Some THOUGHTS and 30 Days of Doctor Who: Days 4 & 5
So I'm supposed to write an essay on why I'm becoming an academic interdisciplinarian for a bullshit class we're required to take in my major (the major is a combination of the Humanities and the Communications departments, so their keyword for combining the departments is "interdisciplinary"), and it feels like I'm treading down territory familiar to people who read my journal: I got depression, I found solace in television and fandom, therefore I want to be a media scholar because it means studying television, fandom and pop culture. I'm telling the same stories and recounting the same experiences I talk about here, so it's actually a very easy essay to write. I open it by talking about how I'm an Abed mixed with an Annie, and that's why I'm so keen on interdisciplinary studies. No, really, the first sentence is about Community. I am nothing if not brutally honest about my idiosyncrasies.
In other news I've realized two things: I'm addicted to tumblr, and I am anal retentive about tagging. No more indiscriminate reblogging for me! No, I have to have everything categorized by episode, ship, character, show, and actor. I've only been doing this for about 25 posts (I have about 2900 that I blogged indiscriminately), and my tag list is already a mile long. Not that tumblr has an effective tagging system to list your tags. No, this is me listing all my tags in a word document as I add them. Obsessive compulsive much? I thought I was bad about tagging my gifs on photobucket, but no, my anal-ness knows no bounds on tumblr.
I've also noticed tumblr cliques. There's the AtS Cordelia fan clique, and they're very, very cliquish (except for Kelly. I want to be Kelly when I grow up). And very adamant that their opinions are right. This is what I was railing against earlier in the week. There's no right character to like, no wrong character to like. If you like a morally dark character, that's okay. But with that crowd liking morally dark characters (that they don't like) makes you a bad person. And not to be bitchy or talk about people behind their backs, but even I'm offended by a tag that goes "bangel is an abomination against man and god. and manpires" I don't like Bangel. I openly hate Angel (except with Cordelia is the eternal caveat), but I'd never call someone's favorite character or ship an abomination (except, perhaps, in conjunction to certain special snowflakes on the boards.) If only the world were filled with more coalitiongirls. I continue to follow this clique because there are some opinions I agree with, and they're expressed very eloquently. Other than that, I can't stand the attitude that you're somehow a better person or shipper or feminist if you like one character or ship over another. That's what the big issue was earlier in the week, and thank God Lauren laid the throw down.
Anyway, here's days 4 and 5 of the 30 Days of Doctor Who
Day 4- Favorite Character: Eleven. He is such a physical character that it’s magic to watch him work, and so aware of people’s emotional needs and the right way to respond to them. He is my comfort, nurturing figure in therapy. No joke.
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Day 5 - Favorite Guest Star: Tony Curran as Vincent Van Gogh. What Vincent did in portraying depression as something sympathetic was beautiful and it always makes me cry.
Gonna finish that essay before I watch Game of Thrones! We meet Lysa Arren tonight, and she's fascinating.
In other news I've realized two things: I'm addicted to tumblr, and I am anal retentive about tagging. No more indiscriminate reblogging for me! No, I have to have everything categorized by episode, ship, character, show, and actor. I've only been doing this for about 25 posts (I have about 2900 that I blogged indiscriminately), and my tag list is already a mile long. Not that tumblr has an effective tagging system to list your tags. No, this is me listing all my tags in a word document as I add them. Obsessive compulsive much? I thought I was bad about tagging my gifs on photobucket, but no, my anal-ness knows no bounds on tumblr.
I've also noticed tumblr cliques. There's the AtS Cordelia fan clique, and they're very, very cliquish (except for Kelly. I want to be Kelly when I grow up). And very adamant that their opinions are right. This is what I was railing against earlier in the week. There's no right character to like, no wrong character to like. If you like a morally dark character, that's okay. But with that crowd liking morally dark characters (that they don't like) makes you a bad person. And not to be bitchy or talk about people behind their backs, but even I'm offended by a tag that goes "bangel is an abomination against man and god. and manpires" I don't like Bangel. I openly hate Angel (except with Cordelia is the eternal caveat), but I'd never call someone's favorite character or ship an abomination (except, perhaps, in conjunction to certain special snowflakes on the boards.) If only the world were filled with more coalitiongirls. I continue to follow this clique because there are some opinions I agree with, and they're expressed very eloquently. Other than that, I can't stand the attitude that you're somehow a better person or shipper or feminist if you like one character or ship over another. That's what the big issue was earlier in the week, and thank God Lauren laid the throw down.
Anyway, here's days 4 and 5 of the 30 Days of Doctor Who
Day 4- Favorite Character: Eleven. He is such a physical character that it’s magic to watch him work, and so aware of people’s emotional needs and the right way to respond to them. He is my comfort, nurturing figure in therapy. No joke.
( Source)
Day 5 - Favorite Guest Star: Tony Curran as Vincent Van Gogh. What Vincent did in portraying depression as something sympathetic was beautiful and it always makes me cry.
Gonna finish that essay before I watch Game of Thrones! We meet Lysa Arren tonight, and she's fascinating.