Dreams of Falling

Sometimes you go out on fannish pilgrimage, and sometimes you stumble across something that might or might not be intentionally fannish. In Japan, they try to make it easy to stumble (see also: Pokemon).

( Actual accidental finds... )

( Finds where Japan made it easy to stumble... )

( And finally, an 'accidental' find or two. )

...still alive!

Last month included, among other things, a trip to Disney World, ( during which I learned the following! )

This month has been moving apartments. Fortunately, appeals to the skeletal union via physical therapy were successful, so I have been able to be of active assistance with that. ...we still hired people for the biggest bits, because Wife and I were not trying to tote our sofa anywhere, nope nope nope.

Fannish: uh...we watched the first episode of Kenobi? It appears to be shiny, just haven't gotten back to it on account of moving.

It's one thing to read fanfic for a canon where I have no experience - I've quite happily read Teen Wolf fanfic, or Stargate Atlantis, neither of which I've watched. It's the 'fanfic as, basically, original fic' experience. Happens to all of us. (...I assume.)

It's another thing to read fanfic for a canon where I tried the canon, got halfway through the first episode, realized that I actively loathed a major character and wanted him to die in a fire, and never went back. But I'm still enjoying the fanfic!

I may go back and try canon again, just with my finger on the ff button. Wouldn't be the first time that I've watched the Self-Edited Version of a show.

(For those curious: the canon in question is Boku no Hero Academia, and the character I loathed was Bakugou Katsuki.)

The quote is from a very very abridged summary of reactions to The Untamed, which is a series I am experiencing strictly second-hand. It looks super pretty! And the sort of thing that me from ten-fifteen years ago would have eaten up with a spoon and written All The Fix-It Fic for! But at the moment, I am Not Up For New Stories. Like, at all.

Part of it is just...2020. And all the multitude of minor stressors that have become major stressors (whee! anxiety for everyone!).

Part of it is that a couple weeks ago, we went from a two-cat household to a one-cat household. I won't talk about it, (a) because this isn't behind a cut and I try not to be That Asshole, and (b) because Wife is sorta back on her emotional feet (her cat, so she was hit harder), and I thought I was doing okay! until therapy last night, which ripped off the band-aid and now I'm crying at the drop of a hat. Any hat. Anywhere. Hats are littering the floor, apparently.

I feel like there should be a third part, but I can't think of one. Just, no new stories for me.

...Netflix better not take down The Old Guard before my brain stops being stupid, though.

First of all: Wife and I hit up a Sam's Club yesterday, mostly to get prescriptions but also to pick up a few more useful things. By the time we left, this included a Huge Bottle of Wine. (Seriously, I could use this sucker as a club against zombies.)

Second of all: we've been running low on Things To Watch Together, so Wife suggested one of the Star Treks. I casually commented that I've never seen Original Trek. (Movies, yes, but Next Generation was my vector into Trek fandom.)

Wife's eyes went wide, and she waved a hand frantically at me.

"What?"

"The wine! DRINKING GAME!"

So that's our plan for the weekend - watch O.G. Star Trek, and try not to die of alcohol poisoning. :innocent look:

So I've worn glasses since I was a wee Thia-let in elementary school, which was long enough ago that contacts were a strange arcane thing that cost ridiculous amounts of money, could easily be lost, and were only if you had a Specific Sort of Eye Thing (according to my hazy childish memory). Times change, contact technologies update, and I decided that I wanted to cosplay Crowley from Good Omens, complete with yellow eyes. (Cat eyes, unfortunately, as yellow snake eye contacts are hard to come by. :-( )

So when I went to the eye doctor, I asked for a prescription for contacts.

( So far, my attempts at wearing (regular! not even the cosplay!) contacts have gone as follows: )

* Went up to northern Georgia, camped in a tree house, and got to pet baby otters and an owl. (If any of y'all are even vaguely local: the otters aren't cheap, but it's totally worth it.) My inner thirteen-year-old was ecstatic.

* Finished GOOD OMENS. Wife (who does not spend nearly as much free time on Tumblr as I do, and thus remained unspoiled) called the Big Twist of the last episode a good ten minutes before the official reveal. We still enjoyed the heck out of it, and are plotting to cosplay Aziraphale and Crowley for DragonCon. (Complete with eyes.)

* I may perhaps have downloaded Wizards Unite, and spent way too much time on it for something that I've only had on my phone for a day and a half. Whoops? (At least Hogwarts has plenty of places to recharge nearby. AS IT SHOULD BE.)

What I think I was supposed to get out of that movie: angsty Draco (Tom Felton was having fun, I could tell), Harry + Ginny 4EVA, Hermione + Ron 4EVA, boy aren't Bellatrix and Snape totes evil.

What I actually got out of that movie: arguments for Harry/Ginny, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Draco, Harry/Half-Blood-Prince and/or Harry/Snape, Harry/Luna, and maybe a smidge Harry/Ron, plus arguments against Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ron, and Cormac Maclaggen/Anyone At All. Also I spent a fair amount of time rolling my eyes at Dumbledore and the blindness of Harry's faith in same, and wishing we got some development - any development! - of Ginny as a character rather than a love interest.

So in preparation for going to Harry Potter World Universal Orlando this coming Christmas, Wife and I are watching the movies and reading the books. I would say re-watching and re-reading, except I never actually watched any movies besides Sorcerer's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban (STILL THE PRETTIEST), and did not read past Goblet of Fire. I know what happens! I just...wandered away. As you do.

Then I spent the summer reading HP fanfic, and now I'm going back to the source.

( So far: Book and Movie 1, as well as Movies 2-5. )