christycorr

First things first: the Veronica Mars Kickstarter project reached its goal within just around 9 hours. I was checking the page every few minutes, and seeing other fans' glee via Twitter and whatnot just made me so, so happy. There are serious things to be discussed on the subject and all, of course, and intriguing possibilities for the future of cancelled or probably-doomed, relatively low-budget shows with a vocal fanbase like Gilmore Girls and Community, but. Undiluted bliss of this kind is exactly one of the biggest perks of being a fan, of being someone who is unashamed to actually get excited about things, and it feels so warm and fuzzy and amazing.

It's just been brilliant. I wish I could hug the internet right now, I'm so happy. Eee. ♥ Can't stop listening to the VM theme on repeat. Foreverrrr. :D



In somewhat fannish-related news, I had to give this presentation this week about Judaism in the Hellenistic period, and the last slide of my presentation was—just for kicks, because why not—a photo of the People's Front of Judaea. The moment I put it up, my professor said, "The Judean People's Front!"

Three or four of my fellow grad students immediately corrected, "The People's Front of Judaea!"

My professor grinned at them. "Splitters!"

Jfc, I really, really love studying in the UK.

Also, apparently there's a new Pope, who's Latin American. I have Thoughts on the subject and all, but mostly my thoughts at the moment are still a merry loop of VERONICA MARS VERONICA MARS EEEEEE

January was so academically overwhelming. I handed in several essays, which was...uh, exciting, but most importantly, I submitted a PhD funding proposal, and good God, drafting (and redrafting, and redrafting, and did I mention redrafting) that fucking thing was a ridiculously horrid process. By the time I submitted it, I was almost hating my topic without even having started my PhD. Stiiill, it's all dooone. :D :D :D And I have a couple of lighter weeks now before essays and exams start up again, thank God.

I'm going to the Dublin premiere of Much Ado About Nothing, which Joss will attend! Ridiculously excited for this, I can't even. It almost makes up for the fact that John and Hank Green came to the UK this week and I didn't even realise it until John updated vlogbrothers with a London video. *sob* GOD FUCKING DAMN IT, WHY.

Ahem. Anyway. I've translated so much stuff for the OTW these past few weeks—the Portuguese version of transformativeworks.org is pretty much ready to go, and I'm ridiculously proud of it \o/ My precious.

OTW work in general has been beyond brilliant. Everyone in DevMem, Translation and I&O seems committed to changing things and innovating and just. ♥! *fangirls agnieszkas and juniperphoenix* So, so happy with my fannish endeavours, and life in general is way less stressful now that there are no deadlines looming, and eeee. *collapses in a puddle of slightly-less-busy bliss*

I don't think I've ever actually done one of these. So, well, here it is, just about...uh, a decade too late. (Jesus.)

Template stolen from bewarethesmirk and slightly trimmed, because I got lazy halfway through.

1. Fandoms: I'm currently deep in the throes of Teen Wolf fic and utterly unable to ditch it, heaven knows why. Still loving Suits. Past fandoms, which I still relapse into pretty often: Inception, Star Trek, Merlin, Veronica Mars, Kings, SGA, and Generation Kill. Old fandoms, which I still love but don't really read fic in anymore, include Harry Potter, Avengers, XMFC, and White Collar.

2. OTPs: Kirk/Spock, Dumbledore/Grindelwald, Lily/James, Remus/Sirius, Aziraphale/Crowley, Buffy/Spike, Harvey/Mike, Arthur/Merlin, Logan/Veronica, Neal/Peter/Elizabeth, McKay/Sheppard, Jack/Irina, David/Keith, Juliet/Sawyer.

3. Favorite tv shows: Six Feet Under, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Suits, Lost, Alias, Veronica Mars, Community, Kings, Jack & Bobby, Game of Thrones? There's more, but nothing major comes to mind at the moment.

4. Favourite fics you ever read Ha. Okay, two per fandom, totally arbitrary choice, just fics I'm most likely to reread:

Teen Wolf: Famous Last Words and Calling Home

Suits: needs must and 5U175

X-Men First Class: A Curious Carriage of Crystal and Cold and Replay

Generation Kill: Ray Pearson's Big Gay World and Après moi le deluge

Veronica Mars: A Strange New Story Every Time and A Hard Habit to Break

Inception: Unexpected Plot Twist and the Steinway!verse

Kings: Epilogue and Conflict Resolution

White Collar: Always Starts the Same, with a Boy and a Girl and Contractual Obligations: A Love Story in Three Traffic Lights

Star Trek Reboot RPF: D: and A Passage That Sings

Star Trek Reboot: Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit and Only Good for Legends

Merlin Drastically Redefining Protocol and We're a Storm in Someone Else's Teacup

Harry Potter: Drop Dead Gorgeous! And Sublimation and the Snitch. And, shit, Map of the Problematique. Also, The Death of Narcissa Black. Okay, self, enough.

5. Favorite kinks/tropes: reluctant lust, infidelity, dubcon, telepathy abuse, excessive UST, D/s, fucked-up power dynamics (teacher, boss, knowledge imbalance, superpowers, age difference, you name it, I'm sold), involuntary arousal, voyeurism, bondage, unwanted soulbond, poly dynamics, intentional misunderstandings, banter, geeky banter, smart characters actually being clever, fake relationships, sarcasm, provoked loss of control, possessiveness, unintentional domesticity.

6. Fictional character you would most like to marry/sex up/go on adventures with: Oh God, AN ADVENTURE WITH ABED NADIR WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER. ...Harvey Specter, though. Always a strong contender. *ogles* Marry, though, probably Brenda Chenowith. I'd need some seriously compelling levels of fucked-up-ness to keep me interested in a marriage.

7. Things you enjoy outside the internet: Roman history, general techiness, movie-watching, West End musicals. Mostly, though: not being overwhelmed by grad school duties and having time to waste online. That used to be nice! I liked that.

8. Dinosaur you most embody: t-rex!

9. Historical period you would most like to visit: regal Rome in the mid-600s! Or the early Republic, that would be very cool. Only I would have to build an underground bomb shelter or something to store and preserve all sorts of evidence, though, because just going there would be fucking heartbreaking not to be able to use my knowledge later for lack of evidence. ...*facepalm* Ugh, self.

10. Where to find me: christycorr - christycorr - christycorr - christycorr

Tags: fandom is my fandom, hello!, memes, tv

I'm in Berlin with wendybarrie_, my dad and brothers for Christmas! I've been in Germany for a couple of weeks now, and it's been brilliant to spend time with a very pregnant oxymora (who, incidentally, wrote and posted a Yuletide fic despite the fact that her due date was on December 21 *salutes*) and the lovely latenightcuppa :D But seriously, Berlin, it was snowing three days ago, wtf is up with the sudden warmth killing the white-Christmas vibe. *glares*

Yuletide is live! There are so many brilliant fics all over the place this year—I don't know if it's even more than usual or if it just seems that way, but I've been unable to tear myself away from my computer all morning, because oh my God, I love fandom so much ♥ ♥ Though my recipients haven't read their fics yet? Apparently? I hope? :( *bites lip* *tries not to fret*

ANYWAY. FUCK YEAH YULETIDE. I've been spamming fic recs over at ficrecs, but here are three of my favourites so far!

First of all, my perfect, amazing, seriously-everything-I-ever-wanted, no-really-mystery-author-are-you-secretly-a-mind-reader-or-something giftfic:

[Bandits] After the Gold Rush (post-movie, Joe/Kate/Terry)
It's the three of them slowly working around each other and negotiating their OT3ness, and just, oh my God, it's so brilliant, and so wonderfully in character!

And then two heavily meta fics, because yesss:

[Fandom RPF] The Velociraptor Diaries
Where do I begin. Suffice to say, any fic that includes this line: "(Marx: if remember right from ancient history lecture, was briefly popular fiction writer of family values and industrialization stories, also part of comedy trio -- others in trio may have been Freud and Jung Werther, also focused on alienation and production of family structures? -- but Marx's societal critique never took off in a big way, except for "North and South" which was adapted multiple times.)" needs no introduction. Basically: if you've ever been in fandom, read this.

[AO3 Tags Anthropomorfic] The Bar at the End of Fandom
This fic represents the very best thing about Yuletide. It's no secret that I have all the feelings about tagging, and this, THIS. Guys. Seriously. I love the imagery, I love the concepts, and it's beyond hilarious. ♥ ♥

In short: MOTHERFUCKING YULETIDE IS UPON US. YAY. ♥

Happy Yuletide/holidays/Just Another Day in December/whatever, everyone!

Oh my God, I can't believe I'm actually signing up on the last day. *fails*

Oh, SHIT, assignments have gone out and I haven't actually written this yet! I am so, so deeply sorry, Mystery Author. I swear I'll get back to this post and flesh it out a bit as soon as humanly possible!

In the meantime, here's my Yuletide letter from last year, which lists my likes, dislikes and whatnot, and here's my Pinboard, with all my fic bookmarks, if you want to check out what I like to read or whatever.

Thank you SO MUCH for volunteering, dear Yulegoat—and trust me, I'll absolutely adore anything you write. If you want to ask me anything for whatever reason, I'm leaving anon commenting on, so knock yourself out ♥ ♥

So apparently I haven't actually posted here since February. Way to go, self. A lot's happened since then! For one, I moved to England, which is all kinds of awesome ♥ I finished my behemoth of a thesis in June (it was so amazing, you guys), and started my Masters here in September.

Like a lot of people in fandom, it's far easier to find me on tumblr/twitter these days (not all that frequently anymore, though, to be honest; postgrad education is taking its toll, unsurprisingly!), but I still get LJ/DW notifications by the truckload and do my best to keep up :) I've also recently succumbed to the lure of Teen Wolf—which has been quite the ride, I have to say. I'm reccing Suits fic this month at crack_van too :D I've even been—gasp—writing fic! Overall, it's been an amazing year in all sorts of ways!

I've also recently joined the OTW as a staffer. The OTW, as I'm sure most of you know, is the non-profit behind the Archive of Our Own, Fanlore, Open Doors and several other amazing projects. We're actually having a membership drive at the moment! If you're interested in becoming a member or in helping to support our projects, and have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating! ♥

I just realised I didn't post any of the fics I wrote for last year's holiday exchanges here! Uh, oops. I wrote more during the month of December than I did in years. So strange—but fun! A bit of everything—one gen, one slash, one femmeslash. (Het? What's het? :D)

Poor firstlightofeos—who, incidentally, wrote a brilliant Giselle/Nancy Enchanted fic for Yuletide called No Prince Charming—had to do way more betaing and handholding than usual. Sorry, darling. ♥

Anyhow, better late than ever:

For Yuletide:

Blood Will Out (gen, PG-13, 3,380 words)

Fandom: Practical Magic (1998)

Warnings: none

Summary: Magic cannot heal all wounds—that's what family's for.

For 3_ships:

Right to War (Mystique/Jean/Storm, NC-17, 8,210 words)

Fandom: X-Men movies/XMFC

Warnings: none

Summary: Mystique used to be on a righteous mission to uncover and thwart Stryker's plans against mutantkind—and then somehow she ended up stuck in a jet with a dangerously unstable Jean Grey and a surprisingly aggressive Storm. This was not her finest day.

For suits_exchange:

Special Hell (Harvey/Mike, Steve/Tony, R, 7,260 words)

Fandom: Suits/The Avengers

Warnings: slight D/s undertones, dirty talk

Summary: Harvey Specter was willing to do many questionable things for the sake of a client as high-profile as Tony Stark—but he drew the line at attending a costume party with Mike Ross as his date.

There. :D

I haven't seen any international news blogs talking about this (ohnotheydidnt has a post here, Change.org has a petition in Portuguese here), but the Brazilian version of Big Brother showed a drunk, unconscious girl being raped. Live on television. While the support/filming crew stood by and did nothing. Millions of people watched it. The show host, while narrating the previous night's highlights, showed the scene with the comment, "Love is beautiful." I don't watch the show, and I'm not even in Brazil at the moment, but I just...what. WHAT.

My Facebook timeline has several people extremely angry at the network, for excellent reasons, but then there are always those fuckers who go "Oh, but she shouldn't have drunk."

I just...really really hate humanity right now.

Fuck.

Happy holidays, everyone!

I'm in Dublin with wendybarrie_ at the moment, marathoning Christmas-themed TV episodes from all sorts of defunct shows in my hotel room while reading Yuletide fics—it's by far the least complicated and headachy holiday season I've ever experienced, and I love it.

GUYS. I just got an amazing fic for Yuletide—I'm so happy! The fandom is The Three Musketeers, a book I've adored since I was a kid. It's Athos-centric angst, and it's fantastic ♥ Check it out!

My prompter liked her gift fic, too, so yay! :DD

I've been spamming Yuletide recs over at @ficrecs, incidentally; there's so much good stuff this year!

Also, LiveJournal's at it again, huh? There must be so much good fic lost with this new comment deletion spree D: Goddamn it. Thank goodness for Pinboard archiving, I guess. *sighs*

Roommate and I are in Bamberg, Germany, taking up loads of space at oxymoron's house! :DD It's been insanely fun to take part in all the holiday cheer going on around here—I honestly had no idea people could get this Christmassy. It's awesome :D I love Christmas, but I dislike having to spend it with my family, so this trip has been all kinds of perfect.

(Plus it's WINTER. You guys, it's a thing of beauty to leave the stifling heat of Rio's summer to feel actual cold, you have no idea.)

We're off to Ireland from here, and then in January it's the UK and France. If anyone's around here somewhere and wants to say hello, drop me a line!