Oh my, it's been a while!
Oh my, it's been a while!
Again!
I am so sorry. My life is a whirlwind, and I can hardly take time to breathe. But I don't want to talk about that, which I will do at one point, I want to talk about fandom things. I miss talking about fandom things.
How is everyone going? What are you loving these days?
Last winter I let go of a lot of shows I used to watch: Castle, Sleepy Hollow, all of the Chicago shows, The Vampire Diaries… I should have let go before, like TWD because I wasn't enjoying the storylines anymore, but it took getting behind on tons of stuff to finally realize I didn't miss them that much so I could stop.
This fall, I still watch H50 (mostly for Hawaii, and it's the one show my husband watches with me, with MacGuyver). I don't really feel the spark with H50 all that much anymore to be honest, haven't for years. Oh well.
So I gave the new MacGuyver a try, the original is iconic for me being that it was one of the shows that made me learn English when I was a teen. RDA's MacGuyver was my first TV crush (always had a thing for smart competent people). I am not entirely sold on the reboot, but willing to give it a couple of more tries.
I still watch Supernatural, and am cautiously optimist for the new season as the first two episodes managed to keep me half interested, which is better than I could say for a while. I like the Ghost Rider in AoS, though I am already behind in watching the show (watched 2 episodes only). The new director is intriguing.
Viking will come back in November, looking forward to that. And I suppose iZombie will come back at one point? And I am not sure if I'll want to check out Teen Wolf season 6… but I know myself, I probably will be curious about it!
But my show, my new show, is Pitch. OH MY GOD, I LOVE IT. I've always been very upfront about my love for baseball. And I was excited for this show from the first moment I saw a preview. And by god, it delivers. I love everything about it, from the way it's shot to pretty much all the characters. The show surprises me, too! I'll find myself annoyed by a little something only for it to suddenly make a lot of sense because of a piece of info I didn't have. I'm not fannish about it - as looking for fanfic or things. For now. A character is a sarcastic asshole with a heart of gold, though, I might be doomed.
I need to watch Luke Cage, it's waiting for me. I was supposed to start Friday, I had taken the day off, I had PLANS. Oh well.
I HAVE watched a couple of episodes of the Avengers Assemble cartoon, because of peer pressure. LOLOL! It's awfully cute, I like it. It has the Avengers as family and Steve/Tony content I crave.
I've been busy writing my bigbangs since coming back from Hawaii, mid-August, I wrote:
a 16 K words Spideytorch for Marvelbang
a 36.5 K words Steve/Tony for the Cap/Iron Man big bang
another 16.5 K words Spideytorch for the Spideytorch Bigbang
The stories have since been claimed for art (twice for the Steve/Tony one!) and you should hear me freak out over the art that is coming, oh my fucking God *smile*.
I am now a bit creatively exhausted, to be honest. Couldn't find one idea or WIP to poke yesterday, but I count this long entry as words out in the universe. And I did have a schmoopy idea this morning. AND I do have almost 10 different WIPs I need to finish, some being 95% done and just in a need of an edit and a beta.
At one point, I kept seeing a lot of negativity against my favorites on Tumblr, so I moved Tumblrs (@gottalovev) and only surrounded myself with content that pleases me. Still see shit, but it's dramatically lower.
And then Imzy happened and upon all of the communities I joined, one is very active and with the pairing of my heart these days and MY GOD. This feels so good. There was a 616 members party last week (HA! Marvel pun), now we're over that, and if the large majority of members is either lurking or came only to have a look, there's I'd say 10 to 30 people who contribute consistently. Introductions posts with over 350 comments! Prompts that get filled! Reccs! Video sharing! Post to share WIP and getting tons of support! Weekly discussions about anything that generate conversations! I cannot keep up with my busy weeks, and how wonderful is that? I remember when LJ was like that, and I had missed it.
And people are so nice. I got befriended by an angel who spontaneously sends me reccs on Imzy or the Tumblr chat, and ask how I'm doing (I had a cold), and shares the new merch she bought. People have enabled me to find streaming for cartoons. I asked for help for the beta of my first spideytorch bigbang and a person I admire a lot (probably the biggest BNF in the fandom, who has no superior attitude at all) betaed for me. She even recced a story of mine once, I was speechless.
So yes, I am in a good place on the fannish front. It feels great. I know fandom is a cycle, and I miss a lot of great people whom I used to interact with more that are just not here anymore, or don't run in the same fannish circles as me. I'd like to have it all, but if I've myself moved on, and I don't have interest in some things anymore, or can't get behind a popular pairing that lots of my old friends love, so I can't expect people I'd like to keep close and share with to be enthused about the things that do it for me. All I can hope is that everyone finds his or her crowd, and have fun, and maybe we'll meet again.
I do need to take more time for LJ/DW though, because I've been neglectful, reading on the go but scarcely taking the time to comment. Time, though, time. I've always had trouble managing time to do everything I want to do, and it's even more obvious how much I fail at it these days.
I'd like to say that I'll start commenting this afternoon, but I can't, I have to run… last game of regular season, where the Team absolutely need to win to make the series. Taking a bus with parents, it's a 3h drive, won't be back until maybe 2 am. It should rain, be around 5C (weather site saying it will feel like -2C with the wind, oh joy), so yeah. Vibes from 19h30 pm would be appreciated so we don't suffer too much! Ha ha ha!
Miss you guys!
*hugs to you all*
This entry was originally posted here on DW, where it has
comments. Comment here or there
Again!
I am so sorry. My life is a whirlwind, and I can hardly take time to breathe. But I don't want to talk about that, which I will do at one point, I want to talk about fandom things. I miss talking about fandom things.
How is everyone going? What are you loving these days?
Last winter I let go of a lot of shows I used to watch: Castle, Sleepy Hollow, all of the Chicago shows, The Vampire Diaries… I should have let go before, like TWD because I wasn't enjoying the storylines anymore, but it took getting behind on tons of stuff to finally realize I didn't miss them that much so I could stop.
This fall, I still watch H50 (mostly for Hawaii, and it's the one show my husband watches with me, with MacGuyver). I don't really feel the spark with H50 all that much anymore to be honest, haven't for years. Oh well.
So I gave the new MacGuyver a try, the original is iconic for me being that it was one of the shows that made me learn English when I was a teen. RDA's MacGuyver was my first TV crush (always had a thing for smart competent people). I am not entirely sold on the reboot, but willing to give it a couple of more tries.
I still watch Supernatural, and am cautiously optimist for the new season as the first two episodes managed to keep me half interested, which is better than I could say for a while. I like the Ghost Rider in AoS, though I am already behind in watching the show (watched 2 episodes only). The new director is intriguing.
Viking will come back in November, looking forward to that. And I suppose iZombie will come back at one point? And I am not sure if I'll want to check out Teen Wolf season 6… but I know myself, I probably will be curious about it!
But my show, my new show, is Pitch. OH MY GOD, I LOVE IT. I've always been very upfront about my love for baseball. And I was excited for this show from the first moment I saw a preview. And by god, it delivers. I love everything about it, from the way it's shot to pretty much all the characters. The show surprises me, too! I'll find myself annoyed by a little something only for it to suddenly make a lot of sense because of a piece of info I didn't have. I'm not fannish about it - as looking for fanfic or things. For now. A character is a sarcastic asshole with a heart of gold, though, I might be doomed.
I need to watch Luke Cage, it's waiting for me. I was supposed to start Friday, I had taken the day off, I had PLANS. Oh well.
I HAVE watched a couple of episodes of the Avengers Assemble cartoon, because of peer pressure. LOLOL! It's awfully cute, I like it. It has the Avengers as family and Steve/Tony content I crave.
I've been busy writing my bigbangs since coming back from Hawaii, mid-August, I wrote:
a 16 K words Spideytorch for Marvelbang
a 36.5 K words Steve/Tony for the Cap/Iron Man big bang
another 16.5 K words Spideytorch for the Spideytorch Bigbang
The stories have since been claimed for art (twice for the Steve/Tony one!) and you should hear me freak out over the art that is coming, oh my fucking God *smile*.
I am now a bit creatively exhausted, to be honest. Couldn't find one idea or WIP to poke yesterday, but I count this long entry as words out in the universe. And I did have a schmoopy idea this morning. AND I do have almost 10 different WIPs I need to finish, some being 95% done and just in a need of an edit and a beta.
At one point, I kept seeing a lot of negativity against my favorites on Tumblr, so I moved Tumblrs (@gottalovev) and only surrounded myself with content that pleases me. Still see shit, but it's dramatically lower.
And then Imzy happened and upon all of the communities I joined, one is very active and with the pairing of my heart these days and MY GOD. This feels so good. There was a 616 members party last week (HA! Marvel pun), now we're over that, and if the large majority of members is either lurking or came only to have a look, there's I'd say 10 to 30 people who contribute consistently. Introductions posts with over 350 comments! Prompts that get filled! Reccs! Video sharing! Post to share WIP and getting tons of support! Weekly discussions about anything that generate conversations! I cannot keep up with my busy weeks, and how wonderful is that? I remember when LJ was like that, and I had missed it.
And people are so nice. I got befriended by an angel who spontaneously sends me reccs on Imzy or the Tumblr chat, and ask how I'm doing (I had a cold), and shares the new merch she bought. People have enabled me to find streaming for cartoons. I asked for help for the beta of my first spideytorch bigbang and a person I admire a lot (probably the biggest BNF in the fandom, who has no superior attitude at all) betaed for me. She even recced a story of mine once, I was speechless.
So yes, I am in a good place on the fannish front. It feels great. I know fandom is a cycle, and I miss a lot of great people whom I used to interact with more that are just not here anymore, or don't run in the same fannish circles as me. I'd like to have it all, but if I've myself moved on, and I don't have interest in some things anymore, or can't get behind a popular pairing that lots of my old friends love, so I can't expect people I'd like to keep close and share with to be enthused about the things that do it for me. All I can hope is that everyone finds his or her crowd, and have fun, and maybe we'll meet again.
I do need to take more time for LJ/DW though, because I've been neglectful, reading on the go but scarcely taking the time to comment. Time, though, time. I've always had trouble managing time to do everything I want to do, and it's even more obvious how much I fail at it these days.
I'd like to say that I'll start commenting this afternoon, but I can't, I have to run… last game of regular season, where the Team absolutely need to win to make the series. Taking a bus with parents, it's a 3h drive, won't be back until maybe 2 am. It should rain, be around 5C (weather site saying it will feel like -2C with the wind, oh joy), so yeah. Vibes from 19h30 pm would be appreciated so we don't suffer too much! Ha ha ha!
Miss you guys!
*hugs to you all*
This entry was originally posted here on DW, where it has
comments. Comment here or there