[#012] Before I leave for Atlantic City...
...I thought I'd throw down a post! Because, why not.
i. I'm going to Atlantic City tomorrow! My best friends, for my birthday, are taking me there as a belated gift, and I'm so excited!!! I hadn't been planning on doing any trips of any sort until October, but they surprised me. :DDDDDDDDDD It kinda sucks that it'll be raining 2/3 of the days that we're there, but you know, whatever. We'll deal, lol.
ii. SO TRAILERS FOR THE PILOTS WENT OUT. Um.
(Here's where you can watch them: 1) Leaked NBC Midseason; 2) CW; 3) CBS; 4) ABC; 5) FOX; 6) ABC)
So. Here's some thoughts:
- Because certain trailers looked interesting, I am adding three more shows to the list of things I want to check out next season, despite not initially liking their logline. That would be Speechless (which I was kind of avoiding because I'm not a big Minnie Driver fan), Pitch (even though baseball is like the ONLY sport I can stomach watching), and Designated Survivor (because I typically don't like presidential shows). But yeah, the trailers actually looked good, which made me curious enough to at least check out the first episode.
- Shows that I'm both excited for and whose trailers were actually awesome? No Tomorrow, Frequency, Notorious, The Good Place. (Also, Making History and Powerless are on this list, but since they're midseason shows, we have a long way to wait before we get to check them out. SIGH.) Both CW trailers look really interesting, Frequency, I think, has loads of potential, but I am worried it may be one of those shows that needs to be only a season long and no more. No Tomorrow looks like fun! Notorious, I don't know why I'm super excited for this but this could be because I love Piper Perabo and I want her to succeed so hard. And lastly, The Good Place. I definitely did not know this show was going to be what it was, but HOLY FUCK IT LOOKS SO INTERESTING. It's taking place, basically in something equivalent to Heaven, and I'm just excited to see where it'll go.
- Shows that I'm worried about: Primarily Conviction. I want it to do so well, but I fucking hate Hayley Atwell's American accent in this. I think the concept is interesting, but the voice is actually grating enough for me that I'm not sure I can keep holding on to the show. But who knows! I AM JUDGING THIS SOLELY BY THE TRAILER. Maybe if I see the first episode, it'll only be jarring for five minutes, and then I'll be okay with it. (Or the opposite could happen, who knows.)
- I made a excel sheet where I timetabled my shows for next season (missing like 2 shows, I think and the fact that they're now bumping Pitch to fall), but guys. I now have 30 shows on this list. I really hope I drop some somewhere, because um, I don't know if I can have any sort of social life or even a work life with a schedule like this. (Check it out here! I watch too many shows on Tuesdays. Granted, I don't watch anything live anymore, mostly, but still. Fuck.)
iii. Bringing this back!
30 Days of Fangirlism
Day 03 - First fandom, the one that made you the fangirl you are today
I couldn't quite decide which one I wanted to go with for this. Because honestly? I think two fandoms shaped me: Sailor Moon first because really, that was the first fandom I was in without realizing I was in a fandom. Even though the participants that I knew about WHILE I was a huge fan was limited to my sister and my upstairs neighbor that introduced me to the show in the Japanese fanbase. My neighbor, who btw I LOVED SO MUCH as a kid, showed me the Japanese version, introduced me to a certain show in Chinatown where I convinced my mom to buy me tapes of the show as well as random merchandise, was an amazing fanartist, and just generally loved talking about it with me. My sister, AR, would draw with me, we'd make up fucking stories (FANFICTION, WITHOUT REALIZING IT) for the show, we would claim a Sailor Scout for ourselves (I was always Mercury, of course, and she was always Venus). And yeah, this was when I discovered I had a capacity to love something to this extent.
But it was really Digimon where I discovered fans and making things for people, and communicating with people. I wrote fanfiction, I talked to other authors who wrote fanfiction, I was in an RPG group that was Digimon related (which is still up on the internet and sometimes I go back and read and cringe, because I'm pretty sure my character's boyfriend's rp... person? wanted to write much filthier things between our charas, but I WAS SO INNOCENT BACK THEN so I never jumped at the chance to write anything smutty. WHICH IS SO WEIRD BECAUSE GUYS, OUR CHARAS WERE LIKE 13/14? MAYBE?). Anyway, I loved that fandom. That's when I discovered fanfiction to the full extent, because I loved reading it. (Shoutout to ff.net!) And that's something that still continues till today. So yes, I think these two combined really made me develop who I am in fandom now. :)
Days: 01 | 02
i. I'm going to Atlantic City tomorrow! My best friends, for my birthday, are taking me there as a belated gift, and I'm so excited!!! I hadn't been planning on doing any trips of any sort until October, but they surprised me. :DDDDDDDDDD It kinda sucks that it'll be raining 2/3 of the days that we're there, but you know, whatever. We'll deal, lol.
ii. SO TRAILERS FOR THE PILOTS WENT OUT. Um.
(Here's where you can watch them: 1) Leaked NBC Midseason; 2) CW; 3) CBS; 4) ABC; 5) FOX; 6) ABC)
So. Here's some thoughts:
- Because certain trailers looked interesting, I am adding three more shows to the list of things I want to check out next season, despite not initially liking their logline. That would be Speechless (which I was kind of avoiding because I'm not a big Minnie Driver fan), Pitch (even though baseball is like the ONLY sport I can stomach watching), and Designated Survivor (because I typically don't like presidential shows). But yeah, the trailers actually looked good, which made me curious enough to at least check out the first episode.
- Shows that I'm both excited for and whose trailers were actually awesome? No Tomorrow, Frequency, Notorious, The Good Place. (Also, Making History and Powerless are on this list, but since they're midseason shows, we have a long way to wait before we get to check them out. SIGH.) Both CW trailers look really interesting, Frequency, I think, has loads of potential, but I am worried it may be one of those shows that needs to be only a season long and no more. No Tomorrow looks like fun! Notorious, I don't know why I'm super excited for this but this could be because I love Piper Perabo and I want her to succeed so hard. And lastly, The Good Place. I definitely did not know this show was going to be what it was, but HOLY FUCK IT LOOKS SO INTERESTING. It's taking place, basically in something equivalent to Heaven, and I'm just excited to see where it'll go.
- Shows that I'm worried about: Primarily Conviction. I want it to do so well, but I fucking hate Hayley Atwell's American accent in this. I think the concept is interesting, but the voice is actually grating enough for me that I'm not sure I can keep holding on to the show. But who knows! I AM JUDGING THIS SOLELY BY THE TRAILER. Maybe if I see the first episode, it'll only be jarring for five minutes, and then I'll be okay with it. (Or the opposite could happen, who knows.)
- I made a excel sheet where I timetabled my shows for next season (missing like 2 shows, I think and the fact that they're now bumping Pitch to fall), but guys. I now have 30 shows on this list. I really hope I drop some somewhere, because um, I don't know if I can have any sort of social life or even a work life with a schedule like this. (Check it out here! I watch too many shows on Tuesdays. Granted, I don't watch anything live anymore, mostly, but still. Fuck.)
iii. Bringing this back!
30 Days of Fangirlism
Day 03 - First fandom, the one that made you the fangirl you are today
I couldn't quite decide which one I wanted to go with for this. Because honestly? I think two fandoms shaped me: Sailor Moon first because really, that was the first fandom I was in without realizing I was in a fandom. Even though the participants that I knew about WHILE I was a huge fan was limited to my sister and my upstairs neighbor that introduced me to the show in the Japanese fanbase. My neighbor, who btw I LOVED SO MUCH as a kid, showed me the Japanese version, introduced me to a certain show in Chinatown where I convinced my mom to buy me tapes of the show as well as random merchandise, was an amazing fanartist, and just generally loved talking about it with me. My sister, AR, would draw with me, we'd make up fucking stories (FANFICTION, WITHOUT REALIZING IT) for the show, we would claim a Sailor Scout for ourselves (I was always Mercury, of course, and she was always Venus). And yeah, this was when I discovered I had a capacity to love something to this extent.
But it was really Digimon where I discovered fans and making things for people, and communicating with people. I wrote fanfiction, I talked to other authors who wrote fanfiction, I was in an RPG group that was Digimon related (which is still up on the internet and sometimes I go back and read and cringe, because I'm pretty sure my character's boyfriend's rp... person? wanted to write much filthier things between our charas, but I WAS SO INNOCENT BACK THEN so I never jumped at the chance to write anything smutty. WHICH IS SO WEIRD BECAUSE GUYS, OUR CHARAS WERE LIKE 13/14? MAYBE?). Anyway, I loved that fandom. That's when I discovered fanfiction to the full extent, because I loved reading it. (Shoutout to ff.net!) And that's something that still continues till today. So yes, I think these two combined really made me develop who I am in fandom now. :)
Days: 01 | 02