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Carter-Orange:
Some of the k-pop groups do have loads of members, I wonder how they all get a chance to sing!

I've also seen posts with just four members of BSB and wondered where Kevin had got to.  I hope he's not planning on leaving again, or maybe he was just busy with something else.  I'm ready for new music too, it seems so long ago since we last got anything.

I've seen some of your reviews and she doesn't seem to say a lot, maybe it is a language thing.  Where I'm at in the story is reminding me of when Tim was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, and how I didn't know a thing about the illness at the time.  The site seems to be down at the moment, which is a shame as I'm quiet in work and was going to read some more.

I've started watching Grey's Anatomy (I know I'm about 20 years late lol) and really enjoying it so far.  It'll take forever to watch though as I'm watching with Tim and he doesn't like to binge watch stuff like I do.

mare:
I had no idea that BSB were playing a random gig in Saudi Arabia but I'm sure Kevin wouldn't miss the Super Bowl for that. I'm pretty certain that football is to Kevin what BSB is to their fans. lol Speaking of which, it makes me a little sad that I didn't know about any of this until I saw Rose say something about them being active for two days on a twitter post, which means that BSB is no longer factored into my algorithm on Twitter anymore. Unless nobody is talking about them on there. Regardless, I doubt Kevin is thinking of calling it quits. Especially if this is the only time he's done that. If it becomes a habit, then I'd worry.

A language barrier might make sense for your comment. I give credit to anyone who reads these things not in their native language. It always baffles my mind how great everyone is at that except for Americans. My person is from the US, and I don't get a sense that it's a language barrier. I just think she tends to misinterpret things. A review is a review though. It's nice that I know I can always count on hearing from her one way or the other and I do have a few people who leave nice, detailed reviews. This story has less random people just popping in for one chapter and then I never hear from them again like the other ones did. I tend to have more regulars now, with only an occasional pop in. So maybe that means I'm finally getting a following. Just in time for the fandom to die. I do miss your reviews. Both of you. BSB people in general. I wish the fandom wasn't so all or nothing. I know my BSB friends that are twitter (with the exception of you and Tracy. I know you're not on there anymore Steph) Only ever interact with me if I mention BSB. It's a bummer.

I have noticed how huge those K pop groups are. I wonder why? Maybe it's because of the dancing. I wish I could get into any kind of music again. It just doesn't interest me. Not great when that used to be your life.

My writing is going okay. I feel like I'm finally at the part of the story that I find interesting. Less the gushy stuff and more the action, so I've been managing to get a chapter a week out. I still haven't gotten ahead of myself though. I'm not sure if that's going to happen.

I started watching Gray's Anatomy late too, Steph. I stuck with it for a while but then when they literally ran over George with a bus I stopped watching. lol I am loving The Pitt though. I am also really happy it's getting such great reviews, and I'd love for it to be in the conversation come next awards season. Everything I watch now updates on Thursdays. The Pitt, Severance, Elsbeth, Ghosts and The Traitors. Why always Thursday? The rest of the week...nothing . lol

Okay time to cross your fingers and send positive vibes to Kieran tonight. It's the Critics' Choice awards. The second of the big precursors leading up to the Oscars. Since he won the Golden Globe, more critics are pivoting and making him the favorite to win the Oscar. The more of these things he wins the better! I don't think he'll be at the ceremony though because of his Glengarry rehearsals. Which is a bummer and something I didn't think about for the rest of these things. But he's also in a Super Bowl ad. As a beluga whale for nerd wallet. He's living his best life. lol

RokofAges75:
Mare, that's sad that BSB posts aren't showing up on your Twitter anymore.  Do you use the For You feed or Following? They should still show up on Following if you're still following them, but if you follow a lot of accounts, they may get lost in all the tweets.  Nick is the only one who really tweets individually anymore; the other guys use Instagram more.  But the group account's posts hint at something being in the works.

As for Kevin, he skipped out on another appearance last fall and never said why.  I can't remember what country it was in now, but it was a similar situation - a random, one-night show on the other side of the world in the middle of their break.  I figured it was because it was during high school football season, and he didn't want to miss Mason's Senior Night or something, but who knows.  Rose made a good point on Twitter last night, which was basically that it's better for Kevin to bow out of these random gigs on the other side of the world if he doesn't want to do them for whatever reason than be forced to do them and get burned out.  It sucks for the fans in those parts of the world to not get to see all five of them, but it would suck more for all of us if he left the group again.

I heard AO3 was down for maintenance earlier.  It's back up now, but it's been having a lot of issues lately.  Hopefully they resolved that during whatever they did to the site today.

My other regular also lives in the US, but I know that doesn't necessarily mean English is her first language.  Sometimes people do just interpret things differently from how the writer intends, which can be both frustrating and enlightening.  But, regardless, it's nice to know there are a few people who are reading and looking forward to my updates.  Mare, I'm glad you're developing a following; that is awesome!  I wish I could get into fanfic for other fandoms, but I'm not even interested in reading fanfic for fandoms I love, let alone ones I don't.  I don't know what it is about BSB, but they're the only ones I've ever read and written about consistently.  I don't even read much BSB fic anymore either, though.

That sucks that most of the old BSB crowd doesn't interact with you much anymore.  That's the hard part of online friendships that are based on one specific interest.  When you lose that common interest, it's easy to lose touch and run out of things to talk about.  I'm glad we have other common interests and things to talk about.  I'm still Facebook friends with a couple of my oldest online friends, both of whom moved on from the fandom like two decades ago.  At least one of them is a Trumper now, and a lot of the stuff she posts makes me cringe, but I can't quite bring myself to unfollow her because social media is literally the only connection I still have to her and that period of my life.

I gave Grey's Anatomy a try a few years ago and got through the first two seasons, mostly because I wanted to watch Jeffrey Dean Morgan's arc after seeing him play Negan on TWD.  I did like his arc, as ridiculous as it was, but I didn't feel compelled to keep watching after that.  Compared to ER, it was just too soapy and unrealistic to me, and I know it only got worse the longer it went on.  I love that The Pitt is on Thursdays because that was always ER night!  It makes my heart happy to have a Thursday night show to look forward to again.  Most of my weekly shows are on Sundays and Wednesdays.

I didn't watch the Critics Choice Awards tonight, but I saw your tweet that Kieran won.  Congrats to him again!  I also saw the video you shared of his beluga Super Bowl ad.  So cute and random!

mare:
I mostly use the following side of Twitter but occasionally I do the for you. I don't even see tweets by Nick, and I do follow him. I still follow them all, I think. The only one I had stopped following was Brian way back when I found out he was full on MAGA. I just think ever since Musk took over my feed has been weird. I usually have to go seek out tweets of people I know I follow.

Maybe they are working on a new album or planning another fan event like the one they did in the Bahamas. Kevin might feel like they're selling out by playing those private parties. I can see him being morally opposed to that. But like you said, it's good he knows to bow out instead of getting burned out. Who knows he might be the band member who is in and then out then in then out. Duran Duran was like that for a bit, but no matter what, the core 4 always came back together.

I've noticed that about AO3 too. I wonder if they have too many stories going on and are overloading easier. If that's even a thing.

I could never write in another fandom either. I'd really have to be completely all in and hyper focused on it first. It amazes me how easily some of the Succession writers can just hop over to another fandom like that. One of my friends can just jump in and write a Bridgerton fic when that came back and now, they're all jumping to Severance. I would never be able to do that and would not be the slightest bit interested in reading those either. Even though I like Severance, the show is confusing enough to begin with. lol

Friendships in general are so hard, especially when you get older. Finding new friends or keeping old ones as interests wain or you move or quit your job is tough. I've been living here for going on 5 years now and I haven't made one single friend. I rely solely on my long distance and online friends which sometimes is great and sometimes not so much. It would be nice to be able to invite someone over to watch a movie or go out to dinner etc... Not that I can even go anywhere but still. Oh, and speaking of which. My sister took my car to work yesterday because it drives better in the snow and got into an accident. She's okay and so are the people in the other car, but my car was totaled! It could have been a lot worse. I don't drive anymore, and she has her own so there's not that kind of stress, but still. I was going to sell it this year. Now we'll see what happens.

They have to do something about the formatting of the Critics' Choice Awards. They actually not only announced both male and female supporting TV categories at the same time but then had them come up at the same time. It's like they weren't even allowed to have their own moment. They didn't do that for the movie side which seemed really rude, and you could tell how confused the actors were when they went up and got their awards. They had no idea who would speak first or how long they'd have. The speeches were SO boring. They desperately needed Kieran's chaotic energy.

RokofAges75:
I have definitely noticed more right-wing posts by accounts I don't follow popping up on both Twitter and Facebook, which is super annoying.  I've been tempted to stop using those platforms, but Twitter is still where most of my online/BSB friends are, and FB is where most of my "real life" friends are, and I don't want to feel completely out of the loop.

Brian seems to have learned his lesson from 2020 and hasn't posted anything remotely political in a long time.  I know he probably did vote for Trump again, but as long as he's not posting MAGA crap like his wife used to, I can keep clinging to my belief that he's just conservative and not a full-on, card-carrying cult member.  I just keep wondering where the seemingly sane, decent Republicans are going to draw the line and turn against their fascist leader.  When is enough going to be enough?  If even just a few of them in Congress swallowed their pride or fear or whatever's holding them back and sided with Democrats, so much more could be done.  But I guess they're too afraid of ruining their political careers like the Liz Cheneys and Adam Kinzingers of the party who tried last time around.

There's been a rumor going around for over a year now that BSB's going to do a Millennium 2.0 tour, and now the rumor is that they're doing another Vegas residency at the new Sphere.  The Sphere thing sounds more likely than the Millennium part, but it would be cool if it was both.  Def Leppard did a residency in 2013 where they basically played two concerts in one:  the first setlist was a bunch of deep cuts, followed by an intermission, and then they played their whole Hysteria album in order for the second set.  I would LOVE to see BSB do something like that!  The deep cut thing is what we were all hoping their 30 for 30 concert in Cancun would be.  I hope the announcement is not another fan event like Cancun.  Whatever they're doing, it should be something the whole fandom can enjoy.  I know not everyone can make it to concerts, especially when they're in a different country, but at least a tour or residency offers multiple dates to accommodate more people than one big, expensive event.

I heard AO3 membership has been going up exponentially because fanfic.net is getting old and having a lot of issues too, so it definitely could be that the site is getting overloaded.  If that's the case, I'm concerned about what importing all these other dying archives is going to do to it.  Hopefully they have a plan in place to increase their servers or bandwidth or whatever they need to accommodate more users and data.

Yeah, I wish I was able to jump from fandom to fandom like that, too.  The only way I've been able to write for other fandoms are if I'm doing a crossover with BSB.  Apparently, I still need those boys in the story to be fully invested in it LOL.  Out of curiosity, I looked to see if there were any fanfics for The Pitt yet on AO3.  There are 15 so far! LOL  If I hadn't already done an ER crossover, I could see myself doing one with The Pitt.  But since it's only been 5 years since I finished the ER story, I'm not really itching to write another story like that yet.

You're so right about adult friendships.  It's much harder to make new friends as an adult, especially when you're not working or part of a club or church or something.  Pretty much all of the friends I actually hang out with in real life, aside from BSB trips, are people I work with.  I barely keep in touch with friends from high school and college anymore outside of Facebook.  Everyone just gets busy with their own lives, and it takes effort on both sides to stay in touch.  Being introverted makes it even harder.  I always wish I lived closer to people I know online.  But then, I have a few friends who started out as online friends who only live 2-3 hours away from me, and we still usually only see each other for BSB-related events LOL.

Oh no!  I'm so sorry about your sister's accident and your car.  I'm glad she wasn't hurt!  And that's good that she has her own car, but it sucks that yours was totaled.  I hope you get a nice insurance check.  When my car was totaled a couple years ago, I actually got way more than I was expecting from my insurance company, about 9 grand for a ten-year-old car that, according to Kelly Blue Book, was only worth $3-4k in trade-in value.  Apparently, it was worth more for its scrap metal and parts than it was as a fully functional car LOL.  So, in that respect, I guess it worked out all right for me in the long run, but I still wish it hadn't happened.  It's so stressful dealing with all that.  I was planning to keep driving my car for a few more years without a car payment and then give it to my nephew when he starts driving, but he's out of luck now.

That's really weird how the Critics Choice Awards were given out.  So, were the supporting actors not able to give a speech, or did they just take turns?  Hopefully they do it differently next year.

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