I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE ATTRACTED IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF PETE WENTZ

thehoyden just left to go to a whole different country for ten entire days and wow, we are completely That Couple, because I am not pleased. I mean, I GUESS she's allowed, but in my heart of hearts I am about as displeased as her cats are about the whole thing. :( I also just found out that the paper I thought was due tomorrow is due Tuesday, so now I am killing time until I have to go to work, at which I plan to kill time. My Fascinating Life.

I keep making feints into various fandoms like Greek and Jeeves&Wooster (why is that fandom so awesomely alive? someone explain that), and that's all well and good, but I want a committed fandom relationship. Where is my new bandom? I am not okay with this! By far the most sucessful I have ever been at LJ fandom was when I was so depressed I wasn't getting out of bed, and I'm not saying I want to get back to that, but it would be nice to have a little of that while also attending classes and showering and all that good stuff.

Oh man, this whole post is boring AND whiny, so instead of more of that I will leave you with these average cats. TALK TO ME IN MY COMMENTS EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT :( I WILL GIVE YOU A COMPLIMENT :(

ETA if you were making a bandom mix cd for someone who was never in bandom, what songs could you not possibly leave off?

oh my GOD why am I allergic to LJ lately. I am reading, you guys! I am just not posting everrrr. Happy kalpurnas make poor LJers. Okay but I can't go another month without posts so here are some ( pictures of the last time Pete Wentz's hair looked like it currently does. )

Anyway I am psyched about this, are you psyched about this? I HOPE HE GOES BACK TO DREADS NEXT. I've also been listening to Evening Out a lot lately so I am extra charmed.

P.S. WHERE ARE ALL MY ARMA ANGELUS PICTURES WTF :(

OH WOW, YOU GUYS, I JUST HEARD ABOUT THIS COOL INTERNET WEBSITE CALLED LIVE JOURNAL! I THINK IT IS A NEW THING, IDK, MAYBE I SHOULD TRY IT OUT.

So apparently there's some kind of... survey-related drama in fandom? Flist, I will be honest with you, I have skimmed the shit out of this one, and as far as I can tell some academics were stupid and failed, and apparently one or two responses to this were stupid and also failed, and I am willing to leave it at that as far as I am concerned. Please do tell me if there is something important I am missing.

Here is what I have been doing since the end of my two summer classes:

• Settling into a forty-hour day. I am seriously now sleeping twenty hours and staying awake twenty hours. I don't know that I can call this a good plan, but school doesn't start for a few weeks, so it is at least an experiment to try, and maybe it will prove useful if aliens come and take me to a planet with a long rotational period.


• Hanging out with thehoyden like it is my job, doing sweet things like riding on Ferris wheels and going to see Harry Potter exhibits and watching all of the TV. Yesssss.


• Listening to history podcasts! I would link these, but I don't understand the iTunes store, so I'm afraid you have to search if you're interested. I started with ( lolololol the rest of this post is so boring. )

If you live with strobelighted you should probably never ever forget to log out of her computer. That last post was NOT ME. Cappie is a GOD. end transmission

Flist, I just finished watching the show Greek and I have to say, I don't really get what everybody sees in this Cappie guy. He's just so dull.

I've been having a huuuge HP renaissance lately. I am still working my way through all three million words of Saving Connor, but I have found time in the meanwhile to reread a buttload of ancient Harry/Draco masterpieces like Irresistible Poison and How Harry Potter Got His Groove Back and Seamus is Seamus and You are Yourself and oh my god I don't even know what else. That fic where Draco's Patronus is Harry and there's a spider tattoo! That fic where they take a class in sex magic! I HAVE BEEN ALL UP IN FICTIONALLEY, IS WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY.

And there's new stuff! People apparently kept writing after I left the fandom??? This and this and this!

I was thinking about it, and you know, everything I continue to love and miss about HP fandom is exemplified by the Saga of the Canon of Blaise Zabini. Ludicrous amounts of fanon! Hilarious entitled wank! Massive projecting on the parts of the authors! The perils of an open canon! Wars being waged over single words in the text that no one outside of fandom came close to noticing! A beautiful girl! No, a suave Italian guy! No, a sexy black dude! ♥♥♥♥♥ There never was a fandom quite like it before or since, you know? Ohhh, HP.

Anyway, I am seeing HBP with thehoyden on Sunday. IT IS SAFE TO SAY I AM EXCITED.

I know a lot of people were horrified at the oblivious teenies in the ICH comments, but man, OF COURSE there were going to be oblivious teenies. For all that the ICH commenting population has changed over the past couple years, that is still a community full of teenage girls, and no one can deny the existence of misogyny like teenage girls can deny the existence of misogyny. I can't even blame them that much. The more you can convince yourself that men don't hate women, the less horrible you'll have to feel about it.

The truth is, I'm just thrilled by how seriously smacked down they were. I love the ICH mods like nothing in this world, and I love everyone who commented in that post, and I ADORE every teenie who commented to be like "um jsyk gaskarth you should probably kill yourself~". HEARTS HEARTS HEARTS. There aren't that many places on the internet that aren't explicitly marked as feminist that would still have a conversation like that.

(Context is for people who don't stalk the shit out of Pete Wentz)

anyway, ATL are still assholes who make bad music.

So my life is really boring right now, to the point that this morning I literally wrote an LJ entry about my skin, and now I kind of can't believe I'm actually going to post it. ( NOT AN INTERESTING POST )

LOOK, EITHER I DON'T POST OR I POST ABOUT SHIT LIKE THIS.

Flist, I've... I've met someone. I think what we have is really special, and I'd like to tell you about our love. Let me introduce you to my new boyfriend, ( ♥Reza Aslan♥ )

I'm making the call from that poll that the best night for the majority of people to do dinner is two weeks from this coming Saturday, July 11! I'll email you with directions and so on when it gets closer. And start menu planning now. \o/

I was basically just angry and confrontational last night, and I don't think that I contributed anything useful to the conversation. So today, I will contribute some things that people apparently don't know that they may find very useful!

1. <lj-cut text="Spoilery warning under the cut"> or <a href="link to backdated post">Spoilery warning</a>

2. Grey text with a grey background, easily highlighted: <span style="color:#666;background-color:#666;">warning goes here</span> (ETA: this code is more considerate of people who use screenreaders.)

3. Rot13, a simple cypher which allows you to scramble text and provide a link back to descramble it: http://www.rot13.com/

There are other ways, but these are some of the best I know of.

I am so revolted by what I'm seeing going on in the warnings wank (specifically, here). I'm sorry, but I find it absolutely disgusting to turn a conversation about what we do as a largely female community to protect each other from making the trauma inflicted on rape survivors worse than it already is into a conversation about how mean it is to ask an author to do anything they didn't feel like doing in the first place. I wouldn't even bother commenting about this except that some people I have huge respect for, who have made brilliant, thoughtful, fascinating posts about racism and sexism, are coming off like fpb and I literally do not understand how this can be the case. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING.

You're offended that someone asked you to spoil your story by including a warning? Gee, I can't imagine how you could possibly work around that with cut text, white font, or a link. We're a community of women. We are a COMMUNITY of WOMEN. We have responsibilities to each other to not be as terrible to each other as the rest of the world invariably is. Making a conversation about how best to do that into a conversation about the delicate feelings of the person who crafted their fanfic into a perfect work of glorious art is flat-out offensive. Sure, talk about how to come up with a better spectrum of terms for dubcon, that's fine. But if you want to tell the person who wrote this post (Warning: Very explicit discussion of sexual assault and the nature, anatomy, cause & effect of triggers. Is itself triggery) that you just don't see how you're going to avoid having to warn for out-of-character consumption of apples in your next fic, I don't even want to know you.

If anyone comments to this post to tell me to watch my tone I am going to smack them in the face. Don't tell me this is the internet and that is impossible. I will find a way.

ETA: alternatively, here is a kitten!

ETA2: Feel free to comment on this post, but be aware that A) I am likely not to respond, and B) this post is an articulation of an emotional response to what I see as harm and injustice, and if you take it to a theory/logic place, I will find it insulting and dismissive.

So I kept Twittering about this because honestly what else is Twitter for, but I thought I should inform LJ about my day at the Philadelphia airport! And I use the term 'day' advisedly, because I got there at 12:11 and my flight left at 6:15. There kept being delays <----- Okay, LJ, I wrote this last night, saved the draft, and went off to do something else, and in the cold light of day I realize it would have been an incredibly boring post. Basically every sentence would end "and then I drank wine" so I think I'll skip it. FYI if you're ever stuck in PHL and want some delicious but expensive wine tastings and snacks, check out Vino Volo.

I started my course today (ughhh physics) and I have to say, as little as I like mornings, spending 9-12 drinking coffee in a classroom and then getting out for the day is so far making me crazy productive. Bills: PAID. Emails: SENT. Phone calls: MADE. Flights: BOOKED. (I'm coming to beach weekend at Wildwood, my darlings! I cannot wait!!!) On the other hand, I have peed three times since getting home, so maybe slightly less coffee tomorrow.

This week's fandom roulette has landed on: Babylon 5 (started watching from the beginning), Harry Potter (reading epic Harry/Draco with great nostalgia), classic literature (reading Waugh, Faulkner, and Dickens, and browsing all the way back through the archives of this site), and Chris Pine/Zach Quinto (they sure are cute when they talk about vocabulary).

I'm sitting in a room that hasn't been usable in almost a year that is finally cleaned out. It's like a whole new world right in my own apartment. *____*

Someone commented on Tuesday on my last post anonymously saying UPDATE YOUR JOURNAL YOU FOOL and then replied to themselves two seconds later saying "oh wait it's only been 3 days? nvm, sry fr th bthr." Which made me lol a lot and vow to update the next morning, which is why you get this post like five days later. Ummmm oh well. SORRY, ANONYMOUS LADY. :( YOU CAN YELL AT ME NOW.

Order of business: I completely forgot to follow up on the Chicago dinner party thing, but I still really want to do it! The way my schedule is shaking out, Saturday nights are the only viable option, so I'm just going to propose three, have my lovely Chicago ladies vote, and whichever date has the most people check the ticky will be the winner.

Poll #1419257
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 18

I can come to your house for dinner on:

I had a whole lot more to say but instead I have to go to bed because I have to wake up at 8:00 tomorrow, which is not legitimately early, but which is early for me, especially when it involves a science class in the summer. Le sigh.

WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND JUST BEASTED HER FOUR FINALS. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Now that I'm no longer feeling kind of like my brain is making a break for it out both ears, I would like to ask what is up, livejournals??? I've actually been reading my flist intermittently, but my sanity was also intermittent, so, ummm, sorry about dropping off the face of the earth.

SOME THINGS I WOULD LIKE US ALL TO CONSIDER TOGETHER:

1) why aren't all vids in the world set to Alphabeat? And more generally, why isn't Danish pop as big a cliché as Evanescence* for vidding purposes? And more specifically, why don't I already hold in my hot little hands an SGA vid set to Fantastic 6? I have never met such international professionals in my life as the Atlantis mission. COME ON.

2) I don't have a two. Let's meme in my journal, guys! Anonymous commenting is on, IP logging is off! :D? :D?

They are the space troopers
super-dooper!

*ftr I first wrote "Everclear" here and corrected it. Guess what I would rather be doing.

P.S. ( OH HOLY SHIT I REMEMBERED WHAT I WANTED TO POST ABOUT. )

We've been watching Freaks and Geeks in this household, lately. ( I really love my living situation. )

I've also been exploring the exciting world of ( cooking! )

Between the cooking and the knitting (one sweater and one lace stole, both in progress), I'm going to make one lucky man or woman very happy someday, don't you think? *practices floor-waxing*

To end on a fannish note, I get really butthurt every time someone tells me they don't ship Kirk/Spock in the new movie, which, for the record, I HAVEN'T SEEN. Oh, self. But come on, have you no respect for your foremothers?! They walked uphill both ways in the snow to write intensely florid pornography about green peens! >:(

I brought up Number One in class today in a ( discussion of feminism. )

P.S. Every time I try to upload pictures to scrapbook, LJ logs me out. Is this just me?

P.P.S. ( DELIVERY: ONE CAT, SIGN PLS )

Can't we just agree as a society that evolutionary psychology should have the intellectual credibility of intelligent design?

I don't know if I'm super late on this, but has everyone heard Lupe Fiasco's side project? He's the producer (although the singer sounds suspiciously like him faking a British accent), and I really like Heirplanes. Also, thank fucking God he gave up on his next album being his last. \o/

I can't think of anything else to put in this post so here is a very short video of our cat. She is the best of all possible cats.

Also, my eyes are insanely itchy right now. UGHHH. I'm not sure why - allergies? constantly sleeping in my contacts like a moron? but I am sure it needs to end, especially since my glasses are from like 3 prescriptions ago and I can't wear my contacts until my eyes chill the fuck out.

Some news source suggested somewhere that Joe Biden may have been involved somehow in the process of convincing Arlen Specter to change parties, and that was all it took for me to construct an elaborate reality in my head where Joe Biden won Specter over singlehandedly with adorableness and big smiles and chatting his ear off about trains. I swear I'm not into political RPF at all, I just have this mental break where I cannot hear a thing about the real Joe Biden without merging him with in-my-head Joe Biden who is a train-loving human-shaped puppy. I am in no way as deluded about Obama as I am about Biden. Even when I hear of him being slimy I find it deeply charming. JOE BIDEN LET US CUDDLE FOREVER. ♥

Oh, and I think I forgot to post about this, but on Saturday night strobelighted and I went to an Empires show at a random college and that was cool and all until Ils locked the keys in the car for the whole show with the engine running who even does that thank God shoemaster was there to call AAA aaaaaaaaargh BUT I DIGRESS. What I really wanted to say was that this was the first time I've actually spoken to Sean and Tom since writing, you know, fic about them, and holy living fuck I WAS SO SQUICKED. I wasn't expecting it! I was only in Empires fandom for like five minutes and the reason I wrote that fic was because I had just met and spoken to them in real life. I thought that meant I didn't have a meeting-my-RPS-subjects squick! I WAS WRONG. I wanted to crawl out of my own skin and die, and then Sean hugged me augh augh augh I am shuddering just thinking of it. LJ IT WAS SO TERRIBLE I CANNOT EVEN HANDLE THINKING ABOUT IT AND I WILL NOW PAY ATTENTION TO MY BIOLOGY LECTURE IN DESPAIR.

My non-fandom bff, of all people, told me to update my LJ more last night, so here I am complying. The last class I have on Tuesdays and Thursday is biology and there is just no possible way that after being in two heavy discussion classes I'm going to pay actual attention once I get to the powerpoint lecture with notes posted online. YEAH, RIGHT.

School continues to go really fucking well. I mean, cross your fingers, knock on wood, but it's fourth week and smooth sailing so far.

My teacher just said getting tested for prostate cancer is "trendy" right now. (??)

Blah, the problem is that I just have nothing to talk about these days. I have been through, in quick succession, in the past few weeks:

( FATF, LOM, Merlin, HIMYM, 30 Rock )

Talk to me about one of these things or something from your own current lists, flist! I promise to actually reply to comments for once and not be an unmitigated scrub. Plus I'm going to go back and reply to some old comments so, uh, don't pass out from shock. /o\

ETA: DUE SOUTH/DISCWORLD FUSION. RUN, DO NOT WALK.