i feel stupid, and contagious

+ Sigh. Not really getting comment notifications at all, so I'm really sorry for failing to reply to things. I've got to remember to manually check posts I've made/been in.

+ So Avatar opened and it SUCKS. (Not that I've seen it, but every. single. review I've read concurs that it's a total disaster on every level, even beyond the racism and sexism.) I wish the actors the best in their future endeavors but guys, I feel so perversely gleeful reading those reviews. And sad at the same time, because I knew there was fail, but I didn't realise how many cool characters were cut (Jun, Teo, Suki/the Kyoshi for example), and how little agency female characters were given compared to the series. How little agency ANY marginalized group was given compared to the series.

THAT SAID, M Night Shyamalan specifically is getting heavily scapegoated here and it's not right, for a lot of reasons. I don't like the guy or anything he chooses to be, but the responsibility for this film's fail hardly starts with him. It's reflective of a problem in Hollywood and society as a whole. glockgal has some excellent thoughts on this here. Glock, and racebending.com, have been utterly amazing through this whole thing. ♥

Anyway, next Friday bratkartoffel, cloverdew and I are watching series one all day. GOOD TIMES. And I made a picspam on tumblr to make myself feel better. So I'm good.

+ Changing tack, zahrawithaz has written some Doctor Who gender meta that I thought was pretty smart: On Sexualizing Amy Pond. Because it is both possible and preferable to unpack gender issues in media without tearing down the characters themselves.

+ I'm officially on staycation! Left work early today, and the holiday weekend should be gorgeous weather-wise, if a bit hot. Looking forward to getting out and enjoying it.

If any of you USians are traveling, I hope you have a safe trip!

+ I watched Glee. ( spoilers for Dream On )

+ Apparently marathoning Avatar: TLA has triggered some kind of hysteria in my brain that I didn't get when I was watching the show from week-to-week. I mean, I still recognized at the time that it is one of the best total-package television shows ever created, but I wasn't tempted to get into fandom or anything - partly because I'd heard said fandom was CRAZY, and partly because I was over in HP fandom, not really shopping for other fandoms, and besides no one I knew was watching/it's rarely fun to try and fan a show all by yourself.

Right now? I am experiencing an ALL-CONSUMING LOVE AND GLEE that almost makes me wish I'd participated in the cray-cray fandom at the time. Maybe the recent swell of fail!movie news is throwing me into a more intense love of the real series, or maybe I just like being able to squee along with other people, idk.

I figured Doctor Who was going to be my all-consuming Merlin hiatus distraction this year, as SGA and BSG were last year. And while Who is still my favorite show airing at the moment, my fannish ardor is cooling to the level I might have for any other show, being replaced with renewed SOKKA KATARA AANG TOPH AZULA ZUKO MAI TY LEE fervor. For now, anyway.

Which is to say, if anyone has links to their favorite fics or rec lists, I would be very much obliged. I don't even know where to start. My fave characters are Katara, Sokka, Aang, Toph, Azula, Mai, Ty Lee, Zuko, Iroh... EVERYONE, BASICALLY. And their relationships with each other. Aang/Katara transcendental loooove, Mai/Zuko adorableness, Sokka/pretty much anyone, Azula/Ty Lee, Azula's fascinatingly fucked-up dynamics with pretty much everyone she ever met, 'specially the other Fire Nation chicas. Lahv, lahv, lahv.

Also, everyone should watch Avatar. No such thing as too late. The end.