I feel like ficcin' tonight

[kaitou]

I'm trying to get back into the fun bits of writing, nano, fanfic and all, and I ran across this meme and thought that it sounded like fun.

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "Five Things Mal Renyolds Remembers About His Childhood", or "Five colours the Torchwood Hub was painted" or "Five Things Mitchell Will Never, Ever Tell George"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Serious or fun!

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[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

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Five forms of "water-bending" that Katara will never admit to doing.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

1. She misses the snow and air that turned to clouds when she breathed. Everywhere they go it's unbearably hot. And she sweats and it's disgusting and it makes her feel disgusting. She's sure that the heroines in all her favorite legends didn't smell, they didn't have problems with gas after a dinner of beans, and they didn't snore. So if she used a little waterbending to wick the sweat away from her skin? Well nobody had to know. Katara was ready to be the heroine in her own legend.

2. She made a lens of ice once, without a bubble or cloud, and used it to pinpoint a light and start a fire. It gives her a weird feeling inside, that she used waterbending to start fire. She wonders what other ways the elements blend together like that.

3. Toph would tell her if any of the boys were around. And Toph doesn't even care. But Katara still raises a dense fog whenever they bathe at the river. She doesn't know if Toph notices.

4. Their supplies and funds are running low, and their group is bigger now. The fruit is sold by weight, and water is heavy. It's not right, it's cheating, but they need the food, so Katara siphons off some of the water, making it lighter, cheaper. She can restore it later.

5. Katara didn't make it rain. She DIDN'T. But she may have made sure it rained a little more on Zuko than anybody else.

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

Okay... those are *awesome*! Thank you so much. ♥

[mewsgryphoncat.livejournal.com]

Five things Kermit never said in front of an open mic'!

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking, and thinking and THINKING. And I'm sorry, I just can't do muppets. Can I take a rain check? Anything else you'd like to see?

[mewsgryphoncat.livejournal.com]

I have stumped you!?! Daaaang. Maybe I should have asked for Oscar. Or Sweetums. Or Robin, because the things that Robin would never say have got to be adorable anyhow.

Or Trekkie.

Um, no.

Wait, the things that Trekkie Monster would never say would have to be clean, right?

....I'll get back to you on that. ^^;;

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

LOL. I just can't get into a muppet headspace. And that would cover everything from The Muppet's Frog Prince (Have a Popover Froggy!) to Fraggle Rock to Dark Crystal. It's just not going to happen.

[ouri.livejournal.com]

How about "Five Practical Jokes Merlin Would Like to Play on Arthur"?

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

On days when Arthur was even more of a prat than normal, Merlin would haul himself up the stairs to his room, collapse on the bed and fantasize elaborate methods of revenge.

He thought about spelling Arthur so that every time he opened his mouth nothing would come out but pig grunts. But he was afraid that no one would notice the difference.

He thought about making all of Arthur's armor and weaponry so heavy that Arthur would barely be able to lift it, let alone use it. But Merlin knew if he did that there would definitely be some kind of monster attack, and Arthur would need the armor then.

Merlin could make it rain only on Arthur all day long. It would be hilarious, except the King would blow the whole incident out of proportion and someone would end up executed. So that was right out.

He could try something without magic, like leaving Arthur's rooms a sty and letting his clothes get all wrinkly. But even Merlin had to admit that it wouldn't be that different from normal. He could handle the armor thing and the saving-the-prince thing, but the cleaning thing he wasn't so good at.

The best thing would to make it so that Arthur's fine feather bed felt like hard packed earth, all his clothes felt like itchy slubby wool, and all his food tasted like his mother's porridge. But frankly that would be far too much effort, and Merlin was tired.

The thing was, whenever he tried to get a little of his own back it always went wrong The thing with the mace had only ended up with him in the stocks. And the thing with the rat...well that had certainly gone pear shaped.

Merlin decided that the best course of action would be to mention the mis-treatment to Gwen. Gwen would tell Morgana, and Morgana could punish Arthur more effectively than Merlin ever could.

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

Feel free to ignore this, but it was the first thing that came to mind.

Five things about Archimedes that will NOT go down in history.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

XD Oh I *LIKE* this one. And now you've made me write RPF.

1. There is a bust of Archimedes in the British Museum. What the world doesn't know is that the rest of the statue was destroyed by the Roman Catholic Church because it's perfection was considered blasphemy.

2. The Archimedes Claw was actually a giant wooden clockwork mecha in the shape of a crab. It was waterproofed with pitch and oiled skins so that it could go underwater and decimate the Roman ships from land and sea.

3. The Archimedes Screw is an invention used for pumping water. It is also a technique used for pumping--- well, I'll let you guess the rest.

4. Archimedes supported a heliocentric theory of the solar system. This is because he built a bronze spaceship powered by Hero's aeolipile and saw it for himself.

5. "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth," is actually a misquotation. It was actually "Give us a place to lay on and you will feel the Earth move."

[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

And now you've made me write RPF.

Based on how cobbled-together most of what we know about people who lived that long ago, it's almost like reading fiction, anyway.

I adore your genius libertine Archimedes.

1. There is a bust of Archimedes in the British Museum. What the world doesn't know is that the rest of the statue was destroyed by the Roman Catholic Church because it's perfection was considered blasphemy.

XD Too funny.