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I dreamed of Number Five from The Umbrella Academy a fortnight ago, and now I'm rewatching S1 & S2 and my brain is being eaten alive by feels. I haven't seen S3-4 yet, and since I have heard many terrible things about the series finale, I'm a bit worried, but I'll definitely at least watch S3 once I'm done with my rewatch.
It's been quite a few months since I was really obsessing over a piece of media, and it feels so nice to have proper blorbos again!
I love Five a normal amount. I'm surprised Aidan Gallagher isn't utterly ripped from carrying the whole show. What a fantastic character, and such stunning acting skills from someone who was literally 14 when they started filming for S1. What. When I was 14, I was failing math class and starting to write Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction.
Anyway, so naturally, I've been perusing AO3 and reading everything I can get my hands on. Normally I'm not that picky about fanfics, but it seems that with Five-centric stuff, I am! So far, I have found only one series I like, and the rest was kind of meh. That never happens to me. But I constantly find myself going, 'He would not say this. There's no way he'd do that. He would not fucking say that.' Ha. I can see where this is going. I'm gonna dig up my old post-S2 AU fic that I started writing in 2020.
My writing server is doing a July camp event! It's a lot of fun! We all get points for completing different tasks each day (start a new scene; edit one page; reach your daily word count goal, etc.) and then get to play around on a "world map" Excel sheet based on which things we did. It's just a large expanse of green squares, and when we've got enough points we can set up a tent, till fields, grow trees, and such--by inserting emojis into the green squares. It's kind of Stardew Valley-like, but with writing. I love everything about this, Our admins are amazing at coming up with this stuff.
My July writing has started slow, on account of all the TUA fangirling. Also, we had our first big heatwave this week. 39 degrees (102F), in houses built to store and preserve heat, with no AC! It was... not fun. But I had a Discord date with my girlfriend on Wednesday, which made the so-far hottest day of the year infinitely better!
It's been quite a few months since I was really obsessing over a piece of media, and it feels so nice to have proper blorbos again!
I love Five a normal amount. I'm surprised Aidan Gallagher isn't utterly ripped from carrying the whole show. What a fantastic character, and such stunning acting skills from someone who was literally 14 when they started filming for S1. What. When I was 14, I was failing math class and starting to write Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction.
Anyway, so naturally, I've been perusing AO3 and reading everything I can get my hands on. Normally I'm not that picky about fanfics, but it seems that with Five-centric stuff, I am! So far, I have found only one series I like, and the rest was kind of meh. That never happens to me. But I constantly find myself going, 'He would not say this. There's no way he'd do that. He would not fucking say that.' Ha. I can see where this is going. I'm gonna dig up my old post-S2 AU fic that I started writing in 2020.
My writing server is doing a July camp event! It's a lot of fun! We all get points for completing different tasks each day (start a new scene; edit one page; reach your daily word count goal, etc.) and then get to play around on a "world map" Excel sheet based on which things we did. It's just a large expanse of green squares, and when we've got enough points we can set up a tent, till fields, grow trees, and such--by inserting emojis into the green squares. It's kind of Stardew Valley-like, but with writing. I love everything about this, Our admins are amazing at coming up with this stuff.
My July writing has started slow, on account of all the TUA fangirling. Also, we had our first big heatwave this week. 39 degrees (102F), in houses built to store and preserve heat, with no AC! It was... not fun. But I had a Discord date with my girlfriend on Wednesday, which made the so-far hottest day of the year infinitely better!
