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Oct. 17th, 2011 08:10 pmHello. I am still around. Oblivion has just continued to take over my life, that's all. I still love my horse and girlfriend best. Except that I'm now getting to the stage where I can afford a better horse, and kind of want one, so I'm kind of feeling some guilt over that. And nothing further has really happened with my girlfriend. I'm starting to get the feeling that most of the game isn't going to be about our epic love. But that probably means they're much less likely to kill her, so in a way I'm quite happy with that. Also, I've mostly learned that brown bears are literally the bane of my in-game existence. Somehow I have as much if not more trouble killing them than minotaurs and ogres. Fucking brown bears.
Anyway. Other than that, I've mostly been involved in Resident Evil fandom. My Resident Evil journey has been a slightly odd one though. Basically, I'd heard about it for years, vaguely, as you might expect. Then I started watching 666theheartless666's Let's Play videos, and in one of them he mentioned Wesker and one of his catchphrases, and I thought it sounded vaguely familiar, so I looked it and Wesker up, and learned a bit about him. Then I came into the room one day and found my dad watching part of one of the Resident Evil films, and saw a bit of Alice and Wesker and some of the other characters, and I looked for fic, but not terribly seriously, just to see if it was there.
Then I watched 666theheartless666's Let's Play of Resident Evil 5. And to be honest, I really didn't notice that much about it. Until I noticed HOW GAY WESKER AND CHRIS WERE. And then I really did start looking for fic, and found loads. And I thought about looking for the previous games, so I could actually see what had happened in them. But I figured they were so old, I probably wouldn't be able to find them, I probably wouldn't be able to play them, and there probably wouldn't be any Walkthrough's of them on Youtube or anything. So I got on with spoilering myself, and reading all the fic.
But now it turns out that you CAN get hold of the older games, that I probably COULD play some of them if I wanted to because my PS3 is backwards compatible with PS1 games, and that there ARE walkthroughs of them on Youtube. And I ummed and aahed and put it off a bit, because I knew that walkthroughs would take time and might not be that gay, whereas the fic was RIGHT THERE, and it WAS pretty gay. But now I am trying to watch at least some of the previous games. So that I can actually know the canon - more than I already do - before reading (more) of the fic.
Anyway. I've watched a Jill playthrough of the first game so far, and am watching a Chris playthrough of the Director's Cut of the first game at the moment. And friends - I had no idea how wonderful they could be. The cutscene at the beginning was more than thrilling enough. The only thing I can think to compare it to is Ripper, and yet Ripper - somehow - had better acting in it. Then we got onto the actual games, and the joys of the voice-acting. "A master of unlocking". I HAD HEARD ABOUT IT BUT I DIDN'T KNOW. Oh my god. So yeah. In some ways the playthroughs are their own reward. There's not a lot of gay so far. But I'll let you know if there is. Maybe.
So anyway. That's mostly what I'm doing at the moment. Playing Oblivion and watching Resident Evil playthroughs. And sometimes reading Resident Evil fic. I've fallen behind with pretty much everything else, including soaps. Which is a shame, because last week was the Costello-McQueen wedding week, which I'm assuming was a pretty big week for Seth, one of my favourite characters. I want to catch up on that but I don't know when I'll have the time. I still have a month or so before it goes on 4od anyway. And in the meantime I'm trying to do more useful things, like trying to tidy up my bedroom and do some of that stuff I'm supposed to be doing for my Employment Service thing. And go to that jewellery course. Um. Tomorrow. So yeah. There's that.
I've not been reading a lot of my flist a lot lately or downloading any shows - NTSF:SD::SUV finished, and I really can't find a new episode of Death Valley anywhere. And I really haven't noticed if any of the new shows I wanted to watch have started. But I am still around. Mostly. Just probably killing monsters and running away from bears, more than anything. x
Anyway. Other than that, I've mostly been involved in Resident Evil fandom. My Resident Evil journey has been a slightly odd one though. Basically, I'd heard about it for years, vaguely, as you might expect. Then I started watching 666theheartless666's Let's Play videos, and in one of them he mentioned Wesker and one of his catchphrases, and I thought it sounded vaguely familiar, so I looked it and Wesker up, and learned a bit about him. Then I came into the room one day and found my dad watching part of one of the Resident Evil films, and saw a bit of Alice and Wesker and some of the other characters, and I looked for fic, but not terribly seriously, just to see if it was there.
Then I watched 666theheartless666's Let's Play of Resident Evil 5. And to be honest, I really didn't notice that much about it. Until I noticed HOW GAY WESKER AND CHRIS WERE. And then I really did start looking for fic, and found loads. And I thought about looking for the previous games, so I could actually see what had happened in them. But I figured they were so old, I probably wouldn't be able to find them, I probably wouldn't be able to play them, and there probably wouldn't be any Walkthrough's of them on Youtube or anything. So I got on with spoilering myself, and reading all the fic.
But now it turns out that you CAN get hold of the older games, that I probably COULD play some of them if I wanted to because my PS3 is backwards compatible with PS1 games, and that there ARE walkthroughs of them on Youtube. And I ummed and aahed and put it off a bit, because I knew that walkthroughs would take time and might not be that gay, whereas the fic was RIGHT THERE, and it WAS pretty gay. But now I am trying to watch at least some of the previous games. So that I can actually know the canon - more than I already do - before reading (more) of the fic.
Anyway. I've watched a Jill playthrough of the first game so far, and am watching a Chris playthrough of the Director's Cut of the first game at the moment. And friends - I had no idea how wonderful they could be. The cutscene at the beginning was more than thrilling enough. The only thing I can think to compare it to is Ripper, and yet Ripper - somehow - had better acting in it. Then we got onto the actual games, and the joys of the voice-acting. "A master of unlocking". I HAD HEARD ABOUT IT BUT I DIDN'T KNOW. Oh my god. So yeah. In some ways the playthroughs are their own reward. There's not a lot of gay so far. But I'll let you know if there is. Maybe.
So anyway. That's mostly what I'm doing at the moment. Playing Oblivion and watching Resident Evil playthroughs. And sometimes reading Resident Evil fic. I've fallen behind with pretty much everything else, including soaps. Which is a shame, because last week was the Costello-McQueen wedding week, which I'm assuming was a pretty big week for Seth, one of my favourite characters. I want to catch up on that but I don't know when I'll have the time. I still have a month or so before it goes on 4od anyway. And in the meantime I'm trying to do more useful things, like trying to tidy up my bedroom and do some of that stuff I'm supposed to be doing for my Employment Service thing. And go to that jewellery course. Um. Tomorrow. So yeah. There's that.
I've not been reading a lot of my flist a lot lately or downloading any shows - NTSF:SD::SUV finished, and I really can't find a new episode of Death Valley anywhere. And I really haven't noticed if any of the new shows I wanted to watch have started. But I am still around. Mostly. Just probably killing monsters and running away from bears, more than anything. x
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Oct. 11th, 2011 05:23 pmHello. I went to Connotations this weekend, but now I am back. It was lovely, even if the hotel did put us in their ghetto, aka Riverside Block. It sounds lovely, but it kind of isn't. And mostly you have to get through a maze of corridors to get to it, and then back again. But it was lovely. I saw people, and also the first episodes of Once A Thief and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which were both good. I even co-modded a panel, and tried to give people the benefit of my extensive, grinding experience with them. And...there were other panels, but I'd have to look at the con schedule to remember them. Fandom fails, rare pairings, and fandom reboots, I think. But yeah. The people were lovely, the people I was staying with were lovely, I completely accidentally picked up the one book I was missing from the Night Watch series in the book mooch, and we played the new version of Slashtrap, which always completes the weekend. It was very good.
And then today I went to my first session of a jewellery making course in Leeds. It was the second week of the course, so I had to catch up, but it's really practical, so that wasn't hard - basically the tutor tends to show you some thing and techniques at the beginning, you buy some metal to work with, and then go off and practice it, so while the other people were practising the new techniques, the tutor showed me the ones from last week. It's very hands-on - the first thing you have to do to get a piece of metal (copper in this case) soft enough to do things with it is to anneal it, which basically means standing it up on some stone blocks, and then heating it with a mini-blowtorch until it goes cherry red. By which I mean, that's the colour it is, not like until it is literally red hot and glowing. But you still have to grab it with tweezers and put it in a little trough of water to make it cold enough to touch. But yeah, it was good. I learned how to cut copper, how to anneal it, how to print patterns on it with a print roller (I think), how to hammer and press patterns into it, how to use a domer to make it round, how to drill it, and how to saw it. Next week we're learning soldering, and the basic idea at this point is just to practise the techniques, experiment with them and see what happens, and then eventually start making actual pieces using them. It is good though, it's kind of amazing what you can do with the right tools. How much I'd be able to do when I didn't have a mini-blowtorch to hand is still questionable though. Perhaps they're freely available in the right craft stores.
And yeah. That's it really. I'm tired, and what I mostly want to do is play Oblivion. I think I might be shipping my character with another character, or at least have a crush on the other character myself. And I've levelled up a bit, which I think means that the game is trying to make things harder on me, but also means that I'm getting slightly harder, better quests. So hurrah. But my nephew's here, and dinner's in a few hours, so I'm probably best leaving that until I can actually do it and focus on it. Oh well.
And then today I went to my first session of a jewellery making course in Leeds. It was the second week of the course, so I had to catch up, but it's really practical, so that wasn't hard - basically the tutor tends to show you some thing and techniques at the beginning, you buy some metal to work with, and then go off and practice it, so while the other people were practising the new techniques, the tutor showed me the ones from last week. It's very hands-on - the first thing you have to do to get a piece of metal (copper in this case) soft enough to do things with it is to anneal it, which basically means standing it up on some stone blocks, and then heating it with a mini-blowtorch until it goes cherry red. By which I mean, that's the colour it is, not like until it is literally red hot and glowing. But you still have to grab it with tweezers and put it in a little trough of water to make it cold enough to touch. But yeah, it was good. I learned how to cut copper, how to anneal it, how to print patterns on it with a print roller (I think), how to hammer and press patterns into it, how to use a domer to make it round, how to drill it, and how to saw it. Next week we're learning soldering, and the basic idea at this point is just to practise the techniques, experiment with them and see what happens, and then eventually start making actual pieces using them. It is good though, it's kind of amazing what you can do with the right tools. How much I'd be able to do when I didn't have a mini-blowtorch to hand is still questionable though. Perhaps they're freely available in the right craft stores.
And yeah. That's it really. I'm tired, and what I mostly want to do is play Oblivion. I think I might be shipping my character with another character, or at least have a crush on the other character myself. And I've levelled up a bit, which I think means that the game is trying to make things harder on me, but also means that I'm getting slightly harder, better quests. So hurrah. But my nephew's here, and dinner's in a few hours, so I'm probably best leaving that until I can actually do it and focus on it. Oh well.
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Jul. 14th, 2011 12:07 amI watched A Very Potter Sequel last night, and it was amazing. I was going to watch some of it, but then I couldn't decide where to stop and I kept missing the times I wanted to start getting ready for bed by, so in the end I watched it all. Hurrah!
On a sidenote, sometimes I think about female characters I love or like, and I genuinely don't know where to put female characters that are played by men. They probably count, I guess, it just feels a bit weird. But if I was counting them, then musical!Dolores Umbridge would definitely be in there. Oh yes.
And then today I went to see Bad Teacher, which was also pretty great. I love Cameron Diaz. And Lucy Punch. ( Sort of spoiler ). I would probably give it about a 3 (out of 5), it was enjoyable but not particularly awesome. But I do quite love Cameron Diaz, I think. Yay.
On a sidenote, sometimes I think about female characters I love or like, and I genuinely don't know where to put female characters that are played by men. They probably count, I guess, it just feels a bit weird. But if I was counting them, then musical!Dolores Umbridge would definitely be in there. Oh yes.
And then today I went to see Bad Teacher, which was also pretty great. I love Cameron Diaz. And Lucy Punch. ( Sort of spoiler ). I would probably give it about a 3 (out of 5), it was enjoyable but not particularly awesome. But I do quite love Cameron Diaz, I think. Yay.
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Jul. 7th, 2011 09:53 pmHere's what's been happening in my life:
I think that's about it. Mostly my life in the last week has involved appointments, form filling in, and checking the X-Men kink memes. A prompt of mine got filled! That was pretty nice. It wasn't for a pairing, but still. It's still only vaguely alleviating the kink meme experience for me though. And finding other anonymous Charles/Shaw fans. I still keep checking though. No-one is less proud of me for doing this than me.
Also, I found some old/newer episodes of Will and Grace on some channel on Sky somewhere. Oh Karen! And Will a bit. And Jack sort of. And whenever Karen and Will get to have scenes together. And y'know, Grace. It's kind of weird seeing some of the jokes they used to do on there, but kind of lovely all the same. Oh Karen! That's mostly my reaction.
Also I love Mitzeee and Brendan Brady and Jacqui from Hollyoaks. And Carmel is pretty this week! That is all.
- I watched Sleepy Hollow again. It is kind of rubbish, but Johnny Depp is very good.
- I went to see X-Men: First Class again. It is still kind of rubbish.
- I went to Santander! (I know it doesn't have any punctuation in it, but that's just how I want to say the word whenever I think of it) to try to get my banking details sorted out so I can pay mum back for the expensive necklace I bought in Prague. Also so I have access to my banking details. While I was there I checked my balance and turned out to have slightly more money than I thought I did. Hurrah!
- The Riverside Festival in Nottingham is happening in about a month, and despite having a bit more money than I thought I did, I am still uncertain about whether I'm going. K and I talked about going together when I was in London in February, but I haven't heard from her since. And it feels a bit odd to contact her about it when I don't actually know if I can afford to go. Hmph.
- I've started my appeal process. I finally got the form filled in over the weekend, went in to the Jobcentre on Monday to check I was doing it right, got some slightly confusing advice (the man told me to call and notify the office on the letter, and when I called they weren't bothered about that). But I sent it off that day, and got a call today saying the appeal process was in the works, and in the meantime they'd be paying me. Now I just need to get a doctor's note again though. Hmph.
- I watched Coronation Street tonight, and David has weird hair again and made a joke about his wife doing things to him that 'weren't consensual'. I love him. He didn't become INCANDENSCENT like the Sky programme description promised he would, but still.
- I've been sending a few 38 degrees emails to my local MP, Yvette Cooper, and now she's emailing ME asking me to fill in questionnaires and petitions. Booooo.
- I discovered a new webcomic to follow, Band Vs Band. It's got some quite lovely art, and a lot of slash. And how. Honey/Turpentine forever.
- I finished Folklore, a game I have been playing for a few months! And a thing I thought was going to happen sort of happened, but not really in the way I was expecting it. It was pretty sad though. Also I ended up sort of shipping Ellen/Keats. Who knew?
I think that's about it. Mostly my life in the last week has involved appointments, form filling in, and checking the X-Men kink memes. A prompt of mine got filled! That was pretty nice. It wasn't for a pairing, but still. It's still only vaguely alleviating the kink meme experience for me though. And finding other anonymous Charles/Shaw fans. I still keep checking though. No-one is less proud of me for doing this than me.
Also, I found some old/newer episodes of Will and Grace on some channel on Sky somewhere. Oh Karen! And Will a bit. And Jack sort of. And whenever Karen and Will get to have scenes together. And y'know, Grace. It's kind of weird seeing some of the jokes they used to do on there, but kind of lovely all the same. Oh Karen! That's mostly my reaction.
Also I love Mitzeee and Brendan Brady and Jacqui from Hollyoaks. And Carmel is pretty this week! That is all.
Tags:
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- brendan brady,
- cash,
- computer games,
- coronation street,
- david platt,
- ellen/keats,
- fandom,
- femslash,
- films,
- folklore,
- hollyoaks,
- jacqui mcqueen,
- johnny depp,
- karen,
- kink memes,
- mitzeee,
- money,
- my mental health,
- politics,
- riverside festival,
- sleepy hollow,
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- will and grace,
- will truman,
- x-men: first class
Pairing Post
Book - Freeze Tag by Caroline B. Cooney: Megan/Lannie
Hello. A while ago I said I was thinking about doing a thing where every fourth week instead of doing a film pairing picspam I would do either a post about a non-film/non-visual pairing, or a picspam for a film I like but don't have a pairing for. That was a while ago when I was still (two weeks in) doing these posts every week, but I'm trying to get back on track and I decided to do the non-film pairing one. You're getting this a day late because yesterday mostly involved sleeping until 4pm, trying to get up and get wash and dressed and cram in at least two meals before midnight, and then watching Comic Relief for most of the night. And I don't really want to put it off till next week again. So. I'm doing it today.
Freeze Tag is a book I bought when I was a teenager, from the Point Horror range, which I used to read a lot of around that time. People who know me very well will probably be unsurprised to hear about that. Anyway, the pairing is probably a lot more to do with things I made up in my head than things that actually happen in the book - I only really started considering it is as a pairing a good possibly 10 years after last reading the book, when I was thinking about pairings, and femslash pairings I might have. I reread the book a few weeks ago to make this post, and it really is not as good as I remember it being. This is VERY MUCH not a rec. But I still quite liked the pairing, and I wanted to talk about it anyway. And it's the only pairing I've done any sort of prep for at all. So this is what I'm posting about. Also, this is a pretty fucked up pairing. Just in case you were wondering, or haven't learned to generally expect that from me.
( Pairing Post: Freeze Tag by Caroline B. Cooney - Megan/Lannie. No pictures, but probably a lot of rambling, and very spoilery. But I will warn before posting about the ending )
Book - Freeze Tag by Caroline B. Cooney: Megan/Lannie
Hello. A while ago I said I was thinking about doing a thing where every fourth week instead of doing a film pairing picspam I would do either a post about a non-film/non-visual pairing, or a picspam for a film I like but don't have a pairing for. That was a while ago when I was still (two weeks in) doing these posts every week, but I'm trying to get back on track and I decided to do the non-film pairing one. You're getting this a day late because yesterday mostly involved sleeping until 4pm, trying to get up and get wash and dressed and cram in at least two meals before midnight, and then watching Comic Relief for most of the night. And I don't really want to put it off till next week again. So. I'm doing it today.
Freeze Tag is a book I bought when I was a teenager, from the Point Horror range, which I used to read a lot of around that time. People who know me very well will probably be unsurprised to hear about that. Anyway, the pairing is probably a lot more to do with things I made up in my head than things that actually happen in the book - I only really started considering it is as a pairing a good possibly 10 years after last reading the book, when I was thinking about pairings, and femslash pairings I might have. I reread the book a few weeks ago to make this post, and it really is not as good as I remember it being. This is VERY MUCH not a rec. But I still quite liked the pairing, and I wanted to talk about it anyway. And it's the only pairing I've done any sort of prep for at all. So this is what I'm posting about. Also, this is a pretty fucked up pairing. Just in case you were wondering, or haven't learned to generally expect that from me.
( Pairing Post: Freeze Tag by Caroline B. Cooney - Megan/Lannie. No pictures, but probably a lot of rambling, and very spoilery. But I will warn before posting about the ending )
