Tags, friends, getting into fandoms, a big WHAT

[misscam]

I am mightily pleased with self, fo 'lo, I have finished my tag fix-up!

My tags.

Now, if you for instance hit fanfic: bsg you'll get all my Battlestar Galactica fic, or if you poke fandom: doctor who you can see me groan, yay and get silly over Doctor Who, or if you dare people: batshit you'll know more about Fred Phelps than your brain ever wanted you to. My tags were a complete mess, but now they should actually be fairly easy to work out.

Also, skybound2 knows no bounds to awesome and made me matching icons to my layout.

Wow, I've had this LJ a while now. A lot of entries. A lot of life, heh. A lot of friends. I don't know all of you as well as I wish, but all of you have in various ways added to my life. Thank you.

TV-show cagematch:
Lost versus BSG.

For me, that one's easy - Lost lost me around the fifth episode. (Bad pun, I know!) Sometimes, shows that sound just what you're into just doesn't work. So many friends tried to convince me I'd love Veronica Mars so very much and when I finally watched it, there was great loathing only. Possibly, the insistance of how great it was played a part in that dislike.

Come to think of it, I got into Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who both without friends pressing - maybe recommending shows is the last thing you should do to get me into it, heh. Once I am into it, I want friends to share fun with, yes, but there is something about the sense of having taste dictated to me and getting nagged that easily turn me off. Of course, it probably depends largly how friends steer me towards something.

What about you? Can your friends have a negative or positive effect on what you go for?

Meanwhile, on the Net:

BATSHIT ALERT.

... WHAT.

Comments

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

I love Veronica Mars. Although I tend to pretend that the third season just doesn't exist.

Also I have no idea what I just read on the Batshit thing. I really did not understand.

When friends tell me that I might like something, I watch it if the premise sounds interesting. However if they keep telling me that it's amazing, I know I'll be disappointing because I'll be expecting something spectacular when it's only good.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Maybe that was my problem with Vernoica Mars. People were talking it up so I was expecting something really grand. Possibly disappointment fuelled some of the fairly deep dislike I developed for it. Also, I didn't fancy Logan.

I'm not sure the batshit thing is understandable by a human brain. It's... Special.

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

I love Logan. The first episode I watched was of his first kiss with Veronica. I had no idea who the characters were but I still squealed. I consider that to be one of the hottest first kisses ever. It was perfect.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Alas, not for me to enjoy.

Then again, I don't find John Barrowman hot either, so maybe something is wrong in my brain.

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

Neither do I but please tell me you've seen his gay off with Simon Amstell.

[longtimegone]

I HAVEN'T. And I feel as though I am missing out on something FABULOUS!

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

OMG. You totally are. It happened on an episode of Buzzcocks and was incredible! You can watch it on YouTube.

Part one: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZRLbP4EAsQ
Part two: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vyqNZ264qCo
Part three: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fh9a4Dy-JAE

[broken-enemy.livejournal.com]

And please tell me once you've seen it so that we can squee together.

[bex245.livejournal.com]

Practically everything I watch has been recommended to me by friends. Or, rather, friend. This girl queenvixta is responsible for about 90% of what I watch. LOL. And people on here got me into BSG. I'm pretty rubbish at watching a new show without having been steered towards it somehow.

I do not understand that batshit thing at all. LOL.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Is she your fannish pimp, then? ;)

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

D: That batshit has surpassed all other batshit I have ever seen. I think I need therapy now.

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

TAG HAG

:p

[manx-n-shadow.livejournal.com]

Mommy, the batshit hurts me in bad ways. *curls up in the fetal position*

I think my brain just literally imploded.

[losseniaiel.livejournal.com]

I read the batshit.

I now need:

1) Chocolate
2) Something to read which doesn't make my brain bleed
3)Alcohol

Not in that order.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

*faceclaws at the batshit* why must they make the furry fandom look bad? fuckdammit...

[crackpig.livejournal.com]

The furry fandom surely needs no help in that area.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

we've got enough whacknuts, we don't need these dumbasses!

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Hee! That batshit, it is hilarious.

[mademoisellenon.livejournal.com]

You organized human being, you.

The layout is amazing. It didn't show up that well first time I took a look but now it looks magical.

[tinwetari.livejournal.com]

which reminds me: I really need to do my tags as well...^^

Friends talked me into Heroes and now I love it so much...*huggles Heroes*

They tried the same with Prison Break and Supernatural, but no: didn't not work. Can't stand both shows. It really depends I think. Oh and books, I never like books someone recommended...or bought for me. Weird.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

I definitely got into Doctor Who because of my lj-friends and I've never looked back. I'm not into the fandom so much because I end up being spoiled, but I read fic every now and then.

That wank post went straight through batshit and into hilarity for me. It's so over the top.

Because I've DONE what I could to be tasty. I need good lovings too. Being in a stomach is like being held all over your body.

...Yes, dear, true love is being simultaneously crushed, dunked in acid, smothered and asphixiated. Have a care, though, the morning after is the shits.

[ambrosia-1.livejournal.com]

For books, TV, and trips, I generally try anything my friends recommend. If I like it, great, I have somebody to enjoy it with; if I don't like it, I have someone to argue with about why whatever isn't the best thing in the world. Unfortunately, I am the type of person who, when I love something, wants the people I love to love it too. This generally leads to me being very, very insistent about said person trying said thing, to the point where I have to make a concious effort to restrain my self. I recently got my husband to watch Firefly for the first time ever, and I had to bite my tongue through it to keep from wittering on about how great the show is! But my friends have held an intervention, and I now attend the 12-step meetings of Gushers Anonymous.