Clothes Over Bros
I am being horrible about replying to comments lately. I'm sorry. I'm trying to catch up, I really am! I'm just... you know. Slow. Also boring. Also thinking about things and therefore getting distracted from anything I've said more than ten minutes previous
Today I am preoccupied with two things:
(A) Thoughts without words: I cannot think without translating my thought into words, and if I try to I lose the thought
(B) Song lyrics I could not grasp when I was younger: There were a lot. I had a really hard time keeping up with music. I still do, but not as much. So as I listen to my 90s playlist, I keep saying, like, "Oh, THAT'S what it was! That makes way more sense!"
Which it does. Sometimes.
My brain, it is a fun place.
So I decided that I would start with One Tree Hill season two, after starting one a few times and liking it but not getting sucked in.
It is TOTALLY WORKING. The Lucas/Nathan relationship is a lot more interesting like this. Peyton irritated me in season one, but I really like her in what I've seen of two. Also, Brooke. Brooooooke.
Two tends to be the magic season for me. With a few notable exceptions (Veronica Mars is at the top of that list), I do not really believe in the sophomore slump when it comes to TV shows. This is because my standards are very low, and I have questionable definitions of integrity and also of good writing.
But moreover, except when the first season features people who have an insanely tightly planned schedule for which the plan works 100% (and with VMars, it looked like it would), and when the network interference isn't overbearing, it's the time when the writers and the actors and the directors and everyone really get a handle on the characters, and all of a sudden I'm totally absorbed in how over-the-top and awesome it is.
For the record, I also got into Roswell with the season two tapes juliedarling sent me, Creek in season two as it aired, and Buffy between seasons two and three. I think it's something about... how can I explain this? To me, it always feels like the first season is there to set out a mission statement, and then season two is when that mission statement has enough build-up that it turns to over-the-top drama that I adore. In a lot of ways, I like going BACK to first seasons, after I've seen the rest, which is probably what I will do with OTH, which is charming me unfairly.
I think I need to find a list of all the good OTH femslashy episodes. Cause... pretty.
My favoritest pearl_o is doing an unofficial xkcd challenge, and I have narrowed down the fandom I'm writing in to either Once and Again or the L'Engleverse, thus guaranteeing that only five people will read me either way. But it would be a DIFFERENT five people!
Oh, choices.
Issues with L'Engleverse: I still feel kind of sketchy writing Meg and Calvin anywhere above PG.
Benefits of L'Engleverse: I really want to write a long L'Engleverse fic that uses canon(ish) pairings. I want to use the pieces of L'Engle WsIP I have: Emily/Dave, Meg/Calvin, and the triangle of Adam-Polly-Zachary. And this could start me on that!
Issues with O&A: I can't figure out how, exactly, to organize a fic so that it looks like the show.
Benefits of O&A: I want Jessie fic so much, and no one else is mass-producing it for me, except for FF.net, which is very big on Katie/Jessie high school AUs, when hi, THEY ARE ALREADY DATING AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, KTHX.
*coughs*
Someone else should decide for me. Man.
Today I am preoccupied with two things:
(A) Thoughts without words: I cannot think without translating my thought into words, and if I try to I lose the thought
(B) Song lyrics I could not grasp when I was younger: There were a lot. I had a really hard time keeping up with music. I still do, but not as much. So as I listen to my 90s playlist, I keep saying, like, "Oh, THAT'S what it was! That makes way more sense!"
Which it does. Sometimes.
My brain, it is a fun place.
So I decided that I would start with One Tree Hill season two, after starting one a few times and liking it but not getting sucked in.
It is TOTALLY WORKING. The Lucas/Nathan relationship is a lot more interesting like this. Peyton irritated me in season one, but I really like her in what I've seen of two. Also, Brooke. Brooooooke.
Two tends to be the magic season for me. With a few notable exceptions (Veronica Mars is at the top of that list), I do not really believe in the sophomore slump when it comes to TV shows. This is because my standards are very low, and I have questionable definitions of integrity and also of good writing.
But moreover, except when the first season features people who have an insanely tightly planned schedule for which the plan works 100% (and with VMars, it looked like it would), and when the network interference isn't overbearing, it's the time when the writers and the actors and the directors and everyone really get a handle on the characters, and all of a sudden I'm totally absorbed in how over-the-top and awesome it is.
For the record, I also got into Roswell with the season two tapes juliedarling sent me, Creek in season two as it aired, and Buffy between seasons two and three. I think it's something about... how can I explain this? To me, it always feels like the first season is there to set out a mission statement, and then season two is when that mission statement has enough build-up that it turns to over-the-top drama that I adore. In a lot of ways, I like going BACK to first seasons, after I've seen the rest, which is probably what I will do with OTH, which is charming me unfairly.
I think I need to find a list of all the good OTH femslashy episodes. Cause... pretty.
My favoritest pearl_o is doing an unofficial xkcd challenge, and I have narrowed down the fandom I'm writing in to either Once and Again or the L'Engleverse, thus guaranteeing that only five people will read me either way. But it would be a DIFFERENT five people!
Oh, choices.
Issues with L'Engleverse: I still feel kind of sketchy writing Meg and Calvin anywhere above PG.
Benefits of L'Engleverse: I really want to write a long L'Engleverse fic that uses canon(ish) pairings. I want to use the pieces of L'Engle WsIP I have: Emily/Dave, Meg/Calvin, and the triangle of Adam-Polly-Zachary. And this could start me on that!
Issues with O&A: I can't figure out how, exactly, to organize a fic so that it looks like the show.
Benefits of O&A: I want Jessie fic so much, and no one else is mass-producing it for me, except for FF.net, which is very big on Katie/Jessie high school AUs, when hi, THEY ARE ALREADY DATING AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, KTHX.
*coughs*
Someone else should decide for me. Man.