time for my bi-annual lj check-in, I guess

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Everything else in my internet life is in a major throwback mode rn (I'll get to that in a minute), so I suppose it is only natural to also feel like visiting the ghost town that is livejournal. I do miss you, lj! Tumblr is the least social social media platform I have ever seen. I don't understand why fandom migrated to a website that doesn't even

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Somewhat related since I'm working federally again, Canadian politics is a hot ass mess right now.

No kidding. (Not Canadian myself, but husband is a Canadian expat, so I hear more bits than the average California grizzly bear.)

I've watched and enjoyed a few TV shows this year, although none in a "give me all the fic you have" way

That happened to me earlier this year with Takin' Over the Asylum, but "all the fic you have" for that is, alas, still devourable in just a few days, since few have heard of it.

As I am a Lily/Severus partisan (not against Lily/James, obviously it's the canon ship, just sayin'), perhaps we shall delicately avoid that part of the post. :D

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Haha Takin' Over the Asylum is miraculously one of, like, 5 things on David Tennant's IMDB page I actually haven't watched. It is always unfortunate to get really into something that has no fandom though. Even with Broadchurch I found myself reading virtually everything regardless of whether I normally would or not, just because it was there.

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I haven't really made a concerted effort to seek out Broadchurch fic in the way I did with Harry Potter (which might be given away by my icon) or with Doctor Who, but I read some that comes my way, mainly via a few people I follow on tumblr and some connections through there. Becoming a fan of David Tennant and trying to use his CV as a checklist has opened some new vistas in that regard. I remain bemused, though, at how strong a strain of Ship All The Billies And Davids exists among his fans - I'm more sanguine about random crossovers than I used to be when I first got into fandom in general, but some of the combinations like Rose x Hardy make my eyebrows do odd confused dances. (Though, to be fair, I've read Rose x Peter Carlisle that I liked fairly well and I've got a Donna x Peter sitting around to read, so there's that!)

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I find rpf totally revolting, so all the not-so-thiny-veiled David/Billie masquerading as Random David Tennant Character/Random Billie Character is deeply irritating to me, too. I'm not sure if you'd have seen it on Tumblr or not but I did find the Broadchurch s2 "shipwar" utterly hysterical given that it was a shipwar between... like... shippers of the two canonical leads, and shippers of an absolutely fabricated-of-thin-air crossover ship. Someone called me "trash" when I poked fun by asking where all the Alec Hardy/Alesha Phillips was, lmfao. I love Ten/Rose, I love David Tennant, I love Bilie Piper, but not every one of their character arcs needs to recreate Ten/Rose nor should they be each other's only scene partners until the end of time.

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I've seen a little bit, I think. I follow penfairy on tumblr and they have published some odd asks recently not just trying to sell them on Rose/Alec but, like, why they were wrong with Ellie/Alec or something? It's a headscratcher.

Someone called me "trash" when I poked fun by asking where all the Alec Hardy/Alesha Phillips was, lmfao.

Ah, but that's not David's one and only across all time and space, now is it?

It's a little funny how rabid some of the Rose fans get sometimes.

not every one of their character arcs needs to recreate Ten/Rose nor should they be each other's only scene partners until the end of time.

Preach it!