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So... remember that mini Heroes renaissance I was having after hearing about [Casting Spoiler]? Remember how I was remembering the good times and talking about The Heroes World Tour and how great the Hawkins/Sanders family was and how much i fucking LOVED the Wonder Twins?

Thanks for reminding me why I GTFO of Heroes, Heroes writers.

I distinctly remember, when Heroes fandom started talking about the problematic aspects of the show, the racism, the sexism, how uneven storylines and deaths were, all of it, we all maintained it was unintentional. Both me and technosage made multiple mentions of how we truly believed Kring and Co. were good people, who had the best of intentions but were just midguided and uncertain about how to do that. We thought they meant well but now I see that that was a lie. That was... they never intended good things for the People of Color on Heroes or the Women on Heroes.

For those who are curious, here's a fucking BREAKDOWN. I only have pre-S4 info (except for the white dude they added as a regular to the cast this season, despite claiming not to have enough time to actually write Sendhil into any episodes)

( Scienific PROOF that Heroes has a problem with Race and Gender )

Looking at this icon makes me sad, but I doubt I'll ever get rid of it.

So, on Twitter I say: someone should write me "Video Phone" fic where Lady Gaga and Beyonce go play laser tag & then Gaga pins Beyonce to a wall & they make-out

And then eternelle attacked me on IM to make me finish.

( Chat fic that is exactly what I said I wanted someone ELSE to write me. I think I'm doing it wrong. )

But really, other people should write me fic about Beyonce and Lady Gaga.

Effective today, Lou Dobbs no longer works for CNN

( Why this is GREAT news for anyone who isn't a giant asshole )

That's what Lou Dobbs leaving CNN means to me. It means he doesn't have a pulpit on a network that I trust and pay attention to, a network that has a long history for legitimate reporting. Lou Dobbs being off CNN means he doesn't have the prestige of the CNN name. It means Dobbs' lies aren't legitimized by being a part of "The Most Trusted Name In News".

So let's celebrate, because this shit is a long time coming!

Hey! Thank you SO MUCH for offering to write my tiny little fandoms. If you want more input or ideas, then please read on. If you already know exactly what you want to do, please don't let me stop you! This is only meant to explain things I like both in general and specifically about my favorite fandoms. I'm being detailed because I want to give you as much help as you might possibly need. Feel free to ignore this entirely!

( RPF - Hip hop )

( Leverage )

( The Middleman )

( Ferris Bueller's Day Off )

I hope this was helpful and not overwhelming. I'm really excited about yuletide!

So what's up, flist? It's November, hobviously. Ino a lot of y'all are doing NaNo, how's that working out for you? I've just had a bitch of an end of October but now November is looking up!

Things we could talk about:

Why we (we being marginalized groups) shouldn't turn on each other? The daughter of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. has been newly elected to the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This group has been at the center of the Civil Rights movement since the 60's and this is the first time a woman has ever headed it. That's all great but here's her opinion on same-sex marriage.

King opposes it and has implied that her father would have too, once remarking: "I know deep down in my sanctified soul that he did not take a bullet for same-sex unions."

( me talking about race and marginalization, as I do )

yuletide should be opening soon and I know I'm offering RaPS, Leverage and The Middleman but I'm also wondering if I should also offer Ferris Buller's Day Off. I keep watching it for the AU I'm writing and it's so great, I want all of the OT3 fic in the WORLD. I worry I will be sick of it by the time I'm done with my AU though so... thoughts? Does anyone know when the hell yuletide is gonna open this year? Will we get more time to write? Because the last time I did it, fics were due on the 19th or 20th and since it takes 2 weeks for signups, that's less than a month to write.

Not that I'm worried about not having enough time! Except for how I maybe kind of am. /o\

It is 38 degrees F out right now. I had no clue. Like seriously, I walked to the bus and then down to the train and then to work and had no idea it was that cold. impertinence txted me to tell me that it was 35 out and I was all "NAH! it's not that cold. it's in the low 50s, high 40s MAX" and she answered back "weather.com begs to differ." So I checked and HOLY SHIT it's 38!

impertinence then txted, "I feel like a proud mother. BB CALIFORNIA GIRL ALL GROWN UP ;_;" because she's an asshole. But hey! I've acclimated! Bring on the snow, I guess (no really, I have some great snow boots that I want to wear. LET ME BE GREAT, CHICAGO!)

Lastly, in case you didn't see or w/e, I'm doing mini_nanowrimo this year and if you want to be on my filter (snippets, bitching, whining, etc.) please comment here.

P.S. ( Heroes casting spoiler, bet you never thought you'd see that around here again )

Tags: chicago what?, politics, yuletide

Hello flist, Happy November! I had a dance party, booze and then some diner food last night. It was pretty great. How was your Halloween?

The entire point of this post is to inform you all that seeing as it is November, I'm taking part in both mini_nanowrimo and wrisomifu. This means I am committed to writing 600 words and for 10 minutes every day. This is pretty grate because I have a shit-ton of writing to do.

Things I will be writing in November

Travis/William/Gabe Ferris Bueller AU for reel_bandom

Jon/Ryan as Space Werewolves for drawn_to

my popoffacork assignment, whenever assignments go out

my yuletide assignment, whenver those go out

So my question is this, do you want to be on my mini Nano filter? It will have me complaining about writing, talking about what's going well and what isn't, complaining about the way the world isn't making it easy for me to write porn at my leisure and probably snippets of whatever I got written. This means daily postings that it's entirely possible you don't give a fuck about, so I'm giving you the chance to opt out now!

If you're interested in reading my mini Nano posts, drop me a comment so I can add you to my filter.

Tags: mini nano, popoffacork, yuletide

so after sort of getting burned 2 years in a row on fic exchanges (lol didn't get anything last year and not totally happy with my assignment this year) I was thinking about running my own exchange! It would specifically be for Small bands/RaPS(Hip-Hop)/Current music because I'm really not feeling like writing Panic/FOB/MCR. :(

So things we'd accept: Empires, The Academy Is..., Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship, The Hush Sound, Dresden Dolls, The Like, Dusty, Katy-Kay and RaPS/Current Music (Beyoncé Knowles, Common, Erykah Badu, Fiddy aka 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Jill Scott, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Lady Gaga, Lupe Fiasco M.I.A, Missy Elliot , Mos Def, Nas, Pink, Queen Latifah, Questlove, Rihanna, Talib Kweli). ETA also Hey Monday Including former members) and former members of The Cab ETA2 also Alicia Keyes ETA3 and The Sounds.

I think we'd also accept crossovers with eachother/Main Bands? (ex; AfP/Greta is A++, Travis McCoy/Pete Wentz is also A++)

Do you want to add someone/some band? Would you be interested?

I also need a name. I was talking about it with colouredmango and so, sort of want to call it mango_xmas but that seems like a bad idea because not everyone knows/is bff with Mango.

Thoughts?

I'm in Springfield for work shit. It's hilariously tiny compared to Chicago and I find myself weirdly scornful of it. Sadly, I got a ticket on the way down here. I'm gonna just pay to go to traffic school, since it's a lot but not like ridiculously a lot. :( MOOOOONEY why are you so difficult? I think the cop was asking me to pay him off though. Like he was all "you can pay $75 cash right now or you could pay it later" and I told him I didn't have $75 in cash, then he filled out my ticket. Never have I wished I carried that kind of cash around more.

I nommed my yuletide fandoms.

The Black Donnellys
Criminal Minds
Leverage
The Middleman (tv)
Psych
RPF - Hip hop

Ino ima offer to write RaPS, Leverage and The Middleman but I'm not sure about The Black Donnellys, Psych and Criminal Minds. Ino I could probably write a rly good Psych or CM fic but it would need to be the right prompt. I really love The Black Donnellys but I'm not sure what sort of prompt I'd get and if I didn't get the right one, I'd be kind of sad. (Like srsly, anyone who wanted Kevin/Not Tommy or Tommy/Not Kevin, Jenny or Kate would bum me out)

(also, provetheworst I added Kid Cudi to the RPF - Hip hop category!)

Lastly, I'm rly so fucking excited about yuletide and it's so weird or me.

As I'm sure you're aware of by now, NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN for yuletide!!!

Now is the time that you can request which fandoms be considered for the obscure fandom secret santa project. Follow the link, all the info you need is right there.

The purpose of this post, however, is to ask that if you find yourself with leftover nomination spots, that you please, please, please nominate, "RPF - Hip hop" :D? and then if you could ALSO add the characters "Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna and Common"? :D?

y'all are so GRATE!

1. Write your username.
2. Write your 2 favourite bands/groups of the moment.
3. Write something you ♥, aka lemme see your heart.
4. Write the name of your favourite person of all time.
5. Write the name of your recent favoured person.
6. Tag 6 people to do this meme.

( handwriting meme! )

Feeling better today in every possible way.

Now for some RaPS!

Beyonce's decided to talk about the Kanye VMA incident( and I was like, 'Oh, no, no, no!' )

Kanye's supermodel girlfriend, Amber Rose, has an upcoming spread in Elle. Kanye apparently did the styling and there's video of it here. ( why would anyone let Kanye style them? )

More on the Fame Kills cancellation. Lady Gaga is apparently going to tour on her own. It looks like Kanye was serious about taking time off. I only hope the thing about rehab isn't true. (lol drunky jokes about Kanye aren't lulzy when he has an actualfax substance abuse problem :( )

2 Days till Ash gets here, 75 days till I can visit home, 84 days till I have a Kelly :D

( Now for some Jay-Z/Beyonce spam! )

1. DREAMGIRLS is still an amazing movie

2. Zefron should have hit it with the MILF while he was Zefron and slightly bangable (for, yk, a Ken Doll). Furthermore, that movie was so lulzy it hurt.

3. There should be a book of Kanye. No rly, there should.

4. Lupe Fiasco: Watcher is one of my new favorite things to think about. Coming in at close second is Kanye West: besotted Watcher, who's ridiculous about Beyonce and likes to embellish her accomplishmens and stuff. Basically, I want to write TONS of fic where Kanye talks about how amazing Beyonce is while pining for Lupe's cock.

5. Finished downloading Beyonce's discography, combined with her videography, I'm ready to get to work on/finish that Beyonce primer. YAY RaPS!

6. Coconut, Banana and Mango rum, when mixed with orange-pineapple juice doesn't taste like alcohol at all.

Morning livejournal!

In case you are one of the three people in the world who couldn't hear my dreadful wail from outerspace, Kanye and Lady Gaga's Fame Kills tour has been cancelled. :((((( I'm so heartbroken about this. Tickets for the Chicago show were going to go on sale today, me and impertinence were going to get tickets together. It was going to be AMAZING. And now it's canceled. There's rumors that Kanye's going into rehab, which have been circulating for a while now but I assumed were mostly just lulzy gossip. They might be true :( Oh Kanye.

In much lulzier news, 50 Cent went off on Kanye and Jay-Z and it was kind of hilarious. Like, 50 doesn't seem to be able to make a coherent argument against Kanye.

( 50 Cent wants Kanye so bad. It's a shame because Kanye only has eyes for Jay-Z (and Lupe) )

I have work to do today but I think I might spend some time working on the Kanye/Lupe jedi fic.

How are you all today? Dreading the IOC decision like I am? My mother txted me at ass o'clock this morning to ask me Are you for the Olympics or should we be looking for you in the news protesting? to which I responded that no one on the South side is in favor of the Olympics and I'm no exception.

PLEASE CHOOSE RIO! PLEASE IOC! INO OPRAH IS THERE AND SO ARE THE OBAMAS AND THAT IS A LOT OF CHARISMA AND GOOD LOOKS BUT PLEASE CHOOSE RIO!!!!

CHICAGO WAS ELIMINATED IN THE FIRST ROUND!!!!

1. I went to see Streetlight Manifesto tonight with impertinence and provetheworst. It was REALLY GRATE. We all danced like insane people and were ridiculously disgusting by the time we left. A+++

2. It's getting colder and I'm losing my shit. ( maybe I didn't think this Chicago thing through all the way /o\ )

3. glockgal made impertinence art for Beyonce the Vampire Slayer and it is the GREATEST ART OF ALL TIME! OF ALL TIME! I like to imagine that Kanye just said something douchey but in a really endearing way. So she just doesn't know what to even SAY to him. IL her pose and how feirce it is and how fabulous her slaying wardrobe is. And how amazingly the fashion dialogue rings true for Kanye. (srsly, he would wear all of that) ♥♥♥♥

So! Jay-Z on Lil Mama's VMA interruption

( nobody really talked about that because I’m not a lil sweet girl from middle America )

Lady Gaga and Kanye made this sexy ad for their tour (NSFW pics at that link) ( I would actually read Kanye/Lady Gaga, ngl )

Common did a show for charity and Kanye came (lol came) ( Common I really love your face )

and to end this on a meme note! I always wanted to tell you meme

and

Ask me a fandom, and I will tell you:

+ OTP
+ Runner-up
+ Honorable mention(s)
+ Crack pairing(s)
+ Ship everyone else seems to like, but I don't

P.S. It's cold :( It's 80 degrees back home, guys. My sister had to turn on the fan because it was so warm. :(

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im not so durunk thsat i wont put a warning on this. spoiler for spn umm, w/e eppisode this is.

P.S. You know, a lot of people talk shit on George Lopez cause he deals in a lot of stereotypes and shit but yk one thing he gets right? His insistence that mariachi speaks to the soul of the Mexican people^*, particularly when we're drunk. Because I very rarely talk or get insistent about mariachi unless I'm drunk. And then I'm like "LET ME FORCE AY JALISCO ON YOU! OMG IL JORGE NERETE! BRB, DANCING LIKE A TOOL!"

This is basically me saying that I got really insistent to Imp about how great mariachi is and then lectured her about the history of Mexico, because this is how I roll when I'm really drunk.

^*lol hobviously I only mean a small percentage of Mexicans/Mexican-Americans that are from the Northern states, because that's where Ranchera and Mariachi are really culturally important and whatnot.

RP? I made a drunken request for RP and then got butthurt about another RP but I have yet to do something pro-active about it.

So, do you like RPing? Do you want to RP? Would you be interested in an RP? What kind of RP would you want to do?

The Academy Is... - Lost in Pacific Time

IL THE NEW TAI EP! It's really great and I feel like Bill's comfortable and this whole thing flowed well. I APPRECIATE EVERY NEW ALBUM THAT DOESN'T COME WITH BILL WANTING TO KILL HIMSELF!



LOL Jay-Z on the way the media is going nuts over the Kanye thing: "he didn't kill anybody"

Other gems:

Jay calls Kanye "a super passionate person"

"He used to jump on tables ... I was trying to make the first Blueprint, he's jumping on tables, rapping, and I'm like, 'Yo, not now.' That was just him. He's always been that passionate."

Jay calls College Dropout through Late Registration a great record, is completely silent on 808s and Heartbreak

"I mean, it's an awards show, really, and I think it's a bit blown out," Jay said. "He's on the cover of every paper, he didn't kill anybody. Nobody got harmed,"


I am currently looking around for holiday fic challenges/secret santas. Hopefully this year I'll get something. Does anyone know when yuletide opens up for fandom nominations?

Tags: bandom: tai, hip-hop, hip-hop: jay-z, hip-hop: kanye west, raps

So basically all I ever do is talk about Kanye West and sometimes impertinence comes over and we talk about Kanye West together. And sometimes she writes fic. Take for instance, this amazing literary treasure where Beyonce challenges Kanye to a game of Connect Four in order to restore Jay-Z's honor, and also to fuck with his head, because that's hilarious. Also, they actually do shit like that in canon

J-A-Y (Kanye/Beyoncé/Jay-z, Teen) by impertinence

THIS IS THE GREATEST FIC I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. I'M COMPLETELY UNCERTAIN HOW ANY FURTHER ACHIEVEMENT IS POSSIBLE BY MAN. WE MAY HAVE PEAKED, RIGHT HERE WITH FIC ABOUT CONNECT FOUR.

BRB changing my journal title to Buy some fuckin' Tagalongs! RUN, DON'T WALK AND GO READ IT!