a little dust never stopped me none

Monday after a holiday, why ya gotta? My December calendar is full of assignments, fic exchanges, and social engagements. I'm not sure how I'm going to get it all done, but I suppose I'll have fun in the process! Ha ha ha this is my TERRIFIED face.

I wrote a thing! How It Falls is an XMFC fic about Charles being a jerk, the X-family going shopping, ice skating, and Erik having some feelings. I had so much fun writing family antics that this thing is practically gen, guys. Fun fact I learned while writing this: Germany's most common flavored potato chip is paprika. The more you know!

In other news, D and I are almost all caught up on Fringe. We spent a lot of time laughing over the anvilicious writing. Blue!verse is still my favorite verse and I miss it. :(

So here is the promised meta on my fannish life in shipping, and a bit about how it's changed over the years. This is really about my fannish history in general, but since I am such a shipper, I'm keeping the title. Herein lies my childhood loves, my adolescent loves, and my contemporary loves in fandom. There is also some reflection on misogyny in slash fandom.

( 3900+ words of tl;dr on shipping. )

I missed posting yesterday due to surprise drunk karaoke in the kitchen! My priorities are good and I feel good about them. Went out for brunch today, will never need to eat again. SO MUCH FOOD was on that table.

So, I finished Kafka on the Shore like a month ago and then never posted about it! Metafiction and symbolism are fun to bend the brain around. I like most cerebral fiction, but I rarely end up loving it because it's so difficult to connect to the characters. This book was a good read, but Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is still my favorite Murakami. I wonder if it has something to do with the books having different translators as well. If I remember my professor right, Murakami fired his first translator because critics were saying his books were even better in English. Scandal!

I keep meaning to watch last Friday's Fringe, but I'm unsure if I actually want to. There are bugs and the Spoiler of Do Not Want. Thoughts?

( 30 Days of Glee - Day 16 - Favorite Episode )

Breaking news: I made a tumblr. I think I added everyone who's posted about tumblr recently, but let me know if you have one! There are just too many pretty pictures floating around that site.

So, NBC used a generator to create the hypothetical children of various Community pairings. Go and witness the, um, beauty. Also, this week's episode! ( Community 2.12, Asian Population Studies )

Then OLIVIA DUNHAM, LADY BADASS OF MY HEART returned to the television screen last night. ( Fringe 3.10, The Firefly )

Also, sotto_voice is a heinous bitca for making me care about Glee spoilers. ( Miscellaneous spoilers for upcoming episodes, obviously. ) Goodness, long post is long.

SOOOOO CLOOOOOSE THE END OF THE SEMESTER IS NIGH. (So I can scale down to just working a full-time job! Huzzah!)

Those who know me can probably guess how I reacted to last week's Glee. ( Glee 2.10, A Very Glee Christmas )

Conversely, last week's Fringe was about the spaces between broken people. I eat up well-done narratives about grief with a SPOON, people. ( Fringe 3.09, Marionette )

So, yes, I still exist. This post will be a mishmash of various reasons I have been MIA and various things I have been meaning to post about. I fail at blogging.

I have been doing city things! I went to see Howl on Thursday. Spoilers: Allen Ginsberg & life partner are adorable, and animated poetry doesn't really work when it looks like Pixar for adults. I also went to see Henry IV, Part I last night, which featured an excellent cast. I'm officially old: it was a struggle to stay awake for both events.

I got A's on my first two grad school assignments! I have some hope of keeping my scholarship and not existing in a puddle of financial panic.

Glee! 2.04 "Duets" was actually good, and featured the Rachel Berry I know and love, as opposed to the pod person of previous s2 episodes. Also, more Brittany/Santana is always welcome.

In the past week and a half, one of my housemates and I have INHALED two seasons of Fringe + all current episodes. We have Serious Discussions about it over pancakes. I am in love. I kind of want to sing a Disney song about how I have ~*never felt this way before*~ about a character (Olivia Dunham) and a ship (Peter/Olivia). Except I totally have, but I am in the honeymoon phase! STARS IN MY EYES. Please expect a post chronicling my EPIC LOVE in the future.

Recs:
Serenade by sotto_voice (Glee, Brittany/Santana) -- ADORABLE fic. Just. ADORABLE. And her whole prompt post is pretty much gold. Will Schuester as one of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends! I'm just sayin'.
Boom Boom Pow by hollywoodgrrl (Fringe, Olivia) -- Everyone and their mother has already recced this, but in case you need convincing that you should watch Fringe, like, right now. Olivia Dunham not only has swagger, she has swagga.