a fannish miscellany

[aria]

i. This week's White Collar: it's a good thing I care about the characters, because oh man I do not care about baseball. Tim DeKay's fanboy face is really great, though! And we are now approaching finale time anxiousness. WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO.

ii. As everyone who cares about Community probably already knows, it returns March 15! I am way too ridiculously excited about it considering that I need to remember the show is not actually about Troy, Abed, and Annie's roleplay-heavy threesome adventures in their apartment. Whatever, I'm also excited for legitimate reasons such as I unconditionally love at least 85% of what that show does.

iii. I finally had a legit fucking nightmare about Supernatural. Apparently my mind can conjure a way of dragging Dean to Hell that's significantly more horrific than what the show gave us? Now that I'm awake I can't remember it very well, and I'm sort of fascinated by the wailing Bosch-esque horrors my mind conjured, but it wasn't very fun to wake up in the middle of the night gasping with terror.

iv. I still care about Sherlock? I'm trying to beat these feelings down to manageable levels by writing fic, but as I can't seem to decide whether I'm writing reunion fic or if the reunion bit is just an establishing shot so I can write about John's sexuality crisis and Sherlock kissing for science, my feelings continue at absurd levels.

v. BOMB GIRLS. It's a six-part (so far; it's been renewed for a second season) series about the women working a Canadian munitions factory in 1941. I noticed some corners of the internet being excited about it when it first started airing, but I waited to give it a go until I could watch it all at once, which turned out to be a good move; I couldn't stop. I love love love the characters, who are all complex and flawed and doing their best, and the women are fully-realized people in a way I would love to see on every show, and it's full of girl friendships and this amazing queer relationship that is currently all sorts of tragic but that I am holding out for endgame and ship SO HARD, and I just. Watch this show! Or if you have, talk with me about it! I am in starry-eyed love.

Comments

[meganbmoore]

Is next week's White Collar the season finale? Because if it is and this week's episode is about baseball, I might just wait the week.

Bomb Girls! I am deeply fretful regarding Kate.

[aria]

Next week's White Collar is indeed the season finale! This week's is perfectly serviceable and less about baseball than I feared it would be, but even so.

Kaaaaate. Oh god. Until told otherwise my headcanon is this fic, Symphony, in which Betty and Gladys try to save Kate but mostly Kate saves herself, because if I don't let this be my headcanon I will just fret endlessly until next season.

[wolfgrin]

So happy to see someone rec Bomb Girls! I love when Canada makes things that are wonderful.

[aria]

It is SO GREAT. Wikipedia will not tell me when the next series is, which is very sad, because I would watch roughly a billion more episodes right now.

[littledust]

BOOOOOOOOOOOMB GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRLS. <333333 The creator of the show has expressed FERVENT FEELINGS on the subject of Betty/Kate, so I have all of my fingers and toes crossed for a non-tragic ending!

self, get off the internet, you have 800 things due

but

BOMB GIRLS *_*

[aria]

BOMB GIRLS IS YOUR FAULT YOU KNOW <33333333 by which I mean that I'd seen recs and collected the episodes, but your squee was what finally nudged me into watching it.

BETTY/KATE FOR ENDGAME, and I actually do have faith! I just, oh wow, I care about them SO MUCH. I have less definite Feelings about what should happen with Lorna and Gladys, but I want ALL THE GOOD THINGS for them also. And for Vera and Marco! And ... we have now mostly covered the characters I have strong feelings about. Sorry, James, I hope you don't tragically die in the war but it's mostly for Gladys' sake.

BOMB GIRLS *_*

[tei]

SHERLOCK KISSING FOR SCIENCE. YAY.

Perhaps I will have a go at Bomb Girls! The entertainment sections of newspapers like to have a field day whenever actual people watch Canadan telly, so I have been reading about it for quite a while.

[aria]

I am just bizarrely OBSESSED with Sherlock kissing for science. I mean, it would be a very flawed experiment because in order to be scientifically rigorous he should have more than one subject, but no, he just wants to conduct kissing-John experiments. It's okay, Sherlock, I think John prefers it that way.

Bomb Girls is so lovely, Tei, you should absolutely give it a go. :D

[sunsetstrip]

Ooh, I will definitely check out Bomb Girls! World War II, lots of ladies, and a non-botched queer storyline? CANADA, O CANADA, I LOVE THEE.

[aria]

YES ALL OF THESE THINGS. Warning for the queer storyline going the way it would in the '40s when one of the participants comes from an abusive and repressive background, so right now everything is all tragic and cliffhangery, but it's all been handled so deftly and I have faith in endgame. Ahhh I just. SUCH A GOOD SHOW.

[sunsetstrip]

That makes me EVEN MORE INTERESTED in watching it! Realism, it is a love of mine. And urgh the fact that it's being well-handled makes me really excited to start watching because FINALLY. I know how I'm spending my weekend.

[anekdot]

I definitely don't have time for TV right now because EVERYDAY I'M THESIS-ING (WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMPA-WOMP), but I am vicariously enjoying your Tumblr picspam of Bomb Girls!

HOW DARE YOU DISPARAGE BASEBALL jk jk. :P

[aria]

Yaaaaay. And perhaps one day when you have no thesis you -- haha no I do not imagine you ever having tons of free time, but maybe in summers you watch telly? Anyway I do advocate Bomb Girls because awesome ladies getting shit done and being in loooove and &c.

fff I HAVE RESIGNED MYSELF I am just never ever going to understand the appeal but I am glad it brings others such happiness!

[anekdot]

Hahahah, in the summer I DO actually watch a decent amount of TV, although I guess it's possible that might be different this summer if I CANNOT FIND A JOB AND AM FORCED TO EXILE MYSELF OUT OF SHAME!!!!!!!!1!!!! But yes when I have mythical free time I will def pick up Bomb Girls. Two great tastes that taste great in lesbians!

I felt that way and then I discovered TIM LINCECUM'S FACE. Also Brian Wilson's beard. And Aubrey Huff's thong. Okay I guess just the Giants in general.

[sassbandit]

Oh wow, I need to watch Bomb Girls LIKE BURNING.

[aria]

It is SO GREAT. :DDD

[luzula]

Huh, Bomb Girls sounds intriguing! I may have to look into that. Given that it always takes me forever to get around to watching TV/movies, six episodes sounds like a reasonable length, too.

[aria]

It is really delightful! And yeah, it is a good amount of television -- took me only two or three days to get through while I was also doing lots of other stuff. I mean, now I wish there was more, but it was also enough to tell a whole satisfying story already. :)

[eccentric_hat]

I still care about Sherlock?

This is the story of my life year so far. It's rather inconvenient, being ambushed by Sherlock feelings at random intervals throughout the day! I would be happy to think about something else for a while! But apparently this is out of my control.

[aria]

It really is terribly inconvenient! And the most bewildering thing, for me, is that when the first season aired, I was really excited by Study in Pink, but Blind Banker put me off enough that I was content to wait more than a year for the cliffhanger resolution and second season. Now I keep on rewatching bits and desperately wishing for more right now, and I did not ask for these feelings! I suspect that they put something in the s2 water.

[surexit]

I really need to get on Bomb Girls, it sounds amazing!

[aria]

It is REALLY GREAT, I seriously can't even. :D

[tiltingheartand]

BOMB GIRLS

My feelings on this show are mostly me drawing out characters' names with various inflections, actually, uh. That and how desperately I want the next episodes to be out.

[aria]

Right? Oh my god they are the beeeeest.