Okay, so I asked Lil Sis again what she thought about Supernatural, and the conversation went something like this:

Me: So my online friends want to know what you think about Supernatural.
Her: [appalled] What? Why?
Me: Because they all watch it, too. And I told them I'd tell them what you think.
Her: [still confused] Okaaaaay. [She will never understand my online life.]
Me: So what do you think?
Her: It's okay. I don't really like that it's so scary.
Me: WHAT? You are the one who watches all the horror movies I refuse to watch! You love horror movies!
Her: Yeah, but movies are different. They're scary and then it's over. This, like, keeps being scary.
Me: Okay. So what else?
Her: I think one of the reasons I can't get into it is that there aren't any girls.
Me: [trying to hide how much I love her for this] I totally get that. The show really fails when it comes to ladies.
Her: Are there ever going to be any girls?
Me: Kinda? But most of them die? And the rest don't get that big of a role.
Her: But what about the girl Dean-from-Gilmore Girls is married to?
Me: [confused, and thinking she thought that Sam was married to Jess] He wasn't married to her and she died in the first episode?
Her: No! In real life!
Me: Oooooh! Yeah, she's on later for a while. I like her character. But that's in a couple of seasons.
Her: Okay, good. She was in Wildfire. I really loved that show. [then proceeds to talk about hot-guy-from-Wildfire because she is who she is]

So her thoughts are: too scary, not enough ladies. She surprises me sometimes. Often in good ways.

The Lil Sis has started watching Supernatural, which amuses me greatly. I asked her for her feelings and she said, "Eh. It's okay. The guy who wasn't Dean on Gilmore Girls is hot." You can see why I'm in fandom and she's not, I suppose. She's only a few episodes in, but I will totally keep you updated if she has any entertaining thoughts on the show. I hope she does.

So as much as I would like fandom to have a better standing in society's eyes, I'd rather us kee being ignored forever if it means we can avoid articles like a this. Ugh. That just makes me feel uncomfortable. What is the point of this article? Why does it need to exist? It doesn't provide any real insight into the world of fanfic or why people write fanfic or how we feel about it. It pretty much only exists so that people outside of our community can wrinkle their noses and think about how weird we are.

Plus, I'm like 99% sure that the writer of that article didn't contact the writers of the fics to ask if they could quote them. Which of course they don't legally have to do, but it would be POLITE, okay? Nobody wants to find out their fic has been quoted on NBC's website. Gross.

Ugh.

Stop looking so happy, Andrew-in-my-icon. This is making me uncomfortable.

[eta: I feel like this is also a good time to point out that I stumbled across the article via fanthropology, which is simultaneously awesome and HORRIFYING. It start out as a sort of meta community about fandom, but now it's mostly just a linkspam of media references to fanfiction. There are a few surprisingly positive discussions about the fanfiction community in the larger culture, but most of them will just make you SO ANGRY.]

+ Listening to coverage on NPR about how people from Connecticut (what do y'all call yourselves?) are split in their support of the Patriots vs. the Giants, I got bitter and pissed off. I shouldn't care. But I do. Because grown-ass adults can talk about "loathing" a team and talk about "redemption" when it comes to sports, and that is totally socially acceptable and nobody questions it. But if I was to go on any media outlet and talk using that same sort of language about ships or character arcs or the depth of my feelings about the stories I invest in, people would think I was weird and either mock or pity me.

I hate the world.

+ Okay, so apparently these ugly-crying gifs of KBell that I've been seeing around have something to do with sloths + Ellen? I really love KBell, so I kind of want to watch whatever this is, but sloths really, really freak me out? Like almost as much as komodo dragons, which are currently number one on my list of animals that freak me out (my list makes much more sense than my sister's, which is comprised of squirrels and fish. I don't know either). Something about the way they move is just scary as anything to me. So can I watch this video without being horrified? Can I close my eyes during the sloth parts and just watch the KBell parts, or is it mostly sloth parts? Ugh. Just writing the word grosses me out.

I use my Andrew icon for this post because he is the only celebrity I would believe can understand the depth of my feelings (about anything. about everything. just feelings in general). Andrew Garfield: Emotional Evangelist is your sponsor for this post.

Her: Did you watch Vampire Diaries this week?
Me: Yeah.
Her: How was it?
Me: Good. Craziness happened. But craziness happens every week.
Her: Good! I'm getting ready to stream it now.
Me: What did you think about Damon kissing Elena?
Her: Loved it. I always liked him better. Didn't you love it?
Me: ...Yeah. I did.

First of all, to all of you who left me comments on the love-meme, y'all are wonderful. Your comments moved me so much, and I know that I'll revisit them often when I'm feeling really down. I love y'all so much.

So let's play a game, okay? Just because I'm curious.

Tell me:
1) Which fandom character you most identify with personality/emotions-wise
2) Which fandom character's life you most identify with

Like this:

1) Emotionally, I really relate to Annie Sawyer from Being Human. She's a very emotional person, but that's not portrayed as a bad thing. She's just easily overcome by her feelings, both good and bad. She's more outgoing than I am, and she doesn't seem to have a passion about anything the way I do/did about writing and school, but she reacts to things emotionally the way I would. I also quite relate to Sam Seaborn in that I'm smart (though not a smart as him--the guy's a genius) but I'm very insecure and have a difficult time believing I can accomplish all I want to accomplish or that I deserve to play with the big kids. I'm always half-afraid that people are going to find out that I'm a giant loser and that I'm not nearly as smart as they think I am. He's also an idealist who tends to live in his head, which I am too. I can imagine him getting as frustrated as I do that I have to deal with the details of life instead of just living my dreams all the time. (Oh, and you all know I relate to Spike. Emotionally. Not in the details at all.)

2.) Julie Taylor. She's a white, straight, middle class, red state girl with a little sister and parents who love each other and a good home environment. She goes to church, does well in school, and doesn't live the party kind of life. She has some good friends but doesn't seem to have lots of them. Now, there are lots of details that don't match up with me--the boyfriends and her little acts of rebellion (and let's leave most of S5 out of this, because: NO). But her life is the closest thing I've ever seen to my life on television.


Anybody up for this? I'm really interested! I feel we can learn a lot about each other from this.

So about a year ago now, maybe longer, I lent the BFF the first two seasons of Buffy. The other night while we were at the theater to see HP, she mentioned she was watching it again. I can easily come on too strong about things I love, so I played it cool and asked her where she was and she told me she was in S2. I said something like, "Yeah, that's when it starts to get good." Then we moved on to other topics of conversation.

Last night she sent me a text that said

I. LOVE. BUFFY.

OMG Y'ALL I'VE MADE ANOTHER CONVERT. I figured she would like it because she tends to have excellent taste, but I didn't know if she would love it. Apparently she does, and I can't WAIT for her to get to the later seasons!

I just had a mind-melting moment when I realized that, no, my crazy brain wasn’t tricking me, and yes, that really was Amy Acker in those episodes of Wishbone, aka the Greatest Show in the History of the World. It’s like COLLISION OF AWESOME THINGS. I seriously haven’t been this excited since I realized that Moody Spurgeon grew up to be Zone from Dollhouse.

Someone please explain to me why I get so irrationally excited about things like this? Because I was just sitting here flailing going, "OMG SHE WAS PRISCILLA IN THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH EPISODE! I REMEMBER THAT ONE! I REMEMBER THINKING SHE WAS SO PRETTY!" And I feel like I should not get this worked up.

So on a scale from 1 to 10, please tell me how silly you think it is that this excites me so. Go!

Zone is MOODY FREAKIN' SPURGEON.

I love the universe!

Thank you to dollsome for enlightening me.

So my friend sent me this link last night.  And I started inwardly squeeing like a fangirl.  And wishing that I was wildly independently wealthy so that I could spend money on such a useless but totally badass thing. 

I mean, look at it:



It's a vampire killing kit!  Who doesn't want one of those? In my private little fantasy world, it totally belonged to a Slayer.

Also, everyone notice how absolutely adorable the picture is for the "bouncy" mood.  It's Jo and Laurie!  Dancing!  That really fun scene where they first meet because they're both hiding from the rest of the party!  Yay!