Doctor Who squee + Ballykissangel squee = fandom EXPLOSION

[digitalemur]

I just watched the Doctor Who Christmas episode and it made me cry, like, a lot.

I thought it was just making me like everyone else, the way Zoloft made me cry less. Now I'm not so sure that _this_ isn't normal, and the Zoloft was making me weirdly stony. I... dunno that I like either.

Also? I _knew_ Miss Hartigan looked familiar! My mom and my brother MUST see this ASAP, because they like Dervla Kirwan so much! AAAAAAA! (Dervla Kirwan is the bestest name ever.) When I realized where I knew her from I kinda did the full-blown screaming and flapping thing. I love how Doctor Who makes me do that so much. No, we're not typecasting Dervla Kirwan as independent-minded women at ALL, noooo!

Comments

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Semi-relevant: Hubby and I recently started watching Ballykissangel and we are loving it. Thanks for the recommendation!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Glad you like!

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of curious what you mean by normal.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I.... what do you mean? I... don't know how to answer you except by repeating sentences from above. I'm thinking about crying intensity and frequency, and how I have no idea what is typical or what is really tolerable for _me_. Are you thinking of some other variables?

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

The reason I was asking what you meant by normal is that it seems to me like this is one area where there's a lot of variance between people just in general. In the words you just used, I would think it would be a lot more useful to consider what's "tolerable for _you_" than what's "typical". And personally, for me, when I've thought about crying intensity and frequency in the context of what I think is "typical", it's only set myself up for lots and lots of feeling bad about myself. But I wouldn't presume to think that my issues = your issues! So I was just asking how you were using the word and, in a larger sense, what your goal is with respect to how you were using it.

Um, does that make any sense at all?

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

p.s. it sounds like you interpreted my question as a challenge, and I promise I didn't mean it as one! sorry if it did come off that way.