girlofprey

Marilyn Monroe



My life currently consists of playing through Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon and trying to catch a stringfish in Animal Crossing before March is out. I love Yakuza 7 though. But I suspected I would since I saw that trailer where the main character looks up into a sky filled with fireworks and says "Everything will work out. Just like in Dragon Quest", and I whispered to the screen "I will protect you".

Naomie Harris

Naomie Harris is an actress, and I think a wizard? Or a chameleon? Because whenever I see her in a film I think "who is this amazing, unheard-of actress? She's great. I wonder if she's been in anything before", and I look up who it is and find out it's Naomie Harris. She was Tia Dalma in Pirates of the Caribbean, and I had no idea. She was in 28 Days Later, and I had no clue. She was in Ninja Assassin, and I didn't know her. She was Eve Moneypenny in the new Bond films, and I was like 'who?'. She was the female lead in Rampage and I think I'd already heard beforehand it was her, but I don't know if I would have recognised her if I didn't. At some point during all this I looked back at her past work and realised she was in The Tomorrow People when I used to watch it as a kid, I had no idea. And while researching this entry, I realised she was the main star of Black and Blue, which I haven't watched but saw multiple trailers of, and thought 'she's good, a new breakout star', and had no clue.

I don't understand it, because it's not even like she's a bad, bland actress that just sort of fades into the background. Every time I notice her and think she's a great actress and look her up, which I don't do for just anyone in films. And then it's Naomie Harris and I feel like an idiot. All I can think is that she's such a good actress, and a good physical actress, that the literal expressions on her face are slightly different for each role, and that and the power of her performance make her unrecognisable to me. She's going to be in Venom maybe, maybe I'll recognise her there. But either way, I think she's a great actress, and possibly even better for the fact that every role she has is so distinctly different I can't connect one to the other. I mean, maybe I'm just an idiot, but I'm willing to put it down to her talent. Either way, she's a mystery to me. It's like the Vincent D'Onofrio effect, but without his wild physical changes for each role. Put her in more films, Hollywood! Make me recognise her!

End of the year, so it's the Slashies 2019.

Slashies 2019

Well. Fandom has been thin on the ground for me for the past few years, but there has still been some stuff I enjoyed. New stuff! Old stuff that was new to me, and actual new stuff that was new to the world. So that was nice. But there are a few pairings and characters you might see more than once below. But without further ado! Let the award-giving commence.

Best Enemy Pairing:

1. ( Steve Harrington/Billy Hargrove, Stranger Things )



2. ( Deacon St John/O'Brian, Days Gone )



3. ( Rabbit/Tanner, Year of the Rabbit )



4. ( Napoleon/Laurence, Temeraire series )



5. ( David/Michael, The Lost Boys )

( And the winner is... )

Best Buddy Pairing:

1. ( Deacon St John/Boozer, Days Gone )



2. ( Laurence/Granby, Temeraire series )



3. ( Laurence/Tharkay, Temeraire series )



4. ( Crush/Djinn, DC Teen Titans )

( And the winner is... )

Best incest pairing: (NB: None of these pairings have actual genuine incest in them. I did my best.)

1. ( Ryan/Ali, Coronation Street )



2. ( Dutch/Arthur, Red Dead Redemption 2 )

( And the winner is... )

Best hatesex:

1. ( Evan/Cameron, Holby City )

( And the winner is... )

Best Pairing: ( And the winner is... )


Most Beautiful Man:

1. Steve Harrington from Stranger Things - it seems I can't put pictures in a post anymore, so here's a link. askjfhsajkdfh



2. Billy Hargrove from Stranger Things. asdkjsadkj



3. Will Laurence from the Temeraire series. I CAN'T EXPLAIN. ( Spoilers )



4. Deacon St John. Not enough people loved Days Gone. Even some of those that did didn't love Deacon St John. HE WAS AMAZING. Sam Witwer did an amazing performance, and Deacon was heartbreaking and beautiful and funny. One of my favourite characters of the year, genuinely.

And the winner is: Steve Harrington. HIS FACE. HIS SELF. ALL OF HIM AND HIS SOUL.


Most Beautiful Woman:

1. Crush from DC Teen Titans.



2. Maya from Borderlands. My baby Maya.



3. Lisa Jackson from Days Gone. Not beautiful in sexy way, but amazing, genuinely my second favourite character in the game.



4. Laura Bailey. Watched some more Critical Role at the beginning of this year, and ye ye! And she's in my favourite outfit of hers in that picture. I am genuinely floored by her and her existence whenever I see her. She also happened to do the voice of the entry above. Love.



5. Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones. I know I didn't watch her properly or read the books, and I know that's not allowed. But everything I was ever really interested in in Game of Thrones was Cersei Lannister, and her general doneness with sexism. And her craziness. Earlier this year, when everyone was going on about Game of Thrones, which I didn't care about, and how bad it was, which I didn't care about, I knew I could always google something about Cersei Lannister and feel better. What's she doing now? Oh, she's obsessed with elephants. Perfect.



6. Vera Stanhope from Vera. I always forget about Vera because she's on at the beginning of the year. But she's on in January again soon, and so I remembered. She's genuinely one of my favourite things on TV at the moment, Vera is the only show I still regularly watch. She is amazing.



7. Flora Wilson from Year of the Rabbit. Easily one of the best parts of Year of the Rabbit. The best Victorian assassin you've ever seen.



8. Nadja from BBC What We Do in the Shadows. Oh Nadja. The best one.

And the winner is: Maya. My baby Maya.


Lifetime Achievement Award: John/Jim from the Hitcher (1985). One of my first enemyslash/psycho pairings, and one I still think about and look up fic for sometimes, to this day. Rutger Hauer died this year, but before that he gave us some pretty good films. Stay gay, boys.

It's the end of the year, which means it's time for the Slash Awards 2017, aka 'The Slashies'. It's a time when I look back over what slash pairings I enjoyed this year, and give them prizes for being the best. So without further ado, here are the Slashies 2017.

( Best Newcomers (spoilers for The Hitman's Bodyguard, Spiderman: Homecoming, Fright Night (2011)) )

( Best Buddy Pairing (spoilers for Hitman's Bodyguard, Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2, Kong: Skull Island) )

( Best Enemy Pairing (spoilers for Spiderman: Homecoming, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Alabaster: Wolves, Justice League and Batman Vs Superman, Fright Night 2011) )

( Best Incest Pairing (spoilers for Emmerdale, Casualty, Coronation Street) )

And now it is midnight, so I must go. I guess I'll have to do the rest of this in the New Year. Enjoy!

ETA - Added 01.01.18

( Best Pairing (Spoilers for The Hitman's Bodyguard, Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 2) )

( Most Beautiful Man (Spoilers for Spiderman: Homecoming, IT (book), Rick and Morty, Superman (the DCU films and other sources)) )

( Most Beautiful Woman (Spoilers for The Hitman's Bodyguard, Alabaster: Wolves, Mass Effect: Andromeda, mention of the Weinstein story) )

( Best Dressed )

Happy New Year, everyone!

And in fandom news from the past few weeks:

• Allie Brosh's book is apparently available in October. I assumed, what with how ill she's been, that she just wouldn't have been working on it, but no, apparently it's coming soon. Which pleases me. I haven't seen anyone else talking about it, so in case you're interested and hadn't heard, there's the link.



• I'm getting on with the main plot in Fallout 3 again, and you know, the more I think about the storyline, the more annoyed I am about what a wasted opportunity I think Bethesda had. ( Spoilers for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas )



• I have been listening to this fanmix, and I want to rec it, because it makes me really happy. so maybe it would make you guys happy too. I didn't even know Electro Swing was a thing, but apparently it is. Also, it's a fanmix for Benny/F!Courier from Fallout: New Vegas, so if you ship that, you may love it doubly hard. NB: I cannot be held accountable if you don't love it.

And I was going to talk about some of the animals my cat has been bringing in as 'presents' lately, but I remembered in my last post I said I wasn't going to make another post about animal death for a while. Suffice it to say, I'm half horrified and half impressed.

And in the last few weeks, I saw three films. Three whole films.

The first two weeks ago was The Internship, which I saw mainly because it had Vince Vaughn in it and he looked like he might not be a dick to people in it. Which I was correct about! Although there were some slightly odd things in the film, overall he and Owen Wilson were both quite nice, and quite nice to other people. It was a slightly odd film - a lot of the scenes sort of felt like they were ad-libbed, and maybe they should have done more ad-libbing until they got something better/funnier. And the ending was basically a big ass-kiss to Google. But overall I enjoyed. And I somehow got a fluff pairing out of it. ( Mild spoilers )

Unfortunately, Vince Vaughn has turned out to be the latest actor I liked who disappointed me horribly, mainly by having fairly shady politics. It's nothing that would make me want to stop watching him, but apparently he's agreed to make a conservative TV show about his politics. So the night is young!

Speaking of which, I'd forgotten that the next Mark Wahlberg film I was looking forward to also featured Denzel Washington trying to do a comedy role for once, which I wanted to support. I may go see it. For Denzel.

Anyway. Then last week, I went to see Now You See Me and Pacific Rim.

( Now You See Me, some spoilers )

( Pacific Rim, some probably pretty big spoilers )

I think that's all my fandom news. Also I have started listening to Welcome To Night Vale, but I think I mentioned that in the last post. Also a few other things. But these are the main ones I think.

I'm going to Leeds tomorrow with my mother, because we are going on holiday with my two oldest nephews in less than two weeks. I need some holiday clothes. But I don't know exactly what I need or want. So tomorrow will probably be interesting, to say the least.

Dragon Age 2 is so dull. SO DULL. I am into Act 3 now, and I don't care, all the care I previously had went away. And all my companions are dicks, I literally hate asking them for help, and I know it's because game 2 is all about Politics and Fantastic Racism, but aksnldcmclndlanj. Where is the part where they say "You're right, Hawke. You're beautiful and amazing and ALWAYS RIGHT, I will stop being such a dick now"? WHERE IS THE PART WHERE I CAN CHANGE THEIR PERSONALITIES TO SUIT MY WHIMS, I'm PRETTY SURE I get that option in most RPGs nowadays. Is that the ending? Is a big party with cake and everyone realises the error of their ways? Are the errors of their ways still to come in the story, and THEN maybe they'll have a change of heart over it? Because I don't care. I no longer care. I hope most of them die. After they've finished helping me in fights and stuff. Pretty much the only companions I care about are Varric and Anders, but my relationship with Varric is going nowhere since all we ever discuss are the stories he tells about me (AND I CAN'T TELL HIM I LOVE HIM), and Anders is going weird. I'm pretty sure I mostly only love Anders because my PC from Dragon Age Origins recruited him, and she would LOVE HIM, no matter what he did. Barring a few things, obviously. Ugh. I hate Templars, but I'm pretty sure they're going to give me a reason to hate mages shortly. And every other quest is basically a fetch quest, where my basic reward is a bit of money and a 'tick' next to the quest in my journal.

It's fine. It's perfectly fine. I'm just really bored.

In other news, people are saying Livejournal is no longer sending comment notifications, is that true? It sucks if it is true. I'm assuming I will get a 'notification' on the home page, or my journal, if you comment on this post. If not things are going to get a lot more complicated around here.

I have also been watching Springwatch, this week and last week, as I attempt to do every year. I love Springwatch. And I love Michaela Strachan now she has calmed down and stopped trying to do cheesy jokes and wacky presenting all the time. I have to assume either the others told her to calm down, or she found a genuine love for nature, or - in a way that is sad but perhaps for the best - she witnessed one too many 'tragedies', like entire nests of cute chicks being eaten by weasels, and it soothed her manic soul. In any case, she's a lot better nowadays. And I seem to be detecting a frisson of sexual tension between her and Chris Packham on the show. If not, they're still really lovely with the way she makes him laugh despite himself all the time.

And while watching Springwatch, I saw the presenters make a few comments suggesting cuckoos were getting really rare in Britain nowadays. Which made me lucky, I suppose, since on Tuesday my mum and I took my ON to a local nature reserve, Fairburn Ings, and totally heard one in the woods. Result.

I also had to go see a woman from the Jobcentre on Wednesday. It was the Disability Advisor, and it was just a routine checking in type of thing, but it was a new woman because the previous woman retired, so I decided I should go in and meet her face-to-face, and I was a little bit anxious about it. But she turned out to be really nice, I explained everything I was doing and everything I wasn't doing, and a bunch of things I was waiting to hear about, and she suggested a new website I could look at for volunteering opportunities, and a new service I could go to for therapy once my current counselling is finished, and that was it. It all went pretty smoothly and she'll check in with me again in three months. Hurrah.

Also, you know what I don't understand? When you see the same actor over and over again in roles where they are meant to be not very attractive and kind of creepy, but they use actors that are obviously incredibly attractive in a slightly odd way. The main person I am thinking of is Harry Kershaw, who looks like this:


(from microsite.bournemouth.ac.uk)

See what I mean? I guess that's what they mean by "TV ugly". They mean not ugly. I feel like I want to follow Harry Kershaw's career, in the hopes of one day seeing him in a thing where they treat him as as attractive as he is. Apparently he was in Skyfall. As "Q's assistant", which was probably the most forgettable role ever. Still. Maybe it means he is moving into Hollywood, and will have massive success in the future. Tom Hiddleston managed.

Also I really hate the changes Youtube have made to their site. Just so everyone knows.

On a sort of related note to what I was posting about yesterday, it's kind of a shame that in there's quite so many Snow White-related fairytale films and shows coming out at the moment, because pretty much the only show about Snow White I'd like to see is this one. And it was on months ago, in New York.

Also, it would make me very happy if the Red Riding Hood tag on Tumblr wasn't quite SO full of Once Upon A Time and Amanda Seyfried/Max Irons. I still don't know who Max Irons is, but I know his name because of the Red Riding Hood tag.

This, on the other hand, is kind of making me laugh. SORRY TO ANY BENEDICT CUMBERPATCH FANS ON MY FLIST.

ALSO, I saw the trailer for Hunderby today. Behold:



Which looks like it's either going to be hilarious, or terrifying as fuck. Either way, I am interested. It's a 'black comedy' according to internet sources. Phew.

ETA: No-one should judge me for thinking Hunderby might have been terrifying and/or serious, by the way. The first time I saw the advert was backwards in a mirror while I was eating something in the kitchen. I literally went back and watched it again because I thought it might have been called 'Hundredy' and I didn't understand. It could easily have been a terrifying period drama about a house full of lunatics. IT STILL MIGHT BE.

In other news, I got my sick note sorted out and sent off. It turns out I totally CAN just call up, ask for a continuation, and pick it up at the surgery reception without ever seeing a doctor. Which is odd. And new. But a bit less hassle, I guess. Also got my Mefenamic Acid prescription sorted out, because apparently it's all in my files, so they just need to order it and I can pick it up from the pharmacy. Except that now, I'll have to wait until after all the bank holidays to get it. I sincerely hope I don't need it before then.

In sadder news (for me), I was googling for news on Death Valley season 2, and it turns out it's been cancelled. Which kind of sucks. I already knew things were tricky because, despite renewing it last year (I think), they never announced when they'd be airing it, and then there was an announcement in March that MTV wouldn't be hosting it, whether or not it was made. And now apparently it's off the cards altogether. It had plenty of odd moments, and did some strange things, but I genuinely really liked it, and was really looking forward to season 2 (according to an interview I found with the director he was also, hopefully, looking forward to seasons 3 and 4). Sucks.

I was looking around on Tumblr though for pictures that were nothing to do with Death Valley, the place, and found a bunch of interviews with probably my favourite actor Bryan Callen. It turns out he's Irish-Italian. IT'S LIKE THEY FOLLOW ME AROUND. The current count of Irish-Italian actors I like is three. And probably more! Rising all the time. They have terrible temperaments though. If what I've been led to believe by the New York Housewives of SNL is true.

Hello. It's me again. It has occured to me that this is probably the first time since I've had a Livejournal or been in fandom that I've had a new Elder Scrolls game, so you probably wouldn't have known what it's like (if indeed you care). This is what it's like, basically. I play them and don't do much else, except truly necessary stuff (maybe).

Things I haven't been watching, especially, since I started playing Oblivion:

• Emmerdale or Coronation Street, except when they were on when I was downstairs eating my tea. Although this is also partly because I've not been terribly interested in much that they're doing lately.


• Spy, despite waiting for it to start since about three or four months ago.


• Misfits.

I have been watching some things though. And they are:

• Death Valley. ( Huge spoilers up to 1.10, some for 1.11 too )



• Once Upon A Time. ( Spoilers up to 1.03 )



• Grimm. ( Spoilers up to 1.02 )



• I have caught up on all of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic that has been aired so far. I quite like it. I like Rainbow Dash the best. Twilight Sparkle kind of freaks me out with her slave-having, mind-controlling ways sometimes. But mostly I like it. But I don't really have anything to say about it. But it is lovely.

I also haven't been to see many films lately, and now a bunch of the ones I did sort of want to see have gone out of the cinema. But the ones I have seen in the past few weeks are:

• The Adventures Of Tin-Tin. ( Spoilers )



• Tower Heist. ( Some spoilers )

In real life, some other things have happened. There was Halloween, and then my dad's birthday and Bonfire Night. We went out for a meal at a restaurant/pub and then went out to the bonfire they were having. I had to spend time with my sister, but I mostly ignored her and it was pretty okay. I filled in an application for a job with the help of my employment coach, and sent it off. I haven't heard back from them, but apparently it had a really late ending date, so I might still hear back from them, who knows. I started counselling, and it went fine, but it got cancelled this week, so I've only had one session so far. And this weekend I'm planning on going to an art market to pick up a necklace that's been made for me.

And Halloween and Bonfire Night are over, and it is currently the period I count as "Christmas". And my mum dropped the bombshell about a week ago that my sister, who's due to give birth in a few weeks, will probably have to stay with the baby in the hospital for five days after it's born, and with Christmas coming her partner can't afford to take time off work, so we will probably be having both my nephews living with us for those five days. Which I'm not exactly looking forward to. But I'm sure it will all be fine. Probably. And that is basically everything that's happened in my life lately.

( Tonight's Coronation Street )

Anyway. Other things I have been doing lately: I went to see the Horrid Henry film last week with my mum and nephew, and it turned out to be actually quite good. It started out seeming like it was going to be all about how school is rubbish and you should never do homework, kids, and really irritating, but it turned out not to be. And loads of the actors/characters were really good. Especially Anjelica Huston. And Dick and Dom were in it, wearing eyeliner. Which was kind of a suprise.

Single-Handed continues apace, although I loved Jack slightly less in last week's episode. ( Sort of spoilers )

Also, I have been catching up on Inspector George Gently. I got Series 1 last week, and I finally saw the pilot. ( Spoilers for the pilot )

And sort of because of that, I've ended up watching more of the second series of Luther today. I was watching it when it was on, but I think the second episode of it was on the week we went to Prague, and my parents watched it while I was doing something else, and then I never caught up with it. But I remembered after finishing Series 1 of George Gently that Lee Ingleby played the psychopath in the first two-parter. And in some ways I didn't want to watch it, because I thought the switch from lovely detective to crazy murderer and then back to lovely detective might be a bit jarring. But then I remembered that I've seen Series 3 of George Gently, so after I watch Series 2 I won't have any left, and if I watch Luther after that, the last thing I'll see of him will probably be the crazy murderer. And I'd rather not have that. So basically, I did watch it.

( Luther spoilers up to 2.03 )

Oh yes, and Sugartown finished last night. Sadly, without any slightly abusive incest, as I might have hoped. Or [incest spoilers], I guess. But quite lovely-ly all the same. And it seemed to me to be setting itself up for a possible second series, which the BBC might go for, although I can't imagine what the story would be in another series. We'll see. But I enjoyed it, anyway. Between Sugartown and Eastenders, I'm feeling slightly let down on the slightly abusive incest front. TV is such a tease, sometimes. Also, after three episodes and the full mini-series, I still don't really know if Max is meant to be the older brother or Jason. Which seems like a failing of the show's somehow. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention properly. I might try looking it up.

Anyway. So they're my TV adventures lately. Also, there's been Hollyoaks. Hurrah!