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I know I haven't posted much in 2014. I've been reading a lot more than I've been writing, if that's any help! To try to get back into LJ, I'm reusing this meme from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
astrogirl2. I am, however, apparently incapable of giving a single answer to most of the questions.
Your main fandom of the year?I think I have to go with Marvel Avengers/Captain America/Winter Soldier. After I saw the movie, I was devouring fic; that lasted until about October, I think. I have had to be much more selective since. It helps that it's a big fandom: I'm reading a lot of Winter Soldier fic, but also Sam/Falcon is Awesome fic, and some Black Widow fic, and a good bit of Avengers in general fic.
Your favorite film watched this year? That depends.
• Overall: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I went into it with fairly low expectations and came out with a whole new fandom!
• Sheer joy during a movie: Big Hero 6. I want Baymax. No, not a stuffed or inflated Baymax doll. I want Baymax to live with me.
• Second runner-up: Guardians of the Galaxy.
Your favorite book read this year? My favorite is one I haven't written about yet: Bruce Holsinger's historical novel A Burnable Book. John Gower is the protagonist, with Geoffrey Chaucer playing a role. Read it. I'll tell you more about it when I do my next book write-up.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? I think Weird Al's Mandatory Fun.
Your favorite TV show of the year? I can't choose! Elementary and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are tied.
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Captain America/Winter Soldier, and, going along with that, Marvel Avengers. I didn't read much in broader Avengers fandom until I got sucked in by this movie.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? When Sherlock aired "His Last Vow," it was the beginning of the end. I was very upset with the episode. I tried to read fix-its and AUs, but most fans were not as upset as I was, and some were very happy, so I didn't find many fix-its or AUs that kept the things I had liked and got rid of the ones I didn't like. I know it's self-centered even to want someone to write things to match my tastes when I'm not even writing in that fandom, but it's the truth. I now only read Sherlock stories by a very few writers, or occasionally one that gets a really good rec from someone I trust. Not surprisingly, virtually none follow canon through that last episode; a couple do amazing things with that last episode to redeem it in ways that I have no expectations the real-life writers will do.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? I suppose Baymax and Groot don't count, do they? I do have grave problems with fandom boyfriends (as you may recall), but least everyone on my list of Top Ten Unsuitable Boyfriends I could, at least in theory, date. I don't think I could date Baymax or Groot. So I believe the honor this year goes to Bucky Barnes. I didn't find him very interesting in the first Captain America movie, but now he's a brain-washed assassin, so all of a sudden he's fascinating? And he needs help! Help that I am spectacularly unqualified to give! As I said on that old post, "what is it with me and guys with emotional problems?"
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Well, shoot. This one is hard. I can't remember the last time I had this good a year for women! I think Melinda May wins for sheer awesomeness. Runners-up include Joan Watson and Kate Beckett. Eve Baird gets honorable mention for winning me over immediately on The Librarians, but I've liked Rebecca Romijn for her Mystique, and she was great on Eastwick.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? The final moments of Guardians of the Galaxy. I may or may not have been screaming in the theater. Brilliant Husband, do you know?
But I have to name runners-up too!
• The finale of Cabin Pressure, the scene with Douglas and Arthur and Martin and Bruce. If you've heard it, you know the one I mean; if you haven't, I haven't spoiled it. Listen now! Several moments in "Zurich," actually. I could not sit still. I couldn't not scream. I don't know how BH managed to stay sitting next to me.
• In the finale of Psych: "We already have a guy." "He's in the kitchen, alphabetizing the pantry."
The most missed of your old fandoms? That's a hard question. Stargate SG-1 fandom is not really gone, largely thanks tosg_fignewton, who does a lot to keep the fandom alive and even to keep me writing: I wrote one fanfic this year, and that was for Fig's Gen Ficathon/Alphabet Soup again. Then I had 25 other new stories in the fandom to read! What I really miss are the people whom I met through it, some of whom aren't active on LJ anymore.
I miss Being Human, but there I'm missing the show more than the fandom, in which I wasn't very active. I rarely read in it, except for friends' reactions to episodes, and I never wrote any fic.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I kind of want to get into Orphan Black because I've heard such great things about it, but I'm afraid it will be too brutal for me. Even though I miss Being Human, it really was too upsetting for me.
Doctor Who doesn't show up anywhere on this list. That's wrong. I think I need a further category:
Show that I continued to watch despite frustration: Doctor Who. I cannot imagine stopping. I was very frustrated by certain aspects of the writing, though I love the cast and admire what they do with the uneven material they're given. It will always be my show.
astrogirl2. I am, however, apparently incapable of giving a single answer to most of the questions. Your main fandom of the year?I think I have to go with Marvel Avengers/Captain America/Winter Soldier. After I saw the movie, I was devouring fic; that lasted until about October, I think. I have had to be much more selective since. It helps that it's a big fandom: I'm reading a lot of Winter Soldier fic, but also Sam/Falcon is Awesome fic, and some Black Widow fic, and a good bit of Avengers in general fic.
Your favorite film watched this year? That depends.
• Overall: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I went into it with fairly low expectations and came out with a whole new fandom!
• Sheer joy during a movie: Big Hero 6. I want Baymax. No, not a stuffed or inflated Baymax doll. I want Baymax to live with me.
• Second runner-up: Guardians of the Galaxy.
Your favorite book read this year? My favorite is one I haven't written about yet: Bruce Holsinger's historical novel A Burnable Book. John Gower is the protagonist, with Geoffrey Chaucer playing a role. Read it. I'll tell you more about it when I do my next book write-up.
Your favorite album or song to listen to this year? I think Weird Al's Mandatory Fun.
Your favorite TV show of the year? I can't choose! Elementary and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are tied.
Your best new fandom discovery of the year? Captain America/Winter Soldier, and, going along with that, Marvel Avengers. I didn't read much in broader Avengers fandom until I got sucked in by this movie.
Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year? When Sherlock aired "His Last Vow," it was the beginning of the end. I was very upset with the episode. I tried to read fix-its and AUs, but most fans were not as upset as I was, and some were very happy, so I didn't find many fix-its or AUs that kept the things I had liked and got rid of the ones I didn't like. I know it's self-centered even to want someone to write things to match my tastes when I'm not even writing in that fandom, but it's the truth. I now only read Sherlock stories by a very few writers, or occasionally one that gets a really good rec from someone I trust. Not surprisingly, virtually none follow canon through that last episode; a couple do amazing things with that last episode to redeem it in ways that I have no expectations the real-life writers will do.
Your fandom boyfriend of the year? I suppose Baymax and Groot don't count, do they? I do have grave problems with fandom boyfriends (as you may recall), but least everyone on my list of Top Ten Unsuitable Boyfriends I could, at least in theory, date. I don't think I could date Baymax or Groot. So I believe the honor this year goes to Bucky Barnes. I didn't find him very interesting in the first Captain America movie, but now he's a brain-washed assassin, so all of a sudden he's fascinating? And he needs help! Help that I am spectacularly unqualified to give! As I said on that old post, "what is it with me and guys with emotional problems?"
Your fandom girlfriend of the year? Well, shoot. This one is hard. I can't remember the last time I had this good a year for women! I think Melinda May wins for sheer awesomeness. Runners-up include Joan Watson and Kate Beckett. Eve Baird gets honorable mention for winning me over immediately on The Librarians, but I've liked Rebecca Romijn for her Mystique, and she was great on Eastwick.
Your biggest squee moment of the year? The final moments of Guardians of the Galaxy. I may or may not have been screaming in the theater. Brilliant Husband, do you know?
But I have to name runners-up too!
• The finale of Cabin Pressure, the scene with Douglas and Arthur and Martin and Bruce. If you've heard it, you know the one I mean; if you haven't, I haven't spoiled it. Listen now! Several moments in "Zurich," actually. I could not sit still. I couldn't not scream. I don't know how BH managed to stay sitting next to me.
• In the finale of Psych: "We already have a guy." "He's in the kitchen, alphabetizing the pantry."
The most missed of your old fandoms? That's a hard question. Stargate SG-1 fandom is not really gone, largely thanks to
sg_fignewton, who does a lot to keep the fandom alive and even to keep me writing: I wrote one fanfic this year, and that was for Fig's Gen Ficathon/Alphabet Soup again. Then I had 25 other new stories in the fandom to read! What I really miss are the people whom I met through it, some of whom aren't active on LJ anymore. I miss Being Human, but there I'm missing the show more than the fandom, in which I wasn't very active. I rarely read in it, except for friends' reactions to episodes, and I never wrote any fic.
The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to? I kind of want to get into Orphan Black because I've heard such great things about it, but I'm afraid it will be too brutal for me. Even though I miss Being Human, it really was too upsetting for me.
Doctor Who doesn't show up anywhere on this list. That's wrong. I think I need a further category:
Show that I continued to watch despite frustration: Doctor Who. I cannot imagine stopping. I was very frustrated by certain aspects of the writing, though I love the cast and admire what they do with the uneven material they're given. It will always be my show.
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You're still into Elementary? Good! Hee - I still don't have a TV, so there are a lot of shows I haven't seen but I read a bit about. Will ask you in an email about what disappointed you with Sherlock (again, I've only watched the first 2 eps of the 1st season then wasn't interested in watching more, but a friend did tell me some of the plotlines since, which left me scratching my head).
Hope the Avengers 2 movie provides us both with a lot of fannish joy.
LOL and yay about Bucky being welcomed into the folds of your Unsuitable Boyfriends! I did see a post once where someone gave some very interesting points about Bucky in the first movie, that made me like and appreciate him even more than I had when I watched it.
I look forward to rewatching GotG when I get the DVD. It was great to see a Han Solo-ish character get such an emotional arc or depth.
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I should probably do a post on Sherlock; I've been meaning to since, oh, February or so. Then I can give you details and anyone else who cares. (But I will email you anyway—it has been a while!)
Elementary is still making me happy. I niggle at particular episodes and plot points, of course, but overall, I think they're doing a great job with Joan and that Sherlock guy. I seem now to be really into Watsons! I mean to do a post on that too. (I mean to do a lot more posts than I actually write, somehow.)
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*HUGS*
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I miss SG1 & SGA. Fic just isn't enough.
I haven't met Baymax but Groot totally counts. (I have his action figure right here on my desk!)
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Yeah, it's not the same.
You might enjoy Big Hero 6 and meeting Baymax!
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heeeeeee. Well, at least he's a fundamentally decent person despite being massively messed up and, uh, having killed a bunch of people. And maybe I should stop now.
I had the exact same reaction, though -- I barely even REMEMBERED him from the first movie (when I started liking Sebastian Stan in Once Upon a Time, I had no idea it was the same actor 'til I went and looked him up, and I still couldn't recognize him half the time in vids). And then he got all brainwashed and homicidal, and suddenly, bam! WTF, brain. And now I love his scenes in the first movie too, despite my total indifference the first time around.
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