Reccing shit all over the place
May. 30th, 2011 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caramelsilverOn Thursday I'm going to London with my brother. I am absolutely besides myself with excitement! We're seeing Les Miserables, which, while not the sole reason, is the main reason why we're going and I CANNOT WAIT!! But, what else should I do? Do you have any suggestions to must dos in London?
And now I'm going to rec a lot of things:
On the internet:
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narniaexchange has a Tumblr now! Join it! so if you, like me, are spending more time on Tumblr than on LJ you will still be able to keep up with the exchange! (Is it sad that I'm jealous of how many followers it already has? Yes, a bit sad, I'd say.)
- This blog: smart, pretty and awkward is a brilliant advice blog that's just a delight to read. But it on your flist. You won't regret it!
- On Tumblr, I'd recommend adding brotips to your dash. I know many are tired of all these "rules" blogs, but this one is great, smart and not condescending. And yeah, it says bros, but women can be bros too, and the advice is brilliant and poignant most of the time!
To read:
-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. And if you have read those books, then you should read this brilliant fic: To the Victor, the Spoils by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annakovsky IT'S THE BEST FIC IN THE WORLD! When I finished the books this was exactly what I wanted to read, but I didn't think it would exist. AND THEN IT DID! AND I READ IT AND LOVED IT! And now I'm sad that this is the only one of its kind. It's AU, after the Hunger Games. Peeta is dead and Katniss is the victor, and everything is fucked up, messed up and AWESOME! The pairing is Katniss/Haymitch, sort of. So you're warned about that. But if anyone would like to write me something like this then they are so allowed!
- ALSO! Why did no one tell me about all the wonderful genderfuck fics in The Social Network fandom?grim_lupine I'm looking at you! Read: my fingertips are holding onto the cracks in our foundation girl!Mark, who decides to embrace the bitch title and gets a killer makeover that shows her (awesome) breasts and all the boys in the yard (Eduardo) are all 0____0 (description found on delicious). This is brilliant and just so good to read! I love it, love it, love it. Written on the kink meme, though, so there's mistakes here and there, and some parts are better than others. But overall, really good and feeds my genderfuck obsession quite nicely ;)
- Lastly. If any of you haven't started to watch Community yet! DO IT, DO IT, DO IT! BEST SHOW EVER AND I'M NOT KIDDING ABOUT THAT. BEST. SHOW. EVER!
And now I'm going to rec a lot of things:
On the internet:
-
narniaexchange has a Tumblr now! Join it! so if you, like me, are spending more time on Tumblr than on LJ you will still be able to keep up with the exchange! (Is it sad that I'm jealous of how many followers it already has? Yes, a bit sad, I'd say.)- This blog: smart, pretty and awkward is a brilliant advice blog that's just a delight to read. But it on your flist. You won't regret it!
- On Tumblr, I'd recommend adding brotips to your dash. I know many are tired of all these "rules" blogs, but this one is great, smart and not condescending. And yeah, it says bros, but women can be bros too, and the advice is brilliant and poignant most of the time!
To read:
-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. And if you have read those books, then you should read this brilliant fic: To the Victor, the Spoils by
annakovsky IT'S THE BEST FIC IN THE WORLD! When I finished the books this was exactly what I wanted to read, but I didn't think it would exist. AND THEN IT DID! AND I READ IT AND LOVED IT! And now I'm sad that this is the only one of its kind. It's AU, after the Hunger Games. Peeta is dead and Katniss is the victor, and everything is fucked up, messed up and AWESOME! The pairing is Katniss/Haymitch, sort of. So you're warned about that. But if anyone would like to write me something like this then they are so allowed!- ALSO! Why did no one tell me about all the wonderful genderfuck fics in The Social Network fandom?
grim_lupine I'm looking at you! Read: my fingertips are holding onto the cracks in our foundation girl!Mark, who decides to embrace the bitch title and gets a killer makeover that shows her (awesome) breasts and all the boys in the yard (Eduardo) are all 0____0 (description found on delicious). This is brilliant and just so good to read! I love it, love it, love it. Written on the kink meme, though, so there's mistakes here and there, and some parts are better than others. But overall, really good and feeds my genderfuck obsession quite nicely ;)- Lastly. If any of you haven't started to watch Community yet! DO IT, DO IT, DO IT! BEST SHOW EVER AND I'M NOT KIDDING ABOUT THAT. BEST. SHOW. EVER!
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on 2011-05-30 02:27 pm (UTC)Hmmm, so what is the difference between genderswap, genderfuck, and genderswitch?
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on 2011-05-30 02:50 pm (UTC)To be honest... at least, when I say genderfuck, I mean always a girl/boy, genderswitch/swap then, in my head, the character goes from one gender to another within the story. Genderbend can mean both.
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on 2011-05-30 04:56 pm (UTC)Oh, so they're different! I always wondered why people used such varied labels.
Wait. Les Miz. OMG, DOES THIS MEAN YOU ARE SEEING RAMIN KARIMLOO LIVE?
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on 2011-05-30 03:33 pm (UTC)Also ahahaha my bad, I've been neglecting my genderfuck pimping duties! :D Let me fix that with a few recs (I love that one you recced, I keep rereading it).
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This one (http://therealw.livejournal.com/177047.html) is one of my favorites, along with its sequel.
And this one (http://vaingirlfic.livejournal.com/92887.html) is girl!Mark/girl!Eduardo, and it's awesome.
Girl!Mark/Eduardo (http://vaingirlfic.livejournal.com/90579.html) by the same author. I love how she does girl!Mark.
*cough* Also I wrote a short always-a-girl!Eduardo/Mark thing here (http://grim-lupine.livejournal.com/62048.html). :D /shameless
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on 2011-06-01 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-05-30 04:05 pm (UTC)As for sights, there are the usual tourist attractions, but my personal must-do thing: I'm very fond of wandering around in the general area of Leicester Square. Theatre tickets boots and cinemas everywhere...thw whole area just embodies London to me;) Then again, I am something of a musical theatre/film geek.
If you want to do something a bit out there, I found my visit to the Old Operating Theatre Museum (http://www.thegarret.org.uk/) hugely enjoyable.
This is a wonderful rec post. All your recs are actually interesting, despite having a wide range! Looking forward to reading the Hunger Games fic - as you said, it sounds like it is just what I was craving when I finished the first book.
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on 2011-06-01 07:15 pm (UTC)Oh I'll definitively spend some time in Leicester square, I love that part of London as well. So great.
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on 2011-05-30 07:44 pm (UTC)Okay, you're the third person this WEEK to rec Hunger Games so I guess I really do need to read it. I hope it's as good as everyone says. Three people in a week also seriously told me Twilight was good, and look how that one turned out. ;)
Also, your letter is thinking about being in the mail real soon.
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on 2011-06-01 07:18 pm (UTC)The Hunger Games is a very interesting and entertaining trilogy, when you first start to read you won't be able to stop. Are they the best written books in the world? No. Will they entertain you and move you? Yes. Read them and we'll discuss them afterwards!
I mailed your letter today! I addressed it to Chicago, that was right of me, right?