public service announcement

[meretricula]

gone for a week, may or may not have internet (if I do, it'll be dial-up), will try to work on fic about Rafa having a thing for Novak's glasses but no promises, and if I don't reply to emails in a timely manner, sorry!

oh, also? RAFA WON THE US OPEN. IT WAS AWESOME. (and Barça spanked the Greek club whose name I can't pronounce. keep up the excellent work, boys! these are the kinds of results we like to see.)

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[mardia.livejournal.com]

This Barcelona game was awesome. 5-1, fantastic. (I friended you, btw--I need more people on my flist who are into soccer/football.)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

omg you're into footie? yesssssssssss! what team/league(s) do you follow? (I like Liverpool and am apathetically cheering for AC Milan because Zlatan's there, but Barça all the way for me XD)

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Heee. Right now I'm following Liverpool and Arsenal (Liverpool so it can break my heart, and Arsenal because a friend's getting me into them) and I'm also following Barca as well. I'm still something of a newbie--just got into it thanks to the World Cup, but I'm really enjoying it as well!

ETA: I'm also trying desperately to keep myself from writing Fernando Torres/Steven Gerrard slash and mostly failing.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

yeah, I have a lot of friends who are into Arsenal, so I guess I have a bit of a vested interest in them as well. plus if I were just following Liverpool in EPL right now I'd be throwing myself off a cliff. god, they're depressing. I'm really new too, actually - I got into it towards the end of last season, and then of course the World Cup happened and I was hooked for good. XD

trololololol let me know if you want recs or anything, I have the most epic "library" of footie fic known to man. don't fight it! give in, save time. :D (at least you're not writing cranky gen about players nobody cares about, haha.)

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Haha, Liverpool is KILLING me right now, and all I can say is thank God the Manchester United-Liverpool game airs waaaaay too early in the US for me to watch it.

And HEE, I already saw your rec post on your LJ, and let me just tell you, I have been gobbling up those fics like nothing else--the issue is that 'cause I'm so new, I don't know all of the players that are being written about yet. (Especially if they're German.) And HEE, what fic are you planning to write?

Oh, and I wanted to ask--I'm still a newbie, but I was wondering if the fandom standard is to uh, deal with Alex Curran, in a certain way. (I'm asking because the fic I'm thinking of writing has her actually in the story, and in a more positive light than I've seen previously.)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

inorite >_<;;

lol, I wrote post-WC Iniesta + Valdes gen for cornerflag. which now that I think about it will be posted soon! yay! I wrote it ages ago and I hate sitting on fic, haha. and oh god, Bundesliga. I can't even. who are these people? why is there so much fic, and why is it never good? (though as always my standard reply to anyone getting into footie is "go to guede_mazaka's site, read everything, you will be thoroughly educated when you're done" haha.)

don't even get me started on the way fandom treats Alex Curran. and Mesut Ozil's girlfriend. just... UGH. either their existence is handwaved or they're cheating gold-digging whores so it's totally okay for their boyfriends to be cheating on them too! because that's a fine upstanding moral position to take.

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'll be sure to check out that site then. And aww, Iniesta and Valdes, AWESOME.

!!! OH THANK GOD IT IS NOT JUST ME. Ahem, sorry, just--really really did not get the reaction people have to Alex Curran, or even to Mesut Ozil's girlfriend. In that case, I'm going to ignore the hell out of the haters and write the fic I want. HMPH.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

check out cornerflag regardless of me, there's a lot of great writers there! (and of course some not-so-great ones, too, so I'll be in good company, lol. but seriously for a rare-pairing ficathon it gets really great entries.)

it's so frustrating, because I've seen some great takes on WAGs - applefic wrote an amazing Victoria Beckham character study, and there are others that I would look up and link for you if I were on my own computer - but the prevailing majority of fandom is still stuck on the "yay slash ew girls are icky" phase, which just... okay, I'm a woman, I don't really enjoy reading about how all women who interfere with two guys' pure homosexual love are shallow greedy sluts. so: please do write the fic you want, because I want it too!

[mardia.livejournal.com]

There are so many fandoms that are stuck in this sort of thinking, and it's really ridiculous--I'm all for slashing pretty guys together, truly, but you don't need to be bashing women to accomplish it. Believe me, it's better if you don't!

OY. Hmph. I'm really starting to think that I have to write this fic, if only to buck this stupid trend.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

I always think it's down to a combination of factors - average age of writers, amount of sexism in the source material (and unfortunately there's a lot in professional sports), decent fandom role models, stuff like that - but god, I would like to have a recs list that doesn't include warnings for WAG-bashing. >_>;;

[bobthemagiccow.livejournal.com]

Grandma has cable broadband internet on her computer. You'll be fine. She just doesn't have WiFi, so you won't be able to connect her laptop.

If by some chance you haven't flown out yet, you're welcome to grab my second AirPort Express (mom has a key to my house; the second AirPort Express is currently plugged into the power strip on the far side of my TV in my living room). Once you're at grandma's, take the ethernet cable that runs between her cable modem and her computer, unplug it from the computer, and plug it into the AirPort Express. Then wait for the light to turn solid green (which might take several minutes). Instant WiFi network, with no settings to mess with or anything. That's what I did when we visited her a year ago.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

man, I wish I'd cornered you before I left. XDDD oh well, I'll live. it might even be good for me! I have some translations I was supposed to get done a week ago.