Category Archives: Stream of Thought

Thoughts on that trailer!

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Ok so Coulson is in space, either mind-wiped or pretending/undercover and May totally knows with the “more than we thought we would” line.

I wonder if this ties in with Captain Marvel? Like they go into space to find Fitz and in true Earth explorer fashion find enemies and then bring them home (that always happens – see Stargate: SG1). It definitely looked like Daisy was fighting in an alien bar?

Jemma found Fitz whoop but what is she doing freezing herself? Could she not work out how to wake him early so is freezing herself to wait for him? I will totally cry if that’s the case buuuut as it’s TV someone will fix the problem and bring them back within an episode or two – they are main characters after all.

I wonder how Coulson didn’t die? Did he get abducted? I suppose that is totally possible because the season 5 finale took place concurrently with Infinity Wars snap, so Fury hit the panic button for Captain Marvel, we know that they team-up in the 90’s (as Coulson is in her movie) so maybe she looked up an old comrade – who better to catch her up on the past 20 years. Captain Marvel became an elite kree soldier, kree can resurrect humans, Coulson didn’t want that but maybe he had no choice?

OMG so many questions really but sweet Merlin it looks action-packed. They are having space adventures – I love it! 🙂

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I just put on Poirot’s Mystery on the Blue Train. I’m undecided as to whether I’ll watch the whole thing as I remember who the killer is.

So why am I watching it? Indeed why did I buy it on DVD for the express purpose of rewatching?

Jaime Murray – period dress.

Her character is a bit objectionable, spoilt demanding heiress type, but the visuals, yeah.

OMG it’s been a while, is that Jarvis from Agent Carter? Haha that’s always funny when that happens.

Random Poirot is super kind. He just spotted someone out of their depth, went and helped and then apologised. Now he’s comforting her and he’s right. “All you need is good manners, the rest is silliness and snobbery”. Papa Poirot oh I love that.

To be honest all the other men in this suck massively and so Poirot who is a cut above, is now miles above. I think I’ll change the episode when she gets murdered though as I do like the quientessetial English country house episodes.

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Today in Sam’s world I have been searching for a new computer monitor. My primary monitor is dying, it is over a decade old and has served with honour and even now it is struggling valiantly on (but the struggles on boot and wake from sleep say it’s on its way out poor thing).

Anyway I digress! You see I fell down the rabbit hole and spent far too much time looking when I should have been doing other, far more productive things.

What did I find? Weeeeelll I discovered there was a trifecta – price, spec and reviews. It’s like one of those brain teaser puzzles trying to get everything to line up at once. If I got spec and price to agree then there was a persistent fault apparently (and getting spec and price to agree was a nightmare on its own!).

Finally I found the magic unicorn – a monitor that ticked every box, I was so pleased … until I saw that they don’t make them anymore /facepalm.

Back to the drawing board *roll eyes*

Marvellous Mondays

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Or Motivational Mondays if you prefer 🙂

and yes I know today is Wednesday, I’m going with Whatever Wednesday 🙂

Enthusiasm breeds enthusiasm, excitement etc. and people that write their goals down are significantly more likely to do them.

We have TMI Tuesdays and Follow Fridays, so how about a day where we share what we are working on and comment on the progress?

(I’m just kidding about the days btw – any day is good, I just like the alliteration).

I recently read back my old posts where I rambled quite enthusiastically (and often) about what I was working on. I miss that. It occurred to me that if I miss general positivity, that a good place to start is to express it myself.

We all struggle. Writing is hard, drawing is hard – creating in general is bloody hard. Merlin knows I mostly talk about what I’m finding difficult but today I want to flip the script. I know I sound like a bumper sticker but it is easier to tackle the hard stuff with a positive frame of mind. If we are bubbling with love for our project then the struggles aren’t so overwhelming maybe?

I’ve never been a trendsetter but I am just going to throw out an open invitation to the world. Find something you love about your WIP, ramble and express with gleeful excitement the cool thing – tell us all about it – share your excitement and joy. If you don’t feel it then I’m going to employ another cliche called ‘fake it until you make it’. In my opinion we echo our environment, like I said enthusiasm breeds enthusiasm. Join the hype train and the hype becomes real?

Am I making sense? Is this helping? I do not know.

All I know is that this is what I’m going to be attempting from now. I’m sure I will still grumble and groan on occasion but I’m going to make a concerted effort to spread the love.

mariequitecontrarie

I love this idea! Rambling often helps me and even if it doesn’t, it’s good to know there are others who understand. Looking for ways to encourage and help each other be better artists and writers sounds great!

maplesyrupao3

That’s a cool-ass idea! I’m on board with anything that let’s me interact with fandom friends more during the week!

galactic-pirates

Me too! That’s the idea, a positive supportive fun friend thing heh 🙂

I’m going to try and stalk people’s pages so I don’t miss if anyone does this as I want to *wave pom-poms* and be super pumped for everyone. Creating is hard and can be quite isolating so you know whole lotta love

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bookwormchocaholic  asked:

::waves:: Friday, August, Ancient! ::hugs::

Oooooh thanks 🙂

friday: most self-indulgent fic you have ever posted?
Quite a few to be honest but I think Brighter Days just about wins. I basically exercised a lot of frustration with Stargate Universe and played with the potential that got abandoned when the show was cancelled. I mean it’s an anyelle fic right? So the Stargate detail isn’t important to the audience – but oh boy did I go to town. I just couldn’t help myself, pure indulgence 🙂

(side note: I really, really, really love Stargate. So if anyone does need Stargate knowledge for their fic I am like a living encyclopedia. I didn’t even try to memorise it, I just love it so much it got stuck in there).

august: are any of your fics associated with certain genres/artists/songs/etc?
A lot of my titles comes from songs, haha case in point above actually ^^ as Brighter Days is a Goo Goo Dolls song. However, it’s just a title, I wouldn’t say the song informed the fic or anything. Now I’m sure if I thought about it I could come up with more but by far the most obvious song association belongs to the fic I Love the Way. I actually posted a link to a random YouTube video of the song I love the way you love me by Boyzone because that provided the title for the second fic in The Right Wrong Number verse and it also fit that Belle and Gold so perfectly. The song came on shuffle when I was doing something else, ironing I think? And I was dumbstruck by the lyrics because it felt like it could have been written for them.

ancient: the first fic you ever posted online?
Oh dearie me erm, I never delete anything so I tried to look back however the date stamps are inaccurate because we’re talking several computers ago. It would have been way back late 2001 or early 2002. I don’t know precisely what story it was as I can’t remember but it would have been for The Royal. That was a British TV show, set in a 1960’s hospital.

How it happened was I was at high school, I spent all my breaks in the library, and a student several years ahead of me really liked the show and wanted to set up a fanzine for it but didn’t have the tech skills. She also was trying to write fic for the show and she was dyslexic. Despite being much younger I had the tech skills so I set it up for her. Anyway, I started off beta reading basically and then because she was bouncing ideas off me – and I’m a writer – I got my own ideas and so that’s how I wound up writing a ton for a show I had been meh about previously. Very, very bad fic, utterly atrocious but I was 11 so chalk it up to experience 🙂

That wasn’t obviously the first fic I wrote, but it was the first stuff that went online. Also that means I am old enough to remember the days of posting fic on private forums. Fanfic.net was around but case in point, not everyone used it. Awww nostalgia time, I had a Waking the Dead fic on a private archive as well.

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You know what guys I’m going to waffle, I feel like waffling and I’m not even sorry.

Bering and Wells!

I just rewatched all their season 2 episodes as I’m still shook after the season 3 finale and haven’t summoned up enough courage to watch season 4 yet.

I just love them! Sorry, not sorry, because look at them ^^ come on just look and tell me they aren’t extremely shippable. I rewatched this very episode last night, Buried and ahhhhhh zomg it just made me want all the AU’s all of them!

Like not even just archaeologists Bering and Wells going around like that ^^ but but like bodyguard!AU’s where Myka is hired to guard CEO HG or timetravel!AU’s (can you imagine Myka at Warehouse 12?!?) or just go crazy with all the fanfic cliches like coffeeshop!AU with Myka as the waitress and HG who looks like a put-together businesswoman but is actually a chaotic mess. Arranged marriage!AU? HG is too intelligent, always running around doing things, so her dad decides she needs a husband to control her, enter soldier!Myka who did a Mulan to get into the army.

Or or fake dating! Myka is much too busy to date and panics when her parents come to town so she grabs her friend and colleague HG and says they are together, HG seamlessly picks up the lie which leads to all the awesome tropes and them realising that hey maybe we were dating all along because the line between friends and friendlier can get real blurry.

Accidental marriage! They could get real drunk, or run into an artifact which makes you kinda drunk and blackout (like the one on the show) and Pete/Claudia decide to pull a prank and mock up a marriage certificate expecting them to freak and they do! But just when Pete/Claudia are feeling bad about the lie and going to tell them it’s ok, not really married, Myka and HG accept it hehe.

I could do this all day, like seriously, I love them so damn much.

Anyway, this has been my waffle, sometimes I just feel like spilling some love into the void. Quite often it’s my love for The Librarians (which everyone in the world should watch it’s so damn amazing!!) but today you get my utter love for Bering and Wells.

#in which I ramble a lot about how much I freaking love them

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mariequitecontrarie  asked:

november: do you have any rituals or requirements for getting in the mood for writing?

Hmm. Interesting.

Starting is the very hardest part. I can open everything up and then just sit and click around tumblr/email/phone games etc. for hours without doing anything. I super suck like that.

I guess to go with success I need to decide the night before what I’m doing. I suffer terribly from project paralysis – I have so many things I want to do that I find it hard to settle on one, I feel like I should be working on everything! So if I decide the night before then it’s kinda ‘switched on’ in my brain that yes, this is what I’m doing, so I do tend to actually knuckle down a little more then.

It doesn’t always work because I’m constantly panicking about something, I feel like I’m running out of time and torn in different directions, and the voice in the back of my head that says everything I write super sucks makes it hard to get those words down.

My brain is like a petulant child and will make all kinds of excuses to get out of working. So it’s easier if I’m at home, if I’m warm, not hungry, not thirsty, in a minimal amount of pain etc. Then I can put music on, open up my files and there are no external barriers to provide excuses.

So basically I don’t have a ritual so much as I just try and minimise excuses my brain makes. Maybe if I did have a ritual that would help? It would be like a signal to my brain to settle down now, it’s time to work. I will think on it!

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mariequitecontrarie  asked:

Saturday: What gets you excited while writing?

I have to be honest (which is sad because I’m trying to be all peppy here for some unknown reason) – ok yeah long sentence sorry. Erm right yes answer! I haven’t felt excitement when writing for a long time.

Buuuuuuuuut

Back in the day when words happened I think the answer would be – because it hit my buttons.

Or to put in a more sensible phrase – when I write what I love. I mean that’s why genres and stuff exist right? So people can easily find stuff like what they already love, so they can immerse themselves in it. You know what I’m talking about – repeated things that just you like.

Like Between Two Fires – that seriously hit so many of my buttons, it was like a pure me fic and I loved every second of it.

So TLDR indulgence fic? I get excited when I write what I love.

To this day I remember how this four-way crossover fic just poured out of me. Absolute rubbish? Probably. But it merged together the 4 shows I was watching at the time and I laughed my way through writing it, my fingers could not type fast enough, I was literally cackling with glee.

More to the point it wasn’t just what I loved – it was that I was free when writing. I wasn’t worried about quality because that ridiculous nonsense probably wouldn’t appeal to anyone else (though I did post it on ff.net). I wasn’t writing for a deadline, or for other people, I was just gleefully rolling around in what I loved and having a damn good time.

I think a lot of excitement is lost due to pressure and fear – alotalot of fear, like I am freaking terrified most of the time. I want everything to be awesome and nothing ever lives up to my expectations so I feel like I suck and I’m a useless failure and that makes it damn hard to be excited, to want to do creative stuff because what’s the point if it’s just going to suck anyway?

Oh boy that got deep. I’m going to shut up. TLDR the second because I write too much – zero pressure and what I love = excitement.

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@bookwormchocaholic thanks for the tag! 🙂

How old are you: 28

Surgeries: Two

Tattoos: None

Ever hit a deer: Nope

Sang karaoke: Once

Ice skated: Does holding the wall the entire time count? I was afraid of falling and having my fingers sliced off.

Ridden a motorcycle: No way

Ridden in an ambulance: Nope, I’ve been the follow-on car though after packing the bag, collecting paperwork etc.

Skipped school: Not really

Stayed in the hospital: Only as a day patient in living memory but when I was small a couple of times.

Broken bone: Nope

Last phone call: No idea it was ages ago, almost certainly my mother, I really hate using the phone

Last text from: BT warning me I was approaching my data limit.

Watched someone die: Almost. I went to get the nurse.

Pepsi or coke: Neither, yuck

Favourite pie: Chicken and bacon

Favourite pizza: No sauce, no cheese, ham, peppers and sausage.

Received a ticket: Nope.

Favourite colour: Blue.

Sunset or sunrise: Either

Favourite Christmas song: A Winter’s Tale by The Magnets.

Cupcakes or cookies: If my mother made them then either – both! 🙂

Tagging: @sarashouldbestudying, @little-inkstone and @mariequitecontrarie