Delightfully Useless

Okay, the second dw100 challenge word was "food" - pretty obvious who I'd be writing about for that one, eh? ;D It actually took me some time to come up with this particular idea, and I apologize wholeheartedly for stealing the concept (and the foods) from a 'Gatefic of which I do not remember the author.

Title: Food Fight
Summary: Illya's first food fight in the UNCLE cafeteria.
Notes: Gen, double drabble i.e. 200 words. Early partnership. Blue Jello courtesy of the SGC. ;-)

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Um... this started as a sort of companion piece to "Restless", but it evolved quite a bit. Many thanks to illyushadarling for her very thorough screencaps of the cell scene in The Children's Day Affair, which gave me an ending for this otherwise pointless exercise in description-fic. ;-) I have no idea how well this works, but as "One More Time" showed I'm no judge of my own fic; I nearly threw that story away.

Title: Golden
Summary: Napoleon finds out what's with that thing Illya always wears around his neck.
Notes: Gen, 786 words. (Yes, I know it's really a medical alert for DMc's penicillin allergy.) Warning: I do portray Illya here as having religious faith, just so you know in case that offends you. I don't think I need to warn for totally gratuitous underwear!Illya, not with my flist... ;-)

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A bit of randomness: cracky fan theories about quantum mechanics are a regular topic of conversation around our house. Today, we came up with this one... "If there are ten spatial dimensions but only one temporal dimension, maybe the spatial dimensions are arranged in sets along the temporal dimension - which might make the sets yesterday, today and tomorrow! A three-dimensional yesterday, a three-dimensional today, and tomorrow is four-dimensional because the future is open-ended!"

/random

Ahem. Anyway. I also have a cross-fandom LOL.

This is how I've been feeling lately... during the daytime. At night, I'm all bright and chipper and writing way too much fanfic. o.O

Picture from illyushadarling 's caps of The Project Deep Hole Affair - a strange episode in many ways, but General Burkhalter as the Mole Man makes up for a lot. As do pretty pictures of Illya not being action-y for once.

Caption ganked from LOLSleep by lolmac , who has probably been wondering when I was ever going to use it...

First off: I haz big news! Four years, four months and three days ago (yes, I counted), my family moved house. Since then, we've been doing a major remodel on the old house and trying to sell it - not exactly at the same time. My mother and I did most of the work: plumbing, electrical, carpeting, drywall, flooring, cabinets, everything but roofing (which I refuse to learn, being acrophobic.) I even wrote a Doctor Who ficlet, Liberation, inspired by the subject.

Anyway. Today - today, right now, as I type - is the closing on the old house! Going, going, gone!!! Out of my hair! No more flitting around like an UNCLE agent in miniature, never knowing what will go wrong next or where I'll spend the night; no more camping without running water or a working stove! (Granted, these experiences do help me get inside the boys' heads when I'm writing, but I'd just as lief not have any more for a while, y'know?)

So, in celebration, a plumber!Illya LOL. (You know you're going a little bit crazy when you seriously consider dreaming up a scenario where Illya takes a long-term undercover assignment as a handyman just so you can turn around all the crazy things that happen to you and happen them to him. No, I didn't do it.)

I must be the only person on illyushadarling 's flist who, when confronted with this particular Illya-costume from The Off-Broadway Affair, saw something besides Baby Ducky. (I absolutely love this costume... but that's a bit beside the point, isn't it?)

If you don't get the caption, there's an explanation below the LOL.



Okay. If you didn't get it: it's a MacGyver joke. Mac occasionally goes undercover as a computer geek named Dexter Fillmore; the disguise consists of scruffy clothes, thick glasses, and really seriously good, Illya!Nexor level, acting. This is Mac (in Dexter's clothes, but not in character); this is Dexter.

And if you haven't seen MacGyver, you should.

Okay, I've been looking for something to do with this theme ever since Beth said I could steal her captions. This is my first attempt, but hopefully not my last - or best. (Got one more idea up my sleeve, but not the piccie for it yet... anyone have suggestions for more? You guys are more familiar with DMc's other work than I am.)

Inspired by LOLockpick, LOL.SAK II, LOLToothpick, and LOLUzi (whoa, didn't realize there'd been so many!) Screencap from Evasion Pattern Eight as usual.

Random semi-newbie question of the day: why is songfic looked down upon in some fanfic circles? I see people apologizing for it, or saying they don't read it, etc...

Anyway, I've got a scene in my missing scene (okay, that reads odd) that insists upon being songficcy - anachronistic songfic at that! - and I can't seem to write it properly while the back of my mind is wanting to apologize for its existence. Little advice, please?

Here's today's LOL... screencap from illyushadarling , "The Bridge of Lions Affair". Caption ganked from lolmac 's LOLNotWant series.

Okay, I have no idea if this caption works, but it's the best I could come up with. Many thanks to illyushadarling for the cap and for batting around caption ideas with me!

"Start with nothing, take it away..." Sorry, wrong ep. ;-)

Start with Lothi's "Baby Ducky" pic (in the comments here), add one "Deadly Toys Affair" screencap just begging for a really tight crop, combine in the brain of a zoned-out and slightly hyper curuchamion, and stand back. Cross-fandom LOLs are potentially explosive.

(Y'all do know you can click through for a larger image, right? Just checking. *looks innocent*)

ETA: Now you don't have to! happy grin

Well, the Winner By a Nose Affair "missing scene" is now longer than the rest of the Affair... I hope that's a good thing. We'll see.

I has a LOL for today. I have a strange feeling that I ought to say something about it, but we just watched a BBC film of Henry IV Part 2, and my brains all trickled out my ears. They cut at least half the dialogue and it was still over two hours long, and everybody was mumbling the whole time except the Archbishop of York. (And I still don't get why the great tradition of Shakespeare criticism finds Falstaff so lovable.)