The state of the fangirl

[fanbeatsman]

First of all, thank you to everyone who commented on my last post. I'm finding the post very hard to revisit, which is why I haven't replied to comments directly, but I did appreciate them.

Relatedly, yesterday Mag found this birthday card drawn by our Jan that I think sums up Moth better than any eulogy could:

Comments

[mereprototype]

Ohman, Red Garden. One of the few shows where I prefer the dub - the girls are a bit less shrill overall that way. And lol, "potential" for the femmeslash...I'm not gonna spoil, just laugh.

[fanbeatsman]

This comment pleases me :D Although it also just makes me more annoyed that I can only get PAL versions of the first three discs, grr.

[valentinite]

I missed a lot of the AA:I meta this time around too, due to avoiding spoilers before and not being quite as tied into every little thing the fandom does, but I did ramble here. All of the other reaction posts I can remember replying to were from my friendslist and mostly locked -- oops.

And all of that cooking sounds lovely. I have been meaning to do more baking, but first we need to eat our freezer empty so that I can defrost it. Then there will be sconemaking. Though if you have advice on how to get flavor to penetrate tofu, I would love to hear it, as I have never had much luck. I *like* the taste of tofu, so that doesn't stop me from eating it, but if I want tofu with flavor I end up spending too much on the frou-frou prepackaged sort.

[fanbeatsman]

Thank you for the link! You may receive a ridiculously belated comment there in the not-too-distant future.

Baking is a source of great happiness in my life atm. When I'm hitting a bad patch with work, or am in a bit of an emotional dip, baking is one of the most reliable ways of calming myself down. I think it's a combination of how methodical it is, and how satisfying the outcomes are :D

It's funny you should ask about tofu - because I have the same problem, and was going to say that the only ways I know of to get around it are a) just marinate forever, at least a whole afternoon, and b) bake it in whatever marinade/sauce you're using instead of frying or grilling it. BUT, the other night I made a stirfry with tofu that I'd frozen and then defrosted, and it drank up the sauce like nobody's business. I think the freezing/defrosting maybe makes it more porous? So you might want to see if freezing the tofu helps, too.

[valentinite]

Belated comments are the best comments. Or something. XD

I hear you on baking -- my first semester of grad school, halfway through exams I sort of came to myself and realized I was standing over a stove, making pudding from scratch, and I wasn't quite sure why. Except that it had to be done.

Freezing does make tofu more porous -- my mom always intentionally froze it when I was a kid just for that effect. But I like it a lot better bland and fresh-textured. I will try the baking thing -- that I haven't done.

[alienchrist]

I liked all the characters enough to start poking around in the fandom, though (am I likely to find any Tatiana/Alister, or femslash generally?).For whatever reason (I always blame the lack of fanservice), there just never seems to have been very much of LE fandom on livejournal, even several years ago when the show first came out. I can vouch for there being some good work on Ao3 if only because about half of it is written by me and my dear friend I got into the fandom. ;; It does seem there's some Tatiana/Alister out there, and I very much enjoyed the fact that the mish-mash of post-canon we see implies they settled down together. It's really such a shame that the fandom never seemed to blossom considering the amazing cast. I would love more people to discuss the horribly rushed ending with and more reaction to that, for instance

[fanbeatsman]

That icon is gorgeous! I am glad to have given you an opportunity to use it :D Their stories pretty much broke me at the end, I have to say.

I need to start using AO3 more, really - I do love the idea of it, just like I love the idea of the OTW, but I'm really not keen on the interface, either the look of it or how you use it. It's good to hear that it's getting more people writing in animanga and videogame fandoms, though - one of the only things I don't like about the OTW and all its projects is how heavily it skews towards big Western tv fandoms.

I am dying to throw myself back into the AA fandom after Investigations; both Kay and AA:I Franziska have given me major fic urges (although the grand plan I nurtured for most of the game to write the Adventures of Franziska von Karma and Her Lovely Assistant Shih-na (who she somehow poached from Lang), Fighting Crime and Having Hot Sex, got shot in the foot somewhat by Case 5 ;_;). I just don't have the time at the moment, woe

[alienchrist]

Thanks! sarahofcroydon made the fanart at my request.

Their story is so sad. According to the Word of God (the official artbook, I believe) Dio was picked up by a Guild ship and survived, which at least means Luciola's ending wasn't for nothing. Some of the official art confirms this. Sort of.

one of the only things I don't like about the OTW and all its projects is how heavily it skews towards big Western tv fandoms.Yeah, this. I like the system of tags but so far all it's helped me with is "oh... I guess people write fic for that. o.O" I have a lot of trouble getting into Western fandoms, nothing against them, it's some kind of aversion I have to imagining real actors or something. It seems some people who don't otherwise cohesively archive their works in my fandom are using it, though, so I really appreciate that aspect. I like the layout better than FF.net in terms of uploading and so on

[tellezara]

Have some meta XD

Also, your vegan cooking sounds utterly delicious!

[tellezara]

Actually, ignore that link, I went and posted a more updated version on gyaku_meta seeing as someone somewhere said it was a shame there was no AAI meta on it!

[fanbeatsman]

Thanks for the heads up! And yay for gyaku_meta getting some love; it makes me sad to see it neglected.