With only minutes left in 2011

[lar_laughs]

End of Year meme gacked from mfirefly10

Your main fandom of the year?
That would pretty much be Stargate Atlantis. The communities are still thriving even though the franchise officially has nothing in the works. The best thing this fandom did for me, this year, is that it got me back into reading fanfic once again. I haven't been a reader in YEARS. The Ronon/John fics by jendavis make me so very happy!

Your favorite film watched this year?
I think I liked Eat, Pray, Love the best of everything that I saw in the theaters. The landscape was gorgeous and it stayed true enough to the book that my inner reader was happy. Plus, I didn't feel like I was going to pass out!

Your favorite book read this year?
Just one? I will probably remember this year the most for the books that I read with the other Pharm Girls. We read our way through The Black Dagger Brotherhood, The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments, and The League (Sherrilyn Kenyon). Right now, we're working on The Midnight Breed series (Lara Adrian) and I'm pushing the Vampire Academy series. We're talking about a reread of Harry Potter sometime soon, as well. I don't think I've read Book 7 more than once.

That's not bad when you consider R always told me she "didn't read" which I always take as an invitation to find the right book. For R, it was Harry Potter. She'd never read them and I was lamenting not having anyone to go see the movies with... was that last year? No, the movie before. So a couple of years ago. Now her husband growls at me when she brings home a bag of books. We're talking about going halfsies on a library card (it's $40 for the good one) to save money on books. Even buying them used is still costing us quite a bit of money.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
Hands down it would be Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials! I can't get enough of it!

Your favorite TV show of the year?
Community, The Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Leverage, Once Upon a Time, Flashpoint

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
Once Upon a Time!!!! Love that show and hope they get to see out some of their ideas because I'm ready to follow them wherever they end up! I also enjoy that I feel I can write in the fandom almost right away. I know just enough to already be sort of up to speed!

Also, I really, really enjoyed Neverland on SyFy and was excited to have that show to add to the great remixes they've done in the past. The ideas behind everything were stellar!


Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
I wish I liked Grimm better than I do. I'm sort of bitter at it because the network turned down The 13th Precinct for that and I really enjoyed the pilot. It's a download that I'm going to keep on my computer forever!

Your TV boyfriend of the year?
Raj (TBBT), Sam (Flashpoint), Hardison (Age of the Geek, baby!)

Your TV girlfriend of the year?
Ruby (OUaT), River Song, Lorna Bucket (who reminds me of Amelia Banks)

Your biggest (fandom) squee moment of the year?
Getting to see Jason Momoa up on the big screen... even if it was accompanied by A LOT of blood and violence. Yes, I'll probably own the DVD, too. I have to support my favorite guy, after all!

Also, the Vastra/Jenny relationship made me throw a pillow in the air with delight. That and the River Song reveal were so gorgeous!

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Harry Potter... even if I haven't been gone that long! It just isn't as comfortable as it once was. Besides, I've gotten spoiled in my other fandoms. Even though I don't write some of the same pairings that are as readily accepted by the majority of the fandom, I still have an audience. I find that I like feed-back! Maybe I just never found the right community there. I don't know...

The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?
I have every intention of watching Fringe and Pysch. I need to read all The Song of Ice and Fire books. Okay, you caught me... I need to START the series. I'm only like 40 pages into the first book.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
The Hunger Games movie. Hardison/Parker/Eliot becoming more of a possibility (a girl can dream, can't she?). Finding out if my thoughts about Ruby are right (and then writing the story as I see it if I'm wrong!)

Comments

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

(Out of curiosity, what are your ships for Harry Potter? 'cause if it's within what we in the fandom call the OLSB - Old Lady Smut Brigade - it's about finding the right fests/communities. We all tend to get pretty close, which is fun!)

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Back in the day, I mostly just wrote Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff but I've expanded that to First Order and then that Founder fic that was really fun to write.

I'm sure that it would just take me finding a community that I liked and then responding and participating. One can not make friends when one is quiet and sits in the corner, after all.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

As you know, I LOVE The Hunger Games! I would rec the first 3 books in the Vampire Academy series, but I wasn't impressed with the last three. I've seen people talk about the Black Dagger brotherhood. Care to tell me more about it? (Basically, are the female characters awesome/do they get lots to do?)

LOVE Florence, Love everything Who-related. SO excited for THG movie and I'd definitely approve of Hardison/Parker/Eliot becoming more canon-like, especially after the last episode gave us some really cute Eliot/Parker beats that I think we'd been missing, as of late.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... BDB... Well, there are men and there are women. The men are, at first glance, hopelessly flawed, yet when the women come into their lives, they are changed for the better. The women get to be awesome in that they fight to become equal partners with the men but it's not exactly a female empowerment series! They're engaging reads and I find myself smiling when I read them.

I liked the Eliot/Parker bits but I ALSO liked the Eliot/Hardison bits! They give me hope... and some interesting shadows to play with!

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Eliot/Hardison is one of the few bromances/slash ships I actually like, so I always enjoy their scenes :)

[innerslytherin]

Urgh. Good luck with the Song of Ice and Fire. The first 40 pages are the best, IMO. Then again, I would probably title the series Song Where Good People Are Stupid and Evil Always Wins. *snort* I have an irrational passionate hatred for that series.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I've seen that sentiment so often but I'm determined to get through at least the first one since I bought it for the Kindle! Last year! I have no other reason to watch the TV show after this first season so I don't really need to read the other books but I do want to read the first to see how it compares to the show.

[innerslytherin]

Oh, that's true, it is always interesting to see how a book and movie or show compare. :)

I love your icon. It's so bloody true.

[mierke.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of checking out The Mortal Instruments series. Was it good?

Yay for getting someone to start reading! I love it when people realize they just don't like reading because they haven't found the right books yet :D

You really NEED to watch Fringe. It's so good.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

As soon as I get through streaming Flashpoint, I will start streaming Fringe. I guess I could, technically, do them both. And you should totally watch Doctor Who, BTW. Was going to post that on your meme and probably still will. I think you all would really like it!

While I wouldn't say that I'd rave about The Mortal Instruments, they've been interesting. Also, I'd read Holly Black's books and I guess the two authors are friends and some of the characters from the other's book will show up in them. It's been forever since I've read the HB books, though, so I didn't recognize anyone right away.

[mierke.livejournal.com]

I'm really loving Doctor Who! I was in love with Rose from the very first scene, so that's good :)

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Me, too. She will always be my favorite! I'm glad you like it! It's a good series. One of these days I have every intention of going back and watching the earlier ones.