Today I very officially told the people who need to know that I'm not staying in Thailand for a third year. This decision makes me inconsolably angry in ways that I can't hardly explain.( cut for general frustration and cathartic bitching )

HAPPY 2014 EVERYONE!


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officially might have been won over by Sam for the first time ever

I blame tumblr

I also reserve the right to think Padelecki is the worst ever. It is 99% the performance that I hate and not the character itself.

I'm going to sink myself into Lost Girl's S2 finale and then then try to be productive ( Read more... )

What, you think I never watched you?
The Transformative Power of Watching and Voyeurism in the Buffyverse[Herein lies the actual presentation as submitted]The character of Dawn Summers, introduced in the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, acts as a fan of the story she is on the fringes on. She has her own tv-boyfriend (Xander), her own OTP (one true pairing - Willow/Tara), her own ( Read more... )

Okay ya'll - I went to an academic conference during my fandom hiatus. And it was great. ((News from the academia side of the aca-fan spectrum? everyone is a Dean Winchester stan. It's actually pretty cute.)) And my presentation went over really, really well --- like, people stopping me in the hallway for the rest of the conference to talk about ( Read more... )

The following conversations happened yesterday while I was working the desk at the library::

Conversation the first::

Girl (directed towards friend): I mean - why do guys like video games so much?
Me (completely interrupting): Excuse me? I'm a girl. And I love gaming.
[strange looks exchanged]
Me: No really, you just have to find the kind you like.
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I don't actually know how to feel about this episode - but I'm not as upset as the rest of fandom seems to be. So here goes an Unpopular Opinion Post.

[Life after LOST is messy]
+ The parallels they are setting up between April/Jeremy/Matt and Elena/Stefan/Damon are intentionally and actually - I like it? It's not as much "these are the same people!" as Glee took this season ( Read more... )

For about two years now I've been pretty obsessed with the Steampunk movement. It all started with tithenai's "To Follow the Waves" which is Lesbian Steampunk set in the Middle East. Seriously, if you think you don't care about this movement, listen to this story. It will probably at least make you a die-hard Amal El-Mohtar fan and will hopefully convince ( Read more... )