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Beloved Tropes:

Competence Kink, Mistaken for Being in a Relationship, Everyone Knows But Them, Undercover As A Couple, Canon Divergence, Temporary Amnesia, Presumed Dead, Unlikely Allies, Meeting the Family, Ensemble Fics, any Harlequin trope

Do Not Wants:

I've ( Read more... )

On the one hand, I *kind* of get young fandom's desire for their ship to be canon. Fandom interacting with canon is a mortifying concept to me, but I'm not the one doing it, so it's not my business to dictate. The pressure to do it "for the representation" gets a little murky for me personally, but I'm a pre-Oberfell, pre-DADT Repeal, etc queer.

On ( Read more... )

After months of studying, interviews, and (ongoing) career transition, I am tentatively pleased to announce I'm taking the exit ramp off Wall Street and moving out of the financial sector. (thank god) In the next few weeks, I'll start my new job as a software developer in the R&D department at a Big 5 company (can't say which, but take your pick), ( Read more... )

A running list of interesting events and people that I meet throughout the year, similar to my 2015 People & Events.

People - Lectures, panels, etc.

Writers

Artists

STEM

Law/Social/Political

Events - Concerts, panels, etc.

Music

Radio/Podcast

Art
Black Mountain College - Institute of Contemporary Art

STEM
MIT Mystery Hunt

TheatreFilter ( Read more... )

I went to watch Disgraced yesterday, which I 100% recommend everyone go see, especially my FoC in the area (friends of colour, can I make this acronym?). It's difficult to find a character to root for, but it's the first play I've seen that feels like it was written by brown people, for brown people, about brown people. (all these things are true, ( Read more... )

The MIT Puzzle Hunt was so much fun, even though I was new and not very well versed in different kinds of puzzles. I helped solve a few and felt like I contributed in some small way to the team, and I liked everyone a lot. The organisers did a terrific job with keeping people engaged and challenged. This year's theme was Inception, and each round ( Read more... )

Boston was kind of infamous in the country last winter for getting 108.6" (275.8 cm) of snow, which isn't a lot, compared to some places, but we have small narrow streets and cramped traffic patterns that are horrible to navigate on a good day, and we kept getting more and more snow to the point where we started running out of space to put it. I ( Read more... )

I used to keep a running record of cool stuff that happened during the year, people I met and events I attended, which is a nice way to look back and remember that I do, in fact, live in my favourite city in the country. I'll add more as I remember it.

People - Lectures, panels, etc.

Writers
Neil Gaiman - Boston Book Festival
Amanda Palmer - ( Read more... )

Good bits:
Today my choir had our winter concert, featuring Vivaldi's "Magnificat" and accompanied by an incredible strings section. I think having soloists and fewer strings helped un-muddle the sound, which is a common problem with layering a lot of voices and instruments. (listen to a movement from Vivaldi's "Magnificat", performed by the ( Read more... )

you too can do adult things like capturing and releasing giant spiders in a Tupperware container by nervously singing the Spiderman theme song to yourself.