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Wow ok so the Eternals wasn’t at all what I expected. Those trailers can super lie huh?

I can kinda see why I have heard it got bad reviews. It was a bit all over the place. It did get a bit confusing. 10 main characters getting their origin story all at once was a bit much. I mean the Avengers movies had a ton of characters but they were mostly introduced first in other movies. This was just throw a lot of new stuff all at once. I don’t think anyone got the development they really deserved.

That explains why there was character death – got to get those numbers down! But man I hate that. You get attached, start to like the character and boom gone forever.

And I think I’ve managed to keep this spoiler free. Not that probably matters anymore. I have totally lost track. Did this ever come out at the cinema? I just watched it on Disney+ and I know it has been up a week or two (I think, what is time?).

Anyway yeah. Big meh. Phastos and Gilgamesh were definitely the best part, followed by the speedster (I’m not sure I ever got her name?) and then after that Druig. Apart from them it was pretty forgettable.

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I know I probably just did a bad tumblr etiquette thing. I do feel a little bad. We’ll see if that translates into feeling so bad I delete it. That may happen. I have a very big problem with guilt.

#in which I second guess myself forever#I just want to be a good person and yup fear of being yelled at is definitely kicking in

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Is it just me or is tumblr doing some weird shit?

I keep seeing really old posts of mine at the top of my dashboard which is freaking me out (first time I thought I’d been hacked).

When it first happened there was no tag, but now I’m seeing “Look at this post you made!” above it.

Now just appeared “Check out this post!” and this random post is there.

Please tell me there’s going to be an off button?

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I just realised I forgot to say, I mean I mooted the possibility in my “end of fandom year” post but I didn’t actually say.

So here an announcement! (of sorts)

It is my sincere intention to do what I’m tentatively calling – Fandom Friday – where I post a new gifset every Friday.

You see I have over 50 on my list, so that’s more than a years worth already, so I really need to try and consistently get them done, if I actually want to make them which I do. I know tumblr is a dumpster fire with the tags and stuff right now but ehhh my love for my shows/ships never dies.

I’m pondering running another couple of appreciation weeks this year. My only hesitation is last time that didn’t take sets off my list (it added a couple dozen more). But I’m thinking about it anyway. We could all use a little more love for the things we love in our lives, especially now.

This could be an epic embarrassment if I don’t actually do this, but I think I’m relatively safe for a week or two as I already have tomorrow’s made haha. So we shall see 🙂

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Staying up to welcome the New Year is the most ridiculous tradition.

Surely the best gift we could give the new year is to be as well-rested as possible, so we can start the 1st how we mean to go on – tackling those tasks that combine to form the goal list.

Signed,
the person who always has a headache on the 1st from lack of sleep

#happy new year#although what’s happy about it I don’t know#yes I’m grumpy I’m sorry#ignore me#we all had dreams once Liam

WriYe: Impossible Year

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So I recently did the retrospective on how 2021 went, and now I get to make the world laugh by dreaming about 2022. I said last time that I really didn’t want to get to the end of the year and be disappointed again – but I was. However, really that is my dream. I want to feel like I’ve made progress, as most of the time I feel like I’m getting nowhere and that time is running out.

BUT (and it’s a big but!) I am going to be aided in my quest for progress this year by a big life change – I’m moving house. I’ve said this before, I said it in my retrospective because once it was decided early October everything tanked as the chaos consumed me. We still haven’t sold and I don’t know when we will (but I hope it’s soon) and so we don’t know where we’ll be moving (as there’s no point in looking at houses that sell before we can buy). However, I think it’s a reasonably safe statement to make, to say that by this time next year I will be writing this post in a different house – my own house. I have big hopes that having my own space will make a lot of difference to me, but I’ve got to get there first which means surviving the process.

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FYI (not that anyone cares) but I won’t be posting calendar pages next year. I’ve been too tired, stressed and miserable to put together a new calendar so I’ve just reprinted this years with next years dates.

But 2023 (which is so not a real year *cries*) will be Warehouse 13 I swear it. I have some of it collected already. It will happen.

2021: Fandom Year in Review

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I haven’t done one of these in years, mostly because I really didn’t do anything for a long time. I’m not finishing this year on a particularly strong note as I sort of spluttered and shuddered to a halt in October and haven’t managed to restart the old engine 🙁

Anyway here’s a detailed breakdown and some mini statistics.

Fanfics written/posted: 14
Fanfics started: 17
Fandoms written in: 3
Number of fanfic words written: 211,726 (including WIPs)
Fanart completed: 4 (or 5 if I count that sketch which I don’t really)
Gifsets posted: 32

Most Popular Fic = and the Brighter Side of Life (with a whopping 52 more kudos than the next closest fic)

Most Popular Gifset = Car Stealing Etiquette (Black Widow / Cap: Winter Soldier Parallel) – 672 notes, a whopping 488 more than the next highest, thanks Marvel 🙂

Most Popular Fanart = The Proposal Part Two (Warehouse 13, Bering and Wells exchange) – 51 notes, so a 42 note difference there.

Links and rambling on everything under the cut 🙂

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I kinda want to take all my Christmas decorations down because it feels like they are mocking me.

On the other hand I feel sick and just want to crawl into a corner and hide forever. I have the fury to start tearing it all down, I am not so sure I have the energy to pack it all away and a giant mess would be infinitely worse.

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Someone asked me yesterday morning how Christmas was going. I said “not great but had worse, probably doesn’t make my top 5.”

Well I wish to update my assessment. I’m now thinking definitely top 5, probably in the top 3 of worst Christmas’ ever. I mean the year we had pneumonia sucked but at least mum and I were together.

I sobbed myself to sleep last night and I have a stress headache the size of the Grand Canyon. I’m venting in the hope that I don’t open my mouth because oh boy would that make things worse. I’ll try and tag so people don’t have to see as I don’t want to spread misery. I just feel so alone 🙁

#ignore me#I’m just fucking miserable#I’m trapped and powerless and frustrated

purlturtle said:  If you’re okay with internet hugs, please feel hugged, my friend. 

galactic-pirates said:  @purlturtle *hugs back* thanks for the kindness. I really appreciate it.