Paper Girls

I've watched the first few episodes of Paper Girls, which is an Amazon Original. It's based on either a book or comic series appears to be completed, so the show should have direction and a plan? I am not double checking this because I am avoiding spoilers.

I think I've seen the book on recc lists and dismissed it as YA. It does involve twelve year old girls and it's sci fi, but it doesn't have the heavy handed didactic nuance-less crap that most YA has. The plot doesn't talk down to the characters or the audience. At least so far! We'll see how it goes. I have liked a series at the start and then eaten my words.

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Eddie Munson Big Bang

Update: In this post I was considering the 40k Eddie Munson Big Bang. I just saw the announcement for a 10k Stranger Things Big Bang which is ... probably a much better idea. 10k feels a bit short for a bang, and I am less interested in a more general bang.

Am I dumb enough to try a Big Bang again? Not only have almost all my experiences with structured fic events been horrible, but the last two I did never actually ran. So, not only did I not know about re-dating, when my fic went live it wasn't part of any event.

I've also dealt with weird stuff with mods that I am not going to bring up publicly in namespace, but when I've posted on FFA 'hey, was this weird of the mod?' the answer was unilateral.

I feel like the spiders Georg of weird BB and Exchange problems. I swore them off forever years ago. I stick to fandom stockings type events only.

Still, I'd really like a chance to do something structured, long term and interactive in the Stranger Things fandom.

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