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[shadowkat]

1. Livejournal, Facebook and now Tumblr have lost subscribers to DW, because of their assinine practices. This is hilarious.

The latest?

Apparently Tumblr decided Adult Content Will No Longer Be Permitted -- I'm guessing they got tired of the pornography?

Only one small problem, 98% of fanfic is rather explicit. I mean people like to write explicit sex scenes in fanfic, along with graphic violence, and foul language.

Watch the fandom flee in droves to Dreamwidth and PillowFort.

Facebook is getting in trouble for other reasons. My love/hate relationship with the forum continues.

2. I rather liked selenak's review of the latest Doctor Who episode, and agree with it.

3. Ah...my favorite character is being resurrected in the X-men starting in January.

Which isn't necessarily good news...because this means, I'll have to waste more money on X-men comics.

And yes, I know, I'm the only person on my flist or DW that appears to like him. That's okay.
I don't mind. Had the same problem with Battle Star Galatica. I've a history of liking characters others don't.

Doctor Who? River Song
BattleStar Galatica S1 and S2 - Apollo (everyone else loved Starbuck, I loved Apollo. I know weird).
X-men: Cyclops. (Everyone else loves Wolverine, Gambit, Magneto and Xavier...)
Buffy: Willow, Spike, Anya and Giles (actually I found a lot of people who liked those characters...so hello, fandom!)
The Monkeeys: Davy Jones (Everyone I know now, liked Mickey for some reason.)
Battle of the Planets: Mark
Lord of the Rings: Frodo
Farscape: Crichton
Angel the Series: Lilah, Wesley, Illyria, Drusilla, Darla, Spike
Harry Potter: Luna Lovegood, Hermonie, Snape, and Harry
Vampire Diaries: Damon, Alaric, Bonnie
DC Legends of Tomorrow: Constantine -- I may watch this for him. I like the actor, he's perfect.
The Avengers: Iron man and Doctor Strange
Star Trek: Kirk, Picard, Tom (Voyager), and Kira
DC Universe: Batman
Wyonna Earp: Doc Holliday -- I'm really only watching for him. Although I do like Wyonna.
Breaking Bad? Weirdly, Walt's brother-in-law -- who I kept rooting for.
Supernatural: Dean

4. Pointed Essay Comparing the Russia Investigation to Fandom Wars

We, the readers and viewers of 2018, are consuming the Russia investigation news like we’re part of the biggest internet fandom there’s ever been. We’re in the throes of fan theories, fictions, wars, and everything else, alert to and at the mercy of the next development, whatever produces that feeling where your eyes feel like they’re both jumping out of your head and melting.

There’s a missing professor, a Moscow deal, a porn star, a Russian spy, a Russian billionaire, his son, his son’s music promoter, highly lucrative overseas political consulting, secret memos, secret recordings of calls, secret payoffs, surveillance warrants, the existence of Carter Page, the vagueness of that Trump Tower meeting, the dossier, the overheard lunches, the texts between the FBI agents, the love affair between George and Simona, the emergence of Michael Avenatti, the latter-day resurrection of Rudy Giuliani and Lanny Davis, and on and on and on and on — an ever-expanding formation of surreal plots and mundane process details.

It’s the best TV show Donald Trump will ever create. And you’re either really into the Russia investigation or not much at all, and the people who get really into the Russia investigation can end up in weird places.

Reminds me of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Also how people in the Buffy fandom attempted to dissect the show by claiming that clues were hidden in the costumes and set design as to where the series would end up. Or in the episode Restless.

The human mind can be a scary place, and even scarier when combined with a bunch of bored like-minded obsessed souls.

Maybe we should all take a guided trip on LSD. Maybe we already have...and this is a hallucination?
Hey, I can dream.