| about |
[Dec. 31st, 2012|12:14 pm] |
I'm using aria @ dreamwidth as my primary journal, although I mirror everything here. My journal is open-fandom and closed-real-life, although only insofar as it is a mirror of the DW journal -- everything before May 10 2009 is friendslocked excepting fic posts and a handful of miscellany. If you're here for the fandom stuff, feel free to friend me and lurk away; please introduce yourself if you want access to the locked stuff, as I'm always delighted to meet new people. (Feel equally free to say hi if you're just here for the fandom stuff, too! I am easy about these things.) I may also have friended you for the fandom stuff, in which case, hello! I can be a lurker but I promise I'm friendly and nice. My goal is eventually to be on Dreamwidth only; if you don't have a Dreamwidth, I have invite codes to spare, but if you'd rather stick to LiveJournal, I understand and am happy to friend you.
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| two unrelated but delightful things |
[May. 23rd, 2012|10:41 am] |
i. skfdk everyone run do not walk to listen to the podfic of Shatter, read by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) cyranothe2nd who is basically my new hero -- she makes the fic sound so good, and also upped my fondness for Jane a lot. SO GOOD. I would listen to it like five times in a row except that it's three and a half hours long, and also, let's be honest, I basically have the fic memorized. I just love the podfic so much!
ii. WisCon! I'm going with Emma and am stupid excited to show off Madison to her; we'll be arriving early Friday afternoon (fingers crossed, our bus schedule keeps changing so it's entirely possible we won't turn up until about five in the evening) and staying through Monday, and I'm really excited to see everyone. WISCON BUDDIES I WILL SEE YOU SOON. \o/
There is no thing three! Maybe I will try to write some filthy Thor/Loki before I'm off on weekend adventures, idk, maybe I will just clean the house.
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| words now ruined forever: "assemble" and "low-key" |
[May. 21st, 2012|10:25 am] |
This has been a WEEK, but in the best possible way.
Monday: One of Polaris' local friends discovered ridiculous discount tickets for a Red Sox vs Mariners game, and invited me in on the plan to take Polaris to surprise baseball. My feelings about baseball are basically "I have no goddamn clue why you love this fandom so much, but I'm glad it brings you joy!" so I went with. Polaris attempted to explain the rules of baseball to me (in baseball's favor: actually comprehensible, unlike American football) and I cheered at the bits where the players hit the ball in exciting ways, and we talked about how the Avengers would behave if they went to a baseball game together. (I'm with Thor, by the way: "What is the purpose of this sport? Why this trickery and stealing of bases? The players should meet this contest head-on!") Anyway a good time was had by all.
Tuesday: Evening Avengers, third viewing, with Polaris, ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) zeenell, and psuedo_catalyst, with Mexican food and lots of fannish flailing for afters. I explained my absurd Avengers found family fic, and the latest request, via Nell, is for ace!Coulson, so that may now be a thing in my fic.
Wednesday: Amiel and Emma were over for the afternoon and evening; we made Housewarming-style pumpkin pie and watched Lilo & Stitch because Emma had never seen it and, well, it is always time for Lilo & Stitch. Misbehaving blue aliens! Found family! Cobra Bubbles! That movie is my happy place.
Thursday and Friday were mostly just hanging out with Emma and with Nell, and then Friday evening Amiel came by and we went road-tripping to see the Tyler Posse. Tyler Posse weekend was predictably glorious; we mostly just hung out and climbed trees and read bits of poetry and short stories, and on Saturday night we saw Avengers AGAIN because no one but Amiel and I had actually seen it, and oh my god I am so done seeing Avengers in the theatres. I also had an unexpected crying jag Saturday despite being in a really good mood, probably because I did way too much socializing this week although maybe also because I can't hold all my Loki feels, but -- today will be very chill, I am planning to do pretty much nothing except clean things and generally housewife, and when Polaris gets home watch lots of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and ... life is really good.
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| AVENGERS |
[May. 4th, 2012|11:05 am] |
Originally we were going to wait until Saturday like responsible adults, but last night Polaris got home from work and we stared at one another for about two seconds and then she ran back out of the house to buy us tickets to the midnight show. Our audience, unsurprisingly, was really into it. I wouldn't accuse them of being one of the best opening weekend crowds, but the entire theatre groaned and booed the preview of Battleship, and cheered lots for Amazing Spider-Man and Prometheus, which was pretty great. They also laughed and screamed and cheered -- sometimes all three at once -- which means I definitely missed some of this film's better lines. I guess I'll just have to see it again! Oh the hardship.
( Spoilers under the cut! Lots of enthusiastic feelings about everything, but mostly about Loki, you know the drill. )
In conclusion, I would love roughly a billion more of these films, by which I mean I am stupidly psyched for Iron Man 3 and Thor 2 (!!!) and the probably-happening new Hulk which I actually have some faith in, and man can't they just make Avengers 2 INSTANTLY? That would be pretty great.
Now I'm going to have lunch and watch last night's Community and do my best to convince my brain that I need to get a few things done today and cannot actually neglect everything including food in favor of writing the torrent of Thor/Loki fic that is building up in my mind.
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| emerging from lurk mode to make loki jokes |
[Apr. 30th, 2012|06:10 pm] |
Today has been kind of hideous, but I bought lots of tea, and watched a fairly glorious stretch of Babylon 5 with K, and have been successfully channeling my Avengers feelings. Guys, I have SO MANY Avengers feelings and I can't even see the movie until Saturday. But I am channeling them! I am flailing lots on tumblr, because that's what tumblr's for; I am deeply enjoying the blue drawing of Loki that K made on our dining room whiteboard; and I'm having ridiculous conversations with Amiel, because ... probably a good 5% of my life is ridiculous Loki conversations with Amiel.
Aria: Perhaps new footage of Loki's face this weekend will help cure you
Amiel: It will be like one of those faith-healing things. Then I'll go around proselytizing about the miracle of the Lawd (of Midgard). Tumblr will be my cult.
Amiel: Then I will go to holy war against Misha's Minions.
Aria: Help help wheezing with laughter. Have you accepted Loki as your lord & savior?
Amiel: After the movie comes out, I think we should canvass in theaters. Wear ties like Jehovah's Witnesses and pass out little pamphlets.
Amiel: Better yet, let's get other people to do it! We can just design a printable pamphlet and post it to Tumblr.
Aria: BRILLIANT. Those out canvassing should maybe wear little horned helmet pins or something.
THIS IS A THING WE SHOULD GET ON, INTERNET. Also, someone should talk me out of crafting a horned helmet out of tinfoil and wearing it to the film on Saturday. :D?
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| carry on |
[Apr. 18th, 2012|03:27 pm] |
LIFE IS SO BUSY AND EXCITING. I suspect I have long since lost that wonderful ability I had in college to craft exciting narratives about the beauty of everyday life, so instead, in scattered list form, some things I have been up to lately:
+ Weekend with the Tyler posse! I suspect I should resurrect my Tyler posse tag, because everything these excellent humans do is a source of joy to me. At school they serenaded me outside my window and pulled me along on various adventures; this last weekend we went to a burlesque show and held a housewarming party for one of our number, in which the chief activities were tipsy Fandom Apples to Apples and a watching of Black Books for afters.
+ Probably not deserving of its own bullet-point, road-tripping with Amiel for Tyler posse shenanigans! I mention it mostly because the drive back was three hours of winding New England back roads and loud music to keep us awake, and it took maaaaybe half an hour before we started calling each other Dean and Sammy. ("My hair is too long to be Dean's," Amiel observed, as their hair was indeed at about four fluffy inches; "Well, mine's too short to be Sam's," I said.) NO REGRETS.
+ Monday was Paul Newman & Robert Redford Films With Polaris and Housemate K! Somehow I had gone through life without seeing either Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or The Sting? That has now been remedied! I spent a good portion of Butch Cassidy yelling "HOW IS THIS ON MY SCREEN" re: the OT3. Maybe I will see it again next time I am in the mood for threesomes and tragic last stands.
+ K and I spent pretty much all of yesterday watching Babylon 5. We got through EIGHT EPISODES. Only one more episode of first season to go! Let me tell you, internet, yesterday's eight episodes were all tragically barren and G'Kar-less, although they did have lots of good Londo and Delenn and Ivanova. I am looking forward so much to season two. I am also a bit tempted to start taking frantic notes and attempt to resume my meta rewatch, but my meta rewatch relied heavily on my ability to actually remember things that happen, and though bits of Londo and G'Kar's arc are stamped indelibly on my memory, it's been two years and the joy of this rewatch is in the discovery of things.
+ K & her girlfriend made really delicious chocolate chip cookies the other day. I'm now going to eat the last of them like a motherfucking adult.
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| MOVING + three fannish things |
[Mar. 23rd, 2012|07:51 pm] |
I am all packed! (Well, almost all, I still have a few accusatory items sitting outside my suitcases.) My life does not pack neatly into a duffle as it ideally should, and I have sent a hilarious cavalcade of boxes up ahead of me, but mostly the packing has been good and not too consuming. I also found some successful button-down shirts! It is all terribly exciting, and oh my god, tomorrow I am moving in with my BFF and I will actually be near friends and found family and all of this is SO GREAT.
Of course this means I probably won't have internet time again for a while, so before I go off on real life adventures, some fannish things:
i. I am bad at announcing things when I run out of exciting polls, but Zoe won my tiny Fandom March Madness! When I did a vote-for-attractive-people poll last year, Gina Torres won that too, so I think the only conclusion to draw is that you guys remain in excellent taste.
ii. Um ... this week's Community. ( Spoilers feel bizarre about this episode. )
iii. And I saw Hunger Games! ( Spoilers actually much prefer the film to the book. )
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