Life's a Party

So I found out my Magicians meta posts weren't showing up in tumblr tag searches. I contacted support, and now my blog is "pending review" so who knows. Maybe my tumblr blog will just get deleted altogether and I'll finally be free. [ETA: So shockingly, they actually did unblock my blog in a relatively short amount of time]

ANYWAY, I wanted Magicians fans to actually have a chance of seeing my meta, so I posted it to AO3, which we all know officially voted to welcome meta posts back in 2013, given the plethora of meta posts we see on AO3 now (some of which are even written by board members!).

Or at least I thought we all knew that, but some asshole just left the following comment on my post, 2 seconds after it went up: "Ao3 is not a place to post this. Reported."

Not even trying to be polite about it.

Not even trying to check the actual community guidelines. 

??????

What the hell is this creature's damage?

ETA: LMAO wild. A second person came onto my meta post saying (in so many words) "Stop playing the victim you know what you did wrong." Yeah -- I'm fully aware that I DID NOTHING WRONG HERE. Then asked me why I didn't just post meta on _insert list of commercial corporate websites that are actively hostile to fans, including one that was at that very moment actively blocking my meta posts from appearing in fandom tag searches_.

Of course before I could formulate a reply they deleted their own comment.

Also having the guy you’re in love with tell you he’s not sure you’re gay enough for a relationship between the two of you to work, in spite of the fact that the two of you were happily married for FIFTY GODDAMN YEARS in an alternate timeline, is (inexplicably, yet still profoundly and authentically) The Quintessential Bisexual Experience™.

So I had to wait a couple days because I was moving to Brooklyn but WHO WILL SCREAM ENDLESSLY WITH ME OVER THE LAST EPISODE???????????? DID THEY FUCKING JUST????????????? ELIOT WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!???!!!

I applied to 4 jobs yesterday. I need to apply to 2 more today and make at least some progress on an additional 2 applications (one job is one that I've applied to before, but it's half a year later and this time I'm actually editing together a reel for them to make it look like I'm more serious about sound design and not just a composer settling for the next best thing) (though technically that is exactly what I am) and I've got another 7 or so lined up for the next week.

Basically applying to anything even vaguely music or audio industry related, which makes this all a huge pain, because the jobs are all just different enough that I can't recycle the same CV or swap out names on the cover letter -- I actually gotta re-do shit from scratch.

I've been having a really rough week tbh. Huge fight with my sister. Not enough hours at current job (hence the job hunt) and stressed about money.

Today I get to read an audiobook for the blind library, which I love doing, so hopefully, that will cheer me up and if not there is ice cream in the freezer and bourbon on the shelf and Ocean's 8 is included with my sister's HBO subscription.

So I just got about one page into this New Yorker Review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel before getting too pissed off to continue.

Like, okay, I don't expect everybody to like the show. It's fluffy.

But it seems like the main thrust of Emily Nussbalm's scathing critique is that the female protagonist is too much of a Mary-Sue, which ... really?

She describes the show as a "cloying fantasia" which is a really fancy way of saying that the protagonist is too unrealistic -- why? Well, because she's good at more than one thing, success in her chosen career comes fairly easily to her, and also she's pretty.

The show's protagonist has the same base personality type, talent level, and attributes as, oh let's say ~80% of the male leads in all genres of television throughout television history. And yet a female writer penned this critique, seemingly without any self-awareness as to the double standards the critique is perpetuating.

The author of the article also thinks the show could be edgier. How, you ask? She thinks the butch manager should be pining after the straight protagonist. The non-gender-conforming butch isn't sad or pathetic enough.

I threw up a little in my mouth and then I didn't bother reading the rest.

Just.

I'm so tired.

Let women have power fantasies.

So I realized this week that the problem with the tween romance in Stranger Things is that it’s essentially the Born Sexy Yesterday trope performed by children.

Which is to say, the premise of the romantic connection is that girl likes boy because he’s the first boy she’s ever met and presents himself as her window to the world.

The other side of that is that boy likes girl because she fits a controlling fantasy in which he gets to be her first everything and teach her everything he wants her to know and never have to worry about her having interests outside of him since the only interests she has are the ones he gives her.

The trope is made even creepier in the second season, most of which she spends in solitary isolation in a shack in the woods, never able to see people her age unless she astrally projects herself, which causes her nosebleeds.

I can’t decide which is creepier:

The regular version of this trope, in which an adult woman’s body contains a mind of a baby

Or the child version of this trope, in which a 13 year old boy who should be learning how to interact in a healthy manner with girls who are his peers, instead finds a pretty girl he can keep in his closet and groom.

https://www.nic.io/rules.htm

So apparently nsfw content is forbidden on .IO domains:

5. APPROPRIATE USE
No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation. In the event of the Registry being advised by any party that a specific site breaches this condition then the Registry reserves the right to immediately deactivate the offending registration.

Fandom may need to rethink migrating to Pillowfort until/unless they move their platform to a different domain.

Also does anybody know of a nice informational video that will explain to me the free web / peer to peer web publishing? I got a link to the beaker browser website but I need a friendly voice to explain to me in small words what that actually is.

I got a tumblr. And I actually seem to be using my tumblr! So if you want to see me doing fannish things, you might want to check out my tumblr.

http://lierdumoa.tumblr.com/

Expect lots of Teen Wolf and Avengers squee, bad jokes that stopped being funny 6 years ago and occasional multifannish things.

I also have an Avengers fic in the works.

I'm also planning a series of cracked out themed fanfiction recs lists based on obscure tropes whose names I made up.

My observations as a fannish lurker, pulled from various conversations and a few older lj posts. I figured I'd put them all in one place.

[describing Thor in Thor] He's like a Viking version of The Tick.

[describing Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] IT'S THE DYSTOPIAN GENDERFUCK JOHN/SHERLOCK AU I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED.

[describing BBC's Sherlock] This is the most epic love story I've seen since I first watched The Fast and the Furious.

[describing Hailee Steinfield in True Grit] Imagine Benton Fraser as a thirteen year old girl in the old west, with no Ray.

[describing The Proposal] It's every work of Devil Wears Prada fanfiction ever. Only het.

[describing the Twilight movies] This is what True Blood would be like if it actually took itself seriously.

[describing Russel Edgington in True Blood] He's the villain from Pixar's Up!, complete with army of sentient canines.

[describing Jim Ellison in The Sentinel] He's the gay man's John McClane, complete with receding hairline and spunky, curly haired wife.


I'm working on some multifandom fic rec posts, for my own amusement. My favorite "dialogue/monologue/textual communication under the influence of alcohol/drugs" fic. My favorite "secretly the town bicycle" fic (it's like "secretly a virgin" fic only, you know, the exact opposite of that). My favorite "endearingly hapless creepy stalker" fic. My favorite "surprise alien/magical vagina" fic (not to be confused with genderswap). My favorite "preposterous superpower" AU's. My favorite supermodel AU's. I'm sure I could think of more, but I do want to post this journal entry at some point.


Happy New Year's Eve, y'all.

Life goes well!

I saw Electric Six in concert! And let me tell you all about the fire at that disco. Ended up taking a very, very pretty (and adorably geeky) Australian tourist to bed. Insert "down under" joke here. Oh, the pale blue green of his eyes. The delicate pink flush of his penis. Like making out with an oil painting. A warm, naked oil painting. And he gave me a massage. It was like it was my birthday or something.

OH WAIT. IT WAS.

Also, I bought myself a kick-ass halloween costume this year. I ended up using it for work. In fact, now that I think about it, I might actually be able to write it off my taxes. I do enjoy my job. I really, really do.



I've decided to henceforth stick to birthday resolutions and forget about New Year's resolutions. It turns out I actually end up accomplishing my birthday resolutions, and I'm really not up for achieving anything after I've just gone through the trauma of the holidays.



Still don't have a vidding machine. I need to get on that because I found the *perfect* song for an Avatar vid.


Saw The Dead with kuwdora and her fan friend. It was kind of amazing. I highly recommend to any zombie lover. I then extracted from her a promise that we would get drunk and see In Time as soon as it came out in theaters. WATCH THE TRAILER YOU GUYZ. And then you will understand my insistence both that we see the movie in theaters and that we not be sober at the time.

It's possible I'll just have to make this a rule every time I see an Amanda Seyfried movie. I mean, it's the only way I made it through Red Riding Hood. Seriously, that movie had Gary Oldman *and* Michael Shanks DanielJackson. Who of course dies. Like DanielJackson does. At least, I think he dies. Did I mention I was drunk when I saw this movie?

I'm really not a lush, I swear.


Also, I may or may not be dating. Platonic dating with possible option for future romantic upgrade? She mentioned an ex boyfriend (straight?) and how she considered majoring in queer studies (bi?). Either way it means I'm hanging out with a smart gorgeous redhead so, go me.

Now I just need to figure out how to cut loose that guy I inadvertently tricked into thinking I was a nice girl. permetaform, stop laughing.

It's an interesting change, actually having a sex life.


Also, I may have, uhm, inhaled all episodes of the new Hawaii Five-0. It reminds me of SGA, being that it is also a show made by fans of genre shows from the 70's with no small degree of irreverent fannish glee. Granted it's a completely different genre. Though bizarrely, since both shows feature characters in the military, I had the surreal experience of reading slash that brings up DADT for the first time since SGA.

Perhaps even more surreal was reading slash fic about the overturning of DADT for the first time since DADT was actually overturned in reality.

The world, she is a-changin'.


I need a new mood theme. Suggestions, anyone?