Turned in my essays and found myself a new cheaper room with a window settee where I plan to read forever and ever, and also walk to uni from quite easily. Monday I'm moving my stuff and Tuesday I’ll be off to Barcelona for a month to stay with my dad and my little sisters. While there I'm also meant to read a lot about gender and fanfic since that ( Read more... )

In England I feel like I'm in a book, or a movie. Because English is the language of fiction for me it also is the language in which I can reinvent myself just thinking and speaking it. And here, reality nods along and assures me that "of course it's real. It's not only in your head." It's like getting to go Hogwarts.
Creo firmemente que uno nunca ( Read more... )

Edit to add important link: Bad Romance (or, YA & Rape Culture)



Like usual, it’s all astolat’s fault, the moment she wrote a fic about a show about a threeway relationship I was so done. But I have fortitude of will, I downloaded the show but I waited and now the time has come, they aired a new episode today (and I still have episodes 11 & 12 to go). ( Read more... )

Hoy anteayer terminé de ver South of Nowhere, creo que después de Merlin (season 1, season 2 is getting a bit better, btw!) es la serie que más rápido se me pasó en mucho tiempo, y por ahí si no tuviera 3 temporadas… En fin, tenemos una familia de Ohio que se muda a California y descubre que el mundo es más complicado (ya sé, ya sé, chocolate! + ( Read more... )

001 . A veces una piensa: ojalá no hiciera falta decir estas cosas a estas alturas, explicárle a la gente que vive en una caja que se les armo, ¿pero de que viviríamos si no quedaran cosas por pensar? por hacer? por decir?, ¿Qué habría en el mundo de maravilloso si tuvieramos todas las respuestas? Nada. La absoluta felicidad (si llegaramos a eso ( Read more... )