The Never-ending Road

Here it comes. =w=

I'm glad, not only because I need some time to have fun. I need to leave that chaotic semester behind and start over again as well.

There are things that I won't do again in this year, like taking two literature history courses at the same time, and reading fics crazily before exams... I don't know how I ended up like that, but I did have an urge of self-destruction at some certain points of time.

Now I just hope that a period of carefree time would eliminate that urge.

As title, I just got a clear, concrete understanding of that expression when I came across this blog entry:
http://blog.xuite.net/faithkasume/faith/29719587

I was giggling all the way when reading it. Finally, there's a ship manifesto in Chinese for Emily/JJ, and it is really well-written and entertaining. It's still fantastic even if you just consider it a serious(?) introduction to the characters...

Regardless of my exam tomorrow, I'm so happy. And I can almost ignore the fact that I lose my wallet yesterday and that I have to go through lots of trouble to apply for a new id card...

Blindsighted and Kisscut- Karin Slaughter's novels are said to be extremely brutal, which made me think twice before reading them... Well, indeed, she has an almost cruel, cold-blooded way to depict the victims' misery, but there's more than that. People say she writes like a male author; I don't think it's totally true, because in these two books, she gives profound insights into crimes and traumas(especially the ones that happen to female characters) more realistically than any male writers I've known. At least in the crime/mystery genre.

The Mists of Avalon- In fact I'm not re-reading it. I am just trying to push everyone around me to buy a copy, since Books.com is offering a great discount of 34% off........

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Begin to Hope (Regina Spektor)- I love her "Us" and "Hero" in the OST of 500 days of Summer, but this album...most songs in it are not that easy to enjoy when I first listened to them, though they are very unique.

Fumbling toward Ecstasy (Sarah McLachlan)- Besides "Good Enough" and "Ice Cream", my favorite part of this album is the bonus after "Fumbling toward Ecstasy"-another version of "Possession" with piano only. By the way, I love its well written lyrics.

A friend just said that my Criminal Minds craze would not be limited to every Thursday night since I've started this journal...

Unfortunately, I couldn't object.

I wrote in my first entry that I spend considerable time on LJ because of CM fandom. For the most part, these are the journals and communities I regularly visit:

community.livejournal.com/criminalxminds/
It's where I get general information and news.

community.livejournal.com/cm_femslash/
I have never been a femslasher before, but the femslash fics of this show impress me very much, especially after I found several authors I admire.

lovepb.livejournal.com/
Like this one. Her works are so sweet and well-written. The happy endings she gives the characters are totally not likely to happen in the show, but all kinds of possibilities are what fanfics are all about.

users.livejournal.com/thrace_/
Until It Disappeared is one of my favorite fics. Its tone is a little cold and distant, but successfully portrays the atmosphere of the story and the relationship of Emily/JJ. And for some odd reason, it reminds me of The Price of Salt...
By the way, the picspams in this journal is also marvelous. XD

amichevole.livejournal.com/
This author writes almost...everything. The writing style is compelling. However, sometimes the angst ones are too heart-breaking and brutal. I am not really complaining, but the angsting in things like Angels Fall First is too much for me......

lysachan.livejournal.com/
It's not an exaggeration to say this journal entirely changes my way of enjoying and interpreting CM. Since I read the ship manifesto she posted on cm_femslash, my point of view has never been the same. And now that season five has begun for a couple of months, I find my experience of watching each episode is not complete without reading her picspams. If you read this journal long enough, you would ultimately be convinced that there are something special going between Emily and JJ, and find countless reasons that you should adore these two characters. XD
Moreover, her fics are fascinating as well. I am very moved by Between the Lines, which has an interesting and strong case for the main plot, and exquisite portrayals of characters' interactions and states of minds.

I have no idea why I suddenly decided to register a LJ account. I already have more than one blog, and began to find it difficult to post on a weekly basis since I entered university and started using Plurk...

It maybe that I've just been reading too many wonderful fics and picspams(of Criminal Minds, recently) on others' journals since three months ago. I always want to make some comments, but it seems being anonymous makes that a little difficult and tricky...

As far as I can recall, this is not the first time that I get addicted to fan creations on LJ. I found myself in the same situation when I watched The Lord of the Rings seven years ago, when I was amazed by The Dark Knight last summer, and when I began to follow TV series at the beginning of this year. But this time I feel an impulse to jump in... It's not that I will participate lots of discussion or leave comments on every journal I've been reading, but it's a beginning...or a chance to begin.

And I don't think I will post here very often, since I have a main blog in Mandarin, and my English proficiency does not allow me to express myself as well as my mother tongue. I major in English-officially the department is called "Foreign Languages and Literature", but most of the time that means just English-, but never feel confident in my foreign languages skills, especially when it comes to writing.

...But who knows? Maybe I would find this account useful when my composition instructor requires me to keep journal in English. Yet I don't really hope that to happen.

And just as I am about to finish this very first entry, it suddenly occurs to me that I don't really have to write in English here(?)

I am going to persuade myself that I am practicing and it's beneficial.....Orz