- Start learning to draw (work my way through…10? Sycra vids)
- Start learning a language other than Urdu
- Improve Urdu reading
- Complete 5% of the games in Steam library
- Log 20 hours on the Oculus
- Raise the percentage of femslash related stuff on blog to 20%
- Start calling them Mamie and Grace Gummer instead of Meryl Streep’s Kid and Meryl Streep’s Other Kid
- Support 5 Kickstarters
- Get a desktop
- Make fic database
- Complete 30 photoset/manip ideas (or really, finally start Faberry Week entries for real)
- Watch 5 Kdramas
- Review more fics
- Volunteer for AO3
- Stop feeling bad for not enjoying The 100
- Write and put up one fic
2015 Resolutions
- Start learning to draw (work my way through…10? Sycra vids)
- Start learning a language other than Urdu
- Improve Urdu reading
- Complete 5% of the games in Steam library
- Log 20 hours on the Oculus
- Raise the percentage of femslash related stuff on blog to 20%
- Start calling them Mamie and Grace Gummer instead of Meryl Streep’s Kid and Meryl Streep’s Other Kid
- Support 5 Kickstarters
- Get a desktop
- Make fic database
- Complete 30 photoset/manip ideas (or really, finally start Faberry Week entries for real)
- Watch 5 Kdramas
- Review more fics
- Volunteer for AO3
- Stop feeling bad for not enjoying The 100
- Write and put up one fic
Had a moment today where I discovered a pretty strong instance of internalized racism. : I was watching I Origins and Archie Panjabi’s in it, with her character using a strong Indian accent. And my reaction was so negative, like oh, so this Emmy-winning actress among these bunch of white randoms has to fake an accent. After thinking over it for a few days, I realized that bitterness was all on me. If she’d had to fake an Aussie or French or, as she has, an American accent, I’d be whatever, but I was associating a desi accent with a lack of sophistication, like it was demeaning to have to fake it. And that’s…so gross?
I’ve been trying to get away from that, and have been mostly successful at just ignoring the accent when I assume it’s native, but really, that just means I’m thinking to myself, try not to think less of them because of the accent, they can’t help it, but why would anybody voluntarily choose it. So. Need to unlearn that.
Had a moment today where I discovered a pretty strong instance of internalized racism. : I was watching I Origins and Archie Panjabi’s in it, with her character using a strong Indian accent. And my reaction was so negative, like oh, so this Emmy-winning actress among these bunch of white randoms has to fake an accent. After thinking over it for a few days, I realized that bitterness was all on me. If she’d had to fake an Aussie or French or, as she has, an American accent, I’d be whatever, but I was associating a desi accent with a lack of sophistication, like it was demeaning to have to fake it. And that’s…so gross?
I’ve been trying to get away from that, and have been mostly successful at just ignoring the accent when I assume it’s native, but really, that just means I’m thinking to myself, try not to think less of them because of the accent, they can’t help it, but why would anybody voluntarily choose it. So. Need to unlearn that.
Hey! Love love love your blog. Have you checked out the new webseries Carmilla? Give it a go! Its a great show with many a ship to sail :)
Thank you, friend, for the kind words and the rec. 🙂
I have definitely seen and heard a lot about Carmilla, and at this point I’ve just been so spoiled and without watching any of it myself that I want to put it off for a while so I can enjoy it on my own.
Hey! Love love love your blog. Have you checked out the new webseries Carmilla? Give it a go! Its a great show with many a ship to sail :)
Thank you, friend, for the kind words and the rec. 🙂
I have definitely seen and heard a lot about Carmilla, and at this point I’ve just been so spoiled and without watching any of it myself that I want to put it off for a while so I can enjoy it on my own.
I’m a fan of your gifs, especially the ones from series 2 of The Fall. I saw that many of those have over 1,000 + reblogs/notes. I was curious which of your gifs are the most popular and if you wouldn’t mind sharing a few of your faves.
Wow, thank you for the compliment! And such an incredibly…nice ask. Such an indulgent question, wow.
Most popular is by FAR the Halloween candy post, though technically the combined notes from the reposted version of What Would You Do? way surpasses that (I don’t actually mind the reposting, because who’d want another 1.5m notifications, but the guy seems a douche :). Pretty much all the rest of the popular ones are simple sets from the Daily Show, and of those, my favorites would be the ones with Jessica Williams. My own overall favorites are probably the Sleeping Warrior manip and the lighting of the beacons. Man, there are so many posts, I couldn’t begin to remember…but those two do stand out (as do two other SW posts for what they represented at the time…how did they mess that up so badly?).
Oh, I spent hours on this one, getting it to fit the filesize limit. This one was kind of spectacular in how it looked in gif form (not that any of that was due to me). I liked this recent one from PoI. Ah, I remember thinking non-stop about this TMas post for weeks, until the damn Emmy nominations came out and then I just had to make it in my hurt disappointment. One of my first OB posts, just as the fandom was really taking off. Oh, spoilers beware if you haven’t watched Dominion yet, but I loved this reveal. These freaking two. The only gifset I’ve managed to make from this gorgeous, gorgeous movie (though, to be clear, the plot itself was kind of awful). This cuteass moment that I still don’t know how to color. May kicking Ward’s ass as Skye shuts him down. Tooooepick. These parallels just worked out so well (20 years apart!). The first use of Actual Puppy Delphine! Pretty sure everyone made some version of this. Ooh, oh, I did make a few posts for J/7, but it rather amused me when one was Hijacked by the Bering & WellsTM fandom. 🙂 As was this post, actually. Other favorite additions: these tags and this comment.
Oh god, but you know what I’m kicking myself over? The caption for this Tomb Raider set. I was referring to the original (non-rainbow) ending and figured the few people in the SS Endurance tag’d get it and chuckle and that’d be that but instead a bunch of people think that’s the actual ending. My comment really was super confusing.
I’m a fan of your gifs, especially the ones from series 2 of The Fall. I saw that many of those have over 1,000 + reblogs/notes. I was curious which of your gifs are the most popular and if you wouldn’t mind sharing a few of your faves.
Wow, thank you for the compliment! And such an incredibly…nice ask. Such an indulgent question, wow.
Most popular is by FAR the Halloween candy post, though technically the combined notes from the reposted version of What Would You Do? way surpasses that (I don’t actually mind the reposting, because who’d want another 1.5m notifications, but the guy seems a douche :). Pretty much all the rest of the popular ones are simple sets from the Daily Show, and of those, my favorites would be the ones with Jessica Williams. My own overall favorites are probably the Sleeping Warrior manip and the lighting of the beacons. Man, there are so many posts, I couldn’t begin to remember…but those two do stand out (as do two other SW posts for what they represented at the time…how did they mess that up so badly?).
Oh, I spent hours on this one, getting it to fit the filesize limit. This one was kind of spectacular in how it looked in gif form (not that any of that was due to me). I liked this recent one from PoI. Ah, I remember thinking non-stop about this TMas post for weeks, until the damn Emmy nominations came out and then I just had to make it in my hurt disappointment. One of my first OB posts, just as the fandom was really taking off. Oh, spoilers beware if you haven’t watched Dominion yet, but I loved this reveal. These freaking two. The only gifset I’ve managed to make from this gorgeous, gorgeous movie (though, to be clear, the plot itself was kind of awful). This cuteass moment that I still don’t know how to color. May kicking Ward’s ass as Skye shuts him down. Tooooepick. These parallels just worked out so well (20 years apart!). The first use of Actual Puppy Delphine! Pretty sure everyone made some version of this. Ooh, oh, I did make a few posts for J/7, but it rather amused me when one was Hijacked by the Bering & WellsTM fandom. 🙂 As was this post, actually. Other favorite additions: these tags and this comment.
Oh god, but you know what I’m kicking myself over? The caption for this Tomb Raider set. I was referring to the original (non-rainbow) ending and figured the few people in the SS Endurance tag’d get it and chuckle and that’d be that but instead a bunch of people think that’s the actual ending. My comment really was super confusing.
Just curious if you write any femslash, or have any recommendations.
I don’t write (I wish!) but any recent recs are under my fic rec tag. I have actually been trying to build a super comprehensive db of femslash I like, but I get distracted so easily.
Just curious if you write any femslash, or have any recommendations.
I don’t write (I wish!) but any recent recs are under my fic rec tag. I have actually been trying to build a super comprehensive db of femslash I like, but I get distracted so easily.