ikel89 came up with this meme - it is so fun! I highly recommend doing this even if you don't post it (though maybe not if you have an important paper due sometime in the next 48 hours - TVTropes can literally suck the time out of your life until you are blinking at the sunlight of the morning after next and wondering why you're so thirsty).

( describe yourself in ten tropes )

0001 - Libya (not cutting. cope.) What's Happening in Libya Explained is a primer on the situation that gives the very basic historical background behind the current conflict ( Read more... )

pectus_pectoris picked 6 of my icons to talk about, which I do behind the cut.

( what do Brian Kinney, Jaebaby, Byakuya's scarf, Itachi, Tatsuki, and Kazeshini have in common? (spoilers for everything) )

( under here )

Meme, stolen from everybody. ( Fandom Year in Review )

Answers to the meme from the other day -- thank you so much for playing, you guys! This was fun.

I've taken the liberty of changing the numbers in the questions to names and matching pronouns to the characters just so it's all easier to read.

My lists:book/mediaanime/manga( book/media )

ETA: Finished! Answers here.

Meme stolen from hamsterwoman and lunylucy.
(Slightly modified because that is how I roll. I am a modifier. *cymbal crash* Aw shucks. I'll be here all week.)

0001 - Make a list of 15 characters, but don't disclose it (yet ( Read more... )

First, a meme from jetamors:

1. Grab a book near you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet. Just pick up whatever is closest.The theme is not always the subject in a sentence. An ( Read more... )

Meme stolen from hamsterwoman (and, well, everyone else and their pet spinning leek).

Ask me my Top Five whatevers. Fannish or literary or RL or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what -- fandoms, characters, ice cream flavours, cartoon moments, women/men in my fandoms, OTPs, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I ( Read more... )

I find it unspeakably ironic that many of the very same people who screamed "it's only fanfic! don't take it so seriously!" in response to backlash against fics that contain privileged fail are now comparing fanfic to classic works of literature -- in order to put forth the asinine argument that pointing out/denouncing privileged fail in fic is ( Read more... )