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[healingmirth]

I would be interested to know how much substance there is behind the feeling that a reconstructed piece of writing is never as good as the original one. I had half of what eventually turned into this post written a week or so ago and then a mobile browser hiccup ate it, and everything I wrote after that just looked wrong. Eh, whatever.

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In the chunk of time surrounding my aforementioned peak crush on Andy Murray, I accomplished nothing of value. My cat was perpetually angry at me and my belongings were steadily collapsing into a heap, and as time passed, one exacerbated the other.

I have since addressed most of the clutter, but we will not speak of the state of the kitchen, nor of whether I have over- or under-watered one of my exceptionally hardy plants. I just know it's unhappy, so I'm leaving it on the porch until it makes up its mind and either lives or dies. I've got friends coming over tomorrow, so I'd better finish up the rest of the tidying.

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But! Being stuck on a train for several hours a day with variable internet access was great for forcing me to catch up on the TV saved to various hard drives and eventually my iPod. I watched almost all of The Musketeers, but detoured away in the middle of the penultimate episode because I realized that series three of Sherlock was probably going to make me angry, and I was hopeful that The Musketeers would not. I was mostly right.


It's okay that I spent most of 3x01 mad at Sherlock, right? Like, I think the average viewer was meant to be. I've generally enjoyed the acting, the production... most of the writing. But I definitely wouldn't watch this series again.

(side note, still interested in all the Bond/Sherlock crossovers where Q is a Holmes, and I'm not sure I've read any since this series, so I should go look. Skyfall is on tonight, and I've only seen it the once, so yay.)

Do you think there's meta somewhere comparing BBC Sherlock's relationship with John and NBC Hannibal's relationship with Will? I had more thoughts about this, but that's part of the bit that my browser ate, boo.

So Sherlock. Definitely made me think, but not exactly my version of fun.

Whereas Musketeers was thoroughly entertaining, but I was constantly aware that it was comprised of all my least favorite Tragic Events. Series two promises more sex! More violence! They keep saying that like that's a good thing? I am well aware that I'm getting old, but I like the "family friendly" version they made and have since pooh-poohed. I don't know if they are aiming for gritty or exciting or just more with the change in tone, but either way I'm sure that those minutes and shots are going to be at the expense of learning anything about the Damsel of the Week before she's written off, or of worthwhile moments among the recurring cast. Either way, it's going to be less of the show I want to watch.

I haven't yet ventured into the wilds of any part of Musketeers fandom on AO3, but if you have a favorite author (or you yourself wrote something that I missed in the months and months it took me to catch up!) I will gladly take recs.

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I also watched all of season four of Teen Wolf earlier this week, and while I appreciate that for once Jeff Davis didn't do anything that made me want to throw something at the TV, I also just really don't care. Like if the final episode of the season had been the series finale, I would have been totally fine with it. I liked the relationships he created. I didn't care about the plot thread he abandoned. The villain(s) and conflicts were reasonably engaging. I just... don't really care what happens now. It sort of seems like everyone is okay.

I had planned on signing up for tw_holidays, but there isn't a single story I want to request, or write, much less 3-5.

I'm reading through some meta and episode recaps, hoping it may spark an idea, but it wouldn't be a bad thing for me to concentrate on Yuletide, and maybe finally chip away at my fandom_stocking debt.

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In looking for Teen Wolf reaction posts that I'd bookmarked, I realized that I have just Way Too Many fics bookmarked on my phone, which was a thing I swore I would stop doing when my last phone glitched and ate all my bookmarks.

I should sort those out, but I'm busy reading my way back through the David Mitchell tag on AO3. New series of Would I Lie to You! yay!

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I'm not doing the Friday five because I never do the Friday five questions (and also, it is now Saturday) but it reminded me that I randomly had "The Old Gumbie Cat" pop into my head and stick earlier this week. I haven't listened to a Cats recording in I don't know how long, but it's a song I love, so I didn't mind its appearance.

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And finally, here is a thing that happened: an ad? or a promotional video at any rate, about livejournal

Comments

[poisontaster]

I always FEEL like the reconstructed piece of writing is worse, but I've been proven wrong on that feeling a few times when I later found or otherwise recovered the lost piece of writing and the new one was notably better.

[healingmirth]

That's reassuring! And even if it's not the case, I should probably work on convincing myself that the remembered grass is much greener than it could possibly have been :)