review of fandoms past

[tattered_errata]

Boondock Saints: I will never revisit this, tbh. I rewatched the movie a few years ago when trying to introduce some friends to the demented glee of it and discovered that on revisit the glee was sort of gone. Still, the fact that I began fandom with twincest is somehow very right.

Buffy/Angel: These are apparently streaming on Facebook Watch right now! I will never watch anything on Facebook Watch. Also I'm afraid that if I revisited, they wouldn't hold up and the joy would vanish, and that would be terrible. I still have feelings, though, and just this week was shouting about Fred/Gunn on Twitter, so. Some things are eternal.

Firefly: Broken forever, revisitation impossible.

Hornblower: Ah, man. I wish I could. But talk about not holding up. :( Probably going to get rid of my DVDs on the next cleanup.

BSG: Broken forever, revisitation impossible. I still named my cat after it, though.

Brothers & Sisters: Was this even really a fandom or just me and Laura shouting at each other

Bandom: RPF fandoms are weird! I still follow the music and have feelings when they post cute things on Instagram or Twitter. But Gabe broke my heart and I can't look at him directly right now, and they're all healthy and happy and well, and I feel like we're old friends past our drama days, which means there isn't really any need for new fictional narratives. (Unless Pete or Mikey writes a memoir and fesses up about the Summer of Like, then I'm All In again.)

Hockey: Lord, who knows. I have a few fic ideas/WIPs (Holtby/Wilson, Benncest) but actual active players I'm interested in keep refusing to be vaguely gay to give me fresh ideas.



Gotta try to get into watching fictional television again. Besides Brooklyn 99. That doesn't count as television, it's live-action memes.

I want to try The Outpost, which looks like my kind of high-fantasy trash, but it's a CW show and they don't stream their shows anywhere but their own app, which is RUDE and UNFAIR.

Which of the Buzzfeeds might I enjoy???? Any of them?

I desperately hope I will latch on to the Captain Marvel movie.

Maybe I will re-attempt the long Polgara fic I lost when my last computer died. It was like two-thirds finished! Fuck all hard drive crashes in the ear. I have to reread the entire megaseries again to do that, though, and that is a Commitment.

Comments

[siegeofangels]

There is some good stuff in the buzzfeeds but there is also a dude that looks like a sloth and now when I read it I'm like, you're in love with a sloth-faced man!

[tattered_errata]

Oh no, stealth slothman, how will I prepare for that

[alpheratz]

You love sloths

[alpheratz]

Why do you RUIN it

[tattered_errata]

Which show has the slothman, I need to know!

[siegeofangels]

Unsolved. Note I have never watched the show, just seen gifs.

[siegeofangels]

She LIKES SLOTHS

[alpheratz]

Slothfucking

[clachnaben]

on the buzzfeeds, imo:

If you like food/foodie culture: Worth It (I like worth it a lot)

If you like paranormal stuff: Unsolved (eh, not my thing)

If you like pickling stuff & jersey accents: It's Alive! (which is not a buzzfeed but is a youtube show)

If you like bros & kinda blandness, like non-offensive listicles but in a video: Try Guys

[tattered_errata]

hmmmm. this is a helpful breakdown, thank you!

[clachnaben]

I watch A LOT of youtube shows/nonsense, because who even has the patience for tv anymore, so happy to help!

[cyprinella]

The last time I rewatched BTVS I was watching with J who had never seen it. We watched the first 3 seasons and decided to stop there, especially after he read plot synopses of the later seasons. It was a great idea. But even that was like ten years ago (oh god).

[la_dissonance]

Facebook Watch?? Will the horrors never cease D:

[tattered_errata]

Apparently they even have original shows on it???? I don't know! I refuse!

[la_dissonance]

je also refuse! hell world

[sohotrightnow]

s t a r t r e k

[tattered_errata]

When does it come back?

[sohotrightnow]

January...17th, I think? Also they have been doing shorts once a month for a few months now, which are lovely but at least one of them would have much better as a full-length episode IMO.

[seascribble]

There is much Buzzfeed. The cooking one seems cute and domestic but I don't like their faces. The ghost ones have better faces.

Bennbros fandom these days is mostly just us chatficcing Jamie/Justin while I yell at you about weird ways for Jamie to get knocked up. ;__;

[tattered_errata]

this is an extremely valid way to fandom!!!!!

[seascribble]

It's very good!!!

[romantical]

I am sad about Hornblower, but I also understand. Such beautiful bbs.

Brothers & Sisters was totally a fandom...of the two of us.

Oh, BSG. Such potential. So wasted. Let's just pretend the pilot/first season was all that ever happened.

RPF - it is hard when they keep being happy and having lives and not talking to each other in public spaces and not being in the spotlight and FOB's hiatus ending was supposed to be a RESURGENCE of all good things/2005, and YET. It's always Gabe Saporta's fault.

[tattered_errata]

Gabe Liked Pete's Grammy nomination post on Insta the other night, so that was very nice. When they're good boys they're very good.