Shut Up, and Let Me See Your Jazz Hands

I TOTALLY FINISHED MY BIG BANG. I mean, barely, and I still need to tweak the tags a LOT, but YAY.

notwellbehaved: ~154 fic recs featuring ~187 women from ~70 fandoms (there may be more before I post, shut up). My posting date's September 19! Holy crap, unlocking all those posts is going to suuuuuck.

AND, THE REASON FOR THE POST: WE STILL NEED PEOPLE WHO'RE WILLING TO CREATE COMPLEMENTS. Complements can be anything other than the project's media! Most people did fic, but a few did podfic, graphics, meta, or multimedia projects, so for a complement, you could write or meta or vid or rec or podfic or do a soundtrack or ANYTHING. Pleeeeease?

Arthur/Eames list, Inception, for the twelve of you who've managed to escape the fandom explosion.

I'm not even superfannish about it! But there's a shit-ton of really good fic being produced very very quickly? And before I knew it I had 42 links and 36 of them were Arthur/Eames and at that point it's easier to just go with it than to try to spread them out?

I've got four lists sketched out (as in, I just need to put the stories in some kind of order, add warnings, and come up with titles) and they should be going up on list50 in the next few days. Gen list, prompts list, small fandoms list, and a fem-centric list.

Couldn't figure out a place to put this, so: Storytelling (Zoe/Wash) [Firefly]. Awesome transfic.

THERE ARE SIXTEEN FOLDERS OF BOOKMARKS THAT I HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED YET. I AM MOST OF THE WAY THROUGH FOLDER NUMBER FIVE. FUUUUUUUUUCK. ETA: AND THESE FOLDERS ARE JUST THE STORIES I'VE READ SINCE MARCH. YEAH. DOOOOOMED.

( HERE, HAVE SOME STORIES. I AM APPARENTLY GOING TO BE SLOGGING THROUGH BOOKMARKS UNTIL I DIE. )

ADMITTEDLY, ABOUT 120 OF THOSE ARE PRE-EXISTING LINKS THAT'VE BEEN CHLLING IN THIS DOCUMENT FOR MONTHS. BUT MOSTLY, THE LAST COUPLE DAYS. HOW ABOUT, NEXT TIME I DON'T POST A LIST FOR A WHILE, SOMEBODY PUNCHES ME THROUGH THE INTERNET, BECAUSE IT ALWAYS ENDS LIKE THIS. I AM FLASHING BACK TO THAT TIME WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS CODING OF 450 STORIES, OKAY (FUCK YOU IN PERPETUITY, 2007).

NERO WOLFE? I DON'T EVEN. WHAT.

I keep thinking about things I want to say and then thinking "I don't have enough to make a whole post" and screw that, so.

Does anybody watch Saving Grace? Because I would actually like to see it (shows are never set in Oklahoma!), but I have a problem: Holly Hunter is too white to be playing someone called Grace Hanadarko. I live near Anadarko and it gives me cognitive dissonance to hear the name/see a blonde. Does the character at least have some kind of Caddo heritage? Or did they just co-opt the name? Also, I am a little leary of their handling of the Murrah bombing, which is apparently an ongoing plotpoint.

I have a total kink for stories where everybody knows the canon's big secret (declassification of the Stargate Program, Sentinels-are-known AUs, etc.). The glimpses of a powerful, organized, and public Slayers and Watchers Council are a big part of why I love I Am What I Am so much. Unsung heroes getting fame and recognition = WOULD LIKE MORE FOREVER, PLEASE.

This is me.

I'm working on a mix. It's going to be called Go Into Your Emo-Corner: The Overidentification Mix and full of songs that I can't put on playlists because if they catch me in the wrong mood, they cause uncontrollable weeping or leave me screaming along because IT IS A SONG THAT SPEAKS TO MY SOUL. OR, Y'KNOW, MY EMO. WHICHEVER. Also, "get into your emo-corner!" is a line from a Transformers fic about Starscream emailing a domestic abuse center and it makes me laugh and laugh. Because domestic abuse isn't funny, but Starscream giving himself etchings because Megatron doesn't love him anymore and lets Soundwave badtouch him with tentacles is HILARIOUS.

( Spoiler for Prince of Persia movie )

So ladiesbigbang is going to be a one-off for me. Finding 150 stories that are a) awesome and b) at least 75% lady-focused is hard when I can't predict what fandoms I'm going to be into during the creation period. Like, if I could manage to revisit HP or bandom for more than a couple days at a time, this would be much easier, but fannish ennui is not really something you can arrange to suit a schedule. Working from backlog, I should be able to swing this round (I will be personally disappointed if I can't manage more than 150 just from backlog), but another round? Extremely unlikely.

I am terrible at answering comments and I'm sorry! I read them all and appreciate them and try to respond eventually...you just might be getting that reply notification a few days/weeks after you've forgotten about the original post. There's a whole thing in my brain about how replies should be substantive and so I wibble around trying to meet an imaginary standard and it's, like I said, a whole Thing.

I am kind of burnt out on profic? Everything feels the saaaaaame.

Next year, fuck it, I will go to another state to attend a fandom con. The last couple scifi "fandom" cons have just not really done it for me. This last one was especially poorly run - panelists openly admitted to having no idea what the topic meant, panels had zero description anywhere so there was a lot of guesswork, panels ran completely off the rails ("Great Bubbas in Science Fiction" turned into "Trials and Tribulations of Running a Small Independent Press"...within the first ten minutes). The arguments for attending Oklahoma cons were always cost and the chance to meet people I could have regular meatspace interaction with and since the second's never worked out, I might as well say fuck it to the first and just start saving now.

I remain totally sad that more people don't watch/love Rollerball.It is a totally shitty movie with one of the most CATHARTIC ENDINGS OF ALL TIME. Like, Chris Klein and his character are basically incidental to the point of it, which is that if you push the common people too far, they will FUCK YOUR SHIT UP AND SET IT ON FIRE.

And thank you fandom, I am now totally likely to accidentally use the word "amazeballs" at work.

If I have to pretend to smile while one more jackass says "Don't mark that [bill], I just made it this morning! Hur, hur, hur!", I will CUT SOMEBODY. Also, if we check it, and your bill is counterfeit, we will not "take it up with the bank, 'cause that's where [you] got it!" We will take it up with the cops, because we are not detectives or investigators of any sort; we are a store, not the Secret Service.

Forgot to mention that I finished Monster Baby (Love Is Crazy Remix), 50 stories from 21 fandoms about nonhuman lovers (including vampires, werewolves, faeries, gods, AIs, aliens, robots, angels, demons, dragons, Veela, Slayers, Time Lords, and Shadow Men).

Never before have I look at a fandom and said "Fuck your sprawling daily-life epics, just GIVE ME YOUR DEVIANT PORN!"

But, possbily relevant to your interests: How Transformers Have Sex by dunmurderin. Favorite quote? "Naturally, since Transformers was originally (and still is) a children's toyline/cartoon/comic series, we're probably never going to see anything more intimate than a kiss, but as with any other fandom, give fans an inch and we'll have people having sex on it."

How did no one tell me Karen McFadyyon was back on the internet?

Okay, country music. I loved it, I avoided it, I was forced back into it, I love it again. Let me tell you why.

1. ( Regional pride. )

2. ( Storytelling (and stealth fanfic). )

3. ( Comeuppance! )

4. ( Fiddles. )

5. ( Awesome drinking songs. )

6. ( Johnny Cash. )

7. ( Songs about the working class. )

8. ( Awesome ladies. )

9. ( Songs about soldiers, not about war. )

10. ( Je ne sais quoi? )

Note: Links go to YouTube for videos and Lala for streaming music; some will eventually be replaced by mp3s @ Box, but right now, the internet hates me and I've already put off this post for two days trying to get the files up, so. *hands*

So, my heart belongs to Dreamwidth! But I do the bulk of my reading on LJ, still, and I would like to change that; hence my mad subscribing spree this week. In case anyone was wondering.

IT IS FINALLY THE 26TH. So I posted two lists: Intersections, 50 of my favorite crossovers (heavily weighted toward BtVS-xovers, because Twisting the Hellmouth is my FAVORITE, but also crazy-ass stuff like Alias/The OC), and What It Feels Like for a Girl, 50 genderswap/sexswap stories in 18 fandoms.

And, because I am seeing it everywhere: What kind of topics/entries would you like to see me posting about? Any particular questions you've always wanted to ask me but have resisted because the answer would be a huge essay? Ever want to wind me up and watch me go on a particular topic? Anything you've heard me say "I should write that entry about $foo I've been meaning to write" and have been patiently waiting for?

I am signed up to do a recs set for ladiesbigbang. Reccing at a comm where I don't set the deadlines? Madness! But it could be fun. And I could get a complementary work!

Sign-ups are open 'til the 30th; y'all should check it out.

Okay, so I wasn't posting as frantically as I was in '08, bit it was close. Finished and posted six minis today (in the last three hours, again) and one full-length list yesterday.

This Is a Love Song, In My Own Way - 50 favorite fics from 50 favorite fandoms, FINALLY COMPLETED.

Elemental - Avatar: The Last Airbender mini.

Fire Prince - Zuko-centric Avatar: The Last Airbender mini.

Get Some - Generation Kill mini (half new fics, half old).

Almost a Love Song - My favorite fics that didn't make it onto Love Song, 30 stories from 17 of the fandoms.

Send Me an Angel - Dean/Castiel mini.

Now I'm a Big Star - Star Trek RPF mini.

Also there's an awesome looking thing being discussed here in celebration of DW's one year open-beta anniversary.

And now I'm totally off to read more Zuko-fic (I LOVE HIM KIND OF RIDICULOUSLY FOR HAVING BEEN IN THIS FANDOM LIKE TWO WEEKS).