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You know what's quite weird? Link hopping only to discover that you've been mentioned in a Salon article about The best (and the weirdest) of “Game of Thrones” fanfiction. It's not entirely clear which subheading I'm part of.

Still.

That's cool. Is it cool? I feel like it's cool.

Fanworks I'm not making (not least of all because the reasoning behind posting that Gwen & Morgana fic as a wip is that it's supposed to be motivational)

1) If I had the patience, temperament, or technical ability to vid I would make a ladies of Game of Thrones vid to Everything at Once by Lenka, mostly because I have already spent entirely too long listening to it on repeat figuring out which character would go with which lyric, and I really think that the line as royal as a queen/as buzzed as a bee should be matched to clips of Cersei knocking back wine like a pro.

2) On the kink meme there's been a fair amount of marriage equality AU prompts recently, and I'm sure they're meant to be fluffy wish-fulfilment, but I have devoted far too much time to thinking about how gay marriage might work in Westeros. Like, allowing you to make marriage alliances that wouldn't have been possible otherwise, making sure you don't end up with more grandsons than you can afford, preventing cadet branches of the family popping up and causing internal strife, etc. But gay arranged marriages would go wrong for the same reasons as het ones (incompatible sexual preferences, being married off to someone you hate for political expediency) and new ones (children being such a source of power in Westeros, especially for women, resenting being told as teenager that you're never going to have any of your own.) Basically I keep thinking about writing a fic where there's gay marriage in Westeros and it breaks shit, not because of the gay, but because everything about the Westerosi system breaks shit. I won't, because what manner of horrible person would write that.


List your 15 favorite characters from 15 different fandoms. Then ask your flist to look for patterns.

1) Sansa Stark (A Song of Ice and Fire) (although frankly I could have come up with fifteen characters just from ASOIAF)
2) Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones) (I'm counting them as separate fandoms. So there)
3) Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
4) Morgana (Merlin)
5) Ruby Lucas (Once Upon a Time)
6) Pete Lattimer (Warehouse 13)
7) Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)
8) Nina Pickering (Being Human)
9) Kahlan Amnell (Legend of the Seeker)
10) Kenzi (Lost Girl)
11) Granny Weatherwax (Discworld)
12) Anya (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
13) Donna Moss (The West Wing)
14) Juliet Salazar (Felix Castor)
15) Delenn (Babylon 5)

So, apparently I like almost queens (future, failed, spurned and unwilling), women (and Pete),she-wolves (assorted varieties) outsider povs, and massive self-esteem issues. What do you think, have I missed anything?

Any plans I had for the day went out the window when my mum called this morning to say that my dad had thrown his back out and was off work, and could I hang out with him for the day to make sure that he didn't, and I quote, do something ludicrous and make it worse, the bloody idiot.

I did enjoy dad's reaction to daytime telly, which was to stare at the television, mildly appalled, and say, This is why you read all the time, isn't it?

But we spent most of the day hanging out in the garden, enjoying endless rounds of egg sandwiches and tea (with occasional breaks to keep the dog alive; Eustace was bred for loyalty, not brains, and if I am outside he will lie at my feet until he keels over from sunstroke or I take him inside and show him his water bowl) and discussing who should be the next Doctor. Dad's suggestion was Jenna Louise Coleman, on the grounds that she's excellent and has already played practically every other character; difficult point to argue with, really.

So, that was nice. Especially as most of the chances I've had to talk to dad recently have been when we've been driving to or back from funerals of extended family members. Three in two months, two heart attacks and an alcohol related liver disease. Needless to say that my last couple of supermarket runs have been heavy on the fruit juice and vegetables. I am even going so far as to consider taking up exercise. I've seen people jogging through the park with their dogs and it's looked quite pleasant, but, no, Eustace would go on strike.

It helped that the weather has turned unexpectedly lovely. Dad said that it was like a summer's day, I politely refrained from pointing out that that was because it is a summer's day. Still, given that spring went awol I can see where his confusion came from.

And then even more unexpectedly Scotland won a football game.

So, yes, I had a nice day. That's it. That's the post.

Fuck me, if ever there was an episode to make me wish I was watching the show unspoiled then that was it.

( Game of Thrones, The Rains of Castamere )

I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett (reread)
Heroines and Harridans: A Fanfare of Fabulous Females - Sandi Toksvig
Kushiel's Scion - Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey
Kushiel's Mercy - Jacqueline Carey

Wow, I am reading really slowly (for me) this year. Not entirely sure why. Anyway, I Shall Wear Midnight was the end of my Tiffany Aching re-read, and I liked Tiffany so much more this time, I think because I read her books in the right order. It also makes me a little sad, because I think it's the last one before Pratchett's mental deterioration becomes impossible to ignore.

Heroines and Harridans was a birthday present from somebody who obviously knows me too well, I would read or listen to anything Sandi Toksvig has to say about anything, and under appreciated women throughout history? Yes, please! When I was getting anxious about my trip I self-medicated with this book (also wine and beta blockers, but don't underestimate the power of the book.)

( Under the cut I shall blether on at length about the second Kushiel trilogy )

Having returned from my impromptu German sojourn I plan to spent the day by turns unpacking, doing the washing, and catching up on the DW, Elementary, and OUaT finales. Also, doing what appears to be a happy little meme:

I currently have 147 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 147 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Now that I am in my thirties I am
-now a person who takes a book to my own birthday party, just in case it's boring.
-still a person who watches way too much television.

( Game of Thrones, The Climb )

Hello, person or persons who wrote me rarewomen fic! I know the stories go live later today, but it is my 30th birthday today and I am just on my way out to get rascally drunk, but I can't wait to read what you've written when I get back to a computer on, probably, monday.

Everyone else, hurrah birthday!

I fell asleep before Game of Thrones last night, then I was going to watch it when I got in this afternoon, but watching it in the daylight with a cup of tea and the sun splitting the sky is not the same as watching it curled up in the dark with a beer.

I can't believe we're halfway through the series already ( GoT 3x5 Kissed By Fire )

Okay, that, that was a very good episode ( And Now His Watch Is Ended )