dedicated to my one and only, liberta.
( Somewhere, in the two thousand one hundred and ninety six kilometers that separated Valencia and Manchester, he had forgotten what it meant to keep secrets.Collapse )

+ Giving a tour in ~20 minutes to kids from this program called Legal Outreach, which should be super fun and interesting. It's my first time doing a special tour/one sin parents, I'm guessing? But hopefully I shall be able to represent the college fairly to them/make them want to come here. In any case, I really want to meet these kids!

+ Submitted my Oxford application. Pretty sure it's not on time, though I spent like, $20 on overnight shipping and stuff. In any case, what's done is done, and if I don't get in (which is looking likely T_T. Bye bye, dream of three years), I can always do NYU Madrid or something. Or see if I can go to another school in England. I have been so stressed out about it the past few days, but now I am at a point where I have no more fucks to give.

+ Want to write a long post about characterization in footballmeta. Or write anything at all, including either: 1) CH3 of kavya, or 2) this mutant au about a "post-genism" society of underground oppression and state repression LOOK HOW CLEVER AND VEILED MY METAPHORS ARE. Look, I channel my frustrations at society through fic, shaddap. It's interesting, y'know, that everyone talks about "mutancy", especially in X-Men, as a metaphor for homosexuality, because apparently homophobia is the one evil our society is not "post" of? I mean, it can easily be a metaphor for race as well. But in either case, it will be fun to explore, given my academic interests. Snippets-- if mutants and humans are "equal" now, after long and bitter wars have been fought, why are more mutants in jail than humans? "Because they're rowdier, it's just a fact?" Why do they feel shamed of using their powers? Why does the police not act on anti-mutant violence? Why are they denied opportunities to participate in certain things (for example, a majority of them are banned from sports for fear they will use their powers unfairly in the games). YES YES OBVIOUS METAPHORS ARE OBVIOUS I know, I know. Still, it's more of a personal vent than some great, revelatory writing project. 

+ Still have a 25 page research paper to write. This is not going to be fun, dios mio.

reading roe v. wade now. i'm sorry, this is the first time i've had to take justice "poor joshua!" blackmun seriously, so it's hard.

(i'm all for abortion rights, it's just...justice blackmun! why is he weird?) 

Clearly, memes are the best way to channel my frustrations with fandom.

look, i posted fic. y'all should go read, since i sacrificed my education for this. my grades gon' be so fucked, sigh.