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[bedlamsbard]

Poking in to say a couple of things:

1. I am alive! My dissertation is due tomorrow, so I'm trying to get it all finished tonight so that tomorrow all I have to do is print it and then take it to get bound and hope that not everyone else in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History isn't there at the same time. Or all the other MA students from non-arch departments, I don't know how many other master's programs have the same deadline as the SAAH.

1a. I'm about to write my conclusion, but today I was mostly doing edits, which proceeded more or less like my fic edits do: lots at the top, fewer at the bottom as I start to lose the will to live. Given that I still have to write my conclusion, I just hope I don't end it like I usually end chapters of Dust: with something super-creepy and/or some murder and/or a cliffhanger and a pithy comment. Well, the pithy comment I'm good with, the other three, not so much.

2. I've been seriously mainlining TV, since I've gone through two and a half seasons of Teen Wolf in about four days and went through five seasons of Sons of Anarchy in under two weeks right before that. Let's talk about tone and genre switches!

2a. Possibly a post on how I am confused and appalled and weirdly fascinated but mostly confused and appalled by Teen Wolf canon, fanon, and fandom is coming up.

3. I am flying back to the States on Friday. After I finish my diss I'm going to be packing like a maniac, since I have to ship all my belongings home and then figure out how to get rid of the rest of my stuff. YEP JUST MOVING COUNTRIES AGAIN.

4. I finally took my tendonitis meds AND LO THEY WORKED OH THANK GOD that I'm not writing my diss in screaming pain.

5. I'm currently living with constant low-grade anxiety for various reasons (the dissertation and the move are two of them), so that's awesome.

6. I'm hoping I can get everything done by 2 am so that I can actually get up in the morning for a change; the past couple days I've been up at around noon. Well, not yesterday, since aella_irene came over, but today and the day before, definitely.

*flees*

Comments

[darklyndsea]

1a. what do you mean super-creepy things/murder wouldn't be a good ending?! Isn't that what, like, 99% of history is about? Should be easy to work in there... :P

2. is Teen Wolf available for free somewhere? It seems like one of those shows that I would watch and wonder if fandom people were watching the same show as me. And/or I would start wanting to play a drinking game. Either way...good background for spinning.

3. moving continents seems like something that would be impossible. My brain literally cannot comprehend it. Good luck!

4. woohoo! *throws confetti*

[bedlamsbard]

I watched it under, ah, dubious circumstances, so I don't actually know. You'll be glad to know that there is actually a Teen Wolf drinking game, though! (There's a surprising amount of shirtlessness in this show.)

[darklyndsea]

Dubious circumstances are normally the best ones.

Honestly, I probably won't be surprised by any amount of shirtlessness when I finally watch it(unless it's like, they go to school and everybody including the teachers are shirtless in class or something). Werewolves and shirts (and teen shows and shirts) seem to not like each other too much.

[bedlamsbard]

There's a scene where one character makes another character take off and put on various too small shirts over and over again to coax another character into doing something for him. And there are a lot of scenes in the boys' locker room.

And then there's a scene where a character is shirtless and tortured and also...licked.

[darklyndsea]

Okay, that's very slightly more shirtless than I was expecting. But not to a huge degree.

I'm not sure what it says about me (or at least my watching/reading habits) that I'm not really surprised by licking in torture scenes.

[bedlamsbard]

The terrifying thing about this show is that this parody is actually 100% accurate.

[darklyndsea]

On second thought, I'm not sure my liver could take watching that...(and not sure I could watch it without drinking)

[bedlamsbard]

I watched it when dissertation crazy and I'm not sure I could have done so when not. I do like the second season a lot, though, despite the fact that there's one plotline that's equal parts exquisitely and appallingly done. I CAN'T DECIDE WHICH. Which is my whole problem with Teen Wolf.

[darklyndsea]

Hmm...sounds like I'll have to figure out something to look forward to before I watch it. (I do this all the time with things I expect will be awful...you know, you go in to watch Tron for the glowiness and not for any other reason, and magically it's an awesome movie.) Too bad shirtlessness is more a reason to not watch things than to watch them, for me, because that sounds like the reason a lot of people watch it.

[bedlamsbard]

Maybe surprisingly, Teen Wolf has some really, really awesome female characters in it, who are friends and not antagonists, who love each other, and who have plots that aren't centered around the male characters in the series. (I mean, you may not think this initially through about the first 3/4 of S1, but! They really do.) And there are, also surprisingly, the best parent-child relationships I've seen on my television screen possibly ever. YMMV, but the show is worth watching for those two things alone.

[heliopausa]

Terrific re the meds!!

I love the thought of the super-creepy end to the diss, but, mmm...maybe better not harrow up the feelings of the examiners too much!

Cheers and good wishes for that and for the move. :)

[bedlamsbard]

Thanks!