Your main fandom of the year?

Probably Person of Interest, though I'm still very multifannish (and also, see below for my reservations).

Your favorite film watched this year?

Pride, which is funny and powerful and heartwarming in a completely unsentimental way.

Your favorite book read this year?

Nonfiction: Adam Hochschild's To End All ( Read more... )

As the Christmas season approaches, the time comes for an important seasonal question: what's the bleakest, most depressing Christmas-themed episode of a TV series you've ever seen?

Note that it has to be a Christmas-themed story, not just something that aired around Christmas. This disqualifies the final episode of Blake's 7, which would ( Read more... )

I've decided that the world needs a lesbian, gay, and bisexual1 representation bingo card for all those oh-so-reasonable answers some people like to give when one asks why a particular text contains no characters who are identified as LGB. I'm probably not the first person to think of this, but a quick google didn't reveal an existing card except ( Read more... )

I have not actually watched Downton Abbey and have no intention to, but yesterday I learned, through other sources, that (sort of spoilery I guess):( skip) the only queer character is a selfish, amoral villain.

Has anyone perchance critiqued this approach? I feel like what I've mostly seen all over the internets is either "OMG Downton Abbey is so ( Read more... )

Things I learned today:

1) Sourdough bread starter needs a bigger container. No, it needs a bigger container than that, too. Just put it in your biggest bowl, already.

2) "Oooh, I bet there's art on y!gallery for my shiny new fandom" will shortly be followed by "OMG MY EYES. OMG MY BRAIN. WHERE'S THE BLEACH?"

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1) I got a promotion at work. I've actually known for a while but I didn't want to mention it until it was absolutely certain. Starting next week I'll be a "team leader," which means, well, $.80 more an hour, hopefully a more predictable and reliable number of hours each week, more paperwork, and less sweeping and mopping. And, you know, having to ( Read more... )

I have a new fannish obsession, so naturally I want to look at pictures. I go to the solitary, and rather inactive, LJ community--hardly any pics there. I go to the forum which is apparently the online headquarters for the fandom; there are galleries, but to see the galleries you have to join. And more than that, you have to make FIVE POSTS to the ( Read more... )

I've got a bad case of the Small Fandom Sulks at the moment--I'm feeling hard done by because there's so little good fic for my favorite fandoms, or if there is, there's little for the pairings I prefer. Discworld is my new love, and there's hardly any Discworld fic on LJ at all. There's a lot at fanfiction.net, but, well, ff.net. (Plus, WTF is up ( Read more... )

THIRTY-EIGHT DOLLARS FOR A ZINE?

*headdesks repeatedly*

Okay, I get that zines aren't cheap to produce (although it would surprise me greatly if it cost that much). And I get that zines have historically been an important part of fandom. But nowadays there's this awesome invention that lets you distribute your fanfiction and fanart to the entire ( Read more... )