It's the first step toward world domination

[brigdh]

esrafil is here, and I am using her presence as an excuse to go do all sorts of things. Like visit the Museum of Sex.

...New York amuses me.

But this is merely the first step in my plan to have everyone I know visit me. If you wouldn't come for me, you can come for New York! It would be awesome. Imagine it: like one of those old-fashioned intellectual saloons, a constantly revolving population of writers and artists and thinkers, having all sorts in interesting conversations and creating new projects. Except with less hereditary wealth and more slash.

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[kessie.livejournal.com]

I will come for both you and New York! And be the genuine Irish country person! XD

Dude, people on my course know what fandom and slash is. Two people in my building want to read my novel. I can clearly die happy.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! Double the fun!

I am so jealous of you. No one in my program knows about fandom. Well, I suppose they might and I just don't know, but I certainly haven't heard anyone mention it or have it come up in any way.

Also, I want to read your novel too!

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Apparently, according to my flastmates, most Irish-American people want to be me. Which is rather frightening. :(

Two people in my course were in HP fandom. And knew the MsScribe saga. Which was... my RL and online life colliding rather strangely. One of them has a LJ! Though we didn't exchange usernames. I got mocked for descending into anime/manga territory but SEE ME CARE. On the other hand, popular literature = geeks. So...

...I will keep that in mind. Don't kill me when I dump several large files into your inbox. :|

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

There definitely is a trend for people to be "I am 1/16th Irish so that means I'm totally going to celebrate my celtic heritage and talk about St. Patrick all the time and it is deep and meaningful in way you Anglo-Saxons could NEVER UNDERSTAND", but mostly I mock people like that. Technically, I'm Irish myself, but I figure it doesn't count for anything except curly hair, since my upbringing was just Generic Urban American.

Two people in my course were in HP fandom.

That is so cool. How did it even come up?

Don't kill me when I dump several large files into your inbox. :|

Ch, never. I hadn't even realized you had a novel! What's it about?

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. One of my flatmates is American and studies Irish and, when we got drunk, told me I was speaking Irish wrong. Needless to say, I got annoyed. A lot. Because, crap, I've had to learn this since I was four, so you don't tell me I'm speaking it wrong. :| On the other hand, I'm descended from dirt-poor tenants, so...

One of our options is cyberculture, which has a class on fandom and fanfiction! Unfortunately, I can't do it as it was put with the other option I want to do. I'm asking can I sit in on the seminars, however.

Yeah, I started it... six years ago, but the current rewrite is the one I'm most happy with. Basically, there's a crap load of politics, magic and history involved. And dragons (back before dragons became the new Fantasy It-thing, damn it) and dragon worship. And my two main characters, who can't decide if they're ambiguously gay (like Hobb's Fitz and the Fool) or actually horribly, terribly in love with each other (to the point where one will give up being king).
<P...I swear it's better than I'm saying it is.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, I've known some people who would do that.

Oh, that's right! I remember you mentioning that one. It's too bad you can't take it; it sounds like an awesome class.

...man, you are just telling me this to make me want to read it more, right? I adore politics and history and ambigously gay/totally in love characters.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll visit. In fact, I'd probably have been at that Kushner/Sherman reading myself if it hadn't been for my pesky deadline issues. I keep thinking I ought to be able to get to New York at some point in November, as long as no other deadlines pop up and start chewing on my ankle.

You might want to be careful with those invitations, though. Many people have found that once it becomes known that they have a place in Manhattan, an astonishing number of people suddenly feel close enough to them to want not merely to get together when they're in town, but to stay with them while they're there.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

That would be great! I believe she's doing one with Naomi Novak in early December, though actually I might not be free that evening.

True. At the moment I'm so enamored of actually having a place to play host in- Columbus is nice to live in, but it's hardly a tourist destination- that I'm encouraging visitors. I'll probably get tired of it eventually, at which point I can start refusing invitations, but right now it's still shiny and new.

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I want to come to your salon of slash!! ^___^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha! Yet another member for my cabal.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude! I do! But that would require me having free time. :D