The summer bug

Things I should be doing while I'm home alone in the summertime:
*Posting stuff on my travel and video blogs
*Working on a website I'm supposed to be designing
*Getting ready for VidCon aka watching YouTube channels I've never seen before
*Watching Good Movies!
*Brushing up on technical film stuff. Reading all those film books I have lying around.
*Going outside.


Things I'm actually doing:
*Playing Diablo 3 almost nonstop and getting very excited when I sell something I found (mostly for game gold, but hey, I did sell something for $5.50--real money!)
*Watching Buffy, duh. Also other miscellaneous TV shows.
*Sitting on my balcony and just staring at the pond behind my apartment.
*Making feminist graphics on photoshop.
*Staying inside.

new things

so i know we said we'd be backing off of here and working more on side projects, which is true. but this is still the only place where the two of us post together! that's important to me. so here's a look at some things i have planned for the trope:

1. a buffy chat - lili and i have both started watching buffy the vampire slayer obsessively. we're going to have a pretty serious film-studyish chat about the show, the plot, the metaphors, joss whedon, and the clothes (i have A LOT to say about buffy's clothes) and post it here.

2. more movie (and book) reviews - i definitely have been meaning to do more serious, in-depth movie reviews. i've watched/read so much. and, if you have suggestions, we love suggestions. suggest!

3. youtube reviews - with john and hank green's many side projects and things like the new (weird? i find it weird) show wigs, amongst a ton of other cool stuff, youtube is definitely becoming a medium worth taking seriously. i'll review some of my favorite youtubers, providing you with plenty of links to the greatest videos i have ever seen.

happy summer!

Updates

Hi Tropers!
Erm.. yeah.. so you may have noticed The Trope isn't really an ongoing thing anymore. Sorry about that! The truth is, we had a lot of fun with it, but I guess we've moved on to other things. But don't worry! That doesn't mean you'll be stuck without reading our stuff. We've just sort of branched out onto our own stuff. So here's a nice pile of links for you to read what we're up to now.

Lili-
Videotrope: A tumblr about all things video--movies, tv shows, and even YouTube channels.
Undercover Tourist: A Wordpress blog about travel, with tips on traveling in general as well as restaurant/attraction recommendations.

Mollie-
the osprey: a tumblr of everything i ever wanted to reblog, plus a few posts of random tumblr media
the hybrid animal machine collective: another tumblr, but this time no reblogging! mostly right now it's screenshots from buffy the vampire slayer and a lot of my artwork.

We still love you!