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[girlofprey]

It occurs to me, reading back my last post, that I possibly sounded a bit psychopathic about the Claire/West scenes. I will clarify: I can't believe he said "how can I help you if (blah blah blah)?" when there has been no actual indication of her needing his help? Or anyone's help, in particular, except to hide from the Company? So it mostly just comes off like he's trying to convince her she's in need of his help, because...he is a twat. And I can't believe he said "I never want to see you hurt", despite the stuff about it not mattering that she was okay afterward, when Claire's power and strength, up to a point, is that she can be hurt and be okay afterwards. And especially since he talked her into jumping off the sign in the first place, oh God. Mostly it seems, out of context, to be sweet but comes off like he's trying - and mostly succeeding - to control the situation. I really do hope they're leading into a manipulation/stalkerish/Claire in danger again conflict she hopefully gets herself out of, because if it's really a "romance" the politics are just ughhghgh. Mostly I didn't mind this when I'd given up on West as being a decent character. I apparently didn't realise I was actually going to have to watch it.

Also, some moral ambiguities I did notice in recent weeks - not to do with cheating in detective exams:

1. Matt can totally forgive his wife for moments of weakness and a mistake and stuff, but not for conceiving with the wrong guy.


2. Which does make you wonder why the kid needed protecting in Five Years Gone.


3. Organising a fight between ninety warriors and a guy who can't be hurt, for a scroll which as far as I could see they didn't need, isn't really so much fair. Hiro sort of organised a massacre there. Whoops.

I thought the Peter Serafinowicz Show was better tonight. Even if he did rip off Gemmagic.

I also saw Mr Brooks today. It turns out Kevin Costner is actually the most beautiful man alive, when he's playing an ice-cold serial killer. That was a spoiler, unless you've read any information about the film. And Demi Moore managed to not completely annoy me. Hurrah. I have a vague plan for Stardust at some point this weekend.

My current job finished today, which was going to be a lot more dramatic when I posted about it last Monday. Today was mostly a rush of trying to get everything I was working on finished off. It's funny. I did really enjoy it, and it was interesting, and I liked working in a really small department, even if that did put massive amounts of pressure on people when anyone was off. And the day off a week was nice. But I'm not sure I'd have wanted to do it permanently. Even if we did occasionally get letters from Geoff Hoon and Ken Clarke. Anyway. The new permanent woman's starting on Monday, so I'm off. They all thanked me for being around and working hard, and it was lovely, and I left my key and that was that. The agency already have a new job for me at the University on Monday, which will be full time, which is nice because I kind of need the money. Apparently jetting off round the country without buying cheap tickets or anything wasn't my greatest plan. Although fun. But yes. Can't really go anywhere again for a little while, I think. Except for dad's birthday, possibly, in two weeks.

The job has been fairly stressful recently, with me writing the basis of our formal responses to complaints (much harder than filing), and then catching up with the backlog after the main boss guy came back. He was off sick for most of last week, by the way. Meaning I couldn't take my day off till the end of the week. The long weekend was a bit magical, though. In the meantime, I've mostly been trying to watch some of the stuff I've been meaning to watch. Like Arrested Development. And Nightingales Series 1. Carter/Bell/Eric for the win. I'm currently watching Carnivale, as I'm sure some of you will be ecstatic to hear. Oh it's very beautiful, even if a tiny bit draggy sometimes. The sort of main character is a psychic boy with a rather beautiful crush on an older woman at the carnival, which may be to do with massive mummy issues. Oh. It's a bit win. Sadly it's just all a bit time-consuming. Though fun.

In other news...I don't have any other news. That's pretty much it at the moment. My parents are possibly coming to see me at some point, but they haven't mentioned when. The last time they were down I had crispy duck pizza. That was quite good. It turns out chips and barbeque sauce is also one of the best things ever, randomly. There's a guy coming on Saturday to finally take a look at the wasps nest, but I'm pretty sure the cold has mostly killed them off by now. Damn it.

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[jekesta]

I couldn't believe the West stuff either. I don't trust Heroes enough to think that they're going for him leading her into victim mentality and being abusive and eventually dealt with, I think they're going for him being understanding and their love being true. They are so bad, so terribly bad, at everything. It hurts it hurts so much.

I really like Kevin Costner's films. I was going to try to see Mr Brooks tomorrow if I could drag myself out of hte house but it's not on in Lancaster, only in Preston. Hmph. I'm going to risk Stardust instead maybe.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Oh. Their love is awful. Why can't they see that? You're probably right, but I'm sort of clinging to the fact that they keep mentioning Claire's car was stolen, so I assume it will be a Thing. Possibly not a Thing to do with West, but that's the only thing occuring to me so far. And then she won't trust him! And the "romance" can stop.

I would recommend Mr Brooks if you can see it. It's not exactly groundbreaking, but quite fun, and Kevin Costner is great. I went to see Stardust accidentally today. It's quite pretty, but not brilliant. Though I did like Mark Strong.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Eric! He's such a series-stealer. I'm becoming a little bit outnumbered. I don't actually mind.

I did notice that you wrote other sentences. And I don't think people ought to be putting ducks on pizzas. And I hope your new job is lovely. Those things.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Your attentiveness to other sentences is appreciated. Hopefully it will be great, and should cost less bus fare, hurrah.

Oh Eric. I do like Carter and Bell, but Eric's a werewolf. He started eating his patient! And then Carter and Bell grabbed him by the arms, and that was quite good. Mostly I love the song at the end.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Jack is on my telly and I do not approve. I could always turn the DVD off. But, you know. Yes. Eric. He is a bit lovely. There's no denying it. And the song, yes, I love the song very much and sang it quietly to myself in Berkeley Square once and tried to play it on the guitar. All those things.

[tiniago.livejournal.com]

HELLLLOOOooooooOOOOOOoooo! I love you! I am awful. Awful, AWFUL. I am sorry. Ooh, I am so pleased about your happy and unbroken chain of jobs, IT IS A SIGN OF YOUR AWESOME. The NHS is hilarity, I am glad that your working for it was entirely DEALING WITH COMPLAINTS, I... would think of a witty joke to make about this but WHATEVER. I watched an episode of Robin Hood and thought of you, it was AWFUL but I found that in the right mindset EVERY SINGLE LINE MADE ME LAUGH. "No, not stalemate... CHECKMATE!", "It's late, Marian.", "Son of a camel!". Guy's enormous man-breasties made me laugh. I can see why you like him, I hate he and Marian the least. I would probably read fic about him. Er, is there any? Including for preference one where random strangers harass him by following him around making cupping gestures and shouting "DON'T GET MANY OF THOSE TO THE POUND, LOVE!".

I had a wasps' nest once. When I was fourteen. I didn't notice for about three months. There were a lot of wasps around, and the walls buzzed at night. Then I twigged. I told my parents and they did nothing about it for a further three months, until one of them came in my room and said BY CHRIST YOUR WALL IS BUZZING YOU HAVE FUCKING WASPS IN YOUR WALLS WHAT? Then a man came and took off half his clothes and killed them all. SO THERE MIGHT BE SOME EXCITEMENT IN YOUR FUTURE THERE. Other than exciting you about the prospect of half-naked exterminators I'm not quite sure why I told you that story. OOh, I went to see the Decemberists on the 12th and Colin Meloy ran off crying halfway through, it was AWFUL, and it was the most depressed concert I've ever seen in my life, and then two days later they cancelled their tour and went back to the U.S. because "one of our members is ill and needs to heal". Yes, it was Colin Meloy and he was ill with BEING VERY SAD. Aww, Colin. :(

I have ONLY JUST STARTED LOVING HEROES so recognise no flaws in it as yet. I'm only as far into it as the BBC is showing, although I am spoilered. I love Nathan more than light or life. It grieves me to note that yet again YOU LOVE THE WRONG BROTHER. JUDGEY JUDGEY PLAGUE. I ASSUME YOU ALSO LOVE SYLAR??? ohhhh Nathan. Are there stories about Peter's brief period of cross-dressing in high school? THERE SHOULD BE?

OOOooooOOOOOOooooOOOH! ♥ ♥ ♥

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I can't believe how constantly I am judged for my brother love. EVERYONE LOVES NATHAN. IT IS NOT A SIGN OF UNIQUENESS. EVEN I LIKE HIM. Yes, I love Peter! He throws himself off climbing frames as a test, and thinks running away to the desert is a WONDERFUL PLAN. I would say more, but I can't remember where the BBC are up to with Heroes. But hah, you love it. And yes, I love Sylar. I love him loads. And I love Peter/Sylar best of all. I was going to link you to a fic about Peter's occasional grown-up cross-dressing adventures, but the journal appears to have been deleted. Sadface. I assume there are highschool ones. People found cross-dressing pictures from another movie.

Hello! You has returned. Just as I stopped working for your NHS. Mostly what I learned from my job with complaints is that there are issues of consent, and that people with mental health problems have mental health problems, and I'M SORRY RELATIVES THAT WE COULDN'T TELL YOU EVERYTHING, BUT WE JUST COULDN'T. Also quite a bit about Mental Health Act Assessments. Also sometimes the NHS procedures got changed. That was quite good. I really did quite love it. YOU WATCHED ROBIN HOOD. YOU DIDN'T HATE GUY. HIS PECS WERE RATHER PROTRUDEY, WEREN'T THEY? Mostly I was looking at the shirtlessness and the armour. And the strange Frankenstein impression at the end. So often I laugh during Robin Hood. So often. There was something last night and I can't even remember what it was. Robin's stalker-like tendencies probably. Oh, but Guy. He does occasionally do lovely things, like stop guards from killing children, even if the children are annoying, and it's great. Mostly I want him and Marian to actually get married. Or for him to have hatesex with Robin. Either of the two.

Oh, but the Decemberists. I went to see them in February this year and they were lovely. They kept pronouncing Nottingham "Nottingham" and all swapped instruments halfway through a long song and kept on playing. And at the end Colin came up to the barrier at the front of the crowd so people could grab him. It was lovely. It's awful that he's sad. Oh. Hopefully he will feel better soon :(

The man came to fix the wasps nest yesterday. Sadly he did not get half-naked. He brought another man who was about sixty, and put on a white mask and outfit thing and climbed a ladder. I went inside to sort my washing out and when I came out half an hour later they were gone. There are no wasps flying to and fro anymore. I take this as a good sign. YOUR WASPS' NEST EXPERIENCE WAS MORE EXCITING THAN MINE. I LOVE YOU. HELLO.

And one more

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

There was something last night and I can't even remember what it was

"That's for the poor!" That was it!