subverting the text

✦ Ahaha, Inception fandom, what are you doing to me? Why do I have WIP in this fandom? Why is it going to (probably) be 20k? How did this happen? I swore off WIP for a reason and that reason was, well, crippling fear of letting people down with crappy endings (PEOPLE I LIKE D: D: ). WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS TO MYSELF? However, a certain co-chair should know that I have completed most of my tardy induction work and now can write/update without feeling guilty. >.>

✦ There's a filename meme going around: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. I am so disappointed that I am so boring. Everything is nicely labeled in my docs and Scrivener folder and makes perfect sense or is either so off the wall it's simply perplexing. No mysterious filenames! No amusing/embarrassing choices. I give up on every being delightfully quirky in my file organization: ( yawn )

✦ In Women Writers we have been talking about the feminine divine and how many writers sought to find a female space in the discourse of the time. I was transcribing my lecture recording where the professor read from a text we don't have (and to be honest I wasn't listening to her read it, I was writing fic in my notebook to stay awake) and came across this: The mother can lay her child tenderly to her breast, but our tender Mother, Jesus, can led us easily into his blessed breast through his sweet open side and show us there a part of the godhead and of the joys of heaven, with inner certainty of endless bliss.

A lot of people on Twitter asked me when I first talked about this course if there were any women writing in the medieval period. There were lots and they all scare me a little and make me feel inferior as a writer. There's your answer.

✦ I gave myself a few hours today for silly writing. ( ... )

Now I am back to having to get serious (ugh adulthood, what is this). I have a paper due over two influential writers to myself on the 22nd and I have no thesis because...how does one connect a fan author who writes dudes fucking to a progressive feminist blogger...exactly...? My professor sort of stared at me like I was bonkers and offered no assistance. I'm going to fail this course, I'm going to fail it and end up a hobo who works at $dayjob making overpriced coffee for unappreciative rednecks and children in the mall babysitting program.

✦ Catherine linked me to this and then THIS because she doesn't believe I need peaceful REM sleep. EXCUSE ME, I'LL BE GOING TO SLEEP TO DREAM NIGHTMARE UPON NIGHTMARE.

1. My to-do list currently has 47 items on it. I am not joking.

2. I I think Final Fantasy should have a Big Bang challenge. owlmoose and chaosraven agree, so owlmoose and I created a poll, which you can find over at her pad. I will note that the high word count is the point. That's what makes it awesome. I don't think it's likely we'll aim for a 40,000 minimum. 20,000 seems high enough, and people can go as high as they want beyond that.

In case anyone is wondering, yes this is me adding another item to my to-do list. Ahahaha.

3. So! In 2010 I will be, with the magnificent dizmo, leading the AO3 Tag Wranglers in great and glorious quests for riches. We will soon be setting off on our great steads, metatags, into the wilds of the archive, and will document and study many great fandoms, and bring cute, small fuzzy fandoms back home to our hearths! It will be a grand adventure! <3

Or in non-nerd, I'm one of the co-leads for the AO3 tag wrangler team (hahaha staff how did I get into this EXCEPT I KNOW HOW *stares at general_jinjur*). XD I also joined VolCom, which scares me a little. I have to figure out when I am going to Learn the Ropes, but I think it will be good learnings for me so I am excited. :D

4. I went back to school! I have already been in tears twice. This should surprise no one, least of all me—and yet! Last time I was a fuck-up, this time I am trying really hard not to be but the result is the same. Both times tears were caused by poor communication on part of a professor. Dear professor: you make a lot more money than I do, please don't make me do your job.

Oliver Twist is going well. It's funnier than I expected, but there's no sense of suspense whatsoever. Telling people the ending basically on the first page: what? Really suspicious turn of fortune to place particular characters in particular places at specific times? Okay, Dickens could tl;dr with the best, but he shows you the gun the whole time. Also, the anti-Semitism is horrid! Not only is Fagin a Jew, he's a terrible Jew that eats sausage. Ah, white dudes. Always gotta be better than someone.

There's one good Oliver/Dodger fic out there; I have not yet braved FFnet. I might not be able to considering that whenever I go they show me ads every time I click to a new page. Gross.

5. Work has been work. I was tossed into the deep end of Starbucks, and now I think if someone comes up and orders a quad venti soy cinnamon dolce latte, extra syrup, no whip or a iced coffee with caramel and white chocolate, light ice, with an extra expresso shot I will know what to do....maybe. I do not promise lack of panic, guys, but I will give it my best shot. :|

6. I have a new project I am doing! It is Top Secret but will be revealed soon, maybe, if I my to-do list doesn't consume me, followed by the entire planet.

Yes, we're crazy! Come join us!