Shadowhunters Mid-Season Blues

I knew it was going to happen.

I was REALLY excited about Shadowhunters. I tweeted and posted about them on social media sites.
I joined Tumblr.|
I even started this blog.
Then the show went on hiatus until June 5^th and I started to fizzle.

A very slow fizzle.

A first I was still excited so I participated in some Appreciation Weeks.
I re-posted photos of specific actors and their appropriate character on specific days of the week. It was very technical – post your favorite Simon photo from Season 1 on X day.
But then I got behind and sidetracked and I kinda.. stopped.

Fellow Tweeter, Aneesa @slayfray, was really good at posting these! 

 I participated in RewatchShadowhunters2A on Saturdays at 5pm. 

For maybe 3 weeks.
Then spring happened and guess who didn’t want to be inside at 5pm watching Shadowhunters?
This girl.
And then once I got behind.. yeah, it went downhill from there.

I believe it was Malec Source‏ @MalecShSource who came up with this/

Don’t forget the fan fiction. I read that off and on but I think I got immersed in the books and I couldn’t focus on both.
It’s also really fun to check out fan art – but again, I feel like I was more into it when the show was active.

To make excuses for myself, life has been really busy. 

It’s the end of the semester at the College University that I work at, which makes it hard to focus on Shadowhunters.
Apparently people need/want more things as the semester closes.
I might even be grateful that Shadowhunters took the break when they did.

From City of Heavenly Fire

It's okay though.
There has been upsides.
I did read the books.
I’ve now finished all of The Mortal Instruments and I’ve just started The Infernal Devices.
And honestly, it was nice because I feel like it’s been awhile since I’ve had a good book series to chomp into.
Maybe I tweeted specific quotes or pages from the book.
No, it’s not as weird as you think.
Are you judging me?

I’ve also found some new Twitter friends.
Some of my friends are book friends – specifically the books Shadowhunters is based on.
There was this one moment, at the end of Book 5, when I hit a big shocker and I HAD to DM my book friend.
It was that big!
There are also Twitter friends that I just talk to about life, but we because friends because of Shadowhunters.
That’s actually been nice.

I watched some new shows and caught up on some.
I’m still really into Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., although the framework needs to go down!
Single By 30 and Me and My Grandma were good finds on YouTube Red.
I’m gonna be honest and say that I’m struggling through 13 Reasons Why, but I was really jazzed about Iron Fist, both on Netflix.

In fact, I think I am MORE excited for the Defenders to come out in August than I am for the return of Shadowhunters.

But if you tell anyone, I’m going to lie and claim this blog was hacked.

I did also keep up with this blog, although I’m not as with it as I have been.
Usually I pre-write my blog entries so I’m always ahead.
I’m writing this week’s two days before it goes live.
Nothing like cutting it close.

Overall, I think it’s okay that I’ve lost a little of the original enthusiasm I had for Shadowhunters.
It gave me the chance to love other things and give them some energy.
When Shadowhunters comes back on in June, I’ll be in a better place to give them love.
So yeah, I have other interests. I think that’s healthy.
And I still have things I want to say about Shadowhunters, but I also want to go outside and plant some flowers.

It’s all about balance friends.