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[girlofprey]

I have so much to do at the moment. Or not that much to do, but a lot more than I have been doing over the past few weeks. I am still not on my new laptop from Christmas, despite it all being set up and everything, because I want to back up everything from my current laptop before I move onto it, including my Favourites/Bookmarks, if possible. But I want to go through my Favourites first, to check for any broken links or things I don't want anymore, before transferring them over, and I have not edited my Favourites for at least a couple of years. I have added to it. Plenty. But not edited it. And a lot of the time when I find a broken link, I mostly spend my time trying to find another link to it, so I can decide whether or not I want it later - mostly because it can be hard to tell from a broken link and a bookmark title what a page actually is, and whether it's something I would actually want. So. It's taking a little while. And mostly it's reminding me of all my old fandoms. Remember when Heroes used to be less shit? I do. Also, last night I started going through my Vids bookmarks. Which basically led to just watching a lot of vids. So. It's a bit slow going. But hopefully once I'm through the big folders, near the beginning, the rest won't take very long. Then I only have to back up my Favourites, back up some music, and try to back up my Morrowind saved games, if possible, and then I am ready to move over to my new laptop. My dad keeps asking me if I've started using the new laptop yet. I want to tell him that after 7 or so years, and doing a lot of stuff online, moving laptops sort of feels a bit like moving house. But I've decided to just get on with it instead.

Other than that, I was meant to have a dentist appointment today but the receptionist called this morning and said I couldn't go because the dentist was at a funeral in Africa. And I thought I might have a Jobcentre appointment tomorrow, but it turns out that's not until next week. Apart from that, I need to tidy my room, which is a tip, buy some new jeans (desperately), decide whether or not I want to stay on Jobseeker's or try to get onto Disability Allowance, possibly chase up the mental health organisations I'm meant to be getting further help/treatment from, possibly buy some new wellies in case it snows again, go down to Alliance and Lester to check if I changed my details with them when I moved back to my parents' house, try to look at and sort out my money at the moment especially since I need to put some money aside for London, and try to charge my new electric toothbrush. And try to book my travel tickets for London. And try to watch up some of the stuff on our Sky+ box from over Christmas. Honestly, I finally deleted a mere 38 episodes of Emmerdale with lovely Nathan in then from off the Sky+ box on Friday, and dad IMMEDIATELY tried to get me to delete other stuff as well. HE HAS NO CONCEPT OF GRATITUDE.

Other things that have been happening, in bullet points:

• There were three new Marples on in a week over Christmas, which is almost always a good thing. I like Marple better than Poirot, I think. But unusually, I managed to guess massive plot twists in each one, if not who'd actually done it, long before the end of the programme, which I don't normally do. I can't tell if it's because I'm more used to the formula/stories, or if it's because they're getting more obvious. I feel like it's the second one, with all the ominous line delivery and close-ups on people's shifty faces, and Clearly Important Slight Slow Motion applied to certain things that happen. Which seems like kind of a shame. Still, nothing happened that was quite as disturbing as when I was watching the new one in August, and suddenly started shipping Miss Marple with the killer. Dolly is clearly Miss Marple's girlfriend, but I remain convinced that the killer from The Pale Horse is her one true love. Sort of.



• Coronation Street did a disgusting thing, but at least David had the good grace to look slightly ashamed and hunted over it the next day. And I don't normally enjoy sexual slurs being aimed at women, but the sheer timing of his comeback to Tracy the next day was sort of too good to believe.
  
  So David slept with Tracy. For some reason, other than that the scriptwriters wanted to add drama to Tracy's return, and suspects to the list of people who may have whacked her. And Tracy sort of announced that they'd slept together in the pub, and especially to his mum, and Gail was angry about it, but then sort of didn't care or really go off at him about it. Which was a little weird, given the circumstances, but also a little bit lovely given how she often screams at him for doing things she thinks are wrong. And then Tracy got smacked over the head and ended up in hospital, and the next day Gail and David were on the street, and she asked if he'd done it, and he asked if she'd done it, and they both said no, and they both believed each other, seemingly, which was kind of lovely. And then Gail suggested they give each other alibis, because she was not eager to go to jail again for something she hadn't done, and she guessed he wasn't either. And he was so pleased with her.
  
  Then later the police were questioning them, together, and they asked where the two of them had been on the night in question, and David said they were in watching the telly, and the police officer asked what they'd been watching, and David was STUMPED, but then Gail jumped in with 'Gremlins. And then Jools Holland'. And the police officers left and David asked his mum how she'd known what was on TV, and she said she'd looked it up in the TV Times. AND HE WAS SO PROUD OF HER LYING SKILLS. Oh. I wish the Platt's would just become an evil family. They're almost there already. When Nick first came back last year and was having loads of arguments with David, and then he said something about David's dad and David said something about his dad, and he pushed David up against a wall like he might hit him, and then stopped and laughed and I THINK smoothed his collar down, it was the EXACT mix of contempt and affection that I normally associate with mafia families. IT WAS GREAT. Also over Christmas and New Year, Tracy slept with Nick after sleeping with David, and then came and announced it to the family again in the pub, causing David and Nick to just LOOK at each other. It was a bit great also.
  
  Also, Becky and David's friendship mostly exists within my head, but even so the shot of her handing him a bottle of beer from behind the bar AROUND TRACY, was one of my favourite things in that episode, I think on Thursday. It was awesome.



• TRACY IS LEAVING! Apparently. She is not dying because of the attack that's just happened, as I for a while thought and hoped she would. But an article went up on one of the soap forums the other day saying that when she got to the end of her contract, which was only for another four months I think, she wouldn't be renewing it, because I guess she lives separately from her little boy and she missed him too much. That is a bit sad for her, but Tracy leaving JUST MAKES ME HAPPY. The post on the soap forum had a number of replies, mostly celebrating her leaving, some being a bit confused about it, some saying it was only hearsay and not official yet so not to get too caught up in it, and an inexplicable few being upset about her going because they really like Tracy. But without a doubt, my favourite comment was someone saying:
  
  "Oh, you guys, I thought Christmas had been and gone but I was W-R-O-N-G."
  
  I love the soap boards sometimes. I truly do.



• Nathan got a mention in yesterday's Emmerdale! A sort of actual involvement in the script! His little brother Will was playing computer games with his friend Belle, alone, and someone called his mobile and he looked at it and then his face darkened and he just put it away. Belle said maybe he should answer it because it might be someone important, and he said it was no-one he wanted to talk to. Then later on, in another scene, his phone rang again, and he checked it and his face darkened again and he put it away. And Belle asked who it was, it was okay, he could tell her anything, and he said "You want to know who it is? It's Nathan! He won't leave me alone!", and then he SMASHED THE PHONE ON THE FLOOR. Oh, Nathan is calling his little brother! I have wondered what Nathan's first Christmas and New Year without basically ANY OF HIS FAMILY would be like, unless he visited his mother. It makes sense he wouldn't totally give up without a fight too. And at least it suggests he's okay-ish and still has his mobile phone, or a phone, and hasn't had to sell it for warmth or food or shelter. I'm assuming Nathan's probably okay, they had a house all rented down in London to go to and I think he still has friends in London he could call on if he was properly in trouble. Still. It's nice to hear of him again. OH NATHAN.
  
  Apparently, Will asks Maisie this week if he and her and Ryan can't go off and try to set up a family home together and have a fresh start somewhere. I have made my feelings about the inappropriateness of the Wyldes clear before I think, but wanting to go make a new family with his half brother and sister, who he knows nearly slept together before, especially when his half-brother looks quite a lot like his dad and his sister, if she didn't dye her hair blonde, in my opinion would be the spitting image of their mother, seems like a new level of fucked-up ness. And apparently, according to our newspaper TV guide, Will admits that he's been "seeing visions" of his dead dad. MAYBE IT WILL TURN OUT THAT WILL IS THE MOST FUCKED UP OF THEM ALL. It wouldn't suprise me at this point. Or maybe with his mum, dad and Nathan out of the picture, he tries to fill a fucked-up ness void in his life. Who knows. But poor Will, I suppose, at any rate.



• I didn't see the new Doctor Who special over Christmas (also I did see a bit of Voyage of the Damned with Tony Gordon in it, with his hair slicked back and calling everyone idiots, swoon) - but I did see a clip of it yesterday with the CRAZY SHARK, CRAZY MASSIVE SHARK THAT WILL TRY TO EAT ANYONE, ANYTHING, BUT ESPECIALLY HUMANS, NO MATTER HOW MUCH EFFORT IT TAKES OR HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT DOES TO ITSELF DOING SO. I know that it was some sort of weird air-breathing shark from some sort of mysterious anomoly. I'm assuming it was an alien shark and they explained that earth sharks generally don't act like this. Or that it was very hungry. Or something. I'm being very kind about it, really.



• Reason number one why it's probably a good idea for me to sort through everything on my laptop and back it up and start using the new one: I'm keeping the new one on the floor next to my bed, out of the way. Or so I thought. The fancy Christmas light decoration thing my parents put in my window is no longer staying on the glass, so I was propping it up against the window. I just went over to close my window and knocked it I think and it accidentally fell over and knocked a bunch of ornaments of my windowsill, including one I think onto the laptop. There doesn't seem to be any damage to the computer or marks on it though. Still. Oops.



• I was following John Allison's little Giant Days 'blog' on the top twenty albums of the year complete with sample songs. I wasn't too taken with a lot of them, but I'm finding myself suddenly a bit obsessed with Infinity Guitars by Sleigh Bells. Warning: This music may make you feel like punching a crow.
  
  And I was all sort of feeling a bit Alternative and pleased with myself. And then today I was watching E4 and an advert for the new series of 90210 came on, using that song as a soundtrack. Damn you 90210. Or you E4. You and your music-stealing ways.



• Ed From Bugs Dancing On Ice starts on Sunday. Eeee!

Comments

[jekesta]

I read spoilers because I hate Tracy and they were great spoilers, hurrah!:)

My favourite thing in coronation street was that when Tracy was attacked David and Gail got to do 'did you do it?' 'no did you?' and then Steve and Becky did as well. I love how many suspects there were, but more that so many of them were going to stick up for each other if they were evil. Also there was a lovely bit where David looked worried about Gary, but now I don't really remember it. I think maybe just Gary's mum saying she was worried about him, and David was busy with his own crazy family, but looked over for a bit and worried sort of in passing for his crazy boyfriend.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

It is nice just how few people are concerned at all about what happened to Tracy or who did it. And it's nice that Steve and Becky got to check with each other, because I was worried Steve would just think Becky had done it, and not believe her if she said she didn't, and it would just be awful. But no. Everyone is sort of vaguely banding together, when they can care at all.

I know the bit you mean. It was when David had told his mum he was going to go sort Tracy out and then went to the pub for some reason, and while he was stood at the bar Anna came in to see Eddie who was stood right next to him, and was talking about wanting Eddie to come home to see Gary, because she was worried about Gary, Gary was acting really strange and was on the edge, 'she knew better than anyone'. And David properly looked over at them as they left, and I half thought he might race over to see Gary just to check if he really was alright. But then he heard Ken and Deidre at the bar talking about how Peter and Leanne were out and they might go out too, so Tracy was ALONE, and he decided to take that opportunity instead. And then the terrible thing happened. I like to think his worry for Gary in some way contributed to that confusing event, though.

[jekesta]

I sort of hated that David was sleeping with her when they went upstairs, but then the next episode I didn't care as much. It was stupid because I don't think he would have done, but I liked that it was sort of because he was young and it did make him seem sort of young again, and I liked that Tracy knew Gail wanted to have sex with her sons, and did it to make her jealous.

David being proud of his mum looking things up in the radio times to lie to the police was brilliant. I love how criminal Coronation Street is, I liked when Gail said it might be like the Orient Express, I SORT OF WISH IT WAS. I would read that fic.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hated it at the time, but genuinely didn't mind so much by the next episode because - as I've said - David was at least looking ashamed of it and acting like it was a mistake, and it wasn't just like Tracy had overpowered him with her feminine wiles and he was in love with her. And it has kind of been on the cards since before she went to prison, sort of. I still don't think he would have done it either, or Nick really, but I think they handled it well if they did have to do it.

and I liked that Tracy knew Gail wanted to have sex with her sons, and did it to make her jealous.

I now have an image in my head of Gail having thrown David out for being abused by his brother, and standing staring out of the window into Gary's backyard, wishing he would come back, while simultaneously frustrated that Nick still won't sleep with her. It is a bit fucked up. BUT SHE PROBABLY WOULD.

HE KNEW SHE HAD PAID ATTENTION TO HIS TEACHINGS. He was so happy. And re: The Orient Express - yes, with like David and Gail and Nick and Becky and Steve and Claire and Sean and Ken and possibly Amy all meeting in secret to discuss alibis and get rid of the weapon should there be one. I WOULD READ THAT FIC TOO.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

I loved those bits too. David and Gail just 'You?' 'You?' was hilar. Although it still could be them, especially David and his Evil Goatee.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I know who it is, so I don't have the burden of worrying whether it was David or not. I wouldn't put it past him, although I'd hate to see him arrested again, if I didn't know though. And yeah David and Gail were totally brilliant. Hurray for Tracy for doing that, at least :)

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

I haven't really been concentrating on Coronation Street at the moment (I hate Tracey), but I did love the bit where Gail and David checked with each other that they hadn't done it and then *Gail* suggested giving each other an alibi.

I'm sure Nathan's fine. I may have written fic about it, sort of (intending to post later). The entire family is fucked up. And why does he want Ryan to go with them ffs? And didn't he like Nikhil? What changed? I did not know about the seeing visions thing, oh dear.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

It was wicked. And it's probably mostly because David taught her about lying when she was insisting he help her with Joe. So they can sort of both feel proud about it :D

I thought he probably would be, he still does have friends in London and stuff. It's just that Lyndon Ogbourne said something about the way they've done it, they could bring back Nathan having worked and made sure he was okay and maybe be a bit more mature, or having lived on the streets for a while and come back even angrier and worse than before. And when you think about it, it's not that much of a stretch to imagine him ending up on the streets - if his friends, who he hasn't seen for a bit, don't want anything to do with him because of the scandal, and if he couldn't even afford to get down to London, and in the current climate if he couldn't get a job, or couldn't get a job because he had nowhere to live, and he's got no money or family to fall back on...it's not outside the bounds of possibility. But mostly I assumed he was okay just so I didn't feel too depressed about it all. But even if he is okay - he just spent Christmas and New Year's Eve on his own, after everything that happened. And if everything he owns really did go into storage without his say-so, he won't have his birth certificate, or his passport, or even any pictures of his family, or his dad, unless he had one in his wallet or something. And oh God. Nathan. But WOO though for fic :D

I don't know about Will. I'm guessing he's either just missing his family now, or the stress of everything that's happened has taken it's toll on him and he'd becoming a bit fucked up. I think he's pushing Nikhil away just because he's not family, and he thinks Nikhil's only being nice to him because he fancies Maisie and wants to get on her good side. And Will does like Ryan, and now Nathan's gone he's sort of down a big brother. I don't know. It seems quite messed up to me, but also sort of understandable, given how close the Wyldes were, for most of Will's life. Regarding the visions, it's a spoiler and it hasn't happened yet, and he's not mentioned it yet this week, but. Yes. It doesn't sound good, does it? :|

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

The entire family is fucked up.

I was convinced you'd said this in your other comment, for some reason. But anyway. I wanted to say that that much is becoming really clear at the moment, especially with the way Maisie and Will are behaving now. But I've realised that one of the great things about Nathan was that they were all fucked up, and in terms of what they were willing to do he was probably the most fucked up - but he was also possibly the only one who realised he was so messed up, and that the rest of his family were possibly a bit messed up as well. And God. Nathan is just so awful and great.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

IT IS YES. She was in prison, but they brought her back last year to get involved in Gail's arrested for murder storyline, and to try to get Gail sent down so she'd get some rewards for providing evidence so she could see Amy again, and then she got involved in seeing Amy, and in winding up Becky and trying to ruin Becky and Steve's plans to adopt a kid. And then at Christmas she got let out because the forensics expert who was involved in her trial had turned out to be corrupt, so they were reassessing all of his cases, so she was let out. And other slightly unrealistic things. And now she's back. :(

I REMEMBER WHEN SHE WAS NORMAL AND NOT A COW

I DON'T. IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE.

JOHN STAPE IS A DICK AND I HATE HIM, I HATE HIM. I hate his entitlement, and I hate how he just ruins everyone's lives but isn't even really interesting, and I hate how he doesn't seem to think he's doing anything wrong, and I hate how he lies, and I hate how he tries to get Fiz excited about it when she has to lie to help him, and I hate how he claims to love Fiz and is just lying all the time to her. OH GOD. I HATE HIM TOO.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

ALL HE DID WAS HAVE SEX WITH A STUDENT, AND THEN LATER KIDNAP HER FOR A FEW WEEKS BECAUSE SHE WAS IN THE WAY OF A REUNION WITH HIS PREVIOUS GIRLFRIEND, AND NOT LET HER OUT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL. WHAT ARE THEY SO ANGRY ABOUT???

No, John's entitlement is totally the worst thing about him. Among many things. Wanking on about how he wants to teach, he loves to teach, so he should be able to teach no matter what he's done and what it suggests about his personality and suitability to be around students. And then when he got a job in the bookies about how numbers were fine, but they were no WORDS, THEY WOULD NEVER DRIVE A MAN (/PERSON) TO TEARS OR INSPIRE HIM (/THEM) TO GREATNESS. And then proceeded to just prove him wrong with her 'x days working in a proper job', 'y months until our baby is born'.

He's just a jerk. Even when he was in prison and him and Fiz were talking again, and she clearly still felt something for him, and he was just smiling and talking to her about them getting back together as though he deserved that, with like no consideration at all of how maybe he didn't deserve it, or she wouldn't want to, just as though it was alright and definitely going to happen because he wanted it to. I genuinely can't tell if Coronation Street is making out he's kind of a dick and a sort of crazy person, or if they genuinely think he's a nice person. The fact that he's started killing people now sort of suggests it's the one where he's a dick and a crazy person. But I'm still not happy about having to watch him. Dude. Ick.