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[rusty_halo]

Saw Common Rotation last night at psubrat's house. They were excellent, and it was very kind of psubrat to have everyone over. (Thank you, psubrat, for having us! And thank you chenanceou and jerrymcl89 for bringing me and soulmate815 along with you.)

It feels very strange (in a good way) to be sitting on someone's living room floor with a bunch of your friends, watching a band play immediately in front of you. Especially when one of those band members played a sociopathic sexbot builder on a show you used to be obsessed with. It's just ... a surreal experience.

Tons of people were there; it was wonderful to see everyone. I miss them all already. I'm very glad to know that, between WriterCon, Vulkon Oakland, DragonCon, and London, I'll be seeing nearly everyone again before the year is over.

(The car ride totally killed me, unfortunately, so I'm sorry if I wasn't great company. I'm especially sorry for ignoring everyone on the car ride back, but I really just had to zone out and pretend I was somewhere else.)

I feel so utterly dead today, but I'm going to try to see Common Ro again tonight anyway. I'm going to guzzle a couple of those energy drinks and then rush from work to catch the LIRR out to this park in Long Island where they're playing free. (Nice thing about the LIRR? Trains usually don't make me motion sick.) I just need an excuse to have road-trip adventure type things, y'know? And Common Ro is as good an excuse as any....

And, off topic, have I mentioned how annoyed I am that my brain insists on Sirius Black as a new obsession? It's really not good. I mean, yes, fascinating character, and wonderful fic, and a large fan community ... but ... I spend the whole time on the verge of tears! And the littlest things are liable to push me over the edge -- like the icon on this post [ETA: the icon on this page, top left, labelled "harry>>death>>unknown"] as I was scanning my friends list. Everyone at work must think I have really bad allergies, as I sit at work with tears periodically streaming down my face throughout the day.

(It's weird, how emotional I get over fictional things. It's not that I can't separate fantasy from reality. It's more like, when I get upset about some sad thing that happened in fiction, I always think about how, given all of human history, similar horrible things have happened to real people. And it's so sad and unfair!!! And so on.)

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[wickedprincess3.livejournal.com]

Ack I'm sorry :(
Though yeah I get the emotional attachment to characters thing, it's weird but oh I do it (I caught the end of a s2 Buffy ep this morning with Cordelia in it and started tearing up and had to change the channel *fast*)

I also just saw your post from the other day about liking Sirius and R/S. I am a Sirius fangirl far more than Remus (I like him as well but Sirius is in my top three "please don't make me chose one" characters with Harry and Ginny). I think he's a fascinating character. Someone that came from such a horrid family and used to be such a horrid person that does go through the horrors of Azkaban and changes and there is so much there.

I really thought Hagrid was the one that was going to die in OotP, he was at that point useless and more hindrance than help (I like Hagrid and get that he serves a storytelling purpose but his death would have made more sense for me).

[soundingsea.livejournal.com]

So, so jealous of your living room CoRo experience. Surreal, sure, but sounds like a blast.


*listens to albums; hopes they will be in NYC this fall when I go visit my sister some time in Sept or so*

[chenanceou.livejournal.com]

I couldn't see the icon - I guess it was friends locked.
:(

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

I think its a release to get upset about stuff in fiction, because it is (only) fiction, and you have no power over it. If you (one) got upset about all the really bad things in the world today, the ones you can do very little about, it just makes you upset AND frustrated that you can't stop it, because, its in the real world, and it should be solvable, but you can't still can't usually do much about it.

[rockgoddes.livejournal.com]

Twas so lovely to see you yesterday...I do so love spending time with you, you're just absolutely one of my favourite people to hang with. I love the way your mind works, even if we don't always agree, and I love the way you express yourself.

This is my way of saying: Dragon*Con can't get here fast enough!