girlofprey

Today I watched a documentary about London where the host talked about a gay brothel that was there in the 18th century, and the account given of it by an undercover police officer at the time. Who apparently had to go back several weeks in a row to "gather evidence". So what I want to know is: where is all the historical undercover-in-a-gay-bar fic?

Also I learned that lots of silver is terrifying. IT IS JUST SHINY AND THE SAME COLOUR SO YOU CAN'T SEE WHERE ONE PIECE ENDS AND ANOTHER BEGINS. Suddenly I know how to decorate a terrifying fairy lair should I ever write and/or film one.

I downloaded Minecraft today, after learning that it was finally available for the PS3 online. It now has every chance to impress me as all the Let's Plays suggest it should. Actually I've already played a couple of hours of it, and it is pretty good. I like the fact you can tame wolves and have them follow you around and help you. And also ocelots? I didn't manage to tame the ocelots though.

Meanwhile in Skyrim I finally get to have adventures with a hot Orc lady. Yusssss.

Oh and I had an actual look at the PS4 in a games shop today. It seems pretty cool, and smaller than I was expecting, but the only game I was interested in turned out to be a Playstation Store game that doesn't come in a bundle, and which I can get for the PS3. So that £400 price tag continues to be off-putting.

( My grandmother's funeral )

So that was the main part of the week, really. But it wasn't too sad overall - it was, but she'd been ill and sort of mentally not herself for so long and she was so old that we were all ready for it really, I think. It was a nice day.

Other than that, I am still playing computer games. LA Noire continues to be slightly annoying - a big part of it is questioning people and doing interrogations, and you mostly have to either check your evidence or watch their faces to figure out if they're lying or not. But sometimes it's not clear which bit of evidence proves which thing, or if they'll talk about something completely different based on that bit of evidence. And you're supposed to be able to tell if they're lying if they look away from you, but sometimes they look away and are telling the truth, and sometimes they're looking right at you and are just really good at lying. It's frustrating. Also, you're playing as kind of a dick. But I'm guessing that's mostly to try to explain how he can be a detective and still so shit at interrogating people sometimes.

However, we have a new-ish character. A cop with a strong Irish accent. Do you think he's:

A) Good?

Or

B) Evil?

Also we have a new character with a Southern accent. Do you think he's:

A) Good?

Or

B) A paedophile?

It saddens me slightly how much American fandoms hate people with Southern accents sometimes. Southern accents are often kind of beautiful.

On TV, and on a similar note, I saw an amazing new documentary series the other day. It's called 'Moonshiners', and it on the one hand follows people in Southern America who are making and bootlegging moonshine, and on the other hand also follows the police trying to catch people making and bootlegging moonshine. The camera crews must get so much side-eye from both sets of people they're following. They do have one lovely character though who said that he makes moonshine because it pays, and because he loves it, "And what can you replace something you love with? Nothing." Heart.

In other TV news, Springwatch has finished, and yesterday I saw a Poirot where Poirot basically looked up a schoolgirl's skirt, WITH HONOURABLE INTENTIONS, and then gave another schoolgirl a priceless jewel that technically belonged to another country. Why is Poirot such a dick? Also today I watched a bit of tennis, where the Queen's Tournament final ended suddenly in a default, when one of the player's kicked an official. David Nalbandian. Just an hour or so before my mum had told me she didn't want him to win because "he's not a nice person, he's just unpleasant". I believe her now.

I'm off now to play Dead Space 2. I'm also enjoying that...it's a bit more crash-bang-wallop than the first one, in some ways, and it's starting to get hard sometimes in the annoying way that Dead Space did. But it is still good in a lot of the same way. I sincerely hope it doesn't go rubbish at any point soon.