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[aria]

Wow, I forgot how spectacularly I hate late November. It isn't for any particular reason this year, since I have neither looming exams nor any recent big screw-ups, but my body and brain seem to remember very well that late November is rubbish. I keep sleeping badly and staying in bed way too long, my mind is insistently cataloging the thousand ways I urgently need to improve as a person, and even emailing a local friend to ask when she'll be home for the holidays feels like an insurmountable human-interaction task. For the most part I am patiently waiting this feeling out, for lo, December is approaching and December is a month of sparkly joy in the same irrational way that November is awful. Until December arrives and magically makes my brain behave, though, here are some of the (fannish, obvs) ways I have been distracting it:

+ At paper_tzipporah's insistence I have started watching Farscape. I suspect that, as with Babylon 5, one's first best watch is done with a friend who is already in love with the show. As is, I am wandering through first season, enjoying the view but not mainlining it yet. (Also, bringing up Babylon 5 in this context makes me realize how much I'd love to see Delenn and Zhaan in the same room. I don't know what they would do, but it'd be amazing.)

+ I have also watched the first two episodes of Once Upon a Time, and I am charmed despite the fact that I keep getting distracted by most of the actors' sheer confusion at how to play the fairytale-flashback bits. There also just seems to be a deluge of Snow White-centric stories lately? I've now seen previews for both of the films that are coming out next year, and I can't stifle the small panicked voice in my head that keeps saying "Snow Glass Apples! Snow Glass Apples!" Yes, little voice, I already saw Kristen Stewart get turned into a vampire last week, I know how this story goes.

+ I ... can't quite dislodge myself from investment in Supernatural. Right now it's manifesting as mild curiosity about some of the early-seasons episodes I skipped, so I've been watching bits with Azazel's other kids and John and Meg, and enjoying it stupid amounts. This time through, though I still have a tendency to go "Oh Dean," I've also been saying "Oh Sammy," a lot more frequently than I did the first time around. WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE GRIP ME TIGHT AND RAISE ME FROM THIS SHOW.

+ The amount of writing I am doing! A bewilderingly long James/Lily/Remus/Sirius fic is probably coming soon to a computer near you, and then of course there is Yuletide, and also other Yuletide stories I will probably write despite not being assigned them, and mm. I love December because December is that glorious time when one curls up with a hot drink and all the beloved source material and just goes to town with it.

Comments

[holli]

I am making srevans watch Farscape with me, and I had kind of forgotten how much crack this show actually managed to cram in. Also, the bodily fluid humor. But I still kind of love it anyway.

[aria]

Hah, yep! But, I mean, I am super charmed despite the helium farts. Mostly I would just watch the Zhaan and Aeryn show because I already love them both to pieces.

[icepixie]

OMG, Farscape. That was the first show I was fannish about with a big group. (I joined mailing lists! I went to cons!) I was hooked with my first episode, "DNA Mad Scientist," but I think it matters that this was 1999, and my main TV show at the time was Voyager. FS was such a giant breath of fresh air in comparison: the characters were self-serving and mean! Their actions had consequences that lasted further than just one episode! The dialogue sounded natural rather than stilted, and it was funny!

In retrospect, the first season is not their greatest, although I think it does pick up around the middle. The fourth season unfortunately wanders into a dark wood and doesn't find its way back again, or it felt like that to me. (Two words: head lobsters.) But a good chunk of S1 and all of S2-3 are fantastic.

[aria]

Aww, Farscape definitely seems like an excellent first show to be fannish about in a community. :D And yeah, my first-season rule, especially with sci-fi shows, is to give it and the first few episodes of the second season a chance before making a decision to stop or keep going, and so far Farscape is doing quite well for first-season sci-fi.

[gehayi]

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE GRIP ME TIGHT AND RAISE ME FROM THIS SHOW.

THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. THIS SHOW IS A CROSSROADS DEAL. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE FROM THE YELLOW-EYED SERIES.

[aria]

HI, GODSTIEL ICON

BUT MAYBE IF I SHOOT THE SERIES WITH A MAGIC COLT PISTOL IT WILL DIE FOREVER AND NEVER TROUBLE ME AGAIN?

[gehayi]

ALAS, IT IS ONE OF THE FIVE THINGS THAT CANNOT BE KILLED BY THE COLT.

[januar]

A bewilderingly long James/Lily/Remus/Sirius fic is probably coming soon to a computer near you

Hopefully really really soon, because that sounds awesome. :D