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mare:
I feel the same way about Twitter and FB and I use them the same way you do. I can talk incessantly about my fandoms on Twitter, but I use FB as a way to keep in touch with everyone else. only a few of you have made the move up to my FB friend's level. lol I haven't seen the political posts on FB as much as I have on Twitter including people I don't follow suddenly popping up for me. I went on my follower's page and noticed Elon and some of those people are following my account. I wonder if it's the same way it was on Myspace where the guy who invented it just friended everyone. I don't see myself leaving either platform and get almost a little anxious when people say they are. I've tried Threads and Bluesky, but I don't understand them.

Glad to hear Brian stopped with the MAGA posts. Did his wife as well? Is Baylee going on American Idol? I think that's something else I saw Rose mention. Can he even do that? Wasn't he signed with a record deal and has already toured the country etc... how is that going to be fair?

Oh, it would be nice if BSB decided on another residency. Sad it always has to be Vegas though. Some venues in NYC also do residencies. They should look into that as well. I agree with you about the whole destination thing. Cruises and vacations are extreme and do exclude a lot of people. It's usually the same people who are always excluded as well. That would be interesting if they did the entire Milennium album from start to finish. If they toured here, I'd pay to go see that.

AO3 was down last night and earlier this morning. Both times I went to answer reviews. I do hope they aren't taking on more than they should be. It would suck for me when I go to update after getting all the stupid HTML codes in there, once I click post it didn't work.

I get jealous that people can seem to jump from fandom to fandom so easily. Like my entire Succession twitter timeline is talking about nothing but Severance and while I do like the show, to me it's just alright, but nothing to get obsessed over. So, while they are all Severance this and Severance that, I'm still over there gushing about Kieran. I mean they will come back probably by Monday but since the last episode aired it's all about that. I'm impressed there's The Pitt fanfic. Did they manage to just focus on ships? Like how on earth? lol

Not working is what really slowed my friendship making down. My entire social life in PA depended on my teacher and music teacher friends.

We'll see what happens with my car. It's a 2016 Verano which isn't a popular car, so that might help me out and it didn't even have 50,000 miles on it because I hated to drive so it was only to and from work. It's been paid up for a while now. My sister takes it out and drives it to work for about a month before switching back to her car just so it doesn't die. It's not in bad condition and has a brand-new battery and a new tire. According to the blue book, it's worth about $5,000 so in my mind I was expecting to get that much or a little more. The good thing for me is I am not dealing with all the insurance crap because I wasn't the one in the accident so it's my sister who has to do the back and forth because I wasn't there. Still annoying.

The Supporting actors were able to give a speech but the first two had no idea what on earth to do. It was one of the guys from Shrinking and the girl was from Hacks and they literally just looked at each other for a second and started talking at the same exact time, which was hilarious, but then she stopped and let him go first and then she went but since all that confusion happened, she like said two words and the music started playing. Then they did the same thing for the supporting roles for drama as well. Since they saw what the two before them did, they were quicker to take turns but still, no other acting category did that. No one at all did. I mean I know they were probably wanting to save time, but it was classless. Do it for the limited series people if you want to do it to anyone. Hopefully they'll work that out. Last year I remembered them announcing them all in one bunch like that, but I think they at least got up one at a time and had their own moment. Awards season is winding down now. Just a few more to go. SAG will be next.

Carter-Orange:
Sorry to hear about your car Mare, I hope the insurance claim isn't too much of a hassle for you and your sister.

I also know what you mean about making new friends when you get older and you're an introvert.  I've got the same few friends I've had for many years and I don't even get to see them that much these days even though we don't live far from each other.  I talk to people in work but I wouldn't call them friends lol, plus we're only in the office a couple of days a week and work from home the rest of the time.

I also don't really have an interest in reading other fandoms, it's just BSB for me and even then I don't read anywhere near as much as I used to.  I think I used to read a lot during work but these days work is busier so I don't have the chance so much.

mare:
Still haven't heard about the car. It was towed to a new place since my insurance company doesn't work with the place it ended up initially. I should hear today if they think it's a complete loss or not.

It took a long time to feel like some of my coworkers were friends. I feel like that happens when you can actually go out to dinner with them and talk about other things with only work coming up occasionally. That was my gauge anyway. lol I've been hearing from a lot of my teacher friends lately with all the Trump crap happening. Many of them are very proactive and have been actually taking that step and calling their representative s but since PA is now mostly red, their calls are being ignored. Another one of my teacher friends who has since moved to Savannah Georgia is having the same problem. It sucks to live in the South right now. I don't know if I could've handled living in Nashville if Trump was in office.

RokofAges75:
Ew, I didn't realize Elon was following everyone on Twitter now.  Creepy.  It does sound like MySpace Tom, but more sinister.  BlueSky is similar enough to Twitter that I don't mind it, but I only have a few friends there, and none of the Boys have moved there yet, so it's not a replacement for Twitter yet.  Maybe someday.  Threads finally has a Following option to filter your feed so it doesn't just show you random content from users you don't follow, so maybe I'll start using it more.

To be fair, Brian never really posted anything full-on MAGA.  His wife did, but she deleted most of her social media accounts or made them private after the backlash in 2020.  I still follow her on Instagram for the occasional Brian photo she posts, but she's never posted much political stuff there.  The worst of it was on FB.  I'm sure she's still as MAGA as ever, but she's learned to keep her ignorant thoughts to herself.  And apparently Baylee deleted his political posts after auditioning for American Idol.  I thought American Idol used to not allow professional recording artists to audition, but they must have changed the rules.  I haven't watched it in years, but apparently, a lot of the people who audition now have released music before; they're just not well-known or successful.  I liked it better when it was all amateurs.  I'll be curious to see how Baylee does.  I have mixed feelings on him auditioning, but at least he'll be able to get some real, hopefully unbiased feedback that will help him grow as an artist.  I think he needed to do something to step out of Brian's shadow and cut the cord from his Mom-ager if he's going to have a real career in music that doesn't just depend on BSB fans.  As much as I love Brian, I haven't bought any of Baylee's music because I'm not into country.  He doesn't have a bad voice, but he's nothing like Brian in his prime.

An NYC residency would be cool!  They probably stick with Vegas because it's convenient for at least 3/5 of them, especially Nick since he lives there.  But it's a short flight from LA for AJ and Kevin, too.  I saw some speculation that, with Nick's ongoing legal drama, a Vegas residency is a better choice than a new album and tour right now.  It keeps him close to home, and there's less risk of cancellations.  As much as I'm ready for new music, I'm still salty about so much of their Christmas album promo getting canceled.  They're probably better off waiting for the next album cycle until the cases are resolved.  I can't wait for that to be over and for Nick to be able to talk openly about what he's been through.  But, anyway, based on the clues they've been posting, it looks very likely that some kind of Millennium 2.0 thing is happening.  Someone posted a leaked link to a Millennium 2.0 double vinyl album that was supposedly listed on Amazon.  The speculation is that one of the discs will be the original album, possibly remastered, and the other will include some new remixes or recordings and unreleased tracks.  If that's true, at least that is something the whole fandom can enjoy, even if they can't make it to Vegas for a show.  And this is all still just rumor at this point.  They're apparently announcing or releasing something tomorrow morning at 8 EST, according to the little teaser video they posted tonight, so we should know more then!

I haven't watched Severance.  Is it related to Succession somehow?  From what I saw of The Pitt fics, the biggest ship so far is Dr. Robby and Dr. Collins, the pregnant doctor.  And there are already a few ER crossovers, of course.  I like the characters but not enough to want to write fanfic about them, unless it was in the context of a BSB crossover.  But some people can write fanfic about literally anything!

I hope you get more than $5000 back for your car!  Sounds like it was in good condition and will hopefully be worth a lot in parts.

I agree with everything you both said about friends and coworkers.  I'm sure working from home makes it even harder to make and stay friends with coworkers, Steph.  I'm lucky in that respect because working in a school feels a lot like going to school.  I eat lunch with the same group of people in the teacher's lounge every day, and I consider them all friends to some extent.  But even within that group, there are smaller groups of us that actually get together outside of school and in the summer to hang out.  Those are my true friends, not just my work friends.  It definitely helps to go out to dinner and have drinks and get to know people outside of work.

I'm glad you have a lot of teacher friends who are anti-Trump, Mare!  We are in the minority in my school because I live in a pretty red part of a blue state.  (Illinois is a blue island in a sea of red because of Chicago.)  I know who I can share my opinions openly with at work and who I should avoid political discussions with.  Thankfully, my two best friends from work are liberal - which is definitely part of the reason we've become good friends.  I'm sure it would suck to be a liberal living in the south.  I hate living among the ignorance that surrounds me, but at least I'm in a blue state that finally (FINALLY!) has a great governor.  Illinois has a bad track record with past governors being corrupt or completely incompetent.  I saw that Trump just pardoned our former governor, Blagojevich, which is interesting because he's a Democrat... but he was also on Celebrity Apprentice, so I guess they're buddies now.  Birds of a feather flock together!

In a bit of good news, I have a snow day tomorrow!  It's supposed to snow all day tomorrow and accumulate up to 7 inches, so they went ahead and called off school tonight, which I so appreciate.  I know 7 inches is nothing by Buffalo standards, but it's more than we've had all winter.

Carter-Orange:
Yay for a snow day for you! We don't even get 7mm of snow, never mind 7 inches lol

I'm excited to hear what this BSB thing is going to be.  I'd love to hear unreleased songs even though I do have a lot of old unreleased songs already.  If it's a Las Vegas residency then hope everyone able to go has a great time.  I don't know if I'd ever to be able to go, but I can dream lol

Yes, it can be a bit lonely working from home part of the week, but I'm used to it now as done it since Covid times.  At least I can have my music playing while I work.  I do have Teams so can chat to people in work from home.

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