Dipping my toe back in......

[mrstotten]

Ok, so spent the weekend trawling my old LJ and realised how much I missed fandom. I have met some of the most amazing people EVER within fandom and count some of them as my closest friends now, and thought, no what I'm gonna jump back in.

Quick update on me, currently running an IT company with some great, but also crazy people who may show up from time to time with names changed to protect the innocent. I am working on my MBA, not written anything in a LONG LONG time, but hoping I may again. Currently got some ficlets that I started for my lovely Verity's birthday.

My baby boy is now nine! and still fills my days with light and laughter :)

Fandom wise, I have fallen back in Love with SPN, although I no longer expect great things, it has pretty boys who are pretty and now uses fanfic as storylines so \o/?? I fell in love with Sterek and although TW itself is disappointing me, the pairings doesn't. Rereading Harry Potter and some HP fic. Love Love Love The Good Wife. Still liking Scandal, and fallen in love with Once Upon a time. Random loves that still come to me include BTVS, Angel, Bones, Merlin, QAF, Glee, SGA, Arrow.

Pairings I still love like breathing, McShep, Sterek, Buffy/Angel, Harry/Draco, Superhusbands. Pairings I still like or can still read. Booth/Brennan, Will/Jack, Dean/Cas, J2??

So over to you guys... whats been happening with all of you??

Comments

[mrstotten]

You are totally one of my new favourite people!

I love fic, and recs, especially as the plethora of fic now scares me, the amount of digging you need to do to find a gem!! i'd make a teribble prosperctor so rec away! particuarly around Sterek and superhusbands

Scifigrl is awesome, I adore her Tony/Steve stuff, and love the way she writes Steve. Just the right amount of adorkableness.

Love meta so thanks for metanews, one of the reasons I fell away from fandom is the shift to tumblr/twitter. Both have their advantages and good points but I miss the conversation and the thinkyness of things

I understood Steve's pov in CW and he was far less removed from the war than others, so the idea of any kind of labelling of people in society was a NoNo to him

[endeni]

/I understood Steve's pov in CW/ - Oh, yes. Cap's side got more support from the readers (and from the authors themselves in some side stories) because rebelling is more romantic and charming, but the superb thing of Civil War is that *each side* was right and wrong at the same time and there just wasn't an easy solution.
In the Italian paperback edition there's a really nice introduction where the Marvel Civil War gets compared to the actual Civil War, with Cap's side fighting to maintain acquired privileges, much like the Confederates, while Tony's side fought to obtain a functioning integration, much like the Union. So fascinating!

/I fell away from fandom is the shift to tumblr/twitter/ - I know, I just can't get the hang of tumblr, such a counter-intuitive platform! - And I know I should get XKit but it doesn't work for Firefox which is my browser of choice for a billion reasons.

Anyway, yay, let me compile you a rec list or two! *g*

[endeni]

Here's a Superhusbands Rec List! Eheh, I might have got a bit overboard but I had such fun! ;)

[mrstotten]

Woohoo, that's my Sunday afternoon reading sorted :)

[endeni]

And the Sterek one, which somehow ended up even longer than the Steve/Tony one, LOL...

[mrstotten]

I don't know how that is even possible!!

Skips off to read :)

[endeni]

LOL, it's just that I have so many fanworks bookmarked! I tried to choose but I couldn't, I love them all... :D