it's not the same moon in the sky

I know, I know. One day soon I'll post with something that is not a meme. But today is not that day. I got this from jesuswasbatman:

What shows did you start watching in 2013?
Quite a lot, actually. I haven't watched so much current TV in years! My Mad Fat Diary, Ripper Street, Utopia, Hannibal, Teen Wolf, Elementary, Community, Parks and Recreation, Agents of SHIELD, Orphan Black... no doubt I'm forgetting some and will need to edit them in later.

Old show-wise, I also watched all of Freaks and Geeks.

What shows did you give up on in 2013?
Utopia (the torture was too much - I know, I know, "SAID THE HANNIBAL FAN", but I can handle worse in the horror genre than elsewhere), Parks and Rec (it was hit and miss for us), Agents of SHIELD (it just felt incredibly mediocre), Orphan Black (about 60 seconds in, when I realised it was building to a railway suicide, which Wikipedia confirmed - I realise it's not ABOUT that, but I didn't want to spend the rest of the season trying and failing to anticipate flashbacks and recaps).

I enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Teen Wolf, but lost interest a couple of eps into season three - I suppose the storyline with the Argents just worked so well, and wrapped up so completely for me, that I couldn't get worked up about the pack of alphas. I really liked Stiles and his dad, and also Lydia.

Which TV shows did you mean to get into in 2013 but didn't?
Supernatural, Once Upon A Time, and I vaguely meant to try Homeland but it had gone off 4oD by the time I geared up to do it. Oh, and Orange is the New Black because it looks awesome. I wanted to see Les Revenantes but I could never get the streaming to work. And I really want to see The Michael J. Fox Show!

Which shows do you expect to check out in 2014?
All of the ones I missed above, plus the new season of Game of Thrones.

Which shows impressed you the least in 2013?
I guess I covered that in the "which shows did you give up" answer.

Which shows impressed you the most in 2013?
Being Human recovered from a catastrophic fourth season with a funny, clever and touching season five. Sad that it had to be the last one, but they gave the characters endings I could live with, which is more than could be said for the original cast.

Fresh Meat had another really good year, as did Game of Thrones which, while it does some things I dislike, on the whole does a great job of condensing a huge unwieldy epic into a concise TV show. My Mad Fat Diary and Ripper Street were both incredibly good, and I love the central performances of Elementary.

Hi gentlefailers,

By mildly popular request, here's a  fail_fandomanon   friending meme! I'm cross-posting it to DW and LJ, and there's also an official Tumblr post here: http://failfandomanon.tumblr.com/post/50880814316/fail-fandomanon-friending-meme-you-asked-for-it

Answer only the ones you want to, and add anything else you think should be there. I just ran with the enthusiasm and didn't want to spend forever making up questions and miss the moment, so feel free to add anything else you think should be there/questions nobody's ever asked that you'd love to answer.

Friend away!


- Current fandoms:
- Past fandoms:
- Favourite FFA threads:
- Favourite FFA critter:
- Things you'd love to have more conversations about:
- What your journal's like (personal/fannish/picspams/etc):
- Friending dealbreakers:
- Some other things about you: how you spend your days, secret supervillain objectives, etc.
- Sites where you'd like to be added:

DW support advised that I switch on the beta create entry page and see if that sorts the cut business out. Thanks for your patience with my fuming and uncut posts meanwhile!

luredin pointed me to a great photography meme, snapshot_bingo. The nice thing is you're not tied to posting a pic every day, and the prompts seem like they offer a lot of creative scope. In the last year I think 90% of pictures I've taken have been of the cat or stuff I want to sell online, but when I was younger and first had a digital camera I used to experiment constantly and I want to get that back. So. :)

( here's my bingo card )

I'm going to make a little card for my wallet with all these on, so I can keep them in mind and find some fills when I'm out somewhere.

Oh, and here's a nice meme from semyaza: ask me for a letter, and then list five things beginning with that letter for which you're grateful. semyaza gave me the letter B:

books: I find it calming to sit in our hall where half the bookcases in the flat live. It's a nice, narrow space lined with books down one side, and there is immense comfort in looking at each specific book I want to read and knowing they're waiting for me.

Borrowed Cat: We are so ridiculously lucky to have him around. He's a huge comfort when I'm sad and he's even polite about waking us up in the mornings - he just sits on our chests and purrs until we become conscious. This morning when he returned, R let him in and he squirmed as close to my face as possible, then patted my cheek with a forepaw while licking the tip of my nose. It's impossible not to love him when he says hello like that.

Bookcrossing: I go through phases of unenthusiasm but I try to stick at it because I like optimistic gestures. I'm really glad I got into it because I have a nice group of local friends who I wouldn't have met otherwise.

being mistaken for a teenager: The people who told me one day I'd be glad of looking younger than I am were absolutely right. Every time this happens it is ridiculously pleasing. I thought my days of youthfulness were over, but when I was out with Max a few weeks ago the bus driver asked if the two tickets I'd asked for were both for adults. Of course, it may be that he read her as younger than me, but since I was right in front of him I choose to assume otherwise. :P

buses: Our local public transport is so rubbish that when one hoves into view I always feel the most desperate relief and gratitude.