swim through the fires to stay in this world

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.

bloodconfetti asked me: people you'd LOVE (and I mean ~love) to meet.

Jennifer Crusie, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Amy Poelhr, Mindy Kaling.

Could you imagine that dinner party?

(And if anyone noticed that these are all people I’d rather talk to than sleep with – not a coincidence. I try to know as little as possible about the celebrities that I think are ridiculously hot, and if I was confronted with them, I’d… well, I don’t know what I’d do, but it would probably not be ‘comport myself with aplomb and have a great conversation.)

Would anyone be interested in a Fuck January fanfic comment meme this weekend?

Does anyone have this gif textless?

I feel this Skittles commercial is both entertainingly feminist AND grade A nightmare fuel.



She ate his teeth. She. Ate. His. Teeth.

gacked from ladymercury_10:

This is not a real meme but I'm bored, so how about you just tell me about some character(s) you really love and we will flail about them together and share headcanons? Preferably one that you think I know also, but if you want to give me some spiel about why I should love Character X from Unknown Fandom Y, that is also cool.

I posted several responses for stainofmylove's most recent fic meme, which is sort-of noteworthy because:

• I played RIDICULOUSLY fast and loose with the prompts. People did not getting CLOSE to what they asked for, for serious.


• I posted a Gigi/Caroline fic which is only the THIRD fic with that pairing tag at AO3!


• I ACTUALLY WROTE SOMETHING THAT IS TOTALLY G-RATED! I did not even know I could DO that. I literally do not remember the last time that's happened.

“Just because two people are capable of deeply hurting each other over and over again does not make them passionate, star-crossed lovers. It makes them two people who keep doing terrible things to each other. Someone’s ability to make you completely and utterly soul-crushingly miserable does not mean they are a soul mate with some deep insight into your psyche. They are just someone who is really good at making you unhappy.”

― Andrea Greb

I have had such bad luck trying to buy things recently (e.g. I received an email telling me that the sheets I'd ordered had been delivered when IN REALITY they are in a random post office NOT EVEN IN MY CITY) that I was telling my mom that I need to ritually sacrifice something to appease the angry gods... but which gods? Since most of my trouble was from things that I ordered online, my mom went internet>web>electricity and told me to pray to Thor and Spider woman.

Me: ...remind me to tell you about Jessica Drew.

Would writing Carol/Jess appease whatever techno-sprite I've apparently offended?

Maybe?

Regarding Jess/Carol and fucked up spies and assassins and the marvel verse, while I think it's in character for a lot of characters to avoid and distrust mental health professionals, it does get really frustrating because I think culturally and within fandom there is this presentation of people who at one time or another need counseling as weak or therapy as ineffective, which is flat-out-factually untrue.

Which is my round-about way of saying that I think that Jess is a character who would both benefit and be willing to have counseling and also, a lot of my fondness for this Bucky/Steve/Natasha story comes from its mostly positive take on therapy.

So many of the media that, just recently, I was loving to bits are now on my shit-list. Pretty much Elementary is the only thing that I don't want to give a good slap to. I mean, I am sort-of excited about tomorrow's episode of Once but I also kind of feel like this:



Because I suspect that Henry is going to now love Neal and diss Emma because that little brat has not realized that a.) the world is not in black and white and b.) sometimes lies are better than the truth.

BUT ANYWAY, I came across this deliciously kinky Elementary fanart tonight, and wanted to share.