nrgburst | 2020 in fandom (Reply)

Films- watched more kids movies than usual because the kiddos were home too. Also re-watched a lot of old faves for comfort.

Charlie's Angels 2019- loved it. Really wish it had done better commercially- it's so funny and has great action and character dynamics.
To all the boys I loved 2 (P.S. I still love you)- Loved this sequel. Hits different than the book, but in a good way.
The Half of It- LOVELOVELOVE. This film felt so personally relatable.
Toy Story 4- Loved this so much more than I thought I would.
Work it- LOVED this dance movie. Awesome soundtrack and fantastic chemistry between the leads
Feel the beat- An OK dance movie. Predictable but feel good.
Eurovision: The story of Fire Saga- so funny and the music was actually good! Decent story too.
Trolls World Tour- Loved this too! Country was the best- the song was called "Born to Die" although K-Pop was pretty awesome too. XDDD
The Old Guard- LOVEEEED can't wait for a sequel, which I assume has to be in the works.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves- This actually sent the exact opposite message of the fatphobic marketing done for this film, and was really good. Great music too.
Miss Americana- Taylor Swift documentary. Love her even more after watching this.
Train to Busan- SO GOOD. I don't usually like Horror films, I loved this one. It's not gory, just scary.
Enola Holmes- SUCH A GOOD MOVIE. Glad they've settled the stupid lawsuit too and can make a sequel now.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society- sweet and wholesome. I have the ebook to read at some date.
Maze Runner- Predictable action movie- I just watched this to prove to myself that TBS really does look like a teenager, see?
Holidate- probably the only actually bad movie I watched this year.
Nolanverse Batman films- re-watched on a whim and ended up getting inspired enough to finish an abandoned fic!
The Hunger Games films- re-watched with my daughter because my she was reading the books. She is mad about Finnick dying still. LOL
Crazy Rich Asians- read the books too! I think I liked the depth of the books better, but very shiny
Always Be My Maybe- lol Keanu Reeves is in this as an OTT version of himself. LOVED IT. So funny and relevant- love Ali Wong!
The Lake House- re-watch for more Keanu and epistolary feels
Mean Girls- re-watch
Clueless- re-watch Paul Rudd looks the same still, WTH
10 things I hate about you- re-watch and still loooove this film
The Joy Luck Club- re-watch for all the feeels and ugly crying
The Mummy- re-watch because this is such a good one. LOL I'd forgotten how hilarious John Hannah is in this
Song of the Sea- lovely Irish animated film.
The Prince of Egypt- re-watch. Such a classic.
David Attenborough: A life on our planet- Oh man we are SCREWED. :((((
Birds of Prey: The Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn- Loved this and need to re-watch!
Harry Potter movies- my younger daughter is re-watching these over and over because she's reading HP for the first time

Planning to watch Black Widow and A Quiet Place 2 , but I honestly have no real idea if watching a movie in the theater is going to be a thing anymore.

TV- watched less than I would have expected, but that is mostly because the kids were home a lot more, I think, so obviously what was on the main screen had to be kid-friendly

The Good Place S1- loved this and I really need to finish S2
The Mandalorian S1- I've already been tumblr spoiled for S2, and I think it'll be more interesting than S1 for me.
Avatar: the Last Airbender- re-watch with the kids
The Umbrella Academy S1 and S2- Love all the Hargreeves, but especially Klaus and Ben.
Lucifer S1-S5A- Definitely one of my stand out faves this year! Got my husband hooked too!
The Witcher S1- So good! Not as confusing as the books too, which is a definite plus.
Mystic Pop Up Bar- SO GOOD! Watched with my daughters and they loved it too. One of my stand out faves this year for sure.
Fleabag S1 and S2- So good. I am sad about the ending but it makes sense.
Adult Material- watched this for Joe Dempsie, but it's really well done. Searing look at the pornography business and yet hopeful in the end.
The Babysitter's Club- LOOOOve this remake, can't wait for another season! My daughters loved it too!
The Imbestigators- This Aussie Netflix kids series is both fun and funny.
The Queen's Gambit- MY OBSESSION. I don't want a second season though, it would get ruined, LBR.
Violet Evergarden- my husband and older daughter were really into anime this but I found and still find the premise gross TBH
Miraculous Ladybug S3- re-watch with the kiddos
Nailed it- my daughter looooves this show and re-watches it constantly. Nicole is hilarious.
Sugar Rush- this is my watch-while-cooking show because I don't need to focus on a storyline
Bridgerton- just before the year ends AND IT'S SOOO GOOOD

Still planning to finish AoS and The Mandalorian and The Good Place. Most anticipated is Lucifer 5B though!

Books- link to book post here

Music- still soundtrack heavy and TAYLOR BLESSED US SO MUCH THIS YEAR. <3

PS I still Love you soundtrack- Illenium's Crashing is my fave track
Charlie's Angels 2019 soundtrack- Don't call me angel and Blackout are my fave tracks but the whole thing is great- Ariana Grande did an amazing job putting this together
Rare by Selena Gomez- Lose you to love me, Dance again, A sweeter place and Vulnerable are my faves
Romance by Camila Cabello- Easy is my fave track
Into the Spiderverse soundtrack- I know, late to the party but it went on sale so I got it
Trolls World Tour soundtrack- Born to Die is a banger okay. LOL
Eurovision: the story of fire saga soundtrack- Husavik is such a moving song? Double Trouble and Volcano man are actually catchy too! Plus Mirror by Demi Lovato
Lucifer soundtrack- they played Lucifer by SHINee in an episode and I am still not over it. Also Portishead and X Ambassador and BANNERS!
Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves- Love is a Wild Thing, Space Cowboy and Butterflies are my fave tracks
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs soundtrack- This is me and Start of something right are both great tracks
Mystic Pop Up bar soundtrack- I'll be by BEN is gorgeous
Manic by Halsey <3- I only just discovered Vol II of this too. Be Kind is my fave track off that
Work it soundtrack- esp Wow by Zara Larsson and Thinkin' bout you by Ciara
folklore by Taylor Swift- this shocked the hell out of me because I was still expecting Cruel Summer off Lover to be the next single when it dropped. LOL exile, my tears ricochet, betty and invisible string were my faves. I didn't love any of the singles?
evermore by Taylor Swift- this is still !!! me. LOOOOOVEEEE THIS ALBUM fave tracks are no body, no crime, cowboy like me, long story short, willow and tolerate it.
Birds of Prey soundtrack- Joke's on you, Invisible Chains and Hit me with your best shot are my fave tracks but the whole thing is sooo good

Fic recs- I'm just linking to my bookmarks- I've been all over different fandoms this year. Some that wowed me were in The Old Guard fandom, and there are some amazing GoT ones. My biggest !!! was being told that

astolat is actually Naomi Novik. Which OF COURSE SHE IS NO WONDER THE WORLDBUILDING AND CHARACTERIZATION AND TIMELINE DETAILS IN HER FIC WERE PERFECTION.

My own stuff:
Fic/Meta -16 fics this year, 15 of them complete, one of which was a previously abandoned fic! 6 of them have a POC (or two) as the main characters, and two are femmeslash because I know I tend to write het (or slash) for white mains but I really don't want to write just one kind of story? Wrote about 30000 more words than last year, and for far more fandoms than usual. Also participated in March Meta Matters challenge, uploading 16 meta to AO3 for the first time. I think I'll do it again this year, but since it'll only be new meta there should be less of an inbox flood to my subscribers.

I'm particularly proud of Metamorphosis because it had/still has no audience and I wrote ten thousand words of fic anyway just so that it could exist. Also Love is a Wild Thing was an experiment- combining prompts from Gendrya week in August to make a single, cohesive post-canon fic. I actually like it better than my previous post-canon fics too, which might explain why I feel like I'm kind of done with Gendrya fandom? Check and Mate was my surprise hit- it's doing better than all my Gendrya fics combined, and since people were already following me for Gendrya content, it's kind of wild. It was one of those fics I wrote in a fever of inspiration like Smitten and Deep Tie Knot and I think it also gives that feeling of post-canon catharsis that people are looking for when they go trawling for fic? It also goes counter to a lot of (misogynistic) fandom assumptions, so it's gratifying that people seem to like it so much.

GIFsets- I think I've come pretty far in my skill at making these even over the past year. Even though I had no idea tumblr had changed the max size from 3MB to 10MB until my last set of the year I managed some pretty things! Biggest jump in quality was when I stopped skipping frames and just went with a shorter but smoother GIF- it might not be terribly noticeable to anybody but GIFmakers, but well. I'm one of those. LOL Got better at playing with brushes and transparency and layers this year too.

Proudest of these:
long story short x The Queen's Gambit (I hadn't done delayed subs for forever. Also included a Matrix reference that has whooshed over people's heads BUT IT'S FREAKING THERE. How perfect is this song for Beth's journey in TQG?!)
cowboy like me x Beth/Benny (TQG) (OK, I should have done another transition sequence back in the second GIF but I was so pleased I'd remembered how to do it at all that I plain forgot. THIS SONG FITS THEM PERFECTLY.)
asoiafnet underrated characters: Meera Reed (Time consuming to put two GIFs in one, but so pretty! Also brushes are fun and that last scene took so much coloring to not be dark, you have no idea)
asoiafnet underrated characters: Missandei of Naath (I don't know why the source on the first is so blurry even though it's 720px, but it's pretty despite that.)

I realized that I'd completely forgotten to link my holiday wishes list! If you have one and I've missed it, please link me too! :D Happy to send out green tea Pocky and washi tape etc.

Fannish plans for the next year: A Beth Harmon GIFset, finish An Exchange of Kings and a NYR fic for Yuletide (I defaulted on my PH. My first default ever but I just couldn't think story and didn't want to half ass it.) and as usual: