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- zabira and I had a slumber party this weekend to commemorate our Cookaversary, aka the one-year anniversary of our DCATA show. (Even though we are about a month late on this. Trying to coordinate our schedules is HILARIOUS.) We got bourbon and BBQ and were planning to watch some DCATA clips, only we ended up watching the commentary for It Might Get Loud (seriously, that movie is magical, just full to the brim with people who love what they're doing and love their various arts and like each other and it's just MAGICAL) and then Life On the Murder Scene, because I finally listened to The Black Parade for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and hey! I like MCR way, way better than any other bandom band I've ever heard. Exciting! And then we watched a few DCATA clips in the morning, and spoiler: THOSE GUYS ARE ALL STILL GREAT. In case you were wondering. Z is also great, but no one wonders about that. ♥
- We were supposed to go hang out with some friends of mine from college on Sunday, but Mr. McK was quarantined to the house, and I figured I should be quarantined too just to be safe, so instead I devoted my time to reading ALL THE COMICS. It is a paradox of comics fandom that you can read ALL THE COMICS and yet still have ALL THE COMICS yet to read. I'm through to Birds of Prey 40ish, at which time it split off into the whole BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER? (the question mark is very important!) and BRUCE WAYNE: FUGITIVE! arcs, so I had to go work my way through all of those. Which were a fun way to say hello to Steph and Cass and Tim Drake and the other Batpeople who don't show up in BoP very often (yet). (Well, Tim hangs around a fair amount, which I enjoy because I love his little FACE.) And what I am here to tell you is that, while I like basically everyone, currently my crush on Barbara Gordon can be SEEN FROM SPACE, I deeply adore Dinah, and Dick Grayson is, omfg, so very much my boyfriend. (Also I was looking at some later BoP, which I have read but will probably re-read when I get there, and they reminded me of how very, very much I love Huntress. But I'm not quite there yet, so right now it is mainly lots and lots of shiny hearts in my eyes for Babs/Dinah/Dick. Which is, by the way, a thing EVERYONE SHOULD WRITE ME.) I am having a lot of feelings for these people! And their feelings for each other! Like, for example: Dick/Babs, Dinah/Babs, Dinah/Helena. YES PLEASE TO ALL OF THESE THINGS. And various combinations thereof. There will probably be picspam. You have been warned.
- We also watched Under the Red Hood, which I liked a lot, even though I don't have as much backstory on Jason Todd as I should (I have source, I just haven't gotten there yet-I want to finish BoP first). But I thought it was really well-done nonetheless. Plus Neil Patrick Harris voicing MY SUPER-DREAMY BOYFRIEND Nightwing? And telling Bruce, "Would it kill you to just say 'Let's go get in the car'? Just ONCE?" *flails forever*
- Totally unrelatedly, I am also having some feelings about Bones this season. First of all, the Angela/Hodgins thing is making me STUPIDLY happy. And I am very excited to see the team back together again. On the Booth/Brennan front: this is making me kind of nervous, because this is the kind of thing that they could really screw up, but I am very cautiously optimistic. I mean, it frustrates me that they continue to write Brennan like a robot sometimes-I mean, yes, she is a scientist, and she probably has Asperger's, but she is a scientist OF PEOPLE--on a large scale, if not an individual scale--as well as of forensics, so, y'know. NOT A ROBOT. But. In terms of what's going on with her and Booth, I can see a lot of her insistence on analyzing the situation rationally being a self-defense mechanism. Which it's always been, when it comes to emotional things, to some extent, it's just nice to have her have an actual reason for it, rather than it being played strictly for laughs. On the other hand, it is BREAKING MY HEART. I know she made her own bed by telling Booth to move on, and I certainly love Booth and want him to be happy, and of course I'm sure the show is going to get them together eventually, it's just that in the meantime Brennan seems so sad and isolated and I love her so much, and it breaks my heart for her. I think of her and Booth and all of their post-case rituals and late-night Chinese food and the way that all of that's different now, and she has this huge hole in her life where all of those things used to be, and she also has the constant reminder of what's no longer there, and I want to hug her SO MUCH. Brennan is and always has been one of those characters who just gets to me; she's got this huge heart and this giant intellect and yet she's so oddly fragile when it comes to her relationships, and she's so terrified of getting hurt and left again, and it just kills me. Her line to Angela about how she's the only one whose life is going like she planned it? GAH. (Though actually, the awkwardness around her relationship with Booth is sort of awesome, even though it's kind of hard to watch sometimes, especially in the way it ripples out to the rest of the team. But I kind of like the way they're tackling it head-on, instead of talking around it like they've all done for so long. Like Angela's line about, "You were a couple, you just weren't sleeping together"? PREACH IT, ANGELA.) So, yeah. I think this is an important thing for Brennan to go through, and important realizations for her to have. I just hope that all of this is played out well, and in a way that's respectful of her character. This is possibly a vain hope, since the show is not what it used to be, a lot of the time, in terms of characterization, but I'm hoping anyway.
- Rockaraoke tomorrow night. It's like karaoke, only you sing with a live band instead of a recording. GENIUS, right? I AM TERRIFIED. (Alcohol. There will be soooo much alcohol.)
- Let's close with this:
LOVE.
- zabira and I had a slumber party this weekend to commemorate our Cookaversary, aka the one-year anniversary of our DCATA show. (Even though we are about a month late on this. Trying to coordinate our schedules is HILARIOUS.) We got bourbon and BBQ and were planning to watch some DCATA clips, only we ended up watching the commentary for It Might Get Loud (seriously, that movie is magical, just full to the brim with people who love what they're doing and love their various arts and like each other and it's just MAGICAL) and then Life On the Murder Scene, because I finally listened to The Black Parade for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and hey! I like MCR way, way better than any other bandom band I've ever heard. Exciting! And then we watched a few DCATA clips in the morning, and spoiler: THOSE GUYS ARE ALL STILL GREAT. In case you were wondering. Z is also great, but no one wonders about that. ♥
- We were supposed to go hang out with some friends of mine from college on Sunday, but Mr. McK was quarantined to the house, and I figured I should be quarantined too just to be safe, so instead I devoted my time to reading ALL THE COMICS. It is a paradox of comics fandom that you can read ALL THE COMICS and yet still have ALL THE COMICS yet to read. I'm through to Birds of Prey 40ish, at which time it split off into the whole BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER? (the question mark is very important!) and BRUCE WAYNE: FUGITIVE! arcs, so I had to go work my way through all of those. Which were a fun way to say hello to Steph and Cass and Tim Drake and the other Batpeople who don't show up in BoP very often (yet). (Well, Tim hangs around a fair amount, which I enjoy because I love his little FACE.) And what I am here to tell you is that, while I like basically everyone, currently my crush on Barbara Gordon can be SEEN FROM SPACE, I deeply adore Dinah, and Dick Grayson is, omfg, so very much my boyfriend. (Also I was looking at some later BoP, which I have read but will probably re-read when I get there, and they reminded me of how very, very much I love Huntress. But I'm not quite there yet, so right now it is mainly lots and lots of shiny hearts in my eyes for Babs/Dinah/Dick. Which is, by the way, a thing EVERYONE SHOULD WRITE ME.) I am having a lot of feelings for these people! And their feelings for each other! Like, for example: Dick/Babs, Dinah/Babs, Dinah/Helena. YES PLEASE TO ALL OF THESE THINGS. And various combinations thereof. There will probably be picspam. You have been warned.
- We also watched Under the Red Hood, which I liked a lot, even though I don't have as much backstory on Jason Todd as I should (I have source, I just haven't gotten there yet-I want to finish BoP first). But I thought it was really well-done nonetheless. Plus Neil Patrick Harris voicing MY SUPER-DREAMY BOYFRIEND Nightwing? And telling Bruce, "Would it kill you to just say 'Let's go get in the car'? Just ONCE?" *flails forever*
- Totally unrelatedly, I am also having some feelings about Bones this season. First of all, the Angela/Hodgins thing is making me STUPIDLY happy. And I am very excited to see the team back together again. On the Booth/Brennan front: this is making me kind of nervous, because this is the kind of thing that they could really screw up, but I am very cautiously optimistic. I mean, it frustrates me that they continue to write Brennan like a robot sometimes-I mean, yes, she is a scientist, and she probably has Asperger's, but she is a scientist OF PEOPLE--on a large scale, if not an individual scale--as well as of forensics, so, y'know. NOT A ROBOT. But. In terms of what's going on with her and Booth, I can see a lot of her insistence on analyzing the situation rationally being a self-defense mechanism. Which it's always been, when it comes to emotional things, to some extent, it's just nice to have her have an actual reason for it, rather than it being played strictly for laughs. On the other hand, it is BREAKING MY HEART. I know she made her own bed by telling Booth to move on, and I certainly love Booth and want him to be happy, and of course I'm sure the show is going to get them together eventually, it's just that in the meantime Brennan seems so sad and isolated and I love her so much, and it breaks my heart for her. I think of her and Booth and all of their post-case rituals and late-night Chinese food and the way that all of that's different now, and she has this huge hole in her life where all of those things used to be, and she also has the constant reminder of what's no longer there, and I want to hug her SO MUCH. Brennan is and always has been one of those characters who just gets to me; she's got this huge heart and this giant intellect and yet she's so oddly fragile when it comes to her relationships, and she's so terrified of getting hurt and left again, and it just kills me. Her line to Angela about how she's the only one whose life is going like she planned it? GAH. (Though actually, the awkwardness around her relationship with Booth is sort of awesome, even though it's kind of hard to watch sometimes, especially in the way it ripples out to the rest of the team. But I kind of like the way they're tackling it head-on, instead of talking around it like they've all done for so long. Like Angela's line about, "You were a couple, you just weren't sleeping together"? PREACH IT, ANGELA.) So, yeah. I think this is an important thing for Brennan to go through, and important realizations for her to have. I just hope that all of this is played out well, and in a way that's respectful of her character. This is possibly a vain hope, since the show is not what it used to be, a lot of the time, in terms of characterization, but I'm hoping anyway.
- Rockaraoke tomorrow night. It's like karaoke, only you sing with a live band instead of a recording. GENIUS, right? I AM TERRIFIED. (Alcohol. There will be soooo much alcohol.)
- Let's close with this:
LOVE.