swim through the fires to stay in this world

Yesterday was my 3-year tumblr birthday, which was mildly shocking to me, actually. Both because it's hard to believe that I've been on that site for three years and because I would have never predicted three years ago (when I dragged my heels and finally joined tumblr) that three years later it would only be stronger, and fandom as a whole wouldn't have moved on to a different platform.

I am facing six straight hours of data entry (I'm entering insurance write-offs). If there is anything you want me to ramble about (real life or fandom), pairings you want to hear me discuss, tropes you want to know my opinion on, now is the time to shout out.

Randomly, why does pandora.com fucking hate me? I've listened to several of my fav stations so long they've mutated (my Florence + The Machine and Cosmic Love stations have both stopped playing Florence + The Machine, to give you an idea) and stopped playing songs I like and I haven't been able to find a good seed song.

Also randomly, I really wish LJ was perky enough to have a friending meme running. I wish LJ was perky enough that I didn't NEED a friending meme to get new people on my flist. I wish LJ was perky enough that the people currently on my flist posted more. Le sigh.

I ended up posting fic and returning comments last night when LJ was being really wonky, so heads-up about that. Even thought I know very few of you have seen Blade: Trinity, so should still read it, because one fic is 3,000 words of porn and the other is ROADTRIP FIC + found family cuteness + trauma recovery, so, you know, I shoved three of my fav bulletproof kinks into 900 words there. (This may actually only be the second time I've written roadtrip fic, which totally needs to be corrected.)

Fandom Tennis Match Meme:

Okay, here's how this is going to work. You comment with a fandom question. I answer it and then ask you a question that has some thematic relevance to the question you asked me.

Now I just have to wrap/package ALL THE THINGS.

...and also do some end of year memes for LJ. Because, you know. Tis the season.

I really wish that I could tell beforehand if my own interest and/or the largesse of fandom is going to make a pairing-specific tag needed.

Also, I've been thinking about Yuletide, about I desperately in my heart-of-heart want, versus the fics I want less but which would be more likely to be decently written. Every year, my strategy gets more and more complex.

[+] I have about 150 belated comments to answer, which I'm going to try and take a whack at this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

[+] Not that the above is going to prevent me from

[+] The finale of Teen Wolf was leaked/released by iTunes, so I watched that, so warning, I'm likely going to be reblogging graphics from the finale (with the tag 'spoilers').

[+] In other tumblr news, if you’re following me on tumblr and aren’t a fan of Stephanie Brown, I apologize. I’ve already crashed Chrone once when I had too many tabs of Stephanie Brown badassery open. Feel free to blacklist ‘comics’ if you’d like. I apologize for not having something but specific, but I tag old-school on tumblr.

Some thoughts about the unsinkable Stephanie Brown:

• Despite the fact that it’s clear that the people at the top hate Stephanie Brown and also aren’t so hot on Cassandra Cain (I love that Cassandra passed the mantle of Batgirl on to Steph, but Cass left Gotham why?) the fact that artists keep leaving Stephanie-referencing easier eggs gives me hope that not everyone at DC is a sack of dicks.


• I really, really love that Steph has a superhero identity (Spoiler) that is separate from all the legacy malarkey of the Bats. To me, that really drives home the fact that no matter what, Steph is always going to be a superhero, and I like that that’s something that isn't connected to anyone besides herself (and thus isn't subject to other people's opinions the way legacy titles are.)

It's just that I am so done with Comic-Con taking over my tumblr dash. Also, I don't even really want to be there, because honestly, I don't think it would be that much fun (I'm imagining a lot of standing in line) and I am wary of even the thought of meeting famous people in real life.

Just get me a DVD with the new trailers and the Peggy Carter short and we'll call it good, m'kay?

(God, I want livejournal to return to me. RISE AGAIN, LIVEJOURNAL. I COMMAND WITH ALL THE FELL PASSION IN MY DARK HEART.)

gacked from latenightcuppa:

Give me a friendship/two characters in a hypothetical roommate situation and I’ll head canon you up with:

Who cooks:
How do they split up the laundry and other chores:
Their favorite thing to do together on a night in:
Any traditions:
What they do when the other is sick:
Any pets:
What do they fight over:
Do they go on vacations together, if so where:

I feel like I've been doing the same meme over and over lately - flist, what memes have you really enjoyed recently? Or what are some of your old favorites?

We've all been complaining about how slow LJ has been in recent months (because seriously, it's been months) - anybody have any clever theories? TV sucking, real life, tumblr... some unholy storm of all three? Not that I have room to act like I'm not a HUGE part of the problem, what with my recent inability to answer comments in a timely manner. That's one reason why I'm SO grateful that FMM has struck - I feel like that has perked up my flist with one of my favorite things - talking about how much we love various fictional characters and why.

Besides that, I am currently reading every. single. damn. Rumpelstiltskin/Belle fic on the ENTIRE INTERNET and adding and editing icons over and over again. (One of the many, many reasons I need to start answering comments is that I have so many great icons I am currently not using!) Also in Once news, I am re-evaluating my opinion on Sheriff Graham.

Also, acting like you're all related:



Ur Doing It Rong.

Also, am I supposed to find this fanart ridiculously hot?



I'm going straight to the special hell, aren't I?

Snow White picspam.

I am delighted this exists:



In a complete change of fandom and tone: new Game of Thrones trailer. I honestly don't know who is going to break my heart more this season - Sansa or Tyrion. Also, Jorah, please stay awesome. Please.

Waiting for tv shows to get good. Word. I get so frustrated when I'm expected to forgive shows a bad pilot or a bad first season. Seriously, if a show can't get a good pilot together, how am I supposed to trust that it will get better later? And I really like when the author of that article gets into reasons we expect shows to be good (and would have loved it if he'd used that to segue into 'shows that are not as good as everyone things they are.')

Also, I am going to be helping my mom with data entry for most of tomorrow (but I will also have internet) so what are you interested in talking about flist?