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crickets asked me about: Five shows you didn't think you'd like but ended up loving.

A good question, but I do not even have ONE example, because if I don’t think I’ll like a show, I wouldn’t watch it, and I’ve never had a person sit me down and say ‘no, trust me, I’m forcing you to watch this’ and then have it turn out that I love it. So basically, if a show doesn’t have some elements in its premise that are right up my alley, I’m not even going to try it.

However, here are five shows that by all rights I SHOULD love, but for some indefinable reason, I don’t:

Farscape
Fringe
Lost Girl (watched the pilot, enjoyed it, I just never continued on.)
Orphan Black. I don’t LOVE Orphan Black the way that I feel like I should.
SHIELD.

Oh Baby You're Still Alive When You Could've Died

errant_shadows asked me:

How about a list of your current fandoms?

New shows you intend to watch, old shows you're still watching, books, comics, movies, etc.?

It may prompt some interesting discussions from people who weren't aware of your shared interest.


This was a really great question, because I was thinking of doing a fannish check-in anyway. Basically, here’s the lay of the fannish land:

Arrow: still haven’t finished season one. This show is hovering right at that ‘I like this but I don’t love it’ place, frustratingly.

The Avengers: still interested in all my go-to pairings, sad that this fandom is in a lull at the moment (just waiting, I am sure, for new canon in the form of Thor 2 and CA: WINTER SOLDIER NATASHA ROMANOFF RETURN TO ME!)

Elementary: still haven’t watched any of season two. Probably because the back of my mind is going, ‘they’re never going to top Irene Adler is Moriarty, leave now.’

SHIELD: blah. I do not like Skye, I don't find the scientists amusing, etc, etc. I'm dropping this one.

Sleepy Hollow. Dropping this too. I want to love it, but each episode feels like forty minutes of chasing a macguffin, plus I'm shipping it wrong. I am WAY more interested in Ichabod's past slap-slap-kiss romance with Katrina or with him hooking up with Abby's sister than with Abby herself.

Parks & Rec: SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS!

I don’t have anything to say bookwise. Nothing worth talking about since Rose Under Fire and World War Z. I did really enjoy an anothology called Apple For The Creature, and it reminded me that I need to track down more Marjorie Lui novels.

Movies:

If my tv schedule ends up being as slim as it looks like it will be, I may have time to work on the massive backlog of movies I’d like to see. As for upcoming attractions, I am SO DOWN for Catching Fire, the Thor 2 stinger (seriously, I’m more excited for that than I am for Thor, for serious), and The Book Thief.

Comics:

Wherefore art thou, Hawkeye?

I am technically caught up with Captain Marvel, only I understand nothing. qualapec was the 'everyone dies alone but only the selfish live that way' the conversation the one you were talking about earlier in the context of the Carol + Jess relationship?

I also have some Black Widow-centric comics to read.

On the DC side of things (look at your life, look at your choices) I have the spoils from the Stephanie Brown masterpost, Cassandra Cain’s batgirl run (because Steph), selected Jason Todd comics (thanks, latenightcuppa!), and the beginning of Damian Wayne’s run.

I Never Say No To This Meme

Reblog Post if you would like to be asked questions about your OTPs.

'She Married For Money & Then Had An Extramarital Affair' Is A TOTALLY A Valid HEA

So, I read A Woman Entangled, Cecilia Grant's latest, and like everyone predicted, it was such a let-down.

Seriously, I so wanted the heroine to just marry for wealth and position like she wanted, and then just have an extra martial affair with the hero. Instead she fell in love and married the less well-off hero, yawn. Also, she was a virgin, so we didn't get a sex scene until the very, very end of the book. *eyerolls*

Also, I finished up World War Z a while back, (still haven't seen the movie yet) and I actually think that reading the book first was a mistake. Because there were a couple stories that really stuck out at me, that I know are not even going to get a mention in the movie. Those were:
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