Anghraine

From ladyhadhafang.

Make a post to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related: fics, picspams, fanmixes, etc, to medium: dvds, books, bracelets, etc, to really big: a new computer, a car, etc. (If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it’s your address or just your e-mail address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you).

Step Two

Surf around your reading list to see who has posted their list. If you see a wish you can grant, go for it! Either make that fandom item, or hey sometimes someone’s trash is another’s treasure, maybe they wanted a leather jacket for cosplaying Jason Todd and you’ve been meaning to give one to a thrift store, etc, etc, etc. .

You needn’t spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn’t to put people out, it’s to provide everyone a chance to give and to receive. There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just… wish and try to fill and you’ll have the joy of knowing you made someone’s holiday special.

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When I wrote last year's au_bigbangs, I vaguely referred to two other fandoms within the stories - for the lulz! - and then amused myself by stuffing as many references to as many others of mine as I could shove in. I always meant to do a proper attribution post, but just ... forgot. But now I've remembered! So here they are. (The citations are in white, so feel free to guess if it amuses you.)

( attribution time )


( memes )

I keep running across a not-quite-trope -- an argument -- that I find immensely problematic. I'm going to talk about it now, through my own feminism, which may not be yours. Consider yourself warned for that, along with discussions of violence and sexual assault.

( A defense of double standards )

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Title: First Impressions (6/13, 7/13)

Fanverse: First Impressions

Blurb: Jane goes to the Gardiners' and Henry to the Collinses'; Henry meets Lady Catherine, Anne, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and (once again) Catherine; many hints are dropped.

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Nothing much important today, except I wrote over two thousand words of Revenge. It's probably a bit indulgent, but I'm actually pleased - I've managed to get the PT alternate canon in through occasional exposition and Luke's Jedi training (current unit: clairvoyance). In some ways, it's almost more about the alt!backstory than about the present; the sequel will probably focus more on the present-day characters, but there's a lot to set up. Anyway, I'm a bit gleeful because I managed to include my OFC even though she's been dead for twenty years, hint at the Anakin/OFC pairing, and more than hint at Bail/Padmé.

Come at me, Mary Sue paranoia.

Leia's plotline is finally settling into place, too; I should be able to end this with the coronation like I wanted, even though it wreaks some havoc on the rest of the outline, and fanwank her unexplained loss of authority in ROTJ. Without actually doing to her what ROTJ did. Hint: my post on the slave Leia debate is a pretty strong clue of what doesn't happen. She's not going to end up General Solo's soldier girl, either.

( Star Wars meme )

( Asexuality meme )

( Fanfic meme )

So, I'm a huge fan of Mark Does Stuff.  Shocking, I know.

Okay, except for his Sherlock reviews, and that's only because "not interested in relationships = gay!" thing makes me ... annoyed.  Sherlock is one of the only characters that the actor and to some degree the writers have explicitly identified as asexual.  Do you know how many of those we have?  Yeah, like two.  It's one thing to see characters I personally interpret as ace portrayed (either in fic or meta) as sexual or even hypersexual.  Irritating, but when they're all but explicitly asexual, it crosses over into -- extreme discomfort. 

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I've just returned from the worst vacation ever. 

( cue whining! )
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Gacked from irnan, because ... it's there?  Memes are basically the online equivalent of BRAAAAAAAAAINS.  So, character meme!

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined.

(1) Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Austen
(2) Faramir of Gondor, Middle-earth
(3) Luke Skywalker, Star Wars
(4) Aravis Tarkheena, Narnia
(5) Harry Potter, Harry Potter
(6) Mary Lennox, The Secret Garden
(7) Romana, Doctor Who
(8) Susan Sto Helit, Discworld
(9) The Prince/Hal/Harry/Henry V, Shakespeare
(10) Aziraphale, Good Omens
(11) Dr Gillian Foster, Lie To Me
(12) Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel
(13) Roshaun ke Nelaid (etc), Young Wizards
(14) Belgarion of Riva, David Eddings
(15) Dr Temperance Brennan, Bones

Because I don't already have enough fanwank to go around.

Okay, that sounded really gross.  Anyway.
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