I wish I was a mermaid and was friends with all the fish

holiday love meme 2013
my thread here

Also: Ask me my top 5 [whatever] of 2013 (on tumblr or here, whatever). Because I'm procrastinating and it seems fun!

Happy birthday to slowmercury, I hope you had a great day :D

My own birthday extended birthday weekend ended up being pretty awesome; we went on a winery tour and to the zoo and I ended up getting a fancy coffee maker after all that makes super delicious lattes, plus I brought home way too much wine and cider with me, so it's all good.

Happy birthday to areasontofight and soobunny (and to care_says, rogueslayer452, and metaphasia, whose birthdays I missed last week).

Okay, I definitely signed up for too many holiday exchanges, but I'm coping. rarecharacters fics should be up any day now (they had some last-minute pinch hits, which I totally understand, since I'm pretty sure my writer and recipient both defaulted, but oh well. I really like the fic I wrote, anyway). Also, I've already started on my festivids assignment, which should hopefully come along without too many problems, so yay!

Now I just need to finish the million and one fics I've committed to, and I'll be all good ;)

ETA: RARECHARACTERS FICS ARE UP AND SOMEBODY WROTE ME AVALON HIGH FIC, THIS IS NOT A DRILL IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME WATCHED THAT MOVIE AND WROTE A FIC AND THEN GAVE IT TO ME, THIS IS FULL OF AMAZING. It's twelve days of tmi by mystery author, who if I am not already friends with I SHOULD BE BECAUSE AVALON HIGH!!! <3 <3

Happy birthday frolicndetour, lizardbeth_j, and mammothluv! I hope you all had a fantastic day.

Something something yuletide something femslashex something possible comics exchange. And space_exchange, but that's not until next year, unfortunately. So many things! I think I'm already pretty set on what I'm going to request for yuletide, but I'm still waffling over my fourth request. (Spoiler alert: Avalon High is set to become my new Miss Match. WATCH ME REQUEST IT FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AND GET NOTHING.)

Come talk to me about the things you're excited about!

... and in the running tally of Stupid Stuff Done By Comics Publishers, DC pulls back into the lead. (Was there ever any doubt?)

Marvel launches Mighty Avengers, which, unlike the previous title of that name (which I was so excited about, because CAROL!!! and etc. but turned out to be mostly terrible) looks like it could be really great, Greg Land notwithstanding. LUKE CAGE <3 <3 <3 (Though this does torpedo my burning desire for a Jessica Jones, Superhero title featuring Luke Cage, Stay-At-Home Dad, but lets be real, that only ever existed in my head in any universe.)

Meanwhile, DC is totally keeping all its promises and maintaining the integrity of its core values no wait, the other thing. Like, we know we said you'd get 22 pages of story for $2.99 with no numbering gimmicks, but we actually meant that'd happen sometimes when we felt like it and definitely not in September, when you can get (probably) 20 pages of story for $3.99 and point one numbering but, um, shiny covers?

(I am still totally getting the Rogues issue and Forever Evil tie-in, though, because I love me some Rogues and I DON'T KNOW HOW TO QUIT YOU DC.)

Also, to no-one's surprise, the creator exodus from DC keeps on coming, with allegations of bullying from the editorial team. And some of the BEST AND MOST SUPER NECESSARY editorial comments, including the TOTALLY TRUFAX OBSERVATION that Batman doesn't sit down. Which means Batman Sits is obvs my favourite tumblr right now.

In other news, happy birthday to such_heights! I hope you have a super amazing day <3

Happy birthday kindness_says and pirateygoodness!



True story: I sometimes forget that not everything is a phone. Pretty regularly, I'll be looking for something (most recently my earmuffs) and think, "I know, I'll just call it." And that seems like a really good idea until I remember that you can't actually call something if it's not a phone.

Basically what I'm saying is, why isn't everything a phone? I'M COLD AND I JUST WANT MY EARMUFFS OKAY.

Happy birthday, the_antichris!

So, that AO3 meme going around:

( Sorted by hit count )

( Sorted by kudos )

So. Avengers, am I right? And yuletide - I'm not surprised that seven out of my ten highest-kudos fics were yuletide fics, since I tend to hang out in small fandoms year-round, so obviously yuletide is going to provide a decent forum for that. (The only small fandom fic not written for yuletide on that list is Wizards of Waverly Place, which, also not surprising.) What was surprising was Team Building 101 - I had no idea it was that popular, but it makes me super happy. Also No Heroics, since Doom is a downright nonexistent fandom outside of yuletide.

On the other hand, I think the list sorted by hit count is probably more representative of my general body of work (it's a lot of Wizards of Waverly Place and Disney RPF, which, yeah). And there are a few fics that show up on both lists, though I think the second list is more heavily populated by fics I posted directly to AO3 when I wrote them, rather than crossposting long after the fact (which is the case with most of my fics); I don't know if that makes much of a difference, but it seems like maybe a little? And if I had to make a top ten list of my own favourite fics, it's probably look a bit like a hybrid of both lists, with a few other/older fics thrown in, so I guess that's not bad.

One last interesting thing: If you sort by comment threads instead, most of the same fics still pop up, but The Déjà Fait Fate Destabilizer (The Middleman, Ensemble) gets in at number six, so I guess Middleman fans just really like talking about it? Small fandoms represent!

Happy birthday torigates! I hope you have a fantastic day :D

So apparently Manu Bennett was promoted to series regular for season two of Arrow? Which, apart from being exciting news in itself, MAYBE MEANS MORE CHANCE OF SEEING ROSE EVENTUALLY?????????? I LIVE IN HOPE.

And a meme that's been floating around:

How many (and which) ships have you shipped from the time you started watching a show until the show ended and you still continue to ship? Two rules:

1. Must be a show you watched at least part of as it was airing on tv (because catching up on a show in three weeks is different from watching it live over a span of years). Or have been watching it for a good amount of time, whatever, I can't necessarily remember what shows I actually saw live and what I didn't after a few years, THIS MEME IS NOT THE BOSS OF ME.

2. The show has to be over with (i.e. no current airing shows count because you don't know which ships crash and burn or get together in the last few episodes and that might affect your shipping).

This was ... actually fewer than I expected? But still a lot, because I watch a lot of television.

Justin/Alex (Wizards of Waverly Place), Helo/Athena (Battlestar Galactica), John/Teyla (Stargate Atlantis), John/Aeryn (Farscape), Ted/Veronica (Better Off Ted), Michael/Lindsay (Arrested Development), Richard/Kahlan/Cara (Legend of the Seeker), Buffy/Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Lamb/Veronica (Veronica Mars), Peter/Claire (Heroes), Clark/Lois (Smallville), Nathan/Haley (One Tree Hill), Beck/Jade (Victorious), Sasha/Payson (Make It or Break It), Ryan/Kelly (The Office) ... probably others I'm forgetting, whatever.

Some of those I still care about more than others; others, obviously, weren't right from the beginning of the show, but I think "from the time the characters were introduced" counts. And Ryan/Kelly only very nearly qualifies, but whatever, the show is almost over and they're only going to be on one more episode, I very much doubt whatever happens then will make me stop shipping it when several seasons of barely there-ness and the characters generally being kind of terrible people didn't. (And sadly I couldn't include Ryan/Taylor, because I only started shipping them in season four like everybody else with a soul, but I still ship them a lot, so they're there in spirit.)

SO SCOTT MIGHT BEAT STILES IN THE FMM PRELIMS? I MIGHT ACTUALLY CHANGE MY VOTE FROM LYDIA FOR THAT, NGL. HIS FACE <3

(I have to laugh, though, because FMM is never even a little bit representative of fandom's actual tastes, like, Jo is currently winning the Supernatural bracket, and I mean, she is my actual favourite, but no.)

SERIOUSLY PLEASE VOTE FOR DAN HUMPHREY THOUGH, ( SPOILER )

ALSO WINSTON IS LOSING THE NEW GIRL POLL YOU'RE ALL FIRED. IDGAF ABOUT NICK MILLER AND HIS STUPID TURTLE FACE, OKAY, THERE I SAID IT.

JAMES VAN DER BEEK AS JAMES VAN DER BEEK 2013.



ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY empressearwig, IN HONOUR OF THIS OCCASION I WILL GIVE YOU ONE OF MY FMM VOTES AS LONG AS IT'S IN A CATEGORY I DIDN'T VOTE FOR AND/OR DON'T CARE ABOUT. Don't say I never gave you no bling.

Happy birthday crackers4jenn, surreallis, and rosa_acicularis! I hope you all have an amazing day <3



Also, I thinking about changing my rarewomen requests again? I KNOW, OKAY. Partly because nobody is offering Miss Match, which, duh, MY POOR TINY FANDOM OF ONE, and also partly because I could ask for Wizards of Waverly Place and/or Victorious? IT'S SO HARD MAKING DECISIONS.

UGH IT'S SO HOT HERE AND I HAVE TO WORK AND KIDS ARE BEING TERRIBLE THIS YEAR AND I WAS IN A CAR CRASH ON THE WEEKEND (I'M OKAY THOUGH) AND MY HOUSE IS A MESS AND I HAVEN'T WRITTEN ANYTHING IN FOREVER, CAN I GET A DO OVER ON THE PAST TWO WEEKS PLEASE.

Comics Are Awesome, Comics Are Awful, Part #316:

- Batgirl: Year One is coming back into print! Robin: Year One and Batgirl: Year One are being collected together and rereleased in June, which is excellent, because the only copies I can find of the latter right now would set me back way upwards of $50, which is not happening. Waiting until June, however, is totally doable. Now if only DC would (re)release any of the other dozens of titles I'm missing, that would be super.

- The solicitation for Hawkeye #11 is giving me the warm and fuzzies. Aw, Pizza Dog <3

- ... and then there's the new Injustice: Gods Among Us prequel comic (discussion of torture and abuse), which has so many shades of Do Not Want I don't even know where to start. Not only will I not be checking out that comic after all, I won't be touching the game with a ten foot pole.

On a happier note! Happy birthday dudski, I hope you had an amazing day <3 I'M SORRY YOU GOT LUMPED IN WITH COMICS, YOU ARE MUCH LESS TERRIBLE THAN THEY ARE.