can't we piece it together

A conversation with schiarire, re: my Why Due South Is Important To Me post:

Ji: I think everyone should do posts like that about EVERYTHING.
Me: Oh god do not encourage me! I COULD DO MORE.
Me: what should I do another one about!
Ji: hmmm, either Hard Core Logo or Young Wizards!
Ji: or their bastard children the Hard Core Wizards
Me: your addendum made me CACKLE LIKE A FIEND in the quiet house at midnight.
Ji: I encourage cackling!
Ji: The thing to wonder now is what on earth Hard Core Wizards would be.
Ji: Dairine is a Hard Core Wizard and YOU KNOW IT

There was more after that, but none of it actually deserves mentioning because s;lfsdkfd Dairine is a Hard Core Wizard. Also I think I would genuinely like to make posts about Why Hard Core Logo & Young Wizards Are (separately!) Important To Me, although the YW post would be long and involved and have confessions about how I still take the Oath sometimes and then sit around hopefully, and the HCL post could probably just be the words "DYSFUNCTIONAL BOYFRIENDS <333" in size billion font or something.

Apparently there is a meme going around wherein one goes to Translation Party and puts in the first lines of their last few fics until the translator reaches equilibrium or gives up. Since I suspect that if I started it would eat up my afternoon, I just, ah, typed in one sentence from memory to see what it would come up with. Lo:

In Canada, the remains attached to the consulate on the trail of the murderer of my father in Chicago, first, whether, at this point must be considered as no reason to contact me.

Don't contact him about those remains attached to the consulate, okay?! That was only about the ... third permutation down. It dissolved into things like In Canada, my father in Chicago, whether by way of murder, the first is attached to the consulate, at this point, why should not I contact, which, indeed, why should he not contact his father in Chicago? And then it got pretty incoherent. It will apparently never reach equilibrium, but isn't that just the story of Fraser's life.

I am also becoming sliiiightly panicked about the F/K/V AU. I am almost done with Part I out of six; it is roughly 15,000 words right now, which when reasonably multiplied comes out to 90,000, which is a figure very much like the one I came up with earlier. This implies it might actually be an accurate figure, which kind of terrifies me, because it means I have to basically do a NaNo and a half in the next month and change. I know I can do that, but in the days of yore when I wrote Doctor Who seasons in two weeks, I was doing nothing else. Whereas right now I'm returning to college in just over a week. I know that only the draft is due in mid-September, and that I have another month to actually get it done, but it is still mildly nervewracking. On the other hand: I work well under deadline?

Anyway, hey, have a bit from Juliet is Bleeding, because what I have so far I've been prodding nervously through rewrites and I am by now kind of fond of it. ( I'm a neutral zone. )

help the canadians ate my brain

...Yeah, I'm officially procrastinating on my own fun (the F/K/V is making me want to curl up in a corner and flail, okay) because instead of writing I started making GRAPHS. Extremely unscientific graphs about how there are only eight actors in Canada. Or, well, more like twenty-five. All I know is that I have unscientifically proven that almost everyone has been on due South. Or at least have worked with Paul Gross at some point.

( Two EXTREMELY SCIENTIFIC GRAPHS under this cut! God, someone should find me a more productive way to procrastinate. )