Ah, the therapy episode. It's sad I've watched it so many times I know the episode just by the number you're on. I was the same with Supernatural, but there were so many seasons of that, that after a while I wasn't able to figure out what was what unless it also had the episode name attached. LOL I hope you continue. I'd love for you to read my stuff again.

I'm the same, once I love something then it usually stays with me, like my love for BSB.  I can make room for other groups/singers but BSB are my number ones.  I usually listen to something of theirs every day

Mare, I'll have to watch Succession so that I can read your new stories and understand the characters.  I've still only seen a few episodes as Tim lost interest when we were watching, so I'll have to watch on my own at some point.  I've only seen up to episode 7 of series one so far, so I'm way behind.

I noticed it seems so easy for other people to just hop from fandom to fandom writing wise. I feel like I'd really have to know the characters inside and out before I could write them. And even then, unless I felt some kind of connection, I doubt I'd be able to. I wrote one Supernatural fic and it was only a one shot and I found that extremely difficult. I know people who barely started watching a show like Hacks or Interview with a Vampire and then suddenly they are posting their new fics about them.

In other news. I looked up when Keanu was going to be on Broadway in Waiting for Godot, and it won't be until fall of 2025. I was really hoping Kieran and Keanu would be there at the same time. I'll only be able to afford one trip to NYC so, sorry Keanu.     Unless Kieran's play is in for the long haul and overlaps, which I highly doubt. 

Yes, they did/do!  At least they did here on AC.  I still get the best AO3 comments from people who used to post on AC.  (Mainly Steph.)

I'm glad you're getting some interest in BSB back.  It's hard when they're not really doing anything.  I hope they start working on a new album soon!  I know they technically released an album less than two years ago (the Christmas album), but since the concerts and most of the promotional stuff they had planned for it got canceled, it feels like it's been a lot longer since we got new music.  I'm ready for a new BSB era!

I get it, though; there are many things I will always love but am no longer obsessed with.  BSB will always be my #1 as far as fandoms go.  I wish I could get into writing for another fandom, ideally one that's more active/popular, but loving something and writing fanfic about that something are two different things.

I miss Steph's reviews. The BSB peeps all gave really great reviews.

It usually takes me awhile before a hyper fixation dims for me, but when it does, it completely goes away at first and then it'll slowly come back but nothing to where it was before. That's where I am with BSB now. I'm clicking on more stuff related to them now, showing more intertest but not anywhere near where I was before. I will always love them though. That's another thing that remains true of everything I've ever obsessed over. They still mean the world to me. I think the only fandom that has never swayed for me is The Mets and it's been my longest one yet. Although I'd probably put that in a different category.

I'm glad we've never had a dust storm here. Those seem awful. So weird how all these weather events are slowly hitting places they never have before. I didn't really want to live through the actual apocalypse, but here we are. 

Yay for reviews, especially the long and detailed kind!  You can never predict what readers will choose to comment on.  Sometimes things that I expect to get a big reaction don't, yet small things will.  But like you said, I'm grateful to get any reviews, so I'll take whatever I can get!  Shoutout to Steph for leaving detailed, coherent comments!

LOL Thanks for the GOAT comment!  I'm really just unusually loyal.  Once I fall in love with something, I tend to love it forever.  I do take pride in my site's longevity, so I'll keep it going for as long as I'm still using it.

I'm glad you weren't affected by the tornado!  We actually had an EF1 tornado here while I was in Tennessee.  I guess there were a lot of tree limbs and power lines down, but thankfully I didn't have any damage at my house, and everything else was mostly cleaned up by the time I got home.  Tornadoes aren't that unusual in Illinois, but it's scary to hear about them happening in places that don't usually get them.  We've had a couple of dust storms in the past year or so, which is not something I ever remember happening here before.  It happened in the spring when we had a long stretch without rain while farmers were planting their crops, so the fields were full of loose dirt that blew up into big dust clouds.  It affected visibility so badly that they had to shut down interstates because nobody could see to drive.  I would expect that in the desert, but not here.  Climate change indeed!

I could see Howie on a cooking show like Great British Bake Off or something like that lol.

Wow you had a tornado there? That must be scary.  I hope there's no damage.  We don't get anything like that here, just lots of rain.

We aren't supposed to get anything like that here either. We are only known for heavy snow but within the past year we've had an earthquake and now a tornado!

I did finally get on to AO3 yesterday and there were two reviews. One of them was really long and detailed. I love those! I think she figured out that I'm not going to kill Roman. The other girl just said the usual I can't wait until Roman and Gerri reunite. LOL I think I'll probably get one or two more comments. I usually have one steady reviewer who usually doesn't read until the end of the week. It's so weird, because some weeks I'll get about 2 or 3 comments. Other weeks like last week, I'll get about 6 or so. I've stopped trying to figure it out. I'm just grateful for people who take the time to review my stuff.

The tornado hit downtown Buffalo, so it was a pretty safe distance away from me. It's rare to get a tornado here. It was an EF1 and mostly just took some roofs off of houses and downed power lines and trees but thankfully no deaths or causalities. Climate change, weather is getting wacky everywhere. I am surprised we didn't lose power.

I'm glad you got writing done because or your power outage. I do think you should go ahead and do that with your one shot. The fact that it's not a one shot alone is a great April Fool's joke. I can't believe you've managed to maintain that gag for as long as you have but, I also can't believe you also have kept your site alive for as long as you have. GOAT!

Howie on the Great British Baking Show. I would love to see that! I stopped watching The Masked Singer a while ago and only watched SYTYCD because of Nick that one season.

I have not done the packing thing yet, but I do think I have bought everything I'm going to need including every possible motion sickness medicine available. Just in case. LOL

I could see Howie on a cooking show like Great British Bake Off or something like that lol.

Wow you had a tornado there? That must be scary.  I hope there's no damage.  We don't get anything like that here, just lots of rain.

My district has 11 schools, which makes us one of the bigger districts in the mostly suburban/rural area I live in, but not big compared to the urban districts.  It is probably just slightly bigger than your hometown, as we also have 6 elementary schools, 2 intermediate schools, and 2 junior highs.  Our district does not include the high school; they're actually a separate district because several other K-8 districts feed into them.  The high school is huge!  It is a weird way to divide the grades, definitely different from the district I grew up in.  I went to a K-4 elementary school, followed by a 5-8 middle school.  Those two schools have since combined into one K-8 school after one of the schools added on a new wing.  My school is the newest building in our district, and we are already busting at the seams, so it'll be interesting to see what changes redistricting brings.

I heard AO3 was having issues yesterday, so I don't think it was just you.  I tried going there to reply to a comment, and it wouldn't load.  Then I saw they had tweeted about the site being slow and something about emails not working properly.  Then my power was randomly out for 3 hours last night, so I never did get back on to see if it was working again.  I hope you didn't have any damage from the tornado!  And hopefully you do get some good comments on your chapter.  I understand the debate over whether to show the entire healing process or skip ahead.  Sometimes I like to go into agonizing detail, and sometimes I feel like that just drags it out too far.  I guess it depends on how well it fits with the rest of the story and whether it's important to show the healing process or not.

I actually ended up having a decent writing day yesterday because my power went out, and I had nothing else to do except write on my Chromebook.  LOL That's a good idea, just update the Frick & Frack story every April Fool's Day.  I started it as a one-shot, but it's getting long enough that I will probably end up breaking it up into 3 or 4 chapters by the time it's finished, so that would get me through the next few April Fool's Days LOL.  That is always a minor source of stress for me, trying to come up with a good prank.  Every year, I'm like, "Maybe this is the year that I let that go," but I've always managed to come through with something, even if it's lame and last-minute.  What's really pathetic is that "Frick & Frack's Fuck Fiesta" already has more hits on AO3 than half of my novels. 🤦‍♀️

I could see Howie with a cooking show on Food Network LOL.  That would be awesome!  Do they have celebrity cooking competition shows?  He would be a great contestant on one of those.  Still hoping to see one of the other guys on DWTS or The Masked Singer at some point!  I don't watch either of those shows anymore, but I would if they had a BSB on it.

Yay, you're less than a month away!  Arriving the night before sounds like a good idea, just in case of traffic or anything else.  Have you started making a packing list yet?