Yes, stability is good! Hopefully I'll have some roommate stability now - so far so good, but I feel like every time I've LJ'ed about my roomies, something has gone awry. XDD We're staying out of each other's way a lot so nothing to report, anyway.
I'm way too much of a squeamish wimp to watch Hannibal, but I love the fandom - the goofy jokes and stuff that people make to offset the intensity of the show (like so (http://lecterings.tumblr.com/tagged/shenannibals) - the lame joke series has been cracking me up!!) and I've read some detailed summaries and stuff.
Yeah, it seemed like the fans took a sort of football atmosphere ethos to the ice hockey, which is kind of cool. (And again, kind of like how MLS has an American fan approach - that a lot of football purists find weird.) I was going to bring up Danny and Claude, haha - I love them!! Especially Danny... even though they're an incredibly cute pairing, I'm pretty glad he went to Montreal, because as a Penguins fan I'm contractually obliged to be anti-Flyers. ;) He seems like a great guy, even though he's a slightly dirty hockey player.
And funnily enough, your feelings about going to see them during the lockout are kind of like how MLS fans approach our "Designated Players" - the ones who are allowed to break the salary cap, usually former European stars. So sometimes you'll plan to go see your local team when the team with the DP that you like is going to be in town.
I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME WAY ABOUT RPF. The more it seems like the author is really trying to probe at what the person might really be like, the more it seems like they might think that the pairing they ship is real, then I get really uncomfortable with the whole phenomenon. To use someone's public persona for inspiration or a fantasy, I think is basically ok - I understand that some of the subjects might be uncomfortable with it, but I think part of that is that it's not well established that most of us are really not thinking about the characters we write about as being actual them!
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Date: 2013-09-01 09:15 pm (UTC)I'm way too much of a squeamish wimp to watch Hannibal, but I love the fandom - the goofy jokes and stuff that people make to offset the intensity of the show (like so (http://lecterings.tumblr.com/tagged/shenannibals) - the lame joke series has been cracking me up!!) and I've read some detailed summaries and stuff.
Yeah, it seemed like the fans took a sort of football atmosphere ethos to the ice hockey, which is kind of cool. (And again, kind of like how MLS has an American fan approach - that a lot of football purists find weird.) I was going to bring up Danny and Claude, haha - I love them!! Especially Danny... even though they're an incredibly cute pairing, I'm pretty glad he went to Montreal, because as a Penguins fan I'm contractually obliged to be anti-Flyers. ;) He seems like a great guy, even though he's a slightly dirty hockey player.
And funnily enough, your feelings about going to see them during the lockout are kind of like how MLS fans approach our "Designated Players" - the ones who are allowed to break the salary cap, usually former European stars. So sometimes you'll plan to go see your local team when the team with the DP that you like is going to be in town.
I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME WAY ABOUT RPF. The more it seems like the author is really trying to probe at what the person might really be like, the more it seems like they might think that the pairing they ship is real, then I get really uncomfortable with the whole phenomenon. To use someone's public persona for inspiration or a fantasy, I think is basically ok - I understand that some of the subjects might be uncomfortable with it, but I think part of that is that it's not well established that most of us are really not thinking about the characters we write about as being actual them!