Meeeeme!

[motetus]

1. Your main fandom of the year?

I have two! Some time this year I decided to go from occasionally reading Inception fic when I run out of new Eagle fic, to falling in love with the characters throwing myself into the fandom several years too late. But I have not abandoned Eagle and still have a long, long list of ideas and sketches I intend to finish, although I guess I'm drifting away from Esca/Marcus and more towards Cottia/Esca/Marcus and film/bookverse gen and minor characters.

2. Your favourite film you watched this year?

The Dark Knight Rises! I don't care that it had all sorts of ridiculous plot holes, I fucking loved every second of it, and it made me sob my eyes out all through the last 30 minutes. Other films I really enjoyed this year were The Grey, Lawless and Looper, and I swear there were actually reasons I liked them aside from Guys I Fancy Star In 'Em.

3. Your favourite book read this year?

I am ashamed to say I have not read that many books this year - what I did read was mostly Sutcliff. The Shining Company was probably my favourite, and I hope more people will have read that by the next Sutcliff Swap!

4. Your favourite album or song to listen to this year?

I don't think I have one - I usually listen to film soundtracks, classical, and things I'm far too embarassed to list in public.

5. Your favourite TV show of the year?

I have watched lots of TV this year! My favourite was the Borgias for that amazing second half of the season and Micheletto, but I also enjoyed Homeland, Game of Thrones, Fresh Meat (everyone should watch this! It is the best university comedy ever), Downton Abbey (apparantly I am the only one not upset by Matthew's death, because I found him a dull, irritating drip. Now kill off Mr Bates, writers!
), and as much as I didn't care for most of series 5 of Merlin and what they did to Morgana, I did approve of the magic reveal.

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

Downton Abbey, although I don't have the urge to read a huge amount of fic in it. I am happy enough sitting in my corner quietly shipping Branson/Sybil/Gwen and Sybil/Gwen. Although one of my New Year Resolutions is to finally get started on that Violet/Isobel drawing...

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

Going to be unoriginal and say the dwindling number of people left in Eagle fandom, although I am slightly less sad about this than other people seem to be because my three favourite authors, carmarthen, sineala and isiscolo, are still active and regularly producing awesome fic. Other things I am disappointed in are how quiet Inception fandom is now I've joined (and how awkward it is trying to make friends once things like discussions and friending memes are over and the general demise of LJ), and that TDKR fandom is really tiny and consists mostly of Bane/Blake, and not the pairings and gen backstories I want. Good heavens, I am a whiny entitled person.

8. Your fandom boyfriend of the year?

Tom Hardy, you stupid, sexy, bearded creature. Well, apart from his character in This Means War, because he wasn't enough of a bastard to be attractive to me. I should probably be worried about that.

9. Your fandom girlfriend of the year?

Caterina Sforza from The Borgias. The armour and the Ten More Sons scene... <3

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

Going to see The Dark Knight Rises with goblin_dae, because Batman Begins was how we first met each other and so it was wonderful seeing the final part of the trilogy with her by my side to claw frantically at when a certain character from Begins turned up for his 10-second role. Other awesome fandom things was having demon_rum, seascribe and ninja_orange over to visit during their European travels, successfully (I think?) running the Eagle Reverse Bang, ending up working with authors I love in both the Eagle and Inception regular and reverse bangs, and taking part in sutcliff_swap (and getting lovely angsty Alexios/Cunorix fic that I'd craved for ages!).

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?

Well... I still don't miss Star Wars that much (though all the fusions with other fandoms, yes, give me), and TDKR made me care more about Ducard and his wife than Bruce/Ducard, so uh, I guess I have none?

12. The fandom you haven't tried yet, but want to?

I don't really get into fandoms that way. Part of me is hoping that I fall for the new Star Trek because it could be fun to be in a large, active fandom for once, but I suspect my aversion to Chris Pine's face makes that quite unlikely.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the coming year?

Is Mad Max: Fury Road coming out in 2013? If so, THAT.


Non-fandomwise, 2012 has been pretty awesome. In January I had the most stressful weekend ever after the PhD interview for the one and only project I'd applied for, but I ended up getting it and then immediately spending the whole evening literally sobbing with relief. A few months later I finished my Masters thesis and my hated job, said goodbye and good riddance to Manchester Uni, packed everything up and moved to Glasgow where I now have a huge Victorian flat with dodgy heating in a lovely area of the West End, friends nearby to have a social life with, a challenging but fun project that doesn't make me want to burn down the lab every week, a wonderfully supportive supervisor and several PhD siblings I'm very fond of. If 2013 is half as good, I'll be very happy!

Also, thank you to everyone who sent me birthday emails, PMs and things - you make me feel terrible about regularly forgetting every else's birthdays (including those of my parents, my best friends, and on several awkward occasions, the Wife's), but all your messages were very much appreciated. Here is a photo of what I looked like on my birthday:

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Sybil/Branson/Gwen yes!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

S1 Sybil/Branson/Gwen will always be my happy place! Maybe your picnic story could convince me to draw more of them, hint hint hint. ;)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

My evil scheme is complete! :p

Right now I'm planning on plunking them in a bluebell glade. And Branson has actually been driving them someplace, so it's totally reasonable that he would be wearing his uniform!

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Awwww, what a cute kid! So many great changes in your life! Yay!! Here's to an awesome 2013!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

It went downhill from then.

Thank you very much! I hope yours is awesome too!

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

and more towards Cottia/Esca/Marcus
Yessssssssssss. I whole-heartedly encourage this development.

I have nothing else to contribute.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Once I finish the Inception Big Bang, it will be FINISH THAT WILD WEST GUNSLINGER OT3 DRAWING THAT'S BEEN SITTING IN MY WIP FOLDER FOR MONTHS time! :D

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Yay! I am glad you are still in Eagle fandom with us, and I swear to God that this year I am posting Army, if only so you can finally post the art.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

I am glad you are too! I can't leave Eagle fandom, the Inception one will get sick of all the Roman AUs if I do.

I am probably going to redo the Army AU this year, because I really want to send you angry emails cursing your choice of armour again. And then you will HAVE to post it, before I'm forced to redo it a third time. :D

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, no, you don't need to redo it! I know how long it took you to draw all the chain mail!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Yes I do! A year and a half is enough time to a) improve my technique considerably, and b) spot everything wrong with it (like lighting, where the fuck is the lighting supposed to be coming from?), so it's getting redone. Shush.

Besides, current plan for redo is to make canvas much bigger and include more of the horsies. You like horsies, right? Excellent.

[sineala.livejournal.com]

...horsies!

(Curses, you have found my weakness!)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you for the shout-out, and I'm glad you're feeling Sutcliffy!

Also, we're just about to watch the Borgias!

[motetus.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoy the Borgias! It can be a little silly at times and it is not quite the quality of Rome (but few things are), but I still think it's great.

(also, if you find yourself thinking "is that meant to be a little homoerotic?" during the whipping scene in the first (or second?) episode, the answer is yes, very much so)

[tracy7307.livejournal.com]

Branson/Sybil/Gwen I APPROVE

Also, what a cute kid you were! Happy belated bday <333

Happy New Year! I hope you find continued happiness and lab-goodness this year.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

GOOD GIRL. :D

Thank you, and I hope you have a happy (and much less stressful!) 2013!

[asya-ana.livejournal.com]

Congrats on all your RL accomplishments! I'm so happy for you. And of course, in 2013, if you are here for TDKR (love Bane, though, mostly) and Inception, then I WILL BE HERE FOR YOU.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Hell yes, I will still be here for Inception and TDKR - once I have my claws in a fandom I find it very very hard to let go. And I like Bane too! I just cannot ship him with Blake (who I also like very much too), but I will eat up anything about him and Talia and Ra's al Ghul and Basard. New Years Resolution - draw more TDKR fanart!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

But I have not abandoned Eagle and still have a long, long list of ideas and sketches I intend to finish, although I guess I'm drifting away from Esca/Marcus and more towards Cottia/Esca/Marcus and film/bookverse gen and minor characters.

\o/ Hieronimianussssssss

I should catch up on Borgias. We watched a couple episodes and liked it, and I didn't hate the costumes, but then I got distracted.

I am glad graduate work has been so good to you. There's no substitute for a wonderful and supportive lab.

[motetus.livejournal.com]

Hieronimianus WILL BE DONE THIS YEAR. I mean it, this time. Along with all the other things that I talk about but never do because other things push their way to the front of the queue...

Yes, get back to the Borgias, I need people to squee about it with!

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D I GUESS THAT MEANS I'LL HAVE TO WRITE A STORY TO GO WITH IT. CAN THEY BE PLAYING SENET AND MAKING EYES AT EACH OTHER OVER THE BOARD?

I just haven't been watching TV at all. :-(

[motetus.livejournal.com]

BOLLOCKS, NOW I SUPPOSE I HAVE TO LOOK UP HOW SENET WORKS.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

NOT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.

[barking-cats.livejournal.com]

I like the bow, it gives a nice flowery touch that one wouldn't expect on you!