fandom life

To-do, fandom-wise:

femgenficathon  due July 31.

Castielfest  due August 9.

Narnia Fic Exchange due August 30.

And then I also just signed up for spnsupporting, which, praise the flatbread, has no specific deadline.  Plus I want to finish my Lucy/Ramandu's daughter, and I still have that half-done Anna fic floating around.  And an Edmund LWW vid, and an end-of-Who5 vid.  And I want to write poetry, too, but I never have time or inspiration for more than a few lines.

Also I bought, when I got The Magicians (arrrgh), Stardust, so I want to read that, and I've yet to finish Good Omens, and my brother got the new Rick Riordan for his birthday so I want to read that, too, and I have to sort through all my family's Pratchett to see what I've not read yet and what I want to steal, and also I am long overdue for a reread of the Madeleine L'Engle books.


I did the friending thing today via an awesome female characters friending meme, which is really cool.  Yay new friends!  I talk about myself and my life and my fannishness all the time here, obviously, but it seems to be the thing to do to put up a little something by way of welcome and introduction, so.

Hi, I'm Meto, I'm a going-to-be second year college student.  American, West Coast, of European-mutt descent.  Only girl of four kids in my family, liberal, mostly-non-political, Catholic.  I'm studying literature and history, and I have no idea what I'll do with it - probably teach? I love reading, and writing, and music; I like to swim and to play soccer though I don't do enough of either anymore.  My favorite fandoms are Narnia, Supernatural, Merlin, and Dr Who/Torchwood, though I can easily get gleeful over any number of tv shows, movies, and books.  My greatest ambition in life is to have a room devoted to my personal library with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling rows of shelves, sliding ladders, and lots of well-loved and also plenty of untouched and pretentious books.  I also like to bake and to paint my nails and to watch Disney movies.  Annnd I've run out of things to say about myself.  Welcome welcome new friends, I love finding other people who love the same crazy stuff that I do!

Sadness.

I don't know that many people outside California - or even outside the Bay Area - know about the Johannes Mehserle trial.  I honestly don't know tons about it.  

But the bare facts are - last year on New Year's Eve, BART officer Mehserle shot and killed unarmed passenger Oscar Grant.  I do not know what caused him to do so, what the defense is, or any of the extenuating circumstances - actually, I just looked it up, and Mehserle says he accidentally fired his service weapon instead of his taser.  I do know that Mehserle is white, and Grant is black, and that Oakland is in utter uproar.  Tonight Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter - Oscar Grant's family wanted second-degree murder (and 'wanted' is a horrid word.  They want to not have to go through this.  They want for their son to not be dead.) - so he's going to jail for awhile.  

Riot police are out, stores are being broken into, and people are raging mad.

I...don't know what the point of this post is.  Mostly I'm just really really sad.  I know nothing near enough to offer judgement.  An innocent man is dead and a lot of people are deeply sad and deeply angry.  I'm mostly just praying that things will not escalate to a point where more people die.

Also I'm sad over feminism fail.  And not even feminism, because genderfail is a subject of humanity, not just feminists.  I'm sad that there is so much death and hurt and anger hanging over life, and that it has such an easy way of sucking us all into obsessing over it and arguing over it and thus extending the reach of the badness.

And now I'm going to go finish watching the LWW commentary because those kids are adorable and hilarious and happy.