Plastic flowers never fade

I am slowly playing around the hub platforms. I am more inclined to play with the blog like hub (Federated Fandom) than the Twitter like hub (fandom.ink).

The weather is torture. So so cold. Snow. I have another half day of mandatory training. It's a co development type of training this time. Which is fine. I did that almost 10 years ago when I went to uni to get managerial skills. I am just bored with these. I get a better intellectual challenge and better rewards playing around the hub platforms.

I thought my penguins would get crushed tonight. So far, they are ahead 4-0 even if they have a lot less shots on goal than the Bolts. Tanger is on fire. Crosby is... well Crosby. Malkin seems to be awake. Which is good since if he's awake, so is Kessel. Well see. it's only two periods.

What I'm doing at work...

Children picture book. Diverse Children picture book. We are building a selection of diverse picture book for each branch of our library network. We used IFLA's The World Through Picture Books as a base and we are adding titles from curated lists of diverse picture books.  I am more than ever aware of offering books with diverse characters. I live in a very white, french speaking, European space that is now welcoming families, people from everywhere. Hence the very conscious push to have not a few token titles but many, many titles where everyone can see themselves. Not just "special story". Ordinary stories where it would have been the default "little blond hair, blue eyed child".  So when I came across this title today I was happy.

The Littlest Valentine. BrandiDougherty, writer and Michele Todd, illustrator. It's the illustrations that make this picture book. They are adorable without becoming sugary. The text is okay. Diverse family being shown and it's not the point of the story. This is important. Just your everyday family, who happen to be named Valentine.

That book was my joy of the day moment.


What I'm reading...

Ben's bakery and the Hanukkah miracle. It's an okay m/m contemporary romance. Set in Boston. It really reads like a Baker!AU with the VIM numbers filled off. 

Inbox

Freshwater. Akwaeke Emezi. Western Africa literature. It's been on a few award lists. It looks really interesting.

Lillian Boxfish takes a walk. Was real popular two years ago.

Tangerine. Also quite popular last spring.

I got my account at fandom.ink last week. it's fun to be able to learn a new platform, even when you are an "old" librarian fan girl. It keeps your mind alert and engaged.

So I'm @writerlibrarian@fandom.ink or https://fandom.ink/@writerlibrarian on Mastondon

I'm grakking the same one that ishtar79 posted last year.

Your main fandom of the year?

First part of the year : Person of Interest. Season 2 finale was really good.

My summer was Strike Back. All the time. I am looking forward to next summer and the last series and what mayhem Damien and Michael will create.

Second part of the year : Well... I'm watching 3 things like kinda all new shows.

Sleepy Hollow which I enjoy for the crack and good actor performance. I am not reading fic, just enjoying the show for what it is.

Almost Human. Which I enjoy because Karl Urban on my tv weekly. That's enough for me to watch. Michael Ealy is a joy to watch.

Agents of SHIELDS. I stuck with it. Each week going man, it has to get better. It just has too.. and well.. it kinda did. Eventually. Once they stop pushing Ward and Skye together, when the wonder twins calmed down a little bit and picked a speed and stuck to it. Which it lovely to watch. Bringing back J. August Richards was a good move. Melinday May (Ming-Na Wen) just rocks. So yes, I'm still watching.

Being a masochist I'm still kinda watching H5-0 because... they are pretty.

What I'm reading in fandom :

Well... I did try to watch the show but ... after two disks of season one.. I'll stick with the gifs on Tumblr and enjoy the fic. Teen Wolf is exclusively a reading fic thing for me.

Still reading Merlin fic. I haven't gonna through the last edition of Paper Legends and there are some very interesting looking fic being posted on Merlin Holidays. I have reading material for quite a few months.

Your favourite film watched this year?

No contest on the big screen : Pacific Rim. Because it had to be seen on the big screen to get the full effect of the wonder that is Idris Elba.
Second choice : Thor 2 because Asgard is very very lovely done. Even more than the first Thor.

What I'm watching/watched on DVD :

On DVD... I haven't really watch a lot of movies on DVD. I have watch TV series mostly and not so much on DVD but on Apple TV. So I watch when I feel like it Arrow, Elementary and Person of Interest. It may be weeks, sometimes months before I watch. I've mainlined Fairly Legal series one (with surprise Jack O'Neill) and a few months later series 2. It's a fun series that doesn't really end because it was cancelled but it's worth watching because of the characters. All characters are smart, sometimes devious but never never boring or end up where you think they will end up. Both leads actress and yes, (two) are interesting. Of course, Sarah Shahi is very good so is Virginia Williams. Michael Trucco (of Battlestar Galactica) gives a lovely performance as Justin Patrick, the lead character on and off, on again husband and district attorney. As he usually does.

Your favourite book read this year?

Two that strangely both are about WW1. One fiction, one non-fiction.

Regeneration by Pat Barker. Man, I waited so long to read this. For the right moment because I so wished I would read this in the perfect or almost perfect mood for it. I was right to wait. Very close to the line, never becoming voyeurism RPF. It's real people, living in what is for us remote history, a time in history which was difficult, a daily nightmare for the men and women on the front line and in the medical evac tents.

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. She makes the reader feel like you are learning and reading about this chess game that unfortunately was played with real lives. It's ironically a page turner even if we definitely know how it turns out.

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?

Not really new music this year. I'm not up to date in that aspect. I mostly listened to old 80s and 90s music or Loreena McKennitt's Ancient Muse when writing.

Your favourite DW community of the year?

thevault without it I would be quite lost it feeds my Strike Back and Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries addiction

Your favourite TV show of the year that wasn't on my TV?

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Australian TV Show. Rocks. Just rocks. I love the show. I'm missing the Christmas special. *pouts* Different from the books and stands on its own. If you haven't watched and love murder mysteries in the Agatha Christie model, it's worth your time. Set in 1928. in Melbourne.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

Sleepy Hollow on Tumblr. By far. The staff writers are adorably funny and I don't know what Orlando Jones is, but it's fun to watch.

My exploration of Comic books continues not as a fandom exactly but as  a fandom corpus. I've read Hawkeye comics this year, continued reading Captain America (the Brubaker years because well.. Winter Soldier is coming soon), Black Widow and Iron Man Extremis before watching Iron Man 3.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year aka creeps of the years

Two words : J.J. Abrams. Everything he touches eventually turns to something kinda slimy that makes you go ewww. So I'm waiting for the shoe to drop on Almost Human and like it did for Person of Interest.

Close second runners up : the idiots twins (Orci and K something). See their work in Star Trek, H-50 and eventually Sleepy Hollow if the past is to be trusted.

In a class all by himself : Steven Moffat. The disappointment that keeps on giving. I gave up on Doctor Who after two Clara episodes. I will probably watch Sherlock (tomorrow right) if only to have a good rant.

Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

Well.. Michael Stonebridge for the brains and the brawls. Wouldn't touch Damien, I know where he's been. *g* Also Tom Hiddleston is adorable.

Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

Sarah Shahi. She's an interesting actress who can do comedy (see Fairly Legal), dead pan comedy (see Person of Interest), action (POI), stone cold killer (POI) and angst (Life). She's definitely my favourite actress of the year.

Your biggest squee moment of the year?

Humm.. ( Spoilers for Thor 2  ) ... oh go watch ...

Captain America's Winter Soldier trailer.





The most missed of your old fandoms?

For a third year in a row. Still Stargate Atlantis. I still miss the weekly good stories of the old times. That and the alien hair of one Lt Colonel.  I miss Stargate warts and all.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?

None at the moment.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

04.04.14  -  Countdown is 94 days and counting.