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[sophistry]

I am stealing both these memes from toko, since UNO, they are awesome, and DOS, if I spend any more time wrestling technology today, I might seriously damage something expensive and electronic. And I mean that in the jump-up-and-down-on-top-of way.

• The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in (or think I should), and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, etc). I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU. For integrity of the exercise, you should probably stay away from AUs I have actually participated in.



• The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is weird being an international student (I keep thinking, international students are the sort of ratty looking types in black skinny jeans smoking outside the [polisci building]! Then I realize now I am one) and I totally know what you mean because it is the same in DC (and in Strasbourg). The funny thing is, int'l students complain a lot about how hard it is to get to know (in my case) French students, but ... that's in-large-part-ly because the int'l students are all oriented and mixer-ed up for two weeks or more before the home students come back to school, so they establish friend groups that are then hard to break out of. Especially if they're all in the same classes, which happens often. I have like one class with friends and I still haven't hung out with any French kids outside of class, just because I came here with one of my best friends from home and a bunch of other Anglophones and it's so hard to not hang out with them. Well also, the different teaching system makes it harder to get to know your classmates, but. hmmm. Sorry, this is not actually a response to what you said so much as something I've been thinking about lately.

Internet pet peeves! *asks more*

[sophistry]

People who TMI in LJ communities that have nothing to do with said TMI. Eg, recounting the saga of how your fight with your boyfriend led you to draw this fanart right here under the cut. If it is longer than one line, your saga belongs on your LJ; feel free to post your art there and link to it from the comm. Otherwise, NO. Likewise, going on about the piece itself. You want to accompany it with three paragraphs of author/artist's notes, put it in YOUR OWN LJ. God. NOBODY CARES.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Oooh good one!

Positive question now :) What helps you get up on Those Mornings?