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Talk about your baby fandoms here.

I know there is one anon here that listens. I hope you listened to the most recent episode! If not, I would still love to talk about it with new fans who are not caught up OR people interested in it.

Spoilers for most recent episode of Wolf 359.

Holy crap, this episode was amazing. First off, Lovelace looks like she is constantly outmaneuvered by Cutter's team. I really hope she is not actually trusting them.

And I wonder if Hera is forbidden from telling the group what Cutter's team is doing or if she just has to wait until they ask her what is going on. I assume it is the first option.

But mainly, I LOVED all of the play between Eiffel, Kepler, and Hilbert. While I know Kepler has ulterior motives, I was really happy to see someone giving a shit about Eiffel's agency and health. That really was the first time anyone asked him if he WANTED to be an experiment. I vaguely ship Eiffel/Kepler just because of that.

And I know that Eiffel will probably end up helping Hilbert with the Decima virus, especially now that it is showing improvements. I just hope it doesn't come back to bite them in the ass too much.

It WAS nice that someone gave Eiffel a choice, and I've got to give Kepler's voice actor for making those lines so much more frightening than relieving.

I don't think Hera knows what Cutter's team is doing either, that conversation took place on their ship, after all, and they established that Hera has very limited perception of what happens over there.

If Lovelace is smart, and we know she is, I'm pretty sure she planted a listening device of some sort (which we know she can do). It's always easier to collect new information than to try and access old info that's already locked down. Personally, I kinda think she got to Earth but they just turned her around and sent her back, but that might just be too easy. I doubt she is trusting them. Lovelace doesn't trust.

I'm still wondering about the Eiffel box from season 1. At first I thought it was because of the Decima virus; something to transport his body in if his running around became inconvenient, but now that we know the company never cared about Decima it's still an open question. I suppose it might just be one of those things that's only in turret to emphasize the mysteriousness, like the emergency door or the repeating Wednesday from the alone episode, but I really think we're owed at least a perfunctory explanation about that.

As I said on a several days old thread before, likely long after you stopped checking, this is my new favorite thing.

Unfortunately, now that I'm all caught up, I crave something new. I've been going through the No Sleep podcast today, and that's rather hit or miss for me.

So I'm listening to, in (very) rough order of declining enjoyment:
Wolf 359
Welcome to Night Vale
EOS 10
The Black Tapes
Limetown
TANIS
Alice Isn't Dead
King Falls AM
Kakos Industries

And I've tried and found listenable but not been particularly enthralled by:
Sayer
No Sleep
The Thrilling Adventure Hour

Is there anything else that should be on my list?

SAYER gets better as it goes along because a overarching story presents itself. And something happens that will make go WHAT?????

No Sleep is very hit and miss because some things that may scare one person may not scare another. I think out of every season of NoSleep, I only Favorite half of the episodes.

Have you listened to We're Alive? It is a zombie apocalypse story and is complete. The only part I don't like about it is the commercials at the end of every part. -__-

There is a podcast called Our Fair City but I've not listened to it yet. I have it on my feed just have to get around to it.

Are you interested in story podcasts that have a different story each episode?

The team who made Leverage makes it?? It is so hilarious and fun and touching?? I love all the characters (although I kind of resent living Ezekiel) and an so invested in their development

Does anyone know why the first season doesn't seem to be on DVD? I like to have shows I like on disc but I can't find it anywhere....

I only watched the first season but I loved it! Waiting for s2 to come out on Hulu (or wherever) before I watch it but I really, really like it. Even if it is kind of corny.

Oh man, I love this show but I didn't realize the Leverage team made it! Explains the threesome-ey vibe from Cassandra/Ezekiel/Jake. >.>

(HardisonParkerEliot 4ever)

OMG we've been watching this with our roommate, it's crack but I still enjoy it so.

I feel like I could recommend Route 666 for people who like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, except I've only seen one episode of that show so I'm not sure if the comparison works or what caveats to add. I'd love a BtVS fan to give it a try to let me know.

Similarly, I feel like Elementary fans might like Ruse. Female Watson set in a pseudo-Victorian era. No romance. But also magic. Maybe not as great for the case-of-the-week crowd though. Anyone agree?

I don't have anything to say about Crossgen that I haven't said to you before so I'm mostly here to just say <3 <3 <3 you're such a good fan

Thank you! I'm glad I'm not being annoying. :)

OH MY GOODNESS RUUUUUUSE I LOVE RUSE SO MUCH I OWN THE WHOLE RUN AND DREW FANART OF IT A MILLION YEARS AGO

I love Ruse too! It was one of my go-to when I was originally buying the series. I had to keep up with Ruse while it was going on. I was so relieved that it mostly ended in a complete way, unlike Route 666 :(

What did you like best about it?

Oh, Emma by far. She was my favorite. I'm still an Emma/Simon shipper. <.<

Actually, what converted me to the idea of fanfiction being a wonderful thing was a really well-done one that tied up the end of Ruse--answering those big questions regarding Emma's powers and such in a way I found really appropriate to the Crossgen universe! I will always be fond of it.

Did you see the recent miniseries reboot Marvel did? If so, what did you think?

--Miranda

I shipped Emma/Simon too, though I am glad they remained friends-only in the canon. It's refreshing to see a het friendship.

You will have to link me the fic. I haven't really read too much CrossGen fanfiction. I find it's rather hard to find.

I did read the three Marvel comics. It was so long since I read the original Ruse that it was hard to compare the new one to the old one but that one felt the most like the old CrossGen to me.

The Sigil one would've been better called El Cazador because it seemed to have more to do with that than the original Sigil comics (which I love) but I was definitely intrigued by the worldbuilding they had going on. I was bummed by the downer ending, but I would've been happy to read a sequel, so I enjoyed it overall.

I was most disappointed in the Mystic one. Mystic was my jam back in the day. I loved the relationship between the sisters, and they screwed that over in the miniseries. I thought the worldbuilding was a little interesting but I didn't like where they went with the characters, and the drama felt contrived but I chalk some of that up to the limited run.

How about you? Did you like them?

Here's the fic! It's called Case Closed. (It does have my ship in it, sorry.)

I admit, my knowledge of Crossgen is limited almost entirely to Ruse. (I was interested also in Meridian, but by that point Crossgen had gone under and I was unable to find volume three, I think, so there was never any closure. I don't suppose you know how far it got, or if it got to close at all satisfactorily?)

Also, I admit I wasn't a big fan of the reboot. <.< I think by that point, it had just been too long a time, and I felt that Emma was being positioned as a more traditional "badass," which I thought was unnecessary.

--Miranda

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Top Gear. It's RPF, very small fandom, mostly behind locked doors--wisely, since we've been mocked by that troll, Caitlin Moran, re-posting bits of smutty fic to her twitter. (She's a total jerk for doing that, and I don't know why she would still think it's a good idea after she got people upset by mocking Sherlock fandom.)

On top of that, the show is now defunct in a fashion (with the old cast gone on to the still-unnamed show in development). There's very little fic, and what there is mostly involved Jeremy in sexual situations with one or both of the others.

Since I don't ship Jezza at all with anyone, I can only really enjoy the gen or James/Richard fic. There's very little these days.

It's a wee fandom and mostly inactive now. I think it used to be pretty huge but got trolled down a lot, or else people just moved on after too many controversies.

IDK. I still like it but I'm not very active. Neither is anyone else!

I am so with you on the not shipping Jezza thing--and I'm totally a James/Richard girl.

There still seems to be a fandom on tumblr, but so so many of them are Clarkson stans and/or Clarkson/May fans that I pretty much avoid a lot of the fandom there. (God help you if you express any sort of negative opinion about Clarkson or Clarkson/May, it means you're a terrible person, etc. *rolls eyes*)

Didn't realise Caitlin Moran was being a douche canoe with the fic on twitter. I am not surprised.

I think maybe once the new Clarkson-Hammond-May show starts airing, things will pick up again. Honestly I wish they'd name that fucking show, cus it's annoying doing the CHM thing. And tbh, I probably won't watch the new show and that's because of Clarkson. I have no interest in the new TG as my fannish attention is to James May.

I got sooo upset about the twitter thing. :( I almost wish I hadn't seen it at all. I was mad for days -- not worth it, probably!

Anyway I love your icon. <3 And it's nice to see another non-Jezza shipper around! He just doesn't do it for me.

I like James, and I like Richard, but somehow together they're <3 <3 <3 for me. I'm not sure why exactly. I just like them better together.

Not really 'fandom', but I just started rewatching this because I watched it when it was out, and then someone mentioned it a few days ago, and at the time I had no idea who Tom Ellis and Maisie Williams were, so watching it now is like, "Oh my god, that's Lucifer and Lady Me!" XD

My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth” are meant to be Sarah dreaming, or are they real? Although my primary reaction was that she shouldn’t put that much thought into any children’s movie (or any instance of David Bowie in tight pants), I’d like to take this opportunity to put so much thought into this children’s movie, that it’ll blow your mind.

So why is David Bowie kidnapping a child from an underage Jennifer Connelley?

In a time long long ago a sorcerer named Jareth fell in love with a girl named Sarah. Sarah’s father and step-mother would not let her marry Jareth because they wanted her to keep her, as a servant, to care for their other child. In a fit of rage Jareth kidnapped this other child and spirited it away to the fairy world. In this new world Jareth built a palace for his Sarah. He turned the spoiled child into a goblin, and kept it to be a servant.

Many stories of the fairy world tell us that time moves differently there than in our world (Rip Van Winkle for one). In the time it took for Jareth to build his kingdom, which he may have thought was little more than a few years, Sarah grew old and died.

Overcome by grief and addled by a lifetime spent in a strange world filled with monsters, Jareth goes mad. He refuses to believe that he has lost his love. He searches the mortal world from his castle, looking for her.

Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.

Jareth searches the mortal world from his from his castle, looking for her. It does not take long to find a dark haired girl named Sarah…

This is how Jareth becomes the goblin king. Every goblin in the goblin city is a child Jareth has stolen, who was not recovered by a Sarah. (he told the current Sarah that Toby would become a goblin if she did not find him in time)

This is why he builds the maze. The magic bog, the junk yard of useless treasures, all tricks to slow Sarah down. Because if he can only have his Sarah for the time it takes for her to regain the stolen child, he will make it take as long as possible, keep her as long as possible.

This is why there exists in our world a book containing the story.

Because it has happened before. So many times. At some point some lucky Sarah must have returned to our world to tell the story. This is why when the most recent Sarah first meets Hoggle at the start of the labyrinth, and introduces herself; “I’m Sarah”, Hoggle responds “That’s what I figured.”

Because of course she’s Sarah.

They were all Sarah.

Source: http://glamdamnit.tumblr.com/post/55713093884/my-sister-asked-if-the-events-of-the-labyrinth

But if he could get to the sibling, what was to stop him from helping Sarah escape and eloping with her instead of taking the kid? That would seem to make more sense.

Maybe he wanted her to come to him? Or maybe (for the first one) he wanted to make sure he had a kingdom worthy of her before she came.

When I was a kid, I wondered if the existing goblins all used to be human babies (I wasn't inclined to think deep thoughts about goblin reproduction). I thought it was likely Jareth had done something like this before, just not that many times and not as an attempt to recreate a specific situation.

Jim Above I hate this theory.

a. the most pretentious, thousands-of-fics-dismissing intro, "no one has ever headcanon'd as deeply as me on this kids' movie" BITCH PLEASE.

b. well done you have made a rare female-centric, actually pretty clever coming-of-age story into reincarnation romance MANPAIN.

c. (and this goes for you too, Tokyopop) SARAH IS THE MAIN CHARACTER. Yesss of course Bowie-in-tight-pants doing his seductive villain shtick is the most memorable thing. but he is the antagonist. Playing, possibly unwillingly, the exact role she has determined - there's angsty meta enough in that!!

d. this whole damn theory rests mostly on that one line of Hoggle's which you can Occam Razor away easily enough - the whole Underground knows "the king had fallen in love with the girl", the owl is watching Sarah before she says the Words, it's not so huge to believe in a Goblin Grapevine...

I haaaaaate how viral this tripe got.

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