White Collar, season 1, and other mood supplements

Having made it through this sad heavy week without my beloved canine companion, the main ingredients in my coping process were twofold. The first was commenting. I figured however bad I've been feeling I could at least brighten someone else's day by this means, so I have made time every day for being on AO3. This gave me something to focus on, and helped me feel like I was accomplishing something. I have also started making more of an effort to comment through my Reading List, wherever my opinion is applicable. Granted, that will be naturally limited by subject matter, but I like having something to focus on.

My other source of mood brightening came from binging White Collar. Blasted through the rest of the first season (nine episodes) in a handful of days, unusual for me. I will ease back into my normal genre pursuits sometime soon, but this week in particular I needed something to watch which I... didn't actually care about. This sounds insulting. It isn't. I didn't feel up to keeping track of elaborate worldbuilding, or time travel/reincarnation plotlines, or even revisiting an old favorite. I just wanted to tune in and forget everything while waiting for Peter to smile at Neal, or Elizabeth to laugh at something utterly and completely trivial, or for them all to trust each other no matter how bad things looked. It helped a lot, and just when I was utterly relaxed into thinking even the season finale was gonna be low-key, and was really enjoying the Peter/Neal vibes (at an airport like Casablanca or something) along comes a MASSIVE ( spoiler )