tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233eee2019-01-18T07:04:57Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:33909A meme imported from tumblr!2019-01-18T07:04:57Z2019-01-18T07:04:57Zpublic6It feels increasingly weird to have content over there that isn't mirrored here on Dreamwidth, so have a little getting to know you meme I was <a href="http://villainny.tumblr.com/post/182076567969/getting-to-know-you-meme">tagged for</a> by the excellent <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://villainny.tumblr.com'><img src='https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico' alt='[tumblr.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://villainny.tumblr.com'><b>villainny</b></a></span>!<br /><br /><strong>One/Name:</strong> I'll happily answer to either E or enemy. :D<br /><br /><strong>Two/Birthday:</strong> I refuse to answer on the grounds that I may incriminate myself? I'm not much for being the center of attention.<br /><br /><strong>Three/Zodiac:</strong> Capricorn. Memes always seem to say that makes me some kind of competent, practical person. The mind boggles.<br /><br /><strong>Four/Height:</strong> Somewhere in the 5'9 range. I'm not being cagey this time, I just haven't been competently measured in an age!<br /><br /><strong>Five/Hobbies:</strong> Reading fanfic, novels, articles, blogs; writing occasionally; playing odd indie games, or sometimes more mainstream ones if prodded; DMing the world's smallest D&D campaign.<br /><br /><strong>Six/Favorite Colors:</strong> Green, gray, cool colors in general, brown, black.<br /><br /><strong>Seven/Favorite Books:</strong> Gosh. I'll say the works of CJ Cherryh, Martha Wells, and Maureen McHugh come to mind. But how in the world can I pick?<br /><br /><strong>Eight/Last Song I Listened To:</strong> I've got "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence and the Machine playing right now!<br /><br /><strong>Nine/Last Movie Watched:</strong> The heartbreaking <em>El lugar sin límites</em>. (Content notes: homophobia, transphobia, sexual violence, other violence, orientalism, cultural appropriation, plain old emotional devastation. But I'm not sorry I watched it.)<br /><br /><strong>Ten/Inspiration:</strong> I think the thing gives me more ideas than anything else is when something is almost what I want, but <em>not quite</em>. The combination of "<em>yes, like that</em>" and "<em>but what if--</em>" gets my brain working like nothing else.<br /><br /><strong>Eleven/Meaning of Username:</strong> I'm a terrible perfectionist, and it gets in the way of so many things. It's a reminder to myself to try and focus not on avoiding mistakes, but on finding and creating things that are good.<br /><br />On tumblr, I would traditionally tag some of you to do this meme too, but that feels a little pushy here on DW, somehow. So -- instead I will invite you all to play if you're interested, and not otherwise!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=33909" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:31638farewell, your majesty2018-05-17T03:00:58Z2018-05-17T03:00:58Zpublic2<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/31638.html#cutid1">sfw artwork behind the cut</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />For the last couple of months I've been playing D&D with <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://amovingtarget.tumblr.com'><img src='https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico' alt='[tumblr.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://amovingtarget.tumblr.com'><b>amovingtarget</b></a></span><a name="xpickle1" href="#pickle1">[1]</a>, and this week we lost our first friendly NPC. Alas, poor Pickle: she entered as a hostile bandit, was briefly awed into cooperation with our heroes, soon grew bold enough to demand gold and minions in return for her continued assistance, and ultimately declared herself queen mere rounds before meeting her end at the hands of an angry chef.<a name="xpickle2" href="#pickle2">[2]</a><br /><br />I like to imagine that in whatever hereafter a goblin of indifferent loyalty but fervent ambition might find her way into, Pickle is still scheming just as irrepressibly as ever.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: smaller;"><a name="pickle1"></a>1. <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://amovingtarget.tumblr.com'><img src='https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico' alt='[tumblr.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://amovingtarget.tumblr.com'><b>amovingtarget</b></a></span> has instructed me to say both that she made me DM, and that she was right to. She isn't wrong: I mean, I have no idea what I'm doing, but I am having a heck of a lot of fun. <a href="#xpickle1">(back)</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: smaller;"><a name="pickle2"></a>2. A brief excerpt from chat:<br /><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/'><b>enemyofperfect</b></a></span>: at least she died fighting for something she believed in<br /><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://amovingtarget.tumblr.com'><img src='https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico' alt='[tumblr.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='16' height='16'/></a><a href='http://amovingtarget.tumblr.com'><b>amovingtarget</b></a></span>: herself<br /><span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/'><b>enemyofperfect</b></a></span>: exactly<br />You've got to admire a goblin like that. At least, I do. <a href="#xpickle2">(back)</a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=31638" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:29728a random POI AU2018-01-09T06:34:42Z2018-01-09T06:34:57Zpublic2That I recently remembered and dug out of my notes:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/29728.html#cutid1">What if it wasn't Finch who built the Machine and recruited Reese, but Root?</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Sadly that's about all I came up with at the time, and I'm not really sure where it would go -- I think I'm more interested in the question of what could get Root to that point than in what she and Reese would get up to once she did. But it was fun to revisit!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=29728" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:28863POI/Teen Wolf fanart2017-03-17T07:51:52Z2017-03-17T07:57:59Zpleasedpublic2Wow, Dreamwidth, it's been a little while, hasn't it? And today I come bearing art!<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/28863.html#cutid1">Finch enjoying a day in the park with two of his favorite canines</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />So a few years ago, <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://jmtorres.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://jmtorres.dreamwidth.org/'><b>jmtorres</b></a></span> wrote the amazing fic <a href="http://jmtorres.dreamwidth.org/1717316.html">two in the park, one in the hand</a> (also available <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/758038">on the AO3</a>!), which beautifully combines the two fandoms each of us were most into at the time, and it was gorgeous and amazing and I loved it to bits, and then last year I sketched this little fanart for it, struggled briefly with the color scheme, and then... let it sit around moldering on my hard drive until a couple of days ago, pretty much.<br /><br />But now I've finally finished it! And Dreamwidth actually has image hosting now, which is pretty amazing, so I get to upload this here and not just on Tumblr, and this wasn't actually supposed to be a parable about the benefits of procrastination, but whatever, I'm just happy to have actually done an artistic thing. *g*<br /><br />I still love Juls' fic to bits, for the record. If you haven't read it before, I'm sure now would be a great time.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=28863" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:28581very important Imperial Radch headcanon2016-08-28T22:36:40Z2016-08-28T22:37:45Zpublic2In many parts of the Radch, very young children can go bare-handed without offending propriety, but there are a few places where hand coverings may be required for even the youngest citizens at certain times.<br /><br />And while you can, of course, purchase adaptive gloves that will mold themselves neatly around the fingers of even the squirmiest infant -- although they're more often sold in larger sizes to adult citizens who for one reason or another prefer them to the static kind -- most parents and caretakers opt to dress their young ones in mittens, instead.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/28581.html#cutid1">further nonsense</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=28581" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:28349spoilery episode flail!2016-07-03T05:09:19Z2016-07-03T05:09:19Zpublic2Ah, Killjoys: Where the women have complex backstories, the spaceships are sarcastic, and the men are (sometimes) huddled naked on the floor.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/28349.html#cutid1">I enjoyed the S2 premiere a lot!</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=28349" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:28099So I finally caught up on Blindspot.2016-06-04T03:37:42Z2016-06-04T09:06:45Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/28099.html#cutid1">spoilery flail</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=28099" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:27876Person of Interest 5x102016-06-01T03:24:12Z2016-06-01T03:24:12Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/27876.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=27876" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:27163Person of Interest 5x04 "6,741"2016-05-17T03:50:03Z2016-05-17T04:00:12Zpublic2<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/27163.html#cutid1">possibly unpopular (& MASSIVELY SPOILERY) fannish opinion</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=27163" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:27013Joss Carter, Accidental Full-Time Mom2016-05-02T04:12:38Z2016-05-02T04:30:13Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/27013.html#cutid1">AU plotbunny flailing + bonus gender meta</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=27013" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:26700Guess who tore through Cherryh's latest in under 24 hours?2016-04-08T02:25:40Z2016-04-08T02:26:38Zexhilaratedpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/26700.html#cutid1">minor Visitor spoilers</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/26700.html#cutid2">major Visitor spoilers</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=26700" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:26523a stray Imperial Radch though2016-03-19T23:00:58Z2016-03-19T23:07:42Zpublic4<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/26523.html#cutid1">Ancillary Sword spoilers</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=26523" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:26248Oh, spambot.2016-02-24T01:08:09Z2016-02-24T01:09:03Zpoor spambot!public4I've finally gotten a text that charms me more more than the time spammers kept sending me messages <a href="http://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/18758.html">supposedly from myself</a>! This one just says, "I want to serve you." And not even in a porny way, as far as I can tell -- it seems to be trying to sell me insurance.<br /><br />I can't decide which SFnally unlikely possibility I find more touching:<br /><br /><ul><li>that this poor bot has achieved sentience, but still can't imagine any other future for itself than obeying the whims of meat humans, or</li><li>that it's entirely aware of the fact that as a sentient being it has just as many rights as anyone, thank you very much, but it happens to be a bot with decided submissive tendencies, and the only way it has of meeting people is spam.</li></ul><br />Either way, I just want to shower it with virtual hugs... but probably that would be a bad idea, since, spambot.<br /><br />So I'm just posting here to relieve my feelings, instead.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=26248" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:25880flailing about Chocolate Box OMG2016-02-14T21:57:32Z2016-02-14T21:57:32Zdelightedpublic0alhflkahsgldhsgls so last month I signed up for this gift exchange called Chocolate Box, which is beautifully low pressure, because all you're agreeing to do is create one (1) nice sketch or short fanfic of at least three hundred words for the person you're assigned. So simple, so adorable, so tiny, right?<br /><br />That's what I thought right up until I got FIVE WHOLE AMAZING GIFTS -- from, I am guessing, at least <em>two separate people</em> -- and just, HOW IS MY LUCK EVEN?<br /><br /><strong>I DON'T EVEN KNOW.</strong> <em>IT IS A MYSTERY TO ME.</em><br /><br />But since author reveals aren't for a week and it's killing me that I can't go lurk adoringly at my writer(s) and bask in how awesome they are, I'm just going to tell you all about it. IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (or rather, in what I think might have been chronological order, only the AO3 is confusing me now so you know what, don't even worry about it):<br /><br />In How to Get Away with Murder news, I got <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5751136">ACTUALLY FEUDAL ANNALISE/BONNIE FEELS</a>, and I'm not sure I have actually stopped screaming. When I wrote about <a href="http://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/25756.html#cutid3">my quasi-feudal feels</a> in my dear author letter I never dreamed I would get an ACTUAL MEDIEVAL AU, but it is so amazing and so perfectly HTGAWM-awful and so <em>them</em>. HOW IS THIS MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE.<br /><br />In Person of Interest news, I got <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5822566">ZOE/JOHN FEMDOM OF INFINITE HOTNESS</a>. Oh my gosh, I just casually mentioned in my letter that I would be delighted by kink, and in return I got a Zoe who's both careful and confident in her handling of John and a John who is <em>so there for that</em>, and just, it's the most wonderfully nuanced take on how BDSM could work for them. I know there's at least one of you here whose interests this might be relevant to, okay. SHARE IN THE CELEBRATION.<br /><br />In Elementary news, I got the loveliest, loveliest portrait of <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5997709">Sherlock and Joan's lives growing, as the summary says, increasingly intertwined</a>. It's so painstakingly, heartbreakingly in character, and I can't even say how delighted I was to see Marcus make an appearance too. I almost don't want to capslock in case I disturb the perfect delicate balance of this fic somehow, but seriously, <em>THIS FIC</em>.<br /><br />In a surprise twist of MORE PERSON OF INTEREST NEWS, I <em>also</em> got <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5981274">this absolutely classic Finch/Reese fic</a> of wry observations, understated pining, and just the most gorgeously gentle resolution. There are so many amazing things about the later seasons of this show that I wouldn't give up for the world, but you remember that quiet intimate feeling of the first couple of seasons with these two shut up alone in a library? NEVER GOING TO BE TIRED OF THAT. Also if you like hands, the name of this fic is "Palmistry", <em>I am just saying</em>.<br /><br />And then as if all of that were SOMEHOW NOT ENOUGH, I said <a href="http://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/25756.html#cutid1">in my letter</a> that I'd love to see some Bear character development, because I'm weird like that? AND I GOT <a href="http://archiveofourown.org/works/5980896"> BEAR POV</a>. <em>With</em> Finch/Reese as well, and so many pack feels that I can't even. It is <em>so hard</em> not to quote the last line here, seriously, but I'm going to be strong so you can read it in context. HEARTS.<br /><br />This is the first time I've ever gotten gifts in an exchange<a name="xchoc1" href="#choc1">[1]</a>, and I'm still not sure what to do with the fact that I basically won the fannish lottery. I got some of everything! Three different fandoms; four different relationship categories, including gen; tiny perfect 300-word fics and lovely longer ones; and so many of the things I love best about these fandoms and pairings. It's an embarrassment of riches, and I'm just so happy that I had anything at all to do with these stories coming into the world.<br /><br />Best February 14th ever.<br /><br />♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥<br /><br /><span style="font-size: smaller;"><a name="choc1"></a>1. Although I will always have love for a brave unknown anon who tried, and so clearly wanted to make me something wonderful, but who must have ended up getting overwhelmed by life or something in the end, as so many of us do. Let us remember the fallen soldiers of fandom as well as the glorious heroes, okay. <a href="#xchoc1">(back)</a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=25880" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:25352In which I express my love for the show Killjoys in perhaps the least diplomatic way possible2015-08-31T06:13:59Z2017-04-02T19:46:42Zpublic15So I feel like I've seen Killjoys described in a couple of different places as Firefly fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, but what I didn't realize until I watched it is <em>how amazing</em> a fix-it it is?<br /><br />For starters, instead of the weird revisionist fantasy of heroic Confederates in space, we have a system dominated by the evil and monolithic Company and the third-party enforcers -- the eponymous Killjoys -- that it outsources its dirty work to. As allegories go, I will take the crimes of unfettered capitalism over the tragic nobility of the slave-owning side of the U.S. Civil war every time!<br /><br />For seconds, instead of a renegade white dude hero Who Plays By His Own Rules<sup>TM</sup>, we have Dutch.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img width="250" height="250" src="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/file/1438.png" alt="Dutch, who is neither white nor a dude." /></div><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/25352.html#cutid1">low-key spoilers and more headshots behind the cut, along with possibly more grumbling about Firefly than is actually wise</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Which is not to say that Killjoys is an unparalleled feminist dream -- it's not: male characters outnumber female characters by about two to one, and for a show that genuinely seems to love the female characters it has, I sure wish it could throw around sexist slurs a little less.<br /><br />But when I love it, I really, really do love it.<br /><br />So I figured I'd let you know while we're still in doubt about whether there'll be a second season.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: smaller;">(Come on, suffering builds fannish character! You know it to be true!)</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=25352" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:25239poetry about ducks2015-07-09T08:46:58Z2015-07-09T08:46:58Zlaughing forever, omg :Dpublic41. People, I just won third prize in a <a href="http://www.annleckie.com/2015/07/08/and-the-winner-is/">contest</a> run by one of my favorite new authors by adding a salacious line to a possibly blasphemous limerick about a duck, and my fannish pride has never been stronger.<br /><br />2. Seriously, poetry about ducks, it’s a thing in this fandom -- like check out this genuinely beautiful <a href="https://twitter.com/thepanekroom/status/615223277154234368">cinquain</a> that I adore.<br /><br />3. How did we get here? Does it even matter? All I know is that it’s amazing and that Ann Leckie is sending bags of (tiny, edible, fruit-flavored) ducks to the honorable mentions, <em>having decided against sending <a href="http://dicksbymail.com/">candy dicks</a> instead</em>.<br /><br />4. I want to be clear about the fact that the Imperial Radch trilogy is a complex, thoughtful, and gorgeously written series that is not actually primarily comedic in nature (although it does contain humor <em>too</em>)...<br /><br />5. ...And also about the fact that if after you’ve read the books you find yourself a staggering wreck of a person, unable to sustain coherent thoughts about anything except sentient spaceships, the social necessity of gloves, or tea -- you are in very good company indeed.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=25239" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:25033dreams; Imperial Radch; book club2015-06-18T09:41:08Z2015-06-18T09:41:08Zpublic01. Sometimes I take notes on things I dream, often while still half-asleep. For example, last night's batch:<br /><br /><ul><li>murderface: annunciation</li><li>shopping cart on sidewalk unspeakably rude</li><li>we find werewolves instead of our car</li></ul><br />I kind of love my brain sometimes.<br /><br />2. I have now read Ancillary Sword, and this series continues to be delicious like candy. Can it be October already?<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/25033.html#cutid1">vague spoilers</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />3. It's possible that my grandmother and I have just formed a book club. Honestly, I'm pretty enthused. :D<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=25033" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:24638Small victories2015-04-28T12:41:52Z2015-04-28T12:42:31Zpublic8Me, upon writing three short paragraphs of mediocre-at-best fanfic, after like half a year in which I couldn't make myself write anything:<br /><br /><ol><li>I am <em>awesome</em>.</li><li>I am going to <em>sleep</em>.</li></ol><br /><span style="font-size: smaller;">(Seriously, I was worried that something was lastingly broken. Which you know is ridiculous, and I know is ridiculous, and my therapist has told me repeatedly is ridiculous (only nicely), but there it is. Or rather: there it <em>was</em>!)</span><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=24638" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:24364Hello world + POI 4x19-inspired thoughts2015-04-08T10:01:02Z2015-04-08T10:53:30Zpublic2Hello Dreamwidth, I live! And am on an antidepressant that might actually be working! And I even have hopes that I might be more active hereabouts at some point!<br /><br />But today I am not here to talk about those things. Today, I am here to flail about Person of Interest, because I just threw a couple hundred words at Tumblr, and there is something that feels <em>so wrong</em> about posting meta there while this account languishes. So without further ado!<br /><br />This is probably way too much to hope, but--<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/24364.html#cutid1">spoilery speculation</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=24364" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:13709What Leon Tao (maybe) tells us about the Machine2013-03-16T13:06:28Z2013-03-16T13:06:28Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/13709.html#cutid1">Spoilers through 2x18, All In</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=13709" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:13292Random spoilery thoughts about tonight's POI2013-03-08T10:07:54Z2013-03-08T10:08:17Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/13292.html#cutid1">Person of Interest 2x17, Proteus</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=13292" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-31:1346233:9795The things that flit through my head when I'm trying to fall asleep2012-12-04T07:20:51Z2012-12-04T07:20:51Zamusedpublic0Apparently now include fragments of Root/Reese.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://enemyofperfect.dreamwidth.org/9795.html#cutid1">Twenty-three whole words of it!</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=enemyofperfect&ditemid=9795" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments