Scales and Tales

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you for writing for me! This is only my second year doing Yuletide, but last year I was completely amazed by the awesomeness of the whole thing, so I suspect I'm firmly hooked! Anything you write for my beloved but neglected fandoms will be an awesome and happymaking experience for me.

Below the cuts, you can find more details (which are, of course, optional!) both for my overall tastes and by fandom.

( Basic squicks and bonuses )

(  REQUEST 1: Discworld; Vimes, Vetinari, Angua, Moist )

( REQUEST 2: Lord John Grey Series; John Grey, Stephan von Namtzen, Percy Wainwright. )

( REQUEST 3: Chanur Series; Chur, Vikktakkht, Hilfy. )

I found an "analyse your writing style" quiz via the friendslist, and on a whim I copy/pasted a snippet of Sherlock fic that I started back when I was ploughing through the kinkmeme(s).

Result?

I have created dragoncavers for all your non-viewing needs!

Come and post wishlists, or what you have to trade, or tell us about the lineage you want to create -- anything DragCave related!

It's a rerun -- "Mosley Lane" (5.16).

Reid is so pretty. *dies* I just... Much as I try to appreciate his various haircuts, I cannot entirely shake the deep attachment I have to longhaired!Reid. It just... it has that little wave! And the ends stick out slightly! And it frames his face and makes him look so freakin' well-groomed yet casual, but one hundred percent adorable! (Now if only he'd start wearing his glasses again... but I won't push my luck, here.)

SO PRETTY. First thing I am going to do with my new box set of seasons one through five is make an episode guide for myself. One of the things I will be noting for each is Reid's Hair Length. (Why is this not standard on all episode guides? My fangirlish heart will never understand!)

I'll also be noting every instance of Morgan kicking down a door. Oooh, and every time Garcia and Morgan do adorable flirting in the middle of a case. Also, every illegal hack Garcia does.

...I just realised: my episode guide? Is a Criminal Minds: the Drinking Game cheat sheet! *gleeful giggling* Hey, guys, wanna play a game...? :D

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Whoa. He directed this episode! I didn't know Reid was also a director! (Erm. The actor who plays Reid, I mean, not Reid. Really, I do know better than to confuse them mentally; it's just that I don't make the distinction verbally. I promise.)

Still musing over my reactions to a mandatory anon policy, and though I haven't reached any major conclusions, I've made some further inroads into mapping out my reactions.

( A few elaborations on the topic that I have managed to reason out. )

So.

For the sake of geek solidarity, I wanted to make a Speak Out With Your Geek Out post, but find myself a bit stymied as this is, well, a fandom journal, which is to say a journal that is my expression of a geeky hobby. I spend hours each week reading and writing fanfiction, enough that I built a journal and an online persona to rec it, sharing the things I love.

Maybe instead I should talk about the ways in which I pretend to be normal? Not that there are many; as a child I took to heart the assertions of my authority figures that "it doesn't matter what other people think of you", somewhat more strongly (I suspect) than some of them intended.

(Why, yes, I do remember shooting down various "what will your peers think" attempts to make me conform to beauty standards and social situations, and the bewilderment my lack of caving induced.)

None of which is an attempt to say that the geek-shaming attitudes displayed by the obnoxious writer do me no harm or do not upset me. Those attitudes are why I consider myself lucky -- lucky that the worst I ever faced was verbal teasing, exclusion, lonership, refuge in adult companionship, reliance on the existence of one or two close friends, and (in retrospect) gladness for my asexuality. Many, many of my fellow geeks probably didn't have my luck.

This post is my way of saying: you guys, I wish I had been there to guard your backs, because safety in numbers is the best way to deal with the human herd. If I can guard your back in any way now, it would be my honour and privilege to do so; and I know I can count on you to guard mine. On a broader level, that's what this whole "fandom" thing is about: geeks coming together in numbers, doing what they love and having a group to do it in, a group they don't take for granted because they haven't always had it.

So, uh, regarding my last post:

If you were going to read slashfic of March Upcountry (&sequels), whom would you want slashed?

This post brought to you by the not-quite-dreams I had a few nights ago while trying to fall asleep, featuring kinky, consensual-but-with-emphasised-persuasion, Julian/Roger/Despreaux... and a really luxurious Imperial bedroom. :D

If you have discussion points for Chapters 14-16 you wish to bring up but which include spoilers for future books, please post them here. Then link your comment in the general post, so those who want to avoid being spoiled can do so!

I've been neglecting LJ lately, no doubt in part because of the read-along happening here on DW. It's been lots of fun! Thanks, everyone, for indulging me; and I hope you've received something from the experience, too!

I'm totally going to re-read the whole series, and you lot (or new people) are welcome to join me! Or at least put up with my babbling posts, because I brainstorm and absorb things better when I type it out! (I'm also sekritly hoping to start up a Loveless readthrough with other persons, possibly over at LJ on the lovelessdiscuss community -- unlike the fandom at large, I trust that comm's members to be sane as well as squeeful.)

Even more than LJ, though, I've been neglecting IJ. I'm starting to think about dropping it entirely, in fact; I suppose I should do a little headcounting first, though, and try to identify anyone who's over there and not on LJ/DW... maybe find out if they're now on one or the other. Apparently three journals is one too many for my brain to cope with. (Erm, yeah, "three" -- heh. We won't discuss JF... What with the continually-closed journal-starting, the wonky formatting issues I can't seem to shake, and the fact that of all the people on my watchlist over there, only one of them posts regularly, I'm essentially writing it off as a loss. The only thing I use it for now is posting private-locked snippets of whatever I'm bunnied by/working on at the moment, for backup and for inspiration.)

This is the discussion post for chapter 9-13.

I am now heartily wishing that I'd looked at chapter content as well as at page-counts, when setting up the reading schedule! (I thought even then it might bite me, and it has!) This reading was composed of a hundred pounds of action, a hundred pounds of disconnected info-bites, a thousand pounds of questions, and half a gram of explanations! My brain was churning faster than Babsidi's legs, but reached even fewer coherent thoughts than Bren manages.


On the other hand: yay, mecheiti icon becomes more appropriate than ever! :D