The Misadventures of Kolamity

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Rarewomen for the win!

So Rarewomen reveals happened! AND THERE SO MANY GOOD FICS, SO MANY AMAZING WOMEN FEATURED! I wish I could rec everything, but the master list is here, and A03 has a a more list of fics by fandom here. GO READ EVERYTHING!

Strategy by TheSecondBatgirl. 

She remembered how Johanna had won. She may not be Johanna Mason, but she had learned her lessons well.

I can only start this rec list by the SUPERB fic I received featuring wonderful speculation on Foxface from The Hunger Games. The POV here is handled with a deft, subtle hand, allowing the narrative to twist into this narrowing, almost claustrophobic focus that mirrors Stella as she struggles to survive the games. I love the hints throughout of her eventual downfall, the failure of logic in this manufactured world of gross inequality and certain death. There’s only room for one “happy” ending in the games, and Stella catches on quick that it won’t be hers, yet the piece doesn’t fall into the trap of exploiting that for  bleakness. This fic left me desperately wanting more of Stella, just as I was of Foxface after first reading the book, and is just absolutely the perfect piece I could have ever asked for. 

In the Company of Monsters by Gehayi

Post-A Feast for Crows. Keeping oaths is a deadly business, and nobody knows this better than Brienne of Tarth.

7 chapters and nearly 13,000 words of Brienne being awesome? I feel like it is my birthday all over again!  I’m a sucker for any piece on the problem of conflicting vows and what the right thing truly is, and Gehayi does a really great job here exploring both. I love how deftly Brienne’s central conflicts are handled, and how the characters are allowed to have their quiet moments without relying on quips or banal dialogue to pad the scenes.

Five Times Karen Vick Let Shawn Get Away With Pretending To Be A Psychic by  misura

Super powered Psych fanfic about how awesome Karen Vick is? This is everything I’ve ever wanted from a Psych fic and MORE. 

Might as well add a link for what I wrote, too:

And I A Dream, Strangled Awake

Your entire life has been spoilers, how could your death be any different?

(aka Kol writes Homestuck AND Redglare for the first time! OMG!)

Definitely not the fic I set out to write back in February, but my recipient liked it, so I’m riding a pretty big ego-boost right now :3!

Maybe I can use the push from rarewomen reveals to finish the Matsumoto Rangiku piece I’ve been tinkering with since January… 

Filed under rarewomen fic recs homestuck is a happy brienne lady of my heart

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Why is it not the 7th yet?! There is a gift for me that I want to lavish attention all over and give all the kudos to whomever wrote a shiny for me and just be so happy that someone else loved one of my favorite fictional ladies enough to write about them! So! Freaking! Excited!  … and then I look at the fic I wrote and suddenly I never want it to be the 7th. All that excitement shrivels up and dies as the anxieties and general failures kick in. This fic isn’t as bad as Yuletide #1 was, but I look at the piece and am left with a stale aftertaste, because not only has this topic been done to death, but it has been done better.  But then I think to myself, dude, RARE WOMEN! I’m pretty sure if my recipient doesn’t like it, they’ll find something as awesome as they deserve. And the writing angst isn’t half as bad as it was during Yuletide— I’m not stuffing my face with Oreos yet, and technically there’s still time to edit in any changes. Plus, I was sure my Yuletide fic sucked and it has nearly 400 views, so clearly my brain is just being stupid. Maybe. We’ll see after the 7th I guess *__*.

Why is it not the 7th yet?! There is a gift for me that I want to lavish attention all over and give all the kudos to whomever wrote a shiny for me and just be so happy that someone else loved one of my favorite fictional ladies enough to write about them! So! Freaking! Excited! 

… and then I look at the fic I wrote and suddenly I never want it to be the 7th. All that excitement shrivels up and dies as the anxieties and general failures kick in. This fic isn’t as bad as Yuletide #1 was, but I look at the piece and am left with a stale aftertaste, because not only has this topic been done to death, but it has been done better. 

But then I think to myself, dude, RARE WOMEN! I’m pretty sure if my recipient doesn’t like it, they’ll find something as awesome as they deserve. And the writing angst isn’t half as bad as it was during Yuletide— I’m not stuffing my face with Oreos yet, and technically there’s still time to edit in any changes.

Plus, I was sure my Yuletide fic sucked and it has nearly 400 views, so clearly my brain is just being stupid. Maybe. We’ll see after the 7th I guess *__*.

Filed under rarewomen I am a writing machine

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Dot dot dot

The mall is playing The Black Kids’ “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance.” Had to double check I wasn’t dreaming. XD

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My birthday, 2012, aka all San Francisco Adventures a south bay girl could dream of.

Including: a trip to the Ferry Building (hurrah for Cowgirl Creamery!), a truly delicious lunch at The Slanted Door, stumbling upon the Creme Brûlée Cart for a wonderful smores brûlée, and finally making it to my first Giants game at AT&T Park (maybe I can stop calling it the new ballpark now :D). Not pictured: forcing everyone to walk the Giants parade route, never shutting up about the parade, and nearly crying when I found where Pixie & I stood that amazing November day.

That sunburn was totally worth it, as was that amazing nail-bitter of a Giants game.

BEST BIRTHDAY! 

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