I know that feeling. The only reason I will have to get to it soonish is that I need birthday cards and the next person I'll be sending one to has her birthday on the 13th. So, there's at least something forcing my hand :)
When I read the books I was already well on the way, having started with all the cooking magazines I'd collected before turning towards all the notes from school and university that I never threw away. I started when I moved to Munich and I think I was at it off and on for 3-4 years, coming and going between categories and re-doing it regularly. Aside from thanking everything I put away, the one thing I definitely do not and will never do is cleaning out my purse every time I come home. I know I will never remember to put stuff back in the next morning and I use the same one every single day.
I know that feeling about fandom being so much more public. On one side, I think it did good in getting some things to be shown in shows because there's clearly a viewer base present (e.g. gay characters/relationships), but it also makes things feel very much like fan services or produces playing purposefully with the emotions of their viewers, both good and bad. I've come across a couple of youtube videos that look at some of the movies/tv shows for queer baiting and other things.
And I get you so very much on feeling like a fandom oldie. I get that feeling more and more. I'd have to check how old exactly that I was when I first joined fandom, but I'd say that it was somewhere between 14 and 16 because I can place my first English story in 2001 and the first German one in 2000 I think. And I know I was reading plenty of story before that.
I couldn't tell you what the last real book was that I read, but it was possibly Good Omens which I read after watching the series. And while I didn't think it took from experiencing either one, I really would suggest reading the book first (or listening to the audiobook) because it will make you appreciate the additions more (and possibly mourn what was cut). I also simply adored David Tennant as Crowley.
Maybe our brains just think the same way and it's readable to us :) I've certainly changed thoughts mid sentence and whenever I come upon it and re-read it (when replying to further comments or re-reading stories I've written because I do it there as well) I keep getting stuck on those sentences and wonder what I was thinking. :D
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When I read the books I was already well on the way, having started with all the cooking magazines I'd collected before turning towards all the notes from school and university that I never threw away. I started when I moved to Munich and I think I was at it off and on for 3-4 years, coming and going between categories and re-doing it regularly. Aside from thanking everything I put away, the one thing I definitely do not and will never do is cleaning out my purse every time I come home. I know I will never remember to put stuff back in the next morning and I use the same one every single day.
I know that feeling about fandom being so much more public. On one side, I think it did good in getting some things to be shown in shows because there's clearly a viewer base present (e.g. gay characters/relationships), but it also makes things feel very much like fan services or produces playing purposefully with the emotions of their viewers, both good and bad. I've come across a couple of youtube videos that look at some of the movies/tv shows for queer baiting and other things.
And I get you so very much on feeling like a fandom oldie. I get that feeling more and more. I'd have to check how old exactly that I was when I first joined fandom, but I'd say that it was somewhere between 14 and 16 because I can place my first English story in 2001 and the first German one in 2000 I think. And I know I was reading plenty of story before that.
I couldn't tell you what the last real book was that I read, but it was possibly Good Omens which I read after watching the series. And while I didn't think it took from experiencing either one, I really would suggest reading the book first (or listening to the audiobook) because it will make you appreciate the additions more (and possibly mourn what was cut).
I also simply adored David Tennant as Crowley.
Maybe our brains just think the same way and it's readable to us :) I've certainly changed thoughts mid sentence and whenever I come upon it and re-read it (when replying to further comments or re-reading stories I've written because I do it there as well) I keep getting stuck on those sentences and wonder what I was thinking. :D