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arduinnaFirst off, I spent the weekend adding a bunch of new people from the friending meme, and with a bunch of new people subscribing to me. Hiya! It's very cool to see the new voices on my reading list. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should; the word spread pretty far, and it's up to more than 1,200 comments over 11 pages. A big chunk of that is people responding to each other, but that still leaves hundreds of entries.
And if you're thinking damn, you should have jumped in -- jump in! It's still going, with new entries and new conversations. I started tracking it early on so I wouldn't forget to go check for new people, and then it hit a tipping point on Friday night and whoosh. It may have finally started slowing down a bit, but it hasn't stopped. I suspect the mention it got on f_fa is what did the trick, so yay to whoever did that!
I'm about a hundred comments behind at this point (by dint of ignoring basically all the side-chatter, which is a pity because I bet there was some good conversation, but -- 1,200 comments! oof.)
Meanwhile, I took a break from DW last night to watch the Amazing Race finale.
... Wow. That was completely unexpected. The goat farmers (*looks up* Josh and Brent - no idea why I can never remember that!) were on my early list of "rooting for, even though they won't make it past the midpoint", and for the entire race they stayed in that place of "oh yay, they're still there. They'll probably get eliminated next week" (and now in my head Phil is the Dread Pirate Keoghan...). Go them for sticking it out and getting it done! That's awesome.
I had been rooting more strongly for the Chippendales, since outside of the stupid "1-2-3 alliance" thing I really liked them a lot -- good guys, strong racers (once they started eating again, at least), no drama, and totally willing to not only bring along their Chippendale collars and cuffs, but wear them. (... what? they're pretty.) And since I figured the goat farmers (Beakmans? Maybe? I kept missing the name, and forgetting their first names) had no shot, the Chippendales were the best of the rest. (At least after we lost James and Abba, WOE -- they were who I wanted to win most.)
But really by the end, what I was mostly doing was hoping very hard that Nadiya and Natalie didn't win, and Trey and Lexi by association. I'd been rooting hard for the twins early on, but as soon as they stole James and Abba's money, and Trey and Lexi went along with it, and they all just giggled about how awesome they were for doing so -- yeah, shitlist, big time. UGH.
And then N&N were *worse* last night, which -- ugh ugh ugh. They were so awful about, and toward, Josh and Brent, omg. I have already repressed most of what they said, but it was enough to make me pause almost any time they opened their mouths and go do something else for a while because I couldn't cope. (This ep took a looooong time for me to watch.)
And they were even entitled about their "allies" (wtf, it's the final legs! You do not ally with two other teams to keep everyone together! It's a RACE!)."Everyone should wait for us while we do the Speed Bump! Oh no they're all leaving us!!" Gah.
I was very stressed out when N&N and the farmers were heading toward the mat, and so freaking relieved when it was the farmers.
And then in the second half, I really would have been okay with either of the m/m teams, as long as Trey and Lexi didn't get it. That was a great final challenge, and clearly tough enough that all three final teams were on pretty even footing -- and then given how astonishingly bad Josh and Brent are at directions, them finishing the task first was no guarantee that they wouldn't straggle in third regardless.
So, yeah. Phew.
I would have been absolutely happiest with a James and Abba win; those guys were just awesome. But go go goat farmers! \o/
And if you're thinking damn, you should have jumped in -- jump in! It's still going, with new entries and new conversations. I started tracking it early on so I wouldn't forget to go check for new people, and then it hit a tipping point on Friday night and whoosh. It may have finally started slowing down a bit, but it hasn't stopped. I suspect the mention it got on f_fa is what did the trick, so yay to whoever did that!
I'm about a hundred comments behind at this point (by dint of ignoring basically all the side-chatter, which is a pity because I bet there was some good conversation, but -- 1,200 comments! oof.)
Meanwhile, I took a break from DW last night to watch the Amazing Race finale.
... Wow. That was completely unexpected. The goat farmers (*looks up* Josh and Brent - no idea why I can never remember that!) were on my early list of "rooting for, even though they won't make it past the midpoint", and for the entire race they stayed in that place of "oh yay, they're still there. They'll probably get eliminated next week" (and now in my head Phil is the Dread Pirate Keoghan...). Go them for sticking it out and getting it done! That's awesome.
I had been rooting more strongly for the Chippendales, since outside of the stupid "1-2-3 alliance" thing I really liked them a lot -- good guys, strong racers (once they started eating again, at least), no drama, and totally willing to not only bring along their Chippendale collars and cuffs, but wear them. (... what? they're pretty.) And since I figured the goat farmers (Beakmans? Maybe? I kept missing the name, and forgetting their first names) had no shot, the Chippendales were the best of the rest. (At least after we lost James and Abba, WOE -- they were who I wanted to win most.)
But really by the end, what I was mostly doing was hoping very hard that Nadiya and Natalie didn't win, and Trey and Lexi by association. I'd been rooting hard for the twins early on, but as soon as they stole James and Abba's money, and Trey and Lexi went along with it, and they all just giggled about how awesome they were for doing so -- yeah, shitlist, big time. UGH.
And then N&N were *worse* last night, which -- ugh ugh ugh. They were so awful about, and toward, Josh and Brent, omg. I have already repressed most of what they said, but it was enough to make me pause almost any time they opened their mouths and go do something else for a while because I couldn't cope. (This ep took a looooong time for me to watch.)
And they were even entitled about their "allies" (wtf, it's the final legs! You do not ally with two other teams to keep everyone together! It's a RACE!)."Everyone should wait for us while we do the Speed Bump! Oh no they're all leaving us!!" Gah.
I was very stressed out when N&N and the farmers were heading toward the mat, and so freaking relieved when it was the farmers.
And then in the second half, I really would have been okay with either of the m/m teams, as long as Trey and Lexi didn't get it. That was a great final challenge, and clearly tough enough that all three final teams were on pretty even footing -- and then given how astonishingly bad Josh and Brent are at directions, them finishing the task first was no guarantee that they wouldn't straggle in third regardless.
So, yeah. Phew.
I would have been absolutely happiest with a James and Abba win; those guys were just awesome. But go go goat farmers! \o/
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Date: 2012-12-11 12:24 am (UTC)We have mutual good taste, it seems.
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Date: 2012-12-11 07:33 am (UTC)