prunesquallormd | Oh sweet, sweet intarwebz. How I've missed you ♥ (Reply)

So, I changed service provider, because my connection was intermittent at best and ridiculously slow. And that meant being without the internet for a whole week. And yes, I have limited access at work, and I resorted to cafes with wireless connections a couple of times, but god, it was painful.
I'm not quite sure when the internet stopped being something that was kind of useful for buying out-of-print books on eBay and became an absolute and fundamental necessity of life. I know it happened even before there were people in my life with whom the internet's my main form of communication, but obviously that makes all the difference.
Which is all to say, I don't post all that much, so you probably mostly haven't noticed that I've been gone, but I've missed you guys.
I have so much to catch up on, and so many comments to write. It may take me a while :)

I've just watched the last episode of season 5 of Skins, and I'm going to admit here that both

youtoxic and

cobalt_siren were right. Somewhere towards the end of the season, Mini went from being utterly vile to completely adorable, and the idea of Franky/Mini (which I was initially utterly repelled by, because Mini was just such an appalling person, especially so to Franky) has taken complete control of my brain. Fic please? Jack, I know you've written some Minky stories. Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do there, as well :)

All in all, the last episode actually succeeded in pulling all these disparate people together plausibly and actually starting to make me care about them, individually and as a group. It's a huge shame that that didn't happen earlier on in the season. (There was never really any moment where these characters completely stole my heart, as happened with Gen 2 and, to a lesser extent, with Gen 1), but I'll rewatch at some point, and I'm hopeful that, with hindsight, I'll enjoy it all a lot more than I did the first time round.
Of course, now I actually like Gen 3 I'm more than a little trepidatious about Season 6. For one thing, on past form, the second season of each generation gets the random pointless death of a major character, and even before then, everything generally starts going to shit. I'll be annoyed if they pull out the character death thing again. Been there, done that (the first time (Chris) to great emotional and dramatic effect, the second time (Freddie) pointlessly and stupidly, and serving only to demonstrate total imagination failure). It would be nice if they accepted the fact that sometimes people don't die and tried something new and different.
We'll see, I guess. I'll be watching.
And meanwhile, where's all that Minky fic?

In other news, I totally missed the Doctor Who short when it was on Comic Relief on Friday night. Thank god for Youtube :) . Also l suspect I'll be downloading it from iTunes because AMELIA POND EYE!SEXING HER FIVE-MINUTES-FROM-THE-FUTURE-SELF ♥♥♥ YAY \O/ God bless selfcest is all I can say.
And there was clever science fiction stuff too, of course. BUT EXCUSE ME, IMPORTANT STUFF. DID I MENTION THE AMY/AMY EYE!SEX. I DID? GOOD THEN. (LOL Yes, I am sad. How kind of you to notice :p)

(I really hope Youtube isn't being mean and blocking these outside the UK, cos that would kind of suck :()

Is it bad that I now really want icons of Karen Gillan making out with herself? Probably :/

I now have a week's worth of LJ to catch up on. Wish me luck :)

I hope everyone's well!
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