Secret Fannish Identity

So I'm only a few days into my internship, but it's already awesome because I'm getting to work on issues that I really care about, particularly immigration and the Latino community in Washington, as well as women's and gender and LGBTQ stuff. Plus, I've been assigned to a lot cooler tasks than some of the other interns because I speak Spanish, which is making me feel pretty good about myself right now.

Also my boss looks a bit like Santiago Cabrera. This has made for very amusing text exchanges with scribe as well as the decision to nickname him Boss!Lancelot, as I will refer to him from now on.

I'm sure everyone in the world knows this already, but it is summerpornathon time! I've stalked it often before but this is my first time participating, so: GO TEAM WRATH! \o/

Random links passed on from other people:

Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' to Run Six Seasons on HBO? Which would mean more books by Gaiman himself, eeee.

Neurosurgeons analyze incidents of brain trauma in Asterix comics. If you'd shown me this when I was five (...and if I'd understood it), that might have actually made me consider medicine as a future career for the first time in my life. Maybe.

Nathan Fillion Tweets Trek Love - Simon Pegg Challenges Him to Spaceship Fight. Old but ADORABLE.

Seattle weather has turned summery and gorgeous this week, hurray!

ETA: Anyone who lives in or is moving to the Washington D.C. Metro area this fall, inlovewithnight is looking for a (preferably fannish) roommate! Info post here.

Okay flist, ready for a weird request? Here goes:

Is anyone familiar with both Glee and Enid Blyton-style 1950s British girls' boarding school novels (like the Malory Towers and St. Clare's series)?

Because I, uh, may or may not be considering writing a fusion of the two. Yeah, yeah, I never expected to want to write Glee fic, but I like this idea too much to prompt it off for someone else. Also I don't know if there is anyone else who even knows both, hence this post because I totally need help with it.

...thoughts?

In other news, I am currently doing an entire re-watch of Supernatural to try to get myself back into this show. The problem? It's breaking my heart ALL OVER AGAIN. And I'm only halfway through Season 1 at the moment. *facepalm*

OMG COMMUNITY ♥ ♥ ♥

( spoilers are united against the Empire )

Augh, I'm so sad this season's over and we don't get more Community til the fall! I guess I'll just have to spend the summer trying to get more of my friends into it. Sigh, what a chore.

It occurs to me that most of the posts I've made in the past six months or so - or maybe even the past year - have been either talking about how long I've been away from fandom and how I've been avoiding, or about how lonely I feel, or about how much my work ethic has degraded, or a combination of all of the above. Not that they aren't valid things to talk about, I guess, but it feels a little repetitive even to me. So! My new resolution is to a) post without feeling guilty about how long it's been, and b) talk about other things. Including things that make me happy.

That being said, it's been a while and a lot has happened!

1. Spring break! Traveled for three weeks straight - went to Spain for a week with my friend P who's also in London with me, then met up with a couple other college friends (including Non-Fannish Flatmate from last year) in Istanbul for a few days, then went to Athens and met up with veverghede, My Roommate, and their other friend from Paris (who was rather delightful and helped me get the other two into Doctor Who), and spent a few days together in Crete. I'll make a proper post about travels later, possibly with pictures, but suffice to say the whole trip was fantastic.

2. I turned 22! While in Spain, actually. Not much of a milestone age, really, but it's a neat number?

3. After returning to London, my fourteen-year-old sister came to visit me here for a week! I was a little worried about what it would be like - my sister and I have a complicated relationship, and it was the first time we'd spent that much time just the two of us, without my parents. But that actually turned out to make it completely wonderful. We did all the sightseeing things in London, saw The Children's Hour (with Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss!), went to the Doctor Who exhibit, watched tons of geeky tv, and had a lot of really open, thoughtful discussions, the kind that we don't usually have because we bicker too much or don't take each other seriously enough. It was amazing, I think for both of us.

4. Fannish projects: working on a Lancelot-centric OT5 fic for scribe, a super-secret vid project with scribe, and *deep breath* a Merlin Big Bang. This is my first time properly committing to a Big Bang challenge, not to mention attempting to write something over 30,000 words at all! Nervous, but excited.

5. TV: Castle remains my happy place, I'm finding Glee strangely addictive though often uncomfortable, Doctor Who is fun but hasn't really grabbed hold of me yet this season, and Community remains the BEST THING EVER, surprise surprise! Also watched all of The Good Wife so far - yes, everyone on the Internet who's been raving about it, you were absolutely right about how fantastic it is.

Okay, summarizing post over, off to try to catch up on my flist. And: COMMUNITY SEASON FINALE TONIGHT. ♥

also help_japan on Dreamwidth.

I'm offering fic and podfic in most of my fandoms: two fics and two podfics all together.

My fic offers: on LJ and on DW

My podfic offers: on LJ and on DW

Spread the word, and best wishes to Japan right now. ♥