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[fera_festiva]

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The fabulous komakoma drew this wonderful fanart for my story, Little House After The End. Go over there and give praise where it's due!

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I stole from spacefragments the idea to make a graph of fandoms over time (her original post can be found here). Only, because I am overly ambitious and finickity, I also included on mine a rough measure of, I guess, my

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[epithalamium]

Random: people are starting to post pictures of the Torchwood series 4 cast. I'm trying to decide if I'm going to see it or not. But heck. I don't know. :P
For someone who tuned in on Doctor Who because of that one episode where Colin Morgan appeared, on the other hand, I'm still watching DW even though I haven't even started on Merlin series 2. Oh boy, how complicated is fandom.

But what I meant to say was: Pony!Tom has the best outfit! I don't know him from Adam, but I like his taste in clothes. ;D

[fera_festiva]

Tom really does have great clothes IRL too! He wears a lot of professor type clothes, brown corduroy and the like. Awesome. :P

I don't know how I feel about the new Torchwood, I really don't. I really enjoyed the silliness of the first two series, then found Children of Earth really difficult to watch. And the trailers for the new one... it now seems so far removed from Doctor Who that I don't know if I've got the energy, you know? :/

[epithalamium]

I really enjoyed the silliness of the first two series, then found Children of Earth really difficult to watch.

ikr! The first two series are what my friends and I call the 'Sex with aliens' series, but CoE is just too painful. I'm sure there was some sort of catharsis in it, but idk: I cried watching the Doctor Who Van Gogh episode, but felt really happy afterwards (whut). I didn't get that with CoE.

Oh well, there's always the Doctor. ;D

[fera_festiva]

Exactly. The first two series were just so much fun, and even when characters died I felt like it was done right, like their deaths were fair. CoE was just the total opposite - not fun, and bleak, and pointless, and trying too hard to be clever.

I get the impression that a lot of people feel like that, too - I know of several amongst my flist (and their flists) who agree.

[spacefragments]

YOU ARE CRAZY.

<3

[fera_festiva]

♥ ILU2 bb

[fera_festiva]

I know what you mean. Spacefragments' was drawn by hand and I originally meant to do it that way too, but then my brain began to tick and before I knew it I was making TABLES.

The peaks and troughs are basically this: I have been into Zelda for years but my interest is generally low-level (to borrow from the relationship analogy I've used before, it's more affectionate than passionate for the most part), but the peaks are the times that I started playing a new game and I got MASSIVELY OBSESSED with it for six months or so. :D

[lefaym]

Hahaha, how did I miss this? (Answer: I suck at checking my flist lately, and I came over here just now to read your LJ because I am a CREEPY STALKER I need to finally get around to reading your zombie fic.)

Anyway, you were actually among the people who first read Harry Potter in 1997? That is very awesome.

[fera_festiva]

Haha, yes, I was! I'm such a Potter hipster. It was because my then-BFF's mother worked for the Children's Book Award, and was in charge of finding people to test-read nominated books. So I read Philosopher's Stone when it came out. It was a finalist, up against two other books, one of which was by Sharon Creech and the other I can't remember but it wasn't as good. I picked HP on the grounds that Sharon Creech was well-known and I like to root for the underdog. XD

[lefaym]

Haha, that's brilliant -- it's so weird to think of HP as the underdog, but of course, it was. Wow.

[fera_festiva]

IKR? My friend's mum, the woman who organised the testing, actually met JKR at the book awards that year, before she was anything like famous. Apparently she came across as very timid, and like she was surprised to be there. Seems funny to think of it now. :D