TV, Conventions, Dirt

[tangeriner]

I actually finished and/or caught up on some things!

• The Magicians 1.01 to 4.12. Very good, liked it a lot. I probably need to re-watch it, because I binged it in a daze of fannish euphoria.
• Star Trek: Discovery. I swear, this season hit every button I have, so yes, good. Looking forward to the last episode of the season.
• Game of Thrones 7.01 to 7.07. I was pretending I wasn't going to watch season 7, and therefore not season 8, but screw it, I did.
• Fruits Basket. Weeeeeeee, I am enjoying this so much so far. I still have to finish the manga, but the first two eps of the anime, A++.
• Dororo. This anime consistently blows my mind. I love it. Brutal and thought-provoking. I basically think about it all the time.

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I decided this weekend was my weekend to Get Shit Done. In that, I went to the library to pick up some holds, cleaned a little and got several of my ducks in order for upcoming fannish conventions. Things I am attending for sure: CrossingsCon, FanWorks and Escapade.

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I watched The Dirt on Netflix earlier for exactly one reason. Sometime in the early 2000s, it was discovered that a random person had taken several popslash stories and plagiarized them by basically replacing the names with various metal bands. A few of my stories were taken and turned into Metallica or Mötley Crüe stories. I was a fan of Metallica, but hadn't really known anything about Mötley Crüe and ended up reading The Dirt because the book had just been released and I was curious. This whole event remains one of my weirdest fannish experiences.

Comments

[nyctanthes]

You have sold me on checking out Dororo. I'm looking for something to watch that goes beyond "that was good - next!"

[tangeriner]

It is seriously so good. It pulls no punches at all -- even when I want it to -- but yeah, it just lingers.

[anoyo]

My only question is: do you regret binging The Magicians now, what with the season four finale in existence?

[tangeriner]

Not gonna lie: I do a little. My face definitely did the :D :) :| :( D: as I watched. That was a wild roller-coaster of emotion. The only upside: my emotional investment was still new so it definitely could have hit me harder.

Seriously, tho, that finale. :|

[anoyo]

Man, if I'd marathoned just for that to happen, I'd have seriously raged, true story. But, yeah, I suppose years of investment in Q and also Q/Eliot and it's probably a bit more of a fist to the face. BUT YES. Ugh.

[tangeriner]

It probably helped I come from a comics background, where it honestly did not occur to me until the next day (after reading meta + interviews) that this was a permanent thing. My mind, it boggled. And I don't regret watching it. The nice moment were very nice, and I'm used to source material disappointing me. (My comics brain is still WELL MAYBE).

[anoyo]

Yeah, I was initially like, "WAIT, WILL HE HAVE AN OG PENNY-LIKE PLOT NOW?" And then, no, uh-uh, Jason Ralph left the show. Ugh. Super disappointing.

[tangeriner]

I'm interested to see what the fifth season will be like now. Or if it just gets cancelled. Or WELL MAYBE it's all just a ruse (seriously, brain, let it go, this is not comics... probably not anyway :S).

[anoyo]

God, if it's a ruse, they are going to give Jason Ralph serious neuroses. (Have you read about Kit Harrington and basically needing to go to therapy because of the year he spent telling people his character dead-dead, but knowing he wasn't? YIKES.)

[tangeriner]

Ack, no, I had not read about that. I honestly don't know what to think anymore. It's been a long time since a show has left me in tatters like this. Can't say I missed the feeling!

[anoyo]

RIGHT? I haven't been this emotionally invested in something in ages. Well, no, I think I might be equally invested in Killjoys, BUT STILL. It's rough.