rarewomen, wiscon, and accidentally falling into decade old fandoms.
1). For rarewomen this year, I wrote "Klytemnestra, in Fragments" for yetanothermask. I have been eyeing her prompts for years and always meant to write her treats, because of how many lit fandoms we share, but my procrastination almost always means that I have time to just write my own assignment. But the universe aligned this year to match us.
I got TWO lovely stories this year. "When a Lovely Flame Dies" is the MUCH anticipated Twin Peaks/Pretty Little Liars crossover that I have been wanting forever, with Spencer Hastings and Audrey Horne, that everyone should read if you're familiar with these fandoms. The second fic I got is "you're in my firing line," a great backstory for Arlessa Isolde from "Dragon Age" that manages to keep her sympathetic without blunting her sharper edges.
I haven't had time to read any other stories, but I have a lot of bookmarks that I need to revisit once I get back from Wiscon.
2). WISCON. I'm going again this year. I am not entirely sure which panels I'll be attending, but like last year, I assume that my panel schedule will be abandoned in interest of hanging out with awesome people. I'll be getting there early Thursday, then I'm planning on doing the PoC dinner on Friday night and Vid party on Saturday night (like, I'll be there from 9 pm to 3am, or until they turn off everything and politely ask us to leave). If you're going (and we haven't already discussed this), let me know and I'll message you with my contact details so we can be sure to meet up.
3). The Elizabeth Weir Show. So, hi, friendslist, I might have ACCIDENTALLY fallen into a ten-year-old fandom, to my utter misery. As you may already know, I am not a huge fan of the Stargate Franchise, with its weird colonial/imperialistic politics, and the general disregard for multiplicity of cultural experiences, not to mention its abysmal treatment of women. But it does have some awesome women, so I sometimes consume an abbreviated version of these canons.
Back when SGA was actually airing, I only knew that something HORRIBLE had happened on the show, and pretty much everyone on my friendslist was very, very upset about it. I was mostly just...glad I didn't watch the show, but also very, very curious about what had happened. But apparently not enough to have looked it up?
So, of course, I go into SGA, expecting mostly to ship Elizabeth/John and having lots of fic to read (which, let's be honest, was my main motivation, since having lots of Annie/Jeff fic SPOILED me for more obscure pairings), and then NO ONE WARNED ME about Elizabeth Weir, and I never expected to have this level of feels over her, but here I am, crying over a dead fictional woman at my keyboard again (like, is there a point where you get to be too old for this? I DOUBT IT, somehow), and I signed up for this willingly, apparently?
ANYWAY, I just needed to catalogue my stupidity here for all to see, and for my future self to laugh at and possibly avoid. BUT! If any of you are still here, you should come and flail with me over Elizabeth Weir, because I have all these FEELINGS and no one to flail them at. Um.
I got TWO lovely stories this year. "When a Lovely Flame Dies" is the MUCH anticipated Twin Peaks/Pretty Little Liars crossover that I have been wanting forever, with Spencer Hastings and Audrey Horne, that everyone should read if you're familiar with these fandoms. The second fic I got is "you're in my firing line," a great backstory for Arlessa Isolde from "Dragon Age" that manages to keep her sympathetic without blunting her sharper edges.
I haven't had time to read any other stories, but I have a lot of bookmarks that I need to revisit once I get back from Wiscon.
2). WISCON. I'm going again this year. I am not entirely sure which panels I'll be attending, but like last year, I assume that my panel schedule will be abandoned in interest of hanging out with awesome people. I'll be getting there early Thursday, then I'm planning on doing the PoC dinner on Friday night and Vid party on Saturday night (like, I'll be there from 9 pm to 3am, or until they turn off everything and politely ask us to leave). If you're going (and we haven't already discussed this), let me know and I'll message you with my contact details so we can be sure to meet up.
3). The Elizabeth Weir Show. So, hi, friendslist, I might have ACCIDENTALLY fallen into a ten-year-old fandom, to my utter misery. As you may already know, I am not a huge fan of the Stargate Franchise, with its weird colonial/imperialistic politics, and the general disregard for multiplicity of cultural experiences, not to mention its abysmal treatment of women. But it does have some awesome women, so I sometimes consume an abbreviated version of these canons.
Back when SGA was actually airing, I only knew that something HORRIBLE had happened on the show, and pretty much everyone on my friendslist was very, very upset about it. I was mostly just...glad I didn't watch the show, but also very, very curious about what had happened. But apparently not enough to have looked it up?
So, of course, I go into SGA, expecting mostly to ship Elizabeth/John and having lots of fic to read (which, let's be honest, was my main motivation, since having lots of Annie/Jeff fic SPOILED me for more obscure pairings), and then NO ONE WARNED ME about Elizabeth Weir, and I never expected to have this level of feels over her, but here I am, crying over a dead fictional woman at my keyboard again (like, is there a point where you get to be too old for this? I DOUBT IT, somehow), and I signed up for this willingly, apparently?
ANYWAY, I just needed to catalogue my stupidity here for all to see, and for my future self to laugh at and possibly avoid. BUT! If any of you are still here, you should come and flail with me over Elizabeth Weir, because I have all these FEELINGS and no one to flail them at. Um.