why

I may be slightly flattened by how much I've come to care for the characters in My Life as a Dog. I say this because, um, I am not really much in the habit of watching telly specifically for kids these days (...if we ignore the Magic School Bus episodes I have somewhere) and so I expect to be charmed, not invested. The Sarah Jane Adventures, for instance, charm me like mad, and I may have a bit of a crush on Sarah Jane, but again I am charmed rather than invested. With My Life as a Dog I am actually spending entire episodes clutching at my face going "Johnny Johnny Johnny" in ... remarkably the same way I do with Billy and Ray, actually, so it's not that shocking. But I also care more than I expected about Zoe, and would probably be clutching my face going "Zoe!" too, except that she is sane (mostly) and wants practical things like good windows and not a caboose in the back yard, and Johnny is the one out playing hockey into the wee hours, so Johnny is the one I yell at through the screen.

My actual point, though, is [a] I love Johnny but mostly [b] little Eric has a moral compass pointing due north, and he tries very hard to solve everyone else's problems, and he has a weird encyclopedic knowledge of useful things and a twelfth-grade reading level despite very little formal training, and he always believes the best of people, and he's dealing with a dead mother and endless daddy issues, so basically Eric is Benton Fraser at the age of twelve. Except instead of being raised by traveling librarians he's being raised by Johnny Johansson. Considering how damn funny I find this, I should probably get some new hobbies.

Instead I am off to my summer retail job, but it's possible new hobbies might happen eventually.

into tomorrow & the rest of our lives

I haven't done this meme in about a year, which means it's high time to resurrect it. I don't know if it has official instructions or an official name, but it basically goes: personify your fandoms as relationships and then talk about those relationships! I think it is a very apt thing to do; I was mostly fandomless, if still fannish, from roughly 2005 to 2007, which not coincidentally were the years when I was spending time and energy on a couple of lovely girlfriends. Fandoms can also be kind of like dating.

( Harry Potter, Good Omens, Doctor Who, and due South, or: those four fandoms I've had serious flings with. )

It is now extremely important that you do this meme too! either in comments or your own journal, I am not fussed. It's entertaining and potentially informative and might even give you nostalgia for fandoms past.