guanin: (Father the blob)
( May. 31st, 2011 06:30 pm)
I was walking in my grandmother's lawn when something long and reptile looking slithered among the tall grass. My first thought was, "Lizard, but it's too big to be a lizard's tail and that doesn't look anything like an iguana's tail. It's gotta a snake." And yes! It was! It emerged out of the grass, its head curled up as it held a lizard in its mouth and hurriedly slithered away from the pesky human, ie. me. It was maybe a foot and a half long, brown, slim and so cute! My grandmother asked me what I was staring at and I just said, "Um... a lizard." Well, I did see a lizard. It was part of the scene. My grandmother hates snakes, so I wasn't going to tell her there was one in her front yard, though she knows they're there. Her house is in the mega-urbanized countryside, a cross between a suburb and a mountain range. On the other hand, she likes the spiders that freak me out, so we're even.

In fandom news, I'm reading Sherlock fanfic again. I'm poking around the Thor comms. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened in Pirates 4 (and mentally begging Johnny Depp to say no to a fifth one). Wondering if the new Hollywood The Three Musketeers movie coming out this fall will be interesting/slashy enough for a fandom to emerge (I miss having a period fandom). Realizing I need to finish reading the novel said movie is based on. I read it when I was like 14, so I don't remember anything (I'm 27 now). And I read it in English. Now I can read it in French! Yay! Granted, with the dictionary glued to my side, but it works. Having a spaz attack because not only is Martin Freeman the new Bilbo (which I knew already) in The Hobbit, but Benedict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry are in it! *dies* I need to find out where they're filming this and sneak into the set. This is too awesome. Just too awesome. *grin glues on face*
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( May. 26th, 2011 09:27 pm)
I really, really do. Heroes. POTC. I got an urge to read Sparrington aka. Jack Sparrow/Norrington about a month ago and started searching on the web for some old stories and whatever was new since the last time I looked, which was years ago. 2009, maybe. I knew the fandom had gone pretty downhill by then, but damn. It makes sense, though. Most fandoms don't last forever. It's amazing there's still activity at all and quite a few, too, just not the kind I remember. This wouldn't bug me so much if it weren't POTC. I would like to say that it's because of the age of sail aspect, because every time I see a ship with sails I am drawn to it (literally; I'll be in the middle of a conversation, I see a painting of a sailing ship across the room and I forget everything and go straight to it), but I never got into Aubrey/Maturin and Hornblower fandoms like I got into this one. The characters in POTC moved me and inspired me much like the ones in Heroes. I just had to keep on watching and reading and writing and commenting (though I wound up writing and commenting much more for Heroes). I had some hope that there was a new movie coming out, though I'm not sure what I was hoping for, since I wasn't happy with the idea of a new movie to begin with and both my OTPs (Pintel/Ragetti) was the other one) being out of the picture (because of course they wouldn't bring back Norrington even though they keep resurrecting everyone else, because he's my favorite character and my favorite characters always stay dead dead dead, which is the only reason I'm kinda glad they never brought back Claude in Heroes, because then they would have definitely killed him because they always do that to my characters and CE has such a penchant for dying on set).

I'm a little afraid of looking at the Heroes comms. Is there still something going on?

I haven't even thought about fandoms in a while. Not only have I had to time for one, but I haven't seen anything that I've felt fannish about. It's weird. What's a fangirl without a fandom?

On a different note: Hello! I live, though my life is quite boring lately. I decided, against my better judgement (the muse is a cruel mistress), to write a novel set in the Henrician Era, so I've been mired by research, research, and more research. Right now, I should be typing up notes, but I don't feel like it. I've missed LJ. My life these past months has been all library books and photocopies.

I'm back in Puerto Rico for now. Not much going on here, either.
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( Dec. 5th, 2008 11:56 pm)
Because I appear to be incapable of doing work that I really have to do. Coming up with some of these was harder than I thought.

From [livejournal.com profile] visiblemarket :Fandom-as-an-Ex )
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I have chosen one of the Aztec gods as the topic for one of my essays, a choice I am now regretting because I set my own due date for Monday to finish this and I'm barely beginning to familiarize myself with the primary sources and there are so many of them and I don't know if I can come up with enough material for 2500 words (this essay is shorter than the others since it's at a different unii. Ha!) I'm probably just panicking unnecessarily again. I do that. It's just because I have no idea what to do the third essay on because I have no prior knowledge of anything that's going on in that class and I still haven't done the readings for this week. College is fun! *erupts in hysterical laughter*

Right. I've decided not to watch Heroes 3x7 today. Instead, I shall read chap 88 of Hagaren (I can't believe I missed it again) and watch Dexter, which is sooo much better than Heroes and may just be one of my favorite shows ever, along with Deadwood and The Wire. Showtime and HBO have me spoiled for regular network television.

ETA: HAGaREN IS THE BEST MANGA EVER! That was just... so fucking amazing. Arakawa Hiromu, I love you!
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