girlofprey

Soap characters I love at the moment:

1. Nathan Wylde from Emmerdale. Oh Nathan Wylde. He of the pointlessly turned up jacket collar. I love him. I love him. He is a pathetic, spoiled, angry rich boy who's mostly trying to cope with the fact that his mum killed his dad and then covered it up and refused to confess to the police about it, and now mere months later, has a new boyfriend. He's mostly wandering around sulking and fuming at the moment. The other day we started a scene with him just laid on the couch, fully clothed, curled up staring into space, and it was mostly so his mum Natasha and her new boyfriend could come in behind him and not see him and act all lovey dovey before he could be all 'I AM HERE AND I HATE YOU BOTH'. It was brilliant. He is taking his anger out on his family at the moment, and especially getting mad at his mum, but we do also get quite a lot of scenes of him just stood around staring on his own, so he is clearly having a difficult time with it, not just pitching a fit.
   
   Meanwhile, his actor is giving interviews and saying things like 'he seems to be feeling a slightly inappropriate emotion towards his mother', and it makes me very happy. It would make me more happy, but I really don't like Natasha at the moment. As much as I disliked her husband and was happy that she shot him, I find it hard to be on the side of a woman who told her son she'd killed his father ('accidentally'), then told him he was talking 'nonsense' when he wanted to tell the police so they could like, dig him up and give him a proper burial, then tried to emotionally blackmail him into helping her cover it up. No dice, Natasha. I kind of ship Nathan with her new boyfriend Declan, because he does stand up to Nathan and Nathan probably needs that, but he's also kind of a dick. So I am left just loving Nathan, oh Nathan, I love him.



2. Lenny Lyons from Casualty. Lenny is a junior doctor who grew up largely in care, and is not very good with his social skills, and tries his best to cover it up if he does have a regular emotion. A while back his old friend from a care home came into the Emergency Department, and Nick Jordan found out while asking him about it that he used to be in care, and then decided that he was going to mentor Lenny. All the junior doctors had to mentored by an older surgeon, and Nick decided to mentor Lenny. And I love them. Lenny mostly just tries to jump around and get his attention, partly for his career and partly, I think, because omg Nick Jordan. And Nick is getting all enamoured of the idea of having children, because he is settled down in a relationship with Dr Zoe Hanna now, and he has a brain tumour and probably only about 5 years to live. She wasn't entirely sure about having kids, partly because she hasn't told him she's pretty much infertile, and he was trying to talk her into it a few weeks ago, and convince her that she was perfectly nurturing, and Lenny turned up wanting to help out on her interesting case and Nick pretty much encouraged her to take him on and take his hand on the case. He basically wanted her to mother Lenny. THEY SHOULD JUST ADOPT LENNY. He is already full grown, and has no parents to speak of, and would clearly LOVE TO HAVE NICK AS A DAD. I just watched last weekend's episode, and ( Spoilers )
   . So yeah. I love Lenny and Nick Jordan. I mean, it's no Toby/Nick Jordan, but it's INCREDIBLE all the same.

So it's mostly jerks that need father figures I seem to be loving at the moment. Oh well, at least I have a type.

I also went to see Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time today. ( Spoilers )

Hello. I'm still around. I'm also an idiot, which should suprise no-one. I spent most of the last few weeks telling myself "I can't apply for jobs right now, I really need to tidy my flat", and "I can't tidy my flat right now, I really need to apply for jobs", and in fact, doing neither. I did manage to get enough actions for my Jobseeker's diary though. And apply for at least a few jobs. Which is a plus, really. I haven't posted Mohabattein back to whatho yet. I'm really sorry. I'm going to do it very soon, honestly.

What I have mostly been doing is looking for Rorschach/Adrian and Rorschach/Comedian Watchmen fic, and tracking the kink memes currently going on. With a slight dabble in Harry Potter Petunia and Pansy/Luna fic. What I have mostly found is that there isn't as much Rorschach/Adrian or Rorschach/Comedian fic as there is Rorschach/Nite Owl fic. To a pretty high degree. I was considering setting up a Rorschach/Adrian community, as there isn't one and it would be nice to have all the fic together, but suggesting it on the comms gained mixed opinions, so I might put it on hold for now.

Anyway. Besides that, I did have my birthday on Friday. Which was nice. I went back to my parents' on the Thursday, as I'm still not working, but it turned out we couldn't do anything on Friday until my dad got home from work and my nephew got out of school anyway. When they did, we went indoor, glow-in-the-dark-painted Atlantis/Mummy's Tomb mini-golfing. Which was fun, except for the part where we had to wear clear-ish 3D glasses which did, indeed, make the paintings on the walls look 3D, but made everything else look wobbly and out-of-focus, and basically made us feel a bit dizzy. But it was good. And then we went to Pizza Hut for a meal, and I got a medium pizza for the price of an individual because they had no individual Italian bases left, and then we went back to my parents' and had cake, and my nephew stayed at my parents' overnight even though his bedding and room weren't ready because he/my sister insisted, and it was slightly daunting, but alright.

What was less alright was the part where it turned out on Saturday that my dad had booked him and mum in for a test drive of a car, and he thought it would be fine to leave me to look after my nephew for "an hour/not long". Ten minutes after my parents left, my nephew decided he didn't want to watch cartoons anymore and wanted to read by himself on a couch. I went to the bathroom and told him I'd only be ten minutes, since he runs up and down the stairs without us all the time anyway and doesn't need watching all the time. I was in the bathroom for about ten minutes, and then I heard the sound of my nephew running up the stairs, and then the sound of something falling down the stairs. I rushed out, and he was laid at the bottom, crying, saying he'd fallen down the stairs and hit his head on the radiator. A quick call round revealed that both my parents had left their mobile phones at home, and I was left checking my nephew's head, asking him which stair he was on, which he couldn't tell me, and asking if he felt sick or tired and trying to check his pupil dilation, which he didn't want to let me do. He was fine, pretty much after about half an hour, but it was still quite scary. My parent's finally came home two hours later, and I made a bit of a big deal about them leaving their phones at home. But anyway. It all turned out okay.

We went out for Sunday dinner on the Sunday, and then I came back to Nottingham. Since then I have mostly been trying to run around and register with a new agency and pay some bills, and decide what to spend my birthday money on. Both of which are going fine this far.

I have Casualty news from Saturday. A porter man was going around trying to sort out a leaving do for a nurse who was leaving the department, and trying to get a leaver's book filled in for her, and he went into the men's toilets to speak to Mr Jordan. Jordan said something about the man following him around, and the porter man said "I need your entry", and then they sort of looked at each other for a minute. JORDAN IS AS GAY AS ANYTHING, AND WHERE IS TOBY? WHERE? Nowhere to be seen. Hmph.

Tonight Eastenders made me cry for the first time in a few months, and while that's an achievement I suppose, it still seems like a pretty rubbish way to end that quite high profile, quite drawn-out storyline. I had sort of heard things about this possibly being what was going to happen, and about the particular episode that made me think it was going that way, but still. And particularly the way they ended up doing it, which was a bit ridiculous. OH GOD ( Characters that are spoilers ). Oh God. In my head they get an alternate ending and spin-off where they go off and fight crime or demons. Oh god. Dude. Honestly.

Note to self: be less rubbish.

Which I'm working on, honest. Lots of things happened this week. I came back from a con. My debit card did need things doing with it so I could use it, it turned out. I went to see a dance thing on Thursday, which was great. I had to do food shopping on Thursday as well, which was less great. I found out I'd been paid by cheque two weeks in a row, and I can only assume I got something from Jobseeker's Allowance this time, because otherwise I don't know why I'd have had money in my account. Things went off all at once, sort of.

Plus there was Coronation Street. And I was thinking, there should be cons in lighthouses. And cons on canalboats. The only thing that stops me thinking that's a grand idea is the fact that you can only fit about six people in a lighthouse or on a canalboat. Unless you had a small fleet of canalboats. You could hold panels in the pubs the con passed on their way. The lighthouse you can't really get round. Unless people were willing to sleep on the beach.

My current favourite idea about Coronation Street is the one where Tony Gordon notices David Platt hanging around being evil and unemployed, and decides he needs a new underhanded PA. David would have to do filing and wear a suit all over the place, and he could silently lord it over Gary that he had a job. Then at some point Tony would find out that David used to be a hairdresser, and would need him on hand AT ALL TIMES, just in case he has an emergency meeting or someone he needs to impress, and has to look his best. Hairdressing is one of my favourite things that David does, and I didn't really actually watch it back then when he was working in a salon, maybe he has no skills but was just very good at sweeping up hair. In my mind he can at least do a trim pretty well. Eventually Tony would probably take Gary on as a new bullyboy/"assistant", but would still want him to look his best, and David would have to cut Gary's hair as well. While fuming. It is an idea I quite love. A lot.

Select-A-Disc is closing down in Nottingham. That's really quite sad, but it does mean they're having a closing down sale. I made a couple of discounted music purchases. It's a shame though. When it closes, Fopp will be the only music/dvd alternative in town to HMV or WH Smith or somewhere. And I do quite like Select-A-Disc. Oh well.

The TV Choice has a little headline on the cover for Casualty this week saying "Jordan's BIG mistake". LETTING GO OF TOBY, is clearly the answer to that one. Maybe this is the week he realises.