Stuff (Or lack thereof) Post
Over the last couple days I've been reading posts, mostly the 2016 memes of what people liked or didn't like in terms of music, movies and TV. Doing so really highlighted how not much of last year's entertainment did anything for me. I enjoyed some things, namely Stranger Things and Better Call Saul S2, but at the same time never wanted to post about them or even read posts about them. I don't know if it's lack of caring or just wanting things to exist in the little bubble you get from watching before criticism really kicks in. I don't really want to be critical anymore. I just want to enjoy things and be happy with them. I suppose in a way it's just sheltering myself because I know there is nothing that isn't crapped on somewhere. Still, I sort of miss the days when I wanted to chat about something eagerly. It's my fault, I guess. Looking back at some of my old posts I've run across from the 04-07 days under my old journal, I wonder when I became 'Livia Soprano. I was way more optimistic back then.
Taking a break kind of helps. I've dipped a toe back in the BTVS pond the last week or so, commenting on the comics on BF. It was nice, though I do not like the material. I do still miss the show and fandom there, but at the same time I'm wary of re-joining tumblr, where all the action seems to be. Last time I was there there was some bizarre mini-wank about Spike's drawings in Crush. It's always either stuff like that or politicized rambling about how Spike or Xander or Riley hate women or other ways 2+2=75. I wish there was way of sorting out that crap from the dorky stuff I like such as fantheories about why none of the guys have chest hair or how Buffy hid a rocket launcher from Joyce. I never did get back into fanfic, but I've been hunting for a fic I read waaaaay back when the show was ending. It was a rewrite of the end of S7 where the AtS gang come to Sunnydale and The First really starts mind-screwing with all of them. I think it was a Bangel author and was unfinished at the time, but I remember liking it. I really don't have the patience to wade through FF.net to find it.
I'm ambivalent about the LJ server move to Russia. On one hand, I don't think it'll make a difference to the average user. On the other, I don't know about the payment info thing as I prefer a free LJ. I enjoy the pain-free interface of DW much more than LJ, but I'm an internet luddite. I hate endless scrolling and huge amounts of scripting that burden computers and connections all so you don't have to "Next Page". Plus I barely use this thing no matter how many times I tell myself to post more. That goes back to paragraph one, I guess.
Taking a break kind of helps. I've dipped a toe back in the BTVS pond the last week or so, commenting on the comics on BF. It was nice, though I do not like the material. I do still miss the show and fandom there, but at the same time I'm wary of re-joining tumblr, where all the action seems to be. Last time I was there there was some bizarre mini-wank about Spike's drawings in Crush. It's always either stuff like that or politicized rambling about how Spike or Xander or Riley hate women or other ways 2+2=75. I wish there was way of sorting out that crap from the dorky stuff I like such as fantheories about why none of the guys have chest hair or how Buffy hid a rocket launcher from Joyce. I never did get back into fanfic, but I've been hunting for a fic I read waaaaay back when the show was ending. It was a rewrite of the end of S7 where the AtS gang come to Sunnydale and The First really starts mind-screwing with all of them. I think it was a Bangel author and was unfinished at the time, but I remember liking it. I really don't have the patience to wade through FF.net to find it.
I'm ambivalent about the LJ server move to Russia. On one hand, I don't think it'll make a difference to the average user. On the other, I don't know about the payment info thing as I prefer a free LJ. I enjoy the pain-free interface of DW much more than LJ, but I'm an internet luddite. I hate endless scrolling and huge amounts of scripting that burden computers and connections all so you don't have to "Next Page". Plus I barely use this thing no matter how many times I tell myself to post more. That goes back to paragraph one, I guess.