Geek and Sundry is my tv!

Hello dearest readers,

There may be two posts this week as I have the means for it.

There will also be a new Clog on my youtube channel today, so watch out.

But for now I want to tell you why geek and sundry (http://www.youtube.com/user/geekandsundry) is an amazing youtube channel that you must watch.

So they have 7 shows along with various Tuesday night hang outs which go from guys playing old romancey type games to girls discussing romance and erotica.

I love the shows my favourite being a show based on an online gulid, it based a lot on WoW and those who play a lot of online games will recognise much of yourself in the characers. There are now 6 series and they are all amazing and get better and better. It's written by Felicia Day and as you know I'm a fan.

You can watch season one here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSC2TMwyqzg
They also have run throughs of the last 5 series as 6 is still airing.

My other favourite is Table Top. Now I have been a gamer all my life, but before I started my WoW escapades and my Xbox addiction I played table top games. I remember many a Christmas, Easter or random Friday night playing an epic game called Talisman. It's kinda like dungeons and dragons but a board game that requires less roleplay...unless you're me and always get way into it.

Now Table Top on Geek and Sundry is hosted by Wil Wheaton (another reason I like it, I'm a massive fan, safe to say I may have had a Wesley crush when I was younger).

Every episode Wil talks us through an amazing game and then invites his friends over to play it. By friends I'm talking Rod Roddenberry, Amber Benson, Steve Jackson, Felicia Day and CEO of Blizzard and thats a tiny selection.

It is massive fun watching people I love on tv and gaming all get competitive while playing the best games such as Munchkin, (which I have blogged about here; http://cozibizzle.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/as-promised/) Gloom (http://cozibizzle.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/the-sky-is-gray-the-tea-is-cold/) along with many others like Settlers of Catan, Fluxx, Zombie Dice and more. I do own most of these lol.Here's the link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6C1CBXPvc&list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C&index=1

There are other shows like Written by a kid which is stories that a kid tell and get made into little films, Space Janitors is a new show which you kinda get the jist from in the title. There's Dark Horse Comics animated comics, watch them and then there's Sword and Laser, a fantasy and adventure type book club;

You can watch the shows on the geek and sundry youtube page which I linked above. Also they have a website with forums, ventrilo chat and live chat where all the links to the shows are along with links to get cool clothes and stuff based on the channel; http://geekandsundry.com/

So that is my weekly tv, others watch strictly and stuff, I watch fun videos that are basically my life in ten minutes.

Hope you are now more educated, at least about me and my craziness.

Love to all darlings, seasons greetings.
xxx

The reason I write Fanfiction.

Hello dearies,

I know it's been a while, I could explain but it's private and depressing so I won't bore you. I've been out of my usual internet circles of late so this is actually the first blog/vlog, since then.

Just to let you know I am part way through editing a vlog which should be up sometime this week I hope.

Anyway, today's topic; fanfiction.

Now most of you probably have an idea of what this is, and woe betide anyone who immediately jumps to 50 Shades of Grey cos that is the worst advert for fanfic in the whole of the universe. I mean really!!! Gah, I can't even - eugh! Why - just ew -no.

Sorry minor spaz, no right, fanfiction is writing using already established characters. Fanfic comes in many forms, there's shippers who write couples from shows, books films games etc, these are people invested in a relationship from their chosen place. Slash, which is usually the homosexual versions, and normally ones that aren't canon except to them, I have a couple of these cos I get angry at the universe when something obvious isn't shown *cough John and Sherlock cough* And then there's people who like to make up new adventures for the sake of it but love certain characters or cba to make their own up.

And then there's people who are published fanfiction writers, for instance ever read a world of warcraft book, assassins creed, doctor who...I could go on. These people write fanfiction but for the show, although not strictly cannon they don't change the relationships and history etc.

Now all this information is purely my interpretation, fanfiction does not have rules, that's the beauty of fandoms, people write because they love to, they love the characters or the universes whatever.

I write fanfiction. Some people knew this, others didn't well I have been writing it for about 4 years and I've been reading it a lot longer, published and internet based. I have a few pieces of my own work online and I write it for 3 main reasons;

1. I love the characters and their relationships (granted I do slash couples,)

2. I love to write and using pre-made characters that people are already invested in does make it easier and it does get read.

And 3. My life is boring. Well no, I just tend to escape through writing or reading because on screen romance is so much better than real life. It's easier to write a whirlwind romance using an established tv couple than trying to find and live one yourself.

Plus climbing mountains and throwing a magic ring into a volcano just isn't something you can get from a package holiday :P

So thats my small and hopefully informative blog today, if you're interested in fanfic there are many a site. But please please check the rating before you read it, if it's above pg-13 I'd be careful. Also find out what acronyms mean for instance if you don't want a risqué 18+ peice steer clear of PWP cos it means; and I apologise for the crude wording; Porn Without Plot.

Okay so that's my warning, key sites for fanfic are around I am a member of Livejournal (not just for ff) and many people use Fanfiction.net self naming really.

Any questions or whatever I can always be reached by email; cozi.blog@live.co.uk

Speak soon my lovely readers
xxx