So, the post I desperately want to make is a Maneskin post about Damiano's gender identity stuff and also various fun clips I've found comparing his early days as Your Neighborhood Frat Bro with his current Do You Have a Moment To Talk About the Kyriarchy? antics.

But I will resist making that post for now, and instead make a post about a DIFFERENT ( Read more... )

I reached a weird professional milestone today, that sort of ties into a form of imposter syndrome for me, so, here are some noodley thoughts about that.

( professional thoughts )

OK, so certain friends that I went up north with this weekend previously told me that posts about Maneskin that assume you've listened to their music are all well and good, but what about a guide to their actual music for people who liked their Eurovision song?

And I was like, OK! I accept this challenge!

The rules of the game are:

1. Taste is 100% ( Read more... )

Look, I don't know what this post is. It's DEFINITELY not me getting into a new fandom, because I've done the bandom ride and I'm OK with moving on to other pastures.

What this post also is a NOT is me trying to pretend I'm discovering a whole new thing here, when there were already 50 fics in Italian on AO3 for this band before they won Eurovision ( Read more... )

I had the option of spending my evening writing fic for the Old Guard, doing something is not fandom related and actually productive, or writing Old Guard meta. Guess where we ended up!

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First, the fic I wrote the last time I had such a choice:

From one father to another (2834 words) by sabrina_il
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating ( Read more... )

So, I've recently discovered this local music group which has been all of my music tastes and needs wrapped into one, basically. Made by women, singing in a language I don't speak, political, great to dance to, and the merging of very old melodies with very modern beats ( Read more... )

I was going to make an entirely different post (I have it in my drafts, I've been writing it for days) but yesterday was LIFE CHANGING so an impromptu post it is!

Last night I saw Daveed Diggs, the guy who originated the role of Lafayette in "Hamilton". !!!

We'd bought tickets to his show a while back, and I kind of forgot about it until
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So, I apologize in advance - this post will be of limited interest to people who don't speak Russian ( Read more... )

My back got fucked up about two weeks ago, and I'm still trying to dig myself out of that hole. The beauty of having multiple injuries is that once something gets fucked up it reverberates everywhere. If I were healthy, the rest of my muscles could take the strain of a bad back for a little while. But I'm not, so now my shoulder is fucked up, and ( Read more... )

So, I have been enjoying my staycation! My parents are abroad (enjoying Washington DC along with the Pope, currently), so after a lot of stress and waffling I basically blew a ton of money on fancy groceries and set up camp in their apartment. It's been great! I mean I'm not really doing anything exciting - just writing in peace. Which is pretty ( Read more... )