I have had a crappy weekend at work, even beyond that which is implied by the phrase 'weekend at work.' Everything that could go wrong did. I fucked something up real bad, and my facetious response that 'well, no one died', (because, you know, in our line of work people do, and they didn't, and it's only money) endeared me to exactly nobody. Then I ( Read more... )

Two things that have annoyed me this weekend:

1. I have The Lurgy

2. After resisting the urge to set sail on the high seas and thinking, no, I shall wait for the UK release of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and throw some money at it, it isn't showing anywhere at all near me. The closest place was the playhouse in Edinburgh, but, well, this seemed ( Read more... )

One of the many reasons I haven't been around much is that I haven't had a device with a keyboard for about six months and it has been hard to express the depth of my love for Chrisjen Avasarala or the universe spanning meh-ness of my reaction to Rise of Skywalker on a phone ( Read more... )

Your main fandom of the year?

I haven't really had one. Not since Game of Thrones limped to its deeply unsatisfying conclusion at any rate. That's probably part of the reason (along with brain weasels and pesky real life stuff) that I haven't been around much.

Your favourite film you watched this year?I think my favourite film was the one I went ( Read more... )

It's irksome to come up with a much better title for a fic after it's already been up for a week. I should have called this The Warfare of Ghenhis Khan; even it's working title Sansa Stark and the Oncoming Stockholm Syndrome would have been better than the title I ended up using.

The Red Tent (GoT; Sansa Stark/Daenerys Targaryen)

The terrible ( Read more... )

It belatedly occurred to me, in, like, early September, that I've been in the doldrums for most of 2019. Not badly or anything, but the year has had a miasma of ...meh about it. This has mostly manifested in my not reading. That's why I haven't been making my usual books what I've been reading posts. I've been picking up books, and totally failing ( Read more... )

It's weird to me that the Game of Thrones finale was only two weeks ago and it has almost completely fallen out of my head. Like, if I'd hated it I would still be writing thousands of words of angry fixit fic, and if I'd loved it my brain would still be running in happy little loops, but I've barely thought about it at all. It feels like it ( Read more... )

A lot of them were: '...huh.'

Others were: 'isn't it interesting that Yara's still professing loyalty to Dany?' and 'you know if this wasn't the last ever, seriously, we have star wars checks to cash, we're never looking back episode I would be, like, 98% sure that Dany wasn't really dead.'

So,

Everywhere I Look Someone Dies (when will it be my ( Read more... )

I was playing Tomb Raider with my mate. He likes multiplayer shooters like The Division and Destiny and I like story driven single player games like Spider-Man and Horizon Zero Dawn, so the Tomb Raider games are the one thing we can agree to play together ( Read more... )

If Leverage is an example of a show that absolutely stuck its landing, and How I Met Your Mother is a show that absolutely blew its, then Game of Thrones is neck and neck with, like, Lost.

( I honestly don't know what to do with this information )