underneath that angry young woman shell, there's a slightly less angry young woman who's just dying

You know what’s coming up? October 3rd. Are you doing anything special to mark the one seven year anniversary of Lilly Kane’s murder?

When you see this on your flist, quote Veronica Mars.

Weevil: I need your help.
Veronica: Ah, if I had fifty bucks every time someone said that.
Weevil: Look, I know it's a drag being you, and...
Veronica: No, seriously. I'm gonna need fifty bucks if you expect me to keep listening.
Weevil: Well, I'm banking on curiosity getting the better of you..
Veronica hesitates a long time, then stamps her foot.
Veronica: Alright tell me! Damn my curiosity!

NB: picking just one was HARD. Also, how do I not have any VMars icons?

too many parentheses in the blog post, too many parentheses.

This weekend was get__together, which obviously was absolutely fabulous, and consequently I have been going around friending people. If I have friended you from g/t and I'm not in your fandoms/you dislike really loud people/I said something awful and you were righteously offended/etc there is NO obligation to friend back. On the other hand, if you are cruising my journal post-g/t, feel free to friend me, probs the only reason I haven't already friended you is that, like last year, I was pretty dazed and confused about who I actually met. If you are crossposting to DW, friend me here, for lo, I have many more pretty icons to spam with there.

Some highlights:

- slash pictionary. this is a game I admire so greatly that I often try to turn parlour games into their slashy versions, or at least their fandom versions. I don't really recommend slash charades, unless you think you would enjoy acting out any of these prompts: drawing them was bad enough for me :P (The one I ended up with was "David Brett (The Office, UK) fucks Barney Stintson (How I Met Your Mother) in a stationery closet." I probably should have thrown it back since I know nothing about The Office and ended up having to cycle people through "guys who wear suits" ... and then I had to do it again for Barney. [I tried to draw "legendary." Did not go well.] ) Anyway, my point is, I am really bad at that game but it is so damn fun and funny.

- The G/T Craft Circle. *g* At one point I remember I was knitting (I finished a whole pair of slippers!), tamarillow (I think) was crocheting, hazel was... also knitting? Someone was either cross-stitching or embroidering and it was beautiful and I forget who it was, and someone else was knitting a gorgeous pink reversible-cable scarf (see, this is what I mean by dazed and confused. Everyone was very very nice. I just don't remember who anyone is.) (I'm pretty sure I don't have pink cable scarf friended and she was super lovely and I would like to!)

- arysteia's vidshows. These were themed and awesome (and I'm not just saying that because a couple of them were my nominations). There were people out there who hadn't seen Women's Work and How Much Is That Geisha In The Window! And also One Girl Revolution! (I don't think anyone hadn't seen Handlebars... but I really don't think anyone minded rewatching it. :P )

- meeting blademistress properly! We were both at g/t last year and through my powers of awesome, I totally failed to realise who was who until I got home on Sunday and checked the timetable. (I wasn't expecting her to have an accent!) Since we've been mutual LJ friends for like. IDK. Five years? (lol oh god, trying to figure that out I went back to some very very old posts, and I think we friended each other around the 2005 general election, but wow, my old posts are horrifying. Never read posts from when you were 16.) Anyway, this was ridic, so it was very nice to actually converse with her. (It did lead to the unfortunate line of dialogue: "oh wait, you ARE on my friendslist!" about half an hour into a conversation. Sigh!)

- getting stacks of discs from dewey3067 - thank you!! - including Sherlock, which I'm already nearly done with and is, yes, super-great (it was very ably pimped by erilyn).

- the panels, all of which were really interesting (and well-modded - I felt like I got to hear from everyone - I am a chronic overtalker and I really appreciated this.) Some things I learned:
- SPN is definitely the perviest fandom (but we already knew that);
- Lots and lots and lots of different OT3s;
- OT3s might begin to function a little like slash used to back in the day in terms of its role in fandom (i.e. the ~edgy thing that media doesn't acknowledge);
- people have a lot of feelins about DW, the AO3 (esp. current functionality) &c (OK, I already knew that, but I can't really summarise)
- Tennis fandom is adorable!
- So are soaps!

- seeing everyone I met last year - I'm not even going to try to namecheck because I suck but yeah, so nice to see everyone again!