Letter to Environment Canada, Excuses, and a Writing Meme

[thraesja]

Letter to Environment Canada: You promised me 1 cm of snow today. I'm currently seeing at least 6 inches, all of which I have to somehow get off my driveway and over the snowbanks that are already taller than I am. And I'm pretty damn tall. You and Mother Nature both suck. That is all.

Excuses: Okay, so back on January 1st I resolved to have

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[aurora_novarum]

And There's Screaming in the Stillness

[thraesja]

Hee. You should ask 6beforelunch about that one. ;)

I wish I'd written it.

[aurora_novarum]

D'oh! You know...that was striking me as odd, because I didn't remember it being yours but in skimming your lj list I spotted it.

Clearly I've been staring at the interwebs too long.

[thraesja]

Understandable. I've been trying to work up the energy to get up and go to bed for half an hour now. Mostly because my brain already did so an hour before that.

For future reference, if the words 'gorgeous', 'lovely', or 'clever' appear in the same post as a fic title and link, it's a big clue that I'm making a rec rather than pimping my own stuff. :)

[aurora_novarum]

Well, I *know* you wrote La Pesadilla.

[thraesja]

Indeed I did. And you've successfully left me flailing for something I didn't include in my last meta on it.

Um, well, obviously I learned a bunch about the Spanish Flu...but most of that made it to the page, and what didn't made it to the DVD commentary...

Oh, I got one. Dindarra's name was originally going to be 'Ghianna'6 until amaranthtraces informed me that was really close to a Farscape character name. I changed it to 'Dindarra' as a corruption of Dendera, which is a city in Egypt with an ancient temple complex. The biggest building in that complex is the Temple of Hathor and I pictured Daniel as (unfairly) uncomfortable with Dindarra because of it. Also, there's a relief in the temple that is 'evidence' for a fringe theory about the Egyptians having electricity, which I figured Daniel might have looked into at some point.

[amaranthtraces]

Let me know if you get any response from Environment Canada. Just be sure not to mention me in your letter. I have to keep on their good side.

I think people will forgive you for not meeting your writing resolution. I doubt they will me though. *hides*

Oh, and The Whumpacious Whumpification of the Whumped

[thraesja]

You wrote that with me, remember? What could I possibly say about it that you don't already know?

Um, okay. Lessee. Well, I had never actually heard of crack fics at the time, but it seems we pretty much managed to write one anyway. :)

[amaranthtraces]

Of course I remember. Here I am, setting you up to say something like, "Golly, Amaranth, while writing TWWOTW, I learned what a sweet, wonderful, and brilliant person you are!" Wait to fail to meet expectations. Sheesh.