So propinquitine and I have this thing now where Saturday night = Merlin night. And while we are waiting for Merlin, we watch series 4 Doctor Who because I am tragically behind the times and yet miraculously unspoiled (mostly). This means that I have a regular source of human contact outside of work/school and there are fun times. And Merlin, in particular, ( Read more... )

Yesterday, propinquitine and I went to the [National Book Festival], which was quite awesome.

Naturally I spent the whole time at the Children's and Teen's Pavilions. :) Highlights included the launch of [The Exquisite Corpse Adventure] (an online only serial novel, with each chapter written by a different children's author, and an utterly ridiculous ( Read more... )

Giving up on boring school readings for the night to watch Merlin (in the company of my very own Slash Dragon). It makes me so happy to have these ridiculous boys back again. :D

1) I went up to Baltimore yesterday for a space shindig. :D NASA + other space sciency folks were celebrating 50 years of Maryland's "Place in Space", since a lot of the companies involved in space exploration and technology are based in Maryland. There were booths and speakers and robots (and supposedly WALL-E, though I sadly did not see him) ( Read more... )

merlinpodfic is a shiny new community for-shockingly-podfic of stories about the BBC Merlin series. Please come join? There are only three podficcers in Merlin fandom thus far, but propinquitine has promised to come play someday, and I have hopes for more.

Also, in celebration, new podfic!
// Beltane by astolat (Merlin; Merlin, Arthur)

In other news, I saw Inkheart today ( Read more... )

Yay, I made it back to D.C. today and it's still here! And we have a new President, and it's still shiny and awesome! \o/

( Philadelphia )

Only two weeks and I'm already behind on the year. *sigh*

Anyway, I had a fabulous weekend with propinquitine and M., wherein we watched the SGA finale (because group therapy was totally necessary) and an assortment of other oddities, and explored a bit of the Dupont Circle Metro stop (though we got a late start and thus only actually made it to Kramerbooks, ( Read more... )

So, propinquitine is writing a fannish paper for law school and asked for my perspective on fannish differences (or not) of opinion. I started composing a reply, but I got totally sidetracked and ended up writing a ginormous essay on the history of my own fannish interactions and how much I love Fandom. And thus (somewhat edited and slightly expanded from the ( Read more... )

For those of you who are interested, I've posted the term paper I wrote on the [ audiofic archive ]. [ right click + save as please! ] (.pdf, ~845 KB ( Read more... )

[  Tea party ] at elspethsheir's!!

Everyone is welcome to grab a cup (of whatever, it doesn't have to be tea) and join the fun. There are delectable baked goods, teaful miscellany, and most importantly good company! :) My contribution (of nattering, scones, and songs) can be found [  hereMeanwhile, as you have likely noticed, academia has been kicking my ass ( Read more... )