Hi!

[fan_eunice]

I am once again completely behind on DW and LJ. Family visits are coming on the heels of me going to Zens for her birthday, so I'm all over the place. Seeing people I love is always a good thing, but disrupting my schedule always throws me for a loop. So, stuff.

Festiviiiiiiids. I have not yet got back to mine. Vidding has been such a struggle this year and I miss it. However, I am 99 percent certain my main assignment will get done and submitted for the deadline. Unless the vidblock breaks it is doubtful that treats are in the cards this year, which gives me a sad, but I'm still looking forward to seeing alllllll the vids.

HAVEN. Not spoilery, just...I love this show. And it has been renewed! <3 <3 <3 <3

I thiiiiink I am just about ready to finally watch the latest season of Doctor Who. Right now the plan is that as soon as family departs this week, I will sit down and mainline it.

Once Upon a Time remains one of my favorite things currently airing on the television, but oddly something I've avoided being openly fannish about. It just gives me such a happy that I don't think I could be rational about critiques or people being Wrong On The Internet According To Me about it (both features of fandom in general, hand in hand with squeeful joy). Basically, there are women, women, everywhere on my tv once a week as the central characters and driving plotlines in a genre that includes MAGIC and SWORDFIGHTING and stuff. And it pleases me deep in my soul.

Elections. This was my first time in my life voting in a swing state (everywhere else I've lived has either been solid blue or solid red). It was..more nerve wracking than I expected, and also the area of Colorado I live in is...well, let us just say that Focus on the Family is, like, down the road and leave it at that. But damn it was kind of euphoric in a new way when we went BLUE as the returns came in (also, we legalized recreational pot...which if you've ever been to Colorado should not come as a surprise. Everyone here, across all political lines looooooves their marijuana, it is a thing.). And solidified my wish that presidential elections were popular vote and not electoral vote. I have always loved voting, but it's been a symbolic act that I haven't really felt made any kind of difference, living where I have. Feeling like your vote actually matters is a new experience and one I wish we all had. I could really do without the deluge of political ads every freaking five seconds on the tv, though.

So that's me. What are y'all up to?

Comments

[heresluck]

I know just what you mean about Once Upon A Time! I don't really talk about it, I have no plans to vid it, the most I do is reblog the occasional .gif on Tumblr, but it makes me sooooo happy. Like, squealing-and-kicking-my-feet happy.

[fan_eunice]

Like, squealing-and-kicking-my-feet happy

<3 <3 YES!

[heresluck]

Now I am thinking I should come visit this spring and we could marathon the show....

[fan_eunice]

ZOMG that would be AMAZING.

Also, guess what I'm going to do? I'm gonna learn how to MAKE VEGETABLES. My stepmother is actually out looking at greenhouses today to be built on the property at some point in the next year. She wants a dome one? I guess they are supposed to be awesome in some way that I don't understand. I'm slightly nervous about being involved, because I've never actually grown anything in my life...but I am also sort of excited at the idea of, like, slicing up a tomato to put on a sammich and thinking I MADE THAT. :)

[heresluck]

YAY VEGETABLES. \o/

...seriously, so much better than from the store. SO MUCH BETTER.

[frayadjacent]

Hi there!

Basically, there are women, women, everywhere on my tv once a week as the central characters and driving plotlines in a genre that includes MAGIC and SWORDFIGHTING and stuff. And it pleases me deep in my soul.

That does sound soul-pleasing. I've been very much enjoying Xena (watching for the first time) for the very same reason. I might have to give Once Upon a Time a shot!

[fan_eunice]

OMG, definitely give it a shot. If nothing else it is just a flat out fun reworking of fairy tales.

[such_heights]

Just spent the last week mainlining OUAT, and OMG. SO MANY AWESOME LADIES. I CANNOT. In particular, I am unable to even with how completely amazing Emma Swan is, like, what. I love it when my favourite character is the main character, it's the best! But they're all so delightful and have great faces. :D

[fan_eunice]

It's like LADIESPALOOZA every Sunday night. :D :D

[chloris]

Though I adore Robert Carlyle on the show, I'm especially happy to have all the awesome women on OUAT. *g* Though I love it so much I can't help but squee about it. At length. *cough*

[fan_eunice]

Rumplestilskin is fascinating and I love the way Robert Carlyle plays him, for reals. I'm quite fond of many of the dudes (Charming <3), it is just really, really, really nice that the majority of the plotlines and character arcs revolve around women. :D

I dunno, I might try more public squeeing?

[nonelvis]

I love OUAT! The plots are often ridiculous, and the SFX often terrible, but I love the characters, so everything adds up to a gigantic slice of DELICIOUS CHEESE, as far as I'm concerned. Anytime you want to squee about it publicly is fine with me.

[grammarwoman]

OUaT has become my first-watch show, as in the first show I want to watch off my DVR, the show I want to catch the same night it airs. LADIES WITH AGENCY FTW!

My cousin's husband used to work for Focus on the Family. They would pay him to stay in hotels to annotate what porn channels were carried, so FotF could write scathing boycott letters about those chains. It's very hard to hear that in a conversation and not giggle, let me tell you. "Paid to watch porn? You don't say!"

Yay for voting blue in Colorado! I am so blessed relieved that all the election madness is over. Here's hoping it leads to positive change.