They Say The Leopard Doesn't Change His Shorts

would you believe - they put on a man on the moon

mrinalinee — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 01:58:24 GMT

For those of you following at home (why are you though), I just posted most of my fic up on AO3, with the very arbitrary cut-off date off early June 2009. My tags are an absolute mess, so there's a good possibility that I've missed some things, and I haven't posted the erasures yet for reasons of laziness. Other than that, everything originally posted on this journal after that date should be there. I think. I do plan on eventually posting a masterlist of the kink meme fills that I remember, which, lbr, means that if I don't do it on Thursday as I plan I probably won't do it for another year. Also good God, please someone stop me from obsessively refreshing the stats page. My blood pressure. Now I remember why I've been putting this off for a year and a half.

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WH13 stuff that will never see fruition

mrinalinee — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 01:36:50 GMT

Recently someone on f_fa made the observation that fanmixes tend to rely pretty heavily on a certain genre of music; I have no opinion on that (I know! What the hell?!) since I rarely dl mixes, but it did make me want to dust of the Pete-centric ficmix that's been languishing on my HD, which is like 30% classic rock 70% Keller Williams and Widespread Panic and, you know, things of that nature. This is a thing that is awesome in its self-indulgence, all 10-minute guitar solos and Pete loving up on everyone he's ever met and my unshakeable headcanon that Pete is the biggest bro to ever attend a Phish concert; but it occurred to me that you know what would be even more more awesomely self-indulgent? A Claudia mix in the same vein but L7 and S-K and Le Tigre, and idk, White Lung and maybe St Vincent covering Big Black (God, it's like 2 degrees of separation with David Byrne up in here.)

So I started thinking about that would entail and I ran up against the wall that I guess I can never write Claudia-centric fic because of how viscerally angry Claudia's backstory makes me. And not in the way that makes me want to mould it into cathartic or even just palatable-to-me issue-fic (because make no mistake, it would be issue-fic) but in the way that makes me want to not touch the character with a ten-foot pole. The worst part is I know it's like 90% irrational silliness, but I think about and it makes me want to Grr! Argh!

I wonder if that's why I was so untroubled by certain developments in S4, because that's the way I've felt about Claudia's character history from pretty much Day 1.

ETA: in retrospect, wow, was this ever a pointless post.

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HOLD THE PHONE

mrinalinee — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:36:37 GMT

Okay, so I know I am super behind the times and probably everyone and their grandmother has seen this, but you will look at it again and you will like it.

WHAT. This is actual canon, right? I blinked for a really extended time each time I watched 2x22 (maybe a neurological condition or something, idk) and missed it, right? But LotS canonically ends in vee-type Cara/Kahlan/Richard, is that what I'm seeing here?

Anyway, in teevee news, I am really enjoying the back half of this season of The Good Wife. This episode fell a little flat for me since it was a little Peter-and-Eli-heavy and a little everyone-else-light, but I am still not over Red Team/Blue Team (which I always parse as Red vs Blue (<--- an AU that needs to happen. Not just in this fandom. In EVERY fandom)) and OR YOU'LL WHAT? SEND ME TO MOCK COURT JAIL? ALICIA. ♥_♥

ALSO Lost Girl! This season is shaping up pretty satisfactorily, after the horror that was 3x1 (although Kenzi was so great; "the shorter the lifespan, the ~deeper the quicksand~ indeed. I need fic of Kenzi hanging out with Spinal Tap. Or just Spinal Tap fic, lbr) I am, however, a little disappointed that concurrent Bo/Dyson and Bo/Lauren vee-type whatevers seems to have been unilaterally ruled out. I don't ship Bo/Dyson (although I do like Dyson a lot when he is not preoccupied with the torment of his ~noble soul~), and I do think it makes sense and is in character for everyone else to be so unequivocally TEAM DYSON, but I think it would be so much more satisfying than another endless round of WOLVES MATE FOR LIFE (with bonus creepy undertones, of "whatevs, I can just wait for Lauren to die/whatever", ugh.) I understand basic storytelling (although I don't pretend to demonstrate it), okay, I know that conflict drives narrative, but there is so much more conflict inherent in both of these relationships than "will this person who is currently with this other person ACTUALLY end up with this third person STAY TUNED." Which is a lesson that it seems like many showrunners could stand to learn (don't even talk to me until you've sorted yourself out, Haven, I mean it mean it), but on this show in particular, it feels even more unnecessary and tacked on. Super-interested in where this Kenzi thing is going, though, (although it would be nice to also see some fallout from the incredibly traumatic things that happened to Lauren at the end of last season, maybe?) and ALSO TAMSIN. TAMSIIIIIIN. IF TAMSIN COULD MAKE OUT WITH BO STAT, THAT WOULD BE A+. TAMSIN FETT. MAKE IT SO, FANDOM. Also how am I supposed to secretly ship Hale/Kenzi when HE IS NOT EVEN ON MY SCREEN. /deep thoughts with Jack Handy

Haha, guys, I am so led by the nose by femslash fandom. Were it not for a combination of irrational prejudice and lack of time/energy for a new show/fandom, I have little doubt that OUaT would be a thing in my life.

SO THAT'S ME. HERE I AM. WHERE ARE YOU?

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and another little llama

mrinalinee — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:51:12 GMT

I'm trying to do this with the minimum of drama-llaming and faffing about, but basically: for the last year and a half to two, I have been trying to delete my journal and disappear into the wild blue yonder, but I am way to indecisive to do anything as permanent as all that; so in an effort to compromise with myself, I am locking this journal down to private, at least for the forseeable future. I will be (slowly) posting the fic to AO3 here, on the off-chance that anyone still wants to read it; I know this is far from an ideal solution, with how AO3's been lately, but I've been thinking about this for a while, and this is the best I can come up with. I hope to be as conscientious and, er, objective as I can be, but if after a month or so there's something you think should be up there that you don't see, you should let me know for sure.

I will definitely still be around (insofar as I ever am), and it's really far from unlikely that as soon as I do this I will be stuck by a bolt of inspiration and start churning out ~~crappy~~ fic by the bucketful. But if this is your cue to defriend, I swear I won't be offended.

Anyway, I'm screening comments on this post in case you want to curse me out or tell me good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish, but privately. And I shall not descend into maudlin "you guys are darling and lovely and wonderful" stuff because I am not going away, I'm just apparently going away. But if you do for some reason want to contact me, all the usual venues are open.

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