sheldrake

I am a sofa-owner!* It was not a cheap sofa. I suppose I can no long deny that I am sort of grown up. Incidentally, I always feel a bit weird saying the word 'sofa' because I grew up with a 'settee'. Somewhere along the line I switched. Like, we never said 'toilet' in our house either, we said 'lavatory'. Just thought you'd like to know.

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In more important news, I'm fully convinced that now Bill Oddie has apparently left Springwatch, it is poised to become the biggest RPF fandom since Lotrips. Come on, people! Chris Packham was the sexy face of children's wildlife programming back in the 80s!

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Apologies to people not in Britain -- there appears to have been little for you in this post.

*well, provisionally.

Stephen Fry's latest on Twitter, re: the other night's Jonathan Ross show:

On the show @wossy read me some Fry/Laurie slash fiction. Did it make the cut? Absolutely eye watering. And I thought I had seen it all

I simply DO NOT HAVE TIME to go to work tomorrow! I've got TOO MUCH OTHER STUFF to do!

*throws huge tantrum*

ps. does anyone else want there to be russell brand/alan cumming? or is that just me?

I want you all to know that I've just written 2,600 words of Christopher Biggins slash. And I'm afraid I will be posting it. If you'd like to simply unfriend me now, I'll certainly understand.

Thank you for your time. :)

Apparently the Radio Times is a shipping magazine. As in, a magazine that ships, not a magazine about ships. Take these examples:

Wednesday: Property -- Location, Location, Location (8:00pm, C4) -- This week [Kirstie and Phil] play dipping their biscuits into each other's thermos cups. "No! I don't want those floaty bits in my coffee!" Kirsty wails [...] but we know she's just playing hard to get. "You are impossible!" he twinkles at her later. Flirtation, Flirtation, Flirtation, it should be called.

Thursday: Drama of the Week -- House (9:00pm, Five) -- [...] But, delightfully, it's never completely clear whether [House] is jealous of Wilson... or Cuddy. The writing is so subtle, it's impossible to tell -- maybe it's really Wilson he loves.

I rest my case.

Yeah, can you tell I'm off work this week?

This thing wot I am downloading is taking too long. :(

Anyway. I've been watching Season 1 Buffy this evening and thinking about Doctor Who (yes, this is pretty much how my life goes on a day-to-day basis) and I suddenly thought, ( it occurs to me that pretty much everything I might think of to say about Doctor Who from now on will be something of a spoiler ) And then I thought, no. That would be both ridiculous and unpleasant.

I was going to say something else at this point, but I forget what. I shall go to bed.

Blimey. I never realised Robert Louis Stevenson was so slashy!

Also: Samuel Johnson had Tourette's? Huh. You learn something new etc etc.

This drive-by posting brought to you by BBC4 and a tired brain.

Just trawling randomly and came upon this community: Ipswich: The Darker Side of Doctor Who

Ipswich is the alternative. Ipswich is the community and repository for all things angsty, dark, and non-fluff in the Doctor Who fandom.

Not to mention: Ipswich may contain explicit sexual content, slash, violence, and disturbing imagery. Blimey, I should say so!

:)

And now I must go to bed.

I have posted people's MS Paint interest pics. Please look after them, they'll be worth money one day.

Particularly as I've been nominated for a fic award! Yes! For that Narnia story I wrote for Yuletide 2004. But because I'm a terrible modest person, I'm not telling you what awards it be, nor where they is. Ha! I'm not having people voting for me, that'd spoil everthing.

Ooh. And I bought Attitude magazine, and there's an interesting article on slash. And dolores and megolas and angstslashhope are in it! Cool, eh?

I actually pumped my bike tyres up today. This is a major achievement!

I have nothing else to say just at the moment.

Did LiveJournal go away for a while? That was a bit scary. *twitch*

So. Saturday! Yes. I just signed a petition, and I know that online petitions are, by and large, about as much use as a wet rag in a gale, but this is for a very important cause. It's to get A Bit of Fry and Laurie released on DVD. You can sign it here, although it doesn't seem to like Firefox much.

dandywalker is evil. He made me eat a cheeseburger last night, when I wasn't even hungry. He forced me to. It was terrible.

I've been looking at old sketchbooks and things this morning, and frankly, I'm not terribly impressed. I was trying to make myself feel better because my drawing skills have deteriorated so much, but a) I fear they weren't that good anyway, and b) I'm apparently too lazy to document and archive my work properly, so I don't seem to have very much left. Which is kind of sad. I sort of have an idea of something I'd like to do, but I don't know if my skillz are really up to it. Whatever I do, I know it won't live up to my wild and tingly imaginings, but I should probably try anyway. Just cos, you know.

Ok, we appear to have ventured into extreme rambling territory now.

Other stuff includes the following:

I have been developing some mildish new obsessions, mainly in order to combat the extreme sense of boredom and frustration engendered in me by Ordinary Working Life, and Getting on Buses, and Buying Sandwiches Every Day and Stuff. Firstly, I have been hanging round eBay and Amazon like it's the end of the internet tomorrow. I probably should stop doing this, but I just really like spending money on shiny things.

Secondly, and in reverse order, I have been swallowed up, masticated thoroughly, and chomped into tiny, tiny bits, by Stargate: Atlantis. By which, of course, I mean the fandom rather than the show itself. Because the fic, my friends, is bloody great. And this leads to all sorts of inarticulate musings about fannishness and fic and so on, because I'm always doing this the wrong way round. It was the same with the X-Files. See, I'm basically in it for the slash, and then that makes me want to see the show to find out what they look like, and where this reference came from, and so on and so on, and omg, they really do do that - I thought Anon McFicwriter made that up! And I do end up enjoying watching the show, because of the fic, and my watching of the show enhances my fic-reading. One feeds the other. But I almost certainly wouldn't bother watching SG:A if no one was writing great fic about it. Hmm. Anyway, I should do some recs or something.

Ah, but now I must contradict myself, because thirdly, I have been displaying some disturbingly fannish tendencies. I have suddenly discovered Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. Yes, when it comes to being late to the party, I like to arrive when there's nothing left but beer cans full of fag-butts and a few suspicious stains. Hm. But anyway, um, yes, perhaps I need to feed the inner goth I never knew I had. Because, oh, Dream! He's just so ... broody and annoying and cool. Sigh. I'm up to World's End, and my favourite so far is Brief Lives, which I found oddly moving. I like the guy who's lived for fifteen thousand years, and then gets killed when a wall falls on him on his way to work. And he says to Death, "Fifteen thousand years. I did ok, didn't I?" And she says, "You got what everyone gets. A lifetime." Er. And, anyway, while there is much more to say, I think I feel like stopping writing now.

Ok! Stupid rambly post over! Yay!