There must be something to the heft of that 'group of boys' vs 'group of girls' pattern... I'd stalled in my enthusiasm for playing with the idea till one of the characters occurred to me in male form, and suddenly the whole idea seemed so much more exciting. Sigh. I'm a cliche. The story now feels like nothing so much as a Clamp scenario in the ( Read more... )

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I just want to see more movies... well, yes. Just re-watched half of Wet Hot American Summer, which I guess counts? And I saw three quarters of Night at the Museum on the plane from Sydney, while a sweaty Minkie slept in the eerie little canvas 'bassinette' that folded out from the wall separating us from business class. Also re-watched an old ( Read more... )

I wanted to watch more movies, after my lovely two days of trailers, so I went to my local video store - which, apart from not having a great selection, is also not 'barrier free' and will easily admit neither wheelchair nor pram (and why do passing businessmen not help the mum struggling with the pram up the concrete steps, huh, where are the ( Read more... )

I've been having a fairly self-indulgent day, watching movie trailers each time Minkie drops off to sleep. And I'm quite keen to see First Snow, and I've also learnt that
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So I've been thinking about attraction, lately, and how much of it is a product of actions and words, rather than appearance; in real life, sure, but even more so in books, where the visual is only as strong as the imagination of the reader. Or maybe that's just me. Maybe there are romance readers out there who get all swoony when someone is ( Read more... )

As well as Hero, I downloaded the first episode of Princess Princess D. I had to. You understand, don't you? I just had to. Low budget Japanese drama where whatever funds could be found were spent on lipgloss for boys??! Live action boys in dresses?? Ahem. I didn't even get through the first episode - it was surprisingly cheesy. I know, I know. But ( Read more... )

Heh, after chuckling at
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