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( Fandoms Represented: Buffyverse, Dollhouse, FFIX, Historical RPF, Greek/Roman Mythology, Shakespeare, Red Dwarf, Harry Potter, St. Trinian's, Torchwood. )
( Fandoms Represented: Buffyverse, Dollhouse, FFIX, Historical RPF, Greek/Roman Mythology, Shakespeare, Red Dwarf, Harry Potter, St. Trinian's, Torchwood. )
And I swear it was one of the most harrowingly sad films of my life.
( Are there spoilers for this film? Unsure. Have a cut anyway, most likely in case you wish to avoid all Thatcher ever. )
( Are there spoilers for this film? Unsure. Have a cut anyway, most likely in case you wish to avoid all Thatcher ever. )
My PlayStation
10 January 2012 21:41It works!! At last it is returned to me and it works!! It works!!
OK, I forgot to bring any games back with me in the gloom of having no PlayStation, but I'm popping to see the parents at the weekend and then I'll have games!! Other than this driving game that is far too open box for me (Los Angeles, you are unnavigable!!) and this weird golf game I don't understand at all.
And it works!! I sat on the rug with my controller in front of the telly and I pressed the buttons and it made noises at me!
And I keep seeing adverts for FFXIII-2! All right, so I want to play VIII again, and then there's X and X-2 and XII and the actual XIII to play, but I would say it's, what, about forty-fifty hours a pop for a good completion? That's no so longeven though I like the shopping and the subquests and the all the chocobo stuff.
I've lost everyone with the chocobos, haven't I?
Damn, for the first time ever I wish I were eleven again. No fic to write; no PhD to do - just me and the old PlayStation and a sofa and a telly and the summer holidays and a litre of long-life orange juice. All right, the orange juice wasn't the best bit, but I am something of a liquid snacker and that was when Coke was controlled in my house.
Also, when I was eleven, I knew what to do with cardboard boxes, rather than being faced with the annoyance of knowing I'll need them to move my stuff as and when, but not having any idea where to store them...
Also, I was rubbish when I was eleven. I think I need to combo that with the orange juice and the summer after GCSEs.
OK, I forgot to bring any games back with me in the gloom of having no PlayStation, but I'm popping to see the parents at the weekend and then I'll have games!! Other than this driving game that is far too open box for me (Los Angeles, you are unnavigable!!) and this weird golf game I don't understand at all.
And it works!! I sat on the rug with my controller in front of the telly and I pressed the buttons and it made noises at me!
And I keep seeing adverts for FFXIII-2! All right, so I want to play VIII again, and then there's X and X-2 and XII and the actual XIII to play, but I would say it's, what, about forty-fifty hours a pop for a good completion? That's no so long
I've lost everyone with the chocobos, haven't I?
Damn, for the first time ever I wish I were eleven again. No fic to write; no PhD to do - just me and the old PlayStation and a sofa and a telly and the summer holidays and a litre of long-life orange juice. All right, the orange juice wasn't the best bit, but I am something of a liquid snacker and that was when Coke was controlled in my house.
Also, when I was eleven, I knew what to do with cardboard boxes, rather than being faced with the annoyance of knowing I'll need them to move my stuff as and when, but not having any idea where to store them...
Also, I was rubbish when I was eleven. I think I need to combo that with the orange juice and the summer after GCSEs.
Weather + Fic
3 January 2012 14:54Was very annoyed at the weather today - I've been meaning to meet up with a schoolfriend of mine, but we were trounced on Saturday by her being very ill, and then today on the second attempt I walked through the horrendous rain and wind to a rather starting-to-flood town centre and discovered that the trains weren't running. Things cleared up for a bit not long afterwards, and I can't find any notice of the cancellations online, so I don't know whether the station blokes were having me on or what, but I feel thwarted!
Still, I managed some fic last night, so hurrah (even if it is a bit gloomy). ~500 words; during the S6 sexcapades; PG for being dark enough not to be G; reasonably graphic violence otherwise nothing that would need warning for on the AO3. It's in response to the![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sb_fag_ends prompt of Dante and Virgil leaving the dark wood, and probably makes most sense if you know anything about the Inferno... Preferably of course everyone would be a massive Dante fan and we could all have one big Dante party.
Where the Pilgrim Falls.
The way Buffy sees it, she's not midway down any freaking journey. Even if she is lost.
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Now I feel like I need to add another line to make this post look right on the page, which is pathetic, but here's a sentence anyway. :P
ETA: Aha! A proper ending sentence: Mission Friend-Meet-Up has been rescheduled for a last hoorah tonight. Here's hoping I make it to Finchley Road and the new Hollywood Holmes film...
Still, I managed some fic last night, so hurrah (even if it is a bit gloomy). ~500 words; during the S6 sexcapades; PG for being dark enough not to be G; reasonably graphic violence otherwise nothing that would need warning for on the AO3. It's in response to the
sb_fag_ends prompt of Dante and Virgil leaving the dark wood, and probably makes most sense if you know anything about the Inferno... Preferably of course everyone would be a massive Dante fan and we could all have one big Dante party.Where the Pilgrim Falls.
The way Buffy sees it, she's not midway down any freaking journey. Even if she is lost.
[ LJ | DW | AO3 ]
Now I feel like I need to add another line to make this post look right on the page, which is pathetic, but here's a sentence anyway. :P
ETA: Aha! A proper ending sentence: Mission Friend-Meet-Up has been rescheduled for a last hoorah tonight. Here's hoping I make it to Finchley Road and the new Hollywood Holmes film...
New Sherlock
2 January 2012 17:55Was far, far better than I was expecting it to be. (I liked the first of the last series, didn't much like the second, thought the third was so-so.) It was excellent, in fact. If we do not get more Irene Adler I will feel cheated in the extreme. So there!
2011 Rundown
1 January 2012 22:00I have mixed feelings about 2011, but by all accounts 2012 should be better, so hooray that we're here! I wrote quite a lot of fic last year and produced some vids too, so in the spirit of tradition, here is a rundown with my thoughts on everything at the end of this year...
( Wot I wrote, all 100,000-odd words of it. )
( Wot I vidded, all three things! )
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( And a meme. )
OK, let's go.
( Wot I wrote, all 100,000-odd words of it. )
( Wot I vidded, all three things! )
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( And a meme. )
OK, let's go.
Kiva Free Trials
29 December 2011 23:48Apparently Kiva.org is doing free trials? I don't know what a 'free trial' on Kiva actually involves, but if you're interested in funding micro loans for business start ups (etc.) around the developing world, now's the chance to try out Kiva's system for free!
http://kiva.org/ladieshomejournal
It says they're going to run out of the sponsored free trials pretty quickly, so the link may stop working at some point.
In other news, I'm reading the first Harry Potter in ancient Greek. Couple of chapters in and it's going OK - funnily enough (or probably not surprisingly) it's the names and necessary neologisms (for televisions etc.) that are the most confusing thing. On the other hand, the Dursleys live on 'the street of the myrtle trees', and this continues to tickle me...
http://kiva.org/ladieshomejournal
It says they're going to run out of the sponsored free trials pretty quickly, so the link may stop working at some point.
In other news, I'm reading the first Harry Potter in ancient Greek. Couple of chapters in and it's going OK - funnily enough (or probably not surprisingly) it's the names and necessary neologisms (for televisions etc.) that are the most confusing thing. On the other hand, the Dursleys live on 'the street of the myrtle trees', and this continues to tickle me...
The good thing about the Worcester relatives is that when they come we all just get trashed. Hooray!
The bad thing is that, because my parents bought my a TV for Christmas (yays!!), I bought myself a 60GB PS3 off eBay to play all my old games and have fun new times - but it didn't work!!! The seller is being nice (so far) and says he'll pay me back for repairs which I am going to send the console away for, but right now I'm sad and miffed and don't want to engage. Thus I am absent. Sad panda, etc. :(
The interesting thing is that my brother has mostly been convinced to play Star Wars: The Old Republic (ie. the new Star Wars themed MMO), and watching that has been relatively entertaining. (I'm going to put this out there: I hate real-time fighting, but watching someone who can do it without giving me a headache is quite good, and when the dialogue's fun, the dialogue's fun. No decent shopping so far as I can tell, but I put up with this for not having to do anything.) Star Wars is essentially milking the franchise for all it's worth now, but our sarcastic female smuggler character is excellent, and basically sounds like Faith. Plus, playing all the 'light side' options as a Sith Inquisitor (who we have characterised as a mix of Hermione Granger and Aeris from FFVII) gives you the most hilarious exchanges in the world.
So is Christmas. And that.
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shapinglight got me a Festive Penguin!! Thank yoooouuuu!!! It's so adorable and festive.
The bad thing is that, because my parents bought my a TV for Christmas (yays!!), I bought myself a 60GB PS3 off eBay to play all my old games and have fun new times - but it didn't work!!! The seller is being nice (so far) and says he'll pay me back for repairs which I am going to send the console away for, but right now I'm sad and miffed and don't want to engage. Thus I am absent. Sad panda, etc. :(
The interesting thing is that my brother has mostly been convinced to play Star Wars: The Old Republic (ie. the new Star Wars themed MMO), and watching that has been relatively entertaining. (I'm going to put this out there: I hate real-time fighting, but watching someone who can do it without giving me a headache is quite good, and when the dialogue's fun, the dialogue's fun. No decent shopping so far as I can tell, but I put up with this for not having to do anything.) Star Wars is essentially milking the franchise for all it's worth now, but our sarcastic female smuggler character is excellent, and basically sounds like Faith. Plus, playing all the 'light side' options as a Sith Inquisitor (who we have characterised as a mix of Hermione Granger and Aeris from FFVII) gives you the most hilarious exchanges in the world.
So is Christmas. And that.
PS.
shapinglight got me a Festive Penguin!! Thank yoooouuuu!!! It's so adorable and festive.New Comments Page
22 December 2011 21:26So, here's the thing. I don't actually think the new comments page looks that bad. I think the border around the 'post new comment' box is too thick, but otherwise it looks to me like a fairly new-webby updated version of the old page, which I don't overly mind. [ETA: Although, the margins are soooo buggered. What is with that?? I thought new-webby design remembered that people tend to have widescreen laptops these days and margins are important! *sigh* ]
HOWEVER
Trying to use it for the first time, I've discovered that with my NoScript add-on enabled, I cannot actually use the post button unless I allow all the page to work - even though the only site I have unticked to disallow is facebook.net. (This isn't a particular problem with Facebook, but everything's unticked by default and I've never had a need to let facebook.net run, so I don't see why I should let it.) Even though it's only really because of the general paranoia brought on by using NoScript in the first place, I find it makes me twitchy that I can't see what site/script I'm allowing to run.
Also, I cannot get the stupid icon browser to work at all, even with allowing all the scripts on the page to run.
Generally, the whole thing is being a massive pain in the arse, so I'm going to try out only allowing comments on DW for a bit. I never thought I would, because I would far rather be dual platform for everyone's convenience and don't really care about having all conversations less than a click away from each other, but since my style and basic account mean I'm stuck with that stupid page on LJ, I would really rather avoid it as much as possible.
Yours grumpily,quinara (add me!! ;) ).
HOWEVER
Trying to use it for the first time, I've discovered that with my NoScript add-on enabled, I cannot actually use the post button unless I allow all the page to work - even though the only site I have unticked to disallow is facebook.net. (This isn't a particular problem with Facebook, but everything's unticked by default and I've never had a need to let facebook.net run, so I don't see why I should let it.) Even though it's only really because of the general paranoia brought on by using NoScript in the first place, I find it makes me twitchy that I can't see what site/script I'm allowing to run.
Also, I cannot get the stupid icon browser to work at all, even with allowing all the scripts on the page to run.
Generally, the whole thing is being a massive pain in the arse, so I'm going to try out only allowing comments on DW for a bit. I never thought I would, because I would far rather be dual platform for everyone's convenience and don't really care about having all conversations less than a click away from each other, but since my style and basic account mean I'm stuck with that stupid page on LJ, I would really rather avoid it as much as possible.
Yours grumpily,
quinara (add me!! ;) ).Rev and teevees.
16 December 2011 11:53This series of Rev has been a bit ropey, I've found - I was saying to Sue (Sue, was it you?) on Saturday that I've found it simultaneously more cartoonish, more dystopian and worse written, - but in isolation, I have to say that I thought this week's episode was very, very good! If only because it as an Archdeacon and Nigel episode. Although I imagine the fact that Richard is James Purefoy means we'll never see him again, a bit like Ralph Fiennes the bishop. :( Too much love for Adam and his iPod, though why has Adoha been completely sidelined this series?
It probably needs mentioning somewhere that I'm still in love with Misfits. Hooray for this series being the Kelly and Curtis series! I think the Nazi episode proved that the pair of them could save the world single-handedly. Right at the back of my brain I want a Buffyverse-Misfits crossover, possibly(?!) where Kelly and Nadira go waaaaay back to school or primary school or something (primary school maybe), and something happens with vampires. I dunno. That might be filed with the S7-Final Fantasy IX crossover that should never happen.
Now that I've packed up for the term and going home tomorrow, I'm procrastinating from cleaning the bathroom and buying Christmas presents (+ my mum's very urgent birthday present) and filing my paper bits by watching TV. Sigh. But The Thick of It Series Three remains as excellent as ever - Nicola and Terri and Robyn for three of the best middle-aged women comedy characters in recent times. And the Opposition!! Always.
Look, videos! Hopefully they might play outside of the UK, though they're off the BBC website, so they might not. Oh, and, um, NSFW, what with all the swearing...
It probably needs mentioning somewhere that I'm still in love with Misfits. Hooray for this series being the Kelly and Curtis series! I think the Nazi episode proved that the pair of them could save the world single-handedly. Right at the back of my brain I want a Buffyverse-Misfits crossover, possibly(?!) where Kelly and Nadira go waaaaay back to school or primary school or something (primary school maybe), and something happens with vampires. I dunno. That might be filed with the S7-Final Fantasy IX crossover that should never happen.
Now that I've packed up for the term and going home tomorrow, I'm procrastinating from cleaning the bathroom and buying Christmas presents (+ my mum's very urgent birthday present) and filing my paper bits by watching TV. Sigh. But The Thick of It Series Three remains as excellent as ever - Nicola and Terri and Robyn for three of the best middle-aged women comedy characters in recent times. And the Opposition!! Always.
Look, videos! Hopefully they might play outside of the UK, though they're off the BBC website, so they might not. Oh, and, um, NSFW, what with all the swearing...
1) Wow, it has been a long time since I've watched American TV. All the rolled Rs and round, high-in-the-palate vowels are really discombobulating. Still, my ear acclimatises very quickly.
2) I have seen Sleeper far more times than any person should see a single episode of TV. I'm so un-swept-up in it that my eyes pick up the join between every single shot and every single continuity blip - and yet it is still my most favourite episode of the series.
3) Every time I watch this run of episodes I think I'm going to have to watch hard for the Spuffy, because everybody knows it only comes in minor flashes... And then I remember that the pair of them flirt or chat like buddies or reference their relationship in every single scene they have together, and it's all good again.
4) Anya is very, very excellent, especially in Potential.
5) Xander is great (especially when you skip back to the menu before the closing scene of Potential, because I don't care how much better it was than I remember, that speech is on my cringe list), especially when shaking his head with a fond exasperation at Anya.
6) I actually like the potentials when there are only five or six of them. They should have kept it like that. Rona amuses me at this stage in the game - and, yeah, I thought this last time and I'm thinking it again: I like Kennedy; the world has ended.
7) Andrew... Why do we always have to fight?? Seriously, he cracks me up, no repentance.
2) I have seen Sleeper far more times than any person should see a single episode of TV. I'm so un-swept-up in it that my eyes pick up the join between every single shot and every single continuity blip - and yet it is still my most favourite episode of the series.
3) Every time I watch this run of episodes I think I'm going to have to watch hard for the Spuffy, because everybody knows it only comes in minor flashes... And then I remember that the pair of them flirt or chat like buddies or reference their relationship in every single scene they have together, and it's all good again.
4) Anya is very, very excellent, especially in Potential.
5) Xander is great (especially when you skip back to the menu before the closing scene of Potential, because I don't care how much better it was than I remember, that speech is on my cringe list), especially when shaking his head with a fond exasperation at Anya.
6) I actually like the potentials when there are only five or six of them. They should have kept it like that. Rona amuses me at this stage in the game - and, yeah, I thought this last time and I'm thinking it again: I like Kennedy; the world has ended.
7) Andrew... Why do we always have to fight?? Seriously, he cracks me up, no repentance.
Snick convinced me.
9 December 2011 19:36
I've just signed up for
![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
feedbackathon, because who am I to resist feedback, honestly? Also, ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
snickfic reminded me that I have written poetry that isn't vastly longer than anyone politely foists on people, plus they're accepting art and vids as well. Poetry and vid feedback! I have no shame when it comes to that. (Also longfic feedback! Yes, I may have artfully constructed a trio of things where I would be happy in equal amounts to get feedback for any of them...) If you create anything in the Buffyverse, you should definitely sign up too, so that we can have fun feedbacking times.Off to the British Museum with
writerconuk tomorrow! And then noodles! And cocktails! (Although still recovering from Wednesday's binge. Must take care of self. Hoping to get a ~6000 word paper drafted next week before I go home for Christmas...)Love the music, but tend to forget it's mostly about sexual people trying to get off with each other. Still, it's amusing to learn the language of 'no, fuck off' in taking people's hands for a twirl rather than a snog. Also, interpreting friends' signals and abetting them in an exclusionary hug. Hugs are nice.
All the same, it leaves me deaf as fuck all. Which is fun, cycling home...
On the feedbackathon, which I've seen around: it sounds really fun! But there's nothing I much care about feedback for under ten thousand words, and since you can only have one fic over that in your three, I'm stuck thinking everything would be very artificial and empty. (I fear it may well be that these days anything under ten thousand words tends to be something I came up with for larks. What does that say about me?)
My housemate is awesome; she left the light on by the door.
God, I am trashed. And apparently I didn't turn off the computer when I left, so I've just run down a load of battery on my bluetooth mouse that I just replaced. Sigh. Learn to exist, Quin.
Byes.
All the same, it leaves me deaf as fuck all. Which is fun, cycling home...
On the feedbackathon, which I've seen around: it sounds really fun! But there's nothing I much care about feedback for under ten thousand words, and since you can only have one fic over that in your three, I'm stuck thinking everything would be very artificial and empty. (I fear it may well be that these days anything under ten thousand words tends to be something I came up with for larks. What does that say about me?)
My housemate is awesome; she left the light on by the door.
God, I am trashed. And apparently I didn't turn off the computer when I left, so I've just run down a load of battery on my bluetooth mouse that I just replaced. Sigh. Learn to exist, Quin.
Byes.
It's a vid! It's been ages since I finished a vid and this one's been hanging around for a while, so I really wanted to share it as soon as I was happy. It's a bit experimental/conceptual, which might be a mistake since I think that's how my normal vids come off, but I had fun making it!
Black and White.
There isn't masses of flashing light in this vid, but there is a lot of motion. Content-wise it's probably PG.
This pain remembers her.
[AtS + iTAL tEK 'Black and White']
[Hi-Def Stream and download link - see it shinier!]
There isn't masses of flashing light in this vid, but there is a lot of motion. Content-wise it's probably PG.
This pain remembers her.
[AtS + iTAL tEK 'Black and White']
[Hi-Def Stream and download link - see it shinier!]
Not about the OTW
13 November 2011 14:33[First things first, I posted a fic at sb_fag_ends, a 600 PG AU fic at the end of Out of My Mind, in answer to question of what would have happened if Spike had got his chip out and turned Buffy: Your Queen You Bear Me. It has non-graphic violence, but otherwise nothing you'd warn for on the AO3.]
Talking of the AO3, however, gets me started on everything I've been reading about the OTW elections recently, in particular the recent developments outlined in this post bybookshop. I am hesitant to make a big public post about my thoughts, mainly because I'm not a member nor am I a volunteer, though I am a fairly keen user of the AO3. The fail_fandomanon meme led me to this post by norabombay, however (where I also don't feel qualified to comment, because I have no idea who this person is - hi! if you find your way here), which sparked off some thoughts on stop_plagiarism, aka the comm I think I technically founded, strange as it seems to think now, and which I think is relatively successful these days? We are most definitely incomparably small and slight in comparison to the OTW (if The Meme correctly informs me about the size of the volunteer pool, we're about 5% of the size, although the profile page informs me we have about 1650 people interested enough to count themselves members), and we haven't had to do any coding beyond designing various LJ pages, but, hey, we're a fandom organisation I actually know something about...
And so, forgive my navel-gazing, but I thought it might be interesting to consider why it seems to have been successful - which I qualify in terms of 'still running since it was started in 2004 and, according to my cursory search, much more frequently recommended than dissed, despite a seemingly high awareness of it in fandom'. (Do please correct me if you think my impression of the situation is wrong, of course!)
( Here be some observations! Also love for Spiralleds. Lots. )
Are we the same as the OTW? Not in the least. But it's from this perspective that I approach any and every fandom organisation, and having this perspective I can't help but make comparisons. Even if they're only that I don't think there's any shame if circumstances mean that the best way of moving forward is for a founder to become a grunt.
sb_fag_ends, a 600 PG AU fic at the end of Out of My Mind, in answer to question of what would have happened if Spike had got his chip out and turned Buffy: Your Queen You Bear Me. It has non-graphic violence, but otherwise nothing you'd warn for on the AO3.]Talking of the AO3, however, gets me started on everything I've been reading about the OTW elections recently, in particular the recent developments outlined in this post by
bookshop. I am hesitant to make a big public post about my thoughts, mainly because I'm not a member nor am I a volunteer, though I am a fairly keen user of the AO3. The fail_fandomanon meme led me to this post by norabombay, however (where I also don't feel qualified to comment, because I have no idea who this person is - hi! if you find your way here), which sparked off some thoughts on stop_plagiarism, aka the comm I think I technically founded, strange as it seems to think now, and which I think is relatively successful these days? We are most definitely incomparably small and slight in comparison to the OTW (if The Meme correctly informs me about the size of the volunteer pool, we're about 5% of the size, although the profile page informs me we have about 1650 people interested enough to count themselves members), and we haven't had to do any coding beyond designing various LJ pages, but, hey, we're a fandom organisation I actually know something about...And so, forgive my navel-gazing, but I thought it might be interesting to consider why it seems to have been successful - which I qualify in terms of 'still running since it was started in 2004 and, according to my cursory search, much more frequently recommended than dissed, despite a seemingly high awareness of it in fandom'. (Do please correct me if you think my impression of the situation is wrong, of course!)
( Here be some observations! Also love for Spiralleds. Lots. )
Are we the same as the OTW? Not in the least. But it's from this perspective that I approach any and every fandom organisation, and having this perspective I can't help but make comparisons. Even if they're only that I don't think there's any shame if circumstances mean that the best way of moving forward is for a founder to become a grunt.
Yay, London shopping tomorrow! I really wouldn't mind getting some new things, since I am very much in a rut of just owning Topshop things (it's the only actually decent shop in town), which means chatting to everyone and having people say 'I love your jumper; I've got it at home'. And it's a running joke among several of us that we all have the same top in different colours. (Oh, but so comfy and easy to wear and ridiculously modern-looking for something so shapeless.)
However, it's fun to browse places online before you go shopping, right? I think so. Unfortunately, this means I find myself on the Selfridge's website in exactly the place where I never want to be because I can't afford anything and, and... Matthew Williamson, what have you done; I love you and your coat is so beautiful and worth over five months' rent. Aaaaaaahhh!!!
And now I must sulk because I've chosen academia as a career and will probably never own clothes as nice as these. :( Alas!
(On a brighter note, however; thankslouise39 for the cute Halloween spider gift! It's so cute!!
However, it's fun to browse places online before you go shopping, right? I think so. Unfortunately, this means I find myself on the Selfridge's website in exactly the place where I never want to be because I can't afford anything and, and... Matthew Williamson, what have you done; I love you and your coat is so beautiful and worth over five months' rent. Aaaaaaahhh!!!
And now I must sulk because I've chosen academia as a career and will probably never own clothes as nice as these. :( Alas!
(On a brighter note, however; thanks
louise39 for the cute Halloween spider gift! It's so cute!!The Commonwealth realms have unanimously decided to get rid of male primacy in our royal succession laws. Also the ban on marrying Catholics.
Finally!
Finally!
It's my seasonal_spuffy day! I was going to repost my fic in its entirety over here, but I've just realised that, of course, my chapters are too long for LJ's entry size limit, so I'm just going to post a big advert for it instead and show off the shiny banner bogwitch made for me(!!). If you're reading from LJ and don't feel super-comfortable with DW, then I'd love to hear what you think on this post!
As Good as a Rest.
So, Buffy’s alive. Ish. Spike’s dead, but she’s hoping for the ish. Katrina’s definitely dead. At least the cops are investigating that one?
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same - read everything on the AO3]
[~31,000 words (~10,000/~9,000/~12,000) | R/NC-17 for explicit sex'n'violence | AU Older and Far Away]
seasonal_spuffy day! I was going to repost my fic in its entirety over here, but I've just realised that, of course, my chapters are too long for LJ's entry size limit, so I'm just going to post a big advert for it instead and show off the shiny banner bogwitch made for me(!!). If you're reading from LJ and don't feel super-comfortable with DW, then I'd love to hear what you think on this post!As Good as a Rest.
So, Buffy’s alive. Ish. Spike’s dead, but she’s hoping for the ish. Katrina’s definitely dead. At least the cops are investigating that one?
[Sequel to The More Things Stay the Same - read everything on the AO3]
[~31,000 words (~10,000/~9,000/~12,000) | R/NC-17 for explicit sex'n'violence | AU Older and Far Away]
Gaaaaaaang...
12 October 2011 14:35Unimportant are my ear travails and bootcamp Spuffy-writing in light of this:
37 Languages, 37 Plays, 1 Theatre: The Globe goes Olympic!
I'm on the Globe mailing list and I just got an email about it (public booking opens on the 17th) - the theatre's inviting thirty-seven international companies to each do one of Shakespeare's plays and putting them all on over the course of six weeks. Intriguing, I thought; how fun. And then I saw this:
For those of you feeling athletic we have a number of tempting ticket offers for you to try, including the "Yard Olympian" - giving you chance to see every production for £100!
And it was like a proper stars in my eyes moment. I want to do it so badly... The logistics don't seem that unsound - I have no idea when my first year report deadline will be, but going up to London once every two days is not actually that infeasible in my position. The train fare would be the kicker, but if they let you put rail cards on season tickets it possibly wouldn't be too bad? Especially with the tickets being so cheap for the plays (yeah, this is standing, but I've done the yard before and it wasn't so terrible - you just need to make sure you have a sturdy waterproof if it looks like rain). As a yardling you don't get the shiny multi-performance rewards, which is a bit of a shame, but I'm not sure it would be worth getting £10 crap-seats just for a drinks reception with no one I'd know and a complete works I could just buy (the memento would be nice, but I'm sure there'll be programmes, and the yard's more fun).
This probably needs mentioning to my supervisor. But, oh, for some reason I just can't stop imagining the end of that six weeks, bone tired from the routine but full to the brim of languages and playness and Shakespeare - I would actually have seen them all! That would be a memory.
My mum's up for Much Ado in French... Anyone fancy the rest?? :P
37 Languages, 37 Plays, 1 Theatre: The Globe goes Olympic!
I'm on the Globe mailing list and I just got an email about it (public booking opens on the 17th) - the theatre's inviting thirty-seven international companies to each do one of Shakespeare's plays and putting them all on over the course of six weeks. Intriguing, I thought; how fun. And then I saw this:
For those of you feeling athletic we have a number of tempting ticket offers for you to try, including the "Yard Olympian" - giving you chance to see every production for £100!
And it was like a proper stars in my eyes moment. I want to do it so badly... The logistics don't seem that unsound - I have no idea when my first year report deadline will be, but going up to London once every two days is not actually that infeasible in my position. The train fare would be the kicker, but if they let you put rail cards on season tickets it possibly wouldn't be too bad? Especially with the tickets being so cheap for the plays (yeah, this is standing, but I've done the yard before and it wasn't so terrible - you just need to make sure you have a sturdy waterproof if it looks like rain). As a yardling you don't get the shiny multi-performance rewards, which is a bit of a shame, but I'm not sure it would be worth getting £10 crap-seats just for a drinks reception with no one I'd know and a complete works I could just buy (the memento would be nice, but I'm sure there'll be programmes, and the yard's more fun).
This probably needs mentioning to my supervisor. But, oh, for some reason I just can't stop imagining the end of that six weeks, bone tired from the routine but full to the brim of languages and playness and Shakespeare - I would actually have seen them all! That would be a memory.
My mum's up for Much Ado in French... Anyone fancy the rest?? :P
