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[rionaleonhart]

...FINE, ROYAL MAIL, GO ON STRIKE WHEN I AM JUST DISCOVERING THE JOYS OF PHYSICAL POST. I was just about to make a 'hey, who wants a letter?' offer, too. I suppose I'll have to make it in a week or so. Also, I've posted a couple of things in the last few days, and I'll be quite annoyed if they don't get delivered until next Thursday. (I'm not optimistic enough to think that the letter I posted this morning will have made it to Vermont already, so that's probably going to languish in a pillarbox for a while.)

Still, at least draegonhawke's letter, which is a hilarious and wonderful combination of observations on the magazine-publishing industry and musings on which current politicians are most likely to secretly be the Master (with a bonus drawing of Fran with a Pidgeot), made it through before the strike came into effect. Thank you so much, draegonhawke!

COMPLETE CHANGE OF SUBJECT TIME.

If you feel like it, write a ficsnippet for a pairing you cannot stand and would never usually write in the comments. Try to portray the pairing fairly, rather than just writing the snippet as a way of displaying All The Reasons This Pairing Is Wrong Wrong Wrong and having it culminate in one character killing the other.* Because I think it could be really interesting! I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU BROADEN YOUR WRITERLY HORIZONS; THIS IS NOT AN UTTERLY TRANSPARENT AND SELFISH ATTEMPT TO GET PEOPLE TO WRITE FIC FOR ME AT ALL.

* Of course, if you genuinely believe that there is no way the pairing can possibly not end in murder, kill away! Er, in the ficsnippet.

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[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

TITLE: Go Like The Clappers
FANDOM: Just guess. Go on. >3
AUTHOR: Janni
WORD COUNT: Oh, you don't care, do you?
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is all your fault. And possibly dracothelizard's.

She should have known she was in for it.

Something just didn't seem...right, somehow.

Usually, things were very simple. Go to the studio, look cute, get fed, listen to those three great oversized pillocks go on and on in some language she didn't understand, then go home and get fed + cossetted by the shortish one with the shiny white, very healthy-looking teeth.

If she'd been smart, she'd have run as soon as she saw that other tall one, the one with the fur on his head curlier than her own pull up alongside her in one of those weird machines they liked to move about in.

If she'd understood English, she'd have heard the lyrics "If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right" come warbling out the window of said conveyance in a terribly off-key, badly-timed cacophony.

Instead, she just heard noise.

If she'd understood English, she'd definitely have run as far and as fast away as she could...but regrettably, she did what she had been hired to do instead.

She sat and looked cute and bored. And continued to do so even when the vehicle stopped, and a red-faced and at least partially-pissed Jeremy Clarkson reached out, picked her off the ground and gently placed her on the passenger's seat whilst hastily hitting the "all windows up" button on his door panel.

The stock car stereo was truly amazing; no-one could hear Top Gear Dog's whimpering, no matter how loud it got.

[rionaleonhart]

YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON EVER.

I KNOW THAT I HAVE SAID THAT OF A COUPLE OF OTHER PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME IT IS TRUE.

[m31andy.livejournal.com]

You are a sick, sick, sick woman.

(I've said that before, haven't I?)

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that line's getting a bit worn. Try again? XD

[rhosyndu.livejournal.com]

...

Damn. I was going to write JC/TGD.

(Incidentally, you are fantastic and evil. When I grow up, can I be you?)

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

But then who would I be? XD

I think it's really funny that more than one person thought JC/TGD when Riona issued this challenge. SEE, IT'S ALL HER FAULT.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Top Gear Dog :( *hugs her a lot*

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

Arf! >3