Happy new year, etc (or: failing at life for 1/4 century)

[fishpatrol]

1. My new year's resolution is to be less of an antisocial hermit (I kick-started this resolution by actually going to a new year's eve party rather than rolling myself up in a blanket burrito and reading fic. 10 points to me~) My other resolution is to be less of a failbot, but I'm not doing so well on that one. \o\

1.5 I've noticed that the traffic on LJ has been declining drastically over the past few months (probably due to a combination of the increasing popularity of Twitter/Tumblr/etc and LJ's own fuck-ups). Part of my resolution is to be more social online as well as offline, so tell me how I can interact and socialize with you! Yes, YOU, right there, reading this entry. I am always up for chatting about fannish things and capslocking about random things and, idk, discussions about human behaviour and whatnot.

I'm unalignable on Twitter, fishpatrol at DW (I haven't updated this account since last year \o\ if you post exclusively on DW, let me know! I haven't checked my...reading circle? --is that what they're called?-- in ages); I'm considering opening a Tumblr account, but it is like VORTEX OF UNENDING IMAGES -- you fall in and by the time you climb back out, five hours have already gone by. /o\

If you communicate primarily by email/gchat, I'm meemobunny[at]gmail (I am always so uncertain whether or not I should just chat at someone if I see them online \o\ WHAT IF THEY DON'T WANT TO TALK. /O\ So, here: if I'm online, you can always chat at me!) I also have Whatsapp, so if that's your preferred method of communication, we can exchange numbers through, idk, PMs or something.

[/TALK TO ME...?]

2. 2012 has been kind of a shit-show. 2013 hasn't been significantly better, but hey, it's only been two days. (more about this in a locked entry, later -- this is a it's-a-new-year-let's-be-optimistic post)

3. So, about a month ago, I accidentally fell into the hockey RPF fandom, oops. I thought it was just a ~passing ~phase, but I've now recorded a one-hour long podfic and I kind of want to record more, so, uh, IDEK. Poor applegeuse has had to endure my incessant vomming of hockey feels. Mostly, I say stuff like I am totally ~doing ~sports ~wrong, because I care very little about the actual skill of the players, or how good a team is -- I ONLY CARE ABOUT HOW AMUSING THE PLAYERS ARE AS ~PEOPLE (I love watching behind the scenes videos, etc akdslfjdsj). It just so happens that the better players get more interviews/behind the scenes/etc, so I end up liking the ones that play well because of COINCIDENCE. \o\ /o/ \o\ I'll bet I could totally get roped into American football RPF and/or European football (soccer :P) RPF as well, if they had a ton of fics and a ton of lolarious videos sdklafjlad;j THERE IS JUST SOMETHING DELICIOUS ABOUT A BUNCH OF DUDES WHO ARE RIDIC DEDICATED TO A RIDIC GAME AND, LIKE, ~FEEL INTENSE ABOUT THE GAME AND TO EACH OTHER AND ARE PROBABLY ALL FAILBOTS OUTSIDE OF THEIR RIDIC GAME. THEY ARE ALWAYS TOGETHER (LIVING TOGETHER, BEING ON THE ROAD TOGETHER, PLAYING TOGETHER) AND BOND OVER THEIR INTENSE FEELS ABOUT THEIR RIDIC GAME. IT IS LIKE BOARDING SCHOOL STORIES (which I have always enjoyed in real!books and fic :>) BUT MORE ~INTENSE. [/vomming feels] And she's like, OMG WHY ARE YOU EVEN IN THIS FANDOM, COME BACK TO SPN/J2. s;alkdfjsl;d \o\ /o/ \o\

(I usually blame lemniciate for getting me into random fandoms, but this time, it's totally scintilla10's fault. Well, okay, no, not really. It's mostly because I am weaksauce and just need one picture/fic/podfic to pique my interest. X3;; She mentioned the fandom in passing, I lol'ed at her, and the next thing I knew, I was guzzling down the fics on AO3/listened to all of the podfic at least twice/trawled tumblr looking at images and gifs. *MASSIVE FACEPALM* HOW DID I GO FROM THIS TO THIS? creying and slobbing forever /o\)

3.5 ANYWAY. I doodled applegeuse a little J2 (feat. the alliterative cats) for being a ~good ~sport (hur hur) about the whole thing.



4. On the one hand, there is no such thing as "too much cake". On the other hand, YES, YES THERE IS. TOO MUCH SUGAR, BLERGH BLERGH.

Comments

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

:> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> I will never get tired of how adorable that alliterative cats picture is. :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :> :>

I suspected one of those pictures you linked included hockey players so I didn't click on it~~~~

I was reading (real!) J2 fics today, and one of them was one of those kinds of badfics I don't even know why I try to read because I know it will be atrocious from the summary (hint: there were werewolves and knotting AND I ALWAYS HATE WEREWOLVES AND KNOTTING WHY DO I TRY TO READ THOSE FICS THEY ARE ALWAYS HORRIBLE). Anyway, it legit included acting in the way all those hockey rpf AUs ~sneak in hockey. /o/ \o\ /o/ \o\

*~WHEN DO U WANNA TUMBL~*

[fishpatrol]

:DDDDDDDDDDDD (I unambiguified the DDDDDDD, see?)

HA. You are on to my tricks now. But only one out of three links includes hockey players. Another one out of the three includes our favourite cat-owners~~~ (the other one includes cats) HEH HEH HEH.

Ha ha ha. There are no knotting fics in hockey rpf. :>

U R SO EAGER TO TUMBL. FINE, WE SHALL TUMBL WHEN WE ARE BOTH ONLINE SIMULTANEOUSLY. WE WILL SIMULTUMBL, OKAY.

[cantarina]

PARTY HATS, I SAY

[fishpatrol]

FINE, OKAY. WE CAN PARTY WITH PARTY HATS.

[cantarina]

YOU THOUGHT I WAS JOKING, BUT I WASN'T

[akintay.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, that's exactly what tumblr is like and I can't quit it. The hours I waste staring at pretty pictures...

The J2 drawing is adorable <3

[fishpatrol]

Have you succumbed and opened an account? XD Or do you just go on there and stumble out hours later, wondering how it got dark so quickly BECAUSE IT WAS JUST DAY TIME, LIKE, A MINUTE AGO.

Thank you! <3

[akintay.livejournal.com]

I opened an account. I don't even remember why I did it in the first place, but now I just can't stop - there are just too many pretty pictures.

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

I'm still only here in LJ, and probably will be that way until everyone else leaves. It shouldn't be any surprise, given that I'm still in GW fandom, which saw a great exodus of writers and fans years ago.

[fishpatrol]

Every time I think that there's a short shelf-life for being in any given fandom, I think of you and GW. ;) How long have you been in GW fandom, now? Are there still many active writers/artists/etc?

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

I think I'll be starting my 13th year this year, around July. Time flies. :-) There aren't as many people still playing around in GW fandom, but there are still good artists and authors. I manage to update my website at least once a month.

[colls]

*shares leftover cake*

[fishpatrol]

Hee♥!

(I had cake for breakfast this morning, but oh man, I need to scrape some of the icing off before I eat that cake again because SO MUCH SUGAR \O\)

[scintilla10.livejournal.com]

heh, I usually lurk on gchat with my icon switched to away, but feel free to message me anytime! ;)

re: luring you into hockey fandom. I'd say sorry BUT IT WOULD BE A LIE. :D I'm so excited to listen to your podfic! :D :D :D

Awwww, yay! I love your drawing. ♥

CAKE \o/

[fishpatrol]

For some reason, I don't think I've seen you in my gchat sidebar, even though other gmail addresses tend to get added as soon as I've exchanged one email with them. I WILL ADD YOU MANUALLY, THEN. (I think I've set mine to be "busy" by default XD)

\o\ /o/ \o\ I can't believe my initial email was like, "ha ha, how did you end up in that fandom" and, like, two emails later, "PLZ GIVE ME ALL THE RECS", and then another email later, "OMG I HAVE ~FEELS WHY". (I recorded 10k in, like, one night, while grading exams -- every time I finished grading X number of exams, I would ~reward myself with another section to record XD I think I stayed up until 3am and kept chugging tea because my voice was threatening to die. BUT ANYWAY. it was fun. so if you have any suggestions for fics to record, let me know~ :> quite a number of hockey rpf writers have blanket permission!)

Thank you! :DD