Here goes something...

Well, this is it. I've created my Catch-Up FList filter. I haven't checked up on LJ-land since shortly after Easter. The filter really only takes out the non-people journals (Whedonesque, crossover_news, etc.), but that makes all the difference since communities and news feeds tend to be way spammier than individuals.

Let's see, what been happening to me lately...

The Day of Silence went well. There were relatively few of us doing the protest thing (we were pretty last-minute as far as organization goes), but we were seen, questions were asked occasionally (which is kind of funny, considering the vow of silence) and as far as I'm aware nobody was threatened with bodily harm.

(Got to the end (beginning?) of FList. skip=275 with filter, which is good, but I can only get as far back as the 13th. Which means there's still about a week I'll have missed. Crap.)

I've gotten back into comics. I'd stopped reading Nightwing during the Bruce Wayne: Murderer arc, and drifted away from the rest of the current titles I'd been into (X-Men, Hellblazer, Fables) about two years ago. We never stopped getting the books, though, so I've got piles of back-issues just waiting to be read. Be afraid.

It started when moss6886  managed to find issues 1,3,4,5,7 & 8 of The New Teen Titans for cheap. Then we found put that the latest TT incarnation looks pretty good, so we (she) started subscribing to that, and got TPB's 1-4 & 6. Yep. It's good. Oh, One Year Later, you made me cry (the Titans are all screwed up and it's sad and the Brotherhood is more like a family than them and... and... *sniff*) but I love you so (Joey'sbackJoey'sbackJoey'sback!!!).

So, yeah. First I plan to reread all of our old Titans issues (a daunting task - that collection started before I was born and has very few gaps in it), then I'll go for the entirety of Nightwing... probably Hellblazer and Fables next, and I'll save X-men for last. I don't know that I'll do the full re-read of the X-books, that collection is almost as daunting as the TT, and I'm definitely in a DC mood.

As a consequence of the comic revival, I've started to dabble in the online Titans fandom (partly due to fannish interest, mostly due to me not wanting to take 20-year-old issues to school but still wanting my superheroes with me). I have come to a few realizations. One, there isn't enough about Jericho (and what there is isn't all that good). No surprise there, he'd been dead for ten years and he was never the most popular Wilson. Two, Genfic is very, very hard to find. Again, no surprise, because that's been the case for every fandom I've dipped my toes in (except for House, M.D.), but it's kind of problematic due to.... Three, I find most DCU/Titans slash to be icky and gross and just ew, and het almost as ew. Most canon pairings manage to lose the sibling vibes before they start macking on each other, but not so much in fanfic. I mean, there are a few that work for me, but they're pretty uncommon ones.

*sigh* Once more into the archive, dear Cerys, brain bleach at the ready. :/

I'm also working on a Jericho fanmix. It began eating my brain earlier today and I've already gotten it nearly half plotted out.

I could ramble on about other things (SOAP had a religious tolerance panel that was pretty cool), but it's getting late.