Christmas (take 2)

[girlofprey]

I haven't talked much about Christmas, have I? It was good. We only had three or four hours of peace before my sister and nephew came over for the rest of the day, and oh God, he won't let me even go up to my room now. You have sneak out subtly like a ninja so he doesn't chase you, and even then after an hour or so, he notices something's amiss. Whoever it is. And then it's calling, calling your name (or an approximation thereof) at the top of his voice, till you come down and watch him chase the cats again. He is lovely though. He quite liked the wooden truck I bought him, and in a shock twist, Katie liked the Ugly Doll, whereas he preferred to cry over it and fling it across the room. Kids, eh?

I got some good stuff. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (minus deleted scenes), Lost Series 2 (haven't watched it yet), American Dad. The Have I Got News For You book. A thing from my dad that you can put in your laptop so you can watch the TV on it, which would be very handy except that I was sort of planning to take the TV anyway when I move out, because it has a video player. But it was nice. Cecilia sent me a book about crossdressing wolves, and some Boss Lady gum, which I heart. I got some new pyjamas. And a hot water bottle shaped like Shaun from Wallace and Grommit, I LOVE IT SO MUCH. And Katie gave me money and I had some left over from grandma, which I used to buy things I hadn't got.

Like a Roboreptile! I feel that it's a childish and vaguely useless waste of my money, but I don't care. Dad apparently forbade mum from getting me one, so haha! I not sure he does anything I tell him to with the remote, and I can't seem to feed him, and I think maybe one of his legs is broken because he's going in circles a lot. But if I leave him alone he does wander around the room, growling at things in his way, like a wall. This doesn't always stop him walking into them. He looks up if you clap your hands. If you poke his tail when he's sat down he growls at you, and if you try to touch his face he jerks away. And he freaks out the cats. I LOVE HIM A LOT. I HOPE HE ISN'T BROKEN. Except that if he is, his services might be EVEN IMPROVED. Which might be nice. He's stuck in a wall at the moment.

I'm going to Lancaster for New Year's tomorrow, which is good. In a CHAMPAGNE AND SLASHERS! sort of a way. I still need to finish Yuletide, and I still need to read all my books, and I still need to tidy my room and stuff, but at least I've solved the murder of Tom King for this week. Dracula was on last night. It was - not the best bit of TV I have ever seen, but good. MARC WARREN IS A SEXY VAMPIRE. When he's not looking like a slightly ridiculous dark-haired pale-skinned guy. Harker was adorable, which I liked, and there was shoulder grasping. I choose to believe that he turned Harker into a vampire, and he's still in Transylvania looking after the house. And that at some point, when he has his army of the night underway, Dracula will go back, and Harker will be all happy to see him, and 'Did I do well, master?', and Dracula will smile vaguely and stroke his hair. Yes. I sort of mostly want to see Marc Warren!Dracula crossovers with everything though. Especially other Mark Warren shows. Danny from Hustle meets modern day Dracula in London? Dracula versus Mr Teatime? The possibilities are endless!

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[tiniago.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU. My legs hurt, I walked a billion miles today on the beach IT WAS SO COLD AND BLOWY YAY YAY. Mostly I wanted to tell you that I WATCHED DRACULA TOO CHRIST IT WAS SO BAD BUT YES MARC WARREN WAS A SEXY VAMPIRE. I don't know why I am attracted to him now, IT IS SO BAD, I never used to be, I used to actively dislike him, he is rub yet I LOVE HIM SO SO SO. I thought he was quite good as Dracula. This may be the addled eyes of love, mind you. I thought it was generally an extremely unimaginative take on the whole legend. And stupid! I laughed HA HA HA at the syphilis thing. But I liked the portrayal of Dracula. I like how they downplayed the usual aspect of charmingness and civilisedness and such, or at least took it in a different direction. I liked how it was very clearly conveyed that he was nine hundred years old, and presumably was some sort of twelfth-century brutal illiterate feudal lord to start with, and has since spent nine hundred years hiding in a coffin at night, being all withered, and preying ruthlessly off humans for food. Really... not very charming, or witty, or man-like at all. I liked it when he actually did stuff like talk and express some sort of thoughts, with Mina, and it was like old aspects of human-ness peeking out through his genuine monsterness, and you could sort of imagine how those human bits had been subsumed and changed and incorporated into what he is. I like the fact that the cliched charm-and-fascination thing was done as this sort of rattlesnake magnetism, the sort of weird horrible way he had of interacting with humans, not camouflaged at all, the way he'd just look at them. Dude! Yes. Good acting job by the Warrenmeister there, I think. *deluded eyes of LOVE*

Ahaha, Danny from Hustle would just be totally eaten alive (- literally! arf arf) by Dracula. He'd be all charmed and fascinated and vain and flattered, and Dracula would have him like that. And then Mickey would have to rescue him, and he'd stride in in a suit with an open-necked shirt and a cool calm Mickey expression and STAKE HIM OMG and Danny would be all dazed and floppy and a bit bloody and mostly angry and "omg Mickey, why did you have to interfere?" because he loves Mickey so MUCH he can't bear to owe him anything!

Dracula/Teatime. OH. MY. GOD.

I am going to bed I am a bit manic and crazy I ONLY HAD FIVE HOURS OF SLEEP LAST NIGHT BECAUSE THE SMOKE ALARM BROK OMG OMG I COULDN'T EVEN FIND IT FOR THREE HOURS AND THEN WHEN I FOUND IT I HIT IT ON THE FLOOR UNTIL IT STOPPED BEEPING. I will do the love meme, I vaguely feel I need to confirm this in case people think I have SWIZZED THEM, but it requires actual thought and precision and things. PCHAH. LOVE FOR YOU OMG.