Justified rewatch
Aug. 1st, 2019 01:15 pmWay back when I had my surgery, I was talking with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
killabeez about Justified, and we were considering a rewatch and posting about it thing. But of course, for the past couple years, I've basically kept forgetting to post about it and see if any others would be interested in doing a rewatch with us. I was thinking of doing it the way killa did for the Highlander rewatch: doing a couple episodes at a time, and then starting a discussion post in my DW that people could comment on. Or if people would rather have a dedicated community that they could subscribe/watch, we could do that--I'd love some input on that if you're interested.
All 6 seasons of Justified are available with Amazon Prime in the States, and are also available on DVD, so I imagine they're at libraries. I don't know about countries outside the US, but it was successful enough that I imagine there must be some options out there (and if you know of some, let me know!). I think there were 13 episodes per season, so it shouldn't be a super long rewatch if we do two episodes per week, although I could certainly base that on majority input. I definitely don't have a ton of followers, so if you think someone you know might be interested, pass this post info along!
I am struggling with my![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
intoabar fic, for sure, but it's also hampered by the fact that I've had some pretty egregious work coming in from my music magazine, more egregious than normal. I've told this story to a couple people, but I initially left out the funniest part so I'm going to tell it again, you can't stop me.
So, this magazine I work for is pretty cool, but a lot of work, and unfortunately most of the articles are written by nonwriters--subject matter experts, musicians, fans, gearheads with archaic knowledge. In every issue, I'll get a bunch of articles where the writer clearly never paid any attention in school and has no idea how to/if you should punctuate, how to spell, how to organize thoughts. Starting their articles is clearly beyond them--sometimes I have to really struggle to find whatever point they're trying to make and tease it out in the piece so readers will have some understanding of why they should read it.
I was working on this one article that was actually somewhat decently written, but the author never explained who people were beyond the guy the piece was about, a bass player who was in the King Cole Trio back in the days before Nat "King" Cole went solo (so, late '30s and '40s). And all these people keep popping up in the story, although I have no idea who they are and their presence in the subject's history isn't explained, and we get to a line about George Barnes, and I laugh. I have to go fact-check this, like everything, because I know that George Barnes is canonically in comics the father of one James Buchanan Barnes, but I have no idea who he is in this context. But I keep laughing and working on the article, and then like a paragraph later, there's a mention of a guy named Bucky and how amazingly he could bend notes and whatever.
To myself, I actually blurt out, "Who the hell is Bucky?" because as usual, the name suddenly pops up but there's no mention of who he is. Other than, you know, George Barnes's son in my fandom. Once I finished the article, I sent it to the publisher and asked who Bucky was (turns out that was the nickname of one of the other guys the article seemed to be about) and could they please add some sort of identification for readers who'll be unfamiliar with his work, but I couldn't even make jokes about Marvel because they are completely focused on music geekery and just really don't know anything about my corner of fandom trivia. It was so hard.
(It's also one of those things about being in a historical fandom that makes me seethe, because so few people ever bother to learn anything about the time period they're writing in and things like names or speech patterns, etc. I see this over and over in Cap fanfic, that they're convinced Bucky is a stupid and unusual nickname, and that he's ashamed of it or has "outgrown" it, often as a way to justify using James or something the fan finds more palatable. But Bucky has long been a common nickname, and there are still people with that name--right now there's a couple well known athletes with it, and even a woman editor at a magazine I used to get. It's not all that rare, particularly back then, it's not embarrassing for them, obviously, since they use it, and it's not just a kids' name, ffs. I'm losing so much tooth enamel over the stupidity in this fandom, I swear.)
killabeez about Justified, and we were considering a rewatch and posting about it thing. But of course, for the past couple years, I've basically kept forgetting to post about it and see if any others would be interested in doing a rewatch with us. I was thinking of doing it the way killa did for the Highlander rewatch: doing a couple episodes at a time, and then starting a discussion post in my DW that people could comment on. Or if people would rather have a dedicated community that they could subscribe/watch, we could do that--I'd love some input on that if you're interested. All 6 seasons of Justified are available with Amazon Prime in the States, and are also available on DVD, so I imagine they're at libraries. I don't know about countries outside the US, but it was successful enough that I imagine there must be some options out there (and if you know of some, let me know!). I think there were 13 episodes per season, so it shouldn't be a super long rewatch if we do two episodes per week, although I could certainly base that on majority input. I definitely don't have a ton of followers, so if you think someone you know might be interested, pass this post info along!
I am struggling with my
intoabar fic, for sure, but it's also hampered by the fact that I've had some pretty egregious work coming in from my music magazine, more egregious than normal. I've told this story to a couple people, but I initially left out the funniest part so I'm going to tell it again, you can't stop me. So, this magazine I work for is pretty cool, but a lot of work, and unfortunately most of the articles are written by nonwriters--subject matter experts, musicians, fans, gearheads with archaic knowledge. In every issue, I'll get a bunch of articles where the writer clearly never paid any attention in school and has no idea how to/if you should punctuate, how to spell, how to organize thoughts. Starting their articles is clearly beyond them--sometimes I have to really struggle to find whatever point they're trying to make and tease it out in the piece so readers will have some understanding of why they should read it.
I was working on this one article that was actually somewhat decently written, but the author never explained who people were beyond the guy the piece was about, a bass player who was in the King Cole Trio back in the days before Nat "King" Cole went solo (so, late '30s and '40s). And all these people keep popping up in the story, although I have no idea who they are and their presence in the subject's history isn't explained, and we get to a line about George Barnes, and I laugh. I have to go fact-check this, like everything, because I know that George Barnes is canonically in comics the father of one James Buchanan Barnes, but I have no idea who he is in this context. But I keep laughing and working on the article, and then like a paragraph later, there's a mention of a guy named Bucky and how amazingly he could bend notes and whatever.
To myself, I actually blurt out, "Who the hell is Bucky?" because as usual, the name suddenly pops up but there's no mention of who he is. Other than, you know, George Barnes's son in my fandom. Once I finished the article, I sent it to the publisher and asked who Bucky was (turns out that was the nickname of one of the other guys the article seemed to be about) and could they please add some sort of identification for readers who'll be unfamiliar with his work, but I couldn't even make jokes about Marvel because they are completely focused on music geekery and just really don't know anything about my corner of fandom trivia. It was so hard.
(It's also one of those things about being in a historical fandom that makes me seethe, because so few people ever bother to learn anything about the time period they're writing in and things like names or speech patterns, etc. I see this over and over in Cap fanfic, that they're convinced Bucky is a stupid and unusual nickname, and that he's ashamed of it or has "outgrown" it, often as a way to justify using James or something the fan finds more palatable. But Bucky has long been a common nickname, and there are still people with that name--right now there's a couple well known athletes with it, and even a woman editor at a magazine I used to get. It's not all that rare, particularly back then, it's not embarrassing for them, obviously, since they use it, and it's not just a kids' name, ffs. I'm losing so much tooth enamel over the stupidity in this fandom, I swear.)
