Deep Conversations

I really liked this article Bustle did about the Jonas Brothers from May 2023. It came out before the Joe/Sophie Turner divorce became public, though. I'm sort of avoiding all of the Joe/Sophie drama but I do feel sad about them.

As for their own future plans, “I just want to be able to continue to do this. I know that sounds kind of bare minimum,” Kevin admits. (“Well, you can!” Joe interjects, with a tender knee pat.) “But at a time, I didn't think I could,” he goes on. “So it's an amazing thing to be able to continue to play shows with the guys that I love and my best friends.”

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As for Horror Movie Month:

Finally watched the first Scream! It's so good at playing on horror stereotypes while still being a gripping watch. I was guessing right up until the end. And Sidney Prescott is such a great character! I then turned to Scream II and I was not disappointed. I think I like the second one better. Dewey and Gale were more even more interesting characters to me, and the ending was great too. My takeaway was that no one can really save you except yourself. Sidney and Gale are the ones that understand this and constantly fight for survival, while being above all of the obsession or at least fanaticism of horror film/real life crimes that you see from a lot of other characters, and the baddies.

Pet Sematary (1989): What a tragic story!! But I was more amused than anything while watching. The zombie kid did make me laugh, ngl. I'm debating whether to check out the remake.

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016): Even though I could tell John Goodman was playing a creep, I was still shocked! The ending was so good! A little slow to start but I really enjoyed how they kept up the intensity/tension the entire time. I thought the way she made a plastic hazmat suit by hand was a little wild, but I appreciated how focused she was on survival. She never really let her guard down.

IT (2017): Gross and creepy and there were a few solid jump scares! Lots of 80s nostalgia too, which isn't exactly my thing. The power of friendship and beating the shit out of a clown together really does save the day though :D I had a good time watching. My only complaint was that I wanted all of the children's worst fears to link up somehow - but I grasped that the town was just a creepy shit hole in general.

The Jonas Brothers dropped two new songs. One of them is a dance track for the club and it's fun but nothing special. The other is this one! Definitely reminds me of one of the songs on their very first album called 6 minutes, except it's like there has been a major glow up. The song has got sweet, domestic established relationship vibes that make me happy.

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Speaking of music, all of the remaining women were eliminated from the top 5 on The Voice with the exception of Toneisha during the instant save. Maybe a coincidence, but still sad. I was most disappointed that Allegra Miles won't be moving on! Her last performance was so powerful and made me cry. There's just something so great about hearing a song sung by a woman after only hearing it sung by a man (when it's not a love song). Hands down my favorite performance of the night.

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Seeing The Voice performances go on even in these conditions really lifts my spirits. I love how the coaches have made themselves accessible and still seem to be putting in the time to connect with everyone across State lines. It's also a weird insight into American living rooms. There has already been commentary on the wide gap in American social classes, but the performers mostly seem to be solidly upper middle class. Access to travel, instruments, time - all of that plays into becoming good at something. It would be nice to see shows like this reach for other people who don't necessarily have the access. With the exception of maybe Toneisha Harris (hard to tell, but she's the only one whose backgrounds have been really plain). Speaking of which, Toneisha definitely deserved to move to the finals. ( My other two favorites under here )

Fandom started for me when I stumbled onto some reruns of Smallville Season Two (or three?) on ABC family. Clark Kent was exactly my type in High School - kinda nerdy, kinda shy, hick kid who worked on a ranch, totally heroic, longer brunette hair, blue eyes. SIGN ME UP. I also related a lot to Lana because of the nerdy country-girl-next-door with big dreams vibes. I immediately spent any extra money I had on VHS tapes and learned how to set our recorder so that I could record episodes of Smallville and rewatch them. I was very religious about setting the recorder once the new season came back on, especially in the event that I had an event or family dinner etc. I wrote labels on all my VHS tapes, and recorded over episodes I liked the least (and sometimes it was hard to choose which episodes to tape over).

My family definitely thought I was being too obsessive, but by that time we had a family computer. I found some Smallville forums and almost exclusively engaged in het 'ship talk (and was relieved to find other people who loved the show the way I did). Looking back, I realize that I was definitely one of those "bad" shippers, but over time I learned a lot about relationships, and how to be a good internet user and fandom participant (and I became much more tolerant of other people's ships). To jump to the end, I had a really rough break-up with Smallville when Lana and Lex left, but I am now a proud multi-shipper.

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Finally getting in on the sunshine_challenge!

Prompt One - Housekeeping
Truth be told, I know nothing about customizing DW. I did add more tags to my profile, and I'll probably add a little blurb under the 'about me' section. Does anyone know how to make multi-level tags?

Prompt Two - Fannish Identity
I picked this name when I first joined Livejournal, because I was obsessed with Supernatural and thought I would be in the fandom forever. Now that I'm older I wish I would have picked something that wasn't fandom specific. I haven't been reading or writing in SPN fandom ever since I fell behind on the episodes. It also bothers me that I put a gender marker in my username. I think it was just available so I went for it, but I like how online we can be whatever or whoever we really want to present as. Things like money and gender and real names don't matter so much. I want to be immersed in the online Utopia that is (sometimes) fandom! I'm on the hunt for a new username. Can you believe happinessbegins is available on DW and LJ? I'm super tempted because it's the name of the Jonas Brothers Album, but then again it doesn't really make much sense as far as usernames go.