In which I have a relationship, with television

It’s funny how I remember the years of my relationship with Andy as accompanied by tv shows. We spent the first 2 years together watching Bleach from start to finish. Hundreds of episodes and many many evenings. I associate classic anime with that first student bedroom, its cold brick wall against my back, perched on the end of the bed with his laptop awkwardly balanced in front of us. 

We watched House together on and off throughout our relations, but we cried together at that beautiful ending soon after we moved into our first place. Back when the room was still fairly bare and our tv was tiny and we watched House late at night, struggling to find work in London. 

Then in 2013 we were all about Fairy Tail, culminating in me dressing up as Erza, the beautiful knight who learns that she doesn’t need armour to be tough, but my god can she kick ass when she needs to. I found her a complete inspiration, and delighted in channelling her and being kids' hero for the day.

At the close of 2014 we had just finished watching both sets of Avatar shows, with my jaw dropping at seeing a biracial bisexual couple close the most moving of animated stories. Then this year we were all about Buffy, accompanied by lots of post-show discussion of feminism and not-called-bisexual Willow. 

There's the annual ones, the shows that have come up again and again, like watching Project Runway where we choose our favourite designers and root for them all the way.  Or watching Doctor Who where we complain about how it doesn't live up to our expectations every week, but still tune in for the next one because it's still Doctor Who.

I love to read books for sure. I curl up with comics weekly, on my iPad and in their collected volumes piled high on the shelves. There's certainly hundreds of novels in our house. But I think it is tv that is a shared experience, that makes the memories for us. 

Their soundtracks are the noise of nostalgia. Those characters represent something of ourselves at each point in our relationship. So when we sit down and look at each other to say 'what shall we watch next?', I'm excited about where it's going to take us together. 


Also: These are pictures from our recent trip to Brighton. It has nothing to do with television. But you've all seen a tv before, so I thought this would be more interesting than different angled shots of our screen. 

Uhhh, what?

 

In which my Christmas jumper is totally math

Ok, there's no denying I pretty much abandoned blogging in the Autumn. I kept wanting to do it, to read up on everyone, but I didn't feel motivated by it. I was working really hard and when I came in all I wanted to do was relax away from a computer. Well sort of. I spent a lot of time playing this game:

Well actually, Mass Effect 1, and I played a Femme version of Shepherd who looked more like Pousee from Orange is the New Black than either of the usual depictions of her.

Oh and then a lot of evenings were spent on these two incredible shows: Avatar: the Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra. I find it hard to explain how amazing these two shows are, or how much they mean to me. 

I can say that they have incredible female characters who are able to achieve everything their male counter-parts are. They are amazing for who they are, as people. There's also so much development of everyone, there's political commentary and interesting family relationships. It has such fantastic moments that you can't believe they are doing them in a kid's show and at the same time it never feels like they are pushing an agenda. It's just all perfect storytelling.

In Legend of Korra I love that they were like 'ok we'll give a female led fantasy show a go' and then didn't just stick with Korra, they made the most wonderful and varied women and girls throughout the whole show. With grandmas and little girls who are all brilliant. Watching 4 seasons of 2 shows meant a lot of evenings sitting with hot chocolates under the blanket, thinking about bending over blogging.

But I wanted to tip my toes back in to giving an outfit post ago, with yet another bit of cartoon love. I brought this jumper after thinking about it for a good month. Then I finally caved in and made an hour and half trip to buy it - getting the very last one in the shop!

I don't know if you can tell but it's all about Adventure Time - another kid's cartoon I'm a fan of. I'd tell you I watch adult shows too, but to be honest since Orphan Black finished I'm all about the cartoons.

Sorry the photos aren't great but I think we were a little out of practice. Also it was really windy!
We had to keep pausing in between to wait for clouds and wind to be in the right position.

So that's a little of what I've been up to. Now to catch up on all the blogs!
Hope you have a lovely Christmas.