Snowflake Challenge - Day 4

[alexcat]

Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Goals! Wow! Getting through the day is hard enough some days but here are some goals for this year:

1. Make some new fandom friends - maybe in the MCU fandom. BUT any fandom friends are also good! If we look compatible, feel free to friend me!

2. Write some longer stories. I have some ideas...

3. Hopefully I can get my scary surgery done this year. I need to lose about 15 more pounds. Argh!

4. Read some books. I write so much that I don't have time for reading.

Comments

[sjh2009]

Those sound like some great goals! Good luck for the surgery, yes it would be good to be able to get surgery out of the way, hugs x

You might have an issue with 2 and 4 though, lol.

[alexcat]

I used to read hundreds of books but now I write hundreds of stories.

[kingstoken]

When It comes to reading you could read a little bit every day, I not even talking about a chapter, it could be just a couple of paragraphs, and just mark where you left off. When I was going through a reading slump a few years ago that is how I read, and eventually a got through an entire 500 page book that way.

Good luck with all your goals.

[alexcat]

I think you're right. I just need to set some reading time aside each day.

[analise010]

Best of luck and I wish you an easy recovery if you get the scary surgery.

[alexcat]

Thank you! :)

[jedi_of_urth]

I can't remember if we used to know each other or if I just remember seeing your name somewhere, or I could be confusing you with someone else; but I like talking about the MCU, though I'm pretty sure you and I have very different interests within it.

[alexcat]

Babylon 5 is where I think we've seen each other. I do the Universe Today updates here and LJ.

I've done the Marvel bang a few times. What MCU interest is your thing?

[jedi_of_urth]

(headesk) Duh, that's why your name is familiar, I only see it every time I check my lj feed. I had B5 in mind for why I knew you but I could not remember a specific interaction or see you on my f-list. That completely explains it.

I'm mainly hanging out over here talking about Agents of SHIELD. I enjoy most of the movies, but I have less fannish interest in them than I do with AoS. But take you're icon; I'm Tony/Pepper all the way and Steve/dying in a fire (though I would have grudgingly said Steve/Bucky until Endgame).

[alexcat]

I liked AoS until the framework thing and we just had to quite then. I yelled at the show and grew to hate it. I'd still love to see the rest though. I like Coulson.

[jedi_of_urth]

I didn't like the Framework arc at the time either. The first two segments of s4 had been so good and then it just sidetracked into this fake world and I wasn't into it. But I do like it a lot more on rewatch, judging it as its own little mini-story it's a fairly good one; still isn't as good as the rest of the season.

I personally found s5 to be frustrating too, and while it improves some on rewatch (especially knowing that at least one of the things that really annoyed me through the season manages to pull at least that ass out of the fire) I still wouldn't call it great.

On the other hand I loved s6...at the time. Even as it was airing I could tell that if it didn't stick the landing it was going to fall a bit in my ranking; and it didn't exactly stick the landing. How much it fell on it's face depends on whether I consider season 6&7 to be one continuous story. S6 has a stutter of an ending, not too bad but not as good as I'd have liked, s7 falls flat on its face and sucks donkey balls. I'm kind of pissed about it.

I've long since decided that about 75% of my interest in Coulson is because May loves Coulson (I do also enjoy his relationships with Fitz, Simmons, and Yoyo; that he keeps hanging around Daisy earns negative caring points) and I'm here for the May/Coulson times.

[alexcat]

I might give the rest a try eventually. Have you seen Meng-Na Wen on The Mandalorian? She was fantastic!

[jedi_of_urth]

I've got got some Star Wars to catch up on this year; I'm starting with Clone Wars, then I'll probably do Rebels, then I plan to get to Mandalorian. I'll work the movies in somewhere since I haven't really watched them in a while even though I used to be able to basically recite the OT from memory as a kid. Most of my currently airing shows ended in the last year or two, plus with production of new things being stalled by COVID, this seemed like a fine time to take on a big catch up project. But yeah, the presence of Ming-Na Wen is one of the things that has me looking forward to getting that far.

[alexcat]

The Mandalorian is good, odd but good.

I really liked Rebels and Clone Wars. Clone Wars really fills the gaps in the prequel trilogy. I really liked Rogue One and liked solo but the new trilogy - OMG, what a train wreck.

[jedi_of_urth]

I liked TFA at the time, but I did sort of feel about it the same way I did about the JJ's first Star Trek movie (Into Darkness was just bad idea on top of bad idea); I can enjoy them as I watch them but I'm not really left with anything I deeply care about. TLJ...yeah, that one's just a mess. TRoS was somewhere in the middle of those two reactions, there were moments I could really enjoy in the moment but it was such an obvious mess trying to stitch things together. And definitely as a trilogy it does not work at all.

I haven't watched Rogue One since it came out, but I remember enjoying it decently; and Solo was not as bad I thought it would be. Part of why I didn't seek out Mandalorian was because 'not as bad as it could have been' has been about the best I can say about this era of the franchise.

[cornerofmadness]

Good luck

[alexcat]

Thanks!

[why_me_why_not]

Good luck with your goals!

I haven't looked at the rest of your journal yet, but one way that I upped my reading for last year was audiobooks. If you have a commute or are able to listen while you're cleaning house or walking or anything like that, it's good! I found I really like audiobooks when they're nonfiction read by the author. (I just finished Obama's book on audiobook. My fave audiobook for 2020 was The Liberal Redneck Manifesto, because it was just like an extra long podcast.)