hello?

[femmenerd]

*taps mike* 

is there anybody out there? i am still alive! still trying to avoid getting covid. still chronically ill. adopted two kittens. started writing fanfic again, about the bbc crime show Silent Witness of all things. rewatching Fringe and The X-Files. participated in democracy again today.  

edited to add: the guy in my icon is the japanese figure skater yuzuru hanyu because i also became an active figure skating fan since you last saw me here. 

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[lynnenne]

OMG HI!!! I’m still alive too… just getting over Covid, in fact. I went to Vegas on a work trip and it followed me home. Symptoms weren’t too bad except that the brain fog is taking a while to lift. I’m pretty sure my neurons are only now starting to grow back.

I’m recently obsessed with Interview with the Vampire on AMC. Never read the books, but the show is the proudly gay vampire romance we all deserve!

[femmenerd]

hi!!!!

i have not been anywhere, because i am still mostly isolating. which is bananas.

glad to hear you’re doing better, although brain fog is no joke, i know.

i have not watched IWTV yet because i’m still trying to ascertain whether my spouse will watch it with me. but i am looking forward to it! (i did read the books when i was a teenager.)

[lynnenne]

I don’t blame you for isolating. I did too, until literally *everyone else* in my family came down with it. The main reason I was being so careful was so I wouldn’t pass it on to my teenage nieces and my aging parents. Once they all got sick, I decided to say “fuck it” and not worry anymore. They all recovered, thankfully.

IwtV is pushing all my lapsed-Catholic buttons HARD. It’s gorgeous and over-the-top and campy and funny and moving and ridiculous. The cast is amazing and Louis is BEAUTIFUL and he owns my soul. The worst part is that season 1 is only 7 episodes. I want 200 more!

[femmenerd]

it’s rough, but my doctor assures me that i am high risk for long covid bc of my pre-existing conditions. and having already been debilitatingly ill for so long, i don’t want to make it worse. feeling pretty left behibd by the world tho.

if you have lapsed catholic buttons, have you watched Evil? my lapsed catholic husband calls it “the catholic x-files.” and it stars the beautiful mike colter as a hot priest (in training) who investigates cases of demon possession.

[lynnenne]

I’ve never heard of it, but I’ll check it out!

[wendelah1]

Hi. I'm here. Still trying to avoid getting COVID, too. Fringe and The X-Files? Excellent.

[femmenerd]

fringe & elementary are my ideal comfort shows in this uncertain world bc they were excellent the whole way through & never betrayed me. x-files did betray me but i’ve had 20+ years to develop s thick skin about it, so.

may neither of us get covid!

[shallowness]

Hi, lovely to see you're posting. I'm still around, being more careful than most about COVID, plus my eyesight has deteriorated since March 2020, so there's little motivation to return to the cinema/theatre, for example. I'm currently into Strictly ComeDancing, reawtching The West Wing, and reading rather than writing fanfiction.

[femmenerd]

hi! it’s getting lonely being careful when most ppl aren’t anymore, isn’t it?

i have never watched strictly come dancing but i went through a period years ago where i was obsessed with all forms of So You Think You Can Dance.

the last time i watched the west wing was in 2016 before trump was elected. it’s felt like maybe watching it since would be like ribbing salt in the wound?

[shallowness]

it’s getting lonely being careful when most ppl aren’t anymore, isn’t it?

Yes! Well, it has been for over a year. I keep hoping 'being careful' will mean something different after this winter and my own situation changes, but so many have moved on to pretending it never happened!

Strictly = autumn/winter for me, and is interesting as a mass fannish experience. FWIW, I started rewatching The West Wing in early 2021, but then again, the UK has had three Prime Ministers since I've been rewatching season 4.

[femmenerd]

FWIW, I started rewatching The West Wing in early 2021, but then again, the UK has had three Prime Ministers since I've been rewatching season 4.

oh god. i have never been as aware of british politics as i have been lately & i’m not sure how much of that is bc your gov’t is on fire & how much it’s bc i am the token american in a small british fandom.

[turnonmyheels]

Howdy Stranger!! Good to see you around

[femmenerd]

hi pal!!

i know i told you congrats on FB, but CONGRATULATIONS! ❤️

[turnonmyheels]

A week from tomorrow I will be a wife and that is WILD

[cathexys]

Good to see you here!!!! welcome back :)

(I also went on a weird early 2000s rewatch kick during covid. I couldn't handle anything beyond procedurals or older shows, ReGenesis, MI-5, The Wire, Wire in the Blood, The West Wing and, more recently, Justified and Peaky Blinder. Something about knowing where it's headed and not getting blindsighted while still having the feelings?)

[femmenerd]

thank you! it’s good to be here.

and yeah, i’ve also been rereading a lot of books too. that way i’m not running the risk of reading things i won’t like. but i think it’s more than that—even new things i enjoy are not as restful.

i’ve been reading plenty of new non-fiction for research, but that’s different somehow.

[cathexys]

Same on the rereading! I went through crazy relistening of audiobooks and podfics this year. All of Rivers of London, all of Castillo Price's PsyCop, all over Dresden Files... I had a week where I listened to like nearly a dozen domestic cozies by Josh Lanyon. I don't even like cozies, but my brain can't be taxed most of the time...

I have this entire theory about the pleasures of rereading that I gave at a conference on Spoilers. I was a tad out of place there--I spoil myself on purpose!!! :)

[femmenerd]

i also spoil myself on purpose. except for mysteries, unless you count when i re-read one. i think it comes from being a romance reader—we are well known checking the last chapter to make sure it isn’t going to piss you off before committing to a book. there is even a term for that, but i’ve forgotten it. it’s on the tip of my tongue though, so annoying.

i also love the rivers of london books. they are an exception to my general tendency to read only historical mysteries.

[cathexys]

Yes!!! I totally think it's romance reader thing, because we are very in tune with our own expectations. I mean, fans have always been like that, and out robust tagging system shows that. But even commercial romance readers will recognize different subgenres and know HEA and HFN (and don't you DARE tell me it's romance when they die at the end or such shit....)

[rubywisp]

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