Trying out a move to dreamwidth....
In my long hiatus away from lj (while I was on tumblr), I think I finally broke myself of needing to come back to lj. It doesn't hurt that they've been monkeying around with stuff again and since I no longer feel that unwavering loyalty to them and more people have been making the jump, I think I may finally be ready. I'll still crosspost and still get notifications for both and I'll be fine commenting here or there, but. I think I'm going to give dreamwidth a real try.
Other things I have been up to: Did you know that I totally forgot about Yuletide this year, until the 28th and then went, oh, well, at least that's three less days I have to wait through before I can read anything. orz
I've been playing Glitch again as well. I wish I'd kept up with learning my skills in the month and a half I took off, but, ah, well, this will give me something to still do. I'm glad to see there are new quests to do, but I do wish the world had been expanded a bit more while I was gone, I'd like to see this game have a bit more to actually do.
Oh, and I started watching Parks and Rec for serious this time. It's going much better. (I may have skipped to season three and this actually seems to be a pretty good idea as I am enjoying it immensely now!)
I've also watched the first five episodes of Homeland now and I think I really like it. I'm not particularly attached to any particular character, nor do I think it's necessarily brilliant, but something about it just really works for me. I find it to be a sort of spiritual successor to 24, right down to the ways that show was both good and bad. If nothing else, Claire Danes and Damian Lewis are both excellent in it.
Sigh. So, I have a new tumblr. Well. Two new tumblrs. Yeah, sorry. I've been keeping up with girlsbydaylight, but now there are two more, both of which are only meant to be semi-active. (....in comparison with girlsbydaylight, obviously.)
onepiecesalad @tumblr - For posting all OP things when I get in the mood.
quickwitch @tumblr - Comic book nerdery. It was getting to the point where I couldn't justify posting it all on girlsbydaylight anymore, plus I wanted to be able to talk more with actual comics fans, who wouldn't want to deal with the overwhelming traffic of my other tumblr. So, nerdery ahoy over here. And, yes, the name is dorky as all get out. I don't care. :D Right now it's half-fanart, half-nerdery (mostly about the Magnus family, because I have my priorities), which is probably how it'll continue.
More movies I've been watching:
X-Men: First Class: I talked about this on tumblr previously, actually, but I'm gonna talk about it even more. (Despite that I still haven't gotten more than halfway through it. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to feel the same during the second half of the movie, too.)
The night I watched the first half, I tried to get some sleep, but I couldn't because I had a thought in my head that legit had me in such a giggle fit at my own joke, that I had to get up out of bed and go share it with tumblr. "Man," I thought to myself, about this X-Men:FC movie I just watched, "instead of First Class, they should have called this movie X-Men: Fuck Continuity."
SERIOUSLY. I'M LAUGHING EVEN NOW. I AM SUCH A NERD.
SPOILERS beyond this point.
I think my biggest problem with X-Men:FC is that I don't feel any connection to it because almost none of the characters felt like they had the spirit of the characters I recognized. I could maybe see some of the Magneto I knew in Fassbender's character, especially the rage he had, as well as Raven was lovely.
I really did try with this movie! I can see why others like it, but I boggled at so many of the choices. Emma is practically dead behind the eyes and that's just. That's not Emma. I honestly didn't realize who Kevin Bacon was playing until about halfway through the movie and then I had the worst case of cognitive dissoance, because... Shaw? Really? Charles Xavier is just not someone I recognize at all.
By the time I got to Alex Summers (who I knew wasn't going to be related to Scott in this version) my ability to process the movie just shut down and I had to stop watching. (To be fair, I have a severe fondness for Alex lately and I'd just finished reading War of Kings, so I was full of all sorts of Alex Feelings.)
I could deal with all the different ways powers worked in this universe, I could (mostly) deal with the things that were changed. (Though, I had trouble with Magneto's helmet being originally Shaw's because that just. Takes away from all the reasons Erik made that helmet and what it said about his relationship with Xavier in the first place.) I just couldn't take how these were not the spirits of characters I recognized.
That said, I can totally see how people enjoyed the movie and I'm glad for them! I... I can't lie. I've read some of the fic where Erik has kids, because I need my Maximoff twins fix sometimes.
Other things I have been up to: Did you know that I totally forgot about Yuletide this year, until the 28th and then went, oh, well, at least that's three less days I have to wait through before I can read anything. orz
I've been playing Glitch again as well. I wish I'd kept up with learning my skills in the month and a half I took off, but, ah, well, this will give me something to still do. I'm glad to see there are new quests to do, but I do wish the world had been expanded a bit more while I was gone, I'd like to see this game have a bit more to actually do.
Oh, and I started watching Parks and Rec for serious this time. It's going much better. (I may have skipped to season three and this actually seems to be a pretty good idea as I am enjoying it immensely now!)
I've also watched the first five episodes of Homeland now and I think I really like it. I'm not particularly attached to any particular character, nor do I think it's necessarily brilliant, but something about it just really works for me. I find it to be a sort of spiritual successor to 24, right down to the ways that show was both good and bad. If nothing else, Claire Danes and Damian Lewis are both excellent in it.
Sigh. So, I have a new tumblr. Well. Two new tumblrs. Yeah, sorry. I've been keeping up with girlsbydaylight, but now there are two more, both of which are only meant to be semi-active. (....in comparison with girlsbydaylight, obviously.)
onepiecesalad @tumblr - For posting all OP things when I get in the mood.
quickwitch @tumblr - Comic book nerdery. It was getting to the point where I couldn't justify posting it all on girlsbydaylight anymore, plus I wanted to be able to talk more with actual comics fans, who wouldn't want to deal with the overwhelming traffic of my other tumblr. So, nerdery ahoy over here. And, yes, the name is dorky as all get out. I don't care. :D Right now it's half-fanart, half-nerdery (mostly about the Magnus family, because I have my priorities), which is probably how it'll continue.
More movies I've been watching:
X-Men: First Class: I talked about this on tumblr previously, actually, but I'm gonna talk about it even more. (Despite that I still haven't gotten more than halfway through it. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to feel the same during the second half of the movie, too.)
The night I watched the first half, I tried to get some sleep, but I couldn't because I had a thought in my head that legit had me in such a giggle fit at my own joke, that I had to get up out of bed and go share it with tumblr. "Man," I thought to myself, about this X-Men:FC movie I just watched, "instead of First Class, they should have called this movie X-Men: Fuck Continuity."
SERIOUSLY. I'M LAUGHING EVEN NOW. I AM SUCH A NERD.
SPOILERS beyond this point.
I think my biggest problem with X-Men:FC is that I don't feel any connection to it because almost none of the characters felt like they had the spirit of the characters I recognized. I could maybe see some of the Magneto I knew in Fassbender's character, especially the rage he had, as well as Raven was lovely.
I really did try with this movie! I can see why others like it, but I boggled at so many of the choices. Emma is practically dead behind the eyes and that's just. That's not Emma. I honestly didn't realize who Kevin Bacon was playing until about halfway through the movie and then I had the worst case of cognitive dissoance, because... Shaw? Really? Charles Xavier is just not someone I recognize at all.
By the time I got to Alex Summers (who I knew wasn't going to be related to Scott in this version) my ability to process the movie just shut down and I had to stop watching. (To be fair, I have a severe fondness for Alex lately and I'd just finished reading War of Kings, so I was full of all sorts of Alex Feelings.)
I could deal with all the different ways powers worked in this universe, I could (mostly) deal with the things that were changed. (Though, I had trouble with Magneto's helmet being originally Shaw's because that just. Takes away from all the reasons Erik made that helmet and what it said about his relationship with Xavier in the first place.) I just couldn't take how these were not the spirits of characters I recognized.
That said, I can totally see how people enjoyed the movie and I'm glad for them! I... I can't lie. I've read some of the fic where Erik has kids, because I need my Maximoff twins fix sometimes.