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Finished my taxes. It is actually embarrassing how long it's taken me to freaking sit down and do them, considering how easy they were and the fact that for the first time ever, I'm actually getting money back. (Seriously, I was at the 'let me reorganize my bathroom drawers to avoid doing taxes stage of procrastination).

I feel like I blinked and today vanished - part of that was because I was up super-late watching The Hunger Games (again, a friend had free IMAX tickets)* and part of that was because I basically woke up, did errands, and then spent TWO FUCKING HOURS with a Century Link technician and my landlady in what was the most awkward, stressful internet repair job of my entire life (short version: my landlady hated the tech, the tech wanted to tell me his entire life story).

I'm now painting my nails to de-stress. (OPI What A Broad on my toes, Edin-Burgundy on my nails - this color isn't really a burgundy, but the best blood-red color I've found).

12_12_12 had a great (and also depressing) meta post about the kind of love stories television shows are choosing to tell these days, which prompted me to ask: flist, can you give me examples of currently airing shows where characters in a romance choose the larger picture or their personal ideals over their loved on, without this being textually seen as Not Loving There S.O. Enough?

*So, on the drive home from my second viewing of THG,

I was got to talking about Johanna, and how she and Haymitch (SO MUCH HAYMITCH) are both fractured mirrors of who Katniss would be if she lost more people earlier in her life. And I have to admit, the changes they made to Haymitch make me kind of sad, because as funny as the line about spilling his drink on his new pants is, it means that movie!Haymitch is an entirely different beast than book!Haymitch, who would never have said that. (Tangent: I lot of really cool Effie/Haymtich prompts have popped up online, which I would kind of love to take a crack at, but I don't feel like I have a good handle on Haymitch a.t.m.)

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Which isn't to say that it was terrible, it wasn't. Movie!Haymitch was just not how I pictured book!Haymitch and for me that created a huge disconnect. But, movie!Haymitch also brought to light so Effie/Haymitch feelings I've been having, too, which is not totally unwelcome. So, yeah. Not terrible.

Yeah, I'm in this weird place where I feel like the Haymitch on screen isn't a character I feel confident enough to write but at the same time I am curious about Effie/Haymitch.

My current & forever OTP - Sophie/Nate from Leverage are a good example of what a relationship should be. The writers did an excellent job of breaking down these characters and deconstructing the relationship they had so they could make certain choices and move towards being the people that could sustain a relationship together. They had to better themselves and choose themselves time and time again to get to that point, and it was just really lovely to watch play out. You don't see a lot of that on TV anymore which is quite sad.

You know what's funny? I have the complete opposite feelings about Nathan and Sophie. Just goes to show how different ships and dynamics read differently depending on your pov.