swim through the fires to stay in this world

In case you're wondering, I talk about Disney couples I DO NOT SHIP right here.

I recently finished reading Spirit & Dust by Rosemary Clement Moore which was very enjoyable, despite the fact that it:

1. has a love triangle


2. and the side I two people I wanted to hook up didn’t.

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Day 09 - Endgame OTP

( Lydia/Stiles )

Enjoy this answer, because it's the last specific, actually pairing-specific answer you're going to get this post.

Day 10 - NonCanon OTP

I swear to god, I could just throw out almost any pairing here because 65% of my pairings are noncanon or ambiguously canon.

Day 11 - Guilty Pleasure OTP

There's so many! Cassie Holmes/Nick Gant, Hannibal King/Abigail Whistler, The Middleman/Wendy Watson, Damian Wayne/Stephanie Brown, Haymitch/Katniss, Jennsen Rahl/Darken Rahl, Mr. Griffith/Olive to name a few. WEIRDLY, THOUGH, I don't think I feel really GUILTY about any of this, because...

Day 12 - Out Of Your Comfort Zone OTP

....fandom has completely decimated my sense of shame and appropriate relationships.

I mean, until I start shipping a pairing that involves two penises, I don't even know what would be out of my comfort zone.

Okay, media update time.

In the area of books, I just finished Marissa Meyer's Cinder, which I loved. It’s a fantastic sci-fi retelling of Cinderella and it ends on a cliff-hanger that made me interested enough in the rest of the series to splurge and get the next two books from B&N.

I watched the first ten minutes of the most recent episode of SHIELD( we love our acronyms )

I loved this week's Brooklyn Nine-Nine.( this is a den of liars )

Arrow was actually pretty boring this week, imho.( where ever i go, I'm just answering phones )

I read Hawkeye 15, which was SO overhyped, imho.( he's just a shape )

On the subject of awesome queer ladies, I just watched the second episode of Bomb Girls. (My goal is to get caught up before the movie airs at the end of March.( if you can pour tea, you can pour amatol )

scorpoid1 asked me:

talk about your fandom evolution? like, what fandoms did you start out in, how have your tastes changed and grown since then, what is different now than when you first started off in fandom and what hasn't changed? Idk I am just curious I am always fascinated when people talk about this kind of stuff.



Oh, wow, fandom flashback.

My first fandom was Buffy, shortly followed by Harry Potter.

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Okay, coming off my run of tragic and bittersweet romances, I admit I was pretty nervous to read Goliath, especially because the first line of the back cover is "secrets revealed" and it's dedicated to "everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last."

I was thinking, 'can I trust you, Scott Westernfeld? can I? or should I just start being sad right now.'

But I finished the book tonight, and

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I just started listening to the Behemoth audiobooks (read by Alan Cumming, which is why I'm listening to it) and oh my god, Alec's Germanic accent. *crawls around on the floor* *dies*

The Germanic accent makes the whole 'learning to fence' scene EVEN FLIRTER than it already was.

plural_entity asked me a couple of questions for December 19th:

1. What was the very first ship you ever shipped (even if you didn't know what shipping was at the time)?

First, a little context. I have always loved romance but back when I was 8-10 (which is when I first started consuming media in, basically, a very similar way to how I consume media now) I was a lot more willing to follow the author to whatever relationship they wanted. For example, with Tamora Pierce, I was happy to just follow the narrative and see who the heroines ended up with.

And then there was The Darkangel Trilogy. (I'd like to pause for a moment and mention that I liked vampires both before they were cool AND back when they were beautifully monstrous, monstrously beautiful creatures.) So, three books happened, including things like the heroine giving the hero her heart, if I remember correctly? And it became clear to me that the hero was falling deeper and deeper into love with the heroine after treating her badly in the beginning, but she didn't see it, even though she was in love with him, and then in the final bookthey don't get together. They FUCKING FINALLY consummate their marriage (I think? again, it's been over a decade) and he's like, 'let's be married for reals!' And she says no, because of duty or magic or some bullshit like that.
And okay, the heroine does go off to spend eternity (I think) with her female bff which in retrospect... I feel like I should be more okay with? But at the time, I was just furious that after three books of tragedy and longing and beautiful prose,( spoiler )

I really need to do a reread, see how my memories of my feelings match up with what I see as an adult.

2. You're stuck on an island LOST style with 3 fandom characters. Which ones would you choose?

Katniss Everdeen, Slade Wilson (arrow version), and Tony Stark.

I WOULD FUCKING LIVE TO GET OFF THAT ISLAND, AND IN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME TO BOOT.

3. What character death (of any fandom) affected you the most?

I can't think of a good example? I mean, there have been fridgings I've been super pissed about (Abigail, Shado), deaths I thought were really badly done (Sirius Black), and things that made me sad but I really understood and were okay with them happening (Derek Reese), so I'm having trouble thinking of a really good example to go here.

BONUS QUESTION FROM qualapec:

You Rule 63 the entire cast of one Shakespeare play you have read/seen. Which one would it be?

Much Ado About Nothing. I think it would gender-swap really well, Hero's plot, while still undeniable fucked up, would at least be DIFFERENT if it was a male character's purity being questioned, and I would LOVE to see a male!Beatrice requesting that female!Benedict kill Claudio.