Still alive. Sort of.
Hello, World.
It's been ages, I know. I had a really awful week last week, and it just seemed to go on and on, and I even thought about writing an LJ entry for the sake of purging...but instead I cried it all out in a friend's living room and went to Denny's for lunch and it all seemed much better after that. But to sum up, the week started with my cat dying:
#RIPmyracakes
and ended with the realization that a friendship that mattered to me but came to a close a long time ago still has the power to upset me.
I swear, since I turned 40, I have been MOAR emotional about everything. It's so weird. Mid-life crises are real. I'm just glad, that for the most part, I try to deal with all my shit and I don't have a back room full of secrets. I don't even know what kind of hot mess I'd be otherwise.
I am still highly emotional WRT The Vampire Diaries, and by highly emotional, I mean READY TO CUT A BITCH OVER S7. I started a rewatch a while back with leobrat and I'm up thru 4x10 and just beside myself with disbelief that they think they have a show without Elena Gilbert. It's just riDONKulous.
In other news, I'm stealing a shipping meme of sorts from leobrat. It's called:
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This is just meant to be fun, and obviously not a comprehensive list. We don't have time for all of my ships, because I've been doing this since I was like 12.
No Questions Asked, Claw Your Own Face Off, Burn The World To The Ground, You Ship It Til Your Dying Breath OTPs
[I call this two, for the price of one, FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.]
There's Delena:
And then there's NIan:
I would say, in all ways possible, I have experienced every emotion under the sun because of these four people.
To quote leobrat
LET ME BE CLEAR: this kind of shipping is not fun at all; it gets in your way, and it distracts you, and it is kind of painful the worst pain you'll ever know.
The real danger? Is when you have an RPF OTP- because you can’t just stop watching the show (or whatever) and live with your own headcanon. These people might actually fuck with your life and fall in love with other people. Or say goodbye, filming their final show together a week before he marries someone else. Yep, that's what my OTP of OTP of OTPs did to me. Top that.
As I'm writing all of this, and looking back over five years of picture collecting, I'm realizing this is all I'll have time for, tonight, THIS ONE CATEGORY.
Because I'm straight up cray cray.
So, let me end this category with the Runner-up. You know, should Damon & Elena and Nina & Ian fail to live up to their duties as Ultimate OTP forever and ever...this would be the pairing that would step up to fulfill their duties:
And, actually, Beth, it did kill us all. IT FUCKING KILLED US ALL.
Between February 2014 and November 2014, I wrote 75,000 words about these two, only to wish I'd never clapped eyes on them.
And this sums up just why things have been even harder for me this year: in the same year that I turned 40, I lost my two favorite shows and my two (three) favorite ships ended forever. It really, really sucks. :*(
And this post was brought to you by Debbie Downer. Sorry about that...
It's been ages, I know. I had a really awful week last week, and it just seemed to go on and on, and I even thought about writing an LJ entry for the sake of purging...but instead I cried it all out in a friend's living room and went to Denny's for lunch and it all seemed much better after that. But to sum up, the week started with my cat dying:
#RIPmyracakes
and ended with the realization that a friendship that mattered to me but came to a close a long time ago still has the power to upset me.
I swear, since I turned 40, I have been MOAR emotional about everything. It's so weird. Mid-life crises are real. I'm just glad, that for the most part, I try to deal with all my shit and I don't have a back room full of secrets. I don't even know what kind of hot mess I'd be otherwise.
I am still highly emotional WRT The Vampire Diaries, and by highly emotional, I mean READY TO CUT A BITCH OVER S7. I started a rewatch a while back with leobrat and I'm up thru 4x10 and just beside myself with disbelief that they think they have a show without Elena Gilbert. It's just riDONKulous.
In other news, I'm stealing a shipping meme of sorts from leobrat. It's called:
STANDARD DISCLAIMER: This is just meant to be fun, and obviously not a comprehensive list. We don't have time for all of my ships, because I've been doing this since I was like 12.
No Questions Asked, Claw Your Own Face Off, Burn The World To The Ground, You Ship It Til Your Dying Breath OTPs
[I call this two, for the price of one, FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.]
There's Delena:
And then there's NIan:
I would say, in all ways possible, I have experienced every emotion under the sun because of these four people.
To quote leobrat
LET ME BE CLEAR: this kind of shipping is not fun at all; it gets in your way, and it distracts you, and it is kind of painful the worst pain you'll ever know.
The real danger? Is when you have an RPF OTP- because you can’t just stop watching the show (or whatever) and live with your own headcanon. These people might actually fuck with your life and fall in love with other people. Or say goodbye, filming their final show together a week before he marries someone else. Yep, that's what my OTP of OTP of OTPs did to me. Top that.
As I'm writing all of this, and looking back over five years of picture collecting, I'm realizing this is all I'll have time for, tonight, THIS ONE CATEGORY.
Because I'm straight up cray cray.
So, let me end this category with the Runner-up. You know, should Damon & Elena and Nina & Ian fail to live up to their duties as Ultimate OTP forever and ever...this would be the pairing that would step up to fulfill their duties:
And, actually, Beth, it did kill us all. IT FUCKING KILLED US ALL.
Between February 2014 and November 2014, I wrote 75,000 words about these two, only to wish I'd never clapped eyes on them.
And this sums up just why things have been even harder for me this year: in the same year that I turned 40, I lost my two favorite shows and my two (three) favorite ships ended forever. It really, really sucks. :*(
And this post was brought to you by Debbie Downer. Sorry about that...