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damkiannaWell, first things first: I CAN HAS JOB. (That is, verbatim, how I relayed the news to my sister.) A few days of waiting around, flopping back and forth between "... it could happen?" and "Oh, forget it, you're going to be weeding for the rest of your life," and then suddenly there was a phone call. Well, more accurately, there was a phone call to my house while I was not there, and then to the cell that I had left on the table when I went away from the house, which meant that in the end, I had to call the guy back to get the news.
Clearly the job was my reward for buckling down and dialing without pausing to throw up first. :D
So now I may very well spend at least the next few years getting paid to do things I'm pretty sure I already love to do. I start on July 12th. \o/! There's still a part of me that's staring down at my phone and thinking, "... what just happened."
In more fannish news, I can't help but be pleased as punch that the A:TLA movie is getting bad reviews. I mean, I'm pretty sure most of them are because there was some pretty severe Adaptation Decay, but it's still sort of cruelly satisfying. I love A:TLA a truly unreasonable amount, despite how much the dialogue sometimes hurts me, and having a movie that was so ... I don't even know what - disrespectful? in a racist way? - do well would be horribly ragemaking. Please keep being bad, reviews.
Also on an A:TLA note, I finally saw the finale! I will have to do some rewatching - I skipped a few filler episodes (like Ember Island Players, for example) because, quite frankly, I am a terrible and impatient person and I really really wanted to see the end. I don't have many deep thoughts, and it's been a while since the thing aired, but, idk, just in case: I will cut for spoilers. I liked very much that Aang did not kill Ozai, and I have to admit that I really enjoyed each of his talks with past Avatars - I love learning about past Avatars, I was so happy to see Yangchen I nearly squealed aloud. The lion turtle was far less out-of-nowhere than I was expecting based on some complaints I had read. Which, granted, were not especially objective or measured, because my introduction to A:TLA fandom was the Zutaran explosion when the finale actually aired.
I will admit that while I liked the final battle a lot - it was reasonably epic, it did not stick me with a bunch of monologuing and one last "Expelliarmus!", Harry Potter - the image that popped into my head when Aang did his fully-realized-Avatar four-element globe-whammy was ... well, first, it was a model of an atom, and then, when he was chasing Ozai, it reminded me of nothing so much as a gerbil ball. Like, not the wheel, but the plastic ball, and you can take the top off and put a pet rodent in and it can roll around, safe from cats? The thing Pip got stuck in at the end of Enchanted. I could not unsee it; it got very hard to not lol. /o\
I also liked Azula's loss of sanity, and her hallucination of Ursa, although I'll admit I have some trouble buying the rapid progression. I thought she was just sociopathic. But obviously Mai and Ty Lee turning on her was a big strain; I can suspend disbelief the rest of the way. As for Ursa, I seriously can't decide whether I want to know what happened to her or not. I mean, the story of what she's been doing in exile could be mad awesome, but it's also nice to have it all open-ended. **hands** Point is, I liked it, despite the continued anviltastic qualities of the dialogue, and I am still incredibly overinvested in it. Good thing I have my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladiesbigbang fic to keep me occupied. My sister and I mapped troop movements the other day, it was very exciting. :D
And, of course, I read tfv's post on Twilight fans. Okay, yes, I have problems with Twilight, some bigger than others, but I'm not exactly in a great position to tell people it's not okay to love problematic source. Despite their various issues, I am still enormously in love with Harry Dresden; with Buffy; with Firefly; with ST:TNG. Fandom means a pretty ridonkulous amount to me, and when it comes down to it, I can't begrudge anybody the opportunity to fall in love with a source. (Although I still think offering RPattz your bleeding neck is probably a bad idea.)
Clearly the job was my reward for buckling down and dialing without pausing to throw up first. :D
So now I may very well spend at least the next few years getting paid to do things I'm pretty sure I already love to do. I start on July 12th. \o/! There's still a part of me that's staring down at my phone and thinking, "... what just happened."
In more fannish news, I can't help but be pleased as punch that the A:TLA movie is getting bad reviews. I mean, I'm pretty sure most of them are because there was some pretty severe Adaptation Decay, but it's still sort of cruelly satisfying. I love A:TLA a truly unreasonable amount, despite how much the dialogue sometimes hurts me, and having a movie that was so ... I don't even know what - disrespectful? in a racist way? - do well would be horribly ragemaking. Please keep being bad, reviews.
Also on an A:TLA note, I finally saw the finale! I will have to do some rewatching - I skipped a few filler episodes (like Ember Island Players, for example) because, quite frankly, I am a terrible and impatient person and I really really wanted to see the end. I don't have many deep thoughts, and it's been a while since the thing aired, but, idk, just in case: I will cut for spoilers. I liked very much that Aang did not kill Ozai, and I have to admit that I really enjoyed each of his talks with past Avatars - I love learning about past Avatars, I was so happy to see Yangchen I nearly squealed aloud. The lion turtle was far less out-of-nowhere than I was expecting based on some complaints I had read. Which, granted, were not especially objective or measured, because my introduction to A:TLA fandom was the Zutaran explosion when the finale actually aired.
I will admit that while I liked the final battle a lot - it was reasonably epic, it did not stick me with a bunch of monologuing and one last "Expelliarmus!", Harry Potter - the image that popped into my head when Aang did his fully-realized-Avatar four-element globe-whammy was ... well, first, it was a model of an atom, and then, when he was chasing Ozai, it reminded me of nothing so much as a gerbil ball. Like, not the wheel, but the plastic ball, and you can take the top off and put a pet rodent in and it can roll around, safe from cats? The thing Pip got stuck in at the end of Enchanted. I could not unsee it; it got very hard to not lol. /o\
I also liked Azula's loss of sanity, and her hallucination of Ursa, although I'll admit I have some trouble buying the rapid progression. I thought she was just sociopathic. But obviously Mai and Ty Lee turning on her was a big strain; I can suspend disbelief the rest of the way. As for Ursa, I seriously can't decide whether I want to know what happened to her or not. I mean, the story of what she's been doing in exile could be mad awesome, but it's also nice to have it all open-ended. **hands** Point is, I liked it, despite the continued anviltastic qualities of the dialogue, and I am still incredibly overinvested in it. Good thing I have my
ladiesbigbang fic to keep me occupied. My sister and I mapped troop movements the other day, it was very exciting. :DAnd, of course, I read tfv's post on Twilight fans. Okay, yes, I have problems with Twilight, some bigger than others, but I'm not exactly in a great position to tell people it's not okay to love problematic source. Despite their various issues, I am still enormously in love with Harry Dresden; with Buffy; with Firefly; with ST:TNG. Fandom means a pretty ridonkulous amount to me, and when it comes down to it, I can't begrudge anybody the opportunity to fall in love with a source. (Although I still think offering RPattz your bleeding neck is probably a bad idea.)