girlofprey

I went to Wakefield and Leeds today, and I bought some earrings and some nail polish. And I tried on some perfume from Lush. It's very nice, but it turns out for a proper bottle of Lush perfume it costs about £32. And even the atomiser costs £15. Also, Jon Burgerman has designed a new tin for Lush which has bath bombs in it. This also costs about £30. Hhrrrghksjdfkdsj.

Anyway. Other things I have done as well as watch Harry Potter:

• Watched the last episodes of Case Histories. Sniff. ( Vague character spoilers that no-one will probably care about )



• Watched the first two episodes of Single-Handed. Sometimes when I am busy loving Jack Driscoll, I forget how genuinely really bleak Single-Handed is. It reminded me in these episodes. And now they have another evil ex-Garda come in to make the community more awful and make Jack Driscoll's life hell. And this one doesn't even love him, like his father. Jack's life is truly awful.

I've been thinking a bit about my fandoms lately. Especially with Connotations coming up and everything. At the moment, they mostly seem to be soaps, webcomics, and weird British/UK detective shows. And films, sometimes. I don't know what the detective shows thing is at the moment, possibly just the fact I've been watching a lot this spring. Most of them don't even have an obvious pairing. At the moment, my head is like a weird little detective agency. Filled with very competent people, who will get the job done, but might just fuck everything up and fuck their own lives up while doing it. Still, at least they have EACH OTHER. Which is often more than they have on their own shows.

Maybe I should focus on Danny Phantom, which has actual fic, and only has ghost, murder and underage issues.

Although I did watch Coronation Street tonight. They made Ken's gay grandson a calculating conman, and then GOT RID OF HIM. I know it's good to have positive gay portrayals on TV, but given that a lot of soaps now have gay and lesbian characters, I'm quite ready to see something outside the general gay and lesbian characters they have. Like villains. Hollyoaks has had a gay gangster for ages, and I know it's Hollyoaks, but they're doing quite well with it. Anyway. But no. He's gone now. Also, Gail got all jealous over people trying to date Nick again (I think they have to stop doing that, at some point. Or make it canon). And Gary is going crazy, and Izzy has to put up with it. Oh well.

Also, I watched a bit of Emmerdale last night and tonight, and I feel like I might be able to start watching it again. Except, as well as pairings which are just sort of starting out and then someone dies, one of the most annoying things for me is watching one half of one of my OTPs just be swanning around without the other one. I think that's half the reason I still go on about Toby De Silva and Toby/Jordan sometimes - because I watch Casualty sometimes nowadays, and Jordan is STILL THERE, being really clipped and brisk and slightly short with his colleagues, and then maybe finding out he was wrong and having to go apologise to them, and running the department on his own no matter what problems arise. And it's so easy to just imagine how much better things would be if he had Toby just quietly standing next to him, watching him, and when he'd had an argument with someone smoothing things over, even if just with his presence. And doing spare paperwork, and being lovely with the patients. And Jordan would have someone supporting him, and someone to take care of, and someone to shout at sometimes eventually leading to a heartfelt apology while Toby didn't look at him. And it just feels very much like it would improve his life. I once had a plotbunny, when all the actors and/or staff were leaving Casualty, about Toby coming back for some reason and finding Jordan running the department literally single-handed, except for maybe the paramedics bringing patients in, and helping to run it with him. That was a lovely plotbunny.

Anyway. My point is that it's weird watching Declan wander around and get on with his life when Nathan isn't there. And how much EASIER his life would be if he had Nathan to mock and argue with, and then jump in to help maybe when Nathan did something TRULY ridiculous. However, Declan's awful wife and not that brilliant daughter are apparently leaving soon. Maybe that will make things easier. Mostly I want Carl to have pushy, not-explaining-the-whole-truth arguments with Aaron about murder, and how at least Aaron had a good reason. But I don't think Emmerdale is going to give me that somehow. Hmph.

I'm sorry if any of this is coming out weird. I didn't get much sleep last night, and now my head and eyes hurt. I am TYPING THROUGH THE PAIN.

Oh God I love Toby De Silva and I miss Toby De Silva. I can't believe that Nick Jordan came into it just to be ill and sort of get rid of Toby, when THE OPPOSITE should have been true. I go through periods of forgetting about Toby and Nick Jordan, and then periods of remembering and thinking about AUs where Nick is a vampire who gets captured by a vampire-hunting sect that Toby's sort of involved with and they want him to tell them about other vampires, and just to mess with them he tells them he'll only talk to Toby. And thus follows Toby's attempts to interrogate him while Nick messes him around and plots his escape and sort of seduces him through the bars, and then they FALL IN LOVE. I went looking for old Casualty episodes on Youtube tonight, and I found tons of them. Here is the part of the first episode where they meet (starting at 2.47). OH GOD. TOBY JUST FREEZES AND NICK JUST STARES AT HIM AND DRAGS THE PAIN OUT AND THEN LATER SMIRKS ABOUT HAVING FOOLED A YOUNG DOCTOR AND TAUNTED OTHERS WITH HIS BAG OF MYSTERY. Oh God. They do have plenty of good pairings on TV and in soaps sometimes, but I still can't help feeling they MISSED A TRICK with Toby and Nick.

Toby's SO PRETTY. I can't believe he hasn't just been on TV or in plays CONSTANTLY since leaving Casualty. He didn't even get to be ( Sort of identity spoiler for Sherlock 1.03 ), and THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AMAZING. Oh. ALSO THERE IS ANOTHER MATTHEW NEEDHAM OUT THERE STARRING IN PLAYS AND SUCH. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? It makes tracking him down VERY DIFFICULT. I ONLY ASK TO KNOW WHAT PLAYS HE IS IN, IF ANY. That's all dudes. God.