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[girlofprey]

Every day I think I'm going to make a Livejournal post, and then I check Tumblr and two hours later it's midnight. Dang.

• I loled so hard at Coronation Street when everyone was in the salon discussing Rob cheating on Tracy, in front of Maria, who Charlie was cheating on Tracy with before she murdered him. No-one brought that up.



• I feel like they're trying to make Tracy more likeable lately. I still hate her obviously. But I'm about an inch closer to 'I feel nothing for her' than I used to be.



• New George Gently was on! Actually on, after months of the BBC rescheduling it. I enjoyed it, but I think the episode would have been 100% better if John had had a panic attack and George had had to hug him on a pavement. I remember when George Gently was a great title because George was quite gentle, and not constantly flying off the handle at people with semi-groundless accusations (like John). I'm forced to assume his behaviour on Thursday was mainly because they were investigating corrupt police officers again, and he was thinking "If they shoot John again, I s2g...". Still. Traumatised, sullen Bacchus is the best Bacchus.



• I'm playing Bioshock Infinite, finally, after Tumblr posts suggests it had something to do with the previous games' canon, instead of standing on its own like the story seemed to. I'M REALLY ENJOYING IT. Still agonising over every decision though. No spoilers please.



• I've also been doing some research for a potential fic, and it's turned up some weird facts about Britain. I assumed that since England was so famous for apples and strawberries we were PRETTY GOOD AT GROWING THEM. But apparently the only native apple tree we have is the crab apple tree, and the only strawberries native to us are alpine strawberries. Neither of which have fruit you'd want to eat. Everything else was transplanted (ha ha) over from Europe or wherever. Meanwhile I thought cherries were entirely an Asian thing, but apparently we do have a native cherry tree, fruit and all. And different sites seem to say different things, but apparently we have native pears too. Maybe. It's all quite strange, but fun.



• Also it has given me a number of question about the Dragon Age universe, such as: if the Dalish are so poor, how come Ariane in Witch Hunt comes to you equipped with volcanic aurum, white steel and gold rings? Is she from the Beverly Hills Clan? And how do Dalish Keepers enchant things, as the codex claims they do with certain items, when enchanting is only supposed to be done by dwarves and Tranquil mages, people who have been cut off from the Fade and magic? Of course, their whole approach to magic and enchanting has never made sense. Like being able to use Raw Lyrium in the Deep Roads without going mad or dying, mages being able to use Lyrium potions without getting addicted, and Anders in Awakenings being able to make runes when he really shouldn't be able to, if lyrium and enchanting is so difficult for active mages. Enquiring minds, Bioware. Enquiring minds.



• Leyla was always the best sister on Emmerdale and I love her, and I hate Alicia, she's fine but I hate her, I can't believe she's acting like Leyla just 'makes things up' and 'wants to stir up drama', when SHE GAVE YOU HER BABY, SHE GAVE YOU HER BABY YOU FORCED HER TO HAVE AND BOND WITH, OH MY GOD ALICIA. It's like she doesn't believe Leyla can have feelings. Also it's quite strange that they've given Priya an anorexia storyline when for a while I was convinced they were going down the line of having her brother Nikhil have an eating disorder. But they seem to be doing it well, and they haven't done one for a while, so it deserved covering I suppose.

Can I ask, does my lj-cut 'text' look weird at all? A while ago when LJ started messing them up I did something to move the text to the left, and now they seem to have fixed it, and on my view the words overlap with the bracket now. I can't remember what I did to the html or how to change it back again, and I just wondered if anyone else could see it?

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look weird to me at all.

I am amazed that we are not a native apple country. This is a severe knock to my patriotism.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN HAVE CRAB APPLES. YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE CRAB APPLES YOU WANT.

It must just be me then. Hmm. What an annoying and yet considerate thing for LJ to do.

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, I'd forgotten that it looked like Nikhil was going to have an eating disorder for a while there.

I hate what they've done with Leyla's character (and Leyla and Alicia by extension) - it was like when she left they just threw a bunch of random stuff in the mix. And now she's come back it seems sort of similar (though I do like her friendship with Priya).

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I only remembered because the way she was talking was so similar to the way he used to talk. And while female eating disorders are a problem and doing one with an adult woman having a relapse probably hasn't been done before...it still feels like a male eating disorder storyline might have been a bit more ground-breaking. And necessary for some guys out there. Oh well.

I know. It really doesn't make sense - I mean it never did - but they keep doing weird things to make Leyla seem all 'shallow' and 'irresponsible', and yet she's still like one of the warmest, most supportive characters on the show half the time. All I can think is that they want to keep Alicia around and they realised that, y'know, guilt-tripping your sister into having a baby and then giving it to you after you'd forced her to bond with it - while showing no sympathy for her at all - might be a little bit much for viewers to empathise with. I mean I like Alicia, but I do find it quite difficult when I remember that's part of her character. So they're just throwing things in to make Leyla seem worse so you might believe she didn't feel so bad about Jacob, so Alicia looks better. Unfortunately that doesn't quite gel with how the actress plays her, or what her character was like before she left. Sigh.