I've come to the filler episodes in my Bleach catch-up, and they are boring. I once discussed with a friend reasons for boring fillers, and she supposed that it's because the development of the characters is paused. And also because the anime scriptwriters try to add what lacks in the main storyline, that is, light touch. But comedy somehow turns ( Read more... )

My fandom still gets on my nerves. "We are going to comment on your every entry about how character A is sweet and how he and B are lovely together and we are going to question you about A's reprehensible behaviour, and we are going to write entries about how some people ignore and pervert canon and how weird it is and how A and B are clearly the ( Read more... )

No matter what logic tells me, I can't lose my ability to be upset by Internet squabbles. Especially when they concern me and my friends. Even if nothing worse than an exchange of bad words happens.

Spent four wonderful days with lots of wonderful people. Went to the Spring Slashcon which I liked less than the Autumn one, except for meeting lots of people. Had a round of drabble-writing in our favourite restaurant, was told quite severely that 'never mind Bleach, SPN is the fandom, and it will eat your brain'. Hmm; not sure I have any brain to ( Read more... )

An amusing experience (back at the Russian side of the web): I've become a co-moderator of a fairly big (359 readers as of today) fanfiction community. I have never thought about myself in a position of any authority whatsoever, so it's kind of weird to issue warnings and such. And to ban. (because the problem we inherited from the previous set of ( Read more... )

Well, I had fun but definitely of the non-serious variety. There were three seminars/master classes and one round table, and no matter what were their individual qualities all the seminars suffered from one problem - not actually being seminars/master classes. More than hundred people, a room big but not big enough for them - small possibilities ( Read more... )

Sometimes people surprise me a lot... The programme for the Moscow SlashCon, which I'm planning on attending this Saturday, is now online. People are discussing it. But the tone of these discussions is... weird, imho. It's something along the lines of "OMG, there will be round tables and seminars and master classes! At a slash conventions! You're ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I like LJ so much is that it's open. When most of fandom interaction was on mailing lists, you could participate only if you joined the list and it was difficult to know which lists to join, where you'd like the discussion and the fics and where you wouldn't ( Read more... )

Well, I'm glad I went there. Especially since this year it was much more like a con and less like a drunken party ( Read more... )