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A meme! A new and exciting way to procrastinate on my reading! Please, please ask me questions and thereby aid in my procrastinatory endeavors!

1. Your current OTP.
2. A pairing you initially didn't consider but someone changed your mind.
3. A pairing you have never liked and probably never will.
4. A pairing you wish you liked but just can't.
5. Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what.
6. What's the longest you've ever been in a fandom?
7. Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it?
8. Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series?
9. Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
10. Name a fandom you didn't care/think about until you saw it all over twitter/tumblr/your social network sites.
11. How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom?
12. Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for?
13. Your favorite fanart or fanartist.
14. Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor.
15. Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of?
16. Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
17. A ship you've abandoned and why.
18. A pairing you ship that you don't think anyone else ships.
19. Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
20. Do you remember what your first fanwork was?
21. Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?
22. Are you one of those fans who can't watch anything without shipping?
23. Five favorite characters from five different fandoms.
24. Three OTPs from three different fandoms.
25. A fandom you're in but have no ships from.

And now I am off to read more about masculinity in the early 20th century. Oh rapture, oh bliss...

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5, 12, 25!

I'm going to have to do these one by one, I think, or else the comment will be insanely long.

25. A fandom you're in but have no ships from.

Oh, lots. Or, rather, it depends what you mean by fandom. If it's just "things I'm a fan of," then there are tons: Community, The West Wing, Castle, the Harry Potter books, the Tortall books...

But if you mean I have some engagement with fandom beyond just loving the source, than the number cuts way down; Tortall is the only one I've read and written enough about to say I was really in fandom, and that was almost all meta, not fic.

My stories tend to revolve around exploring a relationship dynamic, so it's hard to write a story if the impetus is "I love character X! And...really, I just love character X. Their interactions with other people aren't very interesting, at least without lots of meta excavation."

There are relationships that aren't shippy, though? I mean, this is usually what gen fandoms are built on.

I will try almost anything, so even fandoms where the main draw for me isn't shippy (which tend to be my evergreen fandoms, Tortall and Star Wars), I don't avoid shippy fic or having ships.

5. Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what.

I think you've seen my crackiest thing, "A Study of the Effects of Amatory Verse on the Socio-Sexual Behavior of Scanran Youths." I think it would be hilarious to write pseudo-historical articles about Tortall ("King Jon the Not-So-Just: A Reexamination of the So-Called 'Golden Age'" and the like), but who would read it?

I've also thought about writing a (short) (very short) Scanran saga in alliterative verse. Apparently Tortall brings out the crack in my soul.

ME ME ME! And Ankhiale!

I actually have thought of writing an elaborate metatextual thing about Marenite historical novelist Philippa of Gregorie, the Rogerian Society, and the unreliability of the historical record, but it daunts me in my complexity. But that's exactly the kind of thing a Rogerian scholar would write. :-P

I love your Tortall crack so very much. I highly support more!

Is the Rogerian society writing a scathing rebuke to Phillippa of Gregorie's flagrant anti-Roger propaganda? "As Gregorie would know, had she bothered to thoroughly read - or, indeed, cursorily glance over - the historical records - Roger of Conte was born before Roald" (is that how the timeline worked out? I can't recall), "making him the rightful king. Old King Jasson passed him over because..." (I still don't have a good grip on why he would do that...) "Roger was not his legitimate son, but a by-blow with a minor noblewoman from the Hill Country. Roger wished to seize the crown in part to gain justice for his mother's oppressed people."

"Gregorie focuses instead on trumped-up motives of personal animosity, completely ignoring Roger's connection to the Hill Country, and therefore obscuring the true motives of his rebellion. Her works may be thrilling fiction, but they are terrible history, which whitewash the sufferings of the Hill Country which continue to this day."

Hahaha, I'm sure they are!

(Roger is born after Roald, but before Jonathan. But the way the Tortallan succession is established, it's irrelevant: he can't realistically be the son of Roald's younger brother, and therefore must be the son of his elder brother. I had thought of the bastardy explanation, except Roger WAS Roald's heir before Jon was born, so IDEK. The real explanation is probably that Pierce meant Roger to be the son of Roald's younger brother, but has math problems. So I'm still struggling with how he got cut out of the succession, too.)

Meanwhile, Gregorie just thinks Prince Jonathan was so romantic. *_*

IDEK. There are reasons I haven't managed to write this story.

Ack, I always forget that Roger is Jonathan's cousin and not his uncle. Obviously cousins can have huge age gaps, but it always seemed that Roger acted like an uncle toward Jonathan. Oh well...

Well, have you seen that portrait of Prince Jonathan hanging in the portrait gallery? The beautiful blue eyes! The wavy black hair! The way that his grip on his sword casually pulls his shirt (doublet? tunic?) tight against his manly, muscular chest!

What's a little oppressing the Hill Country when measured against such attractivenesS? We all know the Hill Country folk are just a bunch of bandits, anyway.

Yeah, Roger definitely acts more uncle-y (there's 15 years between them). It's all a bit baffling.

Ha, pretty much! Although of course part of the point of the story would be that the Rogerians are wrong, too...I think I haven't written it yet because I can't figure out for the life of me how to structure it.

I think step one would be to say that Phillippa de Gregorie is totally incompetent at reading family trees, and just make Roger Jon's uncle and/or bastard brother, because otherwise I don't know how to make the family tree work.

Like, everyone calls Roger Jon's "cousin," but that's just a polite fiction to cover the fact that his existence is kind of politically embarrassing.

That doesn't solve the problem of how Roger's in the succession in the first place, though.

I can make the family tree work fine, just not the succession, unless a) the law changed between Jasson's time and Jonathan's or b) there's some anti-regency clause where if the crown prince is unavailable or too young when the king dies, the next successor gets crowned (if Roger was a kid or in Carthak, say). Which seems peculiar, but it's a fantasy world, so why not?

I dunno, I have to think about it more. There will likely be several different takes on it in the story, because unreliability of history and all that.

I think it would be hilarious to write pseudo-historical articles about Tortall ("King Jon the Not-So-Just: A Reexamination of the So-Called 'Golden Age'" and the like)

This? Is brilliant. It totally needs to exist.

Also, your Scanran saga idea is brilliant as well.

Apparently Tortall brings out the crack in my soul.

Not just in yours, trust me...

Maybe I can convince myself it counts as practice for real historical articles...

Ha, I could combine the two. I could have a fragment of a Scanran saga, and a pompous Tortallan scholar explaining what it means, possibly with marginal notes from a Scanran study abroad student saying "You aren't getting this at ALL, you twit."

Yesssss, do it! That sounds brilliant!

That? Is genius. Especially the marginal notes from the hacked-off Scanran student. XD

17, 21!

(Also, count me as one more who would be all up for pseudo-historical Tortall articles! I only read the Lioness Quartet, back when I was 13, so I'm hardly up-and-up on the universe, but the books stuck with me, and I always lurk with particular interest when you do a Tortall post.)

17. A ship you've abandoned and why.

Oh, no. I never abandon ships. I just add more and more to my flotilla as I go.

Um, let's see. I've gotten a lot less enthusiastic about Ned/Chuck from Pushing Daisies as time goes by: the show's delightfulness made me overlook some of the problems with their relationship, which bother me more as I think about them.

21. Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?

Oh, this is hard. I always feel like the others will get hurt feelings if I pick a favorite...

In fandoms that I know you're familiar with, probably my Hetalia fic Five Nations Who Abandoned Russia, and One Who Hasn’t (Yet) (http://osprey-archer.livejournal.com/131342.htm).

For fics that still make me cackle madly with glee when I reread them, The King's Guard (http://archiveofourown.org/works/144033), a Eugenides/Costis fic from Megan Whelan Turner's awesome Queen's Thief series.

The fic that I'm probably proudest of is probably Mr. Yunioshi's Photographs (http://archiveofourown.org/works/38014), which is an attempt to humanize Mr. Yunioshi from Breakfast at Tiffany's. I love the movie otherwise, but his character is such a horribly racist caricature that it's hard for me to watch, so I wanted a fix-it fic.

I know, isn't that a hard question? I was thinking about it in regards to myself, and it's like, what few ships I can think of that I might call "abandoned" I was never that enthusiastic about to begin with, so...

I can't say I'm familiar with the Queen's Thief series (I'm not familiar with a lot of the fandoms you write for, unfortunately), but Mr. Yunioshi's Photographs, YESSS. (I was secretly hoping you'd choose that one, because it was so wonderful. Now that I have an AO3 account, I should really leave you a real review one of these days. As it is, I can't quite remember, but I might have been the one who left you guest kudos.) Similarly, I loved Breakfast At Tiffany's, but every time Mr. Yunioshi was on screen, I wanted to cringe, hardcore, and that fic really retroactively softened the blow.

Hee, I never say no to more comments! :p

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