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What are your most common ratings?

Desperately trying not to fail my resolution to write more in this before the year even starts!

Your main fandom this year? I think MCU qualifies simply due to the number of words I wrote in it!

Your favourite film watched this year?: I'm drawing a blank here although I watched a lot more films this year than in prior years. I really liked Ocean's 8, so let's go with that one.

Your favourite book read this year?: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. I expected to hate it, but I was incredibly invested in the characters by the end. That's not to say that there aren't any flaws in it (the tv adaptation is certainly... something) but I really enjoyed the world-building.

Your favourite tv show of the year?: The Good Place, which I discovered about a million years after everyone else.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?: I got into Mark Watches this year, which I hadn't expected to like, although I don't know why not - I actually quite like reaction shows, and having someone reacting so strongly to so much stuff I love (West Wing, Babylon 5, Veronica Mars) was great. I'm now working my way through through his Star Trek stuff. I'm generally only fannish about things I read/write fic for, so having something be purely consumption-based was interesting.

Your biggest fandom disappointment?: can't really pick something specific.

Your tv boyfriend of the year?: I've been more into book fandoms plus re-watching old shows. 

Your tv girlfriend of the year?: same as above.

Your biggest squee moment of the year?: Honestly, watching Mark Oshiro reaching the middle & second half of S3 of Babylon 5 and getting increasingly outraged has legit made me laugh out loud.

The most missed of your old fandoms?: the more people start watching B5 the more I miss it. I know I can't make more canon magically exist by wishing, but somehow that doesn't seem to hinder me.

The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?: I have all of the Imperial Radch and Wayfarer series, I have yet to open them though...

This appears to be doing the rounds:

I currently have 349 works archived at AO3.

Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 349 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

(please, for the love of god, don't pick one of the early ones.)

Snagged from vilakins :

Go to Wikiquote.
* Load a random page.
* Pick the third quote.
* That's the tagline on the movie poster about your life.

First attempt: quote about 9/11 from a survivor.
Second attempt: quote on the essence of Toryism (UK Conservatives).
Third attempt: Sophia Loren -

I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

I'll take it!

Snagged from aris_tgd:

If you had to pick one fic of mine that is the one you identify with me, what would it be?

I haven't posted for ages because I've been either out in the evenings or curled up with a book, having time away from the computer. Which I suppose cancels out the whole point of posting every day? But anyway, it turns out I have a lunch break today (woohoo!) so I'm taking advantage of it to get caught up on these and have a fabulous time doing so. Ahoy for excessive embedding!

( Day 09 - Best scene ever )

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( Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving )

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( Day 11 - A show that disappointed you )

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( Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times )

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( Day 13 - Favorite childhood show )

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( Day 14 - Favorite male character )

Day 05 - A show you hate

Not entirely sure about the point of this one. Surely a show you hate is one you're not watching? But there have certainly been ones I tried to get into and failed miserably. I have tried several times to get into SGA and BSG, for instance, without much success. Then there are the ones I fell out of love with, such as LOST, where the early promise I saw was lost (no pun intended) along the way. Maybe I'll give the above another go at a later date; tastes change, after all.

( But there are some things I have significant problems with. )

Day 3: Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)

Hmm. I haven't really watched anything new this season. I suppose - New Who? Given that is has a new showrunner and all. It's strange: I live in the UK, I don't have sky or cable, and I haven't torrented anything for ages. Which basically means that I am limited to whatever terrestrial decides to show. Which brings be back around to Doctor Who.

The BBC gets unfarly slated for not producing any new programmes and living off repeats. I think that this is hidesouly undeserved. It's just that new programmes cost a whole bundle, and it is expensive to produce a whole bunch of them and then listen to everyone complain about how they're not as good as classic TV, and why didn;t they just show Only Fools and Horses or whatever. Which is why I think that bringing back Doctor Who was such a brave move - and why having a new showrunner is perhaps an even braver one. It's easy to stick to a formula that works, and a new showrunner isn't just a new season, it's a whole reimagining of the show. The Eleventh Hour was different in spirit and look from Rose, and not just because the actors and setting were different. It was a whole different show. I'm still a little uncertain about it at times - I have reservations over just how white this new show appears to be, and a few storylines have felt rather generic - but I am pleased to see it slowly finding its feet. This last episode, Vincent and the Doctor, was thoughtful and sad and interesting, without ever falling into being maudlin. That's not an easy feat to pull off in what is essentially the show's first season.

I've been seeing this on everyone's blogs and it looks like fun. Plus, more posting = good, right?

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Day 01 - A show that never should have been cancelled

Wow, I could go in a variety of directions here. There's the shows that were cancelled just as they were starting to get interesting, and ones that were in their prime and should have been left alone. There at the ones that were cancelled eventually, when maybe the chop should have come sooner. Hmmm.

I think I'm going to have to choose Deadwood here. The other possibilities - Firefly, original Star Trek, even Babylon 5 - had some sort of chance to tie up loose ends and bring their respective story arcs to a close, whereas Deadwood was cut mid-flow. As a result, we have a third season with several nonsensical characters and an ending that is a whimper, not a bang. I would have given anything to see the show run until the town's eventual burning, but it was not to be.

Technically, this could cover canon or fanfiction, but I'm going to stick to just canon pranks/practical jokes.

1. Red Dwarf: Queeg takes over
This snags the first spot as it is, without a doubt, the most elaborate (and hysterical) practical joke I have ever seen. ( Spoilers for those who haven't seen it. )Holly was at his best in Season 2, with some really fun storylines, and this is one of his best. The cast commentary is nearly as funny, with Danny J-J carefully counting all the ways in which the punchline is delivered, and the number of laughs it got (eight. It got EIGHT rounds of laughter).

2. Buffy: Halloween comes to life
Ultimately, Halloween is a prank story. While Ethan appears to be sowing the seeds of chaos in honour of Janus, he's also doing because - well, it's amusing. It's smart, it's funny (from his perspective, anyway), and it drives the plot something fierce.

3. Hustle: Mickey cons Danny (and is conned in turn)
I don't know the name of this episode, but it had me in stitches, which is unusual for a Hustle episode. ( Spoilers for Season 3 )I like this episode because it has such fun pacing, but also because the final few minutes actually make the whole thing a lot more amusing.

4. Babylon 5: JMS breaks everyone's brains
I guess this counts as canon, as it is a script and it exists directly from JMS's pen, and I can testify that it was indeed acted out... if not necessarily in make-up for the cameras! At a convention (I think it was Wolf 359: Independence, but I could be wrong) during the Season 4/5 Hiatus, JMS and almost all the cast were in attendance. This was where JMS decided to unveil one of his new scripts for S5, specifically one with a very special scene between Londo and G'Kar, where G'Kar's reptilian nature is exlored... through a spontaneous sex change! This is great fun to read (I think there are several links to it out there), but what I primarily remember it for was Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas doing a read of it for the con audience, up to and including the passionate kiss... (Yes, I did get a photo. *g*)

5. Blackadder: where the practical joke turns out to not be a joke
In Blackadder: Back and Forth, Blackadder decides to ply a pratical joke on his guests by pretending that he has a working time machine (and con them out of £10k into the bargain)... of course, the machine, built by Baldrick from plans by Da Vinci, then turns out to work...

What didn't make the cut: the Whomping Willow Prank - it may well be called a prank or a practical joke, but I'm coming down with Snape on this one: almost all of the likely outcomes would have had a body count.