a conspiracy of cartographers

Not to squee anyone's harsh, because wow, AVOS-style delicious, wow, but:

1. INSPECTOR SPACETIME. There is a TV Tropes page, a forum for creating the canon, and even some tumblr confessions. I LOVE FANDOM SO MUCH. Also I ship Inspector/Sergeant, obvs.

2. POTTERMORE, fucking finally. I am still noodling about in Chapter One, mostly because wow that site has way too much traffic, but I would like to be friends with you guys? Please tell me who you are! Then I will feel less lonely and more like I am Doing It Right. Meanwhile I'm StormScarlet127, a name I still secretly believe means I am an Ororo/Wanda shipper.

INSPECTOR SPACETIME

That is all.

I am writing so many things right now! But none of them are short, which is one of the reasons I haven't been posting fic constantly. (That, and one of the things I am writing is my NOVEL, which also cuts down on fic production.) One of the not-short things is a Good Omens fic, because I just did my semi-annual Good Omens reread, and instead of doing the reasonable thing and just jotting down some Aziraphale/Crowley to get it out of my system, I ... seem to have developed plot.

Then, as I tend to do these days, I ran to Amelia with it. Which resulted in:

Amelia: okay, anything else to figure out?
Amelia: ...like wtf happens in terms of events
Amelia: I mean, that should not be a chore, since GO is basically a string of ridiculous scenarios that are funny and happen to advance the plot
Aria: heh, yeah. I mean, I think I will just sort of ... write, and see what happens.
Aria: you do realize
Aria: that this is basically a bewildering scenario in which I am Terry Pratchett and you are Neil Gaiman
Amelia: we are writing the sequel to GO. Yeah.
Amelia: and hey, they said it didn't get written this way!
Amelia: like, everyone assumes it did, but it didn't
Amelia: "neil gaiman spouts ideas, brainstorms with Terry, Terry does actual writing in his own style"
Aria: ahaha, true! oh man. WE ARE WHAT FANDOM THINKS THEY ARE.

Thor deleted scenes! My god, it's like they left in all the Earth shenanigans and decided that Asgard and its beautiful scenery and Frigga having any lines at all and Loki's face were all less important than the Earth scenes! I ... do see how some of it was cut for pacing, but damn, nearly every deleted scene was a thing of joy and beauty forever.

( More Loki scenes = WILD FLAILING. This is about half missing scene commentary and half me nattering on about character meta, because that's how I roll when I have new material for this film that I inexplicably have lots of feelings about. )

Brb, probably writing a billion more Loki fics. NOW WITH 100% MORE FRIGGA. And also additional Asgard sets!

And before I go, a meme!

Take any one of the fandoms you know I write/rec/read AND give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc) or another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc). I will then explain the gist of the story I would write for that AU.

I should add that any historical AUs will be EXTREMELY INACCURATE, and you are probably safer with superheroes.

That was ... Well, I am mostly going "Huh," but actually I spent quite a lot of this episode grinning my head off, so we will count it a win. ( 6x08; spoilers want to know what spoilers are. )

...The whole house just shook inexplicably for thirty seconds, so I'm going to assume it's an earthquake. Quick googling doesn't turn up any news (oh self it happened like three minutes ago, even the internet isn't always that quick) but does tell me that my town is on a wee fault line, so it probably wasn't a hallucination.

Live in California on the fucking San Andreas fault for fifteen years: always out of town or asleep during quakes. In North Carolina a few months of the year for less than five years: EARTHQUAKE.

ETA: Not a hallucination! That seems to be all the details the news has so far; I hope everyone near the epicenter was all right.

+ There is the most amazing gelato place in town. Seriously, this gelato is so good that I dreamt of it.

+ I have been having lots of anxiety dreams. (Not about gelato.) Calm the fuck down, brain.

+ Remember that excellent animated show X-Men: Evolution? I missed it when it was actually airing, but the spark of fannishness set off by XMFC prompted me to watch it, and it is lovely. (Kurt is my forever boy, and Rogue is my forever girl, but I already knew these things.) Now that I have run out of that show, I seem to be watching Downton Abbey, which is also lovely but does have a dearth of mutants. I wonder what Maggie Smith's mutant power would be.

+ I never actually paid much attention to the HP films while they were happening, but apparently now they are over I mildly care? So tumblr has sent me down a rabbit hole of interviews with Dan Radcliffe. And this kid is delightful. The cognitive dissonance of being fannish about everything, though, means that I'm having the twin reactions of "I want to be your friend!" and "I want to track down all the RPF about you being BFFs with Gary Oldman."

+ Because my brain is back in the fandom groove re: HP but it's been years and there's so much fic and I don't know where to start, I have instead been reading the old fic I wrote which is still on my hard drive. And by old fic, I mean things I wrote when I was thirteen and hilarious. Seriously, when I was thirteen I had no idea how to write human emotions. Everyone reads like a cheerful sociopath! I was so popular with the other thirteen-year-olds, too. I just. I am so glad I kept all the old stuff; it greatly cheers me to see how much I have improved.

+ Aaaand, okay, I am writing a novel now. Like, a proper not-fic maybe-publishable sort of novel, that has actual characters and an outline and a plot, and a het romance (that will not become a triad I swear) (also there are lesbians) and I don't even know, you guys, I am mostly reminding myself to have fun instead of trying to write something publishable, because I suspect that's the quickest way to make it torture. Right now I really like it! So that's what I'm up to. Ahhhh.

Weekend, therefore, ENDLESS MEMES.

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
— Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do you immediately look for?

Hell, why not. NPR's top 100 SF/F books. Bold if you've read, italicize ones you fully intend to read, underline if it's a book/series you've read part but not all of, strikethrough if you never plan to read.

( I have read approximately a quarter of these books. )

And, because this is skewed hilariously White Dudes Write Serious SF, eruthros has a post taking nominations for your top 100 speculative fiction works. Go forth! Nominate! I'm excited about the sort of recs that fandom is likely to generate.