This is my fourth post this week, WHAT IS GOING ON

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YOU GUYS I HAVE BEEN MEANING TO ASK YOU THIS FOREVER, I don't know why I never do, or even remember why I was reminded today but uhhhh, can we talk about our fictional kinks? LIKE, will you maybe think about the tropes and things that make you like fiction (any kind, from badfic to literature, from awful reality TV to your very favorite movie), the underlying message of all your favorites that ALWAYS DRAWS YOU IN. And then make me a list of them.

me
- So much codependency, I cannot even express it.
- Platonic best friends, extra points if it is a big (or small) group of platonic best friends who are KIND OF LIKE A REAL FAMILY
- Earnest dudes who are REALLY REALLY IN LOVE with very emotionally complicated girls, but very willing to step aside and wait and pine while said emotionally complicated girl sorts out her feelings.
- Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons. I guess mothers and daughters and fathers and sons too, I LIKE FAMILIES, but fathers and daughters is the bottom line one.
- Domesticity, always, but (sort of?) especially from people who either aren't together in any capacity or who you wouldn't expect to be domestic.
- K the word that keeps popping in here is "genderswap", but I don't mean genderswap and I hate actual genderswap when it pops up, LIKE WHAT A WASTE OF A STORY, but sometimes I just really like it... when dudes are mom-like and girls are dad-like and girls are the stereotypical "dude" in a relationship when guys are the stereotypical "girl". THAT KIND OF THING, I DON'T KNOW.
- Ridiculous miscommuncation errors.
- Best friends who are in love, but also best friends who are not in love.
- There is this link between my favorite movie (Bringing Up Baby), my favorite book (The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon), and my favorite television show (The X-Files) that I cannot quite express in words, but it's like... the idea of some kind of quest, I guess. But it isn't the quest that matters, it's... maybe it is the quest. But something you have to do, that is important but separate from the rest of the world. Alone togetherness? SOMETHING. God I don't know.
- THIS ONE IS LONG AND IMPOSSIBLE TO EXPLAIN, but... I really like people whose lives get explained to them? Like. Okay, what happened is I imprinted on these two Voyager episodes at a very young age, one in which season 1 Captain Janeway gets lead around her ship by season 7 Chakotay, and another where B'Elanna has been brainwashed and Neelix has to walk her around and show her things as she slowly regains her memory. So now like, certain amnesia stories, within-a-lifetime time travel, and Christmas Carolesque stories all appeal to me to like, a gross degree.

I DON'T KNOW, there are others, I suppose, I am going to think about this too.

Comments

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YOU ARE TOO GOOD TO ME. OKAY, WHEN I NEED TO GET MY FEELINGS OUT (which is sadly getting to be... often, idk why), I WILL COME OVER HERE.

IT IS A WONDERFUL SHOW, and omg so totally, totally found family-ish it is RIDICULOUS. I mean, the premise is that a band of "bad guys" work together to help out the people without means and do good, which in itself is only interesting to a few people, idk I guess the whole Robin Hood thing isn't really that awesome, but then it's also super... A-Team? (I think that's the reference I hear the most) meets the Ocean's Eleven, etc. kind of thing, but... IDK. I guess the plot would kind of bore some people sometimes if elaborate cons and perfect timing aren't their things, but I think it is just really good television. It isn't too serious, but it isn't too funny (it kind of falls straight in the middle the way Chuck does), and the best thing is that it just doesn't take itself too seriously. So yeah, some things are like HOW EVEN DOES THIS HAPPEN, but the characters are SUPER interesting and real, and ugh it is just the RELATIONSHIPS between all of them that just slay me most. (I mean, I really like the Robin Hood thing, so idk AGAIN I HAVE NO STANDARDS) but I loooooooooove this show lots for the relationships between the characters. It is one of the few where EVERY relationship is actually developed, and not just like, 2-3. AND THE TEAM BASICALLY BECOMES LIKE, THE GREATEST OT5 IN EXISTENCE. LIKE, SERIOUSLY. AN OT5. You can ship anything/everything on this show, but it's that FOUND FAMILY thing that everyone agrees on and looooves. I mean, IT'S NOT PERFECT (the last thing I want to do is make it seem 239409234094 times greater than it actually is and then have you be ridiculously disappointed)--I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THIS SHOW idk. But seriously, the show has some of the biggest tropes ever and some of my favorite tropes (UM, EMOTIONALLY STUNTED GIRL, BOY RLY IN LOVE WITH HER, people who have ~history~ and have MAJOR UST, etc. etc.) BUT THE WAY THEY DO IT, IT IS NOT LIKE... omg stop ugh, it is just fresh and new and kind of amazing. BUT IDK I AM BIASED AGAIN I JUST HAVE LOTS OF FEELINGS ABOUT THIS SHOW AND I AM CONVINCED IT CAN DO NO WRONG, SO. (OH YES and I just remembered THIS POST (http://lovebit.livejournal.com/355592.html)--aka a much better written, WITH PICTURES, argument for why one ought to watch this show, so hopefully it has you convinced to try it out).

Omg I never even thought about the possibility of creeping through peoples' deliciouses................. I usually regard myself as a major creep and am now very disappointed in myself (what is my life) but I am just TOO ASHAMED of my terrible taste in everything to unlock those particular things. I JUST CAN'T.

TY FOR THE FRIEND REC, she seems lovely and I left an awkward comment on her friends only entry in response to her comment about how awkward it was to do this and idk but seriously thank you for thinking I am even deserving of awesome friends in the first place. WHY ARE YOU SO GREAT.

(And seriously though, ARE YOU OKAY? I saw your newest post and since there was nothing for me to really contribute I just decided to come over here, so yeah, but since you said you post more when things are happening--ARE YOU OKAY? HUGS. Manymany hugs.)

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HONESTLY I WANTED TO WATCH IT WHEN I HEARD JERI RYAN WAS GOING TO BE ON IT... yeah. To now know there is found family too! I'm really glad it's not coming back till December though, THE IDEA OF TV IS REALLY STRESSING ME OUT RIGHT NOW. Everyone on my flist is like, POSTING ABOUT NINE SHOWS, and I'm like... okay I kind of want to check out a couple of new shows? BUT THE IDEA OF MY FOUR COMING BACK IS ALREADY STRESSING OUT. I used to have so much more TV stamina, now I'm just an old lady.

ALSO OMG ADRIENNE FRIENDS RECS FOR YOU ARE LIKE. So easy. Because so many of my friends are already friends with each other? But you and I don't have any friends in common. It's okay though, I WON'T OVERWHELM YOU, having new friends is super pressurey sometimes. When I have them it's so much harder to post about...... like, the Star Trek, and the kpop, because old friends are obligated to love me despite my shortcomings but new friends are free to judge as they please.

And omg you are so sweet to ask but yeah I'm fine! I LIKE... just had a really bad week+ of school. And by bad I mean work-heavy, not like... actually bad. And I couldn't schedule anything normal social because that would have been irresponsible, SO I JUST KEPT WASTING ALL MY STUDY HOURS ON THE INTERNET. But no last week it was like, all of my classes and my stupid internship stressing me out and I just wanted to crawl in bed and sleep forever, now it's just my stupid internship and one class, everything else has calmed down, and I sort of feel like a regular person again.