#lucycantdance

MODEL: KENYA PORTELA - BOSS MODELS

ART DIRECTION & STYLING: ROXANNE ROBINSON

HAIR & MAKEUP: ROSEMARY ANNE SMITH - MOTHWORKS

My affection for Poe/Snap is totally your fault btw. It hadn’t occurred to me until I read that chapter and now I’m in over my head.

Damn you, Lucy XD.

‘Cyberspace of Their Own: Female Online Fandom’ by Rhiannon Bury. I’m only on page 46 but I’ve been this close to flipping a table for the 20-25 pages. I don’t even know where to start with this shit. Yes the study she writes about was conducted in 97-98, but the book was published in 2005, that’s 10 years ago.

So far I’ve run into everything I hate about straight, white fandom multiple times >.<. I’m going to keep going because I may be doing the lady an injustice, but getting through this is going to be a chore unless things look up soon.

I got tagged by both Rowan-Baines and Orioncadet in this.

If you don’t know your personality type, take the test here

Rules: Find out what characters share the same personality type as you here and list the characters you find relevant below. Then tag however many you want and let them know you tagged them! 

Type: INTJ (There seem a lot of that going around tight now XD)

Artemis Fowl from the Artemis Fowl series

Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Yay!)

Le Chiffre from Casino Royale

Havelock Vetinari from Discworld

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg from The Fifth Element

Severus Snape and Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter

Ernst Stavro Blofeld from James Bond

Am I the only one beginning to see a trend here?

The Brain from Pinky and the Brain

Roose Bolton and Tywin Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire & Game of Thrones

The Borg Queen from Star Trek: First Contact

John Harrison AKA Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek Into Darkness

Sooo, according to Hollywood ITNJs are more or less all despots and/or bend on world dominion? Sounds about right.

Well I guess it makes me your go to girl if you ever need a plan to take over the world.

We're happy to announce the winner of our first Book Challenge giveaway of Love in the Time of Global Warming and The Island of Excess Love, lucycantdance. Thank you all for participating! We really enjoyed all of your entries. 

If you didn't win this time, stay tuned! We're going to have more giveaways coming up-- one for when we reach 500 followers which will have a bunch of queer YA books as prizes, and our September Book of the Month giveaway of The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson! 

Rules: In a text post, list ten books (or fics) that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [ten] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

So I got doubled tagged (yikes) by phene-thyla-mine and plaidshirtjimkirk in this.

This is going to be a mix of books and fics in no specific order.

1) Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce.

I don't know if I should do this as one or four, because it's really a series, but it had a really profound impact on me when I read it at 14. The main character Alana has to disguise herself as a boy to fulfil her dream something I could wholly relate to at that age. I wanted to do all the boy stuff but being a girl often got me barred from doing it, so I took on boyish persona and mannerism. I didn't want to be a boy per se, just do the stuff they were allowed to (football, mechanics, stuff like that) and if I had to pretend to be a boy to do it then so be it.

2) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

A fabulous story about revenge, what can drive a person to sacrifice all else to achieve it, the unforeseen consequences and the innocents that gets caught in the crossfire.

It really should be read by everyone.

3) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.

I read this when I was seven and down with the flu. Started my lifelong enamourment with Holmes and Watson and strongly coloured my perception of both characters, so I'll never be able to see Watson as an idiot or Holmes as some flawless superhuman deduction machine.

4) The Heart in the Whole by verityburns.

[BBC Sherlock]

The first fanfic I read in the Sherlock fandom and what got me into fandom again. I had originally been a part of the Vampire Chronicles fandom about ten years before, but Rice's vehement persecution of fans scared me off. Here was the second beginning.

5) Fulfilling the Needs of the One (or the Both) by plaidshirtjimkirk.

[TOS]

If I had to pinpoint the time where I fell in love with OMS it was reading this story. But since plaidshirtjimkirk is the captain of this ship that is hardly surprising is it?

6) This Deadly Innocence aka The End of the Hurt/Comfort Syndrome by Leslie Fish.

[TOS] This one is from 1979 and I find that and several others from that period that I have read interesting because of the portrayal of the characters, in particular Kirk has far more in common with the popculture image of him than how he is portrayed in Spirk fanfics today.

Could be an interesting subject to delve into someday, how the characterisation of Kirk has changed over the years and how.

But even without the historical context this is a brilliant story.

7) Meat Dreams by J S Cavalcante.

[TOS]

In the aftermath of events on Sarapeidon Spock has dreams about eating meat and having sex.

I'm a sucker for all fics that involve Vulcan culture pre- and post-Surak and how things have changed, and some times not changed, and for "Spock character development". This one has both.

8) And In the Darkness Bind You by Greywolf the Wanderer.

[TOS]

Takes place between Spock going blind in Operation: Annihilate! and when he regains his vision. It's a very realistic portrayal of how a person faced with suddenly loosing sight might cope with it. One of the better fics I've read on this and far, far better than most original works I've read on the same subject.

9) A Logical Form of Relationship by WeirdLittleStories.

[TOS]

Ficlet in which Kirk and Spock have a pillow talk about why Vulcans find same sex pairings logical. Very much formed my opinion on the matter.

10) After Altair by SnapeInDrag.

[TOS]

Began my fascination with pon farr stories and helped form my headcanon that a mental link is needed for Vulcans to have sex.

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Well I could keep going, but it said ten. And if I don't stop here I never will.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura Characters: Christine Chapel, Nyota Uhura Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort Summary:

Nyota and Christine in the aftermath of a failed mission.

I promised my beta Lucycantdance a Chahura fic for her birthday, but the one I started writing first had plot happen in it and is now an unfinished multi-chapter thing I couldn't possibly get done in time. But since she very much deserves something on the day, I wrote this instead. Not as happy as I wanted it to be.

Happy birthday my dear, and thank you for everything.