Well, I had been wanting to do one of these for a while, let's go for it.

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basics >> Hi! I'm Lavinia, I'm 23, I'm Italian, I'm a university student, I go to marches, I like Bruce Springsteen too much and I get easily obsessed. Also, I'm addicted to caffeine. That stated, I study philosophy, I read a lot, I'm a music geek and I like to write. Mostly slash fanfiction.

what's in this journal >> a mostly uneven balance of RL and fannish stuff, which mainly consists in Supernatural/Lost/A Song of Ice and Fire (mostly slash) fanfiction/talking at the moment. There's also a lot of bitching about my former government (though less than there used to be since it became former) and a lot of flailing about the stated fannish stuff.

( other stuff I like you may or not may find interesting )

Last year it was 45 books (not bad, let's see if I can do 50), 58 movies (could do a LOT better) and 246 tv shows episodes (okay, maybe I could have watched a bit less tv.. oops). Targets for this year is 50, 100 and 250. Let's see how it goes.

Rating system, same as last year:

01/10 > utterly devastating
02/10 > bad
03/10 > disappointing
04/10 > half-hearted
05/10 > average
06/10 > okay
07/10 > good
08/10 > very good
09/10 > awesome
10/10 > excellent

* > re-watch or re-read

( list of books read )

( list of movies watched )

( tv shows episodes watched )

Idea stolen from wandersfound. Maybe I -will- manage to keep track of what I need to finish. Let's hope?

( what I'm writing/what I SHOULD be writing. )

Uhm, okay. This is mostly good but there's one thing I'm majorly pissed about so thread careeefulllyy. Also labeled book spoilers under the spoiler tag but since idk if it works with cellphones pay attention.

( Read more... )

And with this I'll go finish fic and stuff.

Omgomgomg.

( spoilers spoilers spoilerrrrss )

1) Hi. I'm still sorting through JIB pictures and RL is being a piece of boring/stressing work, but I swear con reports and con pictures are coming sometime this weekend. My lack of motivation over university stuff (seriously, the only thing that hasn't bored me to pieces in class in the last month was watching A Dangerous Method in my sorta useless English class. And I had seen it already, but hey, I never refuse) is rapidly becoming lack of motivation over anything more substantial than catching up with tv or reading, which I'm not liking at all. Meh. Then again I really don't care about anything this semester.

2) Also, I caught up with tv shows and shit, so have some more or less detailed reaction posts here.

( H50, finale and general stuff )

( the vampire porn )

( SPN, 7x21 and 7x22 )

3. Woah, that was a lot of tv. Which means that my flaily reactions to The Wind Through The Keyhole are getting posted at the next round, but for now: EDDIE DEAN I MISSED YOU, YAY FOR A CERTAIN PERSON GETTING THE SPOTLIGHT, ROLAND ILU, Stephen King damn you write more side novels I beg you. I suppose this covers it if I don't want to spoil. I also have finished S4 of the Sopranos but it's gonna be discussed next post, too.

4. RL front can be summed up in MEH. The only thing I'm looking forward in the next month is the Bruce Springsteen concert in Milan (<3333) but other than that I just see finals about things I don't care about looming in front of me and ugh. This is officially the most lackluster semester in my entire university run. Where do I find some motivation? Because I'd need a lot of it.

5. In fandom news, I think I need to stay in my bubble at least re GOT until it's over. I knew that this season would have been bad for anyone who merely didn't utterly dislike Theon but the wank has been out of the world crazy. :/ Heck, SPN seems relatively sane in comparison right now.

6. Aaand since I sadly have nothing else, let's have a randm meme to finish this, stolen by elliotsmelliot. It's at least one week old but it serves.

post a list of 20 shows you watch/watched.

•Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show.
•When someone guesses your favorite character, bold the title.
•When guessed, tell us at least one reason why you like that character.

( list! )

Premise one: as stated last week, civil Theon discussion is welcomed. Theon bashing will bring ugly reactions out of me, so.. yeah. None of that, please.

Premise two: this review is a minefield of book spoilers and comparison between ACOK-book and the show. I'm gonna spoiler cut everything, but since the spoiler cut doesn't work on my cellphone I'm warning to thread carefully, especially since I'm spoiling shit up until ADWD and not small things only.

( and where did you find that beast? )

And with this I'll go have lunch. Post with other tv-related reactions will happen shortly.

Okay, premise: if we all want to discuss Theon like civilized people, that's cool. If the general opinion is 'OMG SOMEONE KILL HIM ASAP' just don't bother. Just don't.

( spoilers, huh. )

1) First: sorry for dropping off the radar and missing a bunch of comments/things but after the con weekend I fell into a pretty much comatose state. I still haven't sorted all my pictures (HOW DID I TAKE 2000 PICTURES SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN ME THAT) and I had to go to class and everything and I managed to check the FL just today. (After one week. It was fun.) Anyway I should be all more or less caught up, and I'll go answer comments and things after I'm done with this post. And this weekend you'll get the con recap posts, if I manage to sort through my pictures.

2) Second: Misha Collins is awesome.

3) Okay, I just had to state that. Third: small tv recap, I won't even use the spoiler tag since I'll be very quick and generic. No vampire porn as I'm three eps behind, but I'm gonna catch up asap.

SPN 7x19 and 7x20: 7x19 was very good and I'm intrigued by how they're dealing with the Bobby situation, even if at this point I'd have preferred if they had just kept him alive in the first place. 7x20 was absolutely delicious and I want Felicia Day back. Please? I loved it! Even if I still can't take the guy playing Dick seriously. Just - he looks like Christian Bale okay, I can't. And I'm still intrigued by the Bobby situation.

GOT 2x05: Brienne, every scene you have is flawless. Especially if it's with Catelyn. Also, is it necessary to have Littlefinger every-fucking-where? Also, Theon, break my heart some more, will you. *grabby hands* *hugs* those were the specifics. As a whole it was a ton better than the previous one. Now next week it's going to be HILARIOUS. Not really, I'll weep.

4) In the midst of my coma-like week, I also saw The Avengers, without any context whatsoever as I haven't seen any superhero movie released since... probably The Dark Knight. Maybe. Whatever, I enjoyed it and I could follow it without much of an issue in spite of just knowing who a few people were in theory (even if I still stand by my opinion that the best superhero movie that will ever be is Batman Returns. There, I had to say it). And that stated... anyone could give me Bruce centered fic recs? (if he's paired with either Tony or Steve or - even better - both it'd be awesome.) *cough* because obviously I went out of the cinema being like 'I want to read Bruce Banner/THE WORLD, DID ANYTHING ELSE HAPPEN'. But from my AO3 forays I realized that there's not much around of my listed ships. Whatever, if it's good I'll take him with anyone really. But that said I'm just glad that now I know what everyone is talking about. xD

5) Aaand now that I got the 'I'M STILL ALIVE' post out of the way I'll go sort out pictures and answer to comments and catch up. Buuut here, I'm gonna leave you with a treat:



You're welcome ;)

Hiii world. First thing, sorry if I'm not answering your comments, but LJ is conveniently telling me that the server won't connect any time I try to reply at a comment where I have to say more than one sentence, so I'll catch up at some point soon. I swear I'm not ignoring you.

Thing the second: I'm doing jus in bello 3 this week-end, so if anyone around here is going and you want to meet up, I'll have a tag with my name, I'll be around since mid-morning and I'll probably have very embarrassing shirts. If you want to know the pass number or anything just send a PM, LJ should send me those. Also I'll be tweeting panels and stuff - my handle is @janiedean if anyone wants to follow. :)

And with this I'll just wave and go crash. I'll be back among the living next week. ;)

Title: like the stillness in the wind before the hurricane begins
Artist: subluxate
Pairing/Characters: Jon/Sam; Pyp, Grenn, Melisandre, Tormund, Randyll Tarly, Alleras, various Wall people and wildlings.
Rating: NC17
Word count: 19k ca
Spoilers: for the entirety of ADWD and AFFC
Warnings: other than heavy ADWD spoilers [look away from the summary if you aren't there]: some violence, description of scars, looming zombie apocalypse, implied non-sexual canon child abuse (but if you're familiar with the first book then you're covered).
Disclaimer: GRRM owns, I do not. And the title is stolen from Bob Dylan, so I don't own that either.
Summary: where Sam learns about the attempt on Jon's life and flees Oldtown for the Wall to find out what really happened, and whether Jon is really dead. And where Jon did indeed survive, but the circumstances are dire.
A/N: written for this year's round of smallfandombang. Heartfelt thanks to xylodemon for betaing it <3. Also: I am aware that having Jon survive you-know-what without becoming Azor Ahai is a bit of a stretch, but just pretend it could be done - it wasn't very convenient for what I had in mind to do here. ;) Aaand also go listen now to the awesome mix subluxate made for this while you read it, you won't regret the advice.

Okay, this review is flooded with book spoilers so I'm going to spoiler-cut them, but still thread carefully.

( spoilers obviously )

Lol this post is going to be 50% one thing, 45% another and 5% everything else.

( I'm no lady. )

1. So, I had actually watched that ep when it leaked, then I figured I'd wait for the actual airing moment to review it and then it was Easter and I didn't, but since I have ~feelings~ about it and tonight's episode will give me EVEN MORE (everyone who read the books and saw the preview knows why) I'll just go over the main things here.

( the night lands )

2. Easter was absolutely non-eventful. I went to grandparents' and the only news is that apparently my now ten-year-old cousin (UGH, WHEN DID HE BECOME TEN? I FEEL SO OLD) decided that I'm cool enough to interact with. It only reinforces my belief that I can't interact with kids younger than ten, but from then onward it might be not entirely a disaster. The weather since then has been abysmal though. I was so ready for winter to be over.. obviously winter is coming instead

3. In university news, the class I'm attending where it's just me and the professor (seriously) is apparently moving to his office. And we're at the point where we swapped numbers because if he can't go it's ridiculous that I would, and viceversa. It's so awkward, I can't. For the rest, I have one class I moderately care for (but not much), one that is killing my soul and another which is made of professor trying to teach people to speak in English. And I totally don't need to actually attend but it's obligatory. For the last semester that I'll attend (though I'll probably end up taking a couple classes next fall, considering how things are...) it's been so lackluster, ew. Not being able to pick your subjects does a lot in making you wonder what you're even doing.

4. This entry is sadly lacking non-GOT related comments, so since there have been some new friendings lately and this meme looked lovely, I stole it from pann_cake:

( abc meme )

5. Drive by link: there's a GOT kink meme going on here for anyone interested.

6. With that, I'll go answer comments and try to whip up some more five acts fills. One of these days I'll start writing unprompted fic again, but it's not today.

7. And last thing: my Guinness World Record certificate just arrived! :D I'm taking pictures as soon as it isn't bent anymore. (Because obviously what do Italian post workers do when there's a DO NOT BEND written all over the package? Obviously they bend it.)

8. Okay, I'm really done. Next post will probably have fic recs as I hoarded links for a while. Now I'll go do what I said in point six and see you all tomorrow with GOT gushing.

... no, I can't resist this meme, okay? I can NEVER resist it.

+ Post a list of your five favorite acts/kinks to read about. Check out this list if you need some inspiration. At the bottom of your post, add what fandoms/pairings you're interested in.
+ Read other people's lists; the master list of lists is here.
+ Post comment-fic based off of other people's interests.

( my acts/kinks )

( my ships )</>

( my fills )

( written for me )

Hi, drive-by post which is happening now because for a miracle no one is on the phone and I can use the grandparents' internet, and this was too long for comment boxes. Real entry shall happen soon.


Sooo, there's this challenge going on at throneland consisting in picking two ASOIAF/GOT characters, switching their personality traits and write a short essay on how they'd change/would their story change. And you could do some bonus stuff based on it. Clearly I went and picked THOSE TWO, and I had zilch to do this afternoon and I have no internet on the netbook so here it is before I forget that I actually did this.


( character essays where yours truly explains you everything )

... aaand, the bonus fic.

Title: for he’s an honorable man
Pairing: Robb/Theon (sort of...)
Rating: PG13
Word count: 1000 ca
Spoilers: for ACOK/ASOS (with a twist)
Warnings: none really.
Disclaimer: they belong to GRRM, I own zilch. And the title is from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, which is most definitely not mine either.
Summary: where Robb doesn’t marry Jeyne Westerling and Theon is a honorable man.
A/N: er... so, here you have not-so-honorable Robb and absolutely-honorable-and-reliable Theon. Look at the previous cut for explanations. Yes, I totally don’t know either, but it was quite fun.

( Theon sits on Robb’s right and says nothing. )