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This, sadly, will be the last update, or at least the last-for-a-longish-time time. Well: that's not quite accurate. I have a lot of edge-filling to do for season three--one-shot stuff to be added. And since I'm aching to give away prizes, there will be a post soliciting Mina fanworks (and prompts for Mina fanworks), so that in February you can all vote on who I'll be spending money on.
But it will be the last Mina-as-usual update for quite a while.

...I miss you all already. ;_;

Warning: [personal profile] mina_de_malfois is an affectionate satirical examination of online fandom. Some readers may not share this sense of humour; reader discretion is advised. [personal profile] mina_de_malfois is for entertainment purposes only; [personal profile] mina_de_malfois neither attempts nor achieves any notable degree of accuracy, and should therefore not be used as a source of information, let alone a reason to reinforce, say, glaring homophobia and gender biases.

Mina de Malfois and the End of Summer (part two) )

Footnotes:
1. Thank you, Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

2. It was Katharine Hepburn, playing Rose Sayer.

3. Speaking of Mina's new fandom: go watch this. Thanks to [personal profile] prettyh for drawing my attention to that.

4. Apologies to [personal profile] ankaret. I COULDN'T RESIST.

5. What's known as an in-joke, this is.

6. Such as, say, tossing the word "shemale" around because "that's the term used in the porn industry." To take a completely random example.

7. Fandom's two solitudes: those who want to squee, and those who want to have Important Discussions. Only not so solitude-y as all that, I suppose, since we all do both depending on mood. Still: I saw some interesting discussion around the whole "serious conversations are harshing my squee" thing recent-ish-ly, only I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE. If anyone has links that sound pertinent, let me know and I'll thank you profusely and stick them in this footnote.

8. Trisha Hill stole her names from Patricia Gillikin, Patricia Lamb, and Matt Hills. And then she lost the 's' off of Hills, apparently.

9. On a more cheering note, I've seen actual publishers' guidelines that Just Say No to people being "coffee-coloured" and etc. So perhaps the era of food descriptors is fading away.

10. In the real world, as opposed to the Minaverse, female fans get portrayed negatively in Supernatural (which is a kind of real-world version of Occult, I've heard). It's discussed here, among other places--there are several good essays dealing with it, I've just linked to one of the ones I liked.

11. Ah, yes: the brain scientists. I can't even *begin* to pick one post to link you to, so I'm going to cheat and link you to just one of the excellent linkspam posts that will in turn give you links to follow. The entire Ogi-saga, aka SurveyFail, is so bizarrely compelling you may well lose days reading posts via linkspam. I know I did.
And speaking of SurveyFail, Ray's stockings were inspired by this brilliant (and NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK) piece of protest art.

12. I know this isn't what most evolutionary psychologists argue. At all. I LIKE MY VERSION BETTER.

13. You know what makes for terrifying reading? Supernatural kinkfic, that's what. And fandom secrets even gets into it...
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posted by [personal profile] mina_de_malfois at 08:47am on 01/05/2009 under
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3.11 Mina de Malfois and the Class War )

Footnotes )
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posted by [personal profile] mina_de_malfois at 08:19am on 30/04/2009 under
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3.10 Mina de Malfois and the Vanishing Lady )

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[Goodness, season three is taking forever. My apologies. It's been a busy year. Dollporn, wedding planning, travel, and strange unexpected things have happened.

Anyway, because this is taking forever it is obviously not time for it to be Christmas or Chanukah in the Minaverse. So the closest I will come to a seasonally-appropriate update will be the Pierce and Jab fanfic which will follow this in the next day or two.

Unless I lose my mind altogether and write soppy holiday commentfic or one-shots, which will be completely out of chronological order and therefore non-numbered. Suggest suggestions for commentfic? When I'm dying of exhaustion doing nightshifts next week (LOL "holidays") it might give me something to do.]

3.7 Mina de Malfois and the Burgeoning Tensions )
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[It seems like a really long time since I've updated. I'd tell you what I've been doing in the meantime, but I'm not entirely sure you want to know. (Although your not wanting to know may not be enough to save you from being told anyway at some point.)

What's new with all of you?]

Mina de Malfois and the Therapeutic Impulse (part three of three) )
ETA: There's a new Case story as well!
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My limited bandwidth issues continue apace (part of the problem being that I have to download stuff I would otherwise be watching on television, so what bandwidth there is has been eaten by House MD and SPN and things). So once again: if I'm slow to respond to comments, I'm not ignoring you.

3.6 Mina de Malfois and the Therapeutic Impulse (part two) )
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Hi, all. Long time no update, I know. Mina's author's life is catching up to Mina's in terms of distracting weirdness and improbability.
Just a brief word of, uh, not 'explanation' as such, but possibly context. Ages ago, I mentioned, in an interview, Josh's origins being tied to a statue. (It's at the bottom of that page, the answer to the antepenultimate question). For anyone who's madly curious, the statue can be seen here.

Mina de Malfois and the Therapeutic Impulse (part one of, oh, let's say three) )
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[I love you all. Am exhausted--not from this, from other stuff. Peel me a grape, someone, please.]

3.5 Mina de Malfois and the Wizard's Staff (Part Two) )
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[Originally, this was to have been yesterday's update, but I was late getting it done. Then I lied to my betas and told them I was posting it this Friday--my life: a web of deceit. This morning I remembered that for the next two days I'll be in an exhaustion-induced fugue state, and then on Saturday I'm off to spend a week with friends, so my chances to post (much less reply to comments) will shrink dramatically after tonight.

So: here it is. To get the intended impact you should time-travel back to yesterday and read it. Or read it on Friday.

Also--and there is no way to phrase this that doesn't make me sound like a giant dweeb, so just try to overlook it--you all know who I am, right? I mean, you know my non-Mina identity? Because it's not meant to be secret or anything; as much as I like it when people stumble across this without any idea where the hell it came from, any of you who want to know are welcome to.]

3.5 Mina de Malfois and the Wizard’s Staff (part one) )

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