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[beanside]

I’m going to try to make myself post more often, because I feel like I’ve distanced myself from y’all, and that’s not what I want. I miss the community of fandom. I just pulled back because depression made it hard to write, and so I felt like I didn’t have anything else to offer.

So, what is everyone up to?

I’m nominally in MCU fandom, but I’ll read SPN, Harry Potter, and others, if they look interesting. I love recs! dine has amazing recs, and I frequently check out people’s bookmarks.

I don’t really watch SPN anymore. I don’t really watch any shows. I don’t currently have the brain power or focus thanks to depression. What I do watch is reality tv like RuPaul’s Drag Race, Forged in Fire And Face Off.

Face Off has been my favorite for a long time, and this is its final season. The contestants are just...nice. There’s very little “bad guy” edits, and frequently they’ll help each other out. It’s a movie makeup/prosthetics show, so it’s a very cooperative field. Plus, the judges are all industry veterans, and no one wants Ve Neil to think you’re difficult. (She’s been poaching contestants since season 1.)

Outside of that, I work at the call center for a certain Swedish Furniture store. The job is grating, but they pay well, and the benefits are amazing. Which is something I remind myself daily while I’m getting screamed at over missing items or late delivery.

Comments

[realpestilence]

I miss old fandom. Fanfics aside-and they're fun, not denying that-I loved talking to people. Books, music, art, gardening, social issues raised in the fiction we played with. Movies. I leaned on the community heavily because I'm so awkward & isolated & it made a big difference. Trying to fill the gap that the splintering has left behind is difficult. Too many social media platforms!

I don't watch tv...haven't had a tv in decades. What spare time I have, I used to read, listen to music...ah, lately, my time has been absorbed by twitter. It's kind of like writing drabbles, even better since they've expanded to 280 characters. :D

I know what you mean about the job. I've finally worked my way up the pay scale to something decent. Not rolling in it, but I don't have to struggle from month to month, & I have benefits. But since transferring to SC where my company is expanding (through the Carolinas & into Virginia), it's been hellish. We're growing too fast to keep up & frankly, the locals mostly don't want to work this hard, so they leave. We hire a new batch, get them trained, they leave, etc. But I like living indoors, so I gird my loins & go forth.

I'm trying to remember the last movie I watched. Um. Sing? Very cute. I don't like seeing new movies. I like seeing movies I'm familiar with, so it's hard to watch a new one; but once I do, if I like it, I can watch it any number of times. I think The Hit Man's Bodyguard was the last live action movie I saw. I liked it, but you have to like borderline cheesy violent foulmouthed movies. Which I apparently do. #lmao

Don't feel like you have to post fic! You & nilly are among some of the best fanfic writers I've encountered; but you have more than that to offer. Say hi for me!