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An update!

1) The wedding! It was lovely! A really fun, informal, loving day, full of friends and family and niceness. A few pics here on my Tumblr for anyone curious.

carawj looked beautiful, everyone else looked really cool too (seriously we have some well-dressed friends), my dress was floofy, everyone was nice, there was cake and dancing, and I'm still getting warm fuzzies thinking about it. Plus the three days in the Lake District afterwards were lovely. Couldn't be happier about the whole thing. :)

2) In other real-life news, I'm job hunting again, for really serious this time. I'm pretty happy with most aspects of my life but work-wise I'm going nowhere and I think it's time to do something about it. Mostly looking at editorial stuff, still, although as always I'm toying with the idea of teaching because I love doing it, but put off by all the crap I know comes with it.

3) Yuletide is getting into gear again - I've nominated Tenko, Seraphina, Swallows and Amazons and Moondreamers!

4) I'm pondering a potential vid and I'm looking for ideas - folks, tell me some of your favourite examples of the following in visual media:

* women supporting each other during tough times
* women encouraging each other to be brave
* women being brave in all sorts of ways, with or without help

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I am screaming inside my brain about how you should be a teacher. Here, let me edit that for you: a career in education would be really challenging, but I think you have what it takes! In any case, I hope you're able to work out a satisfying worksituation of whatever sort.

In terms of (4), the ones I can think of you probably already have. Everything that has ever happened between Guinan and Ro Laren, for example. The scene where Opaka tells Kira not to run from the violence inside her.

Oh! Boomer and Caprica Six in the BSG episode 'Downloaded'. And (augh) Nana Visitor as Emily and Laura Roslin in BSG 'Faith' (warning: v. upsetting about cancer).

Have you seen OITNB? The scene between Red and Nicki in the bathroom... (AUGH).

Wow, I've just seriously upset myself. I will try to think of HAPPIER EXAMPLES. My problem right now is that I'm having trouble telling canon from fiction! (Remember that time Lwaxana Troi and Alynna Nechayev rescued a ship from Romulans? I do.)

This is the thing, I really want to teach. I've done it before and really enjoyed it, I love working with kids and sharing knowledge and ideas... but it would mean a pay cut (at least at first), longer hours, and most of the people I know who teach give up an awful lot of their free time and I like having free time... but, well, I already missed the window this year for the get-paid-to-train scheme that's really the only way I could realistically do it right now, so I have some time to agonise about it more...

Oooh, those are all good ideas, thanks! (Yeah, part of the reason I haven't really touched BSG S4 is I'm worried it might be too upsetting, but I could probably watch scenes for a vid.) I've seen most of OITNB, actually that's a really good idea! I'll add it to the lengthening list... (Every time I make a multifandom vid I swear I won't do it again because it's too complicated, yet here I am contemplating the most complicated yet...)

Ahaha, that time was awesome. If only we could vid fic. (I mean, I know people kind of do, but still.)