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prunesquallormdGah. Feel grotty.
I haven't been off work with anything other than "really can't be arsed today", or random excruciating sinus pain since 2006, so maybe it was past time. There was a time last night/this morning when I thought it might be the beginnings of flu. But no, just a stinking cold (with, of course, random excruciating sinus pain). I always feel a bit stupid giving a cold as a reason not to go into work, but I feel icky, so whatever. They're highly unlikely to sack me for taking a few days off. And anyway, I'm tired. I get five hours sleep a night at most, if I'm lucky, just cos I can't sleep for longer than that. So I think a few days of lying on the sofa, watching DVDs and letting stuff take care of itself for a while is sort of in order.
Other stuff?
* I get that a Tory/Lib Dem coalition was really the only stable, workable outcome of the election, given the numbers involved, I really do. That doesn't stop me from wanting to be violently sick - and cause someone severe harm - whenever I hear some Tory MP on the radio just oozing smug everywhere. And it certainly doesn't stop me being severely pissed off with the Lib Dems for whoring themselves to the whole vile, despicable, self-serving bunch. Grrrr. Fucking reptilian scum sucking pigs, the lot of them.
Yeah, I know. Hardly intelligent political analysis, but honestly, I hate them too much to be rational about this. Don't mind me, I'll be over there, wishing a slow, painful death on David Cameron and all his cronies.
/rant
* Moving away from politics, I finally started watching Battle Star Galactica again. It's been a year since I saw the end of season 2, but every time I figured I was ready to watch again, something else jumped to the front of the queue. And honestly, I was getting more and more nervous about starting to get back into it. It's so good, but so incredibly traumatic, there are times when the tension just gets too much to bear. I'm actually having to alternate every few episodes with other, more fluffy stuff, currently season 4 of Dawson's Creek, which is possibly the guiltiest of my guilty pleasures. When my season 1 DVD of Legend of the Seeker finally turns up from the States, though, I'll be all over that like a rash. I miss it.
This picture has been all over my f-list for the last few days:-
Well, hellooo there, fanservice. So glad you could join us.
There's also been a whole load of heart-break and upset about certain parts of the most recent episode, but I'm so far behind, I'm going to have to wait weeks until I find out what's going on. Guess I'll just have to console myself with the pretty pictures till then.
* I'm not sure what I think about Amy's boyfriend taking up temporary residence in the Tardis. He's a fairly likable character, and I'm sure they can do a lot with him, but the Amy-obsessive in me absolutely resents anyone that takes screen time away from her. Also, my totally deluded shipper self is all 'hey, random fiance whose name I don't even remember, GTFO, you're totally getting in the way of awesome Doctor/Amy chemistry'.
* In what passes for real life, the only gaming group I currently have left (the other two fell apart, due to personal politics largely, and it's not like I don't have any issues with this crowd, but I'm relatively good at biting my tongue, even if I do get snappy sometimes) appears to have found itself a new member, and its first woman, which is nice. She seems lovely, and largely sane (in my experience, gaming and a firm grip on reality or sanity don't always go together (the entirely lovely and sane gamers on my f-list notwithstanding, of course)). If she decides we're not a bunch of scary freaks and comea back again, it means that Dave will be forced to tone down (or hopefully drop entirely) his oh-so-hilarious comedy sexism and racism. I'll be glad to see the back of that, I'll tell you that for nothing. As I'm sure you can imagine, it gets old very, very quickly.
* Diana Gabaldon has deleted all evidence of her anti-fanfic rant (which I referred to in my previous post), which is amusing. Honestly, I get that some people, authors especially, object, and that's entirely their right, of course. However, if an author isn't intelligent enough to figure out that condemning fanfic writers, and readers, as immoral, criminal creeps, little better than stalkers or paedophiles, will alienate at least a proportion of their most loyal and enthusiastic fans, then she or he really doesn't deserve a loyal audience.
Entirely relatedly, almost three years ago,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ithiliana created an anti-fanfic bingo card. It's both hilarious and incredibly accurate.
* Only tangentially related to the above (in that it relates to fan fiction, specifically RPF) is this rather interesting discussion on RPF and its relation to femslash fandom. RPF's a controversial subject, and I certainly won't be engaging in any form of debate on it, here or elsewhere. For the record, though, my thoughts on the subject broadly match those of the author of said discussion.
* I have a few ideas for stories going round my head, and currently feel too ill to do anything about them. Hopefully when that passes I'll be able to find out where I left my motivation. I know I left it around here somewhere. I really want to try and get over my total plot!fail for the fourth part of my little Ginny/Luna story. And then, of course, there's the potential for a secret collaboration of total wrong, which I'm really liking the idea of. Unfortunately, that would mean taking on and completing a story by a writer who is, in every way, far better than I could ever be, so I'm really not sure I'm up the task. Even unfinished though, the story is amazing, and if the only way for it ever to be finished is for me to dig in and give it my best shot, it would be silly for me not to at least try. Of course, the same problem I always have (PLOT!FAIL!) applies here too. Whatever though. Practise, practise, practise, right?
* A few days agomirellarussian mentioned her love of Christina Aguilera's Candyman, which in turn reminded me of how fab it is, and how cute the video is, so I'll leave you with that.
♥ to you all, and I hope you're feeling a lot less icky than I am :D
I haven't been off work with anything other than "really can't be arsed today", or random excruciating sinus pain since 2006, so maybe it was past time. There was a time last night/this morning when I thought it might be the beginnings of flu. But no, just a stinking cold (with, of course, random excruciating sinus pain). I always feel a bit stupid giving a cold as a reason not to go into work, but I feel icky, so whatever. They're highly unlikely to sack me for taking a few days off. And anyway, I'm tired. I get five hours sleep a night at most, if I'm lucky, just cos I can't sleep for longer than that. So I think a few days of lying on the sofa, watching DVDs and letting stuff take care of itself for a while is sort of in order.
Other stuff?
* I get that a Tory/Lib Dem coalition was really the only stable, workable outcome of the election, given the numbers involved, I really do. That doesn't stop me from wanting to be violently sick - and cause someone severe harm - whenever I hear some Tory MP on the radio just oozing smug everywhere. And it certainly doesn't stop me being severely pissed off with the Lib Dems for whoring themselves to the whole vile, despicable, self-serving bunch. Grrrr. Fucking reptilian scum sucking pigs, the lot of them.
Yeah, I know. Hardly intelligent political analysis, but honestly, I hate them too much to be rational about this. Don't mind me, I'll be over there, wishing a slow, painful death on David Cameron and all his cronies.
/rant
* Moving away from politics, I finally started watching Battle Star Galactica again. It's been a year since I saw the end of season 2, but every time I figured I was ready to watch again, something else jumped to the front of the queue. And honestly, I was getting more and more nervous about starting to get back into it. It's so good, but so incredibly traumatic, there are times when the tension just gets too much to bear. I'm actually having to alternate every few episodes with other, more fluffy stuff, currently season 4 of Dawson's Creek, which is possibly the guiltiest of my guilty pleasures. When my season 1 DVD of Legend of the Seeker finally turns up from the States, though, I'll be all over that like a rash. I miss it.
This picture has been all over my f-list for the last few days:-
Well, hellooo there, fanservice. So glad you could join us.
There's also been a whole load of heart-break and upset about certain parts of the most recent episode, but I'm so far behind, I'm going to have to wait weeks until I find out what's going on. Guess I'll just have to console myself with the pretty pictures till then.
* I'm not sure what I think about Amy's boyfriend taking up temporary residence in the Tardis. He's a fairly likable character, and I'm sure they can do a lot with him, but the Amy-obsessive in me absolutely resents anyone that takes screen time away from her. Also, my totally deluded shipper self is all 'hey, random fiance whose name I don't even remember, GTFO, you're totally getting in the way of awesome Doctor/Amy chemistry'.
* In what passes for real life, the only gaming group I currently have left (the other two fell apart, due to personal politics largely, and it's not like I don't have any issues with this crowd, but I'm relatively good at biting my tongue, even if I do get snappy sometimes) appears to have found itself a new member, and its first woman, which is nice. She seems lovely, and largely sane (in my experience, gaming and a firm grip on reality or sanity don't always go together (the entirely lovely and sane gamers on my f-list notwithstanding, of course)). If she decides we're not a bunch of scary freaks and comea back again, it means that Dave will be forced to tone down (or hopefully drop entirely) his oh-so-hilarious comedy sexism and racism. I'll be glad to see the back of that, I'll tell you that for nothing. As I'm sure you can imagine, it gets old very, very quickly.
* Diana Gabaldon has deleted all evidence of her anti-fanfic rant (which I referred to in my previous post), which is amusing. Honestly, I get that some people, authors especially, object, and that's entirely their right, of course. However, if an author isn't intelligent enough to figure out that condemning fanfic writers, and readers, as immoral, criminal creeps, little better than stalkers or paedophiles, will alienate at least a proportion of their most loyal and enthusiastic fans, then she or he really doesn't deserve a loyal audience.
Entirely relatedly, almost three years ago,
ithiliana created an anti-fanfic bingo card. It's both hilarious and incredibly accurate.* Only tangentially related to the above (in that it relates to fan fiction, specifically RPF) is this rather interesting discussion on RPF and its relation to femslash fandom. RPF's a controversial subject, and I certainly won't be engaging in any form of debate on it, here or elsewhere. For the record, though, my thoughts on the subject broadly match those of the author of said discussion.
* I have a few ideas for stories going round my head, and currently feel too ill to do anything about them. Hopefully when that passes I'll be able to find out where I left my motivation. I know I left it around here somewhere. I really want to try and get over my total plot!fail for the fourth part of my little Ginny/Luna story. And then, of course, there's the potential for a secret collaboration of total wrong, which I'm really liking the idea of. Unfortunately, that would mean taking on and completing a story by a writer who is, in every way, far better than I could ever be, so I'm really not sure I'm up the task. Even unfinished though, the story is amazing, and if the only way for it ever to be finished is for me to dig in and give it my best shot, it would be silly for me not to at least try. Of course, the same problem I always have (PLOT!FAIL!) applies here too. Whatever though. Practise, practise, practise, right?
* A few days ago
mirellarussian mentioned her love of Christina Aguilera's Candyman, which in turn reminded me of how fab it is, and how cute the video is, so I'll leave you with that.♥ to you all, and I hope you're feeling a lot less icky than I am :D
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Date: 2010-05-12 09:43 pm (UTC)Feel better soon my friend. What's this young lady's name (just so we know to whom you refer if she returns)?
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Date: 2010-05-13 04:32 pm (UTC)I feel a lot better today, although I took another day off cos I was feeling like death this morning.
The new member is called Loura (pronounced the same as Laura). She does seem very nice. We'll see if she thought the same of us and decides to keep coming along :)
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Date: 2010-05-13 08:16 am (UTC)I got home last night after a pretty shitty day and picked what show to watch based on the fact that it's usually zero-effort and quite silly.
45 minutes later, I was practically a gibbering wreck - my favourite character on the show had been kidnapped two months previously, they finally found him in this episode and then promptly killed him off. Gah!
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Date: 2010-05-13 04:35 pm (UTC)It's not so bad if you know to expect it though. Having the trauma hit you out of nowhere is the head-wrecker. What was the show you were watching?
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Date: 2010-05-13 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-13 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-05-13 04:37 pm (UTC)I'm glad you found it interesting. It'll never stop being controversial, I think, and both sides have perfectly valid points.
It's an unwinnable argument, which is why it's an argument that I intend on never having :D