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I've been trying out Adobe ImageReady, and (naturally) did some Stargate things. They're too big to upload as icons (dammit), but I'm posting them anyhow... Use them if you want, credit, etc.

	What? (From Serpent's Venom)
	Pepper - Field (From Paradise Lost)
	Jack O'Neill: Intergalactic Space Hero (From Window Of Opportunity)

And, dammit, I realised I'd copied a line from one of Jojo's fics - totally unintentionally. I hadn't read the story in ages, but was just reading some of hers today, and in 'Delayed Reaction' Jack has a line about telling the truth to total strangers. Which I've totally copied in 'Actions Speak Louder'. Bollox.

My brain has a huge capacity for retaining this stuff - precise lines from stories I read years ago - and it sometimes comes out in my fic. When I realise I've done it, I edit it out - but I guess I'm not always aware of doing it. Must Try Harder, next time.

I seem to have a very visual memory for words. If I've seen something written down, I tend to remember it clearly, and for years. There are still lines from books I read as a child that pop into my head sometimes. But my auditory word-memory is crap. If someone says something to me, I forget it within moments. It's a real pain when my boss asks me to do something, and I've forgotten what it was by the time I get back to my desk. Hence why I prefer communicating via email.

Grah.

edit: And I'm starting to wonder if I got the name of the Council leader from someone else, too. I just have this nagging feeling that I've heard it before. I may be wrong, but...

*cries*

This is making me sad and annoyed at myself.

And...

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My brain has a huge capacity for retaining this stuff - precise lines from stories I read years ago - and it sometimes comes out in my fic.

I have that problem, too. And I handle it the same way you do - fix it as soon as I realize it. ;) And I hate it because I have moments like, "Hey, that's a good line! Wait...damn it!"

It's frustrating, isn't it? Ah well, these things are sent to try us. And to make us work harder to be better next time, hopefully. :S

Still loving Jack in the field. :)

I have a very visual memory, more for images than words though. I'm bad about remembering peoples faces, but I can remember what they had on. Guess it's all those years of working in retail.

I find I accidentally quote movies in my fics more than anything else. Sometimes I'll change it. Sometimes I'll leave it in as an homage and to see if anybody gets it.

*g* I thought you might like that one.

I have a terrible memory for faces - but for clothes I'm even worse! I'm borderline male about clothes - I almost never notice if someone is wearing something new. Odd, isn't it, what the brain chooses to notice? I remember landscape really well, for some reason. I don't get lost much.

And movies, yes - I don't mind quoting them so much, at least it's a different medium. *g* I tend to quote the same movies, time and again. Often The Princess Bride. *loves*

For a while I was quoting Tombstone quite a lot. Jack so so channeling a combination of Doc and Wyatt that it was sad.

Speaking of Tombstone I sense an icon making mood coming on. I *need* some Doc Holiday icons.

Movies and shows I obsessively watch tend to fall into my vocabulary and never leave. Lately from my recent House obsession I've noticed a lot of 'Everybody lies' and 'It's never lupus'. You'd be surprised how much you can use "It's never lupus."

Ooh, Tombstone. "I've got two guns, one for each of ya." *g* I like Doc Holliday in any film - Tombstone? Yes. Wyatt Earp? Yes. Gunfight At The OK Corral? Yes. Young Guns? Yes. All very different portrayals, all the highlight of their movie. Odd, that.

And also, "I want your blood, I want your soul, and I want 'em both right now." Loved Ringo, too.

You know, I recognized that line in a vague “I think that sounds like something Jojo might have written” way, but I wasn’t too concerned with it. It seemed like a good homage (and now that I read that story again, it really does work).

Besides, it’s So True. And it fit the story nicely.

In other words, I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.

It is true, isn't it? Ah well, I shall float serenely on and forget about it.

Homage, yes. That's what it is. Not me copying. Nonono. *shakes head violently*

:)

I get that feeling sometimes as well :D I'll be writing away quite merrily and then one line will stick out like a sore thumb, I then obsess over it for ages and usually end up taking it out.

And i have to say that writing SG1 fic is an odd experience, after such a long time of writing my own stuff. I find little things creeping in that most definitely don't belong! lol

I've found, after going through a couple of serious fandoms now, that I go through three stages: 1) New to it, write my own take on the show (often using what I later discover are cliches, but what I think are Totally Original), 2) After obsessively immersing myself in everyone else's fanfic, writing stuff that mirrors the take I like on the show/film/whatever, and 3) Finally finding how I like to write the fandom.

And then I run out of ideas. *g*