So, I've been rather absent on LJ and Twitter lately, I do apologize. I've been drifting around the Internet but not being very sociable, that's very hermit-like of me. I should be on Twitter more, we shall see how it goes.

( In which there is news and vague brooding )

On to this meme, for once not jacked from anyone, I'm starting it though I am sure that someone else has done it.

List five ways in which fandom, specific or general, has invaded real life for you.
( Here be my answers! )

OK, so, before I start, a minor bit of comm-pimping. I'm trying to jump-start my dead comm, inception_meta, and with that in mind just posted a new discussion topic over there, so anyone interested please go check it out!

Ahem. On to the topic at hand. This is also a meta of sorts, but a more general fanfiction writing one as opposed to one for a specific fandom. I'm hoping to continue with these - I have a few ideas already and I'm open to suggestions for others. But for this one, the subject is writing crossovers.

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So, first bit, I'm also stealing that WIP meme that everyone seems to be doing...

( Jesus Christ, what is this, I don't even... )

On an almost totally unrelated subject, what do you guys want to see from the four weddings in my upcoming A/A/E kink meme fill? I'm thinking the reality ones between the three couples my triad can break off into will be fairly simple, but if anyone has any suggestions on details (like clothes for example, I am not a clothes horse and don't know where to begin looking for that stuff) I am very open to hearing it. I do not want to be guilty of the Did Not Do The Research trope. (And I think I just figured out how to make word links... Wicked.) Beyond that, I've only been to three weddings in my life, and of them I was only really paying attention to one (the first I was too young, the second was outdoors in October and it was bloody cold). Never been the type to daydream about my own, so I haven't thought very much about weddings before.

And for something totally different, be glad your father was not Charles I, Holy Roman Emperor. He was just a little too concerned about his son Philip's sex life - telling him to restrict how often he slept with his wife, for one thing. Granted, Charles' uncle died as a teenager and the records suggest it was overexertion with his new wife that helped do it (and he wasn't the first of his family to have this little issue), but still. Between that and the other Trastamara problem of inbreeding, not to mention the Plantagenets' tendency to kill each other and the Tudors' struggles to have healthy kids boys, it's a wonder these royal families lasted as long as they did! The French look like they did slightly better, but their no female-line inheritance (not even the sons of royal daughters) meant that the line kept moving to different branches of the family. This may have helped.

Pardon the random geekery at the end here.