hot off the meat truck!

I have not posted in a fuckin' year! Lol so much for "I GOTTA START USING DREAMWIDTH AGAIN", whoopsie-doodle. I've just been having fun in CBS Ghosts fandom. Wow, my last post about an episode was S2? Guys, the show is in S4 now and it is so unhinged.

Also, re: CBS Ghosts, if you enjoy Old Timey Pairings and are okay with your ship not being Opposites Attract, Nisaac (Isaac/Nigel) might be up your alley? One's a pompous Revolutionary War soldier who accidentally shot and killed his crush, an also-pompous British soldier. They have had their ups and downs. Both are into polite decorum yet are also both catty bitches. Isaac is cowardly and selfish but is trying to be less so. He's also very horny and very repressed. Nigel seems equally repressed and comes off as less horny, but in fact is a secret slut. It's interesting, it's definitely not the dynamic that seems to bring the m/m shippers out in droves (I'm a basic Bert/Ernie bitch myself), but I would be remiss if I didn't try to waft it in front of you guys and see if the scent provokes a ripple of interest.

(Isaac is in the icon, Nigel is not. The pantsless dude is Trevor.)

Also, if you are a lot like me and are like, "A sitcom that's popular with my coworkers who like Young Sheldon and Yellowstone? Gross!" I would say... don't be like me and give it a try because it's surprisingly dirty and the humor is broad but clever. We definitely have WWDITS-likers in our fandom, so it's not an either/or thing, taste-wise.

I keep lamenting the death of feminist blogs but not really doing anything about it. I think people posting AND having discussions about what was posted is cool. Substacks have sort of replaced them, ish, but obviously that platform has huge, huge problems. They do have comment sections, but...

Is there a community here on DW where people discuss this stuff? Search didn't find me anything with actual posts in it. Should I bite the bullet and create a forum? If so, is there a free forum people like? That said, I am the laziest most inattentive mod ever and this is a topic that causes so many fights (see: why feminist bloggers eventually gave up, because the comment sections were vital, and also fucking exhausting, lol).

I'm just thinking about how the idea of enthusiastic consent came, iirc, from the blogosphere, obviously building on ideas formed from books (and probably consciousness raising circles?) from the second wave, and if we don't have people coming up with ideas and hashing them out, the future won't be as good.

That said, again. The modding. Yikes.

Merry Xmas, happy holidays, happy very belated Chanukah, here's me copy and pasting something I wrote on Bluesky about episodic vs serialized tv:

This person wrote this (which, according to FFA, inspired a long thread by J. Michael Straczynski here):

https://twitter.com/JohnnySobczak/status/1737274115944288440

Sorry to act entitled over a non-serious issue, but it has to be said: being made to wait 2-3 years between seasons of television that are 8-10 episodes long is inexcusable and unsustainable. Just total corporate dissonance with regard to what people like about watching TV shows.

And that tweet and JMS' thread prompted this from me (cleaned up and edited):

Except here's the thing. At least in sff fandom nerd land, where I live, folks were creaming their jeans over serialization for the entire 90s & early '00s. Including me! DS9 was "better & more mature" because serialized. Same for B5. British shows were touted as better because they had fewer episodes -- quality over quantity. We heard this CONSTANTLY. This was the prevailing opinion. I don't remember a lot of discourse about filler episodes around this time (though I feel like I would hear anime fans talk about it?), but tv nerds like me were absolutely & understandably reacting to the pre-Buffy 1950s-80s model where characters simply did not remember what happened the episode before. Miles O'Brien gets brutally tortured? Next ep, he's fine. No emotional continuity, perpetual amnesia. It felt weird! That's not how humans work! It made sense for fans to want something else, for wanting the medium to evolve. And it did! Also, the purely episodic time gave us clip shows & that sucks*. On the plus side, it gave tv big writers rooms because 3 people can't possibly come up with 24 goddamn stories quickly, that's an insane amount of story.

BUT those insanely long episodic seasons, as folks like JMS have pointed out, let us get to know these characters for longer. (Also, less & shorter ad breaks gave us teasers & tags that were purely character-driven. I loved those.) But we can't pretend that the model we've had for the past decade isn't something we all LOUDLY CLAMORED FOR for the *previous* decade. Netflix gave us what we asked for, and gave it to us good and hard, and now we're realizing that, as usual in the US, we have swung wildly between extremes instead of just sensibly moderating. (The Buffy model is A+.)



*except for the Dinosuars clip shows. Those were very good.

 So I see some folks on social media talking about how it sucks being called a tankie when they're not tankies and how it's hurtful and I'm just thinking, "Kind of like how it sucks to be called a shitlib? Or a neoliberal when you're just a regular liberal and not a fan of right-wing economics in any way?" And it's just... wow, maybe we could actually stop being shitty to each other? Especially since, at least in the US, we are on the same side and generally want the same things?

Then again, if people didn't fight about stupid shit on social media, I wouldn't be on it, so. /o\

Hey guys, I made something super important.

i earnestly love and admire that, in this particular political moment, Riverdale chose to bump up Kevin's screentime and focus on his new boyfriend, as well as continue to focus on Toni/Cheryl, and to show them kissing as much as possible. It's important and cool.

i know most people have probably abandoned this show (idky, it's always a batshit delight) but it's still cool that the writing team did this (maybe more cool)

did two characters living IN the 1950s just say, "you've really captured what it's like to be in a queer interracial relationship in the 1950s"? ...yes

did a young man in the 1950s just say the words "my mental health"? ...yes

which. lol. but, i mean, it's not a documentary, it's a show for teens in 2023, so fuck it

so synecdochic is Good, Actually, everything she said is good, it's actually fine and good that she called out Stitch for operating like she got her political education at sfd and hms_anon back in the day (aka super toxic environments), the OTW... hoo boy, there are people I have long admired that I've followed for years that are in the OTW and I hope they're not part of the processes that traumatized volunteers like Azarias, it sounds like the entire org needs to be remade from the ground up, I fear for AO3 because it's incredibly useful, racism in fandom really sucks and fucks over fans of color that just want a fucking break and to enjoy fandom in peace, racist harassment is something one can do things about, racist trollfic is something one can do things about, fanfic that was not consciously written to be bigoted but has bigoted stuff in it but it's subjective and not everyone (even those whose ox is being gored) can agree on whether or not it's *ist is not really something one can do something about [in a moderating capacity] or at the very least if you want an archive like that you're gonna have to build a brand new one from the ground up and it's going to have to operate very very differently and if you want to do that more power to you, all of this is true at the same time, the end.

Title: Daydream
Artist: The Lovin' Spoonful
Fandom: Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Rating: Teen
Content Notes: Violence, horror.
Summary: Cordy makes a wish.



Links: AO3 [embedded]
Youtube [streaming]
Mega [direct download]

I made this thing TEN FRICKIN' YEARS AGO (maybe longer??? I originally made it with iMovie, not even kidding) and sat on it until I showed it to
wytchwoods today and was like, "Wait, if I end it here, is it basically done?" and she was like, "Honestly, yeah!" and I was like, "WOOOO FINALY FINISHING A VID GODDAMN!" Anyway, let me know what you think. It's definitely nothing deep, though.

Well, guys! I sure talked a big game when I moved to Mastodon (for the second time) during the (what turned out to be very brief) exodus from Twitter once Elon bought it. I was gonna use Dreamwidth more! I was gonna be on Mastodon all the time! Fuck Twitter!

1. This is icky to admit, but Elon (who is terrible and gross and has let fascist bigots back onto the platform) has made the For You tab, which I never used to look at, completely addictive (for me). It shows me everything I want to see (in a "ooh, look at this drama/outrage/discourse" way). I know. I know.

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2. But honestly that's not most of the time. Most of the time, I'm on the 18+ CBS Ghosts Discord. "I LIKE SMALL FANDOMS," I lied to the world. "I'M GONNA MAKE FANDOM SMALL FOR MYSELF!" I mean, I do like small fandoms, once they hit a certain amount of activity, they're too overwhelming to me. But, like most every other person on in fandom, I like being where the action is, so... here I am, co-modding a Discord where we can all be horny away from the kids!

Come join us! If you want to! If you're into H-Money aka Tretty aka Trevor/Hetty, we've got a whole little area to hornily lose our minds in, it's a lot of fun. It would also be great to get people that ship other things in there (I know our Pete/Trevor and Isaac/Nigel and Trevor/Sam fans would love more folks to talk to). Or if you don't ship anything, that is also ok!

I think I would be on DW more if it was easier to post, with a WYSIWYG editor that allowed quick and easy italics and bolding and linking, on my phone. I mean, not that it's super hard, but if it was Tumblr-easy or Twitter-easy. Although that friction is probably part of what keeps Dreamwidth slower aka sane/less full of discourse? Idk. I mean, we sure had discourse in the late 2000s, lol.

Anyway. CBS Ghosts! It's a fun time! Ghosties reading this, what do you think of the recent episodes?

Also, I'm watching S3 of Picard but I'm not paying as much attention when I watch. I was kind of not into the plot points they were centering in the first three eps, but now they've added plot points that hook my interest more. Anybody else watching?

So I got into true crime, like a ghoul, and I watched The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023). TW: Murder, sexual assault.

Also, I hate that, after the flush of first second romance with Mastodon, like so many other people, I was like:

In the beginning: This is great! No dumb discourse! It's so chill!

Now: What the fuck. Where's my hit of enraging discourse. It's so chill.

And here I am, knee-jerk posting my negative thoughts on Twitter and continuing to be part of the fucking problem. UGH!

( anyway, thoughts on this thing I probably shouldn't have watched and probably shouldn't be platforming under the cut, lolsob )

I don't know, am I wrong? Am I too credulous? Am I expecting too much out of a Netflix true crime doc? Did any of you watch it?