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netgirl_y2k @ 2012-05-22T21:39:00

2012-05-22T21:47:38Z

Fic Rec: Not Quite a Five-Star Getaway (The Church of Mad Love Remix) by fitz_y (Merlin; Morgana/Morgause) which is a remix of a modern AU I wrote ages ago, although this one is better. You know how I'm always saying that there should be the sort of gleefully ridiculous AUs about the girls of Merlin as there are about the boys. Well, this is it. Also, Morgause totally would have read Machiavelli when she was a teenager.

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Speaking of remixes, I accidentally wrote another couple of mini-ones.

Ever After (the bit player remix) (ASOIAF; Sansa Stark, various characters; 1172 words)
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Queen of Air and Darkness (the art of siegecraft remix) (Merlin; Morgana; 407 words)
Morgana is called the Cruel Healer, Lady Death, the Queen of Air and Darkness.

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Where's the God of Tits and Wine?

2012-05-22T00:12:43Z

I don't have much to say about this week's Game of Thrones, basically because, as much as I love The Tyrion and Cersei, Co-Starring Wine Show, not a lot actually happened.

( The Prince of Winterfell )

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netgirl_y2k @ 2012-05-16T02:44:00

2012-05-16T02:20:58Z

Today my mother turned to me and said, "The saddest day of my life was when you got too big for me to stitch turn-ups into your jeans." Which I thought was quite sweet, random and weird, but sweet. Also, possibly a comment on the fact that I still dress like a teenager in jeans with hems that drag on the ground.

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I have written another mini-remix for Reverse Remix, now with bonus crossdressing.

Blacksmith's Apprentice (let's leave this city and live on a farm 'mix) (Merlin; Gwen/Morgana; 572 words)

So that's me written all three remixes I originally offered, but I'm having a ridiculous amount of fun with these, so if you've got a fic you'd like me to remix here is the place to offer it up. Ignore the original fandom restrictions, anything I, you know, know.

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What Will My Poor Savage Father Say?

2012-05-14T23:51:11Z

So I spent the evening drinking strawberry and lime cider (not on purpose, I wasn't paying enough attention in the supermarket; also, strawberry and lime cider is a thing now?) and watching Game of Thrones. You know, I find it much easier to talk about the things I don't like than the things I do. What happened to those extraneous brothel scenes I could bitch about, show? Because this episode was comprised almost entirely of things I loved.

( A Man Without Honour )

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The Internet is For...

2012-05-14T20:21:05Z

I have been extremely remiss about reading the rarewomen fics but I can wholeheartedly recommend In the Company of Monsters by Gehayi (ASOIAF; Brienne of Tarth) which is 12k of Brienne and her stupid stubborn loyalty, and what it means to be a knight, and all kinds of good things.

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I have been playing at Reverse Remix, which is a fun game where people tell you which fic of theirs they want you to remix. And I like it because it means I get to skip over the flaily too-many-choices part of remixing.

Wires Crossed (the better in person remix) (Doctor Who; Amy/Rory, River, Liz X; 272 words)
They put together a crack team for Operation Rescue the Doctor.

Sparring Partners (the break up to make up remix) (Merlin; Morgana/Forridel; 878 words)
Having a nice druid girlfriend mellows Morgana a bit. Not much, but a bit.

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At the risk of sounding needy and pathetic, which it turns out I'm comfortable with,

My thread at the recent love meme.

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My Skin Has Turned to Porcelain, to Ivory, to Steel

2012-05-08T23:20:16Z

This week has not gotten off to a great start (relatives, can't live with 'em, wouldn't have gotten past the cellular stage without 'em) so I thought why don't I sit down with a glass of that nice scotch I got for my birthday and watch this week's Game of Thrones, for that will doubtlessly cheer me up. Yeah, my own fault entirely, I've seen this show before, I know what it is.

( If there are things to say about The Old Gods and the New that aren't about Sansa then I don't know what they are )

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Fic Post

2012-05-08T20:19:59Z

I know, I know. I don't write anything for ages then you get two fics at once. Sorry 'bout that.

The Reluctant Queen
A Song of Ice and Fire; Myrcella Baratheon/Trystane Martell, Sarella Sand/Asha Greyjoy, Arianne Martell, Shireen Baratheon; PG-13; 2800 words

Myrcella knows what is said of her rule behind her back, that she presides over a court of bastards and women. Who better to rule a realm of bastards and women?

They Took Some Honey, And Plenty of Money
A Song of Ice and Fire; Brienne of Tarth, Asha Greyjoy, Arya Stark; PG-13; 1700 words

A knight, a pirate, and stray wolf cub, lost at sea.

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Happy Me Day!

2012-05-06T17:14:47Z

Thank you for the birthday wishes, guys, that was very thoughtful. Especially as I have decided that this is going to be my last birthday, twenty nine feels like a pretty good age, and I think I'm just going to stick with it from here on out.

Actually one of the upshots of being old and decrepit now is that after the pub closes when people ask if you want to go clubbing you can say, actually I can't think of anything I want less, instead I want to go home, have a cup of tea and watch West Wing DVDs under an enormous duvet. And the good thing about having your birthday on a Friday is that you get to claim the weekend, this is my birthday weekend, and because it's the May Day holiday on Monday I plan to be celebrating until Tuesday.

I got taken to see the Avengers movie yesterday. It wasn't a movie I'd been planning to see because I haven't seen any of the other movies in the, um, franchise? and I wasn't that interested. But I thought it was a nice moment of geek outreach that my friends were doing so along we went, and, dude, that was an awesome movie.

I had birthday cake with my gran, birthday beers with my dad, an evening in the pub and an excellent movie with my dearest friends. I have a good feeling about twenty nine, really I do.

Also, as a present to myself and in celebration to my newfound elderly status I bought myself a pair of converse with a picture of Wonder Woman on them. I rock at adulthood.

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Schemes and Plots are the Same Thing

2012-05-02T22:36:31Z

You know how when you're a fan of something you sort of have two versions of it, there's the one that actually exists, and the one that's only in your head, where all the rough edges have been sanded down and there's no extraneous brothel scenes. Well, the brothel thing may only apply to Game of Thrones fans, but I think the general rule applies. And then sometimes there's an episode where the actual episode and your idealised episode are the exactly the same episode.

Show, I hope you realise that any future missteps will be judged much more harshly because now I know what you can do when your heart is in it.

( The Ghost of Harrenhal )

Hmm, would arranged marriage fic work for the trope fest given that all weddings in Westeros are arranged, does it work better if the two characters getting married are Dany and Sansa?

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netgirl_y2k @ 2012-05-01T21:34:00

2012-05-01T20:41:53Z

Little Sister: And that's me finished my thesis.
Me: Seriously? Congratulations.
Little Sister: I'm handing it in on Friday, so I may need you to take me to the pub afterwards and buy me many, many drinks.
Me: Sure, but it can't be on Friday because I've got to go to a birthday party.
Little Sister: Whose?
Me: Mine.
Little Sister: It's your birthday?
Me: Yup.
Little Sister: When?
Me: On Friday, I'm having a party.

So, do I get to be mad at her for forgetting my birthday, or does she get to be mad at me for not inviting her to my party in the first place?

Damn, it's hard to keep track of nearly thirty years of sibling grudge wank.

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A Post of Fandom Things

2012-04-30T12:06:46Z

I am slightly side-eyeing the last minute timetable change over at rarewomen. I don't know if it's changing the rules, changing them the day before the posting day, or if it's just that I don't like sitting on completed fics, especially not ones I wrote nearly two months ago, but, yes, side-eye.

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In happier news, Female character trope fest. People should go leave prompts, I should go leave prompts.

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So I have one of those disclaimers that says should anyone wish to podfic anything of mine they're more than welcome to. And the thing that always surprises me about that is that is that if you tell people they can record your fic occasionally they do. Cool, eh?

Carrying A Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart) Discworld, read by reena_jenkins and about a bajillionty times funnier than it was in my head.

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I was going to do one of those book log posts, but there's really no point as I read nothing this month, nothing at all. I wonder if there's such a thing as readers block or if it's something I've just made up, because I started like eight different books this month and couldn't get past page fifty on any of them.

Although, I did manage to read the last two books in the Vorkosigan series, which has only taken about two years, so that's me all done with Miles and I'm feeling oddly bereft, but maybe that's the epilogue to Cryoburn talking.

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Fic: Despoiled (the hunting for witches remix)

2012-04-29T17:52:45Z

Title: Despoiled (the hunting for witches remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing Arthur/Morgana
Rating: R
Word Count: 2322
Summary: The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
A/N: Remix of Chastity by flammablehat, beta read by fitz_y
Warnings: Sibling incest.

( Read more... )

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You May Survive Us, Yet

2012-04-24T18:06:05Z

You know, I could not watch this show, and just spend an hour wibbling behind a cushion with a glass of wine to much the same effect.

( Garden of Bones )

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Remix-y Recs

2012-04-24T12:50:43Z

So, Remix happened. And you know how I was saying that I hadn't been reading much Classic Who fic recently, and that was sad. Well, my remixer chose one of my older fics about the Brigadier and Liz Shaw galavanting around the universe with the Third Doctor, and the result was lovely.

Five Things Alistair Learned While Traveling (Memento Temporis Radio Edit) (Doctor Who; the Brig, Liz Shaw, Three) Charming and wonderful, with the sort of dry wit that works so well with Brig fic.

And speaking of cruising on a wave of Classic Who nostalgia.

Gearbox (The Won't Miss a Piece Remix) (Doctor Who; loads of Classic Who Doctors and Companions, but mostly Seven & Ace) I am a sucker for fics about the Doctor learning from his companions, in this case learning how the box works. Also, there's a room full of angry mechanical ducks aboard the TARDIS, of course there is.

I was delighted to see an ASOIAF remix, and such a lovely one too.

Come the Morning (The Once More for the Ages Remix) (Cat/Ned) Perfect, Perfect Cat voice.

I saw that selenak though I might have written this one. I didn't, but it is however everything I could ever have wanted in a Merlin fic.

Waking Up Stories (A Dancemix with Dragons) (Merlin; Morgana, Aithusa) Morgana & the baby dragon escaping doomed narratives and going off to make something new and different, I mean there's lots of other good stuff in there, the Morgana characterisation is spectacular, but basically that.

Remix Madness happened too. And I did mean to write something for it, really I did. Instead, I did what I always do when faced with a variety of choices, which is curl up into a ball and not do anything. But some lovely person made a ficlet out of one of my Discworld fics, I am very charmed.

Not Exactly Human (Eyeballs Remix) (Discworld) In which Quoth the Raven & the Death of Rats have opinions on Susan's taste in women.

The other fic from the Madness collection that immediately leapt out at me as being very good was this DS9 one.

Alter Egos (the twice the woman she used to be remix) (Deep Space Nine; Ezri Dax) I love fics about Ezri learning to be Dax, and this is a wonderful one. I am kind of in awe of whoever managed to turn this around in a week.

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There are no velociraptors in this post

2012-04-20T01:40:38Z

A year ago there was a meme going round where you posted your top ten fics by AO3 hit count and then navel gazed about the stats, and I did that, and now some people are repeating it and talking about what has changed, and because I am nothing if not a sheep, I am going to do that too.

Also, I find AO3 stats nerdily fascinating.

( List of Fics )

( Navel Gazing )

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But rises again, harder and stronger

2012-04-19T19:53:30Z

This week I briefly died of Theon Greyjoy feelings. Not an especially dignified way to go, but what can you do?

( This is not the sensible, articulate review of What is Dead May Never Die that you are looking for )

Next week I fully expect to die of Sansa feelings. Goodbye, cruel show.

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Fandoms Past and Present

2012-04-13T19:08:40Z

Tell me you want to play and I'll pick up to three of your fandoms. Then update your journal and answer the following questions:

such_heights gave me Game of Thrones, Buffy, and Legend of the Seeker

Game of Thrones

What got you into this fandom in the first place?

I first read the ASOIAF books, say, two years ago and I liked them a lot but it wouldn't have occurred to me to be fannish about them, especially as there didn't seem to be much of an online fandom outside of scary places like Westeros.org. Now, I would argue that fandom is as valid a hobby as anything else, and nobody should be judged for their participation in what is a fairly benign pastime, but if you're actually taking time out of your day to root for the rape of a fictional thirteen year old then LOOK AT YOUR LIFE! LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES!

Then HBO made a little show called Game of Thrones, you may have heard me mention it, and suddenly there was a fandom presence on LJ/DW that wasn't comprised almost exclusively of shrieking misogynists, and a lot more fic was being posted on unlocked on AO3 (YAY!) and here we are. Also, there is Sansa's quiet strength, Cersei's icy perfection, and Theon's stupid, punchable, strangely loveable face and I just have a lot of FEELINGS.

Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?

Hmm, when you're in the first flush of love with a fandom it's hard to imagine not loving it. And the universe has such scope and so many characters I don't think I'm in any danger of getting bored soon. At the same time, gorgeous as the show is, I wonder how long it's possible to remain engaged by something where you know all the major plot developments in advance, and God only knows how long we'll have to wait for the next book. So, maybe? Probably not soon though.

Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?

The hatching of Dany's dragons, because, dragons! Also because of Dany's "I am the dragon's daughter" speech. I very much admire Dany's can-do attitude where she doesn't let a total lack of experience, training, weapons or an army get in the way of announcing to large groups of people her intentions to butcher her enemies and take over bits of the world.

Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?

Sort of? I mean all the fic I'm currently working on is in this universe, and the ASOIAF category is the first thing I check when I visit the AO3 looking for new fic to read. And I post about the show and the books pretty regularly, but only in my own journals, if that makes sense? The underground nature of much of this fandom is just beyond my effort threshold a lot of the time. Especially when one of the biggest comms has an application form longer than for some jobs I've applied for.

Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

YES! Come to the dark side, we have Peter Dinklage! Also, some of the best female characters I have ever come across!

Okay, full disclosure, it is incredibly violent, there is a lot of blood. The first episode ends with a scene of marital rape, and in the books there is a lot of (thankfully, mostly off-screen) rape. Yes, they do kill the dog. In the first episode you will be introduced to a cast of five hundred, don't worry about learning their names, most of them will die soon. All I can say is that if someone had described it to me before I read/watched I would have gone, Fuck, no! It's made almost exclusively of things that I should hate, but it manages to rise above that and become something I utterly love. It is much smarter and subtler, especially about women, than you think it's going to be.

Buffy

What got you into this fandom in the first place?

Ooh, this was baby's first real fandom and I think I stumbled upon it just through random googling and going through the WHAT! What? Oooh thing that I think we all go through when we first discover that we are not alone.

Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?

I haven't been in Buffy fandom for a long time. By series six it had already become a show that I had trouble enjoying, and the fandom had become increasingly focused on Spike, a character that I really didn't care for. Even now, I can trace my dislike of a lot of manpain and woobie tropes back to Spike. And then the attempted rape happened and that just killed it stone dead for me. I don't even watch the earlier high school episodes when they come on because I can't disentangle them from how badly the shark was jumped later.

Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?

Season 3 was perfection. FAITH!

Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?

I wrote a lot of fic in Buffy fandom. A lot. I think I eventually just ran out of things to say. On my fandom to-do list since forever has been to upload my old Buffy and Angel fic to the AO3 (and possibly orphan them?) But I never seem to get round to it, because I can't face reading them again, and I suspect they'd all need at least a cursory edit.

Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

You know, I honestly couldn't tell you what the current incarnation of Buffy fandom even looks like.

Legend of the Seeker

What got you into this fandom in the first place?

The first scene in the pilot, actually. You know, where it's just Kahlan running through the scenic parts of the New Zealand countryside? And I thought, I don't care if nothing else happens in this show, I will watch forty episodes of her running.

Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?

I was always more on the periphery of this fandom than actually in it. But one thing that can be said for its untimely demise is that unlike Buffy (and Merlin, and Doctor Who) it never had a single moment that I hated. So, I'm always happy to catch reruns or go back to favourite fics and vids.

Favorite episodes/books/movies, etc?

Mirror, Princess & Desecrated. One of the reasons I wasn't really in the fandom is that all the gleefully ridiculous tropes I'd usually expect from fandom, this show gave me with its canon.

Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?

Despite, or maybe because the canon show was perfect to me, something about it just failed to hit my MAKE/CONSUME ALL THE FANWORKS button. I wrote a few fics, though, and one of them is one of the best and most popular things that I've written. So my sojourn in LotS fandom definitely wasn't wasted.

Do you think more people should get into this fandom?

I don't know how much of a fandom it still has? But I definitely think anyone who didn't watch the show when it was on should give it a shot.

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2x02 The Night Lands

2012-04-09T21:42:53Z

You know, I thought I was pretty immune to the amount of sexposition in this show, but, blimey, that was a lot of sex.

( The Night Lands )

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COFFEE!!!

2012-04-08T12:08:30Z

Hungover coffee is the best coffee.

Also, why do I remember there being a frog in the pub?

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Wasps or Something Similar

2012-04-04T23:15:52Z

I have it on the highest possible authority that talking about writing is practically the same thing as writing. There was a work in progress meme going around which I'm not going to do because, well, I don't have a page 77 of anything to show you, and anyway, it all seems a bit fiddly and too much like work. Instead here is a lovely list of fics I working on. For the purposes of this meme "working on" means anything from: sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to post them, to, I may someday possibly, maybe consider writing this fic.

1) ASOIAF: Arianne eventually succeeds in crowning Myrcella, who has very mixed feelings about being queen.

2)ASOIAF: Asha and Brienne on a boat, snarking about the best way to raise Arya. No, really, seriously.

3) ASOIAF: Sympathetic character study of Cersei during her marriage to Robert. Currently subtitled: nobody will read this fic, and yet I'll write it anyway.

4) ASOIAF: Sansa becomes a Warg. Takes over world.

5) Discworld: Susan's lovely, relaxing, and highly educational holiday to Uberwald.

6) Merlin: the AU where Morgana is a vampire. Again, really, seriously.

7) Doctor Who/Warehouse 13: female!Doctor & Pete Lattimer. What? I have decided to deal with not liking the current TARDIS line up by inventing my own, much more satisfactory, Team TARDIS.

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The North Remembers

2012-04-02T22:46:09Z

I've worked out how to make my life that much more productive, and that's to have all the shows I love shown on a 24 hour delay. Which is to say I have spent the entirety of today avoiding the internet so as to avoid Game of Thrones spoilers. Which was kind of ridiculous when you think that I've read the books, twice...

Anyway, ( The North Remembers )

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March Booklog

2012-04-01T00:34:08Z

Most of this month was spent plodding through The Deed of Paksenarrion - Elizabeth Moon. Well, plodding might be a bit of a harsh word for it, I must have been enjoying it because I'm not one of those people who feels compelled to finish a book I'm hating, but, well, it was 1200 pages, and the first third or so, where Paks is with the mercenaries was very hard going. Marching. Sword drill. More marching. Yet more marching. Laying siege to a city that is almost indistinguishable from the last three cities they laid siege to. But it perked up after that. I liked Paks's asexuality, and it played into all my female knight hot buttons, and if nothing else it's taken a fair chunk out of Mt. ToBeRead...

The Queen of Kings - Maria Dahvana Headley In which Cleopatra is vampire (sort of) which sounds like it should be completely mad but is, in fact, unutterably brilliant.

The Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin One of these days I am going to get around to reading more Le Guin than her short stories (both Left Hand of Darkness and Lavinia are lurking somewhere in Mt.ToBeRead) but I do really enjoy the short stories. And it was pretty cool to see what all those sedoretu AUs I've been reading were based on.

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe I am a child. I have no regrets.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - JK Rowling This was the one where Harry got a bit shouty, didn't he? Well, I always thought he a was a bit too well adjusted for a kid that had spent ten years in a cupboard. It was also the one which had me going: MCGONAGALL FOR KING!

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netgirl_y2k @ 2012-03-25T22:29:00

2012-03-25T22:04:38Z

I'm going to attribute my total lack of accomplishment this weekend to the clocks going forward and losing an hour, it certainly wasn't because the Game of Thrones S1 DVDs fell into my hot little hands, no sir. From the DVDs I learned two things 1) Lena Headey should do the commentaries for everything, including things she wasn't in, she's just that fantastic, 2) Sansa Stark has become one of those characters where I can no longer reliably distinguish between my head canon and the actual canon. Seriously, towards the end of the series half of my brain was going, Oh you poor, precious wolf girl, come to my bosom, while the other half was going, Do you mind? That's the Queen in Fucking North you're manhandling. Off with their heads!

It was also the series finale of Being Human tonight, ( 4x8 The War Child )

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Attack of the Fifty Foot Ficathons

2012-03-18T21:58:34Z

You know, I think it was very sad that the entire Six Nations was cancelled this year due to illness/injury/zombie apocalypse/insert preferred denial here. Very sad indeed.

Although, I did have a very productive weekend on account of all the rugby I wasn't watching. I managed to finish my Rarewomen fic six weeks ahead of the deadline. Admittedly, this is mostly because I misread the assignment e-mail and thought it was due March 30th and not April 30th. Still, not bad, eh? I've also already finished my remix. Which is mad, but also greatly pleasing to me because the main reason I went back and forth on signing up this year is that I know myself that I've become much more fussy in my engagement with fandom over the past couple of years, and I was worried that I'd drop out again. But I got my assignment and there was an obvious fic to remix, and I got an idea straight away - one of those rare ones which pops into your mind fully formed - and it was either write it or watch Scotland being professionally rubbish at rugby, again. And I like what I've written and think it works as a remix, but I also hope that my remixee is of the school of thought that remixes aren't gift-fics, or even really for the original author, because otherwise... oops?

I also bought a toaster. The other week I was talking about how I was envious of the fancy toaster with an egg poaching attachment that my friends had bought, and I was using it as a metaphor for all the things and trappings of an adult life that I don't have right now, and all of that is still true. But, also, I actually really did want that toaster.

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The Once and Future Queen

2012-03-15T02:34:15Z

There was a meme doing the rounds: what would fandom look like if you were in charge? It's entirely possible that I have confused it with, what would fandom look like if I could control each and every one of your brains?

1. ASOIAF fic wouldn't be locked down as much as it is now. Okay, this is less a "if I controlled fandom" thing, and more a "if I could control GRRM's brain and make him pretend not to know about fanworks like most creators" thing. But I hate it for a number of reasons, 1) it makes it a very isolating fandom experience. 2) It makes it hard to find the good stuff, or indeed any stuff at all unless you already know where to look. 3) Fandom becomes very self-reinforcing, so we get the bajillionth itineration of Jon/Dany, Sansa/Sandor or Jaime/Brienne rather than anything new and different. For what it's worth, I have read truly outstanding fics in all three of those pairings, but no fandom was ever hurt by branching out, I think. 4) It has a weird knock on effect on the rest of fandom where even things like episode reaction posts and cast news are f-locked, which feeds into the feeling of it being a very isolating fandom.

2. In Merlin fandom there would be as many joyful, ridiculous, canon ignoring AUs and fixits about the girls as there are about the boys. The one where Morgana is an insomniac who basically bleeds triple espressos and Gwen is the barista who finds her curled up on the coffee shop steps before opening! The one where Morgana, Morgause & Nimueh are all vampires; the knights of round table are a vampire hunting organisation, and vampire!Merlin thinks collaborating with them is his way to redemption! I also wish there were as many sympathetic or redemption fics about Morgana as other fandoms have to taught me to expect about a beautiful, tragic villain. But, mostly, this is so I can stop contemplating my epic rewrite of the entire canon from Morgana's POV. C'mon, someone has to write it! Then again, Merlin is a fandom where I've shot myself in the foot, rather, because I crave these fics (and many more) but at the same time I don't want to engage with a show that doesn't want me as a fan or contribute to a fandom that seems to hate everything I love.

3. Fests where you mail your submission to the mod to post would change. You trusted me to write the damn thing, trust me to post it when I say I will! But that's my instant gratification thing speaking, there's nothing more annoying to me than getting something written and beta'd for a deadline and then having to wait a month to find out whether anyone liked it.

4. Boyslash (or dudeslash, or maleslash, or whatever) would take off as a term. Because I am bored of people saying they use slash to mean both m/m and f/f pairings, because if you've been in fandom for more than eight minutes total you must have noticed slash overwhelmingly refers to m/m. Also, I don't want slash to mean both m/m and f/f because then femslash will disappear entirely into boyslash and it will become nigh on impossible to find anything. Basically, I want to abolish slash and embrace femslash and boyslash. And you could like both, or neither, or one and not the other, but there would be clear definitions for everybody, hurrah!

5. There would be a standard definition of what an AO3 kudos means. I love getting kudos, but it seems like there's people who are indifferent to then, and people who hate them with the fire of a thousand burny suns. And I think it's because people seem to use them to mean anything from, I read it and didn't actively hate it, to, I am clicking this button because I love this so much that words fail me. I use the kudos button to mean, Thank you for writing this I enjoyed reading it, and because I am going to be queen this is the definition we shall be implementing.

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