Fandom geekery

[nishatalitha]

So get_together was excellent. However, one thing I learned from the weekend is to take the Monday after off work. Even if I'm not completely peopled out by Sunday night, I'm not going to want to see anyone on Monday. I woke up today in much the same state, so called in. I will have to go out - I have a lecture at 5.30pm and we should get our results back from the terms test two weeks ago.



blue_raven stayed with us, the_antichris, shihadchick and katrin came up on Saturday night after dinner for more conversation over tea/coffee/hot chocolate. It was good. We should stop recommending The Merro Tree given that I don't have an e-book of it and aren't willing to loan out my hardcopy (it would be different if I'd ever seen another copy in the country and knew I could replace it).

Pimps that worked:

The Authority - I am currently reading my way through the source material. I have no idea what fic is out there, but if anyone has some recommendations, they would be welcome.

Boston Legal - well, mostly. I'm interested in the source material, but five seasons worth of TV is generally more than I could be bothered with. I might get around to watching it; I'm certainly not going to avoid fic.

Generation Kill - I couldn't find the book at the library, but it is something I will probably get around to reading. Given that the mini-series is only seven episodes, that's a length of something I might even manage to watch.

My interest in fandom and fannish things has been revived; indeed I feel slightly overwhelmed with the ideas and suggestions that were renewed or offered up for the first time. I was getting to the point where I was just skimming through for new fic from habit and in case there was something I hadn't read before.

I'm also a bit more interested in meta, but not really enough to go and hunt out articles to read on it. Due South, The Sentinel and Star Trek remain at more or less the same levels for me.

Right. Time to go. Hopefully, I didn't fail.

EDIT: Yay, I did not fail. I got 82.5% (I need to work on the basic criminal law aspect) and skipped out early because we were covering conflicts of interest and fiducary duties. Although these are intersting topics, I discovered that staying home from work today was the correct choice because thinking was a challenge.

Comments

[stickmarionette.livejournal.com]

Hi! :D

There's some good fic at Yuletide for both Boston Legal and the Authority.

The community sequentialcrack has a bunch of recs (http://community.livejournal.com/sequentialcrack/tag/the+authority), and I quite enjoyed Loqia's (http://badfic.void-star.net/fanfic) fic also.

(Congrats on the test results!)