[fandom] Ten Years Later (plus one day)

So I missed the ten year anniversary yesterday because I was sick and couldn't get out of bed. That's okay, in my few waking moments I thought about the show a lot and dreamed about it, even.

BtVS was an important show for me. It was the first show I ever talked about with people outside my family. (Especially during season two, one of my neighbors loved it, so we talked about it at school and whenever we walked to and from piano lessons.) It was the first show I thought about when I got online full time. (Fall 1998, and I was already a fan, but finding fannish things -- mailing lists, the Bronze, people -- helped me develop my own sense of participating in fandom.) I went through high school with Buffy, Willow, and Xander, I graduated with them, in many ways I grew up with them.

( what if it hadn't existed )

I never really liked Buffy all that much, but the other characters kept me watching. (Willow. Xander. Oz. Cordelia. Kendra. Faith. Giles. Jenny. Angel, in season three. Joyce.) As I rewatch obsessively, I grow to like Buffy more, and Buffy/Angel. I like Spike less after season three. I love Oz more. Faith is still my favorite. Willow/Angel will always make me feel warm and happy because just the thought of it reminds me of all my favorite people (and ThatHappyPlace).

I still love seasons one, two, and three the most, though I've grown more fond of four and five, and I (still) dislike six and seven. I love season one of Angel, and parts of other seasons. I have a fairly large collection of BtVS books, and intend to read the comics (probably not on an issue by issue basis).

I'm so glad BtVS became a television show as well as a movie. (Though, unlike a lot of people, I adore the movie, too. It's hilarious, and I watched it at my first ever slumber party, and it just makes me happy to this day.) I learned so many things because of it and the fandom spawning from it, from how to be a good friend to how to be a strong person to how to be a better writer.

Happy aniversary, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and fandom. I'm glad we're still together.

[fandom] movies, tv shows, and weight loss

This afternoon was a media afternoon while I tried to catch up on everything that had fallen to the wayside because of being sick the past few days and completely out of commission on Saturday. (One of those things, unfortunately, is my femslash07 story, but I'll have it posted on time tomorrow.)

During laundry, writing, editing, throwing out papers, etc., I watched the pilot episode of Friday Night Lights online, and absolutely loved it. I haven't watched it because it's on against Bones, and I'll continue to watch Bones, but I'm definitely going to catch up with FNL online.

People, I very nearly cried at a couple of scenes. It brought back that high school thrill of Friday night games, early morning marching band practice, and the excitement of watching the team fight to win. (My high school team wasn't all that great, except for when I was a freshman. The band, though, was smoking.)

Then my sister K. and I went to see 300, which I loved. Very comic book, very exciting, full of hot guys and gorgeous women, and not nearly as misogynist as I expected from him. (Good previews, too, Spiderman III, Invisible, and that figure skating movie, which looks funny. No Resident Evil 3, though, which made me sad.) I kind of fell in love with the Queen of Sparta. Plus maybe all the three hundred.

I also heard about this thing, Girl Trash, which is Angela Robinson's Pulp Fiction-style Lesbian Noir set in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles and starring Margaret Cho, Mandy Musgrave, Gabrielle Christian, Rose Rollins, and Jordana Brewster. I do not think I can love her more, and yet, here she is, doing another role over which I wish to swoon.

Tag: "A gang war is brewing ... and you'll be asked to pick a side."

Jordana's! I pick Jordana's! After Mia and Lucy Diamond, I'll follow her anywhere.

Finally, even though I haven't been able to work out since Thursday (and that was just a light walk, because Tuesdays and Thursdays are my days off), when I got dressed to go to the movies, I put on a new long sleeve shirt, and it was an XL. It's a little tighter than I like (which basically means it's not hanging off of me in folds), but it's comfortable.

To compare, my work shirts, which I wear every week, are 3XL.

I don't think you can see I've lost weight, and I don't feel I'm making much progress (for example, I have yet to bench 100 pounds, and nikitangel is catching up to me there, and surpassing me elsewhere, so I have to get back to lifting tomorrow), but I guess I am, at least a little.

I'm going back to bed now.