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A year ago I started a Tumblr for fannish stuff about Person of Interest. And now I think I'm gonna log out and stay away for a while, because Tumblr is making me a tired and cranky fan of the show. I hear that if you follow other people rather than going in the main tags, you can avoid the inevitable ridiculousness about ships (Mine's right! Yours is wrong!) and characters ("Let me tell in excruciating detail why I hate the character you love!"), but I don't think it's worth the trouble right now. Soooooo... stayed logged out for an indefinite period of time. Maybe for Lent? Hm, could be.

Movies this week! Two on DVD, one at the theatre. Frequency was released in 2000. It has Dennis Quaid and Elizabeth Mitchell as the Sullivans, a firefighter (him) and a nurse (her) in the 1960s. One kid, John. (How cute was wee John? Oh my, so adorable!) ( trailer-related spoilers and my thoughts )

Inception was 2010's big movie. My students with good taste liked it, so I finally decided to try it. ( vaguely spoilery (but not really) )

I did see Brave, and it was charming and enjoyable. ( doesn't count as spoilery, but I'll cut anyway. )

So I'd recommend all three movies, for different reasons.

I mentioned Inception's music; for me that's one item on a list of odd things that have helped convince me to watch something. (Music from the movie kept popping up on one of my Pandora radio stations, and I really liked it, so I bumped the movie up in my Netflix queue.) Other unusual things? I started watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles after reading this crossover fanfic (Battlestar Galactica) and watching this crossover fan-made video (also Battlestar Galactica).

And speaking of (possibly?) fan-made things, Tumblr now has A Guy in a Suit--abbreviated AGIAS, if you notice that acronym showing up. He's "following" Person of Interest fans on Tumblr; their names are on a list of Irrelevants (heh). (He started following me yesterday*. Clearly I need to take some evasive measures.) I can't decide if it's done by Warner Bros. or CBS as viral marketing, or by a clever and dedicated fan. Either way, it's been hilarious to watch the changes as fans notice them and post about them. Tumblr is a very good format for building enthusiasm that way.

(Hm. Just noticed there's now a "coming soon" page now. Makes me more inclined to believe it's done by WB or CBS, not by a fan...)

*I have to admit, that was a hilarious notification from Tumblr. a-guy-in-a-suit started following you. Dun dun DUUUUUN!

First off, some links to stuff I've posted on tumblr this past month, all Person of Interest related. None of these posts are very long; tumblr is more about the pretty pictures.

Person of Interest = Two Batmans (Batmen?) (Gratuitously silly pic of Adam West included. He's holding a batarang!)

I’m watching the “Reese shoots guns and is intense and Carter arrests people and maybe shoots things too” show. The ridiculous(ly adorable) super-sekrit dates? Totally a bonus.
*sobs*

My disgusted review of someone else's review of an episode. Apparently these kinds of comments are a habit for this reviewer. (brief language alert at that link)

After blacktop50 pointed it out, I made two posts about Reese flirting with Carter via baby.

I'm still not sure I like tumblr enough to keep the account; it's fun, but the excess graphics cause problems even for my newer computer, not to mention how I'm still not that excited by endless posts of moving gifs. So I have hardly anyone on my watchlist there. Plus I really want to know this: how does Tumblr make any money?! Anyone have any idea?

Non-tumblr stuff, but still PoI. At some point I'll make another rec list, but for now, here's the Person of Interest fic tag from my online bookmarks. Most stories are on livejournal, but there are some from ff.net and AO3, so there may be something you haven't read yet. Mostly gen; characters listed in the tags and I tried to name relevant pairings in the descriptions. (My own stories are bookmarked there as well, because I like them.)