♪unplugged♪

I paused because of day 9 but then decided I should move on and work on 9 when I can. (It's writing a ficlet or doing something creative, and we all know where I stand with that lately...)

Day 10
It is to rec a creator and, well, I'm a consumer. I do fics like drugs, I just care that they satisfy my needs and don't really think about them beyond that. There are just a few creators I know by name, whose works I read with more than just "gimme what I need now" and my favorite is on my flist so this is awkward and I'll put it under a cut.

( Blabla )

The end.

day 11:
"In your own space, ask for recs."

Hm, I think... no one can help me with most of what I can't find and what I can find, well, I can, but I will say, if you ever find a Nicholas Hoult fic, rec it to me, I don't care about he pairing :) 

Day 12

"Rec at least three fanworks that you think would make a good intro into XYZ fandom. Rec a fandom overview, a introductory picspam, stories that define and shape the fandom."

I will go with Sherlock fandom and of course I have to start with The Paradox Suite which is one of the best fics of any fandom. Long, beautiful, with Sherlock a shade darker than in the series and a John just as accepting of all his faults up to a point and their relationship beautifully messed up and morbid and almost sweet.

Then, this meta on modern John Watson and his military career, what it would be in real life.

I wish I knew of a primer but even google isn't helping. It would be awesome to have a place that explains what Colin Morgan has to do with Sherlock and why Mycroft/Lestrade and jam... *sigh*

Instead, have a link to Lestrade being into fat!Mycroft.

"Create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts."

Hm, things I want...

Well, I want more friends who are into Simon Amstell and British TV and Cabin Pressure, who aren't just Tumblr dwellers. The problem is I want them without actually immersing myself into the fandom because honestly, I'm getting as tired of fandom masses as I am of real life masses. Too many people, meh. So, that's one.

I wish for my creativity to come back but I don't know what I'll have to do to make that happen :D

I wish for a Rory Slippery/Tony Stonem crossover which... omg. So, Rory Slippery is baby!Benedict Cumberbatch in a show with Hugh Laurie. He's one of 3 brothers and he's incredibly NICE, but also has 2 brothers so he can hold his own. I just really wanna hug him a lot. And buy him some more clothes. He's dating this chick who seems like the kind of person who could know Tony. (Tony Stonem is the main character from Skins 1 and 2. He's very bad boy but then he gets better, mostly after he gets hit by a bus.) I don't even have a prompt yet I just want ... kissing and... stuff. That's two.

I also wish people wrote more Nicholas Hoult RPF because seriously, but that's another one of those not likely to happen.

I wish someone would write asexual-but-into-bdsm-Spencer/Brendon/Bob so I can stop thinking about it and start wank... reading it.

I wish I knew how to write about music in an engaging way so I could get people to listen to stuff they normally might not consider. Then I'd have an intensely popular music blog and Patrick would call me out for a beer. ... Shuttup it's all perfectly logical in my head.

ETA: Oh! Oh! And I want a fic where Gibbs (NCIS) adopts that gay kid whose dad killed the recruiter. (This episode.)

(days 3 and 4 didn't require posts)

Today's challenge is to post something I'm passionate about that isn't fannish. I really don't know if there's something I haven't posted about yet, you all know about my passion for music and languages I think, but, ok, more specifically:

I've been studying Croatian Sign Language for a few months now. It's opening a whole new world to me, not just as a language but as a social issue. Deaf people in Croatia have a lot of problems. For instance, their language isn't recognized as an official language in this country. The only law that even mentions is it the one about TV, where certain political events and I think one set of news a day has to be translated to Sign language.

When a child is first diagnosed as deaf, it is sent to our main Alliance for Deaf whose name I haven't translated even remotely well, who hold authority over all other Deaf organizations and they BAN Sign language, instead forcing the kids to hold their hands behind their back and pronounce words they can't hear. (This method is ok for some kids, with bad hearing, but for the completely deaf it's horrible.)  Also, they are being taught this by linguists, not speech therapists.
The main problem is it's not an added method it's the ONLY method. Parents who want to communicate with their children have to study Sign language secretly, but most of them won't even try it because the doctors at that Alliance tell them, when they first come, that if their kid learns the Sign language it might never learn to speak (therefore integrate with the rest of society) and they aren't responsible for anything that happens to the child as a result of learning that language.
Of course, that Alliance is very important and they co-finance the implants and have connections with all kinds of other organizations that parents actually need. Also, they are the place where the DOCTORS send parents who have probably never even thought about that problem before and they just don't know better and unless they do their own research (and sometimes even when they do) they just don't know better and will follow, well, blindly.
It all ends with an 18yo deaf kid coming out of that Alliance, starting a life of their own which includes meeting new people for the first time and realizing that hearing people can't understand them anyway (because most of us can't, it sucks but it's true) and he can't communicate with the deaf ones because he doesn't know their language.

To put the Alliance aside and continue with general problems - when a child is given a Cochlear implant, even though it has to take it out every time it goes swimming etc, the child is considered "cured" and no longer gets the social aid deaf people normally get.

To be integrated into a class of hearing kids, a deaf kid doesn't have to have a professor or classmates who know how to sign or even be able to hear with an implant, all they have to be able to do is pronounce sentences. Which to me has 0 logic.

Also, despite the fact that Baby signs are now a hip thing to do, Sign language when used by deaf people is still considered shameful. And, in a wham of brilliance, when Croatian kindergartens started teaching Baby signs, they started teaching AMERICAN Sign Language. Just to make sure deaf people stay completely isolated, I guess.

So, yeah, that's a new passion I have.

The language itself is beautiful, and is teaching me to do something I don't normally do, which is show emotions on my face. And ok, these are strict, grammatical-meaning emotions, but you don't understand how incredibly cool I am :P :) It's a bit of a struggle, but I like it. Also, my poor arms : / Ever since we did the whole 100 numbers count I've been exercising because when we got to 50 I wanted to cry.

The teacher doesn't let us speak during class and rarely explains signs after we're done. It's a pretty good method, she's keeping it at good pace and so far I understood, after some repetition, everything she wanted us to learn.
Except "good evening" :D She had to write that one down on the board because after 2 months we were still not getting it :D 

Oh, she's not deaf, but her family is. In fact, there are very few deaf people in the country (none that I know of but I'm assuming there are SOME) who are actually educated to TEACH Sign language. Almost all other teachers are deaf people who know Sign language and they teach a sort of modified version, not really explaining the facial expressions because it's one of those things they do naturally and can't really explain, the kind of thing we all have with our first language.

Not-a-fic I will (probably) never write. Intro to characters. 

My favorite fic I ever wrote. It's LONG and complex-ish, for my writing at least, and I got amazing comments on it here and where it was originally posted.

A soundtrack meme I did, I'm not sure the links are working now but I'm not gonna be home to update them before the 5th :/ Still, you can see the songs I used and if anyone likes, I can re-upload when I go home.