In case anyone wants further proof of my insanity, I now have 50 works on AO3.
Which means I have posted 48 separate things in 2 months, some of them multichapter.
I must be freakin’ crazy.
Huh, I’ll have been out of the Navy 14 years this October. I enlisted 16 years ago September 9. Yes folks, I am old. (And a military vet, at least technically, I never went anywhere special)
1-59 odds. C:
All the odds? Are you bored? lol Okay….
1)Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up.
I don’t have iTunes, so I used spotify. And I got “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from sound of music, “A Kind of Magic” by Queen, “I could sing of your love forever” by Delirious?, “Baby I need your loving” by the four tops, “Rock of Ages” (the hymn) and “Homecoming” by Green Day. – Clearly I listen to everything.
3)Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.
1924 articulated a new kind of thinking, in which the cultural nationlism of (it’s my history textbook Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America)
5)Ever had a poem or song written about you?
Yes, hubby wrote a very sweet little poem when he proposed, like the only poem he ever wrote for me, unfortunately it got lost.
7)What’s your religion?
protestant Christian, but not a crazy conservative one, pretty much the opposite of that.
9)Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band?
REM. Saved my life in High School.
13) What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?
Umm, I’m friendly and I like to think I’m kind and that’s my strength. weakness, I’d say insecurity and a need for approval.
15) How do you vent your anger?
Mostly I just rant about things.
17) Are you happy with the person you’ve become?
sometime
19) What’s your biggest “what if”?
ummm. I honestly don’t know how to answer this one.
23) What’s the worst place you have ever been to?
Tacoma? lol, I kid. Probably getting lost in the bad part of Philadelphia.
25) To you, what is the meaning of life?
To leave joy and kindness and make the world a bit better then you found it.
27) What was the last movie you saw?
Mortal Instruments
29) Do you have any obsessions right now?
John Barrowman
31) Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?
I try not to, then again, I’m human
33) What’s the last thing you purchased?
Breakfast at Dennys?
35) In a relationship?
For fifteen years
37) What is your secret weapon to get someone to like you?
Be friendly as all get out, I guess.
39) What were you doing last night at 12 AM?
Uh, here. On tumblr.
41) You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired. What do you do?
Get the dog, a job can be replaced.
43) What’s a song that always makes you happy when you hear it?
I just stick Aqua-Aquarium on when I need happy music, or the Mama Mia soundtrack.
45) How can I win your heart?
Just love me for who I am.
47) What is the single best decision you have made in your life so far?
ummmm self-publishing my book?
49) Give me the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “heart.”
I carry it in my heart
51) What is your current desktop picture?
It says “I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a timelord and ran away”
53) What would be a question you’d be afraid to tell the truth on?
No idea
55) You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
Heck. See my grandpa again, so I can ask him all the stuff I never got to when he was alive.
57) You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?
See question 29. But Barrowman doesn’t swing my way. All the good ones are on the other bus. Or Timelords.
59) Ever been on a plane?
Yes, lots.
11, 21, 56. :)
11)Do you believe in karma?
Karma…hmm, that’s a hard one. I believe in doing good for people no matter what, and I like to believe that comes back to you.
21) Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Do the same with your left arm.
They both just grabbed my laptop, phones on the left though, currently.
56)You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?
Oh gravy, that’s a hard one. Almost drowning when I was a kid? Really though, the bad experiences are as much a part of who I am as the good experiences.
I hate driving hubby’s truck, but driving a stick always makes me feel a little badass.
Bonus points for blasting “carry on wayward son.”
Holy crap, I have a fic with 125 kudos. And another one is inching close to 2800 hits. That’s….incredible.
You know what, even if it is smutty fanfiction…2000 people have looked at it, or at least a few people a bunch of times…And several fics are over the 2k mark.
That’s insane. And humbling.
The idea of fan cultures, or “fandoms,” cultivating fan fiction writers began at the earliest in the 1920s with societies dedicated to Jane Austen and Sherlock Holmes, but took off in the late 1960s with the advent of Star Trek fanzines. The negative stereotype of fans today is that of obsessed geeks, like Trekkies, who love nothing more than to watch the same installments over and over… However, this represents a core misunderstanding of what it is to be a fan: that is, to have the “ability to transform personal reaction into social interaction, spectatorial culture into participatory culture… not by being a regular viewer of a particular program but by translating that viewing into some kind of cultural activity.” Henry Jenkins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and expert on fan culture, likens fan fiction to the story of The Velveteen Rabbit: that the investment in something is what gives it a meaning rather than any intrinsic merits or economic value. For fans who invest in a television show, book, or movie, that investment sparks production, and reading or viewing sparks writing, until the two are inseparable. They are not watching the same thing over and over, but rather are creating something new instead.
Casey Fiesler, Everything I Need To Know I Learned from Fandom: How Existing Social Norms Can Help Shape the Next Generation of User-Generated Content, p173 (via fanhackers)
If I may put in my two cents? I’m probably a bit older then the average tumblr user, being 34. I was a teenager in the 90s, before the internet was a big thing. I was also a humongous Star Trek geek…and virtually alone in my love of the show among my peers.
I found a collection of ‘the best of trek’ (one of the old fanzines) at my local used bookstore (which I still have by the way), and this was the first time, aside from official novels, that I realized that *I* could contribute something to a fandom, even if it was just for myself.
So I wrote a bit of fanfiction and I realized it was okay to really love a show and characters. Now that I’m older I may have moved on to other fandoms, and I’m so very very grateful to tumblr and the communities and friends that I’ve found.
the “ability to transform personal reaction into social interaction, spectatorial culture into participatory culture… not by being a regular viewer of a particular program but by translating that viewing into some kind of cultural activity.”
This. This is what I love about being a fan, about tumblr, about all of you who create things and read and enjoy the things I create.
