FeelingElephants

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AO3 Is the Classy FanFiction Archive

I recently had the pleasure of getting invited to make an account on AO3, An Archive of Our Own from the estimable Organization for Transformative Works. Ok, I begged for an invite from an In Real Life friend who I met because I liked reading her fanfiction, followed her on Twitter, then had coffee with [...]

Blame It On The Fandom

I read a great deal of fanfiction last week. I had most of last week off for Carnival and finished my 5th year project:

To celebrate finishing this anthology, which I have stressed about for longer than possibly anything but getting into college, I spent a few days diving into a fandom I haven’t spent [...]

I have a summer gig! (Intern at Harvard Law School)

Today I accepted an offer to intern for a professor working on a wide range of Internet governance and technology-and-society issues. I’ll be focusing on a educational technology project and helping out with other projects as they come along. It will let me dig deeply into my intellectual property nerdiness and my civil liberties nerdiness, [...]

Me, at the White House.

There is a nearly audible tone of power around Pennsylvania Ave and Capitol Hill, like the kind that hums under most large cities’ financial districts. Made up of the clicks of 1000s of stylish heels and the swish of 1000s of tailored jackets, it can be intoxicating or upsetting. But unlike visiting the Financial District [...]

X-Men and the Holocaust

I have a problem. No, it’s not that I’ve gone 3 weeks without posting. That is a problem, but it often happens when I’m with family, and though I have missed you, it is not so large as my other problem.

It is: I think I’m an autodidact.

This is a problem because school is for [...]