A weekend in bullet points

[dolorosa_12]

Nice things that I've done this weekend:

Walked with Matthias in the nature reserve, watching swans, cygnets and ducks on the river, and sheep in the field across the water

Begun an Avatar: the Last Airbender rewatch (I'm so glad it's on Netflix!)

Written about six thousand words of fanfic for a fic no one but me will ever be interested in reading (this is not me being passive aggressive or performatively humble: I know what I like, and I know what fandom at large likes, and this fic is not it, but the id wants what it wants)

Done a hatha yoga session focusing on the lower back (my lower back has been in agony since the end of the working week, even though I have my standing desk at home)

Woken up at 6am this morning and sat curled up in my wing chair in the living room, drinking tea, watching the rain fall, appreciating the stillness

Listened to a lot of Pendulum music, like it's the summer of 2010 all over again

All in all, a great way to spend two days. What have been the highlights (if any) of your weekends?

Comments

[naye]

Ah, Skuld and I just finished an A:TLA rewatch! Even if it's not on Netflix here. Such a wonderful watching experience. I am so fond of it and it makes me so happy.

Also: congrats on id fic! It's so much fun to indulge.

[dolorosa_12]

I think a lot of people are doing an A:TLA rewatch at the moment. It really is such a delightful show. I wish I could convince Matthias to watch it with me, but football in both Germany and the UK has resumed, and I've lost him to that for the next few months!

Id fic is great, but it feels so ridiculously self-indulgent.

[lirazel]

Written about six thousand words of fanfic for a fic no one but me will ever be interested in reading (this is not me being passive aggressive or performatively humble: I know what I like, and I know what fandom at large likes, and this fic is not it, but the id wants what it wants)

I feel like if you haven't been in this exact place often, you aren't really a fanfic writer. The most relatable!

[dolorosa_12]

Who in fandom has not done this exact thing at least once?

[ng_moonmoth]

Just wrapped up attending about 24 hours of a 29-hour (originally planned for just 24 hours) Zoom song sharing meetup. About 150 people from around the world joined in at various times: the bulk from the US, Canada, Britain, and Germany, which are the global centers of the movement encompassing the genre, but some from various other places in Europe, a few Aussies, and one from Japan. A marvelous time was had by all, until there was nobody really left in fit shape to continue.

[dolorosa_12]

That sounds absolutely wonderful — I'm glad you had a great time, although 29 hours straight of Zooming sounds exhausting!

[ng_moonmoth]

It was wonderful! Not quite 29 hours straight; I don't think anyone managed that. We started an hour late For Reasons, and then went down for about four hours in the dark of night. I don't think anyone was there for the whole thing. The most dedicated attendees managed 26-27 hours.

And we paid for it the rest of yesterday, and overnight. Pretty much back to pandemic normal now, though. The consensus opinion seems to be "Let's do this again -- next year."

[dolorosa_12]

26-27 hours (or even less than that, but with a break of only four hours) is still pretty intense!

[thawrecka]

A lot of cartoon and YouTube watching a little bit of writing was the highlight of my weekend. I also watched Avatar: the Last Airbender, though for the first time, and discovered there must be some weird rights deal issues re: streaming in Australia because Netflix had season 1, 17 episodes of season 2, and then 13 episodes of season 3, whereas a different streaming service had all of it.

[dolorosa_12]

That's bizarre re: Netflix's rights issues. What would be the point of getting the rights only to part of the series?

I saw your post about watching it for the first time, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was in my early twenties when I watched it first, so not the target audience, but I was closer in age to the child and teenage characters than I am now, at least!

[thawrecka]

I suspect the issue is that Netflix used to have the rights to the whole series (because that's how a friend of mine watched it recently), and when I watched they were in the process of losing part of the rights. Which is still a little strange.

[dolorosa_12]

Yes, that would explain it.