time for my bi-annual lj check-in, I guess

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Everything else in my internet life is in a major throwback mode rn (I'll get to that in a minute), so I suppose it is only natural to also feel like visiting the ghost town that is livejournal. I do miss you, lj! Tumblr is the least social social media platform I have ever seen. I don't understand why fandom migrated to a website that doesn't even

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[bazcat89]

you also saw Our Lady of Perfection hayley atwell at both cons. do not neglect my wife.

samesies re: the hp reread. i thought my tastes might change in New and Dramatic ways. but nope. i have flawless taste.

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oh yes!!! I did indeed bask in Hayley atwell's perfection, both from afar and up close, then complimented her on a one-off episode of tv she did like 4 years ago and her twitter

right?? good to know I invested all my emotional energy in the right place back in like 2002, good job, me! way to be.

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Goddamn I really want to do a reread. All of my hardcover books are in San Diego and I'm clearly not going to bring them up here, though. Maybe I should just buy myself a new set??

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THERE'S SOME REALLY NICE SETS OUT NOW THAT I WANT BUT HAVE NO EXCUSE TO BUY so you should buy one of them in honour of me

[firstofoct]

CAN WE PLEASE MOVE EVERYONE BACK TO LJ????????????????

I thoroughly enjoying your HP renaissance bb. Throwback! Maybe this new fic of yours will be the third ever ~Jily fic I read! (Second if the search/replace Cloen & Rose one doesn't count lmao)

And IKR s h o c k i n g that we would fall so hard for perfect Matt Murdock right?

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lol I WISH. THREADED CONVERSATIONS,what a novelty.

I am enjoying it as well. I regret nothing. writing fic like it's 2005. If this is the 3rd Lily/James fic you read it will also be the best, by virtue of the other being written by a teenager. I'm glad past me set the bar really low.

I mean, no one who had seen the Ben Affleck movie could've predicted it, to be fair.

[firstofoct]

THREADED CONVOS I MISS THEM.

damn. you're so confident this will be the best. :P

LMAO I FUCKING KNOW RIGHT. AND I WAS SET ON NOT LIKING IT FOR EXACTLY THAT REASON

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I would take 16 year old Kali in a fight. Bring it. I have life experience, skill and size on my side.

I maintain we should rewatch it! It'd be so funny.

[rosaxx50]

I think one thing led to another and now it's always crickets when I check. Come baaaaack. Tumblr has terrible opinions on everything.

Is there something terrible about Toronto, or just a case of... DNW to go there? It sucks that the job stability still hasn't come. Hopefully, it's on the pipeline either with this job or a different one.

until the point I watched it and developed a massive crush on Matt Murdock.

Oh, don't we all? He's fiiiiine. I've only watched the first two episodes. Really gotta finish the series.

I'm thinking about starting to watch Sense8, too. I flirted briefly with the idea when it first came out but ultimately didn't, because at that point I knew I'd just be downloading it and letting it rot. Then, yesterday, I tried the first episode and actually got 10 minutes in and still wanted to keep watching, which was a massive achievement, since I haven't watched more than five consecutive minutes of TV in the five months before that.

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lol Tumblr is so frustrating. I'm neck deep in it now because like I said here I love fandom but Tumblr is the worst place for doing fandom, omg.

I just don't really like Toronto -- it's too big and the cost of living is very expensive and just feels sort of soulless to me. It's probably not the worst place to live, and as Canadian cities go it's the most practical (other) city for me, but blech lol. PLUS I HATE THEIR HOCKEY TEAM.

It's pretty rare for me to have as big a crush on a male character as I did on Matt, but it sure did the job of getting me invested in Daredevil. I ended up liking the show overall -- I was worried that all the villain's corrupt scheming would be convoluted and boring, but I was able to follow it pretty easily lol.

Sense8 is so good!! Especially if you already enjoyed the first ten minutes, because most people find the pilot ep confusing & slow, and it takes them 3-4 episodes to really get invested. The end of ep 4 is where I was like "SOLD" and it just went up from there. It's a fun concept.

[shyfoxling]

Somewhat related since I'm working federally again, Canadian politics is a hot ass mess right now.

No kidding. (Not Canadian myself, but husband is a Canadian expat, so I hear more bits than the average California grizzly bear.)

I've watched and enjoyed a few TV shows this year, although none in a "give me all the fic you have" way

That happened to me earlier this year with Takin' Over the Asylum, but "all the fic you have" for that is, alas, still devourable in just a few days, since few have heard of it.

As I am a Lily/Severus partisan (not against Lily/James, obviously it's the canon ship, just sayin'), perhaps we shall delicately avoid that part of the post. :D

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Haha Takin' Over the Asylum is miraculously one of, like, 5 things on David Tennant's IMDB page I actually haven't watched. It is always unfortunate to get really into something that has no fandom though. Even with Broadchurch I found myself reading virtually everything regardless of whether I normally would or not, just because it was there.

[shyfoxling]

I haven't really made a concerted effort to seek out Broadchurch fic in the way I did with Harry Potter (which might be given away by my icon) or with Doctor Who, but I read some that comes my way, mainly via a few people I follow on tumblr and some connections through there. Becoming a fan of David Tennant and trying to use his CV as a checklist has opened some new vistas in that regard. I remain bemused, though, at how strong a strain of Ship All The Billies And Davids exists among his fans - I'm more sanguine about random crossovers than I used to be when I first got into fandom in general, but some of the combinations like Rose x Hardy make my eyebrows do odd confused dances. (Though, to be fair, I've read Rose x Peter Carlisle that I liked fairly well and I've got a Donna x Peter sitting around to read, so there's that!)

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I find rpf totally revolting, so all the not-so-thiny-veiled David/Billie masquerading as Random David Tennant Character/Random Billie Character is deeply irritating to me, too. I'm not sure if you'd have seen it on Tumblr or not but I did find the Broadchurch s2 "shipwar" utterly hysterical given that it was a shipwar between... like... shippers of the two canonical leads, and shippers of an absolutely fabricated-of-thin-air crossover ship. Someone called me "trash" when I poked fun by asking where all the Alec Hardy/Alesha Phillips was, lmfao. I love Ten/Rose, I love David Tennant, I love Bilie Piper, but not every one of their character arcs needs to recreate Ten/Rose nor should they be each other's only scene partners until the end of time.

[fandomwarrior]

Wow, into the Clone Club too, eh? I welcome you too :D

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Oh I love Orphan Black! I've been watching since s1 aired. It's so good. Sarah Manning is one of my favourite characters ever.