no more mister nice gaius!

Not really, but it feels like it.

Remember those exams I was taking? I passed the first one but failed the second, so ehh. It was my first time failing an exam ever, though, so I'm grateful for the experience. You learn from failure, I guess.

And as soon as I got home that day I had decided I'd start watching the entire Robron storyline and that's exactly what I did. I finished yesterday, so here we are now. Assuming most of you need more context, let's get into it. I've been watching British soaps on and off for 11 years now. I'm Spanish, so they've never aired here, but I got into them because of a specific actor and since I loved the format I kept watching other soaps when a storyline sounded interesting. But I'd never dared to actually sit down and watch the Robron storyline, and yet when I heard that Robert Sugden came back to the show in May, well... I decided to finally watch it. And boy, did I love it. Of course, I got to know the recent state of the show in general, as well as its characters, and I love plenty of them. So, yeah, now you've got me waking up at 7am on weekdays to watch ED.

I'm jobless again now, since my last job finished in late May. I was teaching at a religious high school, which was certainly an Experience. The teens were lovely. Mostly. I'm not very good at managing them as of yet, which I hope changes with experience, because when you teach you do want them to learn, you know? Oh, well.

Due to everything life-related I dropped some bingos I was doing, even the one I was very close to finishing, which is a shame. I'm reluctant to join other events now, considering.

It's my first time doing this challenge, let's go!



Challenge #1 was about updating your fandom information, which I've done over at my sticky post and my profile.

And now it's time for Challenge #2: talking about my fannish origin story.

( My fannish origin story! )

Remember I said I was making a fanvid?

Well, I haven't finished that one YET. It was so much work at first, with an entire section of 1-second long clips, that I started to hate it, so I was wise enough to let it rest for a while. I rewatched what I have so far today and, would you have guessed, I actually think it's pretty good. So I'll finish it one of these days!

But I've already finished another one! This is a funny one, which is my fave genre of vids, and I'm happy with how it turned out:




It's also on ao3 if you want to give a kudos or comment!

Basically I realised that there was an American Idiot parody by Weird Al called Canadian Idiot and I wondered if there were no due South fanvids set to it, because isn't it just perfect? AND I FOUND NONE. So of course I decided to give it a try myself.

More stuff under the cut in case anyone's here just for the vid for some reason.
( due South and fic writing talk )

How's everyone doing?

I'm very happy this year's fandomgiftbasket is finally open! I made a total of 5 gifts, I think, and received 3 lovely ones! I got 2 sets of icons, one of Chiana (I'm using one of them for this entry!) and the other of Avon and Vila, and a lovely fic about Sam and Jacob Carter from SG-1. You can check them out here. This was fun and I'm glad I joined in this year!

Now I'm going to try to participate in round 12 of  ladiesbingo. I want to create more fanworks focused on women, and I'm sure the different prompts will help! It's also fun to have different mediums I can create fanworks in, since I enjoyed that part of Fandom Gift Basket a lot. As soon as I get my bingo card I'll be sharing it in a new entry!

What I'm reading: Believe it or not, I'm reading Jane Eyre for the first time. I'm enjoying it SO much I can barely stop reading! I'm astounded by how the book is narrated, how clear and developed Jane's psyche is and how intimately you get to know her and follow her as she grows up. In a way it reminded me a lot of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (which I still haven't finished, but I'm almost there) because of their prose and how successfully the point of view of a child is achieved. And, at the same time, the criticisms of Christian dogma are very strong in both cases, although the circumstances are different. And, of course, Jane Eyre came earlier!

What I'm watching: I'm picking up Stargate SG-1 where I left it, so I'm halfway through season 6! This season focuses a lot on the Tok'ra and the Jaffar, has Jonas replacing Daniel, and a lot of episodes where they don't even use a Stargate! I really like Jonas, but I always feel very defensive of characters who are brought as replacements for others, so it was what I expected. But he's an interesting character, really! And I like his dynamics with Sam and Teal'c a lot. The non-Stargate using episodes are often really good, and it's nice that they were doing something a bit different. I have to say I didn't like John de Lancie's character that much (I never even memorised his name), whereas Maybourne I like more every time he shows up! I'm getting a bit obsessed with his relationship with Jack. Yes, even in a shippy way! And if you think that's niche, let me tell you about Sam and Jonas... But I'll leave it there for now!

That is the question!

I'm considering signing up to this year's unconventionalcourtship. It's been years since I've participated in a fic event of any kind, so I'm a bit scared of not reaching the deadline or writing something that's ultimately unsatisfactory, at least to me. But since you can wait until pretty late to sign up, I've started to write a fic using one of the prompt generator summaries.

I'd really like to finish something and post it, but I tend to be really bad at finishing what I start. This is why I have a lot of drabbles, they can be written fairly fast so my attention span can handle it pretty well. Anyway, we'll see if I can finish it, because I've been eyeing this event for years since the concept seems really fun, but I'd never actually tried to participate.

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Hi, everyone! It's time to finish this fandom questionnaire, although there are two days left of this event. Don't worry, I'll find something to post about :)

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

Oh, now this is a hard question for me! I usually ship something in everything I watch, even if it's just lowkey, you know? Sometimes I'll watch a show or movie and enjoy it, but I don't consider myself as part of the fandom because I don't have fannish thoughts about it. Maybe I could say Discworld, if only because I haven't really read enough books yet to have any ships, but I'm also just assuming I'll end up shipping something. I've only read 5 Discworld books so far, so you never know!

26. What's a ship that you want to ship publicly, but everyone on tumblr hates it so you keep your mouth shut about it?

Honestly? I'm trying to be more open about what I ship these days. It can be scary, because people get DOXXED over ships these days, and I've had it happen to friends and to people who ship the same thing as me. But I also think it's horrible to silence yourself because of what people will say, you know?

For example, lately I'm shipping Lucy/The Ghoul (Fallout TV) because the parallels are very convincing and the fandom has so many cool fanworks about them. However, looking for their shipname (Ghoulcy) online gives you a lot of results that are just people hating on it and on the shippers. I still share the fanworks anyway, so I'm not keeping my mouth shut at all!

Another ship I'm pretty sure people would hate to know that I ship is Mariner/Ransom (Star Trek: Lower Decks). I don't necessarily try to hide it, but it's one of the shows that I try not to talk too much about online, since it's airing now and avoiding spoilers can be hard on social media. From experience, I think people probably dislike it because Mariner is bisexual and had a girlfriend until recently, and there's always a group of people who will be hostile towards M/F ships if the woman in it also has a woman as a romantic interest, if that makes sense. I'm pretty sure this happened with the 100 fandom and Clexa vs Bellarke (I liked both ships, by the way).

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Happy Saturday, everyone! Let's continue with the questionnaire.

21. What are your favorite male/female ships?

See, this one's tougher for me! I don't have a lot of M/F ships. To mention some: Lucy/The Ghoul (Fallout), Caprica Six/Gaius Baltar (BSG), John/Aeryn (Farscape), F!Warden/Alistair (Dragon Age).

22. Do you have any 3-way ships? If so, what?

Braca/Scorpius/Sikozu, from Farscape!

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Let's continue with the questionnaire for the Three Weeks event!

17. A ship you’ve abandoned and why.

This is gonna be a similar answer to one of the previous ones I gave, but the main one I can think of right now is Quark/Odo. I loved it early on, but Odo's behaviour put me off him as a character to the point where the ship wasn't appealing to me anymore. Other than that, I usually end up being bored of ships once I leave the fandom behind, with some exceptions. I tend to move from fandom to fandom every few months, because I get very intense obsessions that eventually burn me out, so to speak, and I need to get into something new. Again, there are exceptions to this, but it's very common with me.

18. A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships.

This is hard to answer, because I have some rare ships, but I'm sure there's at least one other person out there who ships them! For example, I really ship Chiana/Sikozu from Farscape, but surely I'm not the only one, right? I guess a more interesting answer would be a crack crossover ship I invented when I was about 14 years old... Hinata Hyuga from Naruto and Edward Elric from FMA. Why? I don't know! I think I was simply drawing something and drew them together, and then I decided they should date lol.

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Hi hi!

I really wanted to post yesterday, but it was a very long day so I didn't have the time. I might make a personal post later to talk a bit about it. But for now, let's continue with the questionnaire!
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Here we go again! Next two questions:

11. How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s)?

There's always cool people to meet in fandoms, and my recent ones are no exception. Unfortunately, fandom spaces can be very hostile when the canon has dark themes or when the fans start ship wars. In the case of the Falllout show, both things are true, so I've already had to block some users out there (on Twitter and Tumblr). On a more positive note, a lot of the fans are very creative and productive, which is fun and inspiring! Every day I see new fanart, fanfic, fanvids, meta, theories... It's so cool!
12. Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for?

My fave fanartist is splatbones/jadenvargen, and I'd ask him to draw anything for the Fallout show. I know he likes Fallout: New Vegas, because I remember him posting a Manny Vargas/Chris Haversham fanart some years ago, so I'm sure he'd make something beautiful and would have fun the idea. For fanfic, I don't think I can name ONE fave author, but in some cases I'd ask them to write anything for the fandom I used to read them for! Some authors I liked haven't posted anything in years :(