Okay, that's it...
... Am I stuck in a time warp or something???
Seriously! It's like over the past month or so, all my old obsessions are coming back, and it's freakin' weird! Not that I'm really complaining, because I'm loving every minute of it, but it's all happening at the same time. Am I having an early-life-crisis?!
Started out when
nekohitori reintroduced me to Transformers when she sat me down to watch a bunch of TFA episodes. I remember watching the series as a kid - although I was only ever a casual viewer - and now it's taken off into a full-blown passion! For quite a while now,
fandomsecrets has been reminding me of all those old skool animes I used to watch, what with all the recent Gundam Wing, EVA, Sailor Moon and DBZ secrets, and it is waaaay too tempting to get back into those fandoms (which happened to be my very first internet fandoms). Then one in particular reminded me of sheer brilliance that is SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, and I've been slowly rewatching the series that I haven't seen since 1995! I had a brief stint in that online fandom about 5 or 6 years ago, and this rediscovery is again tempting me to keep an eye on it.
Speaking of, I also wish that somebody would pick it back up again and finish all those incomplete episodes - and maybe even continue it. I've heard that the main reason the show was cancelled was that it was too dark and violent for its time, which I can really see. The artwork itself is completely different - very moody, with lots of harsh lighting and shadows and sharp angles - and there was certainly never a lacking of violence in the show, whether it was on the ground, in the air, on bikes, in cars, planes, choppers, space ships, boats, trains, caves, volcanoes, time vortexes... BUT I think now it would really catch on and could maybe run for a couple more seasons, if somebody just picked it up again! (I'm also tangentially reminded of Road Rovers, because come on - who didn't love the raging, psychotic mess that was Muzzle??) So basically, for the last month I have been reliving the past 14 years of my life, which is kind of exhilirating and all shades of wonderful - but at the same time it's so unusual, because really... what the hell sparked this?!
I realized I was really onto something when last night I did something I haven't done in over, oh, two years - check up on Roosterteeth and RvB. I just got this unexplainable urge to catch up on everything I've missed, and I'm certainly not regretting it! That shit has always been and always will be funny as hell, and I think I broke something last night from laughing! XDD But now I've been having horrible, horrible thoughts, wondering if there may actually be a fandom like those of the shows above (and the other ones I love) in existence. I'm kind of scared to find out, because I just know that if it does exist, there will probably be slash. And that terrifies me in so many ways. A.) Slash in RvB? WTF?! B.) Omg, I'm terrified that I might like it, because C.) My brain is twisted enough to start reading into all those arguments between Griff and Simmons or Tucker and Church and Caboose (even though I feel like some awful child molester for just mentioning Caboose's name in relationship to sexual acts, oh god) and don't even get me started on fucking Lopez! *flails hopelessly* SOMEBODY PLEASE SAVE ME!!! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THIS SPECIAL HELL!!!!
find your happy place, find your happy place...
Seriously! It's like over the past month or so, all my old obsessions are coming back, and it's freakin' weird! Not that I'm really complaining, because I'm loving every minute of it, but it's all happening at the same time. Am I having an early-life-crisis?!
Started out when
nekohitori reintroduced me to Transformers when she sat me down to watch a bunch of TFA episodes. I remember watching the series as a kid - although I was only ever a casual viewer - and now it's taken off into a full-blown passion! For quite a while now,
fandomsecrets has been reminding me of all those old skool animes I used to watch, what with all the recent Gundam Wing, EVA, Sailor Moon and DBZ secrets, and it is waaaay too tempting to get back into those fandoms (which happened to be my very first internet fandoms). Then one in particular reminded me of sheer brilliance that is SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, and I've been slowly rewatching the series that I haven't seen since 1995! I had a brief stint in that online fandom about 5 or 6 years ago, and this rediscovery is again tempting me to keep an eye on it.
Speaking of, I also wish that somebody would pick it back up again and finish all those incomplete episodes - and maybe even continue it. I've heard that the main reason the show was cancelled was that it was too dark and violent for its time, which I can really see. The artwork itself is completely different - very moody, with lots of harsh lighting and shadows and sharp angles - and there was certainly never a lacking of violence in the show, whether it was on the ground, in the air, on bikes, in cars, planes, choppers, space ships, boats, trains, caves, volcanoes, time vortexes... BUT I think now it would really catch on and could maybe run for a couple more seasons, if somebody just picked it up again! (I'm also tangentially reminded of Road Rovers, because come on - who didn't love the raging, psychotic mess that was Muzzle??) So basically, for the last month I have been reliving the past 14 years of my life, which is kind of exhilirating and all shades of wonderful - but at the same time it's so unusual, because really... what the hell sparked this?!
I realized I was really onto something when last night I did something I haven't done in over, oh, two years - check up on Roosterteeth and RvB. I just got this unexplainable urge to catch up on everything I've missed, and I'm certainly not regretting it! That shit has always been and always will be funny as hell, and I think I broke something last night from laughing! XDD But now I've been having horrible, horrible thoughts, wondering if there may actually be a fandom like those of the shows above (and the other ones I love) in existence. I'm kind of scared to find out, because I just know that if it does exist, there will probably be slash. And that terrifies me in so many ways. A.) Slash in RvB? WTF?! B.) Omg, I'm terrified that I might like it, because C.) My brain is twisted enough to start reading into all those arguments between Griff and Simmons or Tucker and Church and Caboose (even though I feel like some awful child molester for just mentioning Caboose's name in relationship to sexual acts, oh god) and don't even get me started on fucking Lopez! *flails hopelessly* SOMEBODY PLEASE SAVE ME!!! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THIS SPECIAL HELL!!!!
find your happy place, find your happy place...