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ladybusinessOn one hand, I can't believe I let Ira suck me into the shitshow about three dudes who really hate themselves. On the other hand, I'm wondering why it took so long, because I'm weak, and also Misha Collins. Seriously, I love that guy. What an asshole.
I've spent May and June in a constant haze of Supernatural feelings: screeching, whimpering, and sobbing at my television. Suffice it to say my plans for getting all my Hugo reading done in these two month have been blammo'ed to Jupiter. But it never hurts to stop and reflect back on all your terrible life choices.
I had goals. They included catching up on Doctor Who, rewatching the second season of Teen Wolf to prepare for the third, and all the Grimm I could ram into my eyeballs in hopes that Monroe would show up in an adorable cardigan and/or sweater and geek out over something nerdy. I was going to write thoughtfully about all of them! I'm still behind on Doctor Who, because I'm unsure about the new companion, and now my Doctor is leaving. MY DOCTOR IS LEAVING; THIS IS THE WORST. And even though it's time, past time, beyond past time, to have a non-white person or lady as the Doctor, I know they're going to cast someone a) white, b) male, c) NOT GINGER. I'm going to have a breakdown over the hair color of the main character on this stupid show.
I managed Grimm! Grimm is perfect. Team Grimm! I love this show and wish it were more popular in fandom. Apothecary! Nick! ALL NICK'S FRIENDS. HANK AND WU. Hank and Monroe. Everything about this show makes me happy. It is my happy place, even when it's stressful, and they veer into horrible storylines that make me side-eye them.
My reaction to Teen Wolf S2 just involves a lot of crying. Let's not talk about it. Forget S3; I'm going to have to watch the first episodes again.
However, Supernatural. I had an hour long discussion with Ana about my feelings about Supernatural and my love for it, as well as my problem with my love for it. I initially avoided it because horror levels were high (including sexualization of ladies who then died horribly), then I avoided it because ladies died a lot for stupid reasons outside monster of the week plots. Now I'm watching it again and all those things are true, and I spend lots of episodes going "WRITERS NO!" in a wounded voice as the gendered slurs pour from people's mouths (especially Dean's) like they're nothing (this hurts, because surprise, I identify with Dean a lot re: fathers). In fandom, we talk a lot about being a fan of problematic things (and that regardless of what we watch/read/listen to, it will be problematic to someone), but I've been really torn over my love for a show that treats women like disposable props; like an insult, things to be used as weapons to make other male characters feel badly about themselves. The sad part is when the women are there they're awesome, but they're discardable in ways that the male characters never are, and the language the writers use support the fact that they really don't think about women as important in the same way men are. I'm told it improves a little in season eight, but I guess we'll see. I go around about this a lot; liking narratives that sweep through women like they're nothing, and so while I love the women I remain more invested in the stories of the men, because I know I am less likely to lose them. Following that thread down the rabbit hole of "culture tells us men are more important!" and all the meaning held within would take at least 4000 words I don't have prepared.
Supernatural has always been the story about the love between two brothers, but it's had so many chances to create long term arcs with women that it's just ruined for cheap thrills or shorthand heartbreak that feels directly tied to boosting ratings, rather that serving the story. Maybe it's like I was told by a co-worker: you don't get into Supernatural for the ladies, you get in for the family emotions, because you have daddy issues and this lets you cry them all out under the guise of dramatic dark fantasy television, or because you're extremely invested in subtextual gay interspecies romance. The bad part is all three of these things are right up my alley. I was always doomed once I found someone willing to go with me.
Supernatural is to blame for why my reading goals were nuked from orbit. At least I will soon be out of season eight episodes and will have to suffer with everyone else week to week starting in October. I'm sure I'll be a delight to be around any time after that point.
I have seen Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness, but need to see them again to have solid thoughts. IM3 was better than STID, STID suffered from whatever that thing is that plagues sequels to successful reboots, chronic failure to utilize the women, and I hated the stupid ending (except for Zachary Quinto running. I was a fan of that part.)
I skipped After Earth; apparently that was a good life decision?
I also missed Now You See Me because of some of the reviews, even though I was looking forward to it. :(
Sorry, theaters. You just didn't tempt me enough.
I always start out with grand plans every year, but it's safe to say that the beginning of the year kicks my ass every time. I'm generally too exhausted from $dayjob and want to spend a month staring into space (thanks, retail!). I've still read some pretty awesome things, though! Here's my top ten, all categories:
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott: Jodie and I co-reviewed this together recently and that'll be posted soon, where by "co-review" I mean "foamed at the mouth in fannish excitement". Well, I did, anyway. Talk about getting suckerpunched. I legit went from "Okay, so I'm bored and don't really get what's happe— OH MY GOSH ARE YOU KIDDING I'M ALL IN BRING ME MORE OF IT." And Elliott did, and it was good.
Cold Fire by Kate Elliott: Predictably, I couldn't wait for Jodie because I'm a terrible friend. I bought this almost immediately and buried myself it in and and came out the other side dragging my heart behind me on a DIY stretcher made up of the remnants of my soul. I'm in the middle of Cold Steel right now. My review of both of these may just be a series of stick-figure-rainbow-vomiting animated gifs pasted over and over.
The 10 P.M. Question by Kate de Goldi: This book is heartbreakingly good. I tried to review it and failed because it's so personal and startlingly true that I don't know how to share my feelings. This is the story of how family, friendship and love survive anxiety, and how we learn to be kind to one another even when we disagree or don't understand. It is gorgeous.
God's War by Kameron Hurley: I didn't review this traditionally; Jodie, Phi and I got together and had a discussion about how much we liked it. It's a great discussion book; there's so much happening in the story, both politically and personally, that there are no doubt undiscovered avenues for even more chat sessions. I could probably talk for another hour or five about it when what I should really do is read the sequel.
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes: The publisher kindly gave me this book when I asked, and then Netgalley locked me out of leaving feedback on it due to me not posting it before the release date? DEAR NETGALLEY, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU I LOVED IT, except no, I guess not. I'm predictable, but then again, I love finding metaphors. This book is like an easter egg hunt played in a dark mirror maze with candles. A frustrating challenge! Clearly I just have a lot of opinions about women and violent narratives. I think a reason I love this story so much is that it reminds me of Final Fantasy VIII, but with a sort of hopeful ending. Follow the progression of Final Fantasy VIII's narrative: HEARTBREAK FOR ETERNITY. Follow the progression of the narrative of The Shining Girls: HEARTBREAK, but maybe not for eternity except the bad guy chose the wrong fucking historical sparkling firefly to screw around with?
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples: I was so surprised by how much I loved this. Although I have some problems with the framing of specific parts of the chapters (the brothel thing, the horrible gendered language/stereotypes), it's all so creative that I'm pretty much good to go for the remainder of the ride. I love the narrator. ♥
Feed by Mira Grant: Why the hell did I wait so long to read this!? What the hell, SFF fandom? You're fired from my recommendation team; get out. This is seriously up there with World War Z for me re: fantastic world building.
vN by Madeline Ashby : Out of all my selections, this book is the most out of left field. I'm still thinking about this novel months later; my review has been half-written for ages because I want to say so many things but can't find the words. The sequel is out and once my Hugo reading is done, there may be a new purchase in my future. Maybe it will help me collect my thoughts on the first title.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson: Was I surprised when I picked up this Hugo-award winner that not only did it remind me of seriously literary mainstream fiction right down to the privileged white kids, it also had a romance that was integral to the main character's story? If Nicholas Sparks wrote science fiction, it would look similar to this, but sound way less intelligent, be way less entertaining and have more kissing in the rain instead of the cool side-characters that pop up mid-novel. I'm planning to read the sequels; I wonder if his other stuff is any good. I was seriously the only one who wanted Tyler to have an open relationship with Jason and Diane both, wasn't I? :| Yes, as usual.
The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer: Strangely enough, this novel has grown on me on reflection, proving that my rating system is 150% ACCURATE. I'm itching to write some terrible fanfic for it that will probably immediately be jossed. I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO KIRAN OKAY. *breaks self-imposed rule, immediately goes and buys the sequel*
Total: 22
Novels: 12 (54.5%)
Short Fiction: 4 (18.2%)
Nonfiction: 1 (4.5%)
Anthologies: 1 (4.5%)
Sequential Art: 4 (18.2%)
The full 2013 list is at my handy spreadsheet.
I'm not too surprised by this; I made resolutions to branch out more and haven't really done so yet: goal for the rest of the year! I am pretty sad about my nonfiction totals, though. Really, self?
The anthology numbers are technically wrong. I read another anthology that meant to post a review for back in early May: The Other Half of the Sky. I read this anthology while working/sick with plague, wrote a review, and then while I was editing it realized how dumb I felt, scrapped the whole review and started rereading the book more slowly.
Part of my frustration with promoting books is the sense of immediacy that feels almost required by nature of participation in the community; it's easy to get caught up and pulled along because you're excited and want to share a thing now-now-now. But that's not me at all. I spent seven years in a fandom for one video game. I'm not exactly what you would call a mover and a shaker. Unless there's a spider.
I really don't do this thing to feel like an idiot, or rushed. I'm still working on reviews of books I read in February because I'm still thinking about them. Of all the things I can say of my short time with this anthology (since I am not counting the reading I did while high on cough syrup) is that it's so very, very smart. Some of the stories are complicated explorations of things so far beyond me that I'll probably never get what the author was trying to say (I had to look up words used in the introduction in the dictionary). I'm still getting used to how experimental short stories are in this fandom. But it was a nice reminder that I'm not going to fit into the overarching industry cog that churns through titles like a bag of delicious Cool Ranch Doritos. Sometimes, I want to think and I want my worldview to be challenged and that takes time. Rushing through something, making myself feel like a moron, and cheating myself and whatever I'm trying to experience? Hard pass.
There's a nice series of posts hosted by The Book Smugglers: SFF in Conversation: The Other Half of the Sky’s Contributors Round Table — Part 1 and Part 2 in lieu of my meanderings on the subject, which will be coming sometime in July and counting officially as a book read as I won't be cracked out on medicine.
My attempts at adulthood continue as expected.
Women: 12 (70.6%)
Men: 5 (29.4%)
Sweet! However, it would help if I reviewed some of these things and lived up to LB's project tenets. This also reminds me I need to start prepping for Coverage of Women on SF/F Blogs for this year. Cue Ana and Jodie weeping in the corner. I have to say, I've looked at some of the blogs I actively follow and already have a bad feeling about next January. Break out the vodka.
Interestingly, I've been tracking another statistic this year, which is the company who published what I'm reading. If I read more widely, this would be more useful. Only time will tell if I like to play favorites unconsciously (or if I go back and do compilation for previous years like a chart nerd).
That's what happens when one of your favorite authors writes for Tor and you reread a bunch of his books!
Well, 2013. You've actually been a bit of an asshole so far except for that time you made it up to me by bringing John Scalzi nearby, so who knows how the rest of the year will play out.
I want to finish my Hugo voting. I want to get cracking on my goal of "read women writers you haven't, you coward!". I want to clear out my backlog of 10,000 reviews. I want to read more stuff I had my eye on via We Want It! last year. I want to survive Supernatural (spoiler: unlikely), and also I would also like a better job that gives me more time to read and more money for books.
In closing, Ana (and Jodie when you return from your adventures), now it's your turn to share. :P
I've spent May and June in a constant haze of Supernatural feelings: screeching, whimpering, and sobbing at my television. Suffice it to say my plans for getting all my Hugo reading done in these two month have been blammo'ed to Jupiter. But it never hurts to stop and reflect back on all your terrible life choices.
Television
I had goals. They included catching up on Doctor Who, rewatching the second season of Teen Wolf to prepare for the third, and all the Grimm I could ram into my eyeballs in hopes that Monroe would show up in an adorable cardigan and/or sweater and geek out over something nerdy. I was going to write thoughtfully about all of them! I'm still behind on Doctor Who, because I'm unsure about the new companion, and now my Doctor is leaving. MY DOCTOR IS LEAVING; THIS IS THE WORST. And even though it's time, past time, beyond past time, to have a non-white person or lady as the Doctor, I know they're going to cast someone a) white, b) male, c) NOT GINGER. I'm going to have a breakdown over the hair color of the main character on this stupid show.
I managed Grimm! Grimm is perfect. Team Grimm! I love this show and wish it were more popular in fandom. Apothecary! Nick! ALL NICK'S FRIENDS. HANK AND WU. Hank and Monroe. Everything about this show makes me happy. It is my happy place, even when it's stressful, and they veer into horrible storylines that make me side-eye them.
My reaction to Teen Wolf S2 just involves a lot of crying. Let's not talk about it. Forget S3; I'm going to have to watch the first episodes again.
However, Supernatural. I had an hour long discussion with Ana about my feelings about Supernatural and my love for it, as well as my problem with my love for it. I initially avoided it because horror levels were high (including sexualization of ladies who then died horribly), then I avoided it because ladies died a lot for stupid reasons outside monster of the week plots. Now I'm watching it again and all those things are true, and I spend lots of episodes going "WRITERS NO!" in a wounded voice as the gendered slurs pour from people's mouths (especially Dean's) like they're nothing (this hurts, because surprise, I identify with Dean a lot re: fathers). In fandom, we talk a lot about being a fan of problematic things (and that regardless of what we watch/read/listen to, it will be problematic to someone), but I've been really torn over my love for a show that treats women like disposable props; like an insult, things to be used as weapons to make other male characters feel badly about themselves. The sad part is when the women are there they're awesome, but they're discardable in ways that the male characters never are, and the language the writers use support the fact that they really don't think about women as important in the same way men are. I'm told it improves a little in season eight, but I guess we'll see. I go around about this a lot; liking narratives that sweep through women like they're nothing, and so while I love the women I remain more invested in the stories of the men, because I know I am less likely to lose them. Following that thread down the rabbit hole of "culture tells us men are more important!" and all the meaning held within would take at least 4000 words I don't have prepared.
Supernatural has always been the story about the love between two brothers, but it's had so many chances to create long term arcs with women that it's just ruined for cheap thrills or shorthand heartbreak that feels directly tied to boosting ratings, rather that serving the story. Maybe it's like I was told by a co-worker: you don't get into Supernatural for the ladies, you get in for the family emotions, because you have daddy issues and this lets you cry them all out under the guise of dramatic dark fantasy television, or because you're extremely invested in subtextual gay interspecies romance. The bad part is all three of these things are right up my alley. I was always doomed once I found someone willing to go with me.
Supernatural is to blame for why my reading goals were nuked from orbit. At least I will soon be out of season eight episodes and will have to suffer with everyone else week to week starting in October. I'm sure I'll be a delight to be around any time after that point.
Film
I have seen Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness, but need to see them again to have solid thoughts. IM3 was better than STID, STID suffered from whatever that thing is that plagues sequels to successful reboots, chronic failure to utilize the women, and I hated the stupid ending (except for Zachary Quinto running. I was a fan of that part.)
I skipped After Earth; apparently that was a good life decision?
I also missed Now You See Me because of some of the reviews, even though I was looking forward to it. :(
Sorry, theaters. You just didn't tempt me enough.
Books
I always start out with grand plans every year, but it's safe to say that the beginning of the year kicks my ass every time. I'm generally too exhausted from $dayjob and want to spend a month staring into space (thanks, retail!). I've still read some pretty awesome things, though! Here's my top ten, all categories:
Cold Magic by Kate Elliott: Jodie and I co-reviewed this together recently and that'll be posted soon, where by "co-review" I mean "foamed at the mouth in fannish excitement". Well, I did, anyway. Talk about getting suckerpunched. I legit went from "Okay, so I'm bored and don't really get what's happe— OH MY GOSH ARE YOU KIDDING I'M ALL IN BRING ME MORE OF IT." And Elliott did, and it was good.
Cold Fire by Kate Elliott: Predictably, I couldn't wait for Jodie because I'm a terrible friend. I bought this almost immediately and buried myself it in and and came out the other side dragging my heart behind me on a DIY stretcher made up of the remnants of my soul. I'm in the middle of Cold Steel right now. My review of both of these may just be a series of stick-figure-rainbow-vomiting animated gifs pasted over and over.
The 10 P.M. Question by Kate de Goldi: This book is heartbreakingly good. I tried to review it and failed because it's so personal and startlingly true that I don't know how to share my feelings. This is the story of how family, friendship and love survive anxiety, and how we learn to be kind to one another even when we disagree or don't understand. It is gorgeous.
God's War by Kameron Hurley: I didn't review this traditionally; Jodie, Phi and I got together and had a discussion about how much we liked it. It's a great discussion book; there's so much happening in the story, both politically and personally, that there are no doubt undiscovered avenues for even more chat sessions. I could probably talk for another hour or five about it when what I should really do is read the sequel.
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes: The publisher kindly gave me this book when I asked, and then Netgalley locked me out of leaving feedback on it due to me not posting it before the release date? DEAR NETGALLEY, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU I LOVED IT, except no, I guess not. I'm predictable, but then again, I love finding metaphors. This book is like an easter egg hunt played in a dark mirror maze with candles. A frustrating challenge! Clearly I just have a lot of opinions about women and violent narratives. I think a reason I love this story so much is that it reminds me of Final Fantasy VIII, but with a sort of hopeful ending. Follow the progression of Final Fantasy VIII's narrative: HEARTBREAK FOR ETERNITY. Follow the progression of the narrative of The Shining Girls: HEARTBREAK, but maybe not for eternity except the bad guy chose the wrong fucking historical sparkling firefly to screw around with?
Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples: I was so surprised by how much I loved this. Although I have some problems with the framing of specific parts of the chapters (the brothel thing, the horrible gendered language/stereotypes), it's all so creative that I'm pretty much good to go for the remainder of the ride. I love the narrator. ♥
Feed by Mira Grant: Why the hell did I wait so long to read this!? What the hell, SFF fandom? You're fired from my recommendation team; get out. This is seriously up there with World War Z for me re: fantastic world building.
vN by Madeline Ashby : Out of all my selections, this book is the most out of left field. I'm still thinking about this novel months later; my review has been half-written for ages because I want to say so many things but can't find the words. The sequel is out and once my Hugo reading is done, there may be a new purchase in my future. Maybe it will help me collect my thoughts on the first title.
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson: Was I surprised when I picked up this Hugo-award winner that not only did it remind me of seriously literary mainstream fiction right down to the privileged white kids, it also had a romance that was integral to the main character's story? If Nicholas Sparks wrote science fiction, it would look similar to this, but sound way less intelligent, be way less entertaining and have more kissing in the rain instead of the cool side-characters that pop up mid-novel. I'm planning to read the sequels; I wonder if his other stuff is any good. I was seriously the only one who wanted Tyler to have an open relationship with Jason and Diane both, wasn't I? :| Yes, as usual.
The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer: Strangely enough, this novel has grown on me on reflection, proving that my rating system is 150% ACCURATE. I'm itching to write some terrible fanfic for it that will probably immediately be jossed. I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO KIRAN OKAY. *breaks self-imposed rule, immediately goes and buys the sequel*
Breakdowns
Total: 22
Novels: 12 (54.5%)
Short Fiction: 4 (18.2%)
Nonfiction: 1 (4.5%)
Anthologies: 1 (4.5%)
Sequential Art: 4 (18.2%)
The full 2013 list is at my handy spreadsheet.
I'm not too surprised by this; I made resolutions to branch out more and haven't really done so yet: goal for the rest of the year! I am pretty sad about my nonfiction totals, though. Really, self?
The anthology numbers are technically wrong. I read another anthology that meant to post a review for back in early May: The Other Half of the Sky. I read this anthology while working/sick with plague, wrote a review, and then while I was editing it realized how dumb I felt, scrapped the whole review and started rereading the book more slowly.
Part of my frustration with promoting books is the sense of immediacy that feels almost required by nature of participation in the community; it's easy to get caught up and pulled along because you're excited and want to share a thing now-now-now. But that's not me at all. I spent seven years in a fandom for one video game. I'm not exactly what you would call a mover and a shaker. Unless there's a spider.
I really don't do this thing to feel like an idiot, or rushed. I'm still working on reviews of books I read in February because I'm still thinking about them. Of all the things I can say of my short time with this anthology (since I am not counting the reading I did while high on cough syrup) is that it's so very, very smart. Some of the stories are complicated explorations of things so far beyond me that I'll probably never get what the author was trying to say (I had to look up words used in the introduction in the dictionary). I'm still getting used to how experimental short stories are in this fandom. But it was a nice reminder that I'm not going to fit into the overarching industry cog that churns through titles like a bag of delicious Cool Ranch Doritos. Sometimes, I want to think and I want my worldview to be challenged and that takes time. Rushing through something, making myself feel like a moron, and cheating myself and whatever I'm trying to experience? Hard pass.
There's a nice series of posts hosted by The Book Smugglers: SFF in Conversation: The Other Half of the Sky’s Contributors Round Table — Part 1 and Part 2 in lieu of my meanderings on the subject, which will be coming sometime in July and counting officially as a book read as I won't be cracked out on medicine.
My attempts at adulthood continue as expected.
Women: 12 (70.6%)
Men: 5 (29.4%)
Sweet! However, it would help if I reviewed some of these things and lived up to LB's project tenets. This also reminds me I need to start prepping for Coverage of Women on SF/F Blogs for this year. Cue Ana and Jodie weeping in the corner. I have to say, I've looked at some of the blogs I actively follow and already have a bad feeling about next January. Break out the vodka.
Interestingly, I've been tracking another statistic this year, which is the company who published what I'm reading. If I read more widely, this would be more useful. Only time will tell if I like to play favorites unconsciously (or if I go back and do compilation for previous years like a chart nerd).
That's what happens when one of your favorite authors writes for Tor and you reread a bunch of his books!
Goals
Well, 2013. You've actually been a bit of an asshole so far except for that time you made it up to me by bringing John Scalzi nearby, so who knows how the rest of the year will play out.
I want to finish my Hugo voting. I want to get cracking on my goal of "read women writers you haven't, you coward!". I want to clear out my backlog of 10,000 reviews. I want to read more stuff I had my eye on via We Want It! last year. I want to survive Supernatural (spoiler: unlikely), and also I would also like a better job that gives me more time to read and more money for books.
Supplemental Material
- The Half-Year Mark: Best Books of 2013 (so far) — The Book Smugglers
- Favorite Books of 2013 (So Far) — Fantasy Cafe
- Top 10 Books Read in the 1st Half of 2013 — Bibliotropic
- The 2013 Half-Year Six Pack — Rob's Blog o' Stuff
- Halftime Report: Favorite Reads of 2013 Thus Far — Bunbury in the Stacks
- Year's Best (So Far) — Speculative Book Review
In closing, Ana (and Jodie when you return from your adventures), now it's your turn to share. :P
I bring the best news, always!
Date: 2013-06-27 04:09 am (UTC)Speaking of Hugo reading, I did a quick little search for Schlock Mercenary, Random Access Memorabilia starts here and ends here. It's slightly over a year's worth of daily comics, building on almost a decade of history. Um.
I don't think it means what you think it means
Date: 2013-06-27 05:11 am (UTC)Thanks for the research. If I'm going to invest that much time in a comic it needs to be called "One Piece". Since it's not, guess I have saved myself some trouble!
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Date: 2013-06-27 06:52 am (UTC)Also I love Jo and Ellen so much and they were the awesomest (SPOILERS) and find it inexplicable that they were killed off. But I can't help thinking that their last moments were consistent with their character behavior but if the boys can escape death so regularly how would it have been impossible to suspend disbelief if even one of them had survived? But the show relies on killing off people we love and isn't the dreadful uncertainty what we are here for? Still, unintentionally or not, they fail the ladies so often and it makes me sad. Arrgh I have no easy thoughts about this.
Although, Supernatural has helped me pick out the problematic aspects of media in general much more easily than in some other shows because sometimes things happen and I'm like 'whoa that was completely unnecessary and/or incongruous (Dean's gendered slurs, fr'instance). Are you blindly following the dictates of patriarchy without examining them?'. Or when people of color appear and I'm startled into realizing that there is a weird lack of minorities in the show. This is probably not a good thing. This is torture.
Anyhoo, sorry for rambling, but just wanted to say that you are right on the money about Supernatural and the perils of loving it.
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Date: 2013-06-27 06:22 pm (UTC)BASICALLY, I really like this show but sometimes I feel like it's gagging me, dragging me away from the light, kicking the hell out of me in a back alley.
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Date: 2013-06-28 11:40 pm (UTC)(I get fed up with Steven Moffat.)
MY DREAMS
Date: 2013-06-29 05:51 am (UTC)It doesn't mean I have to like it! Moffat, why are you such a backwards jerk who can't conceive of making a move toward being inclusive to DW's women fans?
I don't understand you, Moffat. I don't understand you at all.
I'm sure as soon as it's announced, though, you'll hear me caterwauling in abject agony. That's the noise you hear. My misery, writ large and with auditory oomph.
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Date: 2013-06-30 05:38 pm (UTC)Kristen
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Date: 2013-07-01 11:22 pm (UTC)I am TOTALLY intrigued to see if you like Saga. I was trying to describe it to a friend, and she said, "....oh, it's SF." because she really dislikes SF, and I got to thinking that it honestly combines tons of fantasy elements. Zoomed out it feels like SF, zoomed in it feels like fantasy. /failure at describing tone/genre
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Date: 2013-07-02 06:41 am (UTC)Also HIIII :D
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Date: 2013-07-02 06:43 am (UTC)HELLO WELCOME BACK. :D
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Date: 2013-07-03 10:56 pm (UTC)(And just in case it isn't obvious by that comment, I run Bibliotropic. Figured I should probably include that so that it doesn't look like I'm just fanning over some random blog for no contextual reason. :p)
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Date: 2013-07-04 12:44 am (UTC)(How do you not count as a big-name blogger? :P)
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Date: 2013-07-04 12:47 am (UTC)because I get, like, 30-40 hits on my blog per day. Unless I get really lucky and get about 90. :p Most of the big names I know get about 10 times that; I dream of being that awesome someday. XD
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Date: 2013-07-04 12:56 am (UTC)I am @renay on Twitter! :D