After seeing it on andrea_deer's journal, I've just signed up for a fannish festival/challenge/event/thing that I think is a great idea.


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First, there's a fun multifandom ficathon going on write now.


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For this entry, I am going to resurrect a meme that I did quite some time ago.

Choose fifteen characters. Then put your playlist on shuffle. Your first song with lyrics is your first character, and so on. For each song, choose lyrics that resonate with the corresponding character.Last time some of the matches were pretty hilariously bad, while ( Read more... )

Cat lady problems:  I was sitting in my desk chair scrolling through tumblr when I heard Noodles meowing to come in to my bedroom.  I got up and let her in. While I was closing the door again for roommate privacy, she jumped on to the desk chair and lay down very cutely.  Normally I'd deal with the cat taking my seat by sharing it with her, either ( Read more... )

Here's a meme grabbed from theladymore.

Give me a character and I'll tell you:

1: sexuality headcanon
2: otp
3: brotp
4: notp
5: first headcanon that pops into my head
6: favorite line from this character
7: one way in which I relate to this character
8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character
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Time for a short link dump!

First, a fic rec!  I loved the Leverage/Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover Nerds of the Earth, Take Note! by Betty and Emeraldwoman.  SHIELD needs some hacking done by someone outside not connected to their organization, so they kidnap Hardison and get him to do it.  Features some high quality banter (Hardison and Tony ( Read more... )

in honor of the United States of America's Independence Day, I suggest that everyone celebrate by repeated viewings of "Freedom Ride," an extremely serious and important Captain America fanvid about Steve Rogers, fandom bicycle.

Click to view

(Here it is on AO3 if you want to comment to the vidder ( Read more... )

Some people in tumblr fandom have declared July 1 polyshipping day, a celebration of all sorts of ships involving more than two people.  I wrote some meta to post over there, but I thought I'd post it here too to take advantage of LJ's ability to have a conversation in the comments.

( My favorite underutilized polyshipping trope: sedoretu marriage! )

I haven't been on livejournal much lately and haven't made a post of my own in far longer, which is a crying shame.  So I suppose I should start by saying:  Not Dead.  Just lazy and distracted by tumblr and without much to say ( Read more... )

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