I was nostalgic from a very early age

[thecomfychair]

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Life's been unbearably boring as of late.  I can't even think of things to post or tweet or tumbl or comment or whatever, and I feel like I'm talking/staring into a giant void.  everything is boring, boring, boring. I've been making vidlets nonstop though, for some reason. There was the Glee one I posted a few days ago, and there's three more Community ones coming. ~get excited~
 

Fandom nostalgia's been creepin' in, which I suspect has something to do with said boredom.  I dug out my old LOTR cds and listened to the ROTK soundtrack while driving downtown yesterday morning. I decided I'm going to start every morning like that.  Makes being stuck in a traffic a bit more like an epic quest and much less like the bane of my existence.  I've been seeing Lord of the Rings and lotrips mentioned a few times on the flist and around recently, so maybe I'm not the only one feeling nostalgic for it.  I wish I had been more involved on livejournal during the heyday of the movie fandom; I've been on LJ since 2002 but it wasn't until 2004 I started using it actively for fandoms. Most message boards and mailing lists intdimated me, so I spent most of my early fannish career lurking fic sites, bothering NoRoMos in X-Files chats, and being a total teenage brat on TORn and Whose Line boards, but none of that was in a super active way. 
 

  tl;dr: I miss nerding it up about LoTR and lotrips.  I miss having a *fandom* in general. There's a whole of shows I like but not a lot I'm fannish about. Community doesn't really count, though I love it so. Supernatural scares me outside my flist. 
 

POLL OF MASSIVE IMPORTANCEPoll will you wear wigs?I don't think any of you knew me from back then, but no cheating if we've talked about this (or...a certain community) before.  If you guess correctly, you'll win awesome imaginary prizes.
 

Instead of watching the Oscars I watched the Starz preview of Camelot.  It was pretty entertaining, though the story/writing was pretty obvious.  The leads are good enough (especially Joseph Fiennes as Merlin),  the ruins are goregous, and I know next to nothing about the Arthurian legends outside of The Sword and the Stone, so any probable inaccuracies didn't bother me.  Maybe I'm a prude, but it definitely had it's share of gratitious sex/nudity that I wasn't a fan of, the same issue I had with Spartacus. Not only because it seems thrown in just for the sake of having gratitious sex/nudity, but I will fully admit that part of this stems from the fact that we have only one tv in the house, which means I watch these shows with my parents. I don't care that I'm an adult, it's still awkward.  Also, Chris Chibnall is showrunner and headwriter, which can be good or bad depending on how you feel about Chibnall :D

I'll definitely keep watching though. Merlin's easily my favorite character going out of the pilot, and it's got a so-far badass villian in Morgan, even if Arthur bored me.  I wondered why they're previewing it a month early (it officially premieres April 1), but maybe it's to get some advance buzz going ahead of HBO and Game of Thrones. That comes out at the same time, and seems to be getting a lot more media attention.  
You can watch the pilot streaming at the Starz site. 

. There's already fic and multiple communities for it, and I don't even know why this surprises me.