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one last fic before I close up shop
Jan. 3rd, 2012 06:25 pmHi guys! For various reasons that are totes magotes reasonable*, I am leaving LJ. This will be deleted in a couple days; until then, please accept my Hey Arnold fic Stay and See (What Becomes of Us) as a parting salute, and I'll see you on AO3 or Dreamwidth @ allchildren!
*this is why I'm such a great writer
*this is why I'm such a great writer
yulegoat surprises
Nov. 21st, 2011 04:11 pmDear yuletide author person,
Hi! DON'T PANIC. Yes. That's the only message I have to give that isn't readily apparently in my signup itself. I know my requests are pretty single-minded, and may not match what you consider your skill set to be -- but I have faith in you, and I value your Yuletide experience! Write something you enjoy and can believe in and is authentic to you, and I truly believe that is what will give me the best reading experience. Emotional truth: pretty much what I value the most in stories. Also nuance. Know this, and you're set!
...aaaand I just lost the draft of the rest of this letter. Sigh. To be honest with you, I'm not too broken up about it; I've written a *lot* of cover letters this year, and after a while all letters describing oneself to strangers start to feel the same. Here's what I'm gonna do: I'm going to link you to my previous Yuletide letters
2010
2009 (maybe just read this one; it's the most thematically relevant)
2007 (contains talk about Princess Tutu, which is sort of orthagonally relevant cuz it's an anime based on Swan Lake and also my favorite show of all time)
and add just a couple notes and links to my requests as necessary ( under the cut )
and I'm going to send you over to my tumblr, where I've collated some Swan Lake, Dexter, and Twin Peaks-related items (I don't have anything for Emma! but I think my request speaks for itself? I love Sarah Waters's historical lesbian fiction, does that help?) for you under "yulegoat." If you still haven't clicked, it's here! Besides pictures, there are some words (both in the posts and the tags, on the right side in pink) and hopefully no matter what kind of information-absorber you are, you'll get something out of this method.
And if you're totally weirded out by my methods or Tumblr goes down for the next month (entirely possible, alas), still do not panic, because you cannot go wrong if you just write your story and have fun. That is what I want the most. Cheesy but trufax.
love and gratitude,
tris b.
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
Hi! DON'T PANIC. Yes. That's the only message I have to give that isn't readily apparently in my signup itself. I know my requests are pretty single-minded, and may not match what you consider your skill set to be -- but I have faith in you, and I value your Yuletide experience! Write something you enjoy and can believe in and is authentic to you, and I truly believe that is what will give me the best reading experience. Emotional truth: pretty much what I value the most in stories. Also nuance. Know this, and you're set!
...aaaand I just lost the draft of the rest of this letter. Sigh. To be honest with you, I'm not too broken up about it; I've written a *lot* of cover letters this year, and after a while all letters describing oneself to strangers start to feel the same. Here's what I'm gonna do: I'm going to link you to my previous Yuletide letters
2010
2009 (maybe just read this one; it's the most thematically relevant)
2007 (contains talk about Princess Tutu, which is sort of orthagonally relevant cuz it's an anime based on Swan Lake and also my favorite show of all time)
and add just a couple notes and links to my requests as necessary ( under the cut )
and I'm going to send you over to my tumblr, where I've collated some Swan Lake, Dexter, and Twin Peaks-related items (I don't have anything for Emma! but I think my request speaks for itself? I love Sarah Waters's historical lesbian fiction, does that help?) for you under "yulegoat." If you still haven't clicked, it's here! Besides pictures, there are some words (both in the posts and the tags, on the right side in pink) and hopefully no matter what kind of information-absorber you are, you'll get something out of this method.
And if you're totally weirded out by my methods or Tumblr goes down for the next month (entirely possible, alas), still do not panic, because you cannot go wrong if you just write your story and have fun. That is what I want the most. Cheesy but trufax.
love and gratitude,
tris b.
old enough to feel ways about stuff
Aug. 29th, 2011 02:27 amI just need all of this in one place. So here, have a feelings collage. ( Doctor Who. )
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does not fempute
Aug. 6th, 2011 03:38 pmTaking a page out of![[personal profile]](/post-https-s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wordsatourbacks's book and parsing out a few quotes (all formatting tags are [sic], not mine) from an ongoing conversation regarding feminism and genderqueer femmes that I personally find easier to document, and can process better, in this context than on tumblr.
Stackedstars: "An open letter to the feminist movement"
I am not a woman, and yet feminism speaks for issues that I have battled my entire life. I do not benefit from male privilege, but I am not a woman either. I want what feminism has to offer. I want the strength, the empowerment, the support. Feminism stands up for me in so many ways that the LGBT movement does not, and I want to feel like I actually am a part of it. I want to be recognized. I want feminists to acknowledge that patriarchy, misogyny, and rape culture affect other people the exact same way they affect women.
Glitterfemme: response
I’m not a feminist but uh anyways. Hi, femme genderfluid person here. I do not want to be pushed into that category in order for my existence to be acknowledged. Patriarchy, sure. Rape culture, sure. Misogyny? Not so much. It annoys me when I see posts about cat calling and what not tagged with things such as “women’s rights” and “misogyny” because it’s erasing. Um. Yeah.
Stackedstars responds:
Elsewhere, Stackedstars writes:
Personally, I think we should begin shifting the focus of feminism from “empowering women” to “empowering femininity.” I’ve been hesitant to suggest this because I think a lot of people see feminism as a women-only space [or at least a women-centered space] and they may be hesitant to lose that. Feminism has always been about women primarily, but while the focus of feminism continues to be “empowering women,” non-binary people will continue to be excluded. But if we speak of feminism as being in defense of femininity, that includes men, women, and non-binary people.
I don't quite have a response formulated to all this. But I think it's important to consider, and add to my cogitation on the many flaws and limitations of feminism and discourse (in addition to/despite my frustration with the tendency of the SJ community to focus on language as tantamount to message). How can feminism better include trans* peeps, in addition to all the other Othered peeps it regularly pisses on? I don't know. But awareness is a first step.
Given how much of feminism's mission has been to fight societally dictated gender roles and free women of all gender expressions from the constraints of what is considered feminine, centering feminism as explicitly femininity-based seems like a complete miss to me. There are butch and ambivalent women and trans*/FAAB people too and that's kind of the point: we all get to play. But certainly given how many professed feminists seem to abhor femininity as being intrinsically a product of the patriarchy, and/or engage in internalized misogyny/androcentrism/various prescriptive bullshit, I would not disagree that feminism needs to do a better job defending femininity, among other things.
EDITED TO ADD
Stackedstars has written a response to my concern and reasonably concluded:
in the interest of keeping feminism inclusive, I amend my previous statement to “feminism should be focused on empowering femininity equally as much as empowering women.”
[And this is something of a tangent, but it's hard for me to even talk about this without returning to my constant bafflement and irritation with the way the words feminine and femme are deployed as though these are self-explanatory terms describing something inherent to human behavior as opposed to dictated by culture and capitalism. And I'm not talking about gender itself as a societal or performative construct, but about the very idea of makeup or nail polish or whatever the hell else as the definining markers of something inside you. There is a materialistic essence to the way femininity is spoken of and I find it so incredibly superficial -- clarification: I don't find femininity superficial, I find the discussion around it to be that way -- and maddening in its tendency to conflate objects with gender. But then you go too far in the other direction and end up in essentialismville which is even worse. So I'm just putting out there my desire to see a deeper discussion/definition of fem(me)inity and would TOTALLY WELCOME YOUR THOUGHTS even though I will probably be crap at replying. ]
WOMEN AND PEOPLE WHO AREN'T WOMEN BUT ARE FREQUENTLY PERCEIVED TO BE AND TREATED SHITTILY AS A RESULT, AMIRITE?
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
wordsatourbacks's book and parsing out a few quotes (all formatting tags are [sic], not mine) from an ongoing conversation regarding feminism and genderqueer femmes that I personally find easier to document, and can process better, in this context than on tumblr.Stackedstars: "An open letter to the feminist movement"
I am not a woman, and yet feminism speaks for issues that I have battled my entire life. I do not benefit from male privilege, but I am not a woman either. I want what feminism has to offer. I want the strength, the empowerment, the support. Feminism stands up for me in so many ways that the LGBT movement does not, and I want to feel like I actually am a part of it. I want to be recognized. I want feminists to acknowledge that patriarchy, misogyny, and rape culture affect other people the exact same way they affect women.
Glitterfemme: response
I’m not a feminist but uh anyways. Hi, femme genderfluid person here. I do not want to be pushed into that category in order for my existence to be acknowledged. Patriarchy, sure. Rape culture, sure. Misogyny? Not so much. It annoys me when I see posts about cat calling and what not tagged with things such as “women’s rights” and “misogyny” because it’s erasing. Um. Yeah.
Underlined sentence links to a previous post by Glitterfemme, "Fitting into feminism"
You shouldn’t try to convince me to care about an issue because it might affect me since I’m seen as a woman; you should just acknowledge that it isn’t only women that sexism fucks over. It does also affect men with problems such as gender roles however feminists often forget that other genders (or lack thereof) exist.
Basically it would be pretty great if y’all could acknowledge my existence instead of trying to get me on board by attempting to convince me that I sort of fit in the ~female category~ or whatever. It doesn’t endear me to feminism and it just shows that feminism still isn’t trying to be less problematic.
Basically it would be pretty great if y’all could acknowledge my existence instead of trying to get me on board by attempting to convince me that I sort of fit in the ~female category~ or whatever. It doesn’t endear me to feminism and it just shows that feminism still isn’t trying to be less problematic.
Stackedstars responds:
That’s actually what my entire post is about; calling out feminism for being erasing to non-binary people. I use “misogyny” because, even though the dictionary definition is “hatred of women,” most misogynists don’t hate women. They fear femininity. So that’s why I use the word. I want feminists to understand that their rhetoric - that these things only affect women - is currently problematic and erasing. I don’t find “misogyny” erasing but that’s just me.
Elsewhere, Stackedstars writes:
Personally, I think we should begin shifting the focus of feminism from “empowering women” to “empowering femininity.” I’ve been hesitant to suggest this because I think a lot of people see feminism as a women-only space [or at least a women-centered space] and they may be hesitant to lose that. Feminism has always been about women primarily, but while the focus of feminism continues to be “empowering women,” non-binary people will continue to be excluded. But if we speak of feminism as being in defense of femininity, that includes men, women, and non-binary people.
I don't quite have a response formulated to all this. But I think it's important to consider, and add to my cogitation on the many flaws and limitations of feminism and discourse (in addition to/despite my frustration with the tendency of the SJ community to focus on language as tantamount to message). How can feminism better include trans* peeps, in addition to all the other Othered peeps it regularly pisses on? I don't know. But awareness is a first step.
Given how much of feminism's mission has been to fight societally dictated gender roles and free women of all gender expressions from the constraints of what is considered feminine, centering feminism as explicitly femininity-based seems like a complete miss to me. There are butch and ambivalent women and trans*/FAAB people too and that's kind of the point: we all get to play. But certainly given how many professed feminists seem to abhor femininity as being intrinsically a product of the patriarchy, and/or engage in internalized misogyny/androcentrism/various prescriptive bullshit, I would not disagree that feminism needs to do a better job defending femininity, among other things.
EDITED TO ADD
Stackedstars has written a response to my concern and reasonably concluded:
in the interest of keeping feminism inclusive, I amend my previous statement to “feminism should be focused on empowering femininity equally as much as empowering women.”
/ETA
[And this is something of a tangent, but it's hard for me to even talk about this without returning to my constant bafflement and irritation with the way the words feminine and femme are deployed as though these are self-explanatory terms describing something inherent to human behavior as opposed to dictated by culture and capitalism. And I'm not talking about gender itself as a societal or performative construct, but about the very idea of makeup or nail polish or whatever the hell else as the definining markers of something inside you. There is a materialistic essence to the way femininity is spoken of and I find it so incredibly superficial -- clarification: I don't find femininity superficial, I find the discussion around it to be that way -- and maddening in its tendency to conflate objects with gender. But then you go too far in the other direction and end up in essentialismville which is even worse. So I'm just putting out there my desire to see a deeper discussion/definition of fem(me)inity and would TOTALLY WELCOME YOUR THOUGHTS even though I will probably be crap at replying. ]
WOMEN AND PEOPLE WHO AREN'T WOMEN BUT ARE FREQUENTLY PERCEIVED TO BE AND TREATED SHITTILY AS A RESULT, AMIRITE?
secrets vs. wives
Jul. 24th, 2011 08:46 pmI -- I was going to post this on Tumblr. I wrote it in a Tumblr box. And then it was giant and wtf, so HI~ My brain is all about the meta, lately.
I'm thinking about men and their secrets.
I just finished watching the second season of Breaking Bad. I didn't want to watch Breaking Bad for a long time because it seemed to me, via quite a lot of adjacent exposure, to be a lot of things I am not that into:
But I'm thinking, about a corollary to that zeitgeist genre, which is "men and their secrets." I'm thinking about Mad Men. I'm thinking about Dexter. (Thinking about Weeds, wherein the female protagonist's secret lasts maybe a season before her whole family knows and becomes part of it I don't even remember how long it took because seriously fuck that show) Three makes a trend: what we have here is a current cultural narrative about a man with a secret life which, profess to love her* as he might, he can never tell his wife.
( moar )
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I'm thinking about men and their secrets.
I just finished watching the second season of Breaking Bad. I didn't want to watch Breaking Bad for a long time because it seemed to me, via quite a lot of adjacent exposure, to be a lot of things I am not that into:
- mainly about the relationship between two white men
- who run around yelling BITCH a lot
- whose main and therefore narratively punished adversaries are always Latinos
- whose genre is the late-aughts zeitgest "normal [= white middle-class] people take up a scandalous [=associated with not-white not-middle class] crime for fun and profit, lol edgy"
- plus the classic "American Dream? More like American NIGHTMARE!!!" super fresh zing take on suburban nuclear family life
But I'm thinking, about a corollary to that zeitgeist genre, which is "men and their secrets." I'm thinking about Mad Men. I'm thinking about Dexter. (Thinking about Weeds, wherein the female protagonist's secret lasts maybe a season before her whole family knows and becomes part of it I don't even remember how long it took because seriously fuck that show) Three makes a trend: what we have here is a current cultural narrative about a man with a secret life which, profess to love her* as he might, he can never tell his wife.
( moar )
who am i kidding
Jun. 4th, 2011 04:04 am- off I go, apparently
- subscribe to any future fic
- future dw/lj posting: outlook not so good
- future dw/lj reading: concentrate and ask again; contact via email/IM/telegram if you need to be sure
- the key is under the welcome mat, make yourself at home.
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- subscribe to any future fic
- future dw/lj posting: outlook not so good
- future dw/lj reading: concentrate and ask again; contact via email/IM/telegram if you need to be sure
- the key is under the welcome mat, make yourself at home.
It seems that my words are currently in an off phase, BIG CHANGE I KNOW, but I must break my silence if only to inform you all that there is a fest for fic about trans characters just starting and I AM EXCITE. So far I've prompted the following:
- HIMYM, Ted/Mother (oh unnecessary canon transphobia! all you have ever managed to convince me is that Ted should fall for a lady who "used to be a dude" and she is the best mom ever. Also Robin is egg donor. Headcanon until contradicted.)
- Skins, Franky/Mini because Franky is into people, and Franky is people, and Mini is into Franky, and we called it Minky, and it was good.
- Gotham Girls, Detective Selma Reesedale has like the least exciting secret ever when compared to the people she runs with in the police department alone. Besties with Montoya, y/y? Also, I feel she should probably have suspicions about Barbara Gordon. I really feel a lot of ways about DC ladies. *bites lip*
And I'm just getting started, so, you know, ... you should also ... ... ... start.
P.S. Beautiful Daughters is a short but lovely documentary about an all-trans staging of The Vagina Monologues, and it's on Netflix Instant. I just watched it. ;____;
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- HIMYM, Ted/Mother (oh unnecessary canon transphobia! all you have ever managed to convince me is that Ted should fall for a lady who "used to be a dude" and she is the best mom ever. Also Robin is egg donor. Headcanon until contradicted.)
- Skins, Franky/Mini because Franky is into people, and Franky is people, and Mini is into Franky, and we called it Minky, and it was good.
- Gotham Girls, Detective Selma Reesedale has like the least exciting secret ever when compared to the people she runs with in the police department alone. Besties with Montoya, y/y? Also, I feel she should probably have suspicions about Barbara Gordon. I really feel a lot of ways about DC ladies. *bites lip*
And I'm just getting started, so, you know, ... you should also ... ... ... start.
P.S. Beautiful Daughters is a short but lovely documentary about an all-trans staging of The Vagina Monologues, and it's on Netflix Instant. I just watched it. ;____;
Hello frenz! This is a friendly reminder that ![[community profile]](/post-https-s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
help_japan's auction closes tonight/tomorrow (if my time zone conversion is correct, at 5 a.m. Pacific). My auction for META currently stands at £10, but my fanmix auction currently has NO BIDS!
!!!
You guys, I don't want to hoot my own horn, but I do want to raise money for Japan so I guess I actually do: I make boss fanmixes. I overthink the shit out of these things. I am thematic as fuck. I truck with hidden tracks and double-sided albums. You will never find Coldplay on a fanmix of mine, nor will you see a cliched or un-anti-aliased font on the cover. You might find obscure Bjork covers or remixes, though! I've been fiddling with unpublished playlists for His Dark Materials, Princess Tutu, and Doctor Who for years. Among some others, uh, for starters. Last chance to bid.
My LJ auctions still both have a week to go but word to the wise: because the currency there is in dollars not pounds, they are cheaper, and somebody please for the love of god OUTBID![[livejournal.com profile]](/post-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
toastandtea NOOOO MARINA NOOOO I WAS JUST USING IT AS AN EXAMPLE NOOOOOO
~
In exciting news: first day of Purimgifts! I very sadly had to default, but I somehow lucked out into receiving a Parks and Rec story about Ann playing Esther in a Purim play opposite Ben's evil vizier, so, you know, THAT'S AMAZING. Oh my gosh what will tomorrow bring!!
~
I know the world's scary-fucked-up right now, but if you have any good thoughts to spare on Monday, could you send them my way? There's a thing, and I can't talk about the thing, but suffice it to say it's either this or the untimely end of Milhouse. Luck is seriously needed. Aaaand breathe.
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
help_japan's auction closes tonight/tomorrow (if my time zone conversion is correct, at 5 a.m. Pacific). My auction for META currently stands at £10, but my fanmix auction currently has NO BIDS!!!!
You guys, I don't want to hoot my own horn, but I do want to raise money for Japan so I guess I actually do: I make boss fanmixes. I overthink the shit out of these things. I am thematic as fuck. I truck with hidden tracks and double-sided albums. You will never find Coldplay on a fanmix of mine, nor will you see a cliched or un-anti-aliased font on the cover. You might find obscure Bjork covers or remixes, though! I've been fiddling with unpublished playlists for His Dark Materials, Princess Tutu, and Doctor Who for years. Among some others, uh, for starters. Last chance to bid.
My LJ auctions still both have a week to go but word to the wise: because the currency there is in dollars not pounds, they are cheaper, and somebody please for the love of god OUTBID
toastandtea NOOOO MARINA NOOOO I WAS JUST USING IT AS AN EXAMPLE NOOOOOO~
In exciting news: first day of Purimgifts! I very sadly had to default, but I somehow lucked out into receiving a Parks and Rec story about Ann playing Esther in a Purim play opposite Ben's evil vizier, so, you know, THAT'S AMAZING. Oh my gosh what will tomorrow bring!!
~
I know the world's scary-fucked-up right now, but if you have any good thoughts to spare on Monday, could you send them my way? There's a thing, and I can't talk about the thing, but suffice it to say it's either this or the untimely end of Milhouse. Luck is seriously needed. Aaaand breathe.
for great justice
Mar. 14th, 2011 09:17 pmHey guys, I'm auctioning off a fanmix (my most recent is LOST/GIRLS but here are my older ones!) and a meta* post, each for any fandom/topic of your choice, at BOTH help_japan and ![[livejournal.com profile]](/post-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_japan. So yes, this means I'm actually offering two of each.
Meta auction on LJ / Meta auction on DW
Fanmix auction at LJ / Fanmix auction at DW
* "meta" in the loosest sense of the world -- it can be one of my typical rambles, or for a paying customer I would be willing to go more linear/formal. Random examples of things I think about include: Black Swan, Edgar Degas, ballet, and the male gaze; I'm Not There's criticism of Bob Dylan; why Bashir is the worst character on DS9; why my hatred of Lost doesn't stop me from almost admiring its finale; Fringe and abuse; everything ever wrt Mad Men; fictional geekdom; etc. etc. etc. But those are just examples of thoughts I have already developed mentally -- I offer with the intention and willingness to tackle the subject of your choice.
In other news I have NOT FORGOT the IWD fic requests; they are just on the back burner till I get purimgifts sorted. Also, watch more Lost Girl. I have no excuse, but whatever. Bisexual lady-buddies supernatural detective hijinks. Your argument is invalid.
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
help_japan and help_japan. So yes, this means I'm actually offering two of each. Meta auction on LJ / Meta auction on DW
Fanmix auction at LJ / Fanmix auction at DW
* "meta" in the loosest sense of the world -- it can be one of my typical rambles, or for a paying customer I would be willing to go more linear/formal. Random examples of things I think about include: Black Swan, Edgar Degas, ballet, and the male gaze; I'm Not There's criticism of Bob Dylan; why Bashir is the worst character on DS9; why my hatred of Lost doesn't stop me from almost admiring its finale; Fringe and abuse; everything ever wrt Mad Men; fictional geekdom; etc. etc. etc. But those are just examples of thoughts I have already developed mentally -- I offer with the intention and willingness to tackle the subject of your choice.
In other news I have NOT FORGOT the IWD fic requests; they are just on the back burner till I get purimgifts sorted. Also, watch more Lost Girl. I have no excuse, but whatever. Bisexual lady-buddies supernatural detective hijinks. Your argument is invalid.
casting memes and the uneven swap
Feb. 15th, 2011 03:59 am[please do not link on newsletters etc.]
I'm thinking a bit about the exchange rate. Not of money, but of actors -- and actresses -- in roles.
( on making mad men chromatic: not really about the show )
( on genderswapping dexter: also not really about the show, but a little bit spoilery )
I don't know where I'm going with this.
And I don't know if other people's experiences doing casting memes are anything like mine. The chromatic casting meme did start in the world of comics, not 1960s Madison Avenue. And probably most other shows have less explicitly gendered violence. Maybe I'm just drawn to doing this with extremely ill-suited sources.
Or maybe the swap should become a standard writing tool to test the strength of your characters and your anti-fail. If these roles look wrong on any other axis, maybe your role needs a kick in the ass. I'm not saying that any specific context should be interchangeable with any other. We do need stories about race and disability and rape and gender. But what is the story SUPPOSED to be about? Why should it be? What's slipping right by without notice?
Who in the exchange rate is getting shortchanged?
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I'm thinking a bit about the exchange rate. Not of money, but of actors -- and actresses -- in roles.
( on making mad men chromatic: not really about the show )
( on genderswapping dexter: also not really about the show, but a little bit spoilery )
I don't know where I'm going with this.
And I don't know if other people's experiences doing casting memes are anything like mine. The chromatic casting meme did start in the world of comics, not 1960s Madison Avenue. And probably most other shows have less explicitly gendered violence. Maybe I'm just drawn to doing this with extremely ill-suited sources.
Or maybe the swap should become a standard writing tool to test the strength of your characters and your anti-fail. If these roles look wrong on any other axis, maybe your role needs a kick in the ass. I'm not saying that any specific context should be interchangeable with any other. We do need stories about race and disability and rape and gender. But what is the story SUPPOSED to be about? Why should it be? What's slipping right by without notice?
Who in the exchange rate is getting shortchanged?
purim gifts!!
Feb. 10th, 2011 08:23 pmOh gosh, assignments are out and me without a Dear Esther letter! Well, I'm not going to draw this out; instead, here's a few quick thoughts but know, sweet writer, that I really trust you and hope you write whatever you find fun.
If you'd like to read a bit about what I value in fiction I refer you to my most recent Yuletide letter. Basically: YAY LADIES, boo grossness, yay friendship and femslash and growing up and discovery and feelings. Also ridiculous crossovers and AUs, if necessary?
( a bit on each fandom I chose seemingly at random )
BASICALLY I HOPE YOU JUST MAKE SOMETHING YOU ENJOY MAKING AND I WILL ENJOY IT! :D Also, for the graphics, just in case you are making icons please know that I have the boringest icon taste in the world which consists of "textless nicely colored cropped screencaps." But if you are compelled to make ~art, that is awesome too.
Happy Purim!!!
P.S. There is no need to make the fics actually holidaycentric in any way.
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
If you'd like to read a bit about what I value in fiction I refer you to my most recent Yuletide letter. Basically: YAY LADIES, boo grossness, yay friendship and femslash and growing up and discovery and feelings. Also ridiculous crossovers and AUs, if necessary?
( a bit on each fandom I chose seemingly at random )
BASICALLY I HOPE YOU JUST MAKE SOMETHING YOU ENJOY MAKING AND I WILL ENJOY IT! :D Also, for the graphics, just in case you are making icons please know that I have the boringest icon taste in the world which consists of "textless nicely colored cropped screencaps." But if you are compelled to make ~art, that is awesome too.
Happy Purim!!!
P.S. There is no need to make the fics actually holidaycentric in any way.
those anarcho-nerds are mysterious
Jan. 19th, 2011 07:21 amI recently read Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed, and now I am disappointed in all other things because it is becoming clear to me that over the last two or three years I've developed an affliction with regards to fiction that is gradually rendering me a gibbering mass of contrariness.
I believe Homer Simpson best summed my issue up with his timeless epigram, "Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems." Only in my case we will swap out beer (which causes me no problems other than in its sad dearth) for "rich people."
( here I go, talking about everything again )
ironic icon choice is ironic (oh eleven, ilu but don't think i wouldn't put you in the pandorica myself, i mean really)
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I believe Homer Simpson best summed my issue up with his timeless epigram, "Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all life's problems." Only in my case we will swap out beer (which causes me no problems other than in its sad dearth) for "rich people."
( here I go, talking about everything again )
ironic icon choice is ironic (oh eleven, ilu but don't think i wouldn't put you in the pandorica myself, i mean really)
my baby had a baby!
Jan. 10th, 2011 10:35 pmI'm not currently reading fic, and I did not participate (either in organizing or writing), but regardless I am super fucking pumped about where_no_woman's New Year's Fic Exchange, which went live today. There are THREE stories featuring Guinan (ugh, so excited; if this were starting again today I would have to join so I could request Guinan/Picard backstory fic, I rewatched "Time's Arrow" last month and I need to knoooow)!! TWO Jadzia Dax femslash fics (be still my ships-Jadzia-with-everyone* heart)! And of course all manner of things featuring AOS/TOS ladies both famous and obscure.
WNW is my baby, the thing I am most proud of having made in fandom (and to everyone I've seen say they wished there was an equivalent in their fandom: make one. please. do it.), but I've mostly been a silent partner for a good while now. It runs because of the members who joined and the other mods who make stuff like this happen on a regular basis. All women in Star Trek, all the time. What could be awesomer? How could I be prouder?
You guys rock. <3
* where everyone is taken to mean Sisko, Lenara, Worf, Spock, Uhura, and accepting offers elsewhere
P.S. lolol my clipboard. First attempt to cut and paste the WNW collection link instead resulted in this:
ALSO AMAZING, ALTHOUGH MARGINALLY LESS RELEVANT.
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
where_no_woman's New Year's Fic Exchange, which went live today. There are THREE stories featuring Guinan (ugh, so excited; if this were starting again today I would have to join so I could request Guinan/Picard backstory fic, I rewatched "Time's Arrow" last month and I need to knoooow)!! TWO Jadzia Dax femslash fics (be still my ships-Jadzia-with-everyone* heart)! And of course all manner of things featuring AOS/TOS ladies both famous and obscure.WNW is my baby, the thing I am most proud of having made in fandom (and to everyone I've seen say they wished there was an equivalent in their fandom: make one. please. do it.), but I've mostly been a silent partner for a good while now. It runs because of the members who joined and the other mods who make stuff like this happen on a regular basis. All women in Star Trek, all the time. What could be awesomer? How could I be prouder?
You guys rock. <3
* where everyone is taken to mean Sisko, Lenara, Worf, Spock, Uhura, and accepting offers elsewhere
P.S. lolol my clipboard. First attempt to cut and paste the WNW collection link instead resulted in this:
ALSO AMAZING, ALTHOUGH MARGINALLY LESS RELEVANT.
That Ralph Macchio guy's a douche.
Jan. 9th, 2011 10:12 amoh god WHAT WAS THAT DREAM.
( my brain took doctor who, top chef, dexter, black swan, parks and rec, and a bunch of my friends and put them in a meta blender. )
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( my brain took doctor who, top chef, dexter, black swan, parks and rec, and a bunch of my friends and put them in a meta blender. )
still alive!
Jan. 5th, 2011 06:49 pmHey guys, I still exist! I've just, uh, mostly forgotten about this journal. In the interest of catching up, here's some stuff I failed to link to in a timely manner:
LOST/GIRLS - The Vampire Diaries, a fanmix for the female vampires (spoilers through "Fool Me Once")
apropos of smoochy smoochy time - Doctor Who RPF, Matt Smith/Karen Gillan!! ~500w
greatly exaggerated - ST:TNG, Sito Jaxa, ~400w
Sincerely, Cindi. - Metropolis: The Chase Suite/The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monae, Cindi Mayweather, ~1300 (foryuletide)
As you can see, my fic-posting is now done primarily at the Archive of Our Own, and my main journal is now at Dreamwidth. However, I do promise to make more of an effort to make a note of new fic over here, and wherever/however you want to keep track of me is fine.
<3
LOST/GIRLS - The Vampire Diaries, a fanmix for the female vampires (spoilers through "Fool Me Once")
apropos of smoochy smoochy time - Doctor Who RPF, Matt Smith/Karen Gillan!! ~500w
greatly exaggerated - ST:TNG, Sito Jaxa, ~400w
Sincerely, Cindi. - Metropolis: The Chase Suite/The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monae, Cindi Mayweather, ~1300 (for
yuletide)As you can see, my fic-posting is now done primarily at the Archive of Our Own, and my main journal is now at Dreamwidth. However, I do promise to make more of an effort to make a note of new fic over here, and wherever/however you want to keep track of me is fine.
<3
After my first year of Yuletide (wherein I defaulted, and then ended up writing the pinch hit for the assignment I defaulted on), I have been determined to never be that silly again, but 2009 and 2010 Yuletide were both much, much more challenging than that first year, which just goes to show you that, uh ... writing is hard? I'm good at finding new ways to make Yuletide way harder for myself than it should be? #ITSAPROCESS?
And still for some reason I persevere! My story this year was Sincerely, Cindi. (Metropolis: The Chase Suite - Janelle Monae)
And now, I would like to discuss my Yuletide ~process. Seriously. Not even the fic. I barely talk about the actual finished fic. This is like nine thousand words on just the fucking process.
Pre-Assignment
( this may seem wordy now, but later you will miss it. you will miss my sweet brevity. )
Finally: An Assignment!
( research and robofeminism and philosophy and theology and oh my god she's not going to shut up, is she??? )
But hey, maybe I'll write a robofeminist antiracist postcolonialist dissertation one of these days after all! OR MAYBE THIS GIANT, GIANT ENTRY SHALL HAVE TO SUFFICE
You know... consuming a drink that contained caffeinated soda was perhaps not the smartest choice I made last night. I don't know. It is possible.
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And still for some reason I persevere! My story this year was Sincerely, Cindi. (Metropolis: The Chase Suite - Janelle Monae)
And now, I would like to discuss my Yuletide ~process. Seriously. Not even the fic. I barely talk about the actual finished fic. This is like nine thousand words on just the fucking process.
Pre-Assignment
( this may seem wordy now, but later you will miss it. you will miss my sweet brevity. )
Finally: An Assignment!
( research and robofeminism and philosophy and theology and oh my god she's not going to shut up, is she??? )
But hey, maybe I'll write a robofeminist antiracist postcolonialist dissertation one of these days after all! OR MAYBE THIS GIANT, GIANT ENTRY SHALL HAVE TO SUFFICE
You know... consuming a drink that contained caffeinated soda was perhaps not the smartest choice I made last night. I don't know. It is possible.
MERRY HAPPY
Dec. 25th, 2010 01:39 amYayyyy, Yuletide!
You guys. I GOT BONNIE/CAROLINE FIC! ~FUCK YEAAAAAAH~ It's all MEATY (BLOODY, even) and FEELINGSY and oh my god this Caroline is amazeballs. SO GOOD. Read it read it and comment, my writer is great and should feel great! :DDDD
(THANK YOU)
The fic that I wrote is up, too (OMG MY RECIPIENT SEEMS TO LIKE IT?! *bites lip*) and obvs I cannot tell you what it is, but I will say that while in the past I was confident none of my friends would even read, let alone identify, my fic, I have no such assurance this year. So if you'd like to guess what fic I wrote, comments will be screened and I will reward correct guesses with the drabble of your choice.
Ah. What do I normally do with my hands? What will life be like without the stress of this project (so much work! like, AWESOME stress because omg best assignment ever, but still, stress) hanging over me? You mean, I get to roll around in other people's stories now? I get to plan the ridiculous commentary for this, and last year's Yuletide too while I'm at it? All of this, and Hipster Who too??
Baby Jesus, you scoundrel.
Happy Saturday, everyone. <3
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
You guys. I GOT BONNIE/CAROLINE FIC! ~FUCK YEAAAAAAH~ It's all MEATY (BLOODY, even) and FEELINGSY and oh my god this Caroline is amazeballs. SO GOOD. Read it read it and comment, my writer is great and should feel great! :DDDD
(THANK YOU)
The fic that I wrote is up, too (OMG MY RECIPIENT SEEMS TO LIKE IT?! *bites lip*) and obvs I cannot tell you what it is, but I will say that while in the past I was confident none of my friends would even read, let alone identify, my fic, I have no such assurance this year. So if you'd like to guess what fic I wrote, comments will be screened and I will reward correct guesses with the drabble of your choice.
Ah. What do I normally do with my hands? What will life be like without the stress of this project (so much work! like, AWESOME stress because omg best assignment ever, but still, stress) hanging over me? You mean, I get to roll around in other people's stories now? I get to plan the ridiculous commentary for this, and last year's Yuletide too while I'm at it? All of this, and Hipster Who too??
Baby Jesus, you scoundrel.
Happy Saturday, everyone. <3
Today:
- I am going to see Voyage of the Dawn Treader for FREE with my Carrie.
- then I am going to see Donald Glover LIVE IN PERSON with my Shady.
- then I'm probably gonna come home and say some nice-ass shit on the Holiday Love Meme! Or sleep. But then definitely with the comments, you know, at some point.
And you can say nice-ass shit about me too, if you want. IDK I GUESS W-WHATEVER. (Here.)
Soon I hope to post about Fringe, and Dexter, and fashion. Yay!
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
- I am going to see Voyage of the Dawn Treader for FREE with my Carrie.
- then I am going to see Donald Glover LIVE IN PERSON with my Shady.
- then I'm probably gonna come home and say some nice-ass shit on the Holiday Love Meme! Or sleep. But then definitely with the comments, you know, at some point.
And you can say nice-ass shit about me too, if you want. IDK I GUESS W-WHATEVER. (Here.)
Soon I hope to post about Fringe, and Dexter, and fashion. Yay!
(no subject)
Dec. 7th, 2010 09:21 pmHi guys! Blogging comeback = imminent? COULD BE! But before I do that I will probably be pruning my flist/subscriptions quite a bit (I'm sorry in advance! feel free to reciprocate, or hang out) AND when I do that I will probably make a firmer attempt to weed out my many LJ/DW duplicates, so if you are a crossposter and you think this applies to you, please endure a poll before my paid time runs out:
Everyone else, carry on.
ETA: Oh! And also feel free to take this moment to delurk, or reintroduce, or ask me who the fuck I am, for which I would not blame forgetfulness.
comments and the original icons!! at Dreamwidth.
Everyone else, carry on.
ETA: Oh! And also feel free to take this moment to delurk, or reintroduce, or ask me who the fuck I am, for which I would not blame forgetfulness.
