Why is Life So Complicated -- Part II

[shipperx]

I MISS OBSESSIVE FANDOM!

I MISS SPIKE!

What's so good about obsessive fandom (and Spike love) is that it gave something to obsess over other than my own life (er... huh... that means I feel a need to obsess over something doesn't it? I don't know if that's a good thing. Hmm).

But, yeah, fandom, BtVS, AtS, whatever gives something frivolous and inconsequential in the larger scheme of things to still care about passionately and it still all be harmless. It's such a wonderful distraction from real life.

Sniffle.

I Miss Spike! Whaaaaa!

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[ww1614.livejournal.com]

See, politics is right now the distraction for me. It's either that or baseball, and neither the Mets nor the Sox are particularly inspiring now.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

See, politics is right now the distraction for me.

LOL! Yeah, that's what I had concluded as well. Problem is, it doesn't work as a distraction for me. It just raises my blood pressure. I can't watch things like Crossfire because I just get worked up and angry... and I tend to think intellectually that it's kind of pointless (perhaps I should call myself more "apolitical" than of any particular affiliation.) But I just don't enjoy politics in the least. It tends to just piss me off. . .and I tend to be moderate all the way around and see both sides of the fence. It still tends to piss me off though. Hmm... maybe seeing both sides of the argument is what tends to frustrate me with the whole thing. I tend to get pissed off with the blinders both sets take on. Both have their areas of right, both have their areas of wrong, both have their propoganda and outrageous statements. And people being blindly devoted to one view and villanizing the other side just royally pisses me off. . .

so it just is something I don't like to delve into.

As far as I'm concerned, the truth is between the lines and in the middle and both sides could deal with a hell of a lot less paranoia, fingerpointing, and blind adherence to their own party while claiming that the "other side" is always wrong, nuts, extremist, whatever and that "their side" is the rational, compassionate, caring, "correct" view when really each have their rights and wrongs. There are things I dislike passionately about BOTH parties.

So... it all just frustrates me. Not fun. Not fun at all. :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Regarding same sex marriage (which isn't in this thread but on yours but I don't feel like going through to find it again.) It'll come in time. I'm reasonably certain of that. It's becoming very widely accepted. I personally feel that it should already be okayed, but social change takes time. So while I feel that way, I do realize there's still pockets of extremely strong resistance, so the ambivalence about it in politics makes sense to me because there are chunks of population who are strongly against it.

Still, I believe that society is quickly mainstreaming it and with the mainstreaming comes acceptance, so it'll come. And I think that activists will help it. But I think it's a process and eventually it will win out in the end.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I don't miss it. At the end it all gave me a headache and a stomach ache and drove me frickin' crazy. My life became so much calmer after I gave up on B/S after Buffy S6 and Spike during AtS S5. And now I say: never again.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

See, though, it was something totally unrelated to me so all the drama (and I'm including fandom in that) is essentially meaningless and so whatever happened it would be okay.

Real life? No. Things matter. I miss caring enough about fandom that I could be totally involved with it and have a complete distraction from real life.

Of course what this is a sign of is how completely stressed out I am in real life these days.

[shapinglight]

I know exactly how you feel. I've been getting my Spike fix from writing, but it's not the same. I miss him dreadfully - I even miss him being on screen and being made to do things that I really, really hate (like acting as if he's stupid all the time).

And BAPS is so quiet! We're all just sitting around waiting for some news on these TV movies, and as far as I can see, that's still way off in the distant future, if at all.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm also writing. And I'm actually getting more accomplished on that front than I have in a very long time. Still, when real life is stressful I wish I had the kind of passionate distraction I used to have with the Spike Fandom. These days there's no urgency to any of it. . .and I REALLY need some distractions because real life is stressing me out.

[shapinglight]

.. .and I REALLY need some distractions because real life is stressing me out.

Have just caught the edge of this from your latest post. Hope it sorts itself out.

[cy-girl.livejournal.com]

I seem to be a serial monogamous fan. I moved from Buffy to Angel, then to Deadwood. Since Deadwood isn't back on until 2005, we've been watching the X-Files on DVD and I'm all about Mulder and Scully at this point. When Serenity is due out, I'm sure I'll be obsessed with that.

I still have fond feelings for Spike the character and JM as an actor but I'm as distractable as a two-year old when something new or previously undiscovered interests me.