Let's Play Pretend!

[tsukinofaerii]

I just realized that I missed my Marvel fandom birthday! D: So, in light of that, let's all just pretend that it's April 6 2010, 11:04 AM, which is exactly one year from the moment that Velithya contaminated me with her comic book cooties.

Happy belated birthday me! :D

A look back over my last year in this fandom. I have:

• made a bingo card
• written a ridiculous amount of fic (including my longest ever)
• met amazing people
• cosplayed in a ridiculously short skirt (better pictures will come when I reprise the costume on May 7)
• gotten not only a gmail at fandom prompting but also a DW
• developed a strangely specific list of 1940s trivia
• (poorly) spoofed a magazine
• am still determined to get this tattoo
• have been gifted with incredible fanart (a complete and utter first in my fandom life)
• attempted (and failed) to cover Reborn for the sake of LCS!fail
• enjoyed myself by being ridiculously spammy for Halloween
• secretly died during NaNoWriMo and continued to write from beyond the grave
• and received my first flame (locked post)
  
  ... Wow. I didn't think I'd been that active. :o I honestly don't think I was so all over the place in any other fandom. And that list doesn't even cover meta, kerfuffles, discussions, the three months I spent mainlining fics... Needless to say, I think it rocks. :D I love you people. (hugs everyone)
  
  To pretend like I actually managed anything in poetry month, here's one I grew up with. It's was originally written about Texas and adapted for Arizona. The author is a mystery, but I grew up seeing it on the wall in my Grandma's office, and always thought it was both hilarious and true. This is usually found with lists of things like "you know you're in Arizona if driving with oven mitts seems like genius".
  
  The Devil wanted a place on earth -
  Sort of a summer home.
  A place to spend his vacation,
  Whenever he wanted to roam.
  
  So he picked out Arizona;
  A place both wretched and rough.
  Here the climate was to his liking,
  And the cowboys were hardened and tough.
  
  He dried up the streams in the canyons
  And ordered no rain to fall.
  He dried up the lakes in the valleys,
  Then baked and scorched it all.
  
  Then over his barren desert
  He transplanted shrubs from Hell.
  The cactus, thistle and prickly pear -
  The climate suited them well.
  
  Now, the home was much to his liking.
  But animal life, he had none.
  So he created crawling creatures
  That all mankind would shun.
  
  First he took the rattlesnake
  With its forked poisonous tongue;
  Taught it to strike and rattle
  And how to swallow its young.
  
  Then he took Scorpions and lizards
  And the ugly old Horned Toad.
  He placed spiders of every description
  Under rocks by the side of the road.
  
  Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter.
  Hotter and hotter still!
  Until even the cactus wilted,
  And the old Horned Toad looked ill.
  
  Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom.
  As any creator would.
  He chuckled a little up his sleeve,
  And admitted that it was good.
  
  'Twas summer now and Satan lay
  By a prickly pear to rest.
  The sweat rolled off his weary brow,
  So he took off his coat and vest.
  
  "By Golly," he finally panted.
  "I did my job too well.
  I'm going back to where I came from -
  Arizona is hotter than Hell!"
  
  
  Aaaaand, finally, I... erm. May have flash-fic'd. Just a teeny bit. D: And it's not Marvel. It's actually not even for a movie. It's for a one-minute trailer from a fake movie. Has anyone seen Tropic Thunder? No? Good, me neither. All you need to know is that it's the fake!trailer for the fake!movie Satan's Alley, which appears in Tropic Thunder. I just got hooked through fandom!secrets, and failed miserably to keep it to myself. Yes, there is a community (omalley_doyle). Yes, that is RDJ-as-Kirk-Lazarus-as-a-gay-monk and Toby Maguire-as-Toby-Maguire-as-a-gay-monk. Yes, I'm a geek. *g*
  
  In Faith, One Day
  By tsukinofaerii
  Beta: None D:
  Rating: SNAP
  Genre: Dramaz
  Warnings: Male/Male, religious themes, probably blasphemous, oral sex
  Spoilers: LOL
  Fandom: Satan's Alley
  Pairings: Doyle/O'Malley (just roll with it)
  
  Summary: Father O'Malley seeks penitence, and Father Doyle assists in his battle against the sins of the flesh. (Complete ficlet.)

Comments

lol at the poem!

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Rattlesnakes eat their young? O.o

Welcome to comic book fandom, it's been cool having you here. I remember us meeting in fandomsecrets and bonding over the fact that although some writers had left, the Steve/Tony ship sailed on. :D

Re: lol at the poem!

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

I think it's one of those urban legends that's taken over. As far as I know they're known for it, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of evidence.

:D I love being here. (hugs) And I remember! I was young and new and apparently missed Epic Wank by about a week. oO

[whimzii.livejournal.com]

Whoa, you cosplayed? That's awesome! It looks like a lobby in a Dragon*Con hotel. Where where you?

Speaking of that magazine, did you ever do the crazy tabloid fic?

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

It is a hallway in a movie theater. :D I wish it were Dragon*Con lol.

D: And nope, I didn't. ONE DAY.

[stormseye.livejournal.com]

I had my first year in the fandom anniversary a few weeks (months, what year is it?) back back (first for posting, not for lurking, which I started to do in August the year before, I am an epic lurker).

I think comics fandom is one of the ones you can stay in for life. Like movie fandoms can come and go, same with shows (there's always exceptions though) but there always will be and there always has been comics.

I'm glad you showed up! It's sad we lost alot of people around the same time but I'm happy you came to join.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this seems like one of those fandoms that grab hold and never let go, while others tend to be more trend-ish. :D I'm glad I joined y'all too. It's been wonderful! (hugs!)

[velithya]

STILL NOT SORRY :D

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE YOU'RE NOT. :P