the fandom librarian

hey guys! if anyone here is still looking for football recs, I have updated the list. new fic is marked with an asterisk, as per usual. I also wanted to let you know that I think the list is now... complete, for lack of a better word. or at least not getting updated again. I obviously haven't been able to dedicate the time and attention to it that I used to given how long it's been since my last update, and I'm just not enthusiastic enough about it anymore to promise I'll be better.

I'm not leaving football fandom, and I might still add things to the list for all I know (hell, by the time cornerflag rolls around I might be back on the bandwagon), but at least for now, the rec shop is closed. there are other people in football fandom who do recs now, and I'm sure you'll all be able to find things to read without my assistance! it's been really great to meet so many people in the two and a half years I've been working on the list, and some minor wank aside, it's been a wonderful experience for me -- thank you all so much for writing all this lovely fic and for caring what I had to say about it! ♥

PS: I tried really, really hard to get through all of my backlog of "stuff to be recced" before closing it out. the lone holdout was the 2007 Secret Santa exchange. there was too much to read, I'm sorry, I just couldn't make myself do it -- but if any of you gets really desperate for something so old it's new to read, the full list is here.

I did make a post about Barça Femenino over at _fcbarcelona_, if anyone would like to check it out! I want to get some more stuff translated and find more pictures before I post to my journal, though.

I don't think I ever mentioned that I was reccing Barça fic for crack_van last month, did I? well, anyway, those recs are up too under the rpf: professional athlete tag if you want to take a look. I don't think there's anything in there that I haven't recced in some capacity before, but still. (just, um, ignore any recs in that tag that aren't by me. or don't, feel free to check them out! but they're not my endorsements, so I take zero responsibility for them.)

still thinking about creating a vids section to the football rec post. I don't know. there's not that many half-decent vids out there, and I have most of them saved to my computer, so it wouldn't be hard, it's just that I can't be objective and I'm not sure if that matters. I'll read fic about people I don't know; I'll read fic about people I hate. I really can't watch vids of them. (and I will watch really terrible vids of people I love. case in point: you have no idea how many times I have watched that.)

speaking of things I hate: ( more football musings, cut because nobody wants to hear my thoughts on yaoi. )

I've never done a fandom charity auction before, but Planned Parenthood is really important to me as an American and as the proud owner of a vagina, so here goes. my thread for fandom-helps is here; I'm offering to create a personalized rec list for each of the three highest bidders, should there be more than one. if you have the money to spare, it's a great cause, and there's a ton of awesome stuff to bid on, not just my thread! go go go! bidding is open until 11:30pm EST February 21.

touchline is having a Lady Love Prompt Fest! Go, prompt, comment, tell your friends! (I am serious. All of you, if you want more fic about ladies, put up a notice on your journal so people will know this is going on. I AM WATCHING YOU.)

I'm officially done with my month of football RPF recs on crack_van! If you're curious about what I recced, it's all under the rpf: professional athlete tag.

And finally, I usually rec fic on this journal and save other media for tumblr, but I put together some vid recs for crack_van and it occurred to me that maybe some of you wouldn't have seen them yet. Enjoy!

( heavily Messi-centric. as life should be. )

which jammy bitch got Alcantara fic for no special occasion at all, just because she has awesome friends? THIS JAMMY BITCH RIGHT HERE! run do not walk (unless that's a squick for you in which case... um, don't read it? but it's really good so you're missing out!) and tell luxover how awesome she is! I'm still going to put together an Alcantara spam soon but in the immortal words of Hyperbole and a Half "it's like the things never end!" by which I mean rl is sort of interfering again. (by which I mean my ability to schedule things is consistently terrible and I seem to be playing a lot of concerts these days, oops.)

but also partly in awesome ways, because aramley is coming to visit! SO EXCITEDDDD. :D

umm yes. if this post had a point other than LEAHHHHH and ALCANTARAAAAAAAS I don't remember what it was. let us say a prayer for Barcelona's poor injured captains and sign out. ilu all!

gayasatennisplayer.tumblr.com. don't say I never told you.

ps: why is physics haaaaaaaaaard?

It is a truth universally acknowledged in Romancelandia, that a single brooding man in possession of a dickbag nature must be in want of a Magic Hoo-Hoo to reform him. (from www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com)

instead am looking at pictures of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal being unbearably adorable at each other. oh, my heart. here, you can experience an unexpected drop in productivity, too!

I joined this fandom at exactly the right moment to be hopelessly sucked in. the Australian Open finals. my god. Roger cried at the awards ceremony and Rafa teared up too and hugged him and whispered in his ear until he smiled and boys, this is NOT OKAY! I need those brain cells!

~cough~ which is to say... I think I care about tennis now? also it is really hilarious to watch serious sports people go all flaily over their destined rivalry while the slash fangirls are sitting there giggling over their destined love.

remind me that I do not need a tennis icon now. no, seriously, I don't.

mistful updated Drop Dead Gorgeous! go, go, read. if Harry and his saucy, salacious Veela charms don't bring a helpless grin to your face, you're doomed to live one miserably unamused life.

OMG SUPERNATURAL FANDOM. NEVER STOP BEING AWESOME.

am I the only person who has never heard "The Ballad of Jared and Jensen"? seriously, it is an epic tragedy that I have never experienced this work of meta-fandom before - a tragedy remedied only by watching this genius vid many, many times in a row.

Jensen and Jared are in love
even Kripke can see
which is why he puts all kinds of hella awesome sexual tension into his show even though the characters are BROTHERS!

okay, you've watched that and cracked up immensely? now go read this amazing fic called "The Con-Going Fangirl," wherein Jared overhears the J2 slashers talking at a convention, and then gets sucked headlong into the world of RPS. it's completely worth it just to see what all of our hyper-jargoned conversations even sound like to an outsider - an outsider who just happens to be the object of our perverse fantasies, but whatever. oh, fandom. never change.

hmm, what else? I have also discovered this fantastic blog called Smart Bitches Who LOVE Trashy Books, which is really amazing for me because I admit, with very little shame, that I also love trashy romance novels! I went through a phase in seventh grade when all I would read was Nora Roberts novels. this was followed by the phase when I realized that between homework and fanfiction I had no time to read books at all, so I recall it with fond nostalgia. also, the two women who maintain the blog recently kicked up a shitstorm by discovering that a very prolific romance novelist was also a very prolific plagiarist; the story's been picked up by assorted news outlets and moniker'd "2008's Sexiest Plagiarism Scandal" by NPR, but my favorite response to the whole mess has been that of Paul Tolme, one of the plagiarizees. he's an environmental researcher of ferrets. (yes: ferrets.) you can read his reaction in Newsweek here. SBTB's readers and author Nora Roberts have since contributed over $10,000 in response to Tolme's request that someone think of the ferrets.

at least some good came out of a terrible romance novelist's plagiarism!

and then I hopped over from reading about romance novels to reading about sex, in Dan Savage's column, Savage Love. I really do love me some Dan Savage. don't you?