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Yuletide Letter
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I think there're so many mpreg!Charles fics that are still somehow much less emasculating than most of the AUs where Charles is a man is related to the fact that in the movie Erik refers himself as Frankenstein's monster, that there are parallels between Charles and Shaw in their dealings with Erik (there's a beautiful vid but I don't recall the ( Read more... ) -
let's avoid reality...
I'm not reading books (it's all papers of late) and now I can't read the news. Natural disaster, economic disaster, and compromise of civil liberties in the Western world. Nothing's new except myself, who still finds it all startling when I don't find it enraging...so it's all been roaming for fanfics (beautiful lovely angst-filled XMFC fusion fics ( Read more... ) -
heart of darkness and Mr. Todd...and it's 4:33am and I'm not asleep..
Accidentally watched Last King of Scotland on TV, which's a horrifically stressful, especially when you realise there's nothing truly sympathetic about the main character other than the actor being James McAvoy whose face currently induces a lot of sympathy from me. Also, that's a lot of unexpected nakedness...The violence is actually less than ( Read more... ) -
the barbarians are coming
I.Cannot.Deal reasonably with The Rise of the Planet of Apes. I ended up giggling uncontrollably at various moments in the movie. ( slight spoilers ) -
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I watched a Colbert interviewing a psychiatry professor today who claims that Tony Blair's too mentally normal to be creative during crises situations. 0_o ( Read more... ) -
time, time, and half a time
Captain America - unexpectedly touching, unexpectedly full of recognizable British actors, unexpectedly bad villainy-plot.
I spent half the movie going "oh Steve *sob because of his Goodness* and the other half "heh, isn't that the new Julia Flyte? That person looks familiar, Richard Armitage is in this? what's Dominic Cooper..wait, did the ( Read more... )