caffeine diary

So I'm thinking (in the interest of me spamming LJ more letting new folks get to know me and old folks know me beter) that I'll start regularly posting intros to the things I list as interests on my profile. I stripped my interests down to one when I went no-LJ last year, and have been adding them back when things strike me as interesting. I've currently got 54.

First up: archivist 12/mina de malfois. Aka Mina/Arc or this is my OTP from mina_de_malfois.

Don't know Mina? It's kind of indescribable, but: it's original fiction in the form of Mina's memoirs, where Mina is a twentysomething fangirl with delusions of BNFdom. Knowledge of particular fandoms isn't required -- although knowing Harry Potter probably helps -- the story is about fandom in general, and how wonderful and insane we are. In true "fandom is my fandom" spirit, MDM has inspired Yuletide and Femslash Annual requests for a few years now -- geez, it's been since 2006? -- and is the hilarious, heartwarming, and excellent tale of a young woman's experiences in the fictional Sanguinity fandom.

There are currently two and a half seasons, and the story's on hiatus for awhile, but there's plenty to enjoy. All of S1 seems to be available unlocked at Mina's JournalFen account. There are plenty o' instructions in her userinfo on how to get all the goods.

Now that that's out of the way, on to the earth-shattering OTP goodness:

The non-spoilery version is that Archivist12, aka Arc, is Mina's archivist and friend who helps her out when she gets in hot water and finds her endearingly silly. Arc is an Older (!) and wiser Woman, and she was a Girl Guide in her youth. [wink] She's basically just ten kinds of awesome and Mina's fans (and Mina's mun) as well as Mina herself have a bit of a crush on her (though it's unspoken in Mina's case). Let's see, it's a) lesbian with b) an age difference and c) takes place online, in a way that captures the wonder and absurdity of cyberculture. OTP, y/y.

[slightly more spoilery and intended for readers of Mina]

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[meme, new years resolution, generated from user interests]

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From karabair:
Reply to this entry with your name and post these instructions in your own journal. I will go poke around your list of interests on your profile and ask you one question about one of them. You wax rhapsodic on the subject of your interest for the edification of all and we'll learn something keen about you.

Or in simple terms:

Reply to this meme, I'll pick one of your interests, and you tell me a whole bunch of stuff about it and we all learn a bit more.

Also, I posted fic last night. The return of the McGonagall/Hermione spanking WiP. Huzzah! Sadly lacking in actual spanking.

For my reference (since I think it's time for another overhaul), my interests as of today, clustered according to some sort of Earth logic.
( from 'teh intraweb' to 'purple plastic watches' )