silver linings

[giddygeek]

One thing I will say for the LJ slowdown: I managed to improve my ratio of posts read to comments left. Like, I always read everyone's posts, I don't filter my friendslist, but I guess I was always trying so hard to stay caught up that I was bad at letting people know I was paying attention? And I'm still not stellar about that, because things have

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[sheafrotherdon]

I've seen IM twice (so far) and keep playing the theme music over and over again while I do, oh, everything. It makes everything cooler. Like making the bed? Cooler to the IM theme. Driving? Cooler to the IM theme (also potentially more problematic to the IM theme, since I find I want to speed like Tony would . . . )

The second time I went there were two girls sitting behind me who, at the end of the movie, after Tony's thrown you know what in the water, they were all (over the credits) WHAT? WHAT DID THAT EVEN MEEEEAN? It was all I could do not to turn around and say, ladies, let me introduce you to some communities on the internets . . .

[giddygeek]

Oh gosh, that sounds like an excellent idea--I didn't actually pay attention to the theme music, but fortunately will have another opportunity to do so, when I see the movie again. *grins* As is inevitable. I can't imagine Tony Stark Music doing ANYTHING except making things more awesome, though. Including making the bed, and safe sane careful driving?

I got pulled over for speeding for the first time in YEARS after seeing Hansel & Gretel. Martha was like, it's okay, Jeremy Renner just makes you aggro. /o\

Hee--baby fen in the wild! Bring them in, bring them alllll innnnnnnn. We have all the answers they'll ever need! *g*

[sheafrotherdon]

I just emailed you a thing :>

[giddygeek]

You are brilliant! Thing received & I am excited to check it out on my drive into the city tonight! Friday traffic could use some extra pep. ;-)

<3!

[riadsala]

I only saw that Cracked article from reading Mightygodking's irritated rebuttal article, which I liked because I also enjoy Marvel's banter + explosions formula a whole lot.

[giddygeek]

It's such a good formula! I'm so into it--I feel like it's pretty much my movie ideal, tbh, because I like fun?

I didn't see the rebuttal, but I liked it too; must agree, you can't exactly lump everything that wasn't a drama or a romance into the same category. I feel like Hobbits/Disney/Marvel have a lot of audience overlap but they're not the same thing. That matters!

I'm sure some other genre(s) will be wicked popular in 2020, probably something that isn't even on our radars now--maybe it'll be the new Era of RomCom!--but still and all, don't burst my funbubble now, Cracked.

[mistresscurvy]

It was so great to see you this weekend! And yeah, I understand that PRESSURE thing--like, I definitely rely on my notifs, but when I get behind and I see all of those email threads full of comments I NEED TO DEAL WITH I get overwhelmed and start to ostrich a lot until I suddenly feel like I can tackle them again. And I don't DISLIKE tumblr, I just think that it fills a really different fannish need for me than LJ/DW does, and I definitely have no intention of abandoning one for the other :D

Also, I think a lot of us have a ton of fannish interactions in person, like last weekend, and that's not the SAME as engaging on LJ and so forth, but it fills in the gaps for me, a lot. (I first typed that as "fills in the gays." ORLY BRAIN.)

21 Jump Street is just so absurdly satisfying, in so many ways. I LOVE IT A LOT.

[giddygeek]

:D :D :D I really enjoyed getting to hang out--such a good time! And yes, I can absolutely see getting overwhelmed and needing to ostrich. It's a weird balance to try to maintain!

Agreed, re: tumblr; I have one and I use it fairly often and I enjoy it quite a bit. But it's so passive for me, in a lot of ways? I may reblog something if I want to see it again on my dash, or whatever, but I'm rarely doing anything new or creative or adding to the conversation. It just doesn't draw me in that way.

I'm soooo much a person who prefers face-to-face interactions, and always have been. I'm really glad to live in a region where I get a lot of that with fangirls. It makes the whole experience MUCH richer!

I just don't get why there are practically NO stories on the archive...it's not like the canon gave us nothing to work with. Other hand, I didn't come out inspired to write a pile of them either. *grins* Hopefully someone will, or they'll at least make a few more, because &them; and also &over-falsity of confidence;

[misspamela]

That weekend could not have gone better, weather-wise, company-wise, etc, etc. WOULD WEEKEND AGAIN.

[giddygeek]

Yessss, ideal, everything worked out so well! You are a good road trip buddy. :D :D :D Would weekend again, should definitely NYC again sometime!

[giddygeek]

I seriously don't get how we all missed it! No one nominated it at all, out of ALL THE THINGS that get nominated! Weird. Must not happen again. Channing Tatum is just such a TREASURE and so funny and the two of them were so clearly lovebros, I just don't even know. Super into it, definitely hoping we get at least one or two excellent stories for it. :D