As someone who had an... off-beat kind of growing up experience because of factors... I missed a lot of pop culture stuff.
And I don't get a ton, a ton of references.
I was in my late 20's when I binged Buffy and though I like certain artists or books or whatever, I've never really been a "fan." Even when hockey was a weekly ritual, I was in for the experience of making food for my people and watching the French broadcasts for nostalgia reasons.
So one of the unexpected things about having a mini-me -- (and the mini-me is way smarter, stronger, clever, funnier, magical and sparklier) is discovering fandoms and through all that, discovering what it is to take joy in a massive community at the same time others are..).
The books were in my TBR pile.
I don't have a lot of spare time to binge shows and honestly most of what I watch is cozy UK series...knitting, cakes, etc because I'm all for curating your own reality as much as possible...so to binge a scripted show in a week... and a hockey show at that (we made a decision that hockey wasn't going to be a weekly feature in our house with the offspring and not an extra-circular for reasons I saw back in 2018 and no regrets. We live where we live, so there needs to be enough awareness to not be in culture isolation but it's not a pursuit or a hobby or a fandom that we engage in).
Yeah.
I love so much about this show.
But as a writer, who writes genre fiction seeing how other people react to genre fiction maybe for the first time ever experiencing it is kind of surreal..kind of like, "Oh, they're learning about the club I'm in."
Including my Mate who kind of somehow, slid his way into my re-watch.
And the cutesy PR stuff? Gah. Love, love.
(And watching an author hit the literal jackpot? Amazing. That just puts a damn smile on my face).
It's a frozen hellscape out there. Find joy where you can.
