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shifty_gardenerthings came in the mail yesterday! "Things" being 1. the crazy large tea order I made the other day, heh. tasting (and review? since this will sort of be a review journal) pending until Lauren appears from the Northern realm in two weeks. and
2. books written by rageprufrock! well, books being comic books. I discovered her rl name through non-sketchy, not-very-try-hard means, so I don't feel weird about it. but also I won't type it out because what if someone googles it ._____.
it had lots of robots, which idk why I was surprised given a slashreport episode of late that involved her waxing eloquent about robot rumbles, which are robot cage matches, apparently.
The book was less gay than I hoped (i.e. not gay) but multiple people had character arcs and I felt strong emotions on behalf of some of the characters while reading, so it was a well-constructed story! It's about a teen who happens to be captain of the basketball team just trying to live his life drama-free and then getting dragged into a feud between his neighbor/bff by default/the leader of the hs robotics team and the cheerleaders over who gets funding from the school for their club. He also has absentee, divorced parents. Idk I just thought it was great.
I haven't read the other book yet, which I guess is an anthology. I'm probably going to read it and then give it away because superheroes aren't really my thing.
I also read something by the other slashreport host, mklutz, and it was great! She posted an original fiction story about a witch who lives in Toronto and is called upon to help solve a mystery/crime. It starts out feeling like a girl!Stiles AU insomuch as that girl!Stiles AUs always feel like original fiction where the girl happens to have a single cop dad. Also because it is mklutz, there are many scenes where people play with a kitten. <3 It's right here!
Fanfiction-wise, I recently read Morning Shows the Day (or, Kakashi and Iruka's Excellent adventure), which was interesting because it was deaging, but from the person's perspective, i.e. Iruka is going about his 10 year old life and then is suddenly in a battlefield in the middle of the wilderness with another 10 year old and is like wtf. I ALSO started this WIP that's where Iruka goes and teaches at Hogwarts during Harry's 5th year because Dumbledore can't find anyone else to take the job. It's mostly interesting because it really brings up the issue of how each magical culture treats the non-magical ones (isolation/antagonism vs protection).
The latter is probably extra interesting to me because I"m listening to the podcast Witch Please rn (thank you, Unagi), which is a great, scholarly dissection of Harry Potter media. I like it loads! Except for a like two minute thing where they talk about how great it would be if everyone donated to the podcast so they could go to Harry Potter Universal whatever in FL and do an episode on it. This part was very brief, but it made me feel weird because if this were a fandom thing (as opposed to a non-fandom fan thing), the idea of donations would never be brought up, because fandom is a gift economy. It was a weird cultural clash moment for me.
Because I've waited so long to post this, a #3 thing has arrived in the mail, which is Simplicity 1551:
aka the Galadriel costume pattern of choice, aka my new lounge dress, hopefully. Whenever I get around to making it haha.
2. books written by rageprufrock! well, books being comic books. I discovered her rl name through non-sketchy, not-very-try-hard means, so I don't feel weird about it. but also I won't type it out because what if someone googles it ._____.
it had lots of robots, which idk why I was surprised given a slashreport episode of late that involved her waxing eloquent about robot rumbles, which are robot cage matches, apparently.
The book was less gay than I hoped (i.e. not gay) but multiple people had character arcs and I felt strong emotions on behalf of some of the characters while reading, so it was a well-constructed story! It's about a teen who happens to be captain of the basketball team just trying to live his life drama-free and then getting dragged into a feud between his neighbor/bff by default/the leader of the hs robotics team and the cheerleaders over who gets funding from the school for their club. He also has absentee, divorced parents. Idk I just thought it was great.
I haven't read the other book yet, which I guess is an anthology. I'm probably going to read it and then give it away because superheroes aren't really my thing.
I also read something by the other slashreport host, mklutz, and it was great! She posted an original fiction story about a witch who lives in Toronto and is called upon to help solve a mystery/crime. It starts out feeling like a girl!Stiles AU insomuch as that girl!Stiles AUs always feel like original fiction where the girl happens to have a single cop dad. Also because it is mklutz, there are many scenes where people play with a kitten. <3 It's right here!
Fanfiction-wise, I recently read Morning Shows the Day (or, Kakashi and Iruka's Excellent adventure), which was interesting because it was deaging, but from the person's perspective, i.e. Iruka is going about his 10 year old life and then is suddenly in a battlefield in the middle of the wilderness with another 10 year old and is like wtf. I ALSO started this WIP that's where Iruka goes and teaches at Hogwarts during Harry's 5th year because Dumbledore can't find anyone else to take the job. It's mostly interesting because it really brings up the issue of how each magical culture treats the non-magical ones (isolation/antagonism vs protection).
The latter is probably extra interesting to me because I"m listening to the podcast Witch Please rn (thank you, Unagi), which is a great, scholarly dissection of Harry Potter media. I like it loads! Except for a like two minute thing where they talk about how great it would be if everyone donated to the podcast so they could go to Harry Potter Universal whatever in FL and do an episode on it. This part was very brief, but it made me feel weird because if this were a fandom thing (as opposed to a non-fandom fan thing), the idea of donations would never be brought up, because fandom is a gift economy. It was a weird cultural clash moment for me.
Because I've waited so long to post this, a #3 thing has arrived in the mail, which is Simplicity 1551:
aka the Galadriel costume pattern of choice, aka my new lounge dress, hopefully. Whenever I get around to making it haha.
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Date: 2017-08-15 05:32 am (UTC)I am glad to see the Naurto fandom has kept you in it's vice like grip.
LOLOL that dress/costume. LOLOL
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Date: 2017-08-21 06:13 am (UTC)...yeah Naruto will forever live in my heart, like a shiny cockroach. to be fair, that is actually the truth for the majority of my fandoms.
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Date: 2017-08-22 04:38 am (UTC)