sundries

[rm]

Unlike after Day 4, things do look better in the morning after Day 5, but possibly only because there's no new info to absorb, I can finally just sit with this.

Coming at you, hopefully tonight: an audio version of the story Kali and I posted last night amd a post Golden Age fic from me.

If you have reaction stuff re: Torchwood you particularly want me to see, you need to point me to it, as I'm feeling overwhelmed by everyone's emotions and no longer feel like I can click on every link, at least not for a few days.

Yes, I'll be at the DWNY thing on Sunday. I want to see other people react in real time. I want to put myself through at least some parts of it again and lord, I want to do it with a proper drink in my hand.

I've not gotten dressed yet, because I'm afraid I'm going to go into my closet, with all my dress shirts lined up in a neat little row and my coat and my suit all wedged in there (it's NYC, we have no closet space and everything gets wedged together) and burst into tears.

ALso people, wow, I've never seen anything like this whole crazy experience. Anyone know what the overnight numbers were for days 4 and 5?

Meanwhile, today I have things like work, and the farmer's market and tending to plants and going to see Public Enemies with Patty.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Really. (oh god, crying, AGAIN). This has been a very weird complicated experience.

I did read your post just now, and I sort of can't react yet, because it's taking so much for me to be zen with what the show brought us. I do, as you know, seem to have different feelings about the queer issue than a lot of other people of all sexual orientations. RTD tries to write gay people as an ordinary part of his universe and as such, when they die, they still die in the lens of our current culture -- and that implies things -- as opposed to the lens he would wish (just another person). I do agree with some of the unthinking racefail, but I know that I have a very different feling listening to Golden Age now in light of S3, because I do feel like it's meant to be a comment on race and class and relies on the audience to be smart (perhaps smarter than it is collectively at this viewership scale).

I really, really hope you'll wind up sticking around, at least for the very real, still going strong cranky island of misfit toys Torchwood that many people are still writing instead of or in addition to material based out of S3.

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I should clarify in my post: not planning on leaving fandom, yet. For one thing, I have a long Jackstory in progress that is even more urgent to me now, and that benefits from the new canon.

But I do not think I can ever have the same investment in the canon story again, and frankly I don't want to watch the show without Ianto. I am, however, very interested to see what happens to Jack in DW, although mortally afraid of more immortal manpain.