The return of squee

I am getting all psyched up about fandom again. Maybe it's just that everybody's getting psyched for the SV season premiere? (And the -- wait, not the WB, who is it now? Hardly matters, since I don't have TV at home anyway -- anyhoo, whoever it is, they've been doing some tasty promos.) But I'm actually quite jazzed about a new season of SV, and getting to download episodes and talk about them as they happen, instead of catching up on it all during the summer. I've even been working on a fic, another of the 69 Love Songs. So far I'm having a lot of fun with voice, and I love the scenario (which I didn't come up with, it was given to me by someone else), but plot is proving hard to find. Also I'm working on it muy slowly, since I'm banging away at my actual book and that has to take precedence, but it's fun to think about nonetheless. If I continue to get nowhere with plot I might post what I've got so far and ask for suggestions. But I'll see if I can move it further along first. Maybe it will all come together.

Meanwhile my appreciation for vids has taken a dramatic leap forward, thanks to supacat's new masterpiece, Pretty When You Cry. It's gorgeous and hot and thought-provoking, and has gotten me all excited about clex again. Pre-rift, post-rift, the intensity of their connection is always there, and always combustible, and it makes me go all fangirly.

And on a totally different front, over the weekend kassrachel showed me the first 4 episodes of BtVS, which I'd never seen before. (Had only seen the musical episode -- which, as you might imagine, made no sense at all without knowing who anybody was.) I'm not in love with it at this point, but am enjoying it. I'm told it gets less cheesy once it gets its mythology established, and that'll be good; meanwhile, SV has softened me up, so I have a much higher cheese tolerance than I used to. It's kind of amazing to me how closely SV was based on the BtVS model: the inhumanly powerful protagonist who fights supernaturally nasty thingies and can't tell people about it; the protagonist's two friends, one male (useful for comic relief and/or added muscle), one female (and brainy and able to access pretty much any information on her computer); the combination horror/myth-building/high-school-soap-opera format; etc. I'm also noticing what I guess are Joss Whedon's trademarks, visible to me because I swooned for Firefly before ever watching Buffy. He's really, really fond of setting up stock cliché situations and then undercutting them. Also, Xander is this series's Wash.

Really I'd like to just spend my time watching fannish TV and then take a few hours to work on a fic and/or squee online before flopping on the couch to watch more TV. But I'm actually kind of invested in this work thing, which eats up most of my time and nearly all my energy. Which is good, and in the larger sense that's how I'd want it. But work is hard and playing is way more fun. 'Twas always thus, I suppose.