About Me

[tangeriner]

Hello, and welcome to my Dreamwidth! My name is Tangerine (the R is there because I am always three days late to every new platform). I was also once known as Rhys.

You're welcome to subscribe or follow if something interests you (with or without commenting first -- feel free to just add!). I love fandom and people being fannish about things, regardless if we have any fandoms in common. I'm also incredibly susceptible to fannish suggestion, so if someone else is squeeing about something, I typically find myself sucked in and at least learn the basics. I can be found a few other places: Tangerine, atangeriner, tangeriner and tangherin3 on Discord.

A few of my favourite things:

• EarthMix - my current obsession. Love all their shows, fictional and non. Definitely consider myself part of Nameless fandom. They have 9 cats between them! What a gift!
• Asian BL dramas - I mostly stick to Thailand, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan for these, but tbh (and my MyDramaList would confirm this) I basically watch them all. Some particular favs: Blueming (South Korea), Ossan's Love/Ossan's Love Returns (Japan), We Best Love (Taiwan), Theory of Love (Thailand), Roommates of Poongduck 304 (South Korea), Plus&Minus (Taiwan), Love Mechanics (Thailand), Old Fashion Cupcake (Japan).
• Kpop - ATEEZ is my main group, with Yeosang as my bias and Wooyoung as my bias wrecker and Yunho as that guy always lurking in the background (typical Yunho), but I am OT8 through and through. I watch Wanteez obsessively as one does. Other groups I follow but not quite as obsessively: ZEROBASEONE.
• Rictor/Shatterstar - X-Force era, X-Factor era and anything in-between or after. New Mutants: Dead Souls, Shatterstar mini, give me all of it, Marvel.
• X-Men (Comics) - my life's ambition is to basically have a collection of all X-Men-related comics. I'm probably 60% of the way there. My X-Men fic tends to be comicverse, not movieverse, for this exact reason. Angel (and all his variations) is my favourite and has been for 25 years (!).
• Anime and Manga - My Hero Academia, Run with the Wind and Yona of the Dawn are the big ones for me right now, but this list tends to shift (Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Yowamushi Pedal, Haiykuu!!, Natsume Yuujinchou, Yuri on Ice, etc.), and once I love something, I love it forever (i.e. Samurai Champloo, Inuyasha, Trigun, Gundam Wing, Weiß Kreuz, Naruto). I also read the manga for My Hero Academia and Yona of the Dawn and am mostly caught up. I also have an ongoing love affair with all things From Eroica with Love related.
• Dragon Age, especially Inquisition - I think I am on my seventh play-through.
• The Professionals - I am just getting into this, reading and watching. I at least know which one is which now.
• Hockey - This is a perpetual source of anguish for me, because my team is bad on multiple levels, and embarrasses me on the regular in new and unexpected ways (Senators). I would update this, but hey, still true, though at least they're entertaining now in their chaos (written in 2021, still applicable in 2025 -- why, hockey, why).
• Historical Romance Novels - Mary Balogh gives me life. And Lisa Kleypas. And Laura Kinsale. And KJ Charles.

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Last updated: January 1, 2025

Comments

The fandom needs you lol

[bunny_231]

Hey, nice to meet you my name is bunny and as you can gather it's about the fandom, Julio shatterstar fandom..i come to you as a humble fan along that you do what u usually do and save our collective asses...its been tough without you my guy....ill even pay you if I have too...and if you think I'm joking you don't know the half of it

Re: The fandom needs you lol

[tangeriner]

Thank you!

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Hello!

I am randomly friending you-- I was clicking on the random journal button and normally it takes me to a lot of RP centered journals, but this time it took me to you-- and while we share a lot of geeky fandoms, I have to say the thing that stuck out was the Evie and Sebastian icon that you have (I love me some epic Historical Romance novels, and I am a Kleypas, Balogh, Jo Beverly and Julia Quinn fan.

So that is compelling me to add you-- I totally hope you don't mind.

I'm Nia BTW!~

[tangeriner]

Hello! And welcome! I don't mind at all. Very nice to meet you, Nia!

And ahhh, Evie and Sebastian. Lovelovelovelove.

I haven't read much Julia Quinn and Jo Beverly, but Lisa Kleypas and Mary Balogh are, like, the romance writers of my soul. I'm just about to start my annual re-read of the Bedwyn cycle. LOVE. So happy to meet another fan (plus I see what you mean about sharing a lot of geeky fandoms).

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Yes, they were probably my favorites of the Wallflower Series, I also liked Lisa Kleypas's Hathwaway series, that one had me pretty spellbound, really great characters (that is what I like about the authors mentioned, they really make their characters stand out, and you can't help but fall in love with them)

A really good series as well is The Brothers Sinister Series by Courtney Milan, well really anything by Courtney Milan is brill, I think you'd also like her-


What is your favorite Bedwyn book if I may ask?

[tangeriner]

I probably rank the Wallflower books 3, 1, 2, 4. I think. And the Hathaways! <3 I feel you so much on the characters. That's 100% why I read.

Thank you for the rec. I will add to my to-read pile!

And oooooooh. I have to pick my favourite child, lol. Okay, I can do this. I think Rannulf's book wins, but Wulfric's is a very close second. By the time Wulf's book rolled around, I was SO READY for it, you know? But RANNULF. (My favourite Balogh book of all is Simply Love). What about you?

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Wulfric is my second favorite as well-- but I really really adored Frejya's book because I thought she was wonderful and spirited and I hated the fact that she was tossed over so many times (A summer to remember), so I was glad that she finally met her match, it was exceedingly satisfying-- it's hard though to choose favorites.

Very hard.

I think my favorite Mary Balogh book is The Arrangement from the Survivor's Series-- that holds a special place in my heart, they are very pro-disability, and I like the author's take on the many ways one can come back wounded from the war-- be it physically or emotionally.

[tangeriner]

I love Frejya too. I loved the ongoing feud (one-sided anyway) between her and Claudia from the Simply Series. So so good. Was happy to see her love story finally play out. <3

And aaah, I love that one, too. Vincent! That was a great series. I thought she handled the subject matter very well, and I was so happy to see every member of the club get their happy ending. I swear, Mary Balogh knows exactly what I want and then gives it to me without me having to ask.

Dear self: you cannot re-read all these books right this second. Even if you want to.

[are_youready]

Hey, it's really nice to meet you, my name is B and i'm excited to dip more of my toes into X Men :3

[tangeriner]

It's nice to meet you too! I mostly go by Tangerine (or Tan, or Tange). Welcome!

[laura_shinobu]

Hi! I was looking to be more active on here and make new friends, I saw that your interests are: Run with the Wind and Yona of the Dawn, Yowamushi no Pedal, Boku no Hero (this one I still have to catch up, I put it on pause a while ago, but I intend to continue), Haikyuu!!, Yuri on Ice, Naruto.
And HISTORICAL ROMANCE!!! (I'm sorry, I'm so excited about this because!!! is one of the genres I read the most of). I love Mary Balogh (My favs are Slightly Scandalous and Slightly dangerous) and Kleypas (my favs are Secrets of a summer night, Scandal in spring and Suddenly you---> this one I have mixed feelings because there are some things I wish were different but I do enjoy it a lot). Some of my other HR fav authors are: Sherry Thomas, Courtney Milan, Julie Anne Long, Mia Vincy. I also saw The Raven Cycle in your interests! :D

[tangeriner]

I love all those animes with every bit of my heart, BUT HISTORICAL ROMANCE! YES! I'm all about the comfort reads, especially these days, and I have so many favs that just hit that perfect note. I love that you mentioned the Slightly books -- I'm just starting my annual reread with A Summer to Remember before heading into the Slightly books, mostly just to get to Slightly Dangerous because the satisfaction of that final book... perfection. Even when I know it's coming. And have read the series multiple times. Haha.

I'm not sure I've read any of those other authors, but now I am definitely tempted.

All this to say... nice to meet you! 😁

[laura_shinobu]

Yeees, when I saw the historical romance I was like JHAKAJSHDSAJD. "I'm all about the comfort reads, especially these days, and I have so many favs that just hit that perfect note." SAME, last year most of what I've read was re-reads (like the Wallflowers, or the Bedwyn saga, or Nalini Singh's Psy changeling and Guild Hunter). There is just something so warm and cozy to going back to a book you love with characters and interactions in between them that you adore to read about :)
"Slightly Dangerous because the satisfaction of that final book... perfection. Even when I know it's coming. And have read the series multiple times. Haha. " EXACTLY! The satisfiction of seeing Wulf's journey and how he lets himself show his emotions little by little, like asking Freyja to promise to him that she'll be happy, or when he basically said to Morgan that he needed her, like that little show of vulnerability (that he needs them as much as they need him), Alleyne feeling that he finally came back home when he was being hugged by Wulfric? reassured and feeling finally, finally safe and loved? And then you get to his book and is something that's always been there but is shown outwardly and expanded? Freyja saying to Christine "If this is what you've done for him, I'll love you all of my life" Mary Balogh's Bedwyns and Julia Quinn's Bridgertons always make me so emo about family dynamics. Julie Anne Long does this very well, too, in her Pennyroyal Green series.
I adore all the authors I've mentioned, and I hope some of them will give you a new book to love :D (it's so hard sometimes to find new authors that work for you in how they write, develop or what subjects they introduce)
It's really nice to meet you, as well :D

[tangeriner]

You've just reminded me I'm halfway through the Psy-Changeling series and really should resume it. (I made a solemn vow to a RL friend that I would read them, but I keep getting distracted by Bedwyns and Wallflowers lol).

And okay, I think my eyes just welled up a bit here, thinking about Wulfric, for all those moments. Those Bedwyn family feels. Christine is just his perfect match, too. Ahh, why are there so many books between me and those moments right now? 😅

[laura_shinobu]

Sorry for answering so late! At least the Bedwyn and Wallflowers are only a few books xD In which book are you at in the P/C world?
It's so satisfying to re-read the whole series and have those glimpses of Wulfric and then BAMN you get his book and is everything you've ever wanted and more. I love the ballroom scene with the eyeglass klajdlaskdj.