin.livejournal.com]

I only meant that I research things to make sure they're accurate. :) If I ever mention a day and a date together, I've looked it up to make sure that it's right for whatever year I'm working in, for example. And I was working on a Stargate crossover at one (two) point(s), so of course I just had to go and watch any and all related episodes...

My "My Immortal" one doesn't take well to Potter-esque intrusions. It would seem out of place or shoehorned in just for the challenge... Hrmph.

That ficathon sounds fun. There should be a similar one for Torchwood - for characters like Kathy Swanson or one-shot villains and the like. :) Hmhmhm, ideas strike...

*watches a tide of plotbunnies dive on you for the food* Uh oh. Now you've done it...

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

Oh that's the type of thin I don't do, I normally just don't mention something, I'd say the 18th of August or Friday that 2nd, see in every year there's a Friday the 2nd and an August the 18th!

I just watch Doctor WHo becuase I want to.

Oh well, just an idea.

It's called tindogs_fic the site I'm doing it on.

But I have a secret weapon... come out Bobbie (she's my dog) (and she's very fast)

*watchs Bobbie chase that plotbunnies away*

[laligin.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I'm somewhere between being ridiculously pedantic and a touch obsessive compulsive. :) I can't let details be wrong - it drives me up the wall if I let a mistake slip past me. ;)

*the plotbunnies flee, and dive on Lali instead*

*is submerged under a pile of nibbling plotbunnies* Darn. >_< Now I'm in trouble. Though maybe there's another Harry Potter bunny in here... *starts hunting*

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

My friends brother is OCD, so it's not that I don't understand... it's that I can't be bothered! :-)

I seriiusly can't!

Bobbie wouldn't hurt a fly! SHe just likes to chase things.

Why not offer the bunnies a copy of The Deathly Hallows, which ever one jumps on it is the HArry Potter bunny!

[laligin.livejournal.com]

Heh. Good idea. ;) Unless it's already got away...

(Oh, and if you ever want a beta who'll happily attack commas, full stops, speech-marks and minor details in a frenzy of correct-ness that would shock all but the most pedantic of readers, just ask. ;) )

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

Well might as well try it.

Hellenebright BETA's for me at the moment but when you're dislexic like me then any help is nice so I may take you up on that!

[laligin.livejournal.com]

Sure thing - I just remember that your NotSoBigHeaded fic wasn't betad, and I'm usually a fairly quick beta, so I thought I'd offer. :)

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

I noramally do get my stuff BETAed *crosses fingures* but i didn't want to bother her because I remember that I wrote it early in the morning.

I probally will take you up on that.

I do a bit of BETAing but not BETAing the spelling/grammer I do BETAing the story itself, like I'm BETAing a story for a girl who's writing a story with Jack and her own character but it's set in Torchwood and she's never seen Torchwood in her life and I get given Doctor Who stories from my friend (rosetyler4ever) to check for mistakes because in her words, 'I seem to have learn the serie soff by heart'

[laligin.livejournal.com]

Hee. I've fairly learnt Torchwood off by heart, too. And while I'm good at catching mistakes that don't quite follow canon or suchlike, I'm always hesitant to comment on someone else's plot/characterisation too much. Sounds like we're the perfect Beta opposites. :D

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

I know, I catch the tinyest of mistakes like rosetyler4ever was writting somethign about a dalek
'and a green flash of light came out of it's laser weapon and the Doctor fell down, dead'
And I was like, Daleks rays are blue and as evidence I got up a screen shot of a dalek firing.
The fact I am obbesssive over my Doctor Who makes me a useful person in those situations!

Well for these people it's my 'job' to compent on plot and characteriseation, I sometimes do a bit of brit-picking is it called? You know changing cola to coke and stuff like that for Amanda but mostly I'm a plotting BETA.

We're the opposites! Totally!

:-D

[laligin.livejournal.com]

*giggles* See, I wouldn't have been too sure about that, but I would have squealed, "A possessive "its" has no apostrophe!!" :D That amuses me far more than it should.

*celebrates our differences* ^_^

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

Ah well...

It is funny, when you think about it!

*celebrates as well*

Being different is brilliant!

[phantomreviewer.livejournal.com]

dyslexic even