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: ( Dragon Age )



• 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. ( Cut for eating disorders )

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?

I have to go for a bus in about 15 minutes, so I must be brief, but:

On Sunday I watched the last episode in this series of George Gently, which was aslkdfsd. I wish there were other George Gently fans on my flist. Maybe I should go and find some. At the moment the main person I have to discuss TV with is my mum, and her way of doing so is to look at me politely until I stop. Then I watched the episode of Poltergeist: The Legacy where Nick investigates and gets kidnapped by his former Navy SEALs commander. I was worried it wasn't going to be as good as I remembered, or wasn't going to be as slashy, but no. Gay as anything. It all seemed a bit rushed though. Like, they had to fit Nick's past with the guy, the guy's supernatural thing, and his attempts to get Nick to join him into one episode. I can't tell though if I only feel that way because I could have happily watched 2 or 3 episodes of Nick being tied up in a cave with his former commander who loves him. Or 24 episodes. Whatever.

Season 2 of PTL is weird. They've made Derek make more sense, but because he makes more sense I just hate him more when he's a jerk. And the CONSTANT ROMANTIC INTERESTS, I can't believe them. And then they try to make me care about him and I don't, and it's just irritating. Philip doesn't trouble us as much though. And the stories - when they aren't about Derek - are often a lot tighter and more interesting, and the main cast sort of make fun of each other and love each other more. So it's odd. I can see why I loved it, but I can also see why maybe I didn't watch Seasons 3 and 4. Although I'm pretty sure I stopped watching them because there was a rumour one of the main cast would die in Season 3, and I was so afraid it might be Nick that I sort of cut myself off emotionally from it. Because that's how I roll/ed, with emotional over-investment.

Also last night I watched all the soaps, although not all of Emmerdale.

( Emmerdale )

( Eastenders )

( Coronation Street )

I went to the cinema yesterday and saw The Wedding Video. I mostly went to see it because it had Lucy Punch in it, and Matt Berry, and I thought Maureen Lipman, but it turned out to be Harriet Walter. She was still very good though. I wasn't really expecting a lot from it, just sort of a bit of British-style farce and then a het closer, but it turned out to be really sweet. In a situation I don't often find sweet. Lucy Punch was great. I LOVE HER. So yeah, I recommend trying it if you just want a sort of gentle romantic comedy. Unless something really dreadful happened in the five minutes when I ran out to the bathroom. I recommend it less if something like that happened.

And on Wednesday, my mum had my YN over for a few hours, so my sister could go out with her other kids and do some things. He didn't seem that impressed to see me when he first arrived, he hid his face in my mum's neck. But eventually we got on a bit better. He's crawling now, and clapping, and he managed to press a big button that makes a noise in one of his books. Apparently he waves too, but when I waved at him he just clapped. Maybe I will see it some other day.

In other news, it's the Bank Holiday weekend, and apparently they're putting everything on the tv. Pretty much everything. The A Touch Of Cloth show people have been talking about for months is on on Sunday and Monday night. A new series of Inspector George Gently is starting on Sunday as well. Unfortunately they're on at the same time, and so is something my dad is taping, The Last Weekend, which to me looks a bit shit, but whatever. We're going to have to do some sort of TV watching gymnastics, I think. We all watch George Gently, so I was pretty happy to record that, let dad watch and record The Last Weekend and watch A Touch Of Cloth in the little bedroom upstairs, and then watch George Gently later with my parents. But the little bedroom doesn't have Sky channels. So it's back to the drawing board. Apparently a soap opera spoof thing (v. popular this Bank Holiday, apparently) which I was interested in is going to be on a bit later on Sunday night as well. It's obviously going to be a busy night.

In other other news, I'm still playing Fallout 3. I did start other games, like Silent Hill: Downpour and Saints Row 3, but unfortunately Downpour turned out to be a bit rubbish (like most other people seem to have said), and Saints Row 3 sort of seems like a self-parody of Saints Row 2, but without any of the things that made it interesting. So pretty much everything's fallen to the wayside but Fallout 3. It's funny, because I've even finished the main storyline and one of the DLCs, but I'm still playing. I really love The Elder Scrolls games, and obviously they're very similar to Fallout 3, but whenever I finish the main quests (and faction quests) of those games I pretty much stop playing them. I think Fallout 3, at least, just does a better job of convincing me that the real story there is out in the Wasteland and that I should explore it, which is not something I generally do in the Elder Scrolls games. I like finding new locations there, but I don't generally explore them for the sake of it. I sort of enjoy just playing Fallout 3 more. Anyway, those are my rambly thoughts on computer games. I'll stop now.

( Other rambly thoughts on computer games, sexism, and the new Tomb Raider game )

I also found a site through Tumblr that does little arty pictures and messages of dogs, cats and miscellaneous. This is indeed a pretty accurate representation of what it's like to own a Weimeraner. In case anyone was wondering.

New George Gently, hurray! I love George Gently. And in some ways, it's only gotten gayer. It was a little different tonight than how it sort of has been in the past, which I'm assuming is because they've moved over from filming it in Ireland to actually filming it in Durham. I don't know, it just seemed a bit brighter and slicker somehow. Also, the office and interrogation rooms and things have changed, that's just slightly unsettling. But maybe it's just because they've moved on from 1964 to 1966, and it goes with the move from the Slighty Grim Sixties to the Swinging Sixties. It was still good though. Hurrah.

Anyway. I have a slightly busy week. I've known for months that I had a dentist appointment 6 months after I went in March, but not knowing exactly when it was. I was worried I'd missed it, but I called last week, and it turns out it's on Tuesday. My front two teeth have been aching a little bit, but I think that's because of how I drink coke nowadays, which I'm going to try to stop. And tomorrow I'm going to Leeds to try to enrol in a school place so I can do a jewellery making course later this month. And then it's my sister's birthday on Friday, although it seems like I won't be doing very much then. After the argument we had, I was a little worried because I figured she'd be coming over, and I wasn't sure what that would be like. But my mum's said she doesn't really want her over if she and I aren't speaking to each other, and might just end up sniping at each other and possibly having another argument. So apparently I won't be seeing her. But mum will probably be out with her for a bit though.

Rrrrr, anyway, it's suddenly September. I knew it was coming, you know, but now it is here. It's only about a month off Connotations, and then it'll be Halloween shortly after that. Then Bonfire Night, and then pretty much Christmas. And in between now and Christmas, I'll apparently have a new nephew. How time flies.

So. We're onto day three of my staying home on my own, and it's all going pretty well so far. I have managed to feed myself and the animals both days, and use the dishwasher and put the clean pots away, and clear up the dog's droppings two days in a row, which turned out to not be as bad as I thought it was going to be. My parents have a system with plastic bags. It's probably no good for the planet but it's fine with me. I did think there was going to be a dealbreaker today when I let the cat out, then heard her meowing outside the garage door and went to let her in and found a dead mouse on the driveway. But then I closed the garage door again, with her outside, and when I opened it again later, she'd eaten it! Or most of it. So hurrah.

In other news, Coronation Street was fine tonight, but I could have done with less of Peter grabbing Carla. And Roy's mum not being a Tory. But whatever. Also in Emmerdale, I love Chas and Cain, and Gennie, and quite like Nikhil when he's not being awful to Gennie. Ahem.

Otherwise, I have mostly been watching George Gently (oh Bacchus), and attempting to play two new PS3 games. Basically, watching 666theheartless666's LPs has made me want to play games myself, so I picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum and Kane and Lynch: Dead Men in Morrisons on the cheap. So far, I'm shit at both of them, but I have only been playing them for about an hour each, so there we go. I'm thinking I need to focus on just one for a little while, the way when you buy a few new films, you probably shouldn't watch two scenes of one, and then stop it and watch two scenes of the other. And so on. Anyway. We'll see how that plan goes.

In any case, it's worked out sort of well that I ended up staying with the dog, because I'm taking it as practise for when my parents go away in October, and talking about that with my mum made me realise that Connotations is actually on over one of the weekends they're away. So we need to sort out something with the dog for that aswell. Which is obviously better to know now than in October. So that was a good catch, at least.

Yesterday I woke up to pretty massive period pains, and despite getting up pretty late (3-ish), I ended up going to lie down again for a while because curling up on the couch made stomach feel like it was stabbing me, and standing up made me feel hot and like I was going to throw up. Which I did not want to do, having just taken a painkiller.

But eventually I felt much better, and last night I was rewarded with Inspector George Gently, Sugartown, and new Dragon's Den. Inspector George Gently was supposed to be about the hippie movement in England in the 60s, and Gently and Bacchus finding themselves in the middle of a social and sexual revolution. I had high hopes for the episode, and it did not disappoint. I don't really understand the lack of fandom for George Gently. One of them's a Professional, and I've heard loads of people talk about how much they love Lee Ingleby. But anyway. Whatever. The episode also featured someone who is currently in Hollyoaks, which was quite pleasant as well. Hurrah.

They didn't really explain who the new person was on Dragon's Den. Only after rewatching it a couple of times did I hear that she got rich through the haulage industry. She has weird hair and weird make-up and weird clothes/shoulder pads. But sometimes she was really lovely, and sometimes she got really angry, and she has quite a lovely gravelly voice. So I quite like her. Also I LOVE DEBORAH MEADEN. That is all.

Today turned out to not be a very much better day. Our dog is quite old now and a bit less in control of himself than he used to be, and after spending a while downstairs having a sandwich and whatever, I went to go out and found that he'd pooed all over the garage. Including one bit right between a pair of my trainers, though not on them, so I guess I was lucky in a way. Then I went out to the shop, and I had some music in, and there were about three or four young women walking the opposite way to me across the street with their kids, and I heard one of them shouting, and I turned round to look, and she was shouting at one of her kids. Pretty nastily really. But I was obviously looking for a moment too long, because she noticed me, and started shouting something about how she was shouting at her kids, did I have something I wanted to say about it? I still had my music in, so I couldn't really hear her, so I just looked away and kept walking, and that was that really. But it wasn't very pleasant. Then I went home, messed about in my bedroom for a while, my dad came home and cleared up the garage (I would have liked to clear it up for him in some ways, but I really just wasn't touching that), and then later on was watching TV, and the dog started squeaking again, so I went to let him out, and found that in the garage once again our cat had left a dead animal for us. Except not so much the outside of that animal. My dad ended up clearing up that one too. Poor dad.

But after and in between all of that, I did get the usual Monday/Friday night soap marathon. Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Coronation Street. Phew.

Hollyoaks was quite good, plenty of Ste/Brendan, but I might well have enjoyed it more if I hadn't, just before watching it, read a Ste/Brendan fic that I thought was just a fic, but I eventually realised was the events of the episode from Ste's point of view, which the writer had obviously seen on E4 on Friday. And didn't warn for spoilers for it, or anything. It was still good though.

( Emmerdale )

Phew. And now ( Coronation Street )

And then there was Eastenders. The Michael/Anthony corruption storyline isn't being as brilliant as I'd hoped, but there's still a little bit every episode where Anthony will specifically say something either acknowledging Michael or trying to get Michael to agree with him, and Michael largely ignores him, but sometimes he'll stick up for Anthony or look over when something Anthony has done has gone right, and smile a little bit. So I'm still watching it. I get the feeling that it might become a bigger thing later on, when the storyline progresses a bit. I have to say though, Michael isn't doing too great at manipulative incest at the moment, but he is doing pretty well at being a nutcase. Honestly. He's like the Joker. He's not as good as the Joker. But you get the idea. For a soap. It's all little twitches and funny smiles. He's very good at it. Kind of a jerk, a lot of the time, but pretty good at it all the same.

Also, I found myself slightly shipping Masood/Yusuf. Now that Yusuf is all canonically acting a bit creepy, and their tension has become slightly less about being weird around Zainab, and more about shooting each other heated looks across tables and making catty remarks at each other. I'm not interested in them, but like I say, I like it better them just hating each other than being weird with Zainab. So hurrah. I guess.

And now it's really hot, so I'm going to go change, possibly.