one wound-up punch of intuition

Fandom is so silly sometimes. Maybe it's just me, but when an author says "this isn't my best work" or "un-beta'd" or "this is my very first [fandom] fic" right in the header, I'm like, okay, peace out! I mean, I don't generally use betas (except for Yuletide and the rare bigger project), either, but I don't announce that in the blurb that goes before the fic-post. I feel like the little header is basically the place where you sell your fic and convince me to read it, and "I've written better than this; PLEASE REVIEW!" isn't terribly convincing. Either that or I have weird standards. Which -- I guess I do have some standards. If the link-post isn't formatted correctly, there are spelling/grammar mistakes, it contains any of the things I mentioned above, the description looks overwrought and OOC, or it's not finished, I don't usually go read the fic. Those are the breaks of being in a bigger fandom, I guess, and particularly one with serious appeal to youngsters; I never really noticed as much of this kind of stuff -- LJ-cut fails, entire stories formatted into one giant paragraph of text, people having to be coached through how to post something, disclaimers like "spoilers for future song choice" and then listing the song right there in the spoiler disclaimer (that one made me laugh) -- in my smaller fandoms.

But there are actual new things to read every day, unlike in my smaller fandoms, so I can live with having to do a lot of filtering to find the good stuff!

In other fandom news, one of the actors from Huge who I really, really loved is going to be on Glee. YESSSSS. He and Ashley Fink (Lauren) can have a Huge reunion! I am still so sad about Huge; it had a terrible title and even worse marketing, but it was such a fabulous show.

In other other fandom news: HAHAHAHA THE SONGS FOR THE VALENTINE'S DAY EPISODE WERE RELEASED AND THEY ARE THE GREATEST OH MY GOD. I will also discuss the other couple-y spoilers that got leaked today. ( HOWLING )

While I was writing this post, word got out about this week's cover of Entertainment Weekly.



Fandom is losing its collective shit right now, and it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I mean, I am thoroughly pleased by this, but I have to say, BY FAR the most entertaining part has been watching the freak outs. I've seriously just been refreshing a couple community posts all night and laughing uncontrollably. I look forward to the internet exploding again when the issue comes out on Friday.

( Two more pictures behind the cut; one of them features a vaguely spoilery quote from Chris Colfer )

And finally, today's Glee meme question. ( Glee meme day 13 -- A scene/moment that pissed you off )

I swear to God the Glee posts are going to get less constant once we get past tomorrow's episode; it's just that tomorrow's is the one I've been waiting for ever since I first heard somebody was cast (so -- for several months now?), and the basically month-long wait with no new episodes (the Rocky Horror episode had no plot; it doesn't count) has driven me kind of bananas. Once we see tomorrow's episode, I am going to stop wigging. Probably. Maybe.

Anyway, in the meantime, this meme seemed appropriate! It says "30 days" but it's probably going to take me longer, because I am a slow creature by nature.

( 30 days of Glee, thing! All of my responses will be spoiler-free safe zones. )

I have been quietly committing atrocities fic on the Glee anonymemes. They are ridiculous fics. Somebody asked for Kurt being sick and Finn being helpful, so I did that, and then somebody else asked for young!Kurt-and-Burt based off of that awesome blog that's been making the rounds, about a mother supporting her young son who wanted to be Daphne from Scooby Doo for Halloween. I sort of debated that one and whether it would be weird, then decided that if I was willing to ask for RPF for Yuletide, it was kind of silly to be freaked about writing fic based on the structure of a blog post. So I did that, too. You should definitely read the blog post that I linked, if you haven't seen it yet; I wanted to reach through the internet and hug that mom.

Excerpt from the truly special drunk blog post about the Rocky Horror episode that I am still finishing: "i'd like toe preserve you in a jar in my basement," she says. MERCEDES I WOULD LIKE TO PRESERE YOU IN MY HEART. Bad news: I cannot remember what half of this shit means ("frenching grizzly bears consider living in florida"????) so I'm going to have to rewatch that episode. I was very proud of my coherency levels when I wrote that post two weeks ago, but I am seeing now that the sober was a lie.

I've hit the point of my day where everything feels like ~*floating in dream land*~ so that's nice! I always enjoyed that aspect of pulling all-nighters in college. Also, I have figured out why I am feeling so crappy! (I am an idiot.) There's not much I can do about it, but at least I am no longer sitting here thinking terrible dramatic sleep-deprived thoughts while I Google symptoms. Added bonus: I just called my house and the answering machine picked up after a couple rings, which should, I think, mean that the power is back on! SUCCESS!

HAHAHAHA SO I AM WEIRD.

I mean, you all already know this about me. But I feel better starting this post with that disclaimer.

I talked about that video a few days ago! I enjoyed it! I ... am still enjoying it, because I am still watching it! I don't really know why! I mean, it's adorable and I know exactly why I like it, but I'm not sure why it struck such an intense chord with me. Or why I laugh every. single. time. at 1:26. But I want to talk about it more, so I'm going to here.

(I feel like I have lost it.)

( INCISIVE COMMENTARY WITH ILLUSTRATIVE PICTURES )

Stolen primarily from austen:

Pick a pairing from my fandoms, and come with a location and/or situation, and I will write you between 50 and 250 words about the kiss that happened in that context.

I feel like my fandoms are fairly common knowledge, but if you're unsure, check my 'fic' tag or my interests; I'm pretty sure I have most of them listed there. 50 words is short! I like short. I also like having things to write in between reading about the affectation of language and what it means to people's identity. Hrg, philosophy class, please leave me alone.

As the Yuletide reveal has now gone up, I can say:

A) That I completely sucked at guessing who wrote things (I was so sure, in one or two cases, and so wrong), and

B) That I wrote two stories. One was Manny's Birthday, a last second Black Books Treat for count_nickula that was criminally fun to write, and the other was The Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland for elance, a massive Sherlock Holmes story that I owe everything to my betareaders for. It was incredibly exciting to write; I've been a Sherlock Holmes fangirl since age seven or eight, and it was thrilling and terrifying at once to write something in the fandom, and especially to try to get the tone and Watson's voice right.

(Holy crap, the feedback has been so amazing on both; if anyone who's reading this commented -- thank you, thank you, thank you.)

Plus, right up til I came home, jet-lagged and half-dead, on the seventeenth, my location lent itself to the story. While writing it, I walked the Strand, I read about old-time east London in the Senate House library (which didn't wind up in the story, but still pleased me, as I was living in southeast London), I brushed up on my Holmes while riding the tube, and I went to the Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street. Somewhere on the internet, there are pictures of me sitting in "Holmes and Watson's study," wearing a Watson-esque bowler hat and cracking up like a fiend.

Here's to Yuletide '07 -- a fantastic experience, and I'm for sure doing it again next year. Here is where I run away to figure out who wrote all of my favorite stories, and to thank my authors more personally!

RECS. My system is a simple one: if something made me crack up hysterically, tear up/cry, or grin like an idiot, it gets recced. So far, I've only made it through fandoms starting with N, but I'm moving forward with every passing moment! (You may notice that I haven't actually left comments on these stories yet. This is because the general plan is to get through the archive, set up my recs, and then do a HAPPYMASSIVE reread, leaving glee and comments as I go.)

Of the six Mary Poppins stories written for Yuletide this year? Four were for me. *sniggering cheerfully*

( REC EXPLOSION. Containing: Hercule Poirot, Arrested Development, Sherlock Holmes, Black Books, Bones, The Bourne Identity, Bones, Children of Men, Commercials, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Hot Fuzz, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Knocked Up, Mary Poppins, National Treasure )

I made these and this post ages ago, but for whatever reason, I never actually posted it.

123 icons, Run, Fat Boy, Run

Pictures from: Run, Fat Boy, Run trailer screencaps by gypsyjr, IMDB, and T4 special screencaps by me. All were made for people with a mind toward RP use, so they're largely bases with borders, focusing on faces. Featuring Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, and Matthew Fenton.

Feel free to snag and do what you will with, no credit necessary, though comments are appreciated.

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( Keep on running )