The fire trucks are comin' up around the bend

[the_deep_magic]

Okay, while I'm trying my damnedest to get some stuff finished, how about a meme?  Because that will surely help my productivity...  Anyway, I saw this on 1lostone's journal when I was going back through some old posts and I thought I'd steal it.

Give me a link to one of my fics and I'll give you a detail that didn't make it into the fic - it could be background canon, deleted material (if I still have it), the music that helped me set the mood or a look into the future - or it could be a question about inspiration, the writing process, research, etc.

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Ooooh, I'm glad someone asked about this one! Because I had Chris giving this whole monologue about donuts. Sadly, I deleted the actual text, but it was this rant about how utterly predictable any given box of a dozen donuts is going to be. There's gonna be about six of your basic glazed for the unimaginative. Two, possibly three (but probably two) chocolate frosted, and then one or two with sprinkles. Maybe a jelly-filled. Then there's always, ALWAYS gonna be that godawful cruller that nobody ever eats (why do they even BUY that cruller?) And then, if you're lucky, there's going to be one -- and ONLY one -- blueberry cake donut in there.

So, uh, then I realized that a) perhaps I should not stop the flow of the narrative to rant about donuts for a while; and b) I was probably hungry. Interestingly, I can't stand those blueberry cake donuts, and it's been my experience that they're usually the last one left in the box (save for, naturally, the cruller). I was just amused by the idea that both Chris and Zach occupied the same obscure donut niche and thus were in constant competition.