Random thoughts

You know, I have only the vaguest idea what the show Life is about (it sounds interesting, but I have enough TV in my life ATM), but I'm enormously amused whenever I see the words "Fandom: Life" pop up on my flist. I'm a fan of life, too. It sure beats death.

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I ramble a bit about my difficult relationship with Life on Mars fandom here. It's kind of the exact opposite of my relationship with Highlander fandom, where I've always loved the fandom more unreservedly than the source (with the exception of the Really Old Guy). I kept my distance, to some degree, in HL fandom, too - because close interaction with fen of something you feel only lukewarm about can be a bit awkward. Being able to join in with the squee is essential to really joining a fandom actively, IMO. But I always really loved the fandom and what it was doing.

In Life on Mars fandom, I still love the source (except for the last episode) to bits, but the fandom now makes me deeply uneasy. Which, yeah, I am aware is unfair of me, but it's the irrational part of me that's in charge of this emotion.

(Farscape fandom is the only fandom I ever had where I could simply love the show and the people who loved it, really.)

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Rapunzel almond spread. Food of the gods.

Whoah.

I just saw that someone's given me two months of paid account time. I don't know if that's a reaction to my musings about feeling like Wonko the Sane in LoM fandom, but if it is, it's a lovely gesture. Thank you, unknown benefactor!

Prepare to see more icons from me in the next two months. *g*

I could swear all of these are in Hanau.

This is Germany.

GIP!

cosmonusa, he of the delightfully insane Dark Doctor comics, has allowed me to use this icon. I've loved it since the first time I saw it. It makes me cackle madly, like the end of Starving on the Jump Down does. So, just in case I don't get a proper chance to use it, here it is, on a post all its own.