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Right, so I guess I should actually post something here. Name's Rebecca; I am on LJ as wild_huntress, and have been on and off for years - except it seems like everyone is gradually disappearing from that site, which led me here to see about getting my fangirlish needs met. I'm currently a grad student but can't sit and write my thesis every minute of every day... sometimes I want to write fan fiction instead, or marathon movies/TV shows and squee about them online. :)

My current obsessions are Velvet Goldmine (such an amazing but obscure movie that needs more love), Doctor Who and Torchwood, and Sherlock although I've been on a little break from that. Previous fandoms include Harry Potter and Star Wars; I also recently inhaled the BBC show Life on Mars and have no one to discuss it with, so if you're a fan in a similar predicament, hit me up. I may use this journal for things like fan fic, random squeeing, possibly playing around with Polyvore to create fashion looks inspired by my nerdly interests, but I'll see how it goes. I also miss getting to interact online with other people in fandom (a need LJ's not really meeting anymore), so I'm pretty open about adding people.

Yay?

Also, this afternoon I have a meeting with a professor to start a one-term research paper on legal implications of fan fiction. :)

A bit about my day and Torchwood-inspired fashion

1) Finally got my old iPod speaker working and was able to bring down my old, no longer being used regularly iPod and listen to music while doing my swim in the apartment pool (got through just over half of Bowie's Hunky Dory, natch). That was awesome; I'd been looking to make swimming laps more interesting and was lucky enough to get the pool all to myself tonight. It may have been deserted because the water was kinda slimey, salty and gross. It's supposed to be a salt water pool but they may have overdone it tonight - yuck. But, oh well. (Took a good shower right after, so don't worry. =P)

2) I also think I'll use this journal to test out a new way to engage with fandoms. Inspired by the web site Polyvore and the one fashion blog I like to read, College Fashion and their "Inspired By" columns, I have been spending an inordinate amount of time trying to put together 'looks' inspired by the things I'm into, e.g. songs, books, TV shows and movies. This is not a project about cosplaying but, rather, is a way to use fannish interests to suggest things to do - or rather wear - for day to day.

( Making Torchwood the trial balloon fandom, so looks inspired by Torchwood after the cut )