The skinny on how Fifty Shades got published, confirming my belief that fandoms are dumb and easily manipulated and that marketing is more important than content and marketers are evil ( Read more... )

I don't know that words can do justice to the scale of my delight at how vicious and horrible the Hannibal finale was. Sort of a blurring of Bryan Fuller's gleeful cruelty as a writer and Hannibal's ( mild spoiler? Large spoiler. )

Welcome to Night Vale fandom is an excellent example of why I am never getting involved in fandom ever again ( Read more... )

Any offence you take hereafter is your own damn problem, and whining will be answered with "go fuck yourself".

( Re: Sherlock )

What are you doing, Circadian Rhythms?

Slept poorly. Slept in short bursts and dreamt weirdly and woke up five minutes before my alarm was due to go off, because someone had said "it's time to get up". My alarm then failed to go off. No one else in the flat. Not quite sure what to make of this beyond "well at least I got up on time".

Transport ( Read more... )

Okay so here it is, one of my biggest bugbears is people who insist they know better than I do what I'm thinking/how I feel. Especially people who have know personal knowledge of my thought processes and emotional states and are interpreting through an intermediary such as, say, my writing or my clothing or the fact that I have my eyes closed. This ( Read more... )

I liked America. It has a lot to recommend it. There is a culture of generosity of spirit and "can-do", of passion and ambition which are overlooked by a lot of Europeans; curiosity and a thousand, million cultures which have arisen and blossomed in the economic and geographic space. And the parts I saw at least - the west coast, from Seattle to ( Read more... )