a few brief thoughts on projects to come
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meretriculayes, yes, I swear, when I get time I will update the recs and do some more mini-spams for the I ♥ Barcelona post. other projects though.
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stickmarionette and I had a brief discussion about this on Twitter earlier today (prompted by another fabulous update to guede_mazaka's vampire AU, btw, and if you're not reading it you don't know what you're missing), but is anyone out there still pining over a pairing so old-school that fandom newbies have never even heard of it? because oh god, Hierro/Guardiola. WHERE IS IT GIVE IT TO ME. CAN FERNANDO COME COACH MADRID NOW WE ARE IN SORE NEED OF HIS BEAUTY AND CLASSINESS IN LA LIGA. now, obviously we have a slight bias here (Figo/Guardiola? Raul/Guardiola? Cruyff/Guardiola? have you noticed a theme yet?) but we can't be the only ones with such a nagging, largely-unfulfilled passion, right? would anyone be interested in some sort of "old-school pairings" ficathon? (after I'm done with exams, natch.) just polling right now, but who knows, maybe something will come out of it. even if it's just me and Lee yelling "FINISH THAT FIGO/GUARDIOLA FIC RIGHT THE FUCK NOW" at each other on twitter for the next six months, haha.
also, and this is a project I have been contemplating for a long while now, I want to index footballers' tweets on delicious so that they don't get lost once they're beyond the timeline's recall. I can't believe nobody's ever done this in RPF before - twitter is such an amazing resource of how people really interact with each other (not the ones runs by interns, obviously, and in this case I'm thinking more of the kids, who haven't yet learned the art of discretion, but Puyi, Cesc and Pique are a great example of twitter revealing a lot about personal relationships) and I certainly use it as such! it would be a massive undertaking, but I don't know, I think I could manage to go through the primary Barça accounts, and maybe the Athletic Bilbao ones, given a week or so with nothing better to do. think about it. all the tweets by footballers that mention other players. links saved, tweets translated and everything tagged by relevant player. it would be beautiful. or maybe that's my OCD / librarian-fu talking. anyway, just putting it out there. it could be a joint project! if a bunch of people got together and agreed to each index for a few of their favorite players that they already follow on twitter, it wouldn't even be all that hard.
ok back to writing my dissertation now. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE OTHER-ING OF THE BELOVED. THIS IS THE KEY I HAVE BEEN MISSING. SUCK IT, PROPERTIUS, I'M ONTO YOU.
stickmarionette and I had a brief discussion about this on Twitter earlier today (prompted by another fabulous update to guede_mazaka's vampire AU, btw, and if you're not reading it you don't know what you're missing), but is anyone out there still pining over a pairing so old-school that fandom newbies have never even heard of it? because oh god, Hierro/Guardiola. WHERE IS IT GIVE IT TO ME. also, and this is a project I have been contemplating for a long while now, I want to index footballers' tweets on delicious so that they don't get lost once they're beyond the timeline's recall. I can't believe nobody's ever done this in RPF before - twitter is such an amazing resource of how people really interact with each other (not the ones runs by interns, obviously, and in this case I'm thinking more of the kids, who haven't yet learned the art of discretion, but Puyi, Cesc and Pique are a great example of twitter revealing a lot about personal relationships) and I certainly use it as such! it would be a massive undertaking, but I don't know, I think I could manage to go through the primary Barça accounts, and maybe the Athletic Bilbao ones, given a week or so with nothing better to do. think about it. all the tweets by footballers that mention other players. links saved, tweets translated and everything tagged by relevant player. it would be beautiful. or maybe that's my OCD / librarian-fu talking. anyway, just putting it out there. it could be a joint project! if a bunch of people got together and agreed to each index for a few of their favorite players that they already follow on twitter, it wouldn't even be all that hard.
ok back to writing my dissertation now. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE OTHER-ING OF THE BELOVED. THIS IS THE KEY I HAVE BEEN MISSING. SUCK IT, PROPERTIUS, I'M ONTO YOU.
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Date: 2011-06-01 03:03 am (UTC)I mean, we can think outside the box a little here. there are pairings that predate fandom as we know it. go back, idk, 10 years is the ballpark figure Lee and I were kicking around. THERE WAS NO FOOTBALLSLASH. didn't exist. what a mindfuck is that! in short: Di Stefano fic, man. imagine. :DD
ALL LEAGUES, TEAMS AND NATIONALITIES WELCOME.
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Date: 2011-06-01 03:48 am (UTC)ngl i kind of really really really want to write di stefano fic now. there's so much untapped potential! but taht aside i love the idea of fic with characters that predate fandom. pele fic! maradona fic (even though i think some of that exists. not enough, at any rate)! the possibilities are endless.
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Date: 2011-07-29 04:50 pm (UTC)and i love itno subject
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