That was not a dream sequence. That was actually on ESPN.
I am back from hiatus! I have accomplished my work mission and am now onto a long summer of... working more, but with less intensity and more fandom.
1. I got Diablo III for my birthday, finally got to install it today, and have been playing obsessively ever since. I stopped to post to LJ because my wrist was getting sore. I think I love it even more than Diablo II, which was my previous favorite game ever. My battletag is Mosca#1501 if you want a friend, but I don't play collaboratively and usually turn off chat; I consider the slaying of the undead to be a solitary activity. I'm playing as a female Witch Doctor and am really enjoying throwing jars of spiders and summoning packs of devil puppies.
2. Also for my birthday, I got to see Book of Mormon and Newsies, both of which fall into the category of BROADWAY HELL YES.
3. I have dusted off my Tumblr account, renamed it, and repurposed it as a general repository for stuff I like. There are still a lot of unicorns, but now there are also figure skaters, artsy nudes, and misc. geekery. It's Moscarific! now. Please do follow.
4. I am resigning myself to liking all the movies that everyone else likes. fox1013 dragged me out of the salt mines long enough to see Avengers, which happily surprised me by being the Black Widow show, and by making me ship Natasha/Bruce. Worse, I went to The Hunger Games with my in-laws and immediately went home to buy the two books I hadn't read. "I just read Catching Fire on my smartphone" is the most 2012-est sentence of them all. And, um, now I have written like 5000 words of Haymitch/Finnick. I am really sorry, fandom. I will try to embarrass us all less in the future.
5. There will probably be a Femslash '12, but callmesandy and I have not even discussed it yet, to be honest.
6. Adam Rippon and Alex Shibutani will not stop slashing themselves on Twitter. I may have been on hiatus, boys, but I can still see you.
6a. We have tickets to Skate America! Maaaaaaaaarlie.
6b. My feelings about Johnny Weir-Voronov's return to competition are too mixed to enumerate here.
7. I've been putting my fic up on AO3 since the beginning of this year, and the demographics fascinate me. Like, I've gotten relatively few comments on my Revenge fics on LJ/DW, but lots of kudos and comments on AO3. I'm assuming that's because there's not much of a centralized fandom for that show: there's a comm, but it's low traffic, and it's not the kind of fandom where people get together to squee in groups. So when people want fic, they go to an archive and search for it and go OMG NOLAN/JACK and leave me a note. But figure skating fandom is still kind of centralized, because it's oriented toward discussion and news, much more than fannish production. It has outposts on Tumblr and Twitter as well as (maybe more than) LJ, but people aren't cold searching for Charlie White/Jeremy Abbott. So to the degree that I get feedback for skating fic, it's still in my journals. In conclusion, it is a pain in the ass to post my fic in so many places, but it is necessary at this point in fandom.
8. OMG REVENGE DON'T DIE TINY.
9. SYTYCD comes back tomorrow! Teen Wolf comes back in like two weeks! Expect frequent, semi-coherent responses to both.
10. I saw Shearwater cover an R.E.M. song live. I have accomplished all the goals.
1. I got Diablo III for my birthday, finally got to install it today, and have been playing obsessively ever since. I stopped to post to LJ because my wrist was getting sore. I think I love it even more than Diablo II, which was my previous favorite game ever. My battletag is Mosca#1501 if you want a friend, but I don't play collaboratively and usually turn off chat; I consider the slaying of the undead to be a solitary activity. I'm playing as a female Witch Doctor and am really enjoying throwing jars of spiders and summoning packs of devil puppies.
2. Also for my birthday, I got to see Book of Mormon and Newsies, both of which fall into the category of BROADWAY HELL YES.
3. I have dusted off my Tumblr account, renamed it, and repurposed it as a general repository for stuff I like. There are still a lot of unicorns, but now there are also figure skaters, artsy nudes, and misc. geekery. It's Moscarific! now. Please do follow.
4. I am resigning myself to liking all the movies that everyone else likes. fox1013 dragged me out of the salt mines long enough to see Avengers, which happily surprised me by being the Black Widow show, and by making me ship Natasha/Bruce. Worse, I went to The Hunger Games with my in-laws and immediately went home to buy the two books I hadn't read. "I just read Catching Fire on my smartphone" is the most 2012-est sentence of them all. And, um, now I have written like 5000 words of Haymitch/Finnick. I am really sorry, fandom. I will try to embarrass us all less in the future.
5. There will probably be a Femslash '12, but callmesandy and I have not even discussed it yet, to be honest.
6. Adam Rippon and Alex Shibutani will not stop slashing themselves on Twitter. I may have been on hiatus, boys, but I can still see you.
6a. We have tickets to Skate America! Maaaaaaaaarlie.
6b. My feelings about Johnny Weir-Voronov's return to competition are too mixed to enumerate here.
7. I've been putting my fic up on AO3 since the beginning of this year, and the demographics fascinate me. Like, I've gotten relatively few comments on my Revenge fics on LJ/DW, but lots of kudos and comments on AO3. I'm assuming that's because there's not much of a centralized fandom for that show: there's a comm, but it's low traffic, and it's not the kind of fandom where people get together to squee in groups. So when people want fic, they go to an archive and search for it and go OMG NOLAN/JACK and leave me a note. But figure skating fandom is still kind of centralized, because it's oriented toward discussion and news, much more than fannish production. It has outposts on Tumblr and Twitter as well as (maybe more than) LJ, but people aren't cold searching for Charlie White/Jeremy Abbott. So to the degree that I get feedback for skating fic, it's still in my journals. In conclusion, it is a pain in the ass to post my fic in so many places, but it is necessary at this point in fandom.
8. OMG REVENGE DON'T DIE TINY.
9. SYTYCD comes back tomorrow! Teen Wolf comes back in like two weeks! Expect frequent, semi-coherent responses to both.
10. I saw Shearwater cover an R.E.M. song live. I have accomplished all the goals.