swim through the fires to stay in this world

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, I'm finally going to finish up this meme!

Ever felt like you should revoke your shipping credentials? Because you like the strangest ships and/or parts of your ship? Well TELL US MORE. Answer the questions with ships you love like burning.*

*I have comparatively few pairing that I could accurately say I ship like burning, so I qualify this as ships that I a.) really like and b.) would be interested in reading and/or writing fanfic about.


(masterlist of prompts)

(past answers)


( BtVS | LoTS | Push | Avatar | DC Comics | The Avengers | OUAT )

I don’t believe that authors have to (or should) make all characters morally upstanding or have them make choices I agree with all the time, but sometimes, I feel like shows have a responsibility about the stories they tell, even if I’m not comfortable with putting that responsibility on them.

Basically, I don’t like it when shows support ideological beliefs that I see as actively damaging and prevalent in the culture at large.

I was thinking about this in the context of Spike’s attempted rape of Buffy and the end of Lane’s arc on Gilmore Girls.

First, the attempted rape on Buffy.

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Now, with Lane, here is what we know about Lane at the end of Gilmore Girls:

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“Everything about my heart is a crime scene.
I drink to forget things it takes me 2 beers to name.
I pour my breath into things only worth forgetting.
I have nothing left to say to the ghosts.
Their cold hands and bitter mouths keep kissing me awake
when I have asked them nicely and then not-so-nicely
to be left alone.
I have nothing left to say to the ghosts.
Two decades full of nothing but monsters and crime scenes
and sometimes I am the monster and sometimes
I am the crime scene. There is nothing I would undo
so much as things I wish would wake up forgotten.”

–Clementine von Radics

#natasha romanoff #jason todd #cassel sharpe #faith lehane #wesley wyndham pryce #jesse flores #james barnes 

I gacked this from a third of my flist.

Ten Favorite Characters of the Year: TV and Books

1. KATNISS EVERDEEN (The Hunger Games)
2. Kahlan Amnell (Legend of the Seeker)
3. Caroline Forbes (The Vampire Diaires
4. The Eleventh Doctor (Doctor Who)
5. Jeff Winger (Community)
6. Simon (Misfits)
7. Annie Edison (Community)
8. Kelly (Misfits)
9. Rachel Berry (Glee)
10. Derek Reese

Honorable Mentions:
Haymitch (The Hunger Games), Alex (Nikita), Britta Perry (Community), and Stefan and Damon Salvatore (TVD).

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(in progress)

Animorphs:

You're The Story (Marco/Rachel)

Buffyverse:

My Addiction To The Worst Of Him (Faith/Angel)
Hearts of Glass (Faith/Wes)
Behind The Eyelid (Giles/Jenny)

Criminal Minds:

Technically (JJ/Hotch)

Dollhouse:

Trouble Sleeping (Adelle/Dominic)

Gilmore Girls:

This Is A Song For A Scribbled-Out Name (Rory/Jess)
Not Gonna Write You A Love Song (Max/Lorelai)

Glee:

Hollywood Infected Your Brain (Rachel)
The Composer Has Stepped Into The Fire (Jesse/Rachel)
Feels So Dirty When We Start Talking Cute (Jesse/Rachel)
They Disappeared Like Troubadours (Jesse/Rachel)
I Could Give You So Much More (Jesse/Rachel)

Hancock:

World Enough & Time (Hancock/Mary)

Harry Potter:

Please Come Back To Haunt Me (Snape/Lily)
Valentine's (Neville/Ginny)
Unfinished Sentences (Harry/Hermione)
A New Prophecy (Harry/Hermione)
In The Same Clothes I Met You In (Harry/Hermione)
To Be Your Harbor (Harry/Hermione)
Torch (Rita/Hermione)
The Hero Gets The Girl (Neville/Hermione)
Burning (Minerva/Albus)
In The Shadow Of This Third (Snape/Lily)
Catching Up (Hermione/Harry)

HIMYM:

Everywhere & Everything (Ted/Robin)
Saying Things We Haven't For A While (Ted/Robin)

Merlin:

Bite Your Tongue (Morgana/Uther)
Love Until We Bleed (Morgana/Uther)

Pirates of the Caribbean:

Only Flesh & Blood (Jack/Elizabeth)

Pitch Black:

Without A Gyroscope (Carolyn/Riddick)

Supernatural:

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing (Bela/Dean)

True Blood:

It's A Bitch Convincing People To Like You (Franklin/Tara)

The Black Jewels Trilogy:

Your Voice Is The Anchor (Tersa/Saetan)
These Endless Summer Days (Saetan/Sylvia)

The Losers:

Beggars Would Ride (Aisha/Clay)

The Vampire Diaries:

That Something (Lexie/Stefan) 
You Want The Sin Without The Sinner (Jeremy/Vicki)

Various comment memes have been running around fandom lately, so here is a compilation of the various ficlets I've written over the past couple of weeks.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Anya, "Belief"

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Doctor Who, Amy, "What Dreams May Come"

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Criminal Minds, the ladies of the BAU, "Armor"

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Community, Annie, "B Minus"

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Community, Jeff/Annie, "Campfire"

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Community, Jeff/Annie, "Your Wake-Up Call Is Too Old For You"

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Community, Britta, Abed, and Troy, "We Crashed Her Party"

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The Vampire Diaries, Damon/Elena, "Smashed"

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True Blood, Jessica/Tommy, "Drink Up Baby"

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Community, Annie/Abed, "History of Film 201"

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Legend of the Seeker, Cara, "Nightmares"

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Community, Jeff/Annie, "Bad Metaphors"

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Right now, I have too fantastic (and extensive) comment memes in open windows. So to keep track of the fics that I want to be able to easily re-read, I'm going to be compiling links for my favorites. Which means that my lucky flist gets quick access to some of the best. (FYI, if you visit this post in a week, there will be more fics than there are now.)

Animorphs:

There Is No Such Thing As Neutral (Rachel)
We Happy Few (Rachel)

Anne Of Green Gables:

Fairy Princess

Atonement:

My Hand Is Growing Weak (Briony)

Avatar:

As To Matters Of Dress (Sokka/Suki)

Batman:

Lick Your Eyes & Then Mine (Catwoman/Batman)

Beauty & The Beast:

Hold Me Down (Belle/Beast)
Learning Humanity (Belle/Beast)

Being Human:

You Said Your Soul Would Linger On (Annie)

Bones

One Year Later (Brennan)
Turn Around Again (Angela)
Bones Break (Brennan)
Trust Not The Coyote (Caroline)
Conceptual Art Is Bullshit (Angela)
A Reasonable Explanation (Brennan)
Spent So Long Waiting Here (Booth/Brennan)

Buffyverse:

American Girls (Buffy)
Plans (Faith)
Tired Of Being Cautious (Fred)
Travel It All (Faith)
Razor's Edge (Buffy)
But You've Got The Headstone All Ready (Buffy)
There Is No Prince (Buffy/Giles)

Casino Royale:

Juggernaut Heart (Vesper)

Castle:

Takedown (Beckett/Demming)

Carmen Sandiego:

The Catch Is You Stay & See What Becomes Of Us (Carmen/Waldo)

Castle:

Fatherhood (Alexis)
The Magnificent Seven (Martha)

Community:

Do Not Go Gentle (Annie)
It's My Heart, Not Me, Who Cannot Drive (Britta, Jaye)
Take The Wheel (Britta)
On Hiatus (Britta)
My Smile Can Distract You (Annie)
Like A Child (Annie)
With The Lights Out It's Less Dangerous (Annie/Jeff)
Come A Little Bit Closer (Jeff/Annie)
Hey, Hey, You, You (Annie/Jeff)
TV Marathon (Jeff, Abed, Jeff/Annie)
In Limbo Part One and Part Two (Britta)
Sawdust (Britta/Abed)
This Could Be A Brand New Start (Britta)
Temporary (Jeff/Annie)

Criminal Minds:

Close To Home (JJ)
They Are My Own (Haley)
My Heart Has Lost It's Wind Now (Emily)
When It Doesn't Rain It Pours (Emily)
Self-Esteem Is Good For You (Garcia)
I'll Sing You All The Lullabies (They Never Sung For Me) (Elle)
Wrong Number (Garcia/Morgan)
Friday Night Goddess (Garcia, Reid)

Dark Angel:

The Tenderest Touch Leaves The Darkest Marks (Max)
Songs For Fighters (Max/Alec)

Dexter:

A Lion-Hearted Fucking Woman (Deb)
After The Deluge (Deb)

Doctor Who

I Think To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure (Amy)
Climbing Back (Rose)
These Accidents of Faith and Nature (Amy)
Too Much Like A Fairy Tale (Amy)
The Good Wife (Martha)
We'll Be Their Storybook Heroes (Sally Sparrow)
Got A Sky Full of Stars (And Nothing Else) (Amelia Pond)
No Hero In Her Sky (Amelia)
First Run (River Song)
Lionesses (River Son/Liz X)

Dollhouse:

Painting The World You Want To See (Priya)

Dracula:

Phantom (Mina/Dracula)
Firefly:

Your Absence Has Gone Through Me (Inara/Nandi)
Meta (River)
Wolves (Zoe, Kaylee, River)

Fullmetal Alchemist:

Steadily (Riza)
There Goes My Gun (Riza & Rebecca)

Gilmore Girls:

A Perfect Haircut Every Day (Lane)

Glee:

Waegukin (Tina)
Inscrutable (Tina/Mike)
As If You'd Just Woke Up (Rachel/Jesse)
Fathers and Mothers (Rachel)
Linear Progression (Shelby)
Sweep The Room With A Glance (Emma)

The Good Wife

I Lost My Teeth On The Edge Of A Glass (Kalinda)
Something To Think About (Kalinda)

Gossip Girl:

Wants (Blair)
Snapshot of the Artist (Vanessa)
You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girl)
Everything Marissa Cooper Could Have Been (Serena, Summer)

Harry Potter:

On the Nature Of Hatred & It's Uses (Hermione)
Human Behavior (Bellatrix)
When Choice Means Leaving Everything Behind (Hermione)
No Take-Backs (Narcissa)
You Counting On My Failure Make Me Live (Lily/James)
It's Not A Joke (Tonks)
Blow Me Blue-Bell Bubbles (Alice)

Hercules:

Heart & Heaven (Meg)

How I Met Your Mother:

That Girl (Robin/Ted)

The Hunger Games:

REBELLION (KATNISS)

Trust (Rue)
Rise & Fall (Prim)

In Plain Sight

The Art Of Ninja Origami (Mary/Marshall)
Hard Hats (Mary & Eleanor)
Ice Cream (Mary/Marshall)

Iron Man:

The Sea Makes Your Eyes Strange (Natasha Romanova)
Dust Out The Demons (Tony/Pepper)
Fast, Thorough, & Sharp As A Tack (Pepper/Tony)
Brutality (Tony, Emma Frost, Pepper)

Labyrinth:

Missed You All Along (Sarah)
Dreams (Sarah)

Legally Blonde:

Sugar, We're Going Down (Elle)

Legend of the Seeker:

Immune To Pathos (Cara)
It Feels Like Being Broken (Cara/Kahlan)
Dress Code (Kahlan/Cara)
Contrast (Cara/Kahlan)
Life Comes With A Rush (Cara/Kahlan)
Been A Long Road To Get Here (Kahlan)
Where Goodness Used To Be (Cara)
A Friendly Assist (Cara/Kahlan)

Leverage:

I've Looked At Love (Sophie)
Kisses (Parker)
A Lie Will-Told Is Immortal (Sophie)
Translations For Broken & Breaking Out (Parker, Nate)

Life:

Pretty As A Diagram (Reese)

Merlin:

Under The Greenwood Tree (Morgana/Merlin)
Pennies In A Jar (Morgana)

Mulan:

My Story Is Not Like Yours (Mulan)

Mythology:

We Laugh Indoors (Lilith)
She Doesn't Wanna Be (Just A Little Light Turning The Key) (Lilith)

Narnia:

One of those Mink-Coated Ladies (Susan)
The Story Of An Umbrella (Susan)
Just Like The Edge Of The World (Lucy)

The OC:

Houses Out Of Cardboard Boxes (Julie)

Pirates Of The Caribean:

O The Blood And The Treasure And Losing It All (Elizabeth/Will)

Practical Magic:

Fine As A Bridesmaid (Gillian)

Push:

Drove Like Bandits On The Freeway (Nick/Cassie)
Seeing (Cassie/Nick)

Sunshine:

Story (Constance/Sunshine)

SG-1:
What I've Found (Vala)
Conflicting Mission Reports (Vala & Teyla)
5 Times Vala Threw Daniel A Birthday Party When It Wasn't His Birthday (Vala/Daniel)

Sherlock Holmes:

Play The Cards With Spades To Start (Irene)
"Damnation!" (Mary)

Star Trek:

Many Worlds (Naomi, Seven of Nine)
Lethal Poison Through The System (Uhura)
Maybe You Could've Been Something I'd Be Good At (Uhura/Gaila)

Speak:

I Cast My Face Towards The Pavement (Melinda)

Supernatural

And I Don't Owe You A Damn (Bela)
Money (Bela)
An Endangered Species (Ellen, Jo)
Ongoing Arguments (Anna, Castiel)
Fractured (Jo)
Better Find Your Ticket (Bela)
Hurricane (Bela)

Tortall:

Light Is Less (Alanna)
Risk-Taking (Alanna)

True Bood:

Lay Down Your Burden (Jessica)
Language (Jessica)
In The End I Possess My Birthplace (Tara)
Looking For Her Ordinary World (Jessica)
Remember Me When Noses Start To Bleed (Pam/Eric)
I Used To Be A Bad Girl Too (Faith/Jessica)
When Life Gives You Lemons (Tara/Franklin)

The Vampire Diaries:

Roaring Twenties (Anna)
Child Of Mine (Pearl, Anna)
Take The Safety Off (Bonnie)
Old Relations (Bonnie/Elena)
Evolution Is Corruption (Damon/Elena)

Veronica Mars:

Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics (Veronica)
Leave The Light On (Veronica/Logan)

Wimbleton:

That's How You Know (Lizzie)

White Collar:

Put Another Dime In (Diana)

I recently finished "Nation" which I would have liked more if I hadn't felt like Prachett was on his soapbox (even if I agree with what he's saying) but the ending made me realize (and I'm sorry, I'm not sure how to make this intro spoiler-free without cutting the whole post) that unconsummated romances are the most tragic, in my book.

I'm not sure why.

However, at the end of this book I was mentally shrieking ( spoiler ) and during the Angel episode "A Whole In The World" I was practically throwing the remote at the screen going, "( spoiler spoiler )

I don't know why unconsummated love is so much harder for me to deal with than parting and never seeing each other again (although that can rip out the heart on occasion) or one of them dying or both of them dying (which, actually, I typically don't find tragic at all).