{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose","title":"the writhing center of this jar of marshmallow fluff","subtitle":"i think we can cobra-fy it","author":{"name":"disaster girl"},"link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"service.feed","type":"application\/x.atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom","title":"the writhing center of this jar of marshmallow fluff"}}],"updated":"2020-11-06T03:26:32Z","entry":[{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:439033","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/439033.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=439033"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2020-11-05T21:47:00","published":"2020-11-06T03:00:01Z","updated":"2020-11-06T03:26:32Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"supernatural"}},"content":"Well, there it is. Good job, Supernatural<\/em>. I didn't *really* think you had it in you.

Love this for us<\/a> (Spoilers in link)



And, like, I know there are people all on about \"bury your gays,\" and I know many people have years of SPN-related trauma, but I'm 99.99% sure that is not what is happening here. Cas is going to be in the finale. Dean will save him from the Empty. I am not concerned.<\/a>\n\n \"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:438510","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/438510.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=438510"}}],"title":"Master List of my SPN fic","published":"2020-11-02T18:13:49Z","updated":"2020-11-02T18:18:10Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"supernatural"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"fic!"}}],"content":"Why not.

if stars were to burn<\/a> - Dean\/Cas implied; 15x07 coda; 1385 words

Through Rugged Land<\/a> - Dean\/Cas implied; 15x08 coda; 1817 words

We Collide with Place<\/a> - Dean\/Cas; 15x08 coda part II w\/ 15x09 speculation; 5379 words

Pattern Recognition<\/a> - Dean\/Cas; 15x09 coda; 1624 words

This is a love song<\/a> - Dean\/Cas, Sam\/Eileen; case fic; set in s15 hiatus; 8913 words

What didn't kill you<\/a> - Dean\/Cas, Sam\/Eileen; post-series; 20,124 words

 The ways of the old, old winds<\/a> - Dean\/Cas; 15x15 coda; 1364 words

 Visited upon the son<\/a> - Sam&Dean&childhood trauma, Dean\/Cas implied; 15x16 coda; 1579 words\n\n \"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:437347","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/437347.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=437347"}}],"title":"Yuletide Letter 2015","published":"2015-10-27T03:24:19Z","updated":"2015-11-17T16:43:37Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"jesus christ superstar"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"she-ra"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"elementary"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"greek"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}}],"content":"Dear Yuletide Author,

Hope you're seeing this, and sorry for the delay in posting a letter.

Thank you for writing for me! I'm not that difficult to please, and I'm sure I will like anything you come up with for these. I don't have a lot to add to what I said in my sign-up (and there's only one fandom here I've never requested before - I do tend to repeat myself), but there are some general likes\/dislikes and a few more fandom details below:


In general, I like fic that says pretty close to canon, and acknowledges important canon relationships. I like fic that focuses on relationships, and that what I'm interested in all of these fandoms. I read slash, femslash and het in equal measure depending on the fandom. I love threesomes too. I love explorations of intense and deep platonic relationships too, so gen fic is great.

While I'm not big on AUs most of the time, I *do* like a lot of trope-y fic (coming out narratives, woke up married, undercover, huddling for warmth, amnesia, etc). Just please, no one growing wings or turning into an animal. :) <\/a>

By Fandom:



She-Ra; Adora<\/strong>

What I said in my request:
Adora is the only character I requested, but feel free to include anyone else you want. Any fic focused on her is going to make me happy. I'm particularly interested in anything that deals with her secret identity and the ramifications of having to keep that secret (bonus points if it's revealed to someone or dealing with the fallout of the reveal).

Totally fine with gen fic, though Adora femslash would also be great. Other background pairings are welcome. (Open to just about anything but incest).<\/em>

So I request this every year, and a few years ago, I really did figure out the way the whole secret identity thing with Adora was the first-ever coming out narrative that resonated with me long, long before I knew that was a thing I was into. :) So if there is a relationship, I would prefer Adora to be queer in some way, but gen is 100% fine if that's not your thing. I just want all of the Adora fic. All of it.<\/a>



Elementary; Sherlock, Irene, Bell, Joan Watson<\/strong>

What I said in my request:
Don't feel like you have to include all four characters. You can include them in any combination. In general, I prefer Joan and Sherlock's relationship to stay platonic, but I'm willing to be convinced. :) Some other ideas:

1) Sherlock\/Irene - ALWAYS. I like them as worthy adversaries with real and complicated feelings for each other.
2) Sherlock\/Bell - how does it happen?
3) Joan\/Bell - how does it happen?
4) Sherlock\/Joan\/Bell - I've been waiting for someone to write the OT3
5) Joan & Sherlock gen - anything focused on their friendship would be great. I also like the idea of bisexual Joan and would be interested in seeing that explored.<\/em>

Seriously, any combination of any of the above would be delightful. (And just to clarify, while I'm kind of iffy on Joan\/Sherlock, the second you add Bell into it and it becomes Joan\/Sherlock\/Bell, I am ALL ABOUT IT. I don't know.) I also really, really like Elementary's Irene. I'm fascinated by her, so something that focuses very strongly on her would be great too.<\/a>



Jesus Christ Superstar; Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot<\/strong>

What I said in my request:
Go wild :)<\/em>

So this is the only thing on my list I've never requested before, and I know that's not a lot of guidance! I'm interested in seeing their relationship explored; particularly in the Jesus Christ Superstar mythos, Judas is a such a tragic character, and his motivations and decisions are fascinating to me. (I saw a production once where he was pulled around by the cloaked figures meant to represent the fates, through the entire play. Very interesting staging). If you want<\/em> to go to a slash place, I would not be disappointed. (Because I visit my parents on Christmas, and they're usually around for the last of my frantic Yuletide writing, they know about it and always me what I got. Telling my minister father I got Jesus\/Judas slash would be super fun). HOWEVER, like I said above, I'm always interested in seeing the nuances of really intense platonic relationships explored too, so that would also be great.<\/a>



Greek; Cappie, Casey, Evan<\/strong>

What I said in my request:
I'm particularly interested in future fic here - where are they ten years or so down the line? (OT3 welcome, if you're so inclined. :) )<\/em>

Not a whole lot to add here, except to say feel free to include any other characters you might want (especially Rebecca). I really am an OT3 shipper in this fandom (when I wasn't shipping Casey\/Rebecca), so I lean in that direction, but I'm also interested in the relationships individually.<\/a>

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:437166","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/437166.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=437166"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-08-31T17:25:00","published":"2015-08-31T21:30:30Z","updated":"2015-08-31T21:30:30Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"scream"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"horror"}}],"content":"In other news, is anyone out there to talk about the Scream<\/em> TV show? Because I'm finally watching it, and the first episode was everything I ever wanted, and then in the second episode, they stepped right into the dead lesbian trope without even lamp-shading it the way they've lamp-shaded everything else<\/a>. It really undermined their whole trope-subversion thing, so I am disappointed on a meta and narrative level as well as just being tired of dead lesbians<\/a>. I don't know how I managed to get so invested one episode in, but the premiere was so spot on<\/em>.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:436894","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/436894.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=436894"}}],"title":"Ten Years On","published":"2015-08-31T21:22:24Z","updated":"2015-08-31T21:22:24Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"dc"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"new orleans"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"hurricanes"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"katrina"}}],"content":"I was doing so well with keeping up with DW, and then suddenly it's the end of August. Ah, well.

But I always do feel like I want to check in around this time of year, and say I'm okay. I guess I don't, always. Looking back at the archives, I haven't posted on or around the Katrina anniversary in three years. I can't believe it's 2015. I don't know who all is still even reading this, but ten years ago my fandom friends (you guys) were a lifeline for me, and that's always been important.

I am okay. I read almost none of the 10-year anniversary coverage, and I feel a little disconnected from it. I've been gone so long I don't know the day-to-day well enough to know what's real and what's sensationalism. I'm not a local, anymore, not really, and even though there are still days I miss it so much I can't breathe, it also becomes clearer and clearer that I'm not going back, at least not any time soon. Admitting that feels like abdication of responsibility and a little bit of my right to claim New Orleans as home<\/em> the way I do, though I do still feel that way about it, the city of my heart. I was only there six years, but it felt more like home in the first month than DC ever has. I love my life here because I love my people here, but I feel no affinity for the city. I've never felt like I belong in this place. In NOLA it was often the other way around. If I'm not going to live there (and right now I'm still not) I do need to go back more often and see for myself and non-Mardi Gras\/holiday time how things are.

I was talking to an old friend\/lover from NOLA the night of the anniversary about how weird it is to think that it's been ten years since the storm. It feels both like it can't possibly have been that long, and also like everything has happened since then. I was such a mess then. I wasn't even out<\/em> yet, then. Who was<\/em> that girl? When I think about it in terms of where I was in my life it feels like so much longer. And I think I would be very different if it hadn't happened. I would probably be in a very different place. We all have those moments all the time, probably, one thing happens on one day and your future falls like dominoes, but it was so visible a rupture, and so out of my (everyone's) control, and changed everything<\/em>. It's weird to think about. I like my life a lot now. That's not something I take comfort in, really, because it doesn't mitigate anything that happened but I guess I do take some comfort in resilience - my own, my friends', the city's. Not everything happens for a reason, and it doesn't mean anything except what we make it mean. I'm comfortable with that.

This weekend I went to the beach with six friends from grad school, who are some of my best friends in the world. I feel like I've known them all forever, and I didn't know any of them ten years ago. It was a good weekend. Saturday I thought about the storm a lot, and had a couple of really surreal moments, and processed, at least a little bit, with many of my NOLA friends. I also lay in the sun, and had the best scallops I have ever had IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, and got tipsy with good friends, and ate ice cream on the beach at midnight. I had a really good day. I have good people. Here, there, on the Internet, in my life. :) I'm lucky.

Ten years. I don't even know.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:436639","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/436639.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=436639"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-04-26T17:54:00","published":"2015-04-26T22:31:22Z","updated":"2015-04-26T22:31:22Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"after"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"bad book club"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"50 shades"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"dragon age"}}],"content":"So I finished Origins<\/em> and now I'm playing Dragon Age II<\/em>. (I'm a completist, I can't just skip to Inquisition<\/em>, so I will be playing all of them. I played ALL of the DLC in Origins<\/em> too. Also, my brother gave me all of Mass Effect<\/em> for my birthday. HELP. There is a reason I have spent years only playing Halo<\/em>. That reason is my time-management skills, or lack thereof).

ANYWAY. I love the games but I'm still kind of fascinated by how fic in those fandoms works. I need to actually read some instead of just wondering about it, but, like, I was talking to a gamer friend (non-fannish) and explaining to her about how there is DA fic, and she said that with DA:II at least you're always Hawke, so maybe it's more of a shared experience? And I hadn't played it yet, so I was like, \"yeah, maybe.\" But now I am playing it, and okay, maybe it's easier in some ways, because you have fewer choices than in Origins<\/em> (and Inquisition<\/em>?), but also the family relationships are so central to who your character is in the game and the choices Hawke makes.



As Hawke, you are EITHER:

Raised in hiding so that you and your younger sister Bethany, who both inherited your mage father's powers, aren't taken by the templars. You're the most powerful, and Bethany looks up to you, but your twin brother Carver (a few minutes younger, so you're always referred to as the older sibling) resents you, because he was born without powers, and protecting you and Bethany has shaped his entire life.

When the darkspawn attack Lothering, you flee with your family, but on the road out, an ogre kills Bethany right in front of you. With Carver, your mother and a few other companions, you make it to Kirkwall, where you have to sneak in by indebting yourself to smugglers for a year. You make a name for yourself in the world of smugglers and thieves, but eventually know you will have to leave to avoid the templars finding you. Carver stays with you, still reluctant and somewhat resentful at living in your shadow, but still your closest companion...

OR:

You and your siblings were raised in hiding to protect your younger sister Bethany, who inherited your mage father's powers. Neither you nor your twin brother Carver have powers, but you feel like your entire lives have been shaped by magic anyway, so much secrecy, everything turning on protecting your father and Bethany. You feel the weight of it, especially once your father is gone; as the oldest, it's your responsibility to make sure Bethany stays safe.

When the darkspawn attack Lothering, you flee with your family, but on the road out, an ogre kills Carver right in front of you. With Bethany, your mother and a few other companions you make ti to Kirkwall, where you have to sneak in by indebting yourself to smugglers for a year. You make a name for yourself in the world of smugglers and thieves, but eventually know you have to get Bethany out of Kirkwall before the templars discover her...

For plot purposes, not that different. For fic purposes, COMPLETELY different characterizations\/motivations\/baggage, even more so depending on whether Hawke is male or female. I guess for fic people just differentiate Male Mage Hawke\/Female Mage Hawle\/Male Warrior(or Rogue) Hawke\/Female Warrior (or Rogue) Hawke and then you get a sense of which characterization you're getting? I think it's fascinating actually, and really cool that video games have an active fandom. But it does seem like a very different kind of shared narrative.

Anyway, I'm going to check out the fic, which will tell me the answers to these questions! I'm just typing\/thinking out loud. <\/a>

***

In other news, some grad school friends and I have a Bad Book Club (which is really more for \"trashy\" books I guess, they haven't all been bad though some have), for which we are currently reading After<\/a>. I have academic and fannish thoughts, like I have those same thoughts about 50 Shades of Grey<\/em>, but I also have pragmatic thoughts, like \"what is the best way to identify what text I should write a massive, mediocre Mary Sue AU about to get a six-figure book deal?\" I feel like step one is learn how to use Tumblr. I'm working on that.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:436279","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/436279.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=436279"}}],"title":"[who was i trying to be?]","published":"2015-04-20T20:22:02Z","updated":"2015-04-20T21:12:38Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"patd"}},"content":"My air conditioning is out at my house, and while this doesn't bother me like it does my roommates because I run cold, so it has to get HOT before I'm really uncomfortable, I still find that the heat is sapping my energy and making me sluggish. Also possibly making me crankier than usual at my coworkers? I don't know. It's Monday and I'm always cranky at them, so it could just be that.

Anyway, I have a lot of shit to do, and I don't want to do any of it.

So instead of doing any of it, I've been listening to Panic! at the Disco's new song on repeat, by which I mean Brendon Urie's new song, because Panic! at the Disco now consists only of Brendon Urie<\/em>, and having feelings, by which I mean anger, mostly, at the fact he's so talented and the fact I still care<\/em> and it took me about 5 seconds to develop an elaborate headcanon about this song that I don't even want to talk about.




ETA: While we're on the subject of how upsetting current and former members of Panic! at the Disco can be, I'm just gonna leave this here.




\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:436214","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/436214.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=436214"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-04-18T14:52:00","published":"2015-04-18T20:05:53Z","updated":"2015-04-18T20:05:53Z","content":"Per my last post, trying to use Tumblr again has so far just led to a two-day long spiral into the depths of The Johnlock Conspiracy<\/a>. I don't know why. I don't care about BBC Sherlock at all<\/em>. Like, I actually don't care. Not like hockey, where I say I don't care, but I'm lying. I actually don't care; I haven't watched the show since the second season. And yet, I am fascinated. And so goes the clear danger of Tumblr, I suppose.

It is a gorgeous day that I have spent being incredibly lazy.<\/em> I have such a long to-do list, just in things I have to do in my personal life and for church volunteering and stuff, not even counting work shit. And just no motivation to do anything but sit in the sun and be grateful it is finally April.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:435904","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/435904.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=435904"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-04-16T14:12:00","published":"2015-04-16T18:19:45Z","updated":"2015-04-16T18:19:45Z","content":"Okay, I am trying this Tumblr thing one more time, but actually under redbrickrose this time. (There's nothing there yet. Last time I tried to do this was, like, three years ago and I had the whole thing curated so that my entire dash was pictures of Gabe Saporta and Naya Rivera. Not that there's anything wrong with that aesthetically, but it's not a great approach for actually acquiring fannish information).

If you're on Tumblr, where do I find you?

Also, the last time I tried and failed to use Tumblr was nearly three years ago<\/em>. I don't even know how it's April of 2015. I'm having having a very real internal crisis about how fast the last two years have gone.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:435488","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/435488.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=435488"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-04-03T09:43:00","published":"2015-04-03T14:38:34Z","updated":"2015-04-03T14:40:35Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"patd"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"thelike"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"bandom"}}],"content":"I realized I've never posted pictures of my new cat,

\"<\/a>
<\/a>
He's not dignified; he's a disaster. I just locked him out of my office for being a terror, so he's probably downstairs destroying something now.

I feel like most of what is going on in my life involves work these days, so that's what I start to talk about when I try to post, but even I am super bored by that topic.

Here are some other things. They are all about bandom.

* A couple weeks ago \"[personal<\/a>inlovewithnight<\/b><\/a><\/span> sent me this: Z Berg, in lingerie, talking about kissing girls at Coachella<\/a>. Where was that quote when we were all writing The Like fic?! Apparently her new band has an album coming out this year, though. I didn't know she had a new band, so I'm psyched about that.

* Also a couple of weeks ago, I saw Greta's new band, Springtime Carnivore<\/a> with \"[personal<\/a>jrho<\/b><\/a><\/span>. They were kind of weird, but great. I've had the album on repeat in my car pretty much since the show. J knows Greta through some other fandom friends, so we ended up chatting with the band at the end. I am always really awkward in those kinds of situations, but Greta was super sweet, and the rest of the band was really friendly. They all seemed to be having SO MUCH FUN on tour, and their enthusiasm was great.

* Despite being completely fannishly out of the loop about everything, I somehow managed to see Spencer's note about leaving Panic<\/a> yesterday pretty much right after it was posted. From the very little I've been paying attention, it seems like that was a long time coming. Mostly, I just found it a little weird how he talks about his memories of the band like they bear any resemblance to what is going on with the band now. Maybe they do, I don't know his life. But, like, Ryan's been gone for years, and isn't Brendon's all that's left at this point? Is Dallon officially a member now? I don't even know. But he's all \"the band is going to continue to do great things!\" \"The Band\" is Brendon, and he's proooobably going to be even more of an embarrassment without even Spencer to keep him in check. This is my prediction. Which is not to say I didn't kind of love To Weird to Live, To Rare to Die<\/em>. I did.

* Semi-relatedly, where the fuck is Ryro's solo album?

* I really, really miss Cobra Starship. Just putting that out there.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:434985","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/434985.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=434985"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-02-19T20:38:00","published":"2015-02-20T01:40:45Z","updated":"2015-02-20T01:40:45Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"suits"}},"content":"Every time<\/em> I go to catch up on Suits<\/em> I spend the next three days fruitlessly shaking the internet in the hope that Harvey\/Mike fic that actually works for me will fall out. Every time, I am disappointed.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:434885","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/434885.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=434885"}}],"title":"Happy Lundi Gras from NYC","published":"2015-02-16T21:38:50Z","updated":"2015-02-16T21:40:01Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"meme"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"new york"}}],"content":"Happy Mardi Gras weekend all! I am in NYC for a friend's bachelorette party, rather than in New Orleans. I did Mardi Gras up BIG last year since my 30th birthday was on Big Sunday, so the plan is to maybe take a few years off to save vacation time for other things (case in point - long NYC bachelorette party weekend), but it's still a little sad. It's the second Mardi Gras I've missed since I was 18.

This weekend has been AWESOME, though, even if it is 4 degrees. (And I packed really inappropriately, so I am currently wearing all of my clothing and still freezing. Why is this happening.) We did boozy brunch and private Museum Hack<\/a> tour of the Met. We also saw Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em>, like you do. (We have a bad book club, we read Fifty Shades<\/em>. It's a whole thing. I have thoughts, but that's probably it's own post).

Anyway, here's a meme from \"[personal<\/a>romantical<\/b><\/a><\/span>. She gave me the letter G.

Something I hate:<\/b> Government contracting. Boom.

Something I love:<\/b> Gabe Saporta. Obvs. I have a feeling she was expecting that answer.

Somewhere I've been:<\/b> Galveston, TX. The summer I graduated from high school, two friends and I road-tripped down there and camped on the beach. It was really my first road trip with just my friends, where we could do whatever we wanted. My main memories are of skinny-dipping at night. Leaving our suits on the beach and swimming out as far as we could, until everything was darkness and pinpricks of light, the stars and the glow from shore and us in the warm Gulf water. Sooooo dangerous. Sooooo not what we were supposed to be doing. But beautiful, and really liberating in a way. One of those moments when everything is potential and you're struck by just how big the world is.

Somewhere I'd like to go:<\/b> The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. My favorite cousin is an art historian who does a lot of work with Ecuadorian art and architecture, so she and her husband keep an apartment in Quito. My mom and I went down for 10 days last October, and it was wonderful, but we barely made it out of Quito, since there was so much to see. I'm already planning to go back, hopefully next time hopefully with enough money\/time that I can go to the Galapagos too.

Someone I know:<\/b> I don't know that many people whose first name starts with G, I don't think, or I'm just blanking. I have a lot of friends whose last names do. One of my best friends from grad school's last name is Gamwell. He's in San Francisco now, though we just spent New Year's together in New Orleans. When strangers ask how we met, we say it's through our exes, who used to be fuck buddies. That's a very flippant answer, and its not a full picture of the dynamic that was going on there, but it's still pretty true.

A film I like:<\/b> I wanted to pick something that isn't also a book, so probably Ghost<\/em>. Such a cheesy choice, and again there are others, but that's one I loved as a kid. My friends and I would have sleepovers and watch it over and over again - like three-four times in a night. Just rewind it when it ended and start over. I probably haven't seen it in 14-15 years, but I bet I still know all the dialogue by heart.

A book I like:<\/b> Gone Girl<\/em> I'm sure there are others if I think harder, but I just read this a few months ago, and it stayed with me. Because I loved it so much. :( It is everything I love. :( They're such terrible people who deserve each other. :( My favorite dynamic; I ship it so hard. :( Something is so wrong with me. :((

Anyway, leave a comment and I'll give you a letter!

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:434093","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/434093.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=434093"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2015-01-30T15:16:00","published":"2015-01-30T21:29:20Z","updated":"2015-01-30T21:51:42Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"videogames"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"fob"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"dragon age"}}],"content":"By posting today, I will have posted the same number of times this month as I did in all of 2014. Of course, that's only three. But still. Progress.

I listened to the new Fall Out Boy<\/em> album, and I like it. I don't like ALL of it, but I don't usually like every song on any album. I like most of it, and I love some of it, and mostly it just sounds like Fall Out Boy. I like \"The Kids Aren't Alright\" and \"Jet Pack Blues\" and \"Favorite Record\" and \"Fourth of July.\" In my head \"Centuries\" is a vampire AU or yet another bandom song that should someday be a The Vampire Lestat<\/em> fanvid. I have a list I'm saving for someday in the future when there is actually source for said vids.

I continue to play a lot of Dragon Age: Origins<\/em> and I know a lot of you have been playing the different Dragon Ages<\/em> or Mass Effects<\/em> lately. This is the first time I've spent much time with an RPG since Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen<\/a>, which was released in 1993. So. I've played a lot of video games over the last several years, but more things like Halo<\/em>, Portal<\/em>, Bioshock<\/em>, Dead Space<\/em>, etc. I forgot about, like, creating your character and shaping the story (admittedly within constraints, but a lot more than you do with an FPS - and more than with M&M<\/em> too, actually). I guess my question is this - how does fanfiction work<\/em>? I haven't really explored it yet, so I could go looking, but I'm mostly interested in it, well, academically - and in other people's responses to it. Is it just self-insert all the time? My character is a human, female, noble rogue. She's in love with Leliana. She would bang Zevran in a heartbeat if Leliana wouldn't get mad about it. She thinks Alistair's cute, and keeps trying and failing to let him down gently. She's very cunning, and talks her way out of anything she can because she's always rather do that than fight, unless its to protect her friends (Marjolaine and Flemeth have to die). She's grew up pretty religious, and that lingers. She makes choices along those lines, but she's not really *good* so much as she's loyal and knows she has a duty.

And I have all of that in my head because when I started playing Bioware games, my brother told me the best way is to pick a characterization and stick to it. Decide who your character is and then do what they would do, make the choices they would make - and I agree that having a coherent characterization helps me enjoy the game more. BUT if I were to write fic about this, it wouldn't necessarily resonate with other people the way fanfic normally does because...it's not the same story for other players. It's not like writing Portal fic<\/a> (\/shameless plug), where it's always Chell's story. I don't particularly want to read or write fic, at least not yet, but I'm super fascinated by how the fandom operates.


Like -

Leliana's not the same after Marjolaine.

She's quicker to fight, a little colder and, you're glad of it because she's probably more likely to survive.

She loves you, though, and that's easier too, now that she doesn't feel like she's hiding anymore. You look at her now, when she revels in her history as a spy, and have to remind yourself that the simple chantry sister she pretended to be was an aspiration not a mask, and none of this means she wasn't called by the Maker as she claimed. You too have been called, after all. And you too remember how you were both more and less, before you were this.

They just call you \"Warden\" now. Alistair has been a warden longer. Alistair is right there, and Alistair will be king, but that's why, isn't it? If you're The Warden, then everyone can pretend, just a little bit longer, that Alistair doesn't also have the death sentence of the Darkspawn Taint running through his veins.<\/em>

etc, etc, etc. But other players are going to have different backstory, or different relationships, or some combination, SO INTERESTING.<\/a>

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:433724","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/433724.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=433724"}}],"title":"Things","published":"2015-01-27T04:54:30Z","updated":"2015-01-27T05:38:15Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"hooraythecobra"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"x-files"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"white collar"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"vampire_chronicles"}}],"content":"I have been back in DC for a couple of weeks, and have more or less spent that time obsessively playing Dragon Age<\/em> and playing with my new cat, who I brought back from North Carolina where he'd been living on my friend's sunporch. It's nice to have the company because the flipside of telecommuting giving you the flexibility to travel is telecommuting giving you the opportunity to become a reclusive shut-in. January, my nemesis. We meet again.

Fannish things, in bullet points
1.<\/b> I continue to be in a pretty drawn out dry-spell, though I'm hoping to at least have a bit of a bandom resurgence if\/when Cobra finishes their album and tours because I am always and forever there for Gabe Saporta. If I'm in town, I'm going to try to get to the Fall Out Boy tour this summer also.

2.<\/b> Also, always and forever there for Dana Scully, so if the X-Files Reboot<\/a> happens, my high school friends and I are actually talking about all road-tripping home to have an old-school X-Files<\/em> party like we used to in high school. It might be terrible, but it almost doesn't even matter, I am so overwhelmed by nostalgia feelings. (For anyone not aware, \"home\" is, in fact, Roswell, NM, which makes it better).
2a.<\/b> It's really more of an abbreviated, much-delayed 10th season than a reboot, right? \"Reboot\" to me implies recasting and reimaging. Which I would also watch. Anyway.

3.<\/b> Speaking of texts that defined my adolescence and are now back in my life, I've been co-sleeping with my copy of Prince Lestat<\/a> for a month, but am too afraid it's going to be a disappointment to read it.

4.<\/b> I'm behind on things I feel like I would otherwise have more fannish feelings about, notably The Vampire Diaries<\/em> and White Collar<\/em>. I accidentally spoiled myself for the end of White Collar<\/em>,though, and it sounds like the ending was PERFECT. I very rarely feel that way about TV show finales, so I need to get caught up. And then I need to learn to vid so I can make my series of Neal Caffrey character study vids to Jakob Dylan songs.

5.<\/b> I am going to finish the hockey fic I have been writing for a year and a half, probably post it under a pseud, and move on with my fucking life. God.

Otherwise, I play a LOT of video games, mostly FPS, but I have moved on to RPGs. (The reason I didn't play RPGs is I KNOW how obsessive I am and I knew if I started I would get sucked in and that's all I would do. I wasn't wrong). I also still watch a good deal of television, the more over-the-top and ridiculously convoluted, the better. Like, I watch Revenge<\/em> and think \"but this could maybe be a little more melodramatic, tho.\" So that's where I am.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:433455","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/433455.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=433455"}}],"title":"Happy New Year!","published":"2015-01-02T06:23:04Z","updated":"2015-01-02T06:23:04Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"faking it"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}}],"content":"Yuletide reveals happened!

I wrote: once had a grip on everything<\/a> - Faking It; Karma\/Amy

***

It has been a low key, relaxing day of good food, copious booze and great friends in a place I love. Here's to beginning the year as you mean to go on.

Happy New Year to all of you! Wishing you great things in 2015.

I don't make resolutions, really, but I am going to try<\/em> to be around fandom more. I miss you guys. ♥

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:433350","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/433350.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=433350"}}],"title":"A few Yuletide recs","published":"2014-12-31T07:37:34Z","updated":"2014-12-31T07:44:14Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"orphan black"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"the good wife"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"scandal"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"faking it"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}}],"content":"I am in New Orleans with friends for New Year's, and it is great, especially because I am going to miss Mardi Gras this year for the second time since I moved there when I was 18.

Before I came to NOLA, I spent two weeks visiting my family and a week in Charlotte, NC visiting a childhood friend before her wedding. By the time I get back to DC I'll have been gone a month. Full-time telecommuting continues to be a fucking game-changer. The trade-off is I work longer hours than I ever have in my life, but most of the time it's worth it.

Anyway, hi! I hope you all are well and everyone celebrating had a good Christmas. Mine was lovely and low-key. I spent it reading a lot of Yuletide fic, and letting my brother talk me into watching the entire Saw<\/em> series so I would believe him that as a whole it has satisfying narrative arc. My family has the best bonding activities.

Speaking of Yuletide:

I got The Comfort of Home<\/a>, for Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner<\/em> Series. This was a charming little slice-of-life moment for Alec and Seregil. The fic does a great job of capturing the affection, playfulness and respect that's really at the heart of their dynamic.

A couple other recs, all femslash (do we still do rec lists here? Where am I? What year is it?):

1) The individual in All Possible Forms<\/a>; Orphan Black<\/em>
The Cosima POV is really great here - the way she thinks about the others and Delphine and herself<\/em>. Cosima's my favorite and I just found myself nodding along with every line of this, like yes, she would think that<\/em>.

2) The Hand that Feeds<\/a>; Orphan Black<\/em>
I wasn't going to do two from one fandom, but this fic just struck me. It's dark and it's twisted, but it's spot-on Rachel.

3) never miss a beat (sparking up my heart)<\/a>;Taylor Swift RPF<\/em>
This is Lorde outside POV on Taylor Swift\/Karlie Kloss, and it is so good. Bisexual Taylor Swift is everything to me, but beyond that, the Lorde voice here is vivid and compelling, and the Lorde&TSwift friendship is delightful in every way.

4) a morning sunrise all the time<\/a>; She Keeps Me Warm - Mary Lambert Music Video<\/em>
The writing in this is warm and lovely and honest<\/em>, and there was one conversation that just blindsided me with feelings (in a good way!) This is really, really well done.

5) For Success<\/a>; Scandal<\/em>
This is an AU where Mellie is president and sleeping with Olivia instead of Fitz, and every word is perfect. I wrote Mellie-centric Scandal fic for Yuletide last year and I was pretty proud of it, actually, but it was not this good, and I did not successfully get Mellie and Olivia to make out, so this is kiiiiind of the fic I wish I'd written.

6) Hexagonal Symmetry<\/a>; The Good Wife<\/em>
A huddling for warmth fic, with porn, that takes into account all the issues and baggage between Alicia and Kalinda. My only complaint is that it isn't 50,000 words long. The language here is really vivid, and does a great job of using the setting and the trope to convey Kalinda's state of mind.

7) she might've let you hold your hand in high school (but i'mma show you how to graduate)<\/a>; Faking It<\/em>
Amy falls in love again, after Karma. This is lovely and gentle, and is really fair and respectful to both Amy and Karma, and treats their friendship as equally important to both of them, even if it's not romantic.

I also wrote femslash (as I do every year except for the year I failed to make Mellie and Olivia make out). I feel like this year's fic was pretty obviously me, but I usually feel that way.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:433055","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/433055.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=433055"}}],"title":"Yuletide 2014 Letter","published":"2014-10-23T14:50:14Z","updated":"2014-11-02T01:49:46Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}},"content":"*cough* Hello, all! It's that time of year again, when I show up for Yuletide and pretend I know what's going on.

This letter is a placeholder, etc. etc.

In the meantime, hiiiiiii. I hope you all are well. ♥ ♥

UPDATE: Yuletide Requests 2014

Hello, Yuletide author! Thank you for writing for me! Yuletide is one of my favorite fannish activities, and the one thing I commit to every year, even when I'm on the waning side of my fannish participation. I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me.

I don't have a whole lot to add about the specific fandoms to add to my sign-up, but here are some more general things I like\/don't like, in case that's helpful:

General likes: angst, slow-build first times, partners-in-crime\/comrades-in-arms, worthy adversaries who respect each other, trickster characters, endearing assholes, grand gestures, characters who are really competent, dramatic reveals, coming out narratives, happy endings that feel *earned,* open endings, intense platonic connections (including sibling relationships), mixed gender three-or-moresomes, open relationships, bisexual characters.

General dislikes: character bashing, AUs with no clear connection to canon (I'm not a big AU person in general, but I've read some that I loved - as long as they're really true to the characters, I can be convinced), bleak endings, hard-core kink, significant power imbalances in romantic relationships, incest, omegaverse. I have a pretty big embarrassment squick. <\/a>

By Fandom:


She-Ra; Adora<\/b>

What I said in my request:
Adora is the only character I requested, but there's no one I wouldn't like to see, so feel free to include whoever else you want. Any fic focused on her is going to make me happy. I'm particularly interested in anything that deals with her secret identity and the ramifications of having to keep that secret (bonus points if it's revealed to someone or dealing with the fallout of the reveal). I would prefer that a pairing not be the central focus, but it doesn't have to be gen (though it's fine if it is!). I would love Adora femslash, but I'm open to any pairing (either involving Adora or in the background) except for incest.<\/em>

I request this every year, in pretty much these exact words. I basically want Adora coming out as She-Ra fic. Someday this will happen. SOMEDAY.<\/a>



Gravity; Mission Control<\/b>

What I said in my request:
Feel free to include any other characters you like, I just didn't want to make them mandatory. What I'm really interested in is what's going on on Earth while Ryan Stone is in space. All of the satellites get taken out, so Earth has pretty much lost all digital communications. What is she even coming back to?

Anything that focuses on what's going on on the ground during the movie, would be awesome, but I'd also love post-movie fic that really dug into the fallout\/rebuilding from the events of the movie.<\/em>

I just feel like this movie is wide-open for fanfic. It centers around what is essentially a major disaster with world-wide implications for communication and politics and culture, but obviously we don't see any of that. So...what happens when Ryan Stone is still up there? What happens when she gets back? Feel free to focus on what happens to her post-movie, or on mission control, or even on original characters. Whatever you want. I think there's so much potential to play in the universe of this movie. <\/a>



Nightrunner Series; Alec and Seregil<\/b>

What I said in my request:

I just read \"Shards of Time,\" which rekindled my love of the Nightrunner Series. I'd love anything that really focuses in on Seregil and Alec's relationship - I'm easy to please with these two. I'd be happy with something plotty set during one of their nightrunning adventures, or just a quiet moment between them. All I ask is that they stay happy and together (though I do like angst, so relationship rockiness is okay, as long as it all ends well!)<\/em>

Anything with their relationship at the heart of it would be great. I liked Shards of Time a lot, but I didn't really feel like it gave me enough Alec and Seregil I'd actually love something a little angsty (that resolved happily, of course) because I just really love angst and pining. But I also love the playfulness of their relationship, so if you want to keep it lighter and happier, that's fine by me too. :) <\/a>


Aaaaand, I guess that's it! I thought I requested You're the Worst<\/em>, but its not showing up on my sign-up, so maybe not. I I had my sign-up open in a couple of tabs - maybe I hit save on the wrong one or accidentally deleted it? WHO KNOWs.

Anyway, all I wanted there was Jimmy\/Gretchen forever, being actually in love but still terrible assholes who make terrible choices because assholes in love with each other is my #1 bullet proof kink. \"[personal<\/a>inlovewithnight<\/b><\/a><\/span> has been telling me \"no, but really, watch this show\" for awhile now because she really knows me. She was right. Next year, I guess!

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:432743","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/432743.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=432743"}}],"title":"Happy New Year and Yuletide","published":"2014-01-02T20:02:37Z","updated":"2014-01-02T20:02:37Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"scandal"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}}],"content":"First: Yuletide

I received & someone's got to fall before someone goes free<\/a> by brampersandon, Breaking Bad<\/em> gen in which 5 good things happen to Jesse Pinkman. It is perfect<\/em>. It is everything I wanted from that prompt - grace and something like forgiveness - done in a way I could actually believe. I was in tears by the time I was half-way through. Perfect for opening Christmas morning. I told my family about it. I made non-fannish friends read it.

I wrote The Ones You Call at Four AM<\/a>, Scandal<\/em> gen, a Mellie Grant character study. I didn't even offer Scandal<\/em>. I matched with my recipient on two other fandoms, but when I saw her prompt, I realized I absolutely should<\/em> have offered it, just in case someone wanted a Mellie character study, because that was a think that I absolutely needed to write.

So overall, successful Yuletide!


Second: Happy New Year! I rang in 2014 at a bear dance party (because I AM A GOOD FRIEND), and it was certainly an experience.

After two weeks in Birmingham with my parents, I'm in San Francisco for a week visiting a grad school friend who recently moved out here. The ability I have to telecommute with my new job has legit changed my life. Who knew work could not be soul-crushing? I certainly didn't.

I'm feeling optimistic - cautiously, but sincerely - about 2014. Even if I am turning 30 in two months (ahhhhhh). I think having such a chunk of time away was really good and restorative for me, especially at the end of the year where I could really regroup and think. 2013 was okay to me (or at least better than 2012), especially by the end, but it started out dicey and was pretty shitty to a lot of my friends. I'm not sorry to it go, but I'm starting 2014 from a pretty good place, so...here's hoping that's something I can hold onto.

San Francisco has been beautiful and my friend lives in the sunset right by beach, and I could watch the sunset on the beach every day for the rest of my life and be pretty thrilled with that, but it will also be good to be back in DC on Saturday. I miss my life there and my friends, and my back misses my bed after three weeks combined on my parents' terrible futon and an air mattress.

Anyway, I hope you all are well! ♥♥♥

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:432478","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/432478.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=432478"}}],"title":"Fic: Portal","published":"2013-11-11T16:53:07Z","updated":"2013-11-11T16:53:40Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"portal"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"fic!"}}],"content":"Portal 3<\/a>
Chell Gen
Spoilers for Portal 2<\/em>, assumes knowledge of Half-Life

This is totally random, and I only know of one person on my flist who has even played Portal<\/em>, but just in case it's relevant to anyone's interests! I've sat on this for ages because it's...bigger in my head, but I think it is what it is, and it's time to let it go.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:432140","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/432140.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=432140"}}],"title":"Yuletide Letter","published":"2013-10-16T02:37:16Z","updated":"2013-10-16T02:37:16Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}},"content":"Yuletide Letter updated<\/a> for those who like to read them.

LOOK I POSTED SIX TIMES IN 2013. \/o\\

Real life update for real as soon as I even decide where to start. I'm doing okay, though. It's been kind of a weird year, but I have a new job that improved things a lot, and I'm hanging in there. Trying to figure out how to work my way back into fandom. :)

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:432083","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/432083.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=432083"}}],"title":"Yuletide!","published":"2013-10-08T18:52:38Z","updated":"2013-10-16T02:26:57Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"she-ra"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"house of cards"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"elementary"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"breaking bad"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"yuletide"}}],"content":"Counting this, I have posted five times in 2013, and I never even posted about Yuletide last year. I suck at fandom.

FYI:

Last year, I wrote Opened Up My Eyes: The Remix<\/a> Pitch Perfect<\/em>; Aubrey\/Chloe

I received two fics, both of which were brilliant and amazing and which I would have talked up at the time if I didn't suck at fandom.

The Distance Between Stars<\/a> Pushing Daisies<\/em>; Charlotte\/Ned\/Olive This fic was everything I ever wanted Pushing Daisies<\/em> to be.

Not Knowing What Will Greet Me<\/a> gen fic about Mars Rovers that was delightful and also succeeded in making me cry.

So consider this a placeholder for this year's Yuletide letter. (Yuletide Author, above are some examples of things I like!)

Possibly rl updates will follow. How is everyone?

ETA: Yuletide Requests: 2013

First of all, thank you for writing for me! Below are some general likes and dislikes and additional details in case that is a thing that is helpful. I'm sure I will love whatever you come up with!

General likes: angst, slow-build first times, partners-in-crime\/comrades-in-arms, worthy adversaries who respect each other, trickster characters, endearing assholes, grand gestures, characters who are really competent, dramatic reveals, coming out narratives, happy endings that feel *earned,* open endings, intense platonic connections (including sibling relationships), mixed gender three-or-moresomes, open relationships, bisexual characters.

General dislikes: character bashing, AUs with no clear connection to canon, truly bleak endings, hard-core kink, significant power imbalances in romantic relationships, incest, omegaverse. I have a pretty big embarrassment squick. <\/a>

By Fandom:

She-Ra<\/em><\/strong>; Adora
What I said in my request:
Adora is the only character I requested, but there's no one I wouldn't like to see, so feel free to include whoever else you want. Any fic focused on her is going to make me happy. I'm particularly interested in anything that deals with her secret identity and the ramifications of having to keep that secret (bonus points if it's revealed to someone or dealing with the fallout of the reveal). I would prefer that a pairing not be the central focus, but it doesn't have to be gen (though it's fine if it is!). I would love Adora femslash, but I'm open to any pairing (either involving Adora or in the background) except for incest.<\/em>

That's pretty much word for word lifted from my request last year and the year before that. I request She-Ra<\/em> fic every year. I think it was the first text I ever had truly fannish impulses for - give me fic about Adora and I will love you forever.<\/a>

Breaking Bad<\/em><\/strong>; Jesse Pinkman
What I said in my request:
Include whoever else you want, but I just want a fic in which something good happens to Jesse. Really anything. Maybe his mom hugs him or someone else in his family hugs him. That would be nice. Maybe he eventually salvages his relationship with his brother somehow? Maybe Badger and Skinny Pete are supportive friends? Or maybe he even has some kind of moment of understanding\/closure with Skyler or Marie or Walter Jr. (or Saul, when he runs into him in Omaha ten years later)? ANYTHING. I just want some moment of peace or grace for Jesse.<\/em>

I don't really have much else here either. Maybe he makes another box and does give it to his mom this time? Maybe he finds a way to take care of Brock? I don't know! I want fic in which something good (or even just NOT TERRIBLE) happens to Jesse and no one emotionally manipulates him in any way. :( <\/a>

House of Cards<\/em><\/strong>; Francis Underwood, Claire Underwood, Zoe Barnes, Janine Skorsky
What I said in my request:
This doesn't need to include all of these characters if you don't want it too - happy for it to focus on Claire and Francis and their relationship (which I find fascinating - more co-conspirators than lovers, but how did it happen?) OR Zoe and Janine and the development of their tentative truce (femslash and\/or threesome with Lucas welcome, but not necessary).<\/em>

So in this, I'm kind of interested in EITHER Claire and Francis OR Zoe and Janine, though if you can find a way to include all of them, that works too! Just don't feel like you have to. The relationship between Claire and Francis is possibly the most compelling aspect of the show for me. They hit both my \"worthy adversaries\" and my \"partners-in-crime\" buttons hard, and \"assholes-in-love\" is kind of my quintessential pairing dynamic, so ANYTHING exploring their dynamic would be great. What's their history? How did they meet? How do they feel about each other now?

With Zoe and Janine, as I said above, I'm interested in their prickly truce and anything with them that focuses on how they're plotting against Francis would be great. I just want to see them be smart and competent and manipulative in their own right. I am so into the way this show is full of characters who are terrible people. :( <\/a>

Elementary<\/em><\/strong>; Joan, Sherlock, Irene, Det. Bell
What I said in my request:
Again, not necessary to include all four characters! Any combination is good, though I prefer Joan and Sherlock's relationship to stay platonic. Here are some potential things that would be interesting to me:

1) Sherlock\/Irene - ALWAYS. Either her coming back or an AU where he agrees to leave with her. I like them as worthy adversaries with real and complicated feelings for each other.
2) Sherlock\/Bell - how does it happen?
3) Joan\/Bell - how does it happen?
4) Joan & Sherlock gen - super interested in the idea of her being bisexual and bringing home a girlfriend and Sherlock being all \"I did not deduce this!\" but really any slice of life that highlights their friendship would be great.<\/em>

Again, Sherlock\/Irene hits a lot of my buttons, so a focus on any aspect of their relationship would be great. But I also love Joan, so anything that focuses on her would also make me pretty happy and I've been moaning about wanting SOMEONE to bone Det. Bell for, like, a year. As I said above, I prefer Joan and Sherlock to stay platonic. THAT SAID, I'm open to being persuaded by Joan\/Sherlock\/Bell if that interests you. :) <\/a>

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:431723","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/431723.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=431723"}}],"title":"the only icons I have left on DW are Vampires Diaries, but at least this one has wine in it","published":"2013-06-05T02:49:43Z","updated":"2013-06-05T02:52:11Z","content":"Hello! Since we last spoke, I went to two phenomenal, emotionally intense Fall Out Boy shows and also realized that I'm now attracted to Patrick Stump since he apparently got shockingly stage hot. So that's new. Also, it was just so, so good to have FoB back. I didn't quite realize I still had FoB feelings to the degree I seem to, but there they were. Feelings and nostalgia for 2007 all over the place. I think it helped that they were having so many feelings. Like, feelings were coming off of the stage in waves; I don't know how anyone could have avoided being affected by it.

The morning after the DC FoB show, I got up at 4:30 and flew to Seattle, where I spent few days with \"[personal<\/a>fiercynn<\/b><\/a><\/span>, and also saw \"[personal<\/a>romantical<\/b><\/a><\/span> and some college friends. It was a great time - gorgeous and sunny and warm all weekend, which I have been assured is abnormal, but it was BEAUTIFUL - and obviously it was awesome to see everyone. \"[personal<\/a>fiercynn<\/b><\/a><\/span> made me watch Due South<\/em>, I made her watch White Collar<\/em>, like you do.

Now I'm on my way to the wilds of British Columbia to see my baby cousin graduate from high school. I took the train up to Vancouverearly this morning to meet my parents, who were supposed to fly in from Alabama at noon. That didn't happen and they got rerouted all over the place and are going to end up in Kelowna instead, so they bought me a ticket to Kelowna and texted me the flight info before I crossed the border and lost cell reception. Then I spent all day wandering aimlessly and phonelessly around Vancouver snarking at Twitter whenever I had WiFi. Most bars had WiFi, so by \"wandering aimlessly through Vancouver,\" I mostly mean \"pub crawling along Gastown\/the Waterfront.\" Responsible life choices!

Now I'm at a new bar in the Vancouver airport, waiting for my puddle jumper to Vancouver, substituting beer for Klonopin, and pretending I'm not watching hockey. Later I may see if this WiFi signal is strong enough to download the Teen Wolf<\/em> season premiere, so, you know. I hope you're pleased with yourself, Fandom.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:431419","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/431419.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=431419"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2013-05-25T19:41:00","published":"2013-05-26T00:10:19Z","updated":"2013-05-26T03:41:13Z","category":[{"@attributes":{"term":"fannish_history"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"hooraythecobra"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"elementary"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"vampire_diaries"}},{"@attributes":{"term":"fob"}}],"content":"I am in Boston with \"[personal<\/a>elucidate_this<\/b><\/a><\/span>. Right now we are watching hockey. Or, more accurately, she is watching hockey and I'm playing on my laptop. The Bruins are playing the Rangers, and I'm rooting for the Bruins, which she says I should do because they* knocked out the Caps, which I should care about. Also, I'm sitting on her couch, so rooting for the same team is probably the way to go. I know pretty much nothing about hockey except for what I keep inadvertantly learning from hockey fic, which I read more of than I like to admit to these days since it seems to be a fandom almost entirely dedicated to coming out fic about people who are really bad at having feelings. I'm super easy for that.

Tomorrow we will see Fall Out Boy, and I'm very excited, both for seeing them in general and for seeing them with \"[personal<\/a>elucidate_this<\/b><\/a><\/span> - we fell hard into bandom together all those years ago (SIX?!?!?! Really? What.), and the only bandom band we've ever seen together is The Cab, so seeing a FoB reunion show feels very appropriate. We were supposed to see my Cobras together when I had plans to follow them up and down the east coast whenever they toured, but then they foiled those plans by never, ever touring on Night Shades<\/em>. Hopefully they'll tour on the new album they're apparently recording.

Speaking of Cobras, Gabe Saporta is getting married this weekend and I have Feelings about that. Hopefully there will be pictures all over the internet.

In other fannish news:

1) Still six episodes behind on Vampire Diaries<\/em>, and holding out until I can watch it with my viewing buddy who lives in New York, but it's still the closest thing I have to current fannish feelings.

2) Elementary<\/em> is my new favorite show, and I don't know how *fannish* I really am, per se, but that season finale could not have been more up my alley if it had been specifically written for me, so if anyone wants to talk about that...

3) I saw Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/em> opening night with \"[personal<\/a>inlovewithnight<\/b><\/a><\/span> and \"[personal<\/a>sansets<\/b><\/a><\/span>. I may see it again while I'm here. I really liked it, and probably don't want to debate that. I totally get the issues people had with it, and there were things that didn't work for me, but there was a lot that did, and I had a visceral reaction to it that I was't really expecting. And also, on a purely shallow\/fannish level, I'm on the Kirk\/Spock train for the first time ever. I was never OPPOSED before, but I was pretty solidly neutral. The archetypal slash pairing and I finally get it! So there's that.

4) Doctor Who<\/em>. What?

The Bruins just won Yay!

How are you guys?

*ETA: The Rangers knocked out the Caps, so I should be rooting against them, is what that was meant to say.

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:431243","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/431243.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=431243"}}],"title":"redbrickrose @ 2013-05-04T12:29:00","published":"2013-05-04T16:58:57Z","updated":"2013-05-04T17:40:39Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"hooraythecobra"}},"content":"Still sucking at LJ\/DW, to the point where I don't have a paid account on DW right now, so don't even have any Cobra Starship icons here, HOWEVER:

\"[personal<\/a>inlovewithnight<\/b><\/a><\/span> wrote with heart in hand<\/a> (Pete\/Gabe, Gabe\/Erin, Pete\/Meagan) and dedicated in to me, and it is coming out fic involving Gabe Saporta and polyamory and feelings (and that's four things I have a pretty intense weakness for) and it made me cry in my kitchen this morning, so. You guys should read it too. <33

In other news, I have done fannish due diligence and seen Iron Man 3<\/em> and I'm making Star Trek<\/em> plans as we speak. I also have tickets for two FOB shows at the end of the month, the DC show and then the Boston show with \"[personal<\/a>elucidate_this<\/b><\/a><\/span>. FANDOM I HAVE NOT FORSAKEN YOU.

Also, last night I went to Whedonism: A Joss Whedon Tribute Burlesque Show<\/a>, and it was raunchy and hilarious and delightful and packed with in-jokes. Who knew there was such a thing in the world?

\"comment comments at Dreamwidth<\/a> | Comment at Dreamwidth<\/a>"},{"id":"urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:redbrickrose:431086","link":[{"@attributes":{"rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/431086.html"}},{"@attributes":{"rel":"self","type":"text\/xml","href":"https:\/\/redbrickrose.livejournal.com\/data\/atom\/?itemid=431086"}}],"title":"Hello","published":"2013-04-12T20:25:07Z","updated":"2013-04-12T20:25:07Z","category":{"@attributes":{"term":"fob"}},"content":"Ahahahahahaha, you guys, it is April, WHAT. I didn't mean to not post since November (I have actually been really bothered about never making a Yuletide post THIS ENTIRE TIME, whoops).

I don't even remember how to do this. So Fall Out Boy is back! That's pretty great, right? When I first read the announcement, I literally full-on cried at my desk. I had no idea I had that many bandom feelings left, but apparently I did and Save Rock and Roll<\/em> has only given me more. Now I just listen to it on repeat, and worry too much about the pieces I overidentify with, just like every other FOB album. Hooray!

How are you guys?

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