Sunshine Revival: Friending Meme

[merricatb]

I guess I'm doing the Friending Meme on sunshine_revival

Maybe you struck up a conversation while you waited in line for the roller coaster. Maybe you and a questionably large group of friends all tumbled out of a van and walked in together. However it happened, you're now here at the Carnival with your friends. The best experiences are all the richer for having fun and interesting people to share them with. Let's all get to know each other and make some friends to hold our hands during the scary rides or split a basket of fries with.


Basics
Name: MerricatB
Age: A lady never tells...but I'm 40ish
Location: USA (derogatory)
Other blogs/socials: Ao3 and Tumblr

Dreamwidth Stuff
What do you post about? Probably writing? Fandom? I'm not sure, I just got here and have no idea what I'm doing yet.
How often do you post? Occasionally?
What communities, if any, are you involved in? I joined for smallfandomfest
What kind of accounts do you like to follow? LGBT+, writing, fandom

Fandom Stuff
Fandoms: Sense8 is my main hyperfixation and the reason I'm here. Other movies/shows I'm into: AMC Interview with the Vampire; NBC Hannibal; Good Omens; Our Flag Means Death; The Old Guard (not the sequel blergh); Killing Eve; a bunch of other LGBT+ shows I can't think of at the moment.
Favorite Characters: Wolfgang Bogdanow; Kala & Rajan Rasal; Felix Berner from Sense8
Ships: Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan + Felix
Things you're into but not fannish about: LGBT+, writing, semi-goth stuff

I Designed This Meme So I Get To Ask Weird Stuff
Explain your username: Merricat Blackwood was the protagonist of my favorite book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
Favorite season (it's ok if it's not summer): Fall. Summer is a hard pass for me.
What's your vibe? Weird and off-putting?
What is your summeriest fandom? (You can interpret this however you like….): Not sure I have one of those.
Opening song on your summer mixtape: I'd opt out of summer but for fall probably Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon

Comments

[maevedarcy]

oh my god you like IWTV as well? you're perfect <3

good to see you're doing the sunshine revival challenges! I hope you have fun with them :)

[merricatb]

Well I did one challenge at any rate lol. I find this format overly complicated for my tastes but maybe I just need to get used to it.

IWTV is soooo good! When I first saw the original trailer I thought it was going to be awful and I'm thrilled I was wrong. Cannot WAIT for season three. I was somewhat obsessed with the books in high school but lost interest around Memnoch and never picked them back up. But I love what they changed from the books. It works so well with the race-switching and timeframes changed. And their casting OMG. Spot on with everyone!

[maevedarcy]

well, the good things of challenges like sunshine_revival's is that you can do as much or as little as you want. The good thing I like about that challenge is that they give you a journaling prompt and a creative prompt so you can use some of the creative prompts for fics hehehe


As for IWTV, I also had reservations about it, but I saw one gif of Jacob and Sam in episode 1 and I was completely sold. I remember watching the series and going a little crazy over the INSANE chemistry those two have on screen. I can't wait for season 3 to get a glimpse into this Lestat's background. I've loved most of the changes they've done so far and even though I've felt some trepidation regarding Gabrielle's storyline, I have faith in the creators.

[merricatb]

Yeah, I hadn't realized it was the last day so maybe I'll do a fall or winter one to get the juices flowing. I have a couple of ideas but nothing concrete and IDK if I'll have anything for that next Poly event on the 14th (I think?)

Agreed on their chemistry OMG and they're like absolute besties IRL which is so cute to see. There are a LOT of storylines that are going to be absolutely wild if they continue into the other books. Marius and Armand's story is super problematic too. But they cast Jennifer Ehle as Gabrielle which should be awesome no matter what.

[maevedarcy]

Oh you can post for sunshine_revival even late! So if you want to do separate posts or even one massive 7-prompt post you can do that. I'm pretty sure not everyone will have done all of the prompts on time lol.

As for polyam shipping day, you can also submit late entries. It's a recurrent event, so it happens every month except March and October, when the polyamships comm has other month-long events (I know all this because I'm part of the mod team so I gotta remember lol. You can also follow us on tumblr at polyamships. Though it's a multifandom blog, there is sense8 content every once in a while.

Also, YES OMG JENNIFER EHLE AS GABRIELLE I?M SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT!!! I can't wait to see more of Armand as well.

[merricatb]

Oh ok. Maybe I'll keep doing them. I'll DEFINITELY do the next set of smallfandomsfest. There were several other prompts I wanted to claim but just didn't think I'd have time to complete. Still looking forward to yours too... ;)

Assad is so good as Armand. And both Daniels, and of course both Claudias. Did you watch the Mayfair Witches? I never read any of those books and the show was just nowhere near the caliber of IWTV.

[maevedarcy]

I haven't watched the Mayfair Witches but I wasn't really interested in that series. Even though it looks like it's something I should be all over lol

And regarding my Sense8 fic for the Small Fandoms Fest? Well, I don't think I'll be able to complete it today. It hasn't been a good writing day for me. But if I complete it, I'll definitely post it anyway :)

[merricatb]

I’m sorry it wasn’t a good writing day. That really sucks. I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait regardless ;)