jedi_of_urth

Challenge #5

In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I didn't really know what to do with this one, I still largely don't, but I still wanted to give it something. And what I've landed on is a couple anime I've watched in the past year that made me do lots of ugly crying.

I have kind of an odd relationship to amine in general. I've tried to really get into it several times in my life and it's never quite stuck. I'm in a more interested phase now that more is on Netflix so I don't have to go seeking it out. Also, in my early rounds of trying to get into anime, my college friends were subs-only people and I'm a dub person (I think part of it is that dubbing has overall been improved since those friends had their experience getting into anime, so now it's easier to be a dubs person).

And that's connected with this, because my emotional reactions to amine stories are a lot deeper when I can more easily immerse myself in the story than having to split focus for reading subtitles. That said, part of why I'm talking about this is that I don't know that I would consider myself a huge fan of either of these shows. I'm not drawn to write fic or find fandom discourse (if I ever get back into vidding and there happens to be a particular song that strikes me, maybe I'd do that), I just appreciate the series as they are.

Also, I'm sure these are common recs for people who want anime regularly, but for people who only watch occasionally like me, they might be new.

1) Anohana
It's basically what happens five years after Bridge to Terabithia, and a whole group of friends who had one of them die when they were little. After that the group drifted apart and are all haunted by her death in one way or another. Then her ghost comes back; but it's not haunting, it's about finally being able to heal and reconnect and at the end say goodbye. And that final episode was a super ugly cry.

2) Violet Evergarden
I'm really still not sure I actually liked this series. I found the first half or so to be a bit bland, though interesting enough to keep me watching. But about halfway through, every episode seemed to find a way to have me sobbing by the end. It's really more of a vignette style series, and it's really good at that. It creates interesting, and often tragic, characters that the lead (Violet) interacts with in each episode, making you care about these new characters and situations for the course of the episode and moving on. Only on occasion did I find Violet herself to be the most interesting character in a story, but she's a good glue that holds the vignettes together.

Challenge #3: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

In your own space, tell us who, from one of your fandoms, would you most want to have dinner with (or tea, or a random afternoon visit), And why? This could be a creator, an actor, a costumer, a set designer, a director, a character, a composer, anybody! What would you talk about? What are you dying to know? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I found myself thinking about this for a bit after it was revealed, even as I was reading it. My first thought was that I would read it as characters I wanted to hang out with, and realized that in my recent fandoms there aren't a lot that I wanted that. Not that I would mind if I could meet them; Chidi from The Good Place for example, I could get FroYo with him sometime.

Then my mind went back to old favorites, and I found myself debating which characters from Babylon 5 I'd want to have lunch with, and I had a pretty hard time deciding that. I kind of want to (per my icon) talk with Sheridan about politics and how we make things better; I just want to hang with Ivanova; I want to turn to Delenn for life advice because I think she'd be a really good person to turn to; I might get a bit lost with G'Kar (late G'Kar), but I sure wouldn't miss the opportunity to hear more of his thoughts; I think Vir and I could have a really chill time.

But then I realize I could go with a real person and that the absolute dream is meeting JMS; he's basically been my idol since I was 12 and having the chance to sit down with the man himself for a while would be amazing. And it would have to be a while because I'd be too nervous to talk, and then I'd just be squeeing for a while. But it would be amazing for 13 year old me, 20 year old me, 30 year old me, and now me. I've loved Babylon 5 for 2/3 or my life and it would be wonderful to meet the man who created and basically penned it, and gave me so many ideas that shaped who I am.

Alright, I will poke my head out of my little tiny bubble and do at least some of this year's snowflake challenge.



Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hello, my name is jedi_of_urth, but you can call me Tori if you want, I'm not too picky. I've been lurking on the edges of various fandoms for years so some of you might have encountered me before, but no shame if you haven't or have forgotten all about me, I've been even more on the outskirts of late.

Part of that is that I never quite made the leap off livejournal and that has remained where I'm more likely to post if I just have something on my mind. If you poke around my dreamwidth account you'll find it's most my fic journal so far. Maybe one day I'll get around to moving more stuff over; if I have more people I want to interact with here that might be a reason.

But for a while I've been focusing on my side blog tori_reviews where I review TV shows. In 2020 I focused on short run series, and this year is shaping up to be Star War/Marvel heavy; in fact I just posted my preparatory thoughts on Clone Wars, so if you want to come with me on that journey it's a good time to join me. It would be nice if I wasn't always talking into the void...it just hasn't stopped me yet.

(I'm pretty sure I come off as sulky here, but who isn't a little sulky after this last year?)

I'm far from shy about my fandom opinions, so if there's anything you want to know go ahead and ask.

Hmm, once upon a time this was supposed to be my fic-journal, and I have debated over the years porting my livejournal over here. Instead it has languished for...going on seven years now, and the most I've done is added to my fic master post about things I didn't actually post here. I have pretty much set my tori_reviews self serving community for my TV reviewing of late, but some of it still ends up on lj.

But, for my grand return to posting anything on this journal, something between fic and a speculation post. Because the final season of Agents of SHIELD is coming and I have plenty of thoughts I've been trying to write about since the end of s6. So I opted to do it through the 1sentence structure to just throw it out there.


Fandom: Agents of SHIELD
Pairing: May/Coulson (both LMD and real versions)
Theme set: Gamma
Title: Can't Compete with Yesterday
Rating: PG-13 for a lot of talk of death and grief
Warning[s]: Spoilers through AoS s6 and the concepts for s7, wild speculation, not beta read, not a single continuity just a collection of potential moments. And lots of run-on sentences.
Notes: ( I tend to ramble in notes )

( Can't Compete with Yesterday )

I know this is a really shallow thing to complain about, but well here’s the shallowest side-effect of the current pandemic. This stuff has so permeated my mind that I find when I’m writing I have a heightened awareness of how the characters are not practicing proper precautions. Not just feeling a little weird about having them close to each other (in some ways my usual hang-ups about too much human contact were already something I had to work around, or identify with a character who’s wary of casual touch too) but if they want to order takeout or go out for coffee or have someone over from out of town.

I’m not even quite this hung-up about things for myself (at least not yet) since I live in an area that hasn’t been hit badly so far and neither I nor the rest of the house go out much anyway (we practiced social distancing before it was cool). But I find myself dwelling on how long it might have been since characters last washed their hands if they’re going to getting close to each other. And I set a lot of stock in hand holding, shoulder touching, and forehead kissing (yes even when I may or may not be trying to write porn) and right now none of it seems like proper social distancing.

Thus ends the pettiest objection to Coronavirus anyone has had. Best of luck to anyone with far more to worry about and stay safe out there, everyone.

Also I haven’t been posting here much, but if you happen to miss my various TV opinions I’ve been posting over on DW at tori_reviews.

So it's been a while, let's see how this goes.

Obviously I've gotten away from my reviewing this season; then again the only things I might review are Arrow and The Good Place and neither have inspired me to write much about them so far. The Good Place is as good as ever; and Arrow has been pretty solid and mostly enjoyable this season.

But there is something about this last episode I felt inclined to talk about, so the likely brief return of the reaction post.

( Arrow 8x06 )

Since I don’t really know if anyone is still even reading the thoughts I put out there, I have developed a habit of writing up my thoughts and sitting on them for a few days before I actually post them. So I wrote this up a couple days ago after the Spiderman drama started up, and some of it might already not apply, but I might as well throw it out there.

Just a few Marvel/MCU thoughts, partly brought by the Spiderman stuff going on, and partly stuff I’ve been thinking on for a bit.

( MCU/Spiderman )

( Also AoS )

( Brief FFH )

So...I appear to have wrong abut everything. I made a whole lot of speculation and basically none of it came to pass.

Long take to follow eventually, when I can figure out much to say about this; I don't know how much speculation I'll even attempt at this point.