Trabia Garden

Who wants to listen to the delightfully bouncy Italian Pokémon theme? I know you do.


I'm in one of those frustrating moods in which I would very much like to update my journal but feel utterly incapable of coming up with anything interesting to say. What I typically do in this situation is resort to posting things I already have hanging around on my computer or in notebooks, so that's what I'm going to do here!

Here are some of the ficlets I have written in comments over the years: not for actual 'prompt me and I'll write you a ficlet' entries, but spontaneously, or in response to challenges on other journals. Whilst a few of you have seen some of these before, I imagine they'll probably be new to most of you. Nothing rated above PG-13.


( The Top Gear trio form a branch of Torchwood. )


( Torchwood: Ianto and Rhys. Set post-'Meat'. )


( Supernatural RPF: some slightly daft Jared/Jensen. )


( Supernatural: AU for the Pilot. Sam tells Jess about his visions. )


( Supernatural/Enchanted: Giselle has a novel idea for fighting demons. )


( Derren Brown/Supernatural: Derren encounters the Winchesters. )


( Derren Brown as David Tennant's Nobody. )


Last night, I dreamt that I was riding a Chocobo. I became quite attached to it. Now that I am awake, I want a Chocobo of my own, but this scheme is somewhat hampered by the fact that they are fictional. Blast.

As eva_kasumi is dropping briefly into the UK, I met up with her today (after probably-not-terribly-surreptitiously walking past her several times in the tube station, thinking ...is that her? She has got an American accent, but there are many Americans in the world. I NEED TO STOP MEETING PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY VISUAL REFERENCE, having previously severely unnerved some poor girl who was waiting for her boyfriend by staring and wondering whether she was the one I was supposed to be meeting), and we spent many enjoyable hours wandering around London and chatting about videogames. She spent some time explaining Shadow Hearts: Covenant, which sounded like a really rather bizarre game ("So she makes you fight a boss, and this boss is a giant, fluffy pink kitten called Andre..."); I retaliated by telling her about Girls and Corpses, the rather alarming magazine we discovered in Forbidden Planet during a topgearslash meet. (I couldn't actually show it to her because all of the copies were sold out, which I think may be the most frightening thing of all.)

We also watched Enchanted, because she hadn't seen it; it was the second viewing for me, but I did not mind at all because Enchanted is made entirely of lunacy and happiness. For evidence, watch this clip, which is just one of the best things I've ever seen. And the ending still almost makes me cry, because I am ridiculous.

But I do wish I hadn't written that paragraph immediately after the Girls and Corpses one, because now I am thinking of Enchanted with zombies, and that would have made it a much less happy film.

James Marsden is still John Barrowman, by the way.