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Oh hey LJ! I have not posted in...sixteen days? Oh my. Um, probably this is because I am very active over at my tumblr, so if you have a tumblr and are desperate to see my every thought and interest, that is probably the place to go! If you do not have a tumblr, within a few years you will be as those who still use usenet, clinging to the days you best loved and refuse to give up in favor of the new and different. Possibly I am exaggerating! I do indeed wish tumblr had some of the features that made LJ the fandom powerhouse that it was--threaded comments, multiple icons, a PM system that did not automatically remove messages after you send or reply to them, a functional HTML editor. The fact remains that tumblr just feels more natural to me now, and judging by how dead my flist is, I am not the only one.
People have made some very interesting analyses about how tumblr differs from other social networking programs, and, for all its problems, I kind of love it there. Brief posts are easier, finding fanart is crazy easier, and you don't need metaquotes to run across random great posts from people you'd normally never see. There's much more of a sense of community there. One one hand, it's certainly not for everybody. On the other hand, while the updates are often frustrating, the creator has never publicly said he wants to get rid of the original userbase. So there's that!
Anyway! Beyond the proselytizing, what else have I been doing? Let's see. I'm getting further and further into A Song of Ice and Fire now; Sansa and Daenerys are pretty solidly my favorites, but I'm also loving Arya, Brienne, Tyrion...the series is pretty great, is what I am saying. Lots of ladies! Ladies who do stuff that is not necessarily for dudes! It doesn't pass the Bechdel Test much, and the general cultural treatment of ladies is not so good, but the ladies themselves are pretty great. (Plus there is an arc that is arguably about a lady sending a lady to save ladies from a lady. There are dudes involved, though. Still. Ladies.)
I was doing a liveblog of the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, but got waylaid by finding myself shoved into the Christoph Waltz fandom. Um? I mean, I'm not as in it as most of the fandom seems to be, but I liked Django Unchained and for some reason I don't recall I started watching this silly little 1979 show called Parole Chicago that starred baby Christoph Waltz, and I said some stuff about it, and suddenly lots of people started following me because of that so now I feel vaguely obligated to post things about him. He is an attractive dude! Django Unchained is a great movie and Parole Chicago is kind of seriously adorable! But I am not as into him as my followers think I am, and that is kind of disheartening. Ah well. He is an attractive dude.
I have been watching Elementary! I love it lots! Well, I do not really know the procedural parts of it, I have never been a fan of those. But Sherlock and Joan's interactions are A+, and the way they are handled in general are A+, and I'm not sure if I would say I like it more than Sherlock but I would definitely say I am lacking in that second of hesitation before admitting that I like it at all, which is something of a problem with me and Sherlock. "I don't care much for procedurals" is rather less of a problem than "I choose to focus on its good qualities rather than its genuinely, objectively, deeply uncomfortably ba--wait where are you going". Elementary's Sherlock is very different from the original stories, but so is BBC Sherlock, and saying that one set of differences is inherently better than the other just doesn't work for me. I like both shows for different reasons. One of the reasons I like Elementary is Joan Watson. Anyone who tries to convince me that I am wrong is not going to get anywhere.
What else? My job proceeds basically uneventfully. I'm just getting over a brief bout of stomach flu. And...that's basically it. Hello!
People have made some very interesting analyses about how tumblr differs from other social networking programs, and, for all its problems, I kind of love it there. Brief posts are easier, finding fanart is crazy easier, and you don't need metaquotes to run across random great posts from people you'd normally never see. There's much more of a sense of community there. One one hand, it's certainly not for everybody. On the other hand, while the updates are often frustrating, the creator has never publicly said he wants to get rid of the original userbase. So there's that!
Anyway! Beyond the proselytizing, what else have I been doing? Let's see. I'm getting further and further into A Song of Ice and Fire now; Sansa and Daenerys are pretty solidly my favorites, but I'm also loving Arya, Brienne, Tyrion...the series is pretty great, is what I am saying. Lots of ladies! Ladies who do stuff that is not necessarily for dudes! It doesn't pass the Bechdel Test much, and the general cultural treatment of ladies is not so good, but the ladies themselves are pretty great. (Plus there is an arc that is arguably about a lady sending a lady to save ladies from a lady. There are dudes involved, though. Still. Ladies.)
I was doing a liveblog of the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, but got waylaid by finding myself shoved into the Christoph Waltz fandom. Um? I mean, I'm not as in it as most of the fandom seems to be, but I liked Django Unchained and for some reason I don't recall I started watching this silly little 1979 show called Parole Chicago that starred baby Christoph Waltz, and I said some stuff about it, and suddenly lots of people started following me because of that so now I feel vaguely obligated to post things about him. He is an attractive dude! Django Unchained is a great movie and Parole Chicago is kind of seriously adorable! But I am not as into him as my followers think I am, and that is kind of disheartening. Ah well. He is an attractive dude.
I have been watching Elementary! I love it lots! Well, I do not really know the procedural parts of it, I have never been a fan of those. But Sherlock and Joan's interactions are A+, and the way they are handled in general are A+, and I'm not sure if I would say I like it more than Sherlock but I would definitely say I am lacking in that second of hesitation before admitting that I like it at all, which is something of a problem with me and Sherlock. "I don't care much for procedurals" is rather less of a problem than "I choose to focus on its good qualities rather than its genuinely, objectively, deeply uncomfortably ba--wait where are you going". Elementary's Sherlock is very different from the original stories, but so is BBC Sherlock, and saying that one set of differences is inherently better than the other just doesn't work for me. I like both shows for different reasons. One of the reasons I like Elementary is Joan Watson. Anyone who tries to convince me that I am wrong is not going to get anywhere.
What else? My job proceeds basically uneventfully. I'm just getting over a brief bout of stomach flu. And...that's basically it. Hello!