A quick fandom update!
It's been a while since I touched base here! I've actually been super-busy with fun fandom things, but haven't had the time to post about them. So, an update!
First and foremost...
1. LeeFest 2019 !!!
YES, I am going to see Lee again! IN TWO DAYS. This time in a play! And, as you can probably imagine, I'M A LITTLE BIT EXCITED.
Lee is appearing off-Broadway in the play "Long Lost," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Donald Margulies. The play has been in previews for the last 3 weeks and had its official opening on Tuesday night. My husband and I are attending this Saturday's evening performance, alongside tobyfan, miltil, and discreetmadchen, all of whom I met in 2017 at the PaleyFest Oz reunion. AND in a delightful coincidence, suespur had already made plans to be in NYC this weekend, and she'll be there, too! WOOT! Michiganders represent! A long-time Oz fan named Jessica (she was at Godfather IV), who I've come to know through Twitter, will also be there.
The play sounds awesome, and Lee is basically the co-lead as a recovering-addict ex-con (sound familiar? LOL) who suddenly reappears and wreaks havoc in the life of his wealthy, successful younger brother (Angus?!). Here is a quick montage video of some highlights from the play put out by the theater company:
As awesome as the PaleyFest reunion was, I've always longed to Lee actually *perform* in person, and I can't believe it's going to happen. ZOMG
2. A New Fandom! Kind of!
In keeping with my tradition of discovering fandoms at least 5-10 years after everyone else...
At the end of April, along with half the world, I saw the movie Avengers: Endgame. Now, I've been a casual Marvel fan at best, seeing maybe half the movies in the universe (the other Avengers movies, and the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and a few others here and there). And while I'd enjoyed the ones I'd watched very much, I was never really "into" the whole thing. And that changed when I saw Endgame. I was BLOWN AWAY and thought the whole movie was AMAZING and that it was the most PERFECT way to end the series, and I was like, WOW, I get it! I FINALLY GET IT. So, I went on this big marathon of watching every Marvel movie in sequence (the lone exception being the Incredible Hulk, because apparently that movie's pretty bad and has little tie-in with the rest of the universe and didn't even have Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk), and my excitement GREW, because I finally realized the extent of the intricacies of the plots and I was blown away by how they all came together, and OMG, now I love these movies so much! And then I went back and watched Endgame a second time, and I understood everything so much more, and now I have that FEELING you get when you love something so much you don't even know how to begin to celebrate it.
I thought I might want to write fic for it!
BUT I checked out AO3 to see what was going on there, and OMG, there is SO much stuff. And... I don't like a lot of it. There's a lot of people into things I'm totally not into, at least not in the way they are. Which is fine! Whatever floats your boat, and all that, but it's so overwhelming and it's been hard to find my niche.
Once again, as I discovered with Stranger Things, I'm not sure big fandoms are for me.
*runs back to Oz*
3. Writing :(
I want to do more writing, but I'm in a bit of a funk. There was a superpower prompt at hardtime100 that I was so excited for, but I couldn't transfer the witty banter in my head to the screen. I want to settle down and get back to my neglected Big Oz Fic, but other shiny objects keep distracting me (like the trailer for the new Spiderman movie where he deals with the fallout from Endgame OMG Tom Holland is awesome). I do have this Holly Beecher ficlet that I started way back last Halloween that I'm poking at again. I think I like it, even if there's not much to it. Sometimes I need to remind myself that short stories are OK too. Maybe that will get me going again.
Anyway, that's about it! Hopefully, I'll have something about meeting Lee to post later (maybe not 6,000 words like last time, but *something* anyway :D)!
First and foremost...
1. LeeFest 2019 !!!
YES, I am going to see Lee again! IN TWO DAYS. This time in a play! And, as you can probably imagine, I'M A LITTLE BIT EXCITED.
Lee is appearing off-Broadway in the play "Long Lost," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Donald Margulies. The play has been in previews for the last 3 weeks and had its official opening on Tuesday night. My husband and I are attending this Saturday's evening performance, alongside tobyfan, miltil, and discreetmadchen, all of whom I met in 2017 at the PaleyFest Oz reunion. AND in a delightful coincidence, suespur had already made plans to be in NYC this weekend, and she'll be there, too! WOOT! Michiganders represent! A long-time Oz fan named Jessica (she was at Godfather IV), who I've come to know through Twitter, will also be there.
The play sounds awesome, and Lee is basically the co-lead as a recovering-addict ex-con (sound familiar? LOL) who suddenly reappears and wreaks havoc in the life of his wealthy, successful younger brother (Angus?!). Here is a quick montage video of some highlights from the play put out by the theater company:
Click to viewAs awesome as the PaleyFest reunion was, I've always longed to Lee actually *perform* in person, and I can't believe it's going to happen. ZOMG
2. A New Fandom! Kind of!
In keeping with my tradition of discovering fandoms at least 5-10 years after everyone else...
At the end of April, along with half the world, I saw the movie Avengers: Endgame. Now, I've been a casual Marvel fan at best, seeing maybe half the movies in the universe (the other Avengers movies, and the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and a few others here and there). And while I'd enjoyed the ones I'd watched very much, I was never really "into" the whole thing. And that changed when I saw Endgame. I was BLOWN AWAY and thought the whole movie was AMAZING and that it was the most PERFECT way to end the series, and I was like, WOW, I get it! I FINALLY GET IT. So, I went on this big marathon of watching every Marvel movie in sequence (the lone exception being the Incredible Hulk, because apparently that movie's pretty bad and has little tie-in with the rest of the universe and didn't even have Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk), and my excitement GREW, because I finally realized the extent of the intricacies of the plots and I was blown away by how they all came together, and OMG, now I love these movies so much! And then I went back and watched Endgame a second time, and I understood everything so much more, and now I have that FEELING you get when you love something so much you don't even know how to begin to celebrate it.
I thought I might want to write fic for it!
BUT I checked out AO3 to see what was going on there, and OMG, there is SO much stuff. And... I don't like a lot of it. There's a lot of people into things I'm totally not into, at least not in the way they are. Which is fine! Whatever floats your boat, and all that, but it's so overwhelming and it's been hard to find my niche.
Once again, as I discovered with Stranger Things, I'm not sure big fandoms are for me.
*runs back to Oz*
3. Writing :(
I want to do more writing, but I'm in a bit of a funk. There was a superpower prompt at hardtime100 that I was so excited for, but I couldn't transfer the witty banter in my head to the screen. I want to settle down and get back to my neglected Big Oz Fic, but other shiny objects keep distracting me (like the trailer for the new Spiderman movie where he deals with the fallout from Endgame OMG Tom Holland is awesome). I do have this Holly Beecher ficlet that I started way back last Halloween that I'm poking at again. I think I like it, even if there's not much to it. Sometimes I need to remind myself that short stories are OK too. Maybe that will get me going again.
Anyway, that's about it! Hopefully, I'll have something about meeting Lee to post later (maybe not 6,000 words like last time, but *something* anyway :D)!