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Ugh. Awful. Spent the whole day feeling dumb as a bag of rocks. Mostly I just sat around working on my blanket while I caught up on TMNZ on C4, and now I am fully up to date there. I've not watched series 4 yet, because C4 hasn't got the new series, but I can't be fucked to download it right now. But unfortunately I think TMNZ fell victim to the general fandom effect. Even getting past the New Show Weirdness, it was good, and I did enjoy it, but I still don't think it's better than TMUK. That's not its fault. But the way it was hyped up by its own little section of the fandom, I really was led to believe it would be better than TMUK. Because so many people do actually say that, to the point that I'm starting to get sick of seeing it even discussed on the subreddit if only because any time it's mentioned it actively devolves into an argument between the two factions of fans. I don't give a fuck either way, but the people who care really care, and this is becoming the big source of wank (right after the topic of RPF within the fandom).
It's a bit better on Tumblr, but Tumblr is slower to pick up on news and updates, so I'm hesitate to stop following the subreddit. I use them both for different reasons. Tumblr is where I go for traditional fandom interaction. Over there, it's more typical fansquee bullshit. There's a lot of old man thirst and fanart over there, and I love that. People on Tumblr are proper unhinged in all the best ways, and totally unashamed about it, and the different factions coexist rather seamlessly. I haven't seen TMAU, but I imagine it'll take off and become a third big faction soon enough, being another Anglophone version. Though funny enough, I don't think I've seen a single gif from it. Or if I have done, I haven't recognise it as being from TMAU. But there's only been one series so far, so we'll see. But my point is I don't see people on Tumblr fighting over it the same way I do on Reddit, which is both odd and refreshing. With the new UK series starting next week, I am both excited and nervous though, because new episodes do always bring the weirdos out into the open.
This franchise does have a unique sort of group psychosis almost that other fandoms I've been haven't really experienced before. And I've talked about this on Tumblr a bit. I have never been in a fandom before that has been so consistently spoilt for new content. Every fandom I've ever been in has always had big waits betwen new seasons/series. Always. Or if not televisual, then the release schedule was something else entirely. The Venture Bros would go years between seasons, just to drop twelve episodes or whatever. Sherlock made us wait years for three episodes that seemed hell-bent on telling the fans to go fuck themselves. Marvel have so many comic titles that they wind up pulling their titles for months at a time without warning, and then you go six months without seeing the one you're reading, with no explanation for why. Or sometimes it just gets cancelled for no reason at all. And the MCU is an over-saturated garbage fire that releases too much stuff that all stopped being good about eight years ago anyway.
TMUK releases two series a year, plus the New Year special. That's 21 episodes. 22 episodes if it's a Champion of Champions year (rumour has it that's filming in November, so next year, probably). TMNZ does one series a year, so if you watch that, you get 32 episodes a year. Now there's TMAU, which seems to be doing one a year, so that's 42 episodes a year. And those are just the Anglophone versions. Assuming they don't overlap, you've nearly got a new episode every week. If NZ and AU kick it up to two a year, this would be the most well-fed fandom I'd ever been in. I think it already is, honestly. TMNZ just aired its final episode for series 4, and there's a whole week's break between that and UK's series 16 starting next Thursday. This'll end toward the end of the year, take a little break, have it's New Year Treat, and if TMAU's second series airs the same time its first one did, there'll only be a few weeks in between the NYT and that. And while that's airing, it's entirely likely TMUK's series 17 will overlap. They don't seem to really care about spacing the series out with one another, because technically they're not in competition with another country's channels or ratings, but it sure makes for an interesting schedule for people who are following all of it. And it'll be interesting to see if (when) C4 does pick up TMAU as well. They aired TMNZ during a really bizarre time slot, on one of their weird tertiary channels, but it was all on catch up immediately so it didn't really matter. So is I think the Swedish version as well? Which is an odd one to have picked up before TMAU, but I bet there's some sort of exclusivity agreement, and that one probably won't show up on C4 until next year. I'm betting the same for TMNZ's series 4.
Although, they sure got TMUK's series 15 up on YouTube immediately, so Avalon seems to have got some hidden power from somewhere.
While I was completely zoned out on the couch all day watching this, I managed to blaze through three more stripes on my blanket, and now I'm on the very last one. I'd found a few more colours I hadn't realised I had left, and I didn't want to just leave them there, so I decided to use them anyway. The blanket is a really stupid size, but I don't care. My plan for today is to put the newsletter together and go finish the fucking blanket, I think. The weather's really cool, so I'll probably go for a walk as well. The summer weather has really got in the way of that, and I hate it so much, but I just get so miserable going out in the heat. The topamax makes it easy to overheat, and the pills for my stomach do the same so I'm at a double risk of just falling over dead on the pavement if I'm not careful. When I do go out, I've been listening to the Sun Also Rises, since I've finished my podcast and can't find anything else worth listening to. I really liked the podcast for going on walks, and it's what got me going out in the first place. I can't fucking believe I've lost about 100lbs on the back of some stupid podcast, and I'm really tempted to start going into the other one with Jack Bernhardt and Lou Sanders, but man, Lou Sanders can really grate after a while. Maybe I'll finish my book and then try giving the People's Podcast a go.
But I can't wait to finish this blanket. It needs to be done so I can never think about it again. My husband asked if the next one I start will be just as unhinged, and the answer was yes, of course it will, because I'm still trying to use up as much yarn as possible. I'm close to the goal of using up pretty much all of it, which was a lot of damn yarn, and then I can buy more without guilt, and start all over again.
Also, in the process of typing this up, I got a notice on my door that starting next week, they're going to start redoing the roof of our building, so that's going to be terrible for me. Not looking forward to that. My husband works nights, so idk how he's meant to sleep, with us on the top floor. They're scheduling it to take a week or two, and knowing how roofing works, the noise won't be right above us the entire time. The building is quite big, and presumably they'll be working from one end to the other over that time. We'll probably have two or three days of really bad noise above us, and since we're right on the end of the building, either be at the very beginning, or very end of it. Here's hoping, anyway.
It's a bit better on Tumblr, but Tumblr is slower to pick up on news and updates, so I'm hesitate to stop following the subreddit. I use them both for different reasons. Tumblr is where I go for traditional fandom interaction. Over there, it's more typical fansquee bullshit. There's a lot of old man thirst and fanart over there, and I love that. People on Tumblr are proper unhinged in all the best ways, and totally unashamed about it, and the different factions coexist rather seamlessly. I haven't seen TMAU, but I imagine it'll take off and become a third big faction soon enough, being another Anglophone version. Though funny enough, I don't think I've seen a single gif from it. Or if I have done, I haven't recognise it as being from TMAU. But there's only been one series so far, so we'll see. But my point is I don't see people on Tumblr fighting over it the same way I do on Reddit, which is both odd and refreshing. With the new UK series starting next week, I am both excited and nervous though, because new episodes do always bring the weirdos out into the open.
This franchise does have a unique sort of group psychosis almost that other fandoms I've been haven't really experienced before. And I've talked about this on Tumblr a bit. I have never been in a fandom before that has been so consistently spoilt for new content. Every fandom I've ever been in has always had big waits betwen new seasons/series. Always. Or if not televisual, then the release schedule was something else entirely. The Venture Bros would go years between seasons, just to drop twelve episodes or whatever. Sherlock made us wait years for three episodes that seemed hell-bent on telling the fans to go fuck themselves. Marvel have so many comic titles that they wind up pulling their titles for months at a time without warning, and then you go six months without seeing the one you're reading, with no explanation for why. Or sometimes it just gets cancelled for no reason at all. And the MCU is an over-saturated garbage fire that releases too much stuff that all stopped being good about eight years ago anyway.
TMUK releases two series a year, plus the New Year special. That's 21 episodes. 22 episodes if it's a Champion of Champions year (rumour has it that's filming in November, so next year, probably). TMNZ does one series a year, so if you watch that, you get 32 episodes a year. Now there's TMAU, which seems to be doing one a year, so that's 42 episodes a year. And those are just the Anglophone versions. Assuming they don't overlap, you've nearly got a new episode every week. If NZ and AU kick it up to two a year, this would be the most well-fed fandom I'd ever been in. I think it already is, honestly. TMNZ just aired its final episode for series 4, and there's a whole week's break between that and UK's series 16 starting next Thursday. This'll end toward the end of the year, take a little break, have it's New Year Treat, and if TMAU's second series airs the same time its first one did, there'll only be a few weeks in between the NYT and that. And while that's airing, it's entirely likely TMUK's series 17 will overlap. They don't seem to really care about spacing the series out with one another, because technically they're not in competition with another country's channels or ratings, but it sure makes for an interesting schedule for people who are following all of it. And it'll be interesting to see if (when) C4 does pick up TMAU as well. They aired TMNZ during a really bizarre time slot, on one of their weird tertiary channels, but it was all on catch up immediately so it didn't really matter. So is I think the Swedish version as well? Which is an odd one to have picked up before TMAU, but I bet there's some sort of exclusivity agreement, and that one probably won't show up on C4 until next year. I'm betting the same for TMNZ's series 4.
Although, they sure got TMUK's series 15 up on YouTube immediately, so Avalon seems to have got some hidden power from somewhere.
While I was completely zoned out on the couch all day watching this, I managed to blaze through three more stripes on my blanket, and now I'm on the very last one. I'd found a few more colours I hadn't realised I had left, and I didn't want to just leave them there, so I decided to use them anyway. The blanket is a really stupid size, but I don't care. My plan for today is to put the newsletter together and go finish the fucking blanket, I think. The weather's really cool, so I'll probably go for a walk as well. The summer weather has really got in the way of that, and I hate it so much, but I just get so miserable going out in the heat. The topamax makes it easy to overheat, and the pills for my stomach do the same so I'm at a double risk of just falling over dead on the pavement if I'm not careful. When I do go out, I've been listening to the Sun Also Rises, since I've finished my podcast and can't find anything else worth listening to. I really liked the podcast for going on walks, and it's what got me going out in the first place. I can't fucking believe I've lost about 100lbs on the back of some stupid podcast, and I'm really tempted to start going into the other one with Jack Bernhardt and Lou Sanders, but man, Lou Sanders can really grate after a while. Maybe I'll finish my book and then try giving the People's Podcast a go.
But I can't wait to finish this blanket. It needs to be done so I can never think about it again. My husband asked if the next one I start will be just as unhinged, and the answer was yes, of course it will, because I'm still trying to use up as much yarn as possible. I'm close to the goal of using up pretty much all of it, which was a lot of damn yarn, and then I can buy more without guilt, and start all over again.
Also, in the process of typing this up, I got a notice on my door that starting next week, they're going to start redoing the roof of our building, so that's going to be terrible for me. Not looking forward to that. My husband works nights, so idk how he's meant to sleep, with us on the top floor. They're scheduling it to take a week or two, and knowing how roofing works, the noise won't be right above us the entire time. The building is quite big, and presumably they'll be working from one end to the other over that time. We'll probably have two or three days of really bad noise above us, and since we're right on the end of the building, either be at the very beginning, or very end of it. Here's hoping, anyway.
