What type of music do you listen to while reading fanfic?

[campylobacter]

You know that adage "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it"? I need to find a busy person, or clone myself. Or just blow off everything & blow a Ba'al clone.

I am so frelling behind on some of my favorite fandom activities:

• finishing my stargate_summer  Big Bang story, due in a few weeks
• reading fanfic rec'd to me
• leaving feedback for fanfic I've read
• posting about the next phase of the daniel_vala  Layout Contest
• nominating my favorite fanworks for the Gatefic Awards
• posting a boring update on my battle with comment spam
• polling about story length preferences

I've experienced 2 consecutive days of WiFail, and y'all know what dialup is like. Anyway, my "reading stack" is formidable, but TICKY BOXES might amuse you:
[Poll #1739325]

Random question: If anyone is using a variation of Flexible Squares as your LJ layout, have you noticed any random default re-setting? I think LJ has rewritten some of its core code to thwart comment spam, and inadvertently broken layouts that may have had incompatible CSS.

Comments

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

I'm loving all these varied responses to my spur-of-the-moment poll!

I'd always assumed that authors listened to instrumental music while writing; my 4 Stargate OST play counts in iTunes are all over 150.

[obsessivemuch1.livejournal.com]

It's rarely instrumental for me. Most of my fics have mini soundtracks, the longer pieces especially. The as-yet-untitled Baal/Vala fic for het_bigbang hasn't yet, but I'm still not 100% sure what's happening in that, while the Baal/Sam one for scifibigbang has sort of.

*reads that back*

Wow, I make him sound like a tart. Good thing he is, then LOL

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

You've signed up to write a Ba'al/Vala for het_bigbang ? w00t!

Have you been assigned a beta or cheerleader yet?

OMGOMGOMGFLAILFLAILFLAIL

[obsessivemuch1.livejournal.com]

I am, yes :D