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i am *such* a fangirl
I really should be working.
News from my life: On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the strangest Bond flick *ever*. I still haven't dragged myself through the last couple hundred pages of Quicksilver. (But I'm going to win my battle against that book, I really am.) I made banana bread. I need to make cheesecake because I bought six slabs of cream cheese for that specific purpose. I got addicted to Battlestar Galactica (Fridays at ten, definitely worth your time.)
Concerts possibly in my future: Speakeasy at the Middle East on Thursday July 21st, Speechwriters LLC at the Paradise on Monday July 25th, Carbon Leaf at Copley Square on Thursday August 11th. Whee! All fantastic bands and you should come too. That last one's even free.
Meanwhile, one of my favorite time-wasting guilty pleasures.
So one of the few things that Battlestar Galactica has in common with my last favoritest show is really strong characters whose interactions propel the plot. And, well, wherever there's a whole bunch of people watching a show with vibrant, interesting characters, someone is inevitably writing fan fiction about it. If you watch Galactica and have a bit of free time on your hands, you should read Twelve. You really, really should.
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arousing_one tagged me for this meme some time ago, and although I haven't heard a peep from her in ages I'll put it up, finally, anyways.
1. Current fandoms:
I've been too busy to read much fic lately except for what pops up on my friends-list (which, okay, has a number of entries mostly for the fantastic stories they write) which tends to be Buffy or occasionally Good Omens. And Galactica is interesting me -- can I link to Twelve again? It really is a great story. Too busy/lazy to write, mostly -- I think the last thing I wrote was Chronicles of Amber, though there's half a semi-abandoned Final Fantasy VIII story kicking around somewhere on my hard drive that's from the same time, ish.
2. First fandom ever:
First fic I ever wrote? Oh boy. Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, long before I even knew what fandom was. Wait! No, that's a lie -- I seem to recall a long indulgent Mary Sue set in Anne McCaffrey's Pern from even before that (I was maybe nine years old?), mercifully lost to the whims of crashing computers. First fic I ever read -- heh -- was in the Matrix fandom, I'm afraid. A similarly self-indulgent Mary Sue that I probably liked 'cause of its similarities to the tripe I was secretly turning out myself.
3. My most recent fandoms:
See #1, I guess? Also I know there's Good Stuff out there for Firefly, which at some point I will probably seek out.
4. Five fandoms that mean a lot to you:
Chronicles of Amber, mostly because the books themselves are some of my very favorites; Buffy for the sheer volume and variety -- anything I can think of *someone's already written it* and although in accordance with Sturgeon's Law 90% of it is crud, there are a lot of really fantastic things in that 10%. Final Fantasy VIII, one of the few fandoms I've actually written in. And -- not a fandom, but -- I admit I really like crossovers. The embodiment of the "what-if?" that fandom is so good at.
[edit: Also, I can't count to five.]
5. Tag 5 people to put this in their journal:
I'm pretty sure everyone who'd be likely to do this has already. But if you haven't and would, consider yourself tagged.
News from my life: On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the strangest Bond flick *ever*. I still haven't dragged myself through the last couple hundred pages of Quicksilver. (But I'm going to win my battle against that book, I really am.) I made banana bread. I need to make cheesecake because I bought six slabs of cream cheese for that specific purpose. I got addicted to Battlestar Galactica (Fridays at ten, definitely worth your time.)
Concerts possibly in my future: Speakeasy at the Middle East on Thursday July 21st, Speechwriters LLC at the Paradise on Monday July 25th, Carbon Leaf at Copley Square on Thursday August 11th. Whee! All fantastic bands and you should come too. That last one's even free.
Meanwhile, one of my favorite time-wasting guilty pleasures.
So one of the few things that Battlestar Galactica has in common with my last favoritest show is really strong characters whose interactions propel the plot. And, well, wherever there's a whole bunch of people watching a show with vibrant, interesting characters, someone is inevitably writing fan fiction about it. If you watch Galactica and have a bit of free time on your hands, you should read Twelve. You really, really should.
Also (and somewhat related)
arousing_one tagged me for this meme some time ago, and although I haven't heard a peep from her in ages I'll put it up, finally, anyways.1. Current fandoms:
I've been too busy to read much fic lately except for what pops up on my friends-list (which, okay, has a number of entries mostly for the fantastic stories they write) which tends to be Buffy or occasionally Good Omens. And Galactica is interesting me -- can I link to Twelve again? It really is a great story. Too busy/lazy to write, mostly -- I think the last thing I wrote was Chronicles of Amber, though there's half a semi-abandoned Final Fantasy VIII story kicking around somewhere on my hard drive that's from the same time, ish.
2. First fandom ever:
First fic I ever wrote? Oh boy. Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, long before I even knew what fandom was. Wait! No, that's a lie -- I seem to recall a long indulgent Mary Sue set in Anne McCaffrey's Pern from even before that (I was maybe nine years old?), mercifully lost to the whims of crashing computers. First fic I ever read -- heh -- was in the Matrix fandom, I'm afraid. A similarly self-indulgent Mary Sue that I probably liked 'cause of its similarities to the tripe I was secretly turning out myself.
3. My most recent fandoms:
See #1, I guess? Also I know there's Good Stuff out there for Firefly, which at some point I will probably seek out.
4. Five fandoms that mean a lot to you:
Chronicles of Amber, mostly because the books themselves are some of my very favorites; Buffy for the sheer volume and variety -- anything I can think of *someone's already written it* and although in accordance with Sturgeon's Law 90% of it is crud, there are a lot of really fantastic things in that 10%. Final Fantasy VIII, one of the few fandoms I've actually written in. And -- not a fandom, but -- I admit I really like crossovers. The embodiment of the "what-if?" that fandom is so good at.
[edit: Also, I can't count to five.]
5. Tag 5 people to put this in their journal:
I'm pretty sure everyone who'd be likely to do this has already. But if you haven't and would, consider yourself tagged.