Hi, hello! I haven't read my flist in much too long so I will do that next but right now I need to vomit my feelings somewhere about Z Nation because I'm obsessed with it. That's what happens when you're vidding a show.

Z Nation is a post-apocalyptic zombie show that has some intensely dark episodes but is also incredibly goofy and it somehow (mostly) manages to navigate that goofy/dark mix with aplomb. It does this because the characters are grounded in their emotional truth, and they are a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Roberta Warren is in my top tier of All Time characters. This is her:









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But also look at these losers:



And that doesn't even have Sun or Hector, both of who joined in season 3. Or Citizen Z! Or Kaya!

I ended up absorbing Z Nation by doing computer stuff while AHH watched it in the same room until all of a sudden I was invested. I went back and started watching from the beginning and now it sits next to Prison Break in the fannish corner of my heart for "absurd but dearly beloved and actually good shows that I trust not to hurt me." It's a very specific corner of my fannish heart, and these are basically the only two shows there. Hee.

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I need other people in this fandom with me because I still have to finish this Dragon Age fic and cannot be writing stuff right now. Although the show is really gory a LOT of the time so I know it's not for everyone. (But: multiple POC characters! Warren starts out as a sidekick and BECOMES the heroic leader and gets to experience womanpain! Gorgeous lighting! Ridiculous slow-mo!) I hope my vid snares a couple of you. Hee.

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HELLO. Today, in honor of people coming back to the ol' blogosphere, I want to engage in some pure, unadulterated fannish ship squee. Here's what you do: you comment to this post with your fandom and ship name in the subject line of your comment (I'll do a sample to show you) and then just, y'know, SQUEE. Flail uncontrollably! Post pictures! Talk about that ONE TIME when they DID THAT THING.

Rules:
1. SQUEE ONLY
2. If in the course of your squee you harsh someone else's ship, I'll ask you to edit (if you don't, I'll screen)
3. If you comment to someone else's squee with harsh, I'll delete the comment
4. You are welcome to post about MULTIPLE SHIPS
5. This is a "comments encouraged" space, so please respond to other people's squee with your own!
6. ALL SHIPS WELCOME, including Friend Ships! (If someone posts about what good friends people are, don't respond to their comment shipping them romantically, that will also be deleted)
7. HAVE FUN and USE CAPSLOCK (if you want)

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HI EVERYONE! Welcome to the TENTH (!!!) annual More Joy Day!



The goal of today is for us to seek out and give joy to others, in the hopes that it will expand outward into the world, which desperately needs it. We're kicking off the year - on this day in particular - with joy in the hopes of beginning as we mean to go on. Let's have some joy, even if just for a day, or the moment you give it, and carry it with us in the year to come. Here is the post where I describe the inspiration and intent behind More Joy Day.

The ultimate goal is to do just one joy-filled thing for someone(s) today; either something small, like letting someone in front of you in line or in traffic, or something big, like writing a fic or making a vid or buying a new couch for someone (who knows, it could happen). The smallest amount of joy helps, and is a kindness that wasn't there when you started. Online OR offline counts! Whatever you can manage. You're further encouraged to then post about it and comment here with your link for further joy-sharing. If you're doing this on Twitter, we'll be using the hashtag #MoreJoyDay and for Tumblr, tag it "more joy day." I LOVE reading about what other people did, so please don't hesitate to publicize it!

So! Comment away - and I'll post again in a bit with my own contribution. And you're welcome to link to this post. Happy More Joy Day to you all!

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So I decided to do this meme:

Grab the nearest book, flip to page 117, the second sentence is your life in 2017.

And the book nearest me is The Life and Times of Aaron Burr. Here is my sentence:

Soon Colonel Burr saw brave men begin to fall about him,in consequence, as he thought, of blundering generalship; and his feelings toward the commander-in-chief were deeply embittered.







COME ON.

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A reminder that MORE JOY DAY is THIS FRIDAY, January 20th!! I'm actually super excited about this one, even though I have only a vague idea of what I'm going to actually DO. Although I am getting my hair done, so I guess more joy for ME is taken care of. Heh.

I was listening to "For Good" in the car this morning, which made me ship Elphaba/Glinda, because, I mean, YOU KNOW, and then I wondered if there were vids to it (I'm sure there are but I haven't looked) and then I got to thinking about Ray Vecchio because I'm only ever one step away from thinking about Ray Vecchio at any particular moment in my life and I was reminded of "One Good Man" and how that was an episode that heavily featured Vecchio's ex-wife and yet it somehow still just made him seem even more in love with Fraser and then I thought about Fraser helping Vecchio release his inner good person and that's why Vecchio HAD to go to Vegas and then I thought about Vecchio in Vegas, scared and trying so hard and there because he wanted to do the Right Thing and then I got really sad and now I am here sharing these thoughts with you because that's what blogs are for, darn it.

Oh my god all of my Due South icons are gone??? I didn't want to get a Premium account but my multifannishness may compel me. I can't NOT have due South icons. Come on.

Couple of fannish things: FandomTrumpsHate is running over at Tumblr. (Offerings list here.) I have bid on someone to draw some sketches for me to put into a Blackwall vid I want to make because Dragon Age is my life now? But seriously I'm super excited about the potential of this vid, and how it will be using outside and original sources (her fanart), so I hope my bid wins. All proceeds go to good causes! If you're into saving the world, that is. Auctions close tomorrow (Thursday the 19th)!

And apparently there is a Cuddles For Comfort 2017 sort of lowkey mini-challenge going on, if that is your thing. I am Here For Cuddles, personally, though all of my writing will is still bent upon finishing my DA:I fic, which continues apace and has crested a 56k word count.

My urge to create a Roberta Warren from Z Nation vid continues to gnaw at my bones and I DO have a song that would be amazing but it's kind of goofy (which...Z Nation is ALSO kind of goofy) and I feel like Roberta deserves better. IDK, IDK. Vidding is great, but this fic. THIS FIC. I GOTTA FINISH THIS FIC. It's stoppering up all other fannish work because it's so near to being done. I just need to do it.

I need a Warren icon. And more icon slots.

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* Titles, man. Titles. They are impossible.

* Did you know people can "like" your LJ entries?! I just discovered this this week it happened to me.

* I want to start playing Witcher 3 but I feel like emotionally I need to finish my DA:I fic first.

* Can I tell you a secret? I haven't played any of the Dragon Age games all the way through more than once each. I started Origins one time for each race/sex mix just to see what happens, but I only ever finished it with my elvish fighter. Gosh I loved that character.

* I think I found another vidsong for Robert Warren from Z-Nation today.

* I gave up The Walking Dead after hearing about what happened in the season premiere this year, and we are both happier for it. The show just isn't for me. BUT in its absence I found the post-zombie apocalypse show of my heart, Z-Nation, so all is well. It's like they say: When God closes a door, a zombie will claw down a different one.

* Prison Break returns to me this year. My precious.

* I want to do that friending meme but I don't want to oversell my activity. *frets*

* I've been to a state legislator meeting and attended an action for healthcare phone call so far this month. Feeling motivated to keep active in the face of awfulness.

* This wolf has a French accent. That's...unexpected.

* Also I've decided I'm not going to delete my LJ, because I have a permanent account and I'm much too attached to it, but I will be focusing my blog reading on DW.

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I went through my Circle and subscribed to people who were subscribed to me, if they've posted since January 2016. Heh. If you intend to start posting again, let me know! It feels so comfortable to be back here on blogs, even though it's DW and not LJ. I scrolled through that friending meme over at [Bad username: st-aurafina"]'s but didn't add anyone because I need to commit to actually being here more regularly first. This space will remain, as it has since the beginning, primarily my fannish space. Twitter will continue to be my political & occasionally fannish space. Tumblr will be where I go when I remember I have one or want to post something that gets seen. Hee.

It is so cold in my office. I wish this space heater worked better. It's blowing DIRECTLY ON ME and I still have a sweatshirt on. I am made of weak temperature resistance.

I went from a premium paid account to a regular paid account here on DW so I've lost some icons, but it's amusing to see which ones still remain. Like walking through a graveyard of fandoms past. "Oh look, there's Treme! Aw, I remember Boomtown. Friday Night Lights!!"

Fannishly this year my goals are to try to re-engage more on DW and to finish my Dragon Age: Inquisition fic. I would love to also make a vid but that seems unlikely. If I don't, though, it would be the first year since I started vidding (in 2003?!) that I DIDN'T make one. So I will try very hard to make at least one. Maybe that Roberta Warren from Z-Nation vid that I super duper want to make. I don't know where to get source anymore, though, now that nobody releases anything on DVD. Anybody have any suggestions?

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Poll preferences point to January 20 as the preferred day, so:

The TENTH More Joy Day will be January 20, 2017

Can you believe the first one was in 2008? That's absurd. Here's the original post about it on LJ. The key points:

In the interest of spreading more joy, I’m proposing that on Friday, January 20th, we each engage in one act, either on the Internet or in the physical world, which brings joy to another person, in the hopes that that person will spread that joy further, and exponentially onward.

Some ideas I had of things we could do:

Fannish: Write a fic, make an icon, make a vid, or make a fanart for someone. Buy someone paid time or userpics. Leave someone a nice comment. Say something nice about something fannish someone else loves. Say something nice about something fannish you love and encourage squee (and squee on someone else’s post if they make one!). Offer to beta for someone.

Other: Offer to donate five dollars to the charity of someone's choice. Send flowers to an online friend in a different city. Buy someone you know online a present. Or a virtual present. Plant a tree or a flower in someone's honor and take a picture of it and post it to your space. When somebody cuts you off at work, wish them well and hope they get where they’re going safely. Make somebody a friendship bracelet. Or a construction paper heart. Call someone you love and tell them so.

Or anything else you can think of!

Then on that Friday, make a post or a tweet saying what you've done (or a note that it's More Joy day), and that will hopefully help spread things further.

This year, by holding it on the day of the US Presidential Inauguration, we are making More Joy Day a stand for the belief in the goodness of people and that each of our individual small actions help keep the world itself afloat. Wherever you are, whoever you voted for, you are invited to join us in doing one small act of joy to prove Mr. Roger's mother's axim to "look for the helpers." There are always so many more helpers than there are those causing harm. Let's prove the power kindness can wield when we wield it together.

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Hello, friends. I'm still cross-posting to LJ for now but the day is swiftly coming that I'm going to delete it, particularly given SUP's decision to no longer allow HTTPS (which is ABSURD). I WILL be keeping my DW, though, and that means I need to make a concentrated effort to find people over here so I don't lose touch entirely. (She says, not having posted since October. /o\)

Regardless, I have a serious question about how to handle More Joy Day this year. I'm kind of starting to think it's jinxing things and making each year progressively worse. Heh. And given what's happening this month, I'm also wondering about timing. SO. A poll:



(Seriously though I devoured 3% and I need to flail about it with everyone. Unequivocally recommended, unless you're tired of dystopias due to, well, life.)

OH. And any thoughts on how to go about getting a fic beta these days? My Blackwall/f!Adaar fic is nearing completion and I'd like to have someone take a look at it, but I don't know anybody personally that actually reads that ship. Heh.

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out_there finished her Michael/Mahone Prison Break Space AU and it's melancholy and sweet and quiet and beautiful and you need to read it!

All We've Left Behind (11190 words) by out_there
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Prison Break
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alexander Mahone/Michael Scofield
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, IN SPACE!
Summary:

For ten times the price, Alex could have been on a better ship with a new stasis system; he could have closed his eyes on Earth and not opened them until they arrived on S0N-A104-5709. But no one with that sort of money ran away to a settlement planet.

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Title: A Beginning Song
Song: The Decemberists, "A Beginning Song"
Fandom: Mariners baseball
Spoilers: For the 2016 season, heh
Summary: I am wanting, should I be wanting?

Download: AVI ( MB) (right click, save target as to download)

Warnings: None

Streaming at YouTube here!

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Turns out I REALLY love baseball, and the Mariners in particular. This season of theirs felt pretty special, even though they didn't even make the playoffs. Maybe it's because it was my first season truly as a fan, but I needed to share my feelings.

Thanks to renenet for giving this a once-over before posting and providing me some of the most beautiful and smart feedback ever. My goodness. If you ever need to feel better about yourself, have her look at your vids. <3 And thanks to the folks who post baseball footage on YT. Literally could not have made this vid without it!

(I'm trying out an updated vidder name: SDW Vids. I haven't decided how I feel about it, but for now, that's what I'm gonna go with on actual vids. I'll still be sdwolfpup all over social media.)

Two am early Monday morning seems like the PERFECT time to post a vid! Heh.

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This is the HEIGHT OF INSOLENCE, I know, but after a long silence on here I'm coming to ask for help. I need a beta for this 2016 Mariners vid I just finished (yes, I made a vid about a baseball team; I don't know who I am anymore either). Don't need to understand baseball so much, just need to understand Sports Feelings. And not hate baseball. I'm looking for timing and general Feelings beta, nothing too heavy, I think.

(HI. I think of you all often. I'm glad I've found so many of you over at Twitter. I still don't get Imzy. I'm also 39,000 words into my Dragon Age fic. This is a weird time for me.)

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HI. I don't have much to say but I actual read through my flist for the first time in awhile today so I wanted to post. A few things:

1. I'm name-squatting on Imzy as (surprise!) sdwolfpup. I don't get Imzy pretty much at all, and lord knows I don't need ANOTHER social media platform to try and keep up with but I'm there. I also have a ton of invites if that's still a thing people need, so let me know.

2. I finally watched The Music Man (having only listened to it) and 1776 in the last few weeks and now I'm madly in love with both of them. 1776 was much better than I thought it was going to be, and hit some really intense topics.

3. My children turned 7 and 3, which seems IMPOSSIBLE, but here we are. I should post a few pictures of them in a locked post. I will put that on my To Do list.

4. I've been listening to mostly Mumford & Sons lately (as you know if you follow me on Twitter) but I have been bopping around other music, too, and so on Twitter I've started doing a #TuesdayTunes thing. My first rec was for Eisley and today's was Beta Radio, which is a gorgeous, moody folk group (you can stream their 2014 album on Spotify here: https://play.spotify.com/album/22ydepp9MkmGOVOG89v9DU).

5. One song on my 'Current Obsessions' playlist was "Northwest Passage," and as I was listening to it a week or so ago I realized that so many of the names in due South come from actual Canadian people and places that it somehow makes due South feel like even more of a fairy tale than it is. IDK how to describe it; I've always loved the show's magical realism, but this hit me like...like the show could JUST be a fairy tale, that they're all just these metaphorical representations of Canada (and the US, for the Rays). It was a Deep Thought at the time, but I'm struggling to explain it now.

6. Yesterday was National Video Games day and I went on a long thread on twitter about my favorite games (starting with my Vic20 cartridge system as a child up to our PS4 today) and only Isagel would talk video games with me (<3333) but I still want to talk about them! So here's a link to the long-ass list I posted on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdwolfpup/status/775438551177580544 Does anybody else remember any of these?

7. I discovered Loom is on Steam so I ended up buying that and then played the ENTIRE THING last night which means I am exhausted but happy today. Ah, the gaming life. (Also the amount that game and Journey are alike made the proverbial light-bulb go off in my head.)

8. It's beautiful in the PACNW today! Why did summer come so late?

9. I still super love baseball. Super duper. I discovered the joy of being in The Pen at my last game and now all I want is to spend sunny summer days watching Tom Wilhelmson and Edwin Diaz throw sunflower seeds at each other while a game plays in the background.

10. I'm nearly 20,000 words into my Dragon Age Inquisition Inquisitor Adaar/Blackwall post-Trespasser fic and have at least 10k more words to go. I'm enjoying the hell out of writing it but, dang, self. Dang. Next task is going to be to find a beta. Heh.

I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. I'm sorry I'm so terrible at blogging.

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And I need some longform space to do it.

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One of the other things I realized last night while I was pondering my Jamie and Brienne feelings is that I finally figured out my shipping 'type' - a more beta-y type who desperately admires a strong, usually ethically solid character. See: Jamie (don't tell me this dude is not a sub, I will fight you)/Brienne; Vecchio/Fraser; Lee/Laura (in the early seasons, at least); Archie/Horatio; Blackwall/Inquisitor Adaar; John/Aeryn; Ichabod/Abbie; Mahone/Michael; Nomi/Amanita. It all fits. Dudes who love strong ladies are my particular kryptonite, but it translates into all my shipping preferences. (Also, actually liking each other is key, too; the adoration has to be equal in quantity if not reason.)

(I am not actively ignoring the Orlando shooting, FYI. My heart is with my LGBTQ friends and family today, and every day. I'm putting my horror into action in the offline space, and using my journal for what I've always used it for, a place for sharing fannish love.)

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Hello hello hello, as Lin-Manuel Miranda would say! I continue to spend 99% of my social media time on Twitter, but this is that 1% of time I'm actually at my laptop (gasp!) so HI! (I did get a Snapchat account and finally hit the wall of "I am too old for this shit" with technology because it makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE to me and I have this || much interest in figuring it out.)

I continue to be fannishly focused on Hamilton (and Aaron Burr, who fascinates me with his life story), Dragon Age: Inquisition (more on this later), and, now, Mariners baseball. I've been to more Ms game this year already than any previous season, and I have another one tonight, which is exciting. Turns out baseball is EXACTLY the size of the hole football left behind when the Chargers betrayed me, and I am super enjoying it when it is not the worst because being a sports fan is TERRIBLE. I do not recommend it.

TV-wise I'm watching Steven Universe (SO GOOD. SO SO SO GOOD), John Oliver, and Game of Thrones (which has been really exciting now that they're beyond the books! PLUS ( spoilers for preview for this coming SundayCollapse )). All my other shows have gone on summer hiatus (and most of those are half-hour comedies, honestly) or been cancelled (*pours one out for Galavant*).

Re: movies, we saw Zootopia the other night and it was DELIGHTFUL, as good as everyone promised me; also we finally watched Captain America: Winter Soldier (I know, I know), and it was also great. Sam is my jam, y'all. (Me, through most of that movie: *meeping 'Saaaaam' quietly*) I have seen basically no other superhero movies past CA:WS and honestly am suffering from superhero fatigue so it will probably just be in drips and drabs and anyway.

My fannish headspace is really wrapped around my female!Inquisitor Adaar/Blackwall from DA:I, so much so that I made an entire vid and then just watched it gleefully to myself for a month or so until I realized that with the sad dearth of Adaar/Blackwall stuff in the DA:I world that someone else may enjoy it, too. So I posted it on Tumblr!

I was actually really really hesitant to even post it there, let alone bring it here, because it's (inadvertently) to a song that obsessive24 vidded already, which I did not know because I hadn't seen the vid and only discovered it when one of my vidder friends saw it in a museum exhibit about vidding. *facepalm* So not only did I vid a song someone already vidded, but a really 'famous' vid! Go team me? Anyway, I haven't watched obsessive's vid yet because I don't want to feel badly about mine since it's SUCH an id vid, but I'm sure it's excellent! And if you have feelings about lady Adaars and Blackwall, there's now a vid for you, too. Hee.

I am also writing a drawer!fic about them, post-Trespasser that is 15,000 words already and about 1/3 done, so there you go. ~Fannishness~ (And don't even get me started on my playlist.)

I've been traveling a lot for work and am headed back near-ish NYC in June and I briefly pondered trying to see Hamilton again but the tickets, at a minimum, are EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS so no. I suspect things will calm down once a chunk of the cast departs, but wow. Woooooow. I'm super excited for the Tonys this weekend and can't wait to watch that and share the experience on Twitter with folks. I am oddly worried that Hamilton is going to get shut out due to, just, IDK, publicity fatigue? I hope that doesn't happen. Heh.

I'm going to Vividcon this year! I'm also leading a Hamilton panel. Does, um, anyone want to co-mod with me? I honestly even FORGOT I was leading it until the panel list got posted, hee. But I promise I will do my work ahead of time! I just need some assistance with it. Who wants to talk Hamilton and vidding?? ETA: POSITION FILLED! Here's Luck and I are gonna rock this thing.

OH and I wrote a fic for BrynnMck for her birthday that is unbeta'd and extremely saccharine but is about baseball + Hard Core Logo, due South, Sleepy Hollow, Farscape, and BSG (not all at once), so if you are interested in that sort of thing here you go. I really have to get on getting my old dS fic up at AO3. And my vids. *nods firmly to self*

But for now, I am off to ponder my drawer!fic at length.

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SO. Hi. I have had Quite A Month already and it's only half over, but I'm here to talk to you about what's honestly probably the highlight of my year, my trip this week to see Hamilton. I got my mom into the show and then she bought me tickets to see it as a very early birthday present and so we made the Hamilton Pilgrimage to see it on April 13, Jefferson's birthday.

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Then the next night: the actual show.

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This part is what I wrote down on the plane while I listened to the soundtrack, so it's both fairly free-wheeling and also goes track-by-track. I'll try to at least put my overview thoughts first. This gets LONG. ( Actor-specific overview firstCollapse )

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OKAY. So I have lots more to say but it'll work better if I do it in the song-by-song notes format.

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And now it is several days later and the world has finally stopped feeling slightly off-kilter and dreamlike. Heh. Also I'm back to being obsessed with listening to the soundtrack and having it running in my head when I'm not listening to it. I also am finding myself getting emotional over totally unexpected moments in the soundtrack now, just out of nowhere; for instance, remembering how it felt to see Lin singing certain parts of "My Shot" made me tear up when that came on the other day. My appreciation of the soundtrack, of the characters, of the fiber of the show itself, has been transformed.

The show is coming to Seattle in 2017 and I think I'm going to try to get tickets because I want to see how they stage it, how the actors interpret it, and dive back into the kinetic passion of the live performance of it. But even leaving the theater, I both wanted to turn around and see it a million more times immediately, and also never see it again and just hold the experience of it in my heart as it was.

Hamilton, man. Hamilton.

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I have a question I'm looking for some idle discussion about:

Let's say you're making a vid about Character A, from the POV of Character B. Is it too confusing to just focus on Character A for the first 20 seconds or so, before you work Character B in? Or do you think because Character A is the subject, that bringing Character B in closer to the actual lyric start will be an easy mental transition? Is this a situational-dependent answer?

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Here are some things I've been super fannish about lately, as I can't spend another second thinking about politics:

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And Hamilton of course. Always Hamilton. I'm going to go ACTUALLY SEE IT in April which I can't think about too much or I alternate between vibrating with excitement and clenching my garments in anxiety that something will happen to keep me from going/Leslie Odom Jr. won't be performing. So I'm mostly just putting off thinking about it at all.

Other cool things on my calendar for the year so far: Peter Mulvey/Tony Furtado concert (which I thought I was going to have to miss but looks like I will be able to make YESSSS); Mariners Home Opener with Brynn; Flight of the Conchords concert; Weird Al concert; Vividcon; family vacation (Motorhome 2: This Time It's Personal). All the things lie before me! I just have to plan and budget for them accordingly.

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As you all likely know already, vagabondage passed away Friday night. I'm grateful I had the chance to get to know her better these last couple of years, as (as I said on Twitter) she is the nicest scary person I've ever met. She lived so big, so confident in the people and things she loved, and I am trying to take that part of her with me, because I admire the hell out of it. And in her honor, I'm gonna talk here about a few of the things I have loved recently. Because I miss LJ/DW and y'all, even while Twitter continues to be the easiest platform for me to use regularly.

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I played Dragon Age: Origins and DA:2 when they came out, and when I heard there was a new Dragon Age game coming out again, I was REALLY excited but there was just no way I was gonna be able to play it on any of my elderly machines or with a tiny baby around, so I waited. This year for Christmas I got a PS4 and a charming toddler, and so last month I FINALLY started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition and TL;DR: IT SWALLOWED MY LIFE.

DA:O is maybe my favorite game of all time, but DA:I is running a very close second. For this first time through, I played a female Qunari warrior ( more details under the cutCollapse )

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Via settiai, this music video is amazing. Worth watching. The song is also extremely catchy. ( Embed under the cutCollapse )

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And finally, a fic rec for my fellow Hamilton fans:

Everyone who loves me has died (3199 words) by belmanoir
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton
Characters: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
Summary:

Burr is haunted by Hamilton's ghost. Alexander has been talking for eight solid days about the importance of an independent judiciary. He doesn't have to stop for breath anymore.

This fic is everything I ever wanted in a ghost!Hamilton fic - AND MORE. Run don't walk to this one.

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It's time for Festivids reveals!

Title: You Can Count On Me
Song: Aaron & Andrew, "Count On Me"
Fandom: John Carter
Spoilers: For the movie
Summary: A boy and his (alien) dog.
Download: AVI (60 MB) (right click, save target as to download) - Not working yet, will update once I've got it loaded.

Warnings: None

Streaming at SendVid here!

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This was made for leanwellback for Festivids! Thanks to laurashapiro for beta services. I then took her comments and re-did a large portion of the vid so any remaining awkwardness is mine and mine alone!

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