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For a long time now, my default method of fannishness has mostly just consisted of reblogging shit on tumblr and lurking on other people's reaction posts. This works less well when you've been in another country for four months and are therefore getting everything long after everyone else (I only discovered Call Me Maybe a few weeks ago, I still have days where I need to put it on repeat for hours and still find all the memes about it really funny). Plus I'm trying to remember how to actually be an active member of fandom again, so: posting about a bunch of shit that everyone else is probably sick of talking about.

I saw Cabin in the Woods last night. I feel like it's cool to hate on Joss these days, especially for the things he does that are especially Joss-like, but I can't help it guys, I love him and I love all of the tropes that he never gets tired of. This movie was the perfect venue for him to just go nuts: evil corporations, funny and well-drawn characters who all die by the end, snark, crazy weird monsters, and a quiet moment between friends right before the apocalypse starts. At one point I said to my boyfriend, "It's really great to see what Joss's imagination looks like with an actual budget," and it IS.

I thought it was a tremendously clever and well-done takedown of horror movies and just media consumption in general, but so much of my emotional reactions to it are colored by how much of the movie felt familiar to me, just from years of being a Whedon fan. I kept expecting Lilah to walk in to the corporation and start bossing people around. I'm just so god damn delighted that this artist that I've loved for years now has the name recognition and the financial backing to--well, maybe not do *whatever* he wants, but to create things that are so close to his own personal vision. Is it weird that I feel proud of him? Because I feel proud of him.

I'd managed to see the first two episodes of this season of Game of Thrones back when they aired, but then my semester in Brazil got waaayyy busier and I fell behind completely. So I watched the whole season in about three days, and uuugggghhh now I'm made of flail.

Negative things first: Whyyyyyyy did they change Robb's plotline to make him look like EVEN MORE OF AN IDIOT? Did they not think that the stuff between him and Jeyne Westerling would be dramatic enough onscreen (it totally could have been, what's more dramatic and angsty than sleeping with someone when you're mad with grief because your more-or-less-adoptive-brother killed your two little brothers)? This Robb/Talisa shit doesn't work at allll, good god I can't even think about it without getting all annoyed.

As funny and awesome as Theon getting knocked out by his own first-mate was, I wish that they'd kept the Bastard of Bolton in those scenes. Otherwise the burning of Winterfell doesn't really make sense.

Also, way too many boobs and not enough penis. I'm seriously getting sick of the any-excuse-to-get-a-naked-lady-in way that they're running the show.

Positive things: BRIENNE AND JAMIE ARE PERFECT. PERFECT. PERFECT HOLY FUCK I CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 3.

Also perfect: Theon and Asha's relationship, Tyrion's speech in Blackwater, Dany in the throne room while snow is falling, Ygritte, Osha being a badass, Stannis and Davos, Arya and Jaqen, um... there are lots of perfect things.

I approve of how Shae and Margaery (how the fuck do you spell her name?) are getting better characterization in the show than they are in the books. I know that this way lies madness, but I'm 'shipping the hell out of Shae and Tyrion. Although, if their storyline ends the same way that it does in the books and we're expected to still root for Tyrion after he kills her, I will hunt down and murder the showrunners, swear to god.

And now, hey, the one show that I'm kind of in sync with the rest of fandom on! I'm still months behind on Community, Parks and Rec, Vampire Diaries, and every other show I care about, so of course one of my first acts now that I'm home is to binge on Teen Wolf. Tumblr can be very persuasive, I guess. I just finished season one, and I am trying to pretend to myself that I'm going to do productive things today instead of getting caught up on season two, but ha.

My reactions are pretty much the same as everyone else's. I really enjoy how Derek and Stiles are kind of like Xander and Spike v2.0, except that this Spike was never evil so there's even less to prevent one from 'shipping them. I also enjoy that this is a high school where all of the boys--even the token jock asshole!--are apparently totally at ease with homosexuality and that Stiles is quick to use Derek's hot body as an asset. Is there fic where Derek has to live in Stiles' basement room permanently for some reason? And can that fic not involve knotting please, because ugh, this fandom. :/

As for the other characters, Allison is by far my favorite, although I find her more interesting when she's not around Scott. Maybe that changes by season 2, I've heard their relationship gets more interesting. I kind of want fic where she becomes a founding member of Young Avengers? Um. I am starting to find Scott's dumbness endearing, but he was pretty boring to me for most of the first season.

This show also has the most execrable soundtrack I've ever heard on any TV show, ever. It keeps pulling me out of the story because I hate it so much. MTV, why.

For years my fandom involvement has consisted solely of lurking and once-in-a-blue-moon posting to a personal LJ that's read by maybe like 12 people. I'm trying to get back in the habit of posting publicly, writing stuff and talking about stuff and actually being in fandom again, but it's hard and I'm shy. I think at this point I'm better at talking to people IRL than I am on the internet, how sad is that? Whatever--hi, hello, it's good to see you again.