the fandom librarian

school and work have been eating up all my time lately and that is why I haven't been posting! though it never seems like it's been all that long to me, and then I realize I haven't updated in over a month. so yeah. still ticking along, just quiet on the livejournal front!

YULETIDE. it's almost time for the best season of the year to start! what is everybody nominating? I have predictably started trying to organize the sports people, because that is what I do. I'm going for Olympics RPF, She's The Man and am wavering between Bend It Like Beckham (HOW AM I THE ONLY PERSON THINKING OF NOMINATING THIS? SERIOUSLY???) and Tennis RPF because I really want that Chrissie/Martina fic. but if nobody nominates Bend It Like Beckham I may have to abandon classic tennis for this year. :(

Amanda Palmer and Mumford & Sons both have new albums out! they're pretty ace, you should check them out.

missmollyetc filled a Baby Dream Team prompt for me over on touchline and it's awesome! go read: The Same Last Dream Again.

anybody want to play with memes? late to the party, I know. (seen this from a bunch of people but most recently aramley.)

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination!

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

PS: PIQUE AND SHAKIRA ARE HAVING A BABY!!!

I just got home today from an extremely exhausting trip (sorry I haven't been responding to correspondence, btw, that's why) so I'm not really going to say much, this is just to let any interested parties know that I've finally updated the football recs. new stuff in all categories, keep clicking on through! I haven't even got through reading the latest issue of cornerflag, let alone reccing it, but hopefully there'll be something new for everybody anyway.

oh, and I had no idea how to do a disclaimer for this, but everybody knows that I modded for santjordi, right? so if you feel that a bit of salt needs to be applied to my recs for fics written for that, go on ahead and apply it; they're all clearly labeled as such.

um. I think that's it? I'll hopefully be able to deal with emails and stuff tomorrow morning; I had great intentions but I just couldn't get to it while I was away and I went straight from the train to work to home without even getting groceries today. nag me about things I'm supposed to do, flist! I still have to do ladyballer and WAG primers, I know. and comment on cornerflag. ahahaha the things you would think you'd do so easily when you're co-editor... but yeah, sorry I'm such shit at commenting in general, I always realize when I'm putting together recs how many of the fics in my tabs I just haven't commented on.

hope you all had a nice weekend and are enjoying the Olympics! thrilled for Andy Murray and pleased for Laura and Big Masha (and Little Masha, hey, lots of love to go around) in the tennis, gutted for Team GB in the ladies' footie and still deciding who I'll be rooting for in what's left of the tournament since my usual teams are out. Nadeshiko for the ladies and maybe Brazil on the men's side, I guess. and now I am going to finish eating my orange juice concentrate and fall on my face. g'night!

thank you to everybody who commented on that meta post! you have given me many things to think about and I am trying to reply to all the comments as thoughtfully as they deserve but I'm kind of exhausted by work right now so it may take a little while--I'm not ignoring you and I definitely will reply as soon as I can make my brain say anything other than "ugh back hurts please can we sleep now".

...and there was something else I wanted to say but now I can't remember what it was. :( I was clearly not cut out to be a proper grown-up.

-rec list for the lovely lady who purchased my services for fandom-helps
-Barça ladies primer
-meta meta meta!
-update football recs (add section for vids? thoughts?)
-Barça B OT3 primer
-SUPER-SECRET PROJECT
-...finish a WIP? I feel like I have been way too productive in the fic department lately.
-reply to comments, ugh, I am the worst
-profit???

BUT FIRST, TO SLEEP FOR A MILLION YEARS BECAUSE SPRING BREAK WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

grad student life. so glamorous.

thanksgiving break is never long enough and as per usual I didn't get any work done, w/e w/e I do what I want. and what I want is to procrastinate until the very last possible moment.

anyway. this is kind of random but I was wondering, would anyone like a post about my ~methods of reccing? that sounds super pretentious and obnoxious and probably nobody is at all interested, but I also realize that I have followers who are here for the recs and nothing else and idk, maybe some of you would like to know where I get the stuff on the list so you don't have to wait for my next extremely delayed due to exigencies of graduate school update? (and of course there are always the people who think it's a big clique-y circle jerk but let's face it, I could explain my system until I was blue in the face and they'd still think I just recced everything because my friends wrote it. am I still slightly peeved that my objectivity was called into question? why yes, now that you mention it!)

yuletide yuletide yuletide etc, not even going to try to start cornerflag until that's all over. probably forgetting something, remind me if you know what it is!

&youall;

I think I was about an hour ago but I'm pretty much out of internet on my phone until the third, tragically, so I couldn't drunk-tweet from the bar.

WOOHOO HALLOWEEN PARTIES!!! they served tequila kamikazes in glass teacups! I felt super classy.

what would y'all most like me to drunkenly promise to fic? I assume about 90% of you would say FINISH THE SOULBONDING FIC YOU LAZY WHORE but you never know. XD

iluvuall!!!!!!!! ps HURRICANES ARE MADE OF FRUIT PUNCH AND DEATH BEWARE.

I'm off! I'm not going to have regular internet access for the next week (aside from my phone, and I'm going to try not to go over my data plan) so I probably won't be around too much, but I'll check in when I can! keep the fires at touchline burning in my absence, sisters. :)

but I care. so suck it up.

MAN CITY WON A TROPHY! FUCK YEAH!!! and Mario was Man of the Match! and they also guaranteed a spot in Champions League qualifiers (at least) next season! but mostly this post is an excuse to share the ridiculous locker room celebrations from the FA Cup victory. (their official photographer is a lady? and they're all running around stripping in front of her? damn, how do you get that job. also I feel bad for thinking about this because I know he breaks people on the pitch but Nigel de Jong totally seems like somebody who'd be fun to party with.) and, let's be real, I mostly only care about the video for the moment at 1:48 when Mario jumps up randomly to ruffle Silva's hair. and at 4:14 when he's totally sneaking a longing stare at my bb. /tinhat (ok and Carlos kissing the trophy at 4:34. DON'T LEAVE US CARLITOS ILUUUUUUU.)



right. uhhh. I just got back from Rome last night? I got to monopolize aramley for a whole weekend! I am only sad that we had to part again. ;_; COME LIVE IN MY POCKET LEAH I WILL TAKE V V V GOOD CARE OF YOU.

and we got to see the tennis! I SAW FLAVIA PENNETTA IN PERSON SHE IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ALIVE. and also Maria Sharapova I guess she is pretty good-looking too. we had amazing seats for the Djokovic-Murray match btw you should all be jealous. and then Rafa lost to Novak which was less awesome but I roll with the punches. I got to fangirl repeatedly with Leah and I think I may have eaten my weight in pizza and gelato, which was my primary mission anyway. SUCCESS.

so now it is time to crack down and actually write that stupid dissertation but as a final note BARCELONA WON THE LEAGUE. and the more pictures from various celebrations I see, the more convinced I am that my crackpot theories about Ibi and Thiago might actually be kind of true. :D

PS: Querido Iniesta

In the blue Ford Orion, on the way to Barcelona, parents, maternal grandfather and the boy who dreamed of being a footballer couldn’t stop crying. “We stopped in Tortosa to eat. No one ate. My mother was crying, my father wasn’t hungry, my grandfather tried to lift my spirits, but I couldn’t eat either. I didn’t even look at the food. The first image of La Masia I have in my memory is the one of Joan Farrés, the director. He introduced me to José, a youth goalkeeper who was over 1.90 meters, and showed me the La Masia facilities. I looked at him and thought, ‘oh my God’. Then we started dinner. I couldn’t stop crying. The next day, I went to school, my parents brought me and they told me, ‘we’ll be here waiting for you when you come out.’ When I came out, they had already left. It was the best way not to prolong the agony. Later I continued crying, but if they had stayed, it would have been much worse.”

Those dismissals without goodbyes were repeated every two weeks. His parents would arrive on Saturday, see their child, leave him on Sunday night at La Masia and tell him: “Tomorrow we’ll come back to take you to school.” And Andrés knew that the next day he would go to school alone. On the weekend that his parents wouldn’t come, Benaiges would take him to his home and try to cheer Iniesta up with watching a movie, a football game with a walk and talk, until Sunday night. And then Andrés would cry again as he was, a child who felt alone in a house full of teenagers who already knew each other, including one Víctor Valdés.

“Now in La Masia there are many very young boys, but back then the only kids were Troiteiro and I. Victor took care of us, he behaved great with us.”

...

Andrés Iniesta still keeps the boots that his father saved up for three months to buy for him. When he’s at home and he sees them, he remembers “la pista” and those trips to and from Albacete, the Brunete tournament, the saddest meal of his life in Tortosa, the shelter provided by Valdés and Benaiges. “When I see them, I remember where I come from,” he says quietly.

"the shelter provided by Valdes." can I just. THEIR LOVE IS SO PURE AND TRUE ♥

this is just to let you all know that I am finally coming to grips with the fact that I really, really need to get work done on my thesis and therefore won't be around much for a while. I'll probably still be reading my flist and I will definitely still be reading comment replies, because god knows I can't quit cold turkey, but I'm going to take tumblr and google reader and twitter off my toolbar and see if that helps. (I will ironically be assisted in this endeavor by the fact that my reaction to sporting disappointment is to go into lockdown mode and refuse to read about it until I feel better.) if you see something "safe" that you think I'll like (picture, article, silly youtube clip, whatever) feel free to link me! I'll probably be going crazy from deprivation by the end of the day. dear thesis: why you no write yourself? ;_;

I really hope I'll be back by then, but if not, I'm going to Rome in the second week of May to see aramley and hang out being classics nerds and watch some tennis (obligatory Vamos Rafa! goes here) and stuff my face with food, so the usual "keep me informed of fun goings-on" applies. (nobody's going to remember this post by the second week of May, are they. eh, I'll make another, it doesn't take that long.)

in the meantime, which jammy bitch continues to succeed at nagging Alcantaras fic out of people? this jammy bitch right here! look what ibuyu wrote me!

iluall. ♥

since god knows when LJ will be fully functional. I'm leaving for Barcelona tomorrow, I should have internet but hopefully I'll be doing stuff other than lurking around the web so if you don't hear from me for a little while, that's why! I'll be back in a week, and fingers crossed I'll have pictures of fabulous architecture and even more fabulous Barça B jailbait.

something cool, something awesome, something meretricula absolutely cannot miss? leave me a link! <333