Fanfiction, TV Shows, and Life...in general

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2. I've no time to a proper meta on Mad Men - so if you are interested there's a rather good one over here by superplin, and it references Buffy and Angel - so bonus (assuming of course you are still into Buffy and Angel). She's doing meta again, and plin is amongst my favorite meta writers. Meta is an art...or at least I think it is.

Was always more into meta than fanfic for some reason. I think it's because it is rare for me to seek out fanfic. I've only sought it out for a couple of tv shows, mainly genre, usually ones that have a character, characters, or scenarios that capture my attention, and are incredibly loosely written, with a lot of the action either happening off-stage, off-screen, off-page - and vaguely referred to. Densely written works - I don't need fanfiction for. Loosely written ones with a lot of gaps in the action and a lot of things happening off-stage, I sort of do, assuming I get obsessed.

( what tv shows and books lead me to read fanfiction )

3. Name Ten TV Series That You Watched from the ages of 5-14 that you remember vividly.
[The difficulty of this meme has a great deal to do with how old you are. And well, how willingly you are to admit to it.]

( 10 TV Shows of My Childhood, note a lot of these I saw in reruns, because I couldn't stay up past 8, and I was living on the East Coast - where 90% of the good tv shows started at 8 or 9. )

Girls - Review of new HBO sitcom which appears after GoT.

Just watched the new HBO comedy Girls - has anyone else seen this? It's hilarious.
Reminds me a little of films like The Squid and the Whale, Rushmore, and Freaks and Geeks.
Possibly the best written ensemble situation comedy that I've seen in ages. A 20 something female version of Louis. With similar situational humor.

It focuses on Hannah, portrayed by Lens Denham, who did the critically acclaimed independent flick Tiny Furniture. And is executive produced by Judd Apatow (who I normally I am not a fan of, but I will give him credit for consistently fighting for films that do diversified casting as opposed to pretty casting.) Hannah looks like most women, she's not model pretty like the women on The New Girl, Don't Trust the B in Apt 23, or most shows. Nor are the guys or other actors model pretty.

The dialogue is crisp and informative. Great one liners. "I think I may be the voice of my generation," says desperate Hannah to her parents, in an attempt to sell them on her book, "or at least a voice of a generation...could be any generation."

Hannah's is 24, she graduated with a BA in English, had an unpaid internship at a publishing company until her parents cut her off financially, because as her mother states, "I want a house by a lake, I work too frigging hard not to be able to retire to a house by a lake - any lake!" So she's forced to ask her boss for a job, he fires her from her internship instead. And she's left to her own devices.

On her body are tattoos of children's book illustrations. Her boyfriend asks why she got them.

Hannah: "I got grossly fat in high school and lost control of my body. The tattoos were a way to re-establish control."

The other cast members - are her best buds, or girlfriends. It reminds me a lot of Sex in the City, except with a female writer, with a razor sharp wit.