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Age: 23 on 18th February.
Location: Southeast Michigan.
Five things you think are awesome: fan-meta (both about fandom itself and about fandom's source texts), badass ladies being badass, used books with notes in the margins, "Soft Kitty" (I don't really watch TBBT, but I love that song), intersectional feminism. …also, hurt/comfort and all the parts when Dean Winchester cries.
Three major dislikes: passive-aggression and concern-trolling, forced redemption storylines (especially the ones that really feel out of character and end up shaming characters into agreeing with the narrative), when AO3 and tumblr go into downtime mode.
Current Fandoms: Adventure Time, Community, Doctor Who, Elementary, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Rupaul's Drag Race, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Star Trek (TOS & DS9), Supernatural, Teen Wolf.
Past Fandoms: Harry Potter, BBC Sherlock (I still dabble a little bit, but not that much), Sailor Moon (I still love it but don't as actively do fandom stuff anymore, but I had my fair share of original character sailor senshi, most of whom were lost when Geocities died), Glee (we broke up, but despite myself, I still care about my favorite characters), Firefly.
Things you like about these fandoms: WELL. UHM. I have a convenient list of ships over here. In general, I tend to have a love/hate relationship with these fandoms' ladies and how they get treated (in that I love them, but hate how they get treated by their respective texts and by fandoms alike). Dean Winchester and Lydia Martin are my favorite favorite characters at the moment, but if I had to put together a top ten, it'd go (in no particular order and exempting them): Scott McCall, Bela Talbot, Castiel, Julian Bashir, Martha Jones, Abed Nadir, Akemi Homura, Pinkie Pie, Santana Lopez, and either Spock or Garak, it depends on how I feel today.
…and I'm not a fan of wank, emotionally, but I find it interesting on an intellectual/academic level.
Movie you are most looking forward to seeing this year: uh. I don't know. I'm really bad at paying attention to movies. Seeing The Hobbit in theaters would be pretty cool, since the cam-rip I have has pretty squiffy image quality and the subtitles are in Spanish? (I took Spanish in high school, so some of them make sense, but I hardly think my Spanish teachers would think, "I could understand the Orcs" would constitute a good use of what they taught me, oops)
Book you are most looking forward to reading this year: probably one of the fandom studies books I got for Christmas, though I'd be hard-pressed to actually pick this one. I'm really interested in Jenkins's Textual Poachers, since it's a foundational text of fandom studies and everyone and their grandma's dog references it at some point, but the one about fanfiction in a literary context has been pretty interesting so far (though it also makes me want to go, "[citation needed]" pretty regularly… probably because of fandom biases, admittedly, but claims like, "gen is the most common type of fanfiction" need a citation, imo).
TV Show you are most looking forward to seeing this year: oh gosh, I don't know. I was looking forward to Teen Wolf more before spoilers about the third season started leaking, but… I need to catch up on Elementary, and I'm looking forward to the scant spoilers I've seen there. Not least because they might indicate one of my general Holmes adaptation OTPs getting screen time together.
Hobbies: Well, I'm in graduate school (working on my Master's in women's and gender studies), so I'd say that, in that it takes up a lot of my time and energy (so, reading and paper-writing and things like that). Aside from that: writing fic, working on my original stuff (one of my writing resolutions for this year being to finish something original of a considerable length that might be publishable, with editing, a good spit and polish, etc.), doing preemptive research for my thesis (which I haven't even proposed yet, but… it's a fandom studies project about how egregious it is that fandom studies predominantly doesn't really pay attention to the voices of the people it purports to study, and examining the gap between what we as fans say about ourselves and what we do/say in the texts we create. i.e., I'm studying fandom as a culture and fanfiction as a cultural artifact, from an intersectional feminist lens).
Favourite season: winter, so I am really happy with all my snow and cold right now.
Favourite food: cheese, especially mozzarella.
What you are looking for in a friend: somebody to squee with, who doesn't mind me occasionally babbling about: a. real life shenanigans (usually of the, "finding a job is HARD, living with mental illnesses is also hard" variety), b. thoughts about my thesis, or c. thoughts about fic (both fannish and original) that I'm trying to write. …also, who doesn't entirely mind that sometimes, I just don't know what to say or if I'm allowed to say it, so I might be kind of socially awkward for a while.
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Yep. This is why we're friends. :P
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I love that. :)
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But ladies! Some of the fandom hate for cool ladies keeps me away from certain corners of fandom. And sometimes I get annoyed when they start out cool then are taken apart by canon so be fridged or turned into plot points for the male characters. And sometimes I feel guilty when I dislike certain terribly written women because I can see how they're supposed to be awesome but instead they're just kind of a terrible mess of bad writing and terrible cliches.
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also! LSP! she's my favorite.
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Friends?