My journal is "Friends Only". Well more like semi-friends only, cause some stuff like my fic and random posts will likely stay open, but a lot of it is locked. I still ♥ you all, but there are enough crazies out there to make this necessary! Don't be strangers; just request to add in the comments! : ) I'm temporarily shutting down friend request; its no big deal, just cleaning up my f-list. If we've ever had a random convo in the middle of the comments section of another journal though, feel free to message me about adding you. (I'm a sucker for good conversation).

And credit to twtd  for the banner!

I'm back open for friend-requests!Here's a bit of a disclaimer though.So if you're a cool person and  a non-troll, let me know if you want to be added and I'll get back to you in a jiffy!  ^_^

So gratuitous Buffy reference in the title notwithstanding, I would give an arm and a leg right now for a nap! My day, however, doesn't end until about 9PM tonight, which is a little less than 8 hours from now! GRR!!! Why do I have to be all active and shiz at my school. I just want to be a lazy bum that drinks and flunks there way at one bad decision after another... okay, maybe not, but still!

Also, Paramore's new album brand new eyes came out to be. Expect me to fap on about it in a later post, once I run out to pick up my second copy of the album (yes, that will be three posts in one day!). I just realized I truly am a Paramore stan!

But what's really important is: I fancified my layout! The banner is courtesy of moriann and the layout is credited to dejaentendu810 . I feel like a real LJ'er now! : P

*But first, before I present why my class is awesome, can anyone please help me customize my journal? I'm so rusty on CSS that it's embarrassing!*

MIDTERM EXAM, PART 2
TAKE HOME COMPONENT
Length 7-10 pages, approximate; MLA style
Complete ONE of the assignments listed here:
[Choice A omitted due to the fact that I'm obviously writing option B.]

B
Choose one of your favorite films of or a film that you think is particularly appropriate for examination through a queer lens. View your chosen film, then “queer” it, i.e., cite classroom readings and discussions, and gather outside research to formulate a queer reading of your film. In your paper, weave in a discussion of what you consider to be the more appropriate scholarly approach for looking at film classics through a queer lens: Number 1 or Number 2, below.

( A Little More Description That You Can Click On If You're Interested )

1. Academics produce writing that focuses on a close textural reading of the film and related scholarly writing, while avoiding the use of the first person and any other infusion of the author into the writing, whereas
2. Scholar-fans produce writing that reveals the investments that the author has in the film that produced certain readings and that led the author to write about a particular film in the first place.

It's like everything I've done in fandom over the last few years. It's academic-approved slash-goggles!!!!!

Just for lulz, anyone want to offer any suggestions (though I got plenty to go on already)!

Edit: And what did I finally settle of writing about? This movie:

( Show info! )
Edit: So the show's going through a bit of a transition right now, so sorry about any awkwardness. I'm just getting acclimated to radio in general, so overall I'm still a little iffy on the whole pace and feel. I pinpointed a major issue though tonight: I don't know when to step back a bit. Now that know this, I think I'm personally going to get a lot better on air. The download will be up in a few and feel free to listen and offer advice! : )

AND HOLEY JAMOLEY! KAYA'S CONVINCING THE WHOLE SKINS CAST TO TWEET! My absolutely fave thus far is Ollie who I just realized, besides Lily, is the most likely person in the cast that I'd fall in love with IRL. He's such an adorable little geek! Earlier today he had his whole twit-list playing movie trivia. I naturally got the Star Wars quote immediately and flailed all around for a few seconds at my geekiness finding a purpose in life! AND CAN WE PLEASE GET MEG ON TWITTER ASAP! KAYA, SHE'S YOUR FLATMATE; CONVINCE HER ALREADY!!!

It's my birthday, and seriously, I couldn't be more ecstatic, cause now I can actually say I've been around for two whole decades! That's cool right? Beyond that, one of the most entertaining things that's happened thus far is I had to show someone my ID to prove my age! I've been making an argument for my rampant immaturity for years, so the very idea that so many people are shocked by my age is kind of laughable. But I guess it's better than someone thinking I'm younger. Also, can anybody explain to me why I'm going to all my classes, my job, and my internship today? How fucking boring am I?! (I think I'm going to try and trade shifts with someone tonight though.)

And what's been my best birthday gift so far:


Yeah, I know it wasn't made exactly for me, but it was posted on my birthday, so I'm counting it all the same. Plus a birthday shout-out was attached all the same, so yeah! Anywho, shan_3414  is the most genius vidder ever IHMO so yeah, I'm officially fangirling her! Deal with it! ^_^

( Pictureplaces also posted a hella cool pic too! LJ I LOVE YOU! )

Lol, and just to capitalize on the occasion, what would be the best birthday gift ever?! If sojourn_storm posted the last part of the greatest RPF fic ever, To Boston With Love! Yeah, I'm totally putting her on the spot like that! : P

So I kept forgetting to post these in the mad rush of the first week of classes, but I just wanted to wish vintagedorkage and botherd a Happy (belated) Birthday! Since the days have already come and gone, I hope you both had an amazing b-day and thanks for being so awesome!


vintagedorkage holds down the KStew/NReed fandom like nobody else, supplying the world with awesome RPF and just being all and out cool. Even though I've probably never spelled it out, she's one of my fave people on LJ!


And botherd wrote probably one of my fave fics in the entire Skins fandom ever, Dominoes, and I'm telling you, if you haven't read it yet, go read it now! Plus she's all in all extremely cool and regularly insightful. :  )

So I may at some point upload this as a legit podcast if at all possible, but I have to talk to show's creator about that first. Either way, guess what guys? I'm officially a co-host of Talk Nerdy To Me on WPRK 91.5 (Voted #3 Best Local Radio Show in Orlando)! For those of you who haven't seen me post about it before, it's basically a show that specializes in all things nerdy, with a particular focus on Nerdcore and Nerdrock music. It's on every Wednesday night at 9pm-11pm EST. The download of this week's episode is on MediaFire (it contains a random Skins 2 minute convo!) and it's a little large (I'm going to try and find a way to minimize the file size in the future). Anywho, feel free to download and listen!

Also (cause I can't make a post without talking about Skins lately), I was reserving judgment on Lily's hair until I saw what it would look like styled for S4, and yeah, I am now officially on board for the "Cut Your Damn Hair, Woman" campaign. It's just so not Naomi!



Also, I love Naomi/Emily as much as the next person, but I want more Katie/Meg photos now please! Bb looks oh so fine and adorable this series!

Fair warning: you may not agree with a lot of this. Bitch at me as you will, just don't be surprised if I call you a cunt right back. It's just my opinion, but I don't presume or assume I'm winning any hearts or minds with this post. Just thought I'd say that upfront. Also, sorry about any spelling or grammar errors. this was typed in a flourish.

Ok, so I know a lot of my f-list is about damn near breaking down over the announcement that MTV has attained the right to US Skins, but seriously, was this unexpected? More importantly, is this really that tragic? I don't think it is. I mean honestly, I don't think it's going to play well, regardless of the network, but did anyone have higher expectations/hopes. If there's any network that might have a hope of retaining some of the original spirit of the show, I think it's going to be MTV. I mean, maybe HBO could have done it, but that would have never happened so MTV seems like a fair next best option. I think some of us are forgetting that MTV didn't always suck, and when it makes a genuine attempt at scripted-television or just decent television, it's got a decent track record. So this is my top 5 reasons why this whole deal could be okay. Breathe easy bbs; its not the end of the world... yet.

5. It could have been so much worse.

( South of Nowhere anybody? )

4. It's going to be set in Baltimore.

( No, it won't be The Wire, but I imagine it'll still be grimey. )

3. When MTV attempts to not put something out that's total shit, they're actually pretty okay.

( Daria anyone? Maybe even Made? )

2. True Life. It deserved a spot all unto itself. Shit get's real regularly. If anyone's worried about censors, consult this show.

( No seriously, this should probably be my number one reason actually. Because this series is what so much of my faith hinges on. )

1. Bryan Elsely is still along for the ride. Heck, he's captaining the ship! (Jamie Brittain's supposed to be there too!)

( Jamie letting someone ruin his baby? I think not! )

Final sidenote: Now this will probably just make itself into it's own post sooner or later, but I think it's about time we reassess some of our views on the show, because while I love and adore the series, people have this scary misconception that it's so real. Uh... what? If that's how yall are really living in the UK, than that's great, fantastic even, but I'm willing to bet that even Skins is a bit exaggerated for dramatic and comedic effort. The goal is not to get it exactly the same content-wise, cause frankly, not even Skins is perfect in that regard; the goal is to capture the spirit as best as possible. If it loses some of the drugs, sex, and cussing, so flippin what?! I know I didn't personally grow up fucking everything that moved, and hell, I didn't even think to try pot before college. People need to stop acting like it perfectly captures the youth experience, and somehow America's going to ruin that. Give it a chance at least!

So I don't know if this is becoming a regular thing or what, but I'm on the radio again and will be for about the next 45 minutes (until 3pm EST). I'm guesting on my friend's show "Burn Everything You Love." It's very indie rock and quite different from the show I was on Wednesday (which I might become a regular on!). You can hear me on WPRK 91.5 if you live in the Orlando area, or at wprkdj.org. Oh, and I officially have a dj name now: DJ TEPID AT BEST! It's very hipsterish, I know, but it seems to have stuck. : P

Anybody want to hear the sound of my awkward voice on the radio (I make it sound so appealing don't I)? Well tonight you can! In about thirty minutes, I'll be guesting on my friends show Talk Nerdy To Me (it's on at 9pm EST by the way). The name kind of says it all. There's a lot of nerdcore played and general geekery discussed. You can here it online by going to wprkdj.org and clicking "Listen Online," which should be top center of the page.

So yeah, coolness right? I'll probably dork out about it later, so that's all for now! ^_^

My fave gymnast of all time (tied with Dominique Dawes and followed in a close second by Nastia Liukin) is steppin back in the game! SUPER-WOOT!!!!

Lol, so if anyone was friends with me on LJ prior to Skins S3, you probably know that I love and adore Alicia Sacramone. I mean really, my love for her is what brought me fully onto LJ after a thread of hers on AfterEllen went and did the wonky (for my Skins peeps, two words: personal pics). The ASac comm was the first community I was seriously active in and what brought me out of my life long fandom lurkerdom. It was just totally awesome. And then it kind of died. ASac announced her retirement and left Brown University to hit it big in Hollywood.

Well that lasted all of maybe four months. Bb decided she was sick of sitting around pretending she wanted to act, and after ShawnJohn stole her spot on DWTS (oh yeah, I said it!), she decided she would show them hoes and COME OUT OF RETIREMENT! When I say this is amazing, I mean it's amazing! Lord knows if her body will hold up for 2012 (she'll be 24), but I'm fairly sure she'll make it to Nats next year, if not Worlds in 2011. And plus, let's celebrate what's really important here... new RPF with her and Nas and/or Pezsex shall be written (right?)!

Find a bit more about her return here and here.

Oh, and HELLZ YEAH! Soccermoneyz iz back!!!

( Some vids displaying teh awesome of Soccermoneyz!  )

I feel a picspam is forthcoming! And oh yeah! That's two posts in one day (take that former lurkerdom)!

So there was another F!S today for Jen and Sivi, and while I feel kind of weird about saying this, I'm kind of feeling BNF fatigue at this point. It's not that I don't love them both as authors (and as people, obviously), because they are fucking AMAZING, but I think that them popping up constantly on F!S is making us look like a bunch of immature twats as a fandom. And it's really awesome that a lot of the secrets are positive, but there is no other fandom that has the same few people continuously pointed out, and reading some of the comments that got posted in response to the latest F!S, I just feel bad, because this seems to actually be garnering them more negative attention than positive. I know the people who are posting the positive secrets are just trying to express how much they appreciate the authors, but why don't we actually work towards just telling them upfront. I think they deserve to know their impact in a way that doesn't seem like hiding, if that makes sense.

( So I figured I'd repost my own F!S from a while back. )

So it has become incredibly obvious that Deborah Ann Woll is vying for my permanent and complete love & affection. How do I know this?



But seriously, Deborah Ann Woll, or Little Debbie as I like to call her (see image behind the cut), seems more and more amazing each day, and I don't even know what it is. Maybe it's just the fact that she absolutely owns as Jessica Hamby on True Blood, the fact that she's a self-admitted geek who probably spent more time fangirling at Comic-Con than actually being fangirl'd, or maybe it's the constant new stream of gorgeous photos that continue to come out of her, but I ♥ her like nobodies business. I want to see more of her ASAP! Give the girl a movie role or something people!

( Mini DAW Picspam! )
DAW & TB pics jipped from ontd_trublud and trueblood_lj . And there is a lot of html fail here that I don't feel like fixing now. There was a second half of this post about how I ship ASkars/LittleDebbie, but it kept messing up so I'll just post separately later.

Title: From Start to Beginning (Wanting)
Fandom: Gossip Girl
Pairing: Serena/Blair
Rating: PG
Word count: 2,315
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. If I did, they would have long since been together... plus I'd be rich and likely writing professionally, so this would be canon rather than fanfic... I iz rambling yeah?
A/N: I am SOOO sorry for this being posted late. I had it all done proper and prepared, but the file somehow ended up being corrupted on my flash drive and I had revert back to an old draft and fix a ton of things.This is not the original final draft, thus I'm not the happiest with it, but it still ended up in the right place I think (sorry for any errant lingering mistakes!). Thanks so much to aphrodite_mine for a last minute beta read. She officially rocks my socks! This was written for maddie508 for femslash09 . Hope you like it!
Summary: It is quite ludicrous when Blair thinks about it, even silly. She doesn’t remember when it started; maybe it had always been there, at least for as long a time as she could even feel such a thing.


( It's quite ludicrous, when Blair thinks about it... )

*Small warning: some of this is collected from other comments I've made today, so if you recognize something, that's why.*

Ok, that's not entirely true, because I do in fact believe in the fictional existence of both Naomi and & Emily and the portmanteau their coupling produces, also known as Naomily. And I'm a fan of the pair, some might even say I'm a super fan. But I'm also a realist and realize that Skins is a straight-forward dramatic series with touches of comedy, not an uplifting tome about the endearing and enduring nature of today's youth like the production company would have me to believe. That means I expect drama! And that's what I'm sure the viewers will get in series 4. And who do I think will be from and center of that drama? Well Naomi/Emily of course, and rightfully so. I think we, collectively as a fandom, have been walking around a very plain fact for a while in our happiness over the two getting together: Naomi is kind of a twat, who honestly doesn't deserve Emily. In the same token, Emily is kind of an idiot who spends more time looking like a kicked puppy then actually then proving why she and Naomi would even be good/happy together.

( MOAR! Cut for f-list though. )

Yall, I don't care what else is out there, I still contend that this is the greatest gif ever!



It just never gets old! This is like that one aunt who always shows up to the family union wasted off her ass, ready to Drop It Like It's HAWT!!!

Love it! Also, I've been really bad about responding to comments and messages the last couple of weeks. Real life and computer issues have just been pressing against my fandom time, but I swear I'm going to get to it all over the next day or so! So thanks for being patient and awesome!

Oh God! My love for Meg right now is just... infinite! Like I loved her before, but now it's just like an EPIC LOVE (see video for reasons why)! Meg Prescott, please marry me!

See! I mean, anyone who gets that genuinely excited and adorable about this guy (pictured below) being at the same awards show is deserving of my lasting love and devotion! It's like she just found out she won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes or something! Love it and love her!

Yall don't even know! The BET Awards is like a special time in my year. It's always just so damn crazy and all these people I grew up just come on stage and wile out and it's always AMAZING! So I'm live-blogging and tweeting (supergeekygrrl) it up tonight, cause I feel like it! Tune in if ya can!!!

8:00pm- They're starting off with an MJ tribute already? I doubt this'll be the only one tonight. As far as BET Awards openings go, it was kinda weak. I still say Monique does it the biggest and the baddest openings!

8:05pm- I already love Jamie Foxx as host! Look at them high water, tight pants! Love 'em!

8:08pm- See this is what I've been waiting for. Jamie Foxx said we about to celebrate Mike. I'm tired of all this sappy/scandalist shiz. I'm ready to dance to some Jackson 5/Classic Michael Jackson!
( 8:12pm-8:59pm )

8:59pm_ I love to see strong, successful black men holdin it down! Thank you brothas for holdin it down so beautifully!

9:01pm- Beyonce! I love you bb! But what are you wearing?! Surprised you picked Ave Maria to perform, but it was still beautiful. And no! No Sarah McLachalan! Bey! You're outfit is just distracting! But damn! Ave Maria! Way to prove you can actually sing! Love it!!!!

Umm, so at around 9pm, Mom #1 made margaritas, and from their on out, things have been a bit fuzzy... I think my parents just got me drunk! It feels so wrong! But my aunts and cousins are just so crazy that I really don't give a damn! Great night yall! It's just been a great night! Oh, and I think Jamie Foxx may be ghey (my aunt pointed out, and it's just so there)!