Jinksy-bear has been vocalizing more for the last...few weeks? Month?...although he's still nowhere near as talkative as Claudia. (He used to mew so rarely that whenever he did, I assumed it was Claudia unless he was right in front of me, but he made up for it by having a purr at least ten times the size of him.) But he still communicates a lot ( Read more... )

*sighs* 2013 was another year of not getting nearly as much read as I would've liked to. But this seems to be the new norm, so I really wish I'd just adjust to it. Check my 2013 media intake post if you want to see what exactly I read and watched this year.

• 33 novels/anthologies (plus two novellas and four rereads)
• 1 non-fiction
• 12 volumes of manga/ ( Read more... )

snailbones asked me to talk about what my main fandom is, and how I got into it. I'm unrepentantly excited about this. *g*

[NOTE: I'm doing my best to keep this unspoilery, because being spoiled for this series would SUCK. People who've read the books, if you comment (please do!), please keep it spoiler-free too?]I've also made a separate post for general ( Read more... )

There are so many significant fandom events I'm never likely to get to, what with the lack of infinite money and the inability to be in multiple places at once. But I still love when they happen ( Read more... )

--The long weekend has me convinced it's Sunday. I think I've had to mentally correct myself a dozen times today. No big deal, as long as tomorrow I remember it's Tuesday and make it to my haircut appointment ( Read more... )

I really adore it almost beyond words when fandom makes me love something. Watching Pacific Rim did not make me love it. Tumblr did. I'm not fannish about it, exactly, but I've hit "reflexive squee" status at a lot of elements. (As my Pacific Rim tag on Tumblr clearly attests.)

Here is an example of how Tumblr fandom is making me love it ( Read more... )

I wish I'd liked Pacific Rim better. I really do. I've been reading a ton of posts about it, in both the love and hate camps, but I don't want to try to break down why I didn't bond with it, because I don't feel like there was any kind of deep or meaningful reason why it didn't work so well for me ( Read more... )

My media intake post has the specifics, but here's the breakdown of how much I didn't read last year:

• 28 novels/anthologies (plus two rereads)
• 1 non-fiction
• 20 volumes of manga/comics (down from 110 or so in 2011. Um.)
• 15 new movies (plus two rewatches)
• 14 domestic TV shows (with a significant number of episodes watched)

In case I don't wind up posting again this year (who can say? I haven't actually done proper year's-end memes yet), happy New Year to all of you! I know 2012 has been brutal for a lot of people, and I hope 2013 is worlds better.
And now, the TV-specific meme that's been going around: ( TV in 2012 )

I'm eternally behind the curve on memes, and right now that's compounded by
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