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I decided to go with Elijah Wood and songs, he mentioned over the years as his favorites.




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(all links go to You Tube)
Play in the sunshine - Prince
California – Joni Mitchell
The feeling of jazz – Duke Ellington

Jump before you think – Manfred Mann
A certain someone – The Sundays
Return the ghift – Gang of four

If I could be with you – Lavelle White
I'm yours and I'm hers – Johnny Winter
Pacer – The Amps

Though at first, I was sure that I wouldn't do this one, I couldn't resist at the end.

Challenge: Your favorite characters collect shirts. For this challenge, you'll be creating a digital t-shirt quilt for a favorite character.

I guess, for most of my friends the result will not be a big surprise. For everyone else: I made a quilt for Casey Connor, one of the main characters of The Faculty


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Because writing is still slow (again, sigh, what kind of strange times we are living into) I've decided to have some fun and make a fanmix for monthlysupergo. It's for the TV show Lucifer

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Songs:
(all links go to YouTube)
I Fell In Love With The Devil by Avril Lavigne
Devil May Care by Diana Krall
Seven Devils by Florence + the Machine
Being Evil Has a Price by Heavy Young Heathens
Lucifer by XOV
Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones

...to everyone who celebrates, and good wishes to all of you who don't.



Easter reminds us that hope must never be lost for as dark as the road may seem, there always lies light at the end of it.

Because we all can need some distraction at the moment :) Stolen from my f-list.

NO GOOGLING ALLOWED. Do this using your own brain power. Every answer must start with the first letter of your FIRST name. THIS IS HARDER THAN YOU THINK.

WEAR – Pyjama pants
DRINK – Plum wine
PLACE – Paris
FOOD - Pepperoni
ANIMAL – Puma
GIRL’S NAME - Penny
BOY’S NAME - Paul
PROFESSION – Professor
WORD TO DESCRIBE SOMEONE - Playful
SOMETHING IN YOUR HOME - Plates
BODY PART - P???
YOUR FIRST NAME – Prisca

COPY, PASTE, & HAVE FUN.

Challenge #15
In your own space, create your own challenge.

I would love to offer you two challenges - one RL related and the other one fandom related.

1. Real Life
We all are struggling with our goals and plans now and then. I challenge you (and myself, I use to forget this all too easily, and the chance that I will give up is big) to be nice to yourself and not to force you too much. Even a small success is a success.

My challenges for this year:
Losing weight: Remember, that you don't have to lose 10+lb within one week; this may look great in TV shows, but it is much more realistic to make mini-steps. Just go your way. Don't be mad at you if you fail now and then. Be proud of even the smallest loss of weight.

Sport: If the only sport you did so far was watching Football or Tennis on TV, don't expect that you will turn into a sports ass overnight. Take it slow. A ten-minute-walk once a week is a beginning; you can think about running a marathon next year when your condition has improved.

2. Fandom Life
I already did mention it before. There are so many great fandom-related communities out there. Sadly a lot of them are very quiet or even abandoned.

I want to challenge you to pick one or two of these communities you are interested in (or you loved once but have left them behind because there are so many new, interesting communities you want to try out).

Give them a (new) chance. Complete a table you have started ages ago but never finished. Grab a new table. Participate in a challenge. Leave some new prompts. Or, if getting active seems to be too much for you at the moment, read some older stuff; leave a short comment. Readers are as important for a community as writers.

Just help to keep a community alive.

Challenge 13
In your own space, create a fanwork.

Well, maybe this is a tiny bit of cheating because I didn't do these for Snowflake only. But I did some fannish stuff during the last two days.

1. I looked for interesting poem-prompts and posted them at 31days = February Writing Prompts

2. I did finish a new writing table for one_sentence_only (not posted yet)

3. Fanwork, yeah :) I did write and post a double-drabble for drabble_zone = The only real friend

Talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You.

Ohhh, I do love today's challenge. I want to talk about people who lead me to fandom and who inspired me enough to stay there.

First of all, Sean Astin. Of course, I don't know him (well, I've met him once at a convention, but I guess this doesn't count), but without him, I would probably never have made the way into fandom. The first movie I watched with him in a leading role was Lord of the Rings. And his performance of Sam was so great that I wanted to watch more movies with Sean. Okay, I will admit, there are a lot of cheap B-movies, I don't like, but also some very great performances. Like Mr. Smith from Jeremiah. Rudy from Touchdown. Harrison Bergeron. Old, unknown movies and I started to wonder if anyone else besides me had ever heard about them ;) So I ended up surfing through the net and it was unavoidable that I finally discovered fanfiction.

I guess most of you will have already noticed it, that English is not my native language. I was pretty unsure at first if I would be able to make friends at Livejournal. But it was pretty easy; 'with the help of Sean' I soon found a group of people who shared my interests. And who did write the most interesting fanfiction.

First of all honeyandvingar. She used to write the most wonderful 'The Faculty' stories, and I learned to love this fandom before I even watched the movie. At least since that moment, I am hopelessly addicted to fandom and fanfiction. Honey, you will always be the queen of The Faculty for me.

Sometime later, I dared to write my first Jeremiah ficlets, written in horrible English, as I know today. Nevertheless, I got nice, encouraging comments, and it felt sooo great to be a part of a community that loved the same stuff as I did. I would like to say thank you to everyone who was there for me back then (and who is still around). Sadly not so many anymore; a lot of people did move on to other interests or left their journals behind. But that's a different story.

Another one I need to mention here is Mews. Sadly she passed away about two years ago, but I am so thankful that I have met her (even if only online). She was one of the most kind, encouraging people I have ever met. A brilliant writer, too; I am glad that I have saved all her stories at my PC so that I can re-read them when I want.

She was the one who let me dare it to write my very first The Faculty story. Short backstory: One time, she posted about a group named 'Celtic Thunder,' and because I was curious, I followed her links. And I fall in love with the group and their music (today I own almost every CD they have ever published, and even after about ten years I'm still listening to them).

As a 'thank you,' I decided to write a little something for her. And because the Jeremiah Fandom doesn't seem to fit, I finally choose The Faculty. This was the result: Like a bird without wings, based on a song of Celtic Thunder. Now, after re-reading it, I am sitting here, with tears in my eyes (and the song in my head); this was the beginning of an exhilarating trip that still lasts, and I know without Mews (and all the other wonderful people around) I would probably never have made this step.

Promote/Rec/Sing the Praises of Yourself!

Hm.

- There was not much writing during the last year I can be proud of; too little words, too many missed challenges. But in December I regained my writing mood. Since then, I am writing regularly again, with a tolerable rate of missed days, which feels pretty good.

- I've finally started an archive for all my writings p_r_i_s_c_a, and I plan to copy older works there little by little.

- I guess most of the people who will read this will know that I usually write fanfiction and have two main fandoms from the beginning (The Faculty / Jeremiah). While I usually give my boys (The Faculty) a happy end, I don't hesitate to let Mr. Smith (Jeremiah) suffer a bit, but always with a touch of hope, that one day even for him things might be better again.

It is always difficult for me to leave my comfort zone behind and try something new. So I am proud when I manage it to write a poem. Or fill a kink table for a community. Or write in a new fandom.

Comfort = a poem (original)
Kink/Smut = a table for one_sentence_only
Shattered hope = The good doctor (brandnew fandom)