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(Irritable muttering)
This entry started out as a comment on a Cracked article on 6 Simple Things Too Many People Don't Know How To Do. The things are: Swimming, Parallel Parking, Googling Efficiently, Riding A Bike, Driving a Manual Transmission and Exiting a Conversation Gracefully. It's being posted here because I've seen the trolls in the Cracked comment threads and ( Read more... ) -
Speech Recognition
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This & that
Listen is my favourite NuWho ep this series. Managed to surprise me, scare me, and (with Clara's disastrous dates) give a nod back to earlier Moffat comedy like Coupling. I like Capaldi's unnerving version of the character ( Read more... ) -
I Can Haz Shiny Too (cf Julesjones)
I have an iPhone. It is the amusingly-coloured version, and unlike the iPhone 4 I already had, the Home button works ( Read more... ) -
Good & bad things I've seen lately...
The Good:Am giggling at a TV play called Psycho Bitches, which is a (usually) smutty send-up of various historical figures being psychoanalysed (by a therapist played very straight by Rebecca Front). I like their version of Mary Whitehouse, who they write as so innocent of homoerotic subtext that she likes the 'healthy outdoorsy' art of Tom of ( Read more... ) -
Cuddly Orac
In a conversation with lichfieldgent about the 'Big Lie' (see previous entry) he tried to work out what would count as Big Lies. He came up with "Orac goes friendly and cuddly", and I had to point out that Orac canonically falls in love with Avon under the influence of Evil Alien Sand... Obviously Blake's 7 is Too Weird to Warp.
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One Big Lie
Following reading a humour fic I really didn't like in the Sherlock kinkmeme. Was deciding why it really didn't work for me. Sherlock was oblivious to the point of idiocy. John was a selfish git. Everyone talked American (I hate this in fics for British shows). And there was a weird meat obsession throughout for no readily-observable reason. ( Read more... ) -
Still aten't dead, and have been watching Sherlock trailer
Have been watching the Sherlock trailer (I usually don't bother to watch trailers). The best bit was "the one person Moriarty didn't think mattered to [him] at all". Ever since TRF I'd been wondering, there ought to be another person on that list, and of course, it goes straight back to ACD canon as well (am being mildly cryptic in case there's ( Read more... ) -
Splutter! (escaping simile of the day alert!)
Found on AO3 in a LOTR fic:
"Frodo wept, his cheeks flushed unattractively, the light once in his eyes now draining through his tears like a watering can with holes in the bottom." -
Fleeting fannish thought inspired by an exchange of comments on my AO3 account...
Why is fandom (the writers I enjoy anyway) disappearing down a huge sink marked 'Avengers' at the moment? Everything's comics/graphic novels/superhero flicks. OTOH I have a mild kink for xenobiology, genderfluidity and Norse myth, so I enjoy odd bits of Thorki I've read. Although I tend to like Loki and think Thor is A Bit Thick Really ( Read more... )