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I haven't posted in awhile, and have like three new fics I need to add but... I don't know. I used to love it here but lately it just isn't the same. Maybe I need to get more involved in communities. I'm trying out Tumblr, but while it does feed my fandom urges, it's not really interactive in the same way LJ is. I want to discuss movies and
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I guess I should be posting more here, since this is the format I do like. But after awhile, it's like talking to yourself a bit. And, yeah, I'm a bigger fangirl online than in person.
It is funny that the bigger it has all gotten, the less personal it became. Maybe it is swinging back. I still don't think, offline, I'd be able to find the same kinds of groups that I do love online, but yeah...
Oh man, I've been reading a bunch of history biographies and true crime. They're slower goes, but so worth it. Devil in the White City, The Beast in the Garden at Midnight (I think that's the title) and I'm in the middle of the Perfect Town, Perfect Murder. Television has been so-so, I'm still kind of watching CSI, Criminal Minds and Parks and Rec. But oh man, the AVENGERS! :)
It really is my newest, shiniest obsession. I loved Iron Man as well, liked Thor and Captain America, but the Avengers was a great film so full of fandom ready stuff!
LOL -- I sound desperate for fan-talk! :)
What about you? We'll start a two-journal revival!!!
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I stopped LJ pretty much when I moved back to CO form Boston. I just...didn't have much to say. Sometime this year I started a blog that I've never written in. I have an e-mail chain with myself that has about 20 different ideas in it.
In the meantime, I am obsessed with Downton Abbey. I don't know how it happened. I haven't been this fangirly about anything since Harry Potter, and that's saying something. I think it's because I'm sort of unhappy in real life, but that's a different post for a different time.
I have about 12 books on my shelf but I've been reading fanfic, which pretty much ruins my attention span for real books, unfortunately. I started Paris in Love, which is about Hemingway's first wife. It's fiction though, and first person, and so far really good.
If only I could get off twitter and tumblr long enough to finish it...
But tonight I'm watching Homeland instead.
In unrelated news, I really need to go to the gym!
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But, OMG Downton Abbey! I also love that show. tripp3235 got me hooked on it and it is amazing. Who are your favorites? I do love Matthew and Mary, but find myself feeling really bad for Edith all the time and hoping she gets some kind of happiness.
I've broken down and got a Nook, which has only enabled my habit of buying a ton of books and moving through them at the speed of backwards! Paris in Love sounds good. I'm considering picking up JK Rowling's newest book.
I've heard Homeland is excellent, but we don't have Showtime! Although, we did get HBO almost exclusively to watch Game of Thrones, which I also adore!
In equally unrelated news, I need to go to the gym, too! LOL -- I'm going to Zumba tomorrow, which should be fun. I hope.
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So I had seen posts on LJ in the tv comms about DA but it wasn't until they won at the emmys last year that I really watched. And then I watched again. And then I bought the DVDs, which i rarely do, and forced them on my friends, which i hardly ever do, and then I created a fandom alter ego to play in DA fandom. I might have even written stuff...which is terrible because I can't write dialogue and I'm terrible at plots.
I was thinking about how you're missing fannish enthusiasm that extends beyond this flail or that gifset, and I realized that, at least for my DA interactions, it's a good mix of twitter and tumblr. Both at once, sometimes. But I went looking for DA fandom, and that's where I found them: twitter AND tumblr. (Ugh except the also mostly use ff.net, but oh well. can't have everything)
Remember when all fandoms were on LJ? That's why we ended up here. This is where everyone was! So where's your Avengers fandom? Go where the action is. People are still doing characterizations (they are called metas now) and flailing over things (this is called stanning now), but it's still all there...somewhere.
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I'm not into DA fandom and I haven't written anything, I have a hard time with period pieces, but I do love it very, very much. I mean, it has Dame Maggie Smith in it... it has to be amazing!
I do remember when if you had a fandom, it was here. What I like about Tumblr, and wish was here, is that you can search really easily -- although there's like zero filter. ff.net is kind of like that, because there are fics for everything, but I want to discuss, not just flail over! :P
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Are you able to see the new season or do you have to wait? So far I'm slightly annoyed at it, because it has started believing its own hype, and fleshing out Mary/Matthew while leaving everyone else to rot. Except maybe Edith. But we never know...
I did hear that JKR's new book was pretty good. Not Harry Potter-ish at all. I will probably buy it. I have a kindle app & a nook app but mostly I love holding books and keeping them...but it's really good for reading fic and also, yes, the tearing through books, but I don't want to buy a book twice and if I'm going to love it, I probably want to put it on my shelf.
Wow, that last sentence was very "If you give a mouse a cookie", wasn't it?
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I like my nook, but I still like actual books as well. When it's something I know I'm going to want forever, I buy the book. Although, I wish I'd had my nook when I got into Game of Thrones, because the books are so huge and not easy to carry from place to place and refused to fit in my purse!
LOL -- My daughters love those books. :)
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