And you just keep going 'till you run out of cake

[wickedwords]

Son and spouse got the orange box for Christmas, which means that there's been a lot of Portal playing in our household as we waited for the snows to melt. Things are finally to the point where we don't need the 4-wheel drive on the truck to get out of our driveway, which means, of course, that now we must go visit the relatives that we couldn't visit during the height of the snowpocolypse.

I think being snow bound has been bad for my weight management program, as I made many, many, many baked goods over the holiday, and come January, I will need to start working out and watching my weight again. (Like oh, so many others.) Is there a fandom-related weight watcher-thing online that I should join? Or should I just bug people like I do with my daily writing posts?

Speaking of daily writing, I'm going to get back to that in Jan. too. I have two SGA novels that need completed/revised, and there's no reason not to do them anymore. Oh, I know the fandom is having a terrible time of it, but there are only two episodes left to go; even if they pull the conceptual equivalent of a Blake's 7 on the show, we can make rainbows and unicorns from it, I'm sure. We're going to end up with a much smaller fandom, but that was always in the cards; at the gut level, I think three to five years is a pretty standard fannish lifespan, and we have most certainly hit that. We'll be left with mostly die hards by summer.

Hmmm. We really do need a 'things I love about my fandom' meme.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I watched yaoobruni play a bunch of Portal at his sisters' house on Christmas. I just kept singing the JoCo song...

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to figure out how to vid it, as there's an SGA image for almost every line of the song. It's also a horrible earworm, and I love its chipper death obsession. How like me...

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I would LOVE to see you vid that song! Ahahaha -- YES PLZ.

Oh, and I meant to say -- I look forward to your SGA novels! And yes, I look forward to seeing what unicorns and rainbows we create out of however the aired series ends. :-)

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

As long as they aren't dead--which we know there's no chance in hell of that happening--we can work around it, and personally, I think we should start planning that now. ;)

And the song, wow. Replicators and Ancient Scientists and Michael and Todd are all playing parts voiced by the computer, with Team Sheppard against them. It'd be fun! Really!

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

I think three to five years is a pretty standard fannish lifespan, and we have most certainly hit that. We'll be left with mostly die hards by summer.

I think 3 to 5 years is a fair assessment, yeah.

Die hards -- and those of us who came to the party late! I only came to SGA fandom properly a year ago; I'm not nearly done yet.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Think of the fun that we can have making things right and fixing what a mess the writer's have made. I still want that long story set after the replicators take over Atlantis, where John can' hack it coming back to Earth and has a psychotic break, and just imagines going back to Atlantis.

Oh, wait. That's not everyone's idea of fun.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

Psychological torture? What's not to love?

Having seen the finale -- don't worry, no spoilers -- I am already entertaining notions of the plotty, post-series fic I'd like to write. I don't think I'll be the only one, either.

And, hey, SG-1 fandom, although not as big as it was, is still pretty active, which is at least in part due to the fact that there's been a spin-off show for the last couple of years to keep the SG 'verse alive. SG:Universe, whatever fandom ends up making of it, will at the very least keep the wider fandom ticking over.

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

You're so not the only one. :)

excellent idea--

[sinensiss.livejournal.com]

tag, you're it. (http://smallbeer.livejournal.com/158576.html) *g*

Re: excellent idea--

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, I guess I will have to work on that, maybe do it tomorrow, since I just got back from the latest family gathering and am too brain0dead to do it now. But yes, definitely, I will

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

I'm very interested to see how the events of the finale affect stories. And I think a show love meme is a great idea.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

I think it'll be interesting, now that we can look back and pull a thread out of some episodes. Who knows what will happen?

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

re: second graf--if you're interested in having a partner or anything, I'm game.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

I would love one! January 5th, when I am back from my Dad's place, we figure out what to do and we start.