| While today it is me, we all shall fall |
[May. 31st, 2007|02:34 am] |
So I'm back in NY with my family after my first year of college. I miss California a LOT. It's not just the weather as it's been beautiful here but that sense of freedom and adventure and newness. Not to mention there being nothing to do here reminding me how much I hate it. Sick of my family in a week as was to be expected. But I LOVE my cats and that helps. Also I got my laptop back to working :D I hadn't realized how much I missed it until I had that freedom of my own computer and being able to save everything, download and go on it as much as I want. I've been really bad with commenting lately and I apologize. I'll try to get better at that.
In regards to fandom, well I'll hopefully have a roundup of all the finales up soon. More importantly, I'm sure most of you have already heard all about the Livejournal Strikethrough 2007 debacle that's going on but if you haven't, check out the link here that'll give you a good summary and lots of links. In short, a group called Warriors For Innocence (and possibly others), in their quest to stop pedophiles and other evils threaten Six Apart/Livejournal to shut down journals which list things like incest, rape and whatnot in their interests and not only take down a few communities that needed to be taken down but suspend communities and users based on fictional interest, rpg characters and a Spanish community dicussing Lolita. WTH LJ. Of course it was for legal pressures and all about money as usual but the lack of discretion or warning for the difference between fictional and real is disturbing. No matter your involvement in fandom, remember this: Even more scary are PR comments made not to LJ's customers but the media:
"Our decision here was not based on pure legal issues," countered Six Apart's Berkowitz. "It was based on what community we want to build and what we think is appropriate within that community and what's not. We have an awful broad range of discussions and topics and other things going on in LiveJournal, and we encourage other broad-ranging conversations on all sorts of topics. This was a specific case where we felt there was not a reason (for these journals to stay online)."
When someone starts trying to decide what is appropriate, I know there's a problem. It may not be a freedom of speech issue in terms of the law but I always thought of Livejournal as a place to freely express my thoughts and stories with many people who would do the same and this violates my trust in the site and service I paid for. That's part of where the moral outrage is coming from, I think, at least for me. I hope this blows over and LJ apologizes and makes amends by unsuspending fandom accounts not to mention real life support groups and the like although I'm not too hopeful at the moment. It feels to me that this is quickly turning into a Heroes plot with fandom being the exploding man if 6Apart/LJ doesn't do something to diffuse the situation. In the meantime, take off anything illegal from your interests (and no wincest is not illegal as the very definition is about two fictional characters), backup your journals with LJarchive or a similar serive, join ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif) fandom_counts to be counted a member of fandom (I've always wanted to see how many people were in fandom) and create a backup journal at GreatestJournal or a similar LJ like site. I'm anoel43 at GreatestJournal as anoel got taken before I could snatch it up (still anoel on Vox though). I hope there isn't a migration but I'm not exactly trusting LJ anymore.
In the end, fandom will survive. We will continue creating fanfic, fanart, fanvids, meta, episode reactions and lots of squee. We're do gen, het, slash, incest, chan, underage and every other boundary breaking thing no matter what the world tries to do. You can't stop the signal.
After all that, go check out the Picspam of Hotties that includes many, many pages of many of our favorite characters and actors being as hot as they possibly can. It definitely cheers me up. Here's my selection under the cut (warning for big pics):
( Mmmm goodness )
And with that I will go back to marathoning Scrubs S5 as I am completely, head over heels in love with the show. |
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| Vidding Thoughts |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|08:06 pm] |
I have been in vidding mode the last two days, watching and listening to vids and reading all the vid meta I can. Vidding is so my primary fandom because although I have a lot of shows I watch and fandoms I pay attention to and read fic to, most of the time I just read fic for ships and am not interested in gen or daily happenings of shows. But I love gen for vidding, in fact I'd love to see it more and do more of it myself. I love to find out everything I can about vidding, I'll read almost anything about it and still be interested. And I still miss Vividcon, it feels like a dream that I went there, met so many awesome people and had such a wonderful time. Is it Vividcon 2007 yet?
( More vid thoughts under the cut )
I've realized that I don't give enough long feedback to vidders. There are a lot of vids that I love so much and I watch a LOT but my extent of my feedback is nothing at all, "I love it" to a paragraph or so. I'd like to apoligize for this as I feel bad about it. I understand how much long feedback is appreciated and I LOVE vids and want to let vidders know how much I enjoy and think about their work. But I really want to try to give more detailed feedback and have made it my new mission to try to send it out as much as I can from now on. What's held me back from it in the past is my usual perfectionistic tendencies. I feel if I send a long feedback email for a vid, it'll have to have ALL my thoughts and reactions to it and I know that will take a long time. To add to that, I feel I have to write something brilliant and if I don't then I shouldn't write anything at all until later when I can come up with something smarter. This comes with the knowledge that I admire a lot of the vidders out there and think they are OMG, so smart, and so I feel kind of hyperaware of them and what they'll think of me. I've realized I just need to work with what I have for right now and if I think of something else in the future, I can always send that later. So hopefully, you vidders (and maybe fic writers if I can manage it) will see some long feedback from me in your inbox soon.
In other fandom news, I am still loving Prison Break and thought the new episode tonight was awesome. I am addicted to the suspense and I continue to love all the characters, getting swept up in their storylines. I wholeheartedly rec ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) f1renze's vid to the show, Ragged Ass Road which captures everything I've wanted to see vidded in the first season from the master plan to the brothers love for each other to the cool motion. Just a gorgeous vid that has continued with my great pleasure to recruit more people into watching the show. I'm also enjoying Nip/Tuck in all its craziness and am impressed that finally the slash between Sean/Christian is actually getting explored. If only more shows were on cable and weren't afraid of the gay. There really needs to be more vids to the show, its very pretty visually and has great editing especially during the medical scenes, making them worth watching. Also finished Battlestar Galactica season 1 yesterday and it was amazing. Just about every episode has an interesting, suspenseful plot and a great ending. The characters are great, I loove Starbuck and I like all the rest of the characters and their relationships. Can't wait to finish the second season so I can watch the third with everyone. |
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| More Grey's Anatomy Thoughts |
[Feb. 23rd, 2006|01:12 am] |
Well I've quickly renewed my past obsession with Grey's Anatomy after Sunday's episode and a rewatching of season 1. Rewatching the first season helped me remember why I love these characters, their relationships, all the crazy medical stuff, the humor, the music...I could go on and on. I love the freshness of the beginning, before we had so many of the problems and the mixed up love geometric shapes. Not to say I don't enjoy that, but its nice getting a taste of what it was like before it. Plus it made me remember why I love some of the characters I haven't enjoyed so much this season. That would be Meredith, George, McDreamy and to a much less degree, Addison but that's more in the middle of season 2 (can't believe we're approaching the end of s2 :( ). But I really like them now, most significantly Derek as he's been disappointing me lately and I haven't understood why everyone is so goo goo eyes over him. I still don't get the hotness effect but he certainly has charmed me over so I really like him again. And now I get the Derek and Meredith shippers because they really are sooo cute together in the first season. Very romantic with some great lines and moments together. I especially loved the end of episode 8 which melted my romantic heart. I hope that the writers will eventually give them some of that happiness again.
On that note, I've fallen more in love with Mark and Mark/Addison (Maddison) and am pulling for a happy ending for them and D/M. Mark and Addison just make sense to me, they both have these great, confident personalities that are admirable as well as being perfect for major chemistry which I see between them. He really loves her and wants her which Derek is unable to give. I think in this case, all parties need to forget the morals and obligations and past hurts and do what will make them happy and move them forward in their lives. I keep rewatching the Yesterday episode and it stuns me not only how gorgeous McSteamy is but how he can say just the right thing and how he carries himself. The elevator scene gets me everytime and is an honest portrayal of how the situation stands now. The touch is beautiful and says everything. In my eyes, Mark/Addison should not only be together because they love eachother but because they're a better match than Derek/Addison. They remind me of the Nip/Tuck triangle of Sean/Julia/Christian with the two guy friends and the woman they both love who marries the wrong one...which leads to the cheating and splitting up they both experience. I just wish in each case, they chose the right person so this mess wouldn't happen.
Anyways, I'm hoping the writers will give us some flashbacks of NYC and the early relationship of Derek/Addison/Mark as well as keeping Mark around (PLEASE!) and getting him back with Addison. I'm just hoping they can stay in Seatle as unrealistic as it may seem. I can only hope...I also need some more clips of them for a video I'm planning on making. My rewatching GA episodes in part stems from this need to outlet my obsession into something creative. Reeeally can't wait for the next episode, only 4 more days! |
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[Dec. 31st, 2005|12:51 pm] |
So I saw the fandom meme going around and decided to just fill it in myself for a bunch of my fandoms. Always fun to think about.
Firefly
1. The character I first fell in love with: Mal. Obviously. Was in love with him from the beginning and was oh so happy to find a Joss character that I was hopelessly in love with.
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: That'd be Zoe. Watching the series again, I'm liking her more and more whereas at first she seemed a bit one dimensional to me.
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't: River. I enjoy her funny lines but am meh about the crazy girl stuff. She did get better in the movie but I still don't get the love.
4. The character I love that everyone else hates: Um...do people hate characters in this fandom?
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer: Well I still have a bit of love left but I'm liking Simon less than I did before. I got caught up in the hotness before but he can be a bit of an idiot although it is perfect to make fun of. Although he's great in Ariel.
6. The character I would shag anytime: Mal. Guhh. He is to die for.
7. The character I'd want to be like: Mal definitely. I'm a lot like Kaylee but it'd be fun to be more like her as well. Also it'd be cool to be like Zoe.
8. The character I'd slap: Probably Simon for being so easy to fool. But in a good way.
9. A pairing that I love: Anything with Mal except Book and River ie Mal/Simon, Mal/Jayne, Mal/Kaylee, Mal/Zoe, Mal/Inara, etc. Also I like Jayne/Simon and Jayne/Kaylee.
10. A pairing that I despise: There's none that I really hate, just don't get a few. Not into River so anything with her, I'm not into. Didn't use to like Wash/Zoe but I'm warming up to them.
( More (Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Queer as Folk, Highlander, Nip/Tuck) under the cut ) |
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