and I am ILL, bleh. So have a meme, stolen from alienchrist:

Name 5 bad-ass female fictional characters and tell me why. Try and use as many different canons you can!

Trying not to repeat any of the canons in alienchrist's post, then...

1. Sir Integra Hellsing (Hellsing): Sir Integra Hellsing is so fucking badass that the most powerful, legendary vampire in all the ( Read more... )

1. Back playing Pokemon (Soul Silver) for the first time since Gold&Silver first came out (I played Gold on a MONOCHROME GAMEBOY. Memories~). How am I ever going to get any more work done ever. I am already making an embarrassment of myself by a) singing the cartoon theme tune constantly, and thereby revealing that I know all the words, and b) ( Read more... )

David Cameron will be the UK Prime Minister for the next 5 years, supported by a Tory-Lib Dem coalition govt.So let me get this straight. When I cast my vote in support of a party that, of the big 3 ( Read more... )

So yesterday I stole forthwritten away from the LGBT conference that brought her back up north and awesome times were had, even if there was a disappointing lack of genitalia-shaped flora. BUT, while it was brilliant to see forthwritten again, and all the new people she introduced me to were lovely, I still found myself left with that bizarre feeling of alienation I get ( Read more... )

Nearly dawn, and I am pretty much out of enthusiasm for this election.

Fuck Oxford West & Abingdon going blue.

Fuck every single person who voted for the BNP.

Fuck anyone who would have voted Labour or Lib Dem and didn't bother; a lot of the Tory gains were won with tiny majorities ( Read more... )

In all seriousness, though, no soapboxing from me today about who to vote for. I only really want to say one thing - if you are eligible, VOTE. Vote vote vote vote vote.

Last year, I was out of the country for the European Parliament elections, and didn't care enough to sort out a postal or proxy vote. Because of this kind of apathy, Nick Griffin ( Read more... )

What strikes me about this is that on any website where I've seen the story reported, the vast majority of comments in support of this apparently slandered woman are themselves full of, and there is no other word for it, bigoted views on immigration. My respect for Gordon Brown shot up when I heard this story - because it was such a relief to see ( Read more... )

I watched the UK's first ever televised party leader debate last night, for the most part with much interest (although I got pretty tired of the way as the debate went on, every single question seemed to end up in the same circular fight about spending cuts). Despite the mountain of provisos and regulations that were put in place before any of them ( Read more... )

Got back on Monday from spending Easter weekend in Gibraltar with my dad's side of the family. Although my grandparents had come over here relatively recently, I'd not been to Gib for 8 years, so it was pretty exciting to go back ( Read more... )

Finally!

( spoilers for the entire thing, in case there's anyone who hasn't finished it yet )