ghost2

It recently came to my attention that a certain comm is running an anti-Gwen contest. You all know who Gwen is, right? From Torchwood? The worst character on TV? Yeah, that Gwen, the one no one likes.

So, contestants can submit wallpapers, icons, fanfic, banners, etc. And, the bit that made my ears prick up, there's a prize, a lofty offering of six months' paid LJ account time to the winner.

Well, thought I, my graphics abilities are limited (read: craptastic), but certainly I can vomit up throw together carefully craft in the space of ten whole minutes an appropriately shitty Gwen-bashing fanfic entry guaranteed to be totally OOC and thus pleasing to the Gwen haters in question. I have a hard time imagining that anyone else will produce anything more "interesting" in any way, so I believe this contest is over. No need to wait for the deadline; gimme my prize now, dammit!

Title: The Gwen Bashers
Author: ghost2
Rating: PG-13 for language and the presence of Gwen
Word count: 835 words of senseless and stupid Gwen hatred
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Owen, Tosh, and last and least, Gwen
Summary: Gwen gets what she's deserved for a long time.
Beta reader: I am randomly informing the world that I didn't use one.
A/N: I wrote this story in ten minutes, bet you can't tell!
I killed two birds with one stone. Not only is this story an entry in the ----------- comm contest, I used an unfilled prompt from the Gwenbash table: murder.
And now I present: The Gwen Bashers!

( Gwen sucks and everyone hates her, blah, blah, blah )



Wow, that was kind of cathartic. Now I feel motivated to work on The Idiot's Guide to Growing Your Own TARDIS (Handy's attempts to escape an earthbound existence).

I'm still alive. I just wasn't online too much over the last few days because my mother came over for a surprise visit. It was the first time I've seen her in almost a year and things went pretty well. I didn't feel like leaving the country even once.

I also watched a lot of the Olympics, since they had so many great events this week. I especially like the equestrian events, swimming, gymnastics, and some of the diving. Track & field might seem a bit of a letdown after all of that.

So basically, it was spend time with my mother, watch Olympics till late, go to sleep, wake up (earlier than I like to!), repeat process. I squeezed in going online each day but I fell behind on my flist and other things. I'll catch up over the next week.

Happy birthday, ladymako71!

Happy birthday, elliptic_eye!

Happy birthday, biichan!

Right, folks. We need to have a serious talk.

I would love to see more Classic Who fic over at Teaspoon. Now, if no one else submits it, I'm going to have to write it myself. And that pretty much means increased amounts of crack along the lines of Wolsey, the Voyeuristic Cat (the title I maybe should have used on my sole posting). Yes, that is a sad, sad threat.

Help me out here? Dust off that old Second Doctor story that's been lingering on your hard drive for three years and submit it; write a Six & Evelyn drabble. Anything.

Happy birthday, derogative!

Happy birthday to purple_bug!

Nothing too unusual happened to me today. I went to the bank, stopped by the mall, bought lunch at McDonald's, got hit by a truck...

Yeah, I actually did get hit by a truck. Luckily, it was basically just a nudge but it easily could have been a lot worse.

( My tale of woe--kind of. I'm fine. )

I've been going online for a good few years now. However, until tonight, I had never run across the acronym cba. Fittingly enough, I encountered it for the first time through reading badfic. The cba appears in a Torchwood author's response to a suggestion that she use a beta reader: here.

Given that the story includes the following text, apparently the author couldn't be arsed to proofread, either. Presenting "Mr &Mr Harkness-Jones" in Wedding Night:

“I’m only continuing tradition when the groom carry’s the bride into the bedroom for the first tie after they are married.”

“Jack i’m not the wife!”

“Yes you are”

“NO i’m not!”

“Yes you are”

“Ok but I bet I make a good wife!” Ianto smirked.

“Oh you will”

“Just one thing though I’m not doing all the house work”.

Periods, full stops, I don't care what you want to call those cute little punctuation marks, but please just stick one of the things at the end of each sentence. Also, commas are very friendly and useful. Really, they are.