Living with Boys

Challenge #4: In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

I could talk about personal and work goals, but I think I'll stick to fandom ones. OK, here goes (deep breath)--

1) I want to continue working on a fic series I began during SPN Season 14 that I called "(Fic Writer) picks the music." My plan was to use my playlist of songs related to Supernatural as inspiration for a series of one-shots from different characters' POVs. I thought the structure would give me incentive to keep writing on a regular basis, but I got stuck with the 5th song, "Thunderstruck". I would like to get over that hurdle and keep going!

2) Continuing with the fic writing theme, I'd like to participate in a big bang challenge this year. I've done Summergen several times, SPN Spring Fling and Reversebang a couple of times each, but these are based around gift fics based on prompts. I've never written a story "cold" and submitted it for an artist's consideration. In truth the idea terrifies me a bit, bringing back memories of waiting to be picked in gym class, which is a reason to do it, right? (Did I mention I'm a bit neurotic?)

3) Write more, paint more, read more. You'd think that as a librarian, I would read a lot. And I do generally have a book going, but there are so many shinies that distract so easily---

So that's a start for me. I'm excited to read some of yours!

Day 1: In your own space, introduce yourself

To this end, I've updated my LJ Profile--here's what it says:

I'm a librarian in a Rocky Mountain state with two kids, two cats, and a husband who suffers my obsessions (and often acts as my beta) with varying degrees of patience.

I'm also a lifelong Fangirl. Every now and then, for inscrutable reasons, I find myself falling in love with something--a book series, an author's or actor's work, a tv show--and then I dive in headfirst trying to learn everything I can about it. My first fictional love was Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe's man of action and the narrator of Rex Stout's mystery series. I spent years hunting down copies of those books in used bookstores all over the country and read them over and over again. (This was long before the internet, let alone Amazon, made it almost too easy to find such things!) I have collected, lost, and re-collected the series over the years, though it has been a long time since I re-read one. Once I move on from something, I don't feel like I really leave it behind me or only view it nostalgically. Rather, it becomes a part of me, entangled in my imagination and world view,

Supernatural has my fannish heart, and at this point, I think it may keep it always. (Though I know there will be others--see above.) I started it at the end of library school, eight years ago, and honestly, I wasn't expecting much more than a good time. Quickly, though, the show's look, themes, humor and complex characters hooked me, and by the time I got to "Faith" in Season One, I was in love. I still love it, through all its changes, flaws and triumphs. And now that it's wrapped, I know that the fandom will change--but I still haven't figured out what that means to me.

Other geeky pastimes? Tabletop RPGs. Dungeons and Dragons and GURPS, specifically. My husband introduced me and it is our shared hobby. I even paint miniatures for gaming, and share them on my page from time to time. And I write fic sometimes, for Supernatural, of course. I'm enamored of the gaps between the episode stories, the stretchy nature of its storytelling, and all of the characters who need more stories told about them.I don't know whether another fandom will inspire me in the way this one has in the future, but now that I have a taste for it, who knows?

Post 10 celebrities you have been in love with (had a crush on). One per day. No comment, just a picture. Then ask a friend to take up the challenge. I challenge anyone who wants to play.



Which one? That is an unanswerable question.

Post 10 celebrities you have been in love with (had a crush on). One per day. No comment, just a picture. Then ask a friend to take up the challenge. I challenge anyone who wants to play.



I feel like this one might deserve a little explanation. Archie is the co-lead of the Nero Wolfe series of mysteries by Rex Stout. There are over 40 books, and they were written between 1934 and 1975. I discovered them as s teenager, and I guess you could say I found my first fandom in them; I fell hard, and spent the next several years scouring bookstores for titles I hadn't yet read, learning about the author, developing theories about their world, and talking about them. Like, a lot.

The world is awesome, with memorable characters, Wolfe is an amazing creation full of habits and contradictions, and some of the mysteries are compelling plots--but the real draw was always Archie, essentially Watson to Wolfe's Holmes. He's the narrator, so the voice in my head when I think of the books now. Funny, capable, graceful on a dance floor and quick-thinking in a fight. (Do I have a type? Why would you ask that?) A good detective paired with a genius one. A hell of a man.

Damn--I feel a re-read coming on!

40 odd things about me . . . Please play along! Stollen shamlessly from cuddyclothes, by way of meus_venator

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I'm up to posting a photo taken at least 10 years ago. I don't have much from that period on my computer, but here's one that I'm kinda fond of:



This is me and the boys collecting their Summer Reading coupons at our old library in 2009. This building no longer exists, as the city built a new library that we moved into in 2014. This desk stood somewhere in the middle of our new parking lot. I was still a page in the Circulation department at this point--I moved upstairs to Reference and began working on my MLS degree, with the library's blessing, a year later. What kills me about this photo though--of course--is my boys' faces. And their height. While I once towered over them, they now tower well over me. The little blond kid? He's 6'2" now.

*Sigh.

Hi! I don't think I've done anything like this on here before, but thanks to Dizzojay's December meme challenge, I'm going to get a bit personal here. I'll try to answer a question a day this month. I know, I'm a few days behind, but I hope to catch up this weekend. (Thanks, Dizzojay, for the questions!)

The first is to post a photo taken this year. Hmmm---



I rather like this one. It was taken during our end of Summer Reading party at the library. Please forgive the odd size; I cropped my co-worker out, not because she isn't adorable in the original photo, but to honor her privacy. The items on the table in front are some of our prizes for adults, and my smile is equal parts "happy to show off" and "I am so very glad it's over!"