girlofprey

It's a bit awkward when you consider people with social anxiety, but I still think this is a really lovely Youtube idea, and video.

I haven't enjoyed the heat over the last two days, but I am looking forward to the thunderstorms tomorrow. After months of not going anywhere, much less the dog groomers, my mum finally had our small fluffy dog Frank clipped today, and he looks ridiculous, but I'm sure he feels a lot better. Also it's mum's birthday tomorrow. She got herself a cake and accidentally left it in the boot of the car during the hottest part of the day. But probably it will still be good. We are going to have a low-key celebration.

I still love Krissychula. It's a shame about what's happening to her country.

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.

Hello. I have been planning and trying to make a post for a few days now. But usually by the time I am finished with my computer games every day, and then my flist and email and trying to make my way through my Tumblr dashboard I am exhausted or it is the middle of the night. I need get rid of some Tumblrs from my dashboard I think.

But I am making it now, largely because of the film The Grey that's out at the moment, and all the bad things I keep hearing about it. Essentially, apart from it being based around a negative and apparently unrealistic portrayal of wolves - a pet peeve of mine - there's also apparently evidence of animal cruelty on the set. And now, from metaquotes, it seems like one of the actors is kind of a dick: "I’ve made a lot of movies that had both men and women in them, a lot of movies that were dominated by the woman’s storyline. And in this case it was a very different experience making the movie and enjoying the movie, when it was completed, because of the fact that there are no women in it… It was like thank God, I get to do a movie with just guys.”. Dermot Mulroney's view of film-making, that is. And for some reason I have decided to blame Liam Neeson for all of this as well. Just because his face is on all the posters. FUCK YOU LIAM NEESON.

Also, I mostly wanted to post about the most beautiful response to the 'No Homo' phrase I've probably ever seen. I think 'No Hobo' is probably my favourite. I apologise for any ads you may see before that video. I can't really believe Youtube nowadays.

And also, in a sort of similar note to what Dermot Mulroney said - but completely the opposite - I've not been going to see many films lately, but there are a few I am or was sort of looking forward to. One of them was Chronicle, which is apparently about a bunch of teenagers getting superpowers, and then it all getting a bit thrillery. Except that I then looked it up, and it turns out it's about three teenagers, all of whom are male. I don't, it was just the sort of film I felt like I'd want to see a female character in, and it sounded like - with a group of teenagers - and in this day and age - one of the people getting superpowers might be female. But apparently not. And then, I went through it again yesterday, when I randomly saw a billboard poster for a show called The Almighty Johnsons with the tagline 'Meet the gods next door' - only to later pass it again and see that it's all about 'Axl', who just become a god, 'just like all his brothers'. Again, it was a show it seemed like there might be a female character in. And I assume that if they are a family, they probably have a mother (maybe?). But it doesn't seem like female presence is going to be a huge part or point of the show. In a way I kind of understand the film one more, because it sounds like it's going to be about a fairly close, small group of friends getting superpowers and then tearing each other apart, and I think it's fair to say that generally people tend to have friends, especially as teenagers, that are the same sex as they are. It's still annoying, but you know. But the TV show one I understand a lot less, surely it's pretty straightforward to just have a woman in a family? Maybe it's just weird advertising. And I don't know, maybe both these things will have amazing secondary female characters in them, AMAZING secondary female characters, the kind that blow people's minds. Maybe most of the male characters get killed off by the middle part of the story, and it's up to the secondary female characters to step up and save the day. They're not allowing those women to be in the promo shots or trailers though. It's just annoying really, because those types of story are exactly the type of thing I would be interested in. And I am still am kind of interested in them. Just slightly less excited now. And you know, it's not actually bad to have women in your films and shows. Just saying.

Anyway. Most of my links on this page are off Tumblr. Please do not judge me.

Also, I still love Skyrim. Also, it turns out the character I am playing in Saints Row 2 is an actual psychopath. But she has a lieutenant who is attention-seeking. Which is quite lovely. The psychopath thing is a bit disturbing though.