wanderlight | year in fandom meme + fringe reaction post!

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year in fandom meme + fringe reaction post!

(1) Your main fandom of the year?
INCEPTION. ♥ I also read a lot of Sherlock fic, some fantastic Merlin stories, and a little bit of RPF.

Your favourite film watched this year?
Imagine Me & You makes me smile and smile and smile. (I'll never get enough of Lena Headey, although the fact that she's been cast as Cersei Lannister confuses me?) Alternately: the new Evangelion stuff is EPIC.

Your favourite book read this year?
This is always such a hard question. Probably André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name, a novel which manages to deconstruct love without ever using the word itself. It's intimate, defamiliarising, unflinching, devastatingly precise, and probably my favourite love story of all time. Runners-up include Blindsight by Peter Watts, The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox, and everything Manna Francis has ever written.

Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?
I'll do (yet another) albums post soon, but meanwhile, here are my songs of 2010.

Your favourite TV show of the year?
FRINGE. FRINGE. FRINGE. Also, um -- Caprica, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Nikita, Modern Family, and Community. I also watched A:TLA and Veronica Mars this year, though they aired some time ago, if that counts.

Your favourite LJ community of the year?

therewerecracks, which posts daily Doctor Who screencaps; absolutely gorgeous.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Is Joseph Gordon-Levitt a fandom?

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Caprica being cancelled. Or Merlin, which broke my heart so badly that I had to stop watching it. Though maybe we can reconcile sometime. Or Supernatural, which I finally gave up on.

Your TV boyfriend of the year?
PHILIP BROYLES. HOLY FUCK.

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
How is that even a question, when Olivia Dunham exists?

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
"You have to come back -- because you belong with me."

The most missed of your old fandoms?
THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. Though I will never not miss HP! *clings* In September I finished a Remus/Sirius story that I've had on my hard drive for two years. It was just for personal satisfaction, but I like it so much that I might actually post it sometime.

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
I don't know. I wouldn't mind another fandom to write in, though. I am vulnerable and open to suggestion, so go on. Convince me. :)

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

inception_bang stories, and being able to join the weekly Fringe flail, now that I've seen all of the aired episodes.

Also, I have three-and-a-half more Inception stories which are yelling at me, wanting to be finished, so maybe those will eventually show up?

(2) I finally caught up, and -- spoilers --

FRINGE REACTION POST
-- up to 3.09.

01. Let's just get this out of the way first: Anna Torv, holy fuck you are a gorgeous creature of steel and grace and a voice that makes me shiver.

Olivia is one of the most compelling characters I have come across in a long time. I love her intriguing balance of coldness and warmth. I love the fact that whenever she feels emotionally vulnerable, she just channels it into being badass. I love the way she deals with so much shit and just locks it all down and gets the job done. Competence really turns me on, and nnngh.

I think I really fell for her in 1.11 "Bound," the ep where she's kidnapped, has to go through a spinal tap, and then fights her kidnappers and escapes right after that. I mean, that's pretty badass. Or possibly when she faced down Broyles early into S1 and basically said: Yes, I do get emotionally involved in my job. And it makes me damn good at what I do. So stop trying to discount me by pulling the "women are too emotional" crap and fuck off. (And thus began a beautiful relationship of grudging, absolute respect and mutual trust!)

It's pretty fascinating how Olivia's been characterised through juxtaposition in the third season. alt!Olivia (what's fandom calling her, by the way?) is a great foil. Though, interestingly, we never get to know her. We get alt!Olivia-playing-Olivia, and Olivia-thinking-she's-alt!Olivia, but never a pure expression of alt!Olivia herself. I ... don't really know where I'm going with that.

02. Peter/Olivia is my new Sydney/Vaughn. The way he's there for her, the way he smiles at her (who wouldn't want that?). Olivia's fear, the distance she keeps. It's all very simple stuff, but beautifully realised -- their love spans universes, asdl;kjals;dkjf.

I loved the beautiful, slow burn of the first two seasons, but ever since the Olivia switch in S3, my feelings are a mess. What it did to their relationship -- I can't articulate it, because it hits too close to home right now. Or ... not, actually, ahaha. Because Peter slept with Olivia's doppelgänger from an alternate universe and that doesn't really have an equivalent in real life. My point is, there is love, and betrayal, and a girl trying to cope with the consequences of a mistake a boy made, and that's enough to break me at the moment.

03. Even though I'm dedicated to Peter/Olivia, I kind of ship Olivia/everyone? This might just be because I want to sleep with Anna Torv, but think about it! Olivia/Broyles would be HOT AS FUCK together. Imagine the aesthetically appealing angry!sex. And I can't get over the quiet, doomed wistfulness of Olivia/Charlie. And I think that office scene in "Brown Betty" made everyone ship Olivia/Astrid, really.

04. BROYLES. NNGH. FUCK. In short: I have a type. He is it.

I have been a fan of Lance Reddick's magnetic, hotass intensity ever since watching season one The Wire. I can get no further with The Wire, for reasons that have nothing to do with how amazing the show is and everything to do with leftovers from stupid friend drama. I have to admit: I started watching Fringe partially because

faeriemaiden and

such_heights and

nekare kept telling me to, but, uh, 90% because I wanted more Lance Reddick. Which I got, and am very pleased with.

05. Peter fascinates me, from a writing perspective. The entire mytharc revolves around him: the rupture between worlds created when Walter saved him, his role in healing/destroying the multiverse (well -- dualverse?). (And yeah, we get it -- what's with your Jesus/redemption metaphors, JJ? Does the sketch of the Doomsday machine remind anyone else of the Rambaldi sketches?)

Anyway, my point: Peter is, arguably, the locus of the story, but ironically, he has very little agency. Most of what he does is in response to what's been done to him, and character-wise he's developed primarily in relation to other characters. I'd say that Olivia, Peter, and Walter are Fringe's main characters; while Olivia and Walter could be uprooted and transplanted into other shows, and still come across as who they are, I'm not sure that Peter could. A lot of his character would be lost without the weight of the Bishop family history, and his role as Olivia's love interest.

06. Lastly: oh, Walter. You are so fucking human, it kills me. ♥

I am sorry that my reaction post is so very overdue,

nekare! :D It got long, so I'll stop here, and do the other half of what I wanted to talk about later. Meanwhile, here is a tiny, non-spoilery summary of my headspace for

cherise and everyone who's still in S1 or S2: I love everything about this show. I love Olivia fucking Dunham, who's a total BAMF and possibly one of my favourite characters of all time in any medium. [Insert more superlatives here.] I love Broyles and the irrepressible Walter and Peter and Astrid and Charlie and Nina, which is to say, everyone. I love Charlie's aviators and "Astro/Aspirin/Asterisk" and Walter's lab and Peter being protective and alternate universes and asdljflskdfjs Peter/Olivia in their long black coats, wandering around crime scenes and determinedly not smiling together. I am so emotionally invested in this show that it's ridiculous. And now it's moved to the Friday timeslot of death. I am a curse unto TV shows.

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eeeee!!! FRINGE. BROYLES. OLIVIA. FUCK YEAH. So glad you're all caught up too!

Also I think you should write Doctor Who or A:TLA fic for me because I'm selfish like that. :D Though I would also be thrilled to read this Remus/Sirius story!

ASD;LJFSL;DJ YES. THANK YOU FOR FLAILING SO MUCH ABOUT IT. MY LIFE IS A MUCH BETTER PLACE WITH FRINGE IN IT! ♥

I would if I could! :D I'm 99% sure I'll never be able to write A:TLA fic -- I get this weird feeling of ... disjunction, whenever I think about it? -- though there's maybe a tiny bit of hope for Who? I don't even know what I would write about, though; I'm so happy with the way Moffat is running things, and I don't usually write unless I feel the need to push canon in some way ...

YOU BELONG WITH ME.

Also, YES to all your other reaction thoughts. Walter is devastatingly human.

Snagging your songs of 2010! I am always up for new music, especially during exams week. (And I would have something to say about fandoms if I had, um, done anything fandomy at all this year. :/)

♥

Yay! I'm so glad you also love Fringe!

no one else i know reads the vintner's luck and manna francis

*_____*

... there is new Evangelion stuff?! I've barely managed to start watching the old stuff!! Clearly my to-watch list is doomed to be neverending omg.

Also, I managed to finally watch Inception this weekend! I was sort of distracted at the beginning because I was attempting to talk Yuletide, but hahaha that conversation got derailed pretty fast.

I selfishly want you to come play in A:TLA with me (because fix-it fic! and gaang shenanigans! and backstory and alternate scenarios and reconstruction and and and), but I'd be happy to read pretty much anything you write, so. ;) &hearts

as;dlfjasldjfsd do you actually?! ♥
*clings to you*

I just ordered myself The Administration series from The Book Depository, as an undeserved early Christmas gift. Now I'm trying to figure out how to rec it to all of my friends without scaring them, ahaha.

You too! & it is hard not to love! I thought I'd enjoy it, but I didn't know the character would end up captivating me so totally. Can't wait until January. :)

PRETTY SURE THAT WILL BE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PHRASES FOR QUITE A LONG TIME! :D

Yay! I am glad you have the postgrad stuff out of the way (as far as I understand it?), now good luck with exams! :) ♥

I DO ACTUALLY, I OWN ALL THE ADMINISTRATIONS SERIES IN BOOK FORM, but I also read them when they were just internet novellas and i had them so memorized that the first time around, I could actually tell the minor grammar tweaks she made in the book a;sfldkjasd;f

God, I'm that person who gets a sunburn and thinks of Warrick and Toreth in Greece and Warrick is like DID YOU GET MUCH SUN and Toreth is like YOUR KINKS ARE WEIRD AS SHIT

And it's surprisingly easy! My college roommate, who was like, open to slash but not actually a slasher? I found her once curled up in bed reading the first one hahahah and i was like WHAT ARE YOU DOING and she's like SHUT UP IT IS GETTING INTERESTING!!

I read everything that exists online and am now I am ~~rereading them over and over again~~ waiting impatiently for the books to arrive!

I could actually tell the minor grammar tweaks she made in the book a;sfldkjasd;f
I ASPIRE TO BE AS AWESOME AS YOU ARE. :D :D Sunburn kink, omg. I just went and started re-reading that part of "Quis Custodiet ..." (aaah I hate Carnac) before I realised NO, RITA, it's time to have breakfast, not re-read the whole story again. It's tempting!

Maybe I will leave the books lying around my room to entice unsuspecting non-slashers?

Alas, no, just one postgrad thing -- I've got another thirteen or fourteen places to which I must still submit applications, which is a task for my so-called winter "break." >.>

This term really cannot be over quickly enough, though, fortunately, I only have to struggle through another 30 hours or so!

Yeah! In addition to the original series + the movies, there's a new set of films out. The first couple follow/rework the old canon material, and then it starts going off into AWESOME NEW DIRECTIONS and reaches unmitigated levels of epic!

Hee, yay! How did you like it? (It's not my favourite movie ever, but it is quite good in many ways, and it makes for a great fandom jumping-off point.)

I really want to play in A:TLA, but for some reason even reading in that fandom seems strange to me. I have no idea why, because I love the source material and I want more stories. :( :(

AAH, OH GOD, I AM SORRY. ♥

My winter "break" is also going to be full of ... not relaxing, since I had to get a bunch of term work deferred & extended thanks to being sick. So we can be unhappy winter break workaholics together?

Absolutely! (Though I think I might guiltily schedule a re-read of all seven Harry Potter books, which I've wanted to do since I saw the most recent film. Plus, I haven't actually had any fun since summer, so. Yes. :D)

You deserve fun! Do it! :D

I've been tempted to re-read HP too -- and re-watch LOTR, and re-read His Dark Materials and the Anne of Green Gables books, for some reason. No idea where this recent wave of nostalgia came from ...

ohmygod HOW AWESOME AND CRAZY WAS FIRST AGAINST THE WALL jesus christ I love Sara so much, and I think Cele might be one of my all time favorite characters EVER, and that extra story where you found that BC had slept with Toreth before, a;slfkdja;sf I possibly flipped my shit and reread every scene with BC in it just to ~read into their interaction~. Like when he gives BC the danish on the airplane. ♥

I frequently find myself rereading them and then suddenly it's like an hour later and I wonder where the time has gone. :(

Yesssssss. I wish they had less bizarre covers, especially the naked dude on the back cover which I have to hastily hide from my parents whenever I'm at home and they're like, "what are you reading....."

Eeeeee! Why are all these awesome sources popping out with new material all over the place?!?! I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY TO CATCH UP ON THE SHINY OMG. (Darker than Blaaaack, someday I will get back to you ;_____;)

Inception I mostly enjoyed for the team!factor, because I am predictable like that ahahahaha! SAITO AND ARIADNE, YOU ARE MY FAVORITES &hearts (and okay, Cobb would be a favorite too if he weren't so significantly fucked up.) Also the premise was nice chewy brain food that most movies these days are sadly lacking, so I appreciated that. :3 It's not my favorite movie either (my current bests are still Red Cliff and Pan's Labyrinth), but I can see how it makes for an awesome fandom playground!

Oh no, that is a dilemma! If reading any stories is weird... I dunno. D: Of course there are shiny vids for it (with more coming, hi White Lotus exchange! &hearts) if you haven't checked those out already, but that's a different kind of fan-space for sure.

IT IS UNBEARABLY AWESOME. I STARTED READING IT AT TWO IN THE MORNING, AND I LITERALLY DID NOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT BECAUSE I HAD TO FINISH IT. It hits me harder than any of the other books actually, because asdlkfjalw;fjsldfj Toreth's oh-so-human fear and how he runs, and can't deal with it, and totally wrecks himself ... Toreth makes me kind of incoherent, to be honest.

I love Sara too, and I was kind of delighted that there was so much Sara viewpoint in First Against the Wall! And oh Cele. "Wine, Women and Cushions" = tiny heartbreak.

Ahaha, I did not know about the back covers. The front covers look perfect respectable online. I'll just have to make sure to put the books down properly. :D

Ahaha, yes you are. I love TEAM!!! stuff though. And I love Ariadne! And obviously I love Arthur and Eames, but there's actually so little basis in canon for where fandom has gone, which is bemusing but totally okay. My favourite part of Inception is the brain food aspect -- I mean, give an English major a text about dreams and s/he'll go wild with it. :D

Pan's Labyrinth is a thing of quiet, creepy beauty. What is Red Cliff?

I think I could maybe handle vids! Closer to the original source material. (I have this problem with certain TV fandoms, and not for others. No idea why.) Is there somewhere in particular I should go to find them? :)

Hahaha, Arthur and Eames are cute and hilarious but aside from them being, you know, played by JGL and Tom Hardy (whose attraction factor I just do not understand but whatever, I'll roll with it!), I sort of don't get it! I didn't actually find them shippy with each other for more than five seconds, whereas I was shipping Cobb and Saito and Ariadne and Mal and Yusuf all over the place omg. Um, fandom/fannishness is a curious beast, news at 11?

OMG I HAVE NOT PIMPED RED CLIFF TO YOU?? :O It's John Woo's war movie about the Three Kingdoms period, and it's absolutely EPIC. Movie website & IMDB, plus wiki & glorious picspam if you don't mind some spoilers. ;)

Wistfuljane's list of vids! Plus a couple of ZUKO ONNA BOAT.

*grabs music* *notes down book recs*

Thank you!

Call Me By Your Name ♥♥♥

Lena Headley ♥♥♥ Actually, one of my biggest disappointments of this year (or was it last year? I don't remember when it happened) was Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles getting cancelled because I loved that show. All the shows that I love get canceled. Hold me.

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