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asra @ 2012-04-26T16:05:00

2012-04-26T10:36:09Z

Gayest. Glee. Ever. So not complaining.

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asra @ 2012-04-25T18:11:00

2012-04-25T14:08:37Z

I hadn't seen this pic before. Clearly, my life was incomplete until now.

An interesting fest thingie: female_fest Anyone know of other fests/challenges that are women-centric?

On a marginally related note, I've been wondering (because I clearly don't have enough to occupy myself with /chronic procrastinator) about why genderbending (making a male character always-a-girl or suddenly-transformed-into-a-girl) doesn't work for me, and I came up with three reasons:

1. Dude, there are perfectly lovely female characters in every fandom. Why not write about them, instead of genderbending the boys?

2. It's a little too heteronormative for my liking. Making one of the characters female (I've very, very rarely come across fic in which ~both boys are turned into girls) means you don't have to queer up straight male characters.

3. It allows for easier self-insertion as well. Is girl!Merlin actually Merlin, or a substitute for the writer?

IMO, genderbending an m/m pairing to an f/f one at least avoids the issues that reasons 2 and 3 have. These are just things that are off the top of my head, but anyway. If you like genderbending, I'd love to know why; it might help me broaden my views a little. And if you don't, are your reasons similar to mine, or is there some other reason?

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Random post of randomness

2011-12-31T04:57:24Z

+ I'm very behind on my reading, especially for Yuletide, but here are some recs:

Fic: All the way home (I'll be warm) by analineblue, J/I. Just the sort of quietly intimate scene that I like. <3

The Wine Dark Sea by anon, for Yuletide. Captain Haddock backstory, wonderfully detailed and authentic.

Art: Twas the Night Before Christmas by anon, Merlin/Gwaine. Amazingly beautiful.

ETA: And here's a list of Yuletide recs for fandoms with chromatic characters.

+ There's a cyclone raging over here. I've been marooned at home since yesterday, so I watched one and a half films and wrote two whole chapters of my long fic. Am really getting inordinately fond of Gwaine. And Morgana. Mostly because Katie M is flawlessly beautiful and I'm superficial. If I were making resolutions, I'd totally resolve to write more Gwen/Morgana.

+ Weird guy at work keeps getting weirder. He's taken to giving me unexpected compliments at the end of each day (such as: 'your nails are beautiful'. They really aren't). I think he thinks he'll catch me off-guard and get me to go easy on his training or something. On the plus side, he's given up staking his claim on my chair.

+ Back from Xmas break at home. I miss the cats. My sister made me watch a bit of Glee (which was very fun) and Private Practice (which is apparently even more depressing than Grey's. I'll keep watching the latter for Callie/Arizona though, even if they are nauseatingly domestic this season.)

+ The plot of the Sherlock Holmes film went completely above my head. But everyone in it is very pretty and it's very, very gay. And Stephen Fry is amazing. And Jude Law is terribly lovely, even with the 'stache.

+ Speaking of, I'm reading Fry's The Ode Less Travelled, which is basically like Poetry for Dummies. It's huge fun and I'm actually trying the writing exercises. I will make a terrible poet of me yet.

+ Semester starts on Monday. I want to run away flailing and screaming. The Lovely Advisor gently reminded me that I should be working on publications. A lazy academic's work is never ever done.

+ Thank you daniforblue and chaosmaka for the vgifts. ♥

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asra @ 2011-07-30T23:56:00

2011-07-30T18:42:40Z

This is for the lovely bruja's entertainment. An extract from an as-yet-unedited fic I wrote for the anon meme, in which Merlin is a novelist and Arthur is his editor. Mostly inspired by CM's THAT magazine photoshoot (which I'll never tire of linking to).

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asra @ 2011-07-29T10:35:00

2011-07-29T05:27:24Z

Ahahaha, I am so pathetic. I had a Ianto-dies-in-Jack's-arms-and-Jack-saves-him dream. It was pretty... detailed, lol. It starts off with them in this really stormy sea, struggling to stay above the water. Ianto looks in a pretty bad way and Jack's sort of holding him afloat, and then he kind of slumps over in Jack's arms and Jack just holds him and sobs and sobs. It was... pretty convincing, actually, as though I was actually watching something that had been filmed. Pity my imagination skipped the part about exactly ~how Jack brings him back, but then they're on some rocks and Ianto is pissed off and aghast, totally in shock about how he's alive again.

My favourite part about all this is that while they're arguing and Jack is trying to convince Ianto that this is a ~good thing, there's this largish black fish that flounders somewhere behind Ianto and starts flopping about. And he gives it a push to get it back in the water, only he's too weak to push it very far and it's still on the rocks, so Jack does it for him. Okay, he throws a boot or something at it to knock it back in the water, but he does it. I went 'awwwwww' at that, because here is this life-altering situation they've just been in and Ianto is worried about a fish, and I suspect Jack just saves it because Ianto wants to. And that's all I remember. Oh, and resurrected Ianto was bare to the waist (probably naked, but I could only see that much of him, which worked out fine because I don't like boy parts all that much and my subconscious knows it, lol) and his hair was kind of adorably curled because it was wet.

And... yeah. That's pretty much my contribution to fandom this week, lol.

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Recent ficlets

2011-04-07T13:09:37Z

White Collar, for purimgifts:
Breaking and Entering, Diana/Christy, G
Desolation, Kate, G
Permission, Elizabeth/Peter/Neal, PG

The Talented Mr Ripley, for book_las:
Still Life, Tom/Dickie, PG-13 (or here at AO3).

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asra @ 2011-04-07T14:26:00

2011-04-07T08:57:48Z

Fuck you, Indian armed forces. I can't even. Gah.

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asra @ 2020-08-19T15:17:00

2010-12-03T21:22:54Z

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I'm more likely to be found here on LJ. Fic is here on AO3.

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