life is a single skip for joy

→ Just saw this ( Misfits Season 3 Spoiler )

→ I signed up for a new prompt table at fc_smorgasbord here. Little known fact about me. Out of all of the prompt tables I've ever signed up for, I've never finished a single one. Not one! That's awful. I feel like such a failure, haha. I may try to add more fandoms to the table later, but for now I've just signed up for lost and the vampire diaries. We'll see how it goes.

→ I have to start my club vivid vid soon. If not yesterday. I haven't been able to work on it because I got the new computer and instead of taking two days to get it all set up like it should have taken me, it's taken me over a week. I think I've finally got it set up, but I am not holding my breath. I have never had so much trouble. And it's not the computer itself, I've just had a bunch of hang-ups, some my own fault and some just totally random things. Today is literally the first time I've woken up and had nothing to install or double-check or fix or augh. (And even saying that, I can think of a couple of things I could install!) Yeah, so today feels like the first day with this computer period. The first day I can just relax and do whatever it is I normally do. Sadly, it's a Sunday and I don't have much faith that I will get much done in a creative sense today. Too many chores and a messy room to boot. Ah, such is life.

→ The Vampire Diaries was back this week! I loved it but at the same time I felt kind of underwhelmed by it, haha. I won't spoil anybody but it's hard to live up to a six week hiatus. I mean, for real? It's April now, the last episode was in February. That's a long damn time to wait for something. ( spoilery bits )

→ I saw Hanna on Friday! I was super impressed. I won't get into any lengthy reviews but I will say I recommend it to everybody. When I first saw the trailer for this movie I really hoped that it was a book adaptation, but sadly that's not the case. It's a shame cause I think I'd really enjoy reading more about this story, more details and backstory, etc. I wasn't all that impressed with The Chemical Brothers score though, at times it worked and at times it didn't. But it didn't prevent me from enjoying it, which I did, immensely!

Answers to this meme:

far_to_nowhere asked: If you could kill any character from any tv show who would it be and why?
( i answered )

isis2015 asked: Have you ever had/have a show that you just enjoy(/ed) mindlessly, even if it's not very good or doesn't have much redeeming value, but you always just have fun watching it? If so, what? :)
( i answered )

turquoisetumult asked: Do you have a favorite character from Misfits? Why?
( i answered )

gottalovev asked: from all of your years in fandom, with every pairing you've loved, which is the one that is the dearest to your heart?
( i answered )

zelda_zee asked: Why Claire? Do you like her as written/acted or do you like the potential of the character as a fictional entity separate from the show (i.e. what you & others can do w/her in fic)?
( i answered )

ozmissage asked: Since I know you're watching it and I'm dying to hear your thoughts, what do you think of Being Human (the original) so far?
( i answered )

bachlava asked: Fandom of your choice: pick one character you feel got shafted the most by canon, and tell me what ending s/he would have gotten if you'd been in charge of things.
( i answered )

beerbad asked: Any shows you swore you would never watch but are now favorites?
( i answered )

Vidding.

I just finished up what is probably the longest vidding hiatus ever. Since finishing that, I've wanted to talk about it because it feels really monumental to me, but now that I'm here I'm not quite sure what to say.

I honestly don't know what kept me from vidding for so long. Only that I hadn't made a full-length vid in years. Years. I did a couple of really tiny mini-vidlets as an experiment last winter with mistojen, which was something -- but for me, even though I was happy with my work, it didn't really feel like it counted. In the end, the two of us didn't finishing our challenge. I am pretty sure the idea was to do at least two more. I don't remember the deal. Only that she made three and I only made two.

*shame*

I knew I was ready to be back to vidding because I did sign up for festivids this year and I had no doubt in my mind that I was going to be able to complete the project. I had a confidence that I would have never had this time last year and I have no idea where it came from. I pretty much only picked movies from the list of fandoms (for, the less amount of source footage the better) and just knew it would be something I could handle. It was going to be my "welcome back" tour. I had no expectations that I would make another video in the interim, but surprising myself and everyone else, I did.

It was definitely one of those "inspired" moments. Where you just kind of know. I took at least a day or two to think about it before daring to open up Vegas. But I eventually did and in the end came away accomplishing something that I haven't been able to accomplish in years. It feels really good, but I have no delusions about whether or not this will continue. The only thing I know for sure is that I will be finishing my festivids contribution. That's never been a question. But after that? Who knows.

Has anyone else had a hiatus from vidding that's lasted a particularly long time? Or maybe not even vidding. Maybe writing or graphic-making? What kept you away? What brought you back? Was it inspiration or just the right fandom at the right time?

I honestly can't put my finger on the answers to any of that. I think, in the end though, despite whatever kept me from vidding at the start, it was ultimately fear that kept me from coming back to it for so long. Or as J. Smooth once put it, the "little hater." I think I had finally gotten so far away from it that maybe the fear had finally gone.

I'm crossing my finger that it lasts.

Anyway, in case you're interested and if you missed it, here's MY FIRST VID IN THREE YEARS. It's to the E4 UK show Misfits, which is one of my current obsessions.

Tongue Tied, Iwan Rheon

I have too much to talk about. Two new shows I've been watching lately are Misfits and Lost Girl and I'm really loving both of them and I want to talk about them but I feel so weird talking about a show as a whole instead of episode reviews, but I will just have to try because I feel like I haven't been sharing things with you guys and that's unfair and uncool. *nods*

( misfits up to 2.05 )

ETA, cause I can:

No idea who made this unfortunately.

...Lost Girl later!

( so, i started watching misfits and this is a monster picspam -- spoilers for 2.03 & 2.04 )

This is for gigglemonster who got me to watch the show.