I really should know better than to trust nerd men on whether or not a film is good, rather than "mediocre with some good lines but overall self-indulgent and over-simplistic, relying on its unmentioned but immediately obvious and jarring Christian propaganda byline and entrenched masculinity/daddy issues to get an emotional rise from the audience ( Read more... )

It is I:

spoiler-filled video review of Dr Strange with Rich Johnston and m'self, sitting at the corner of Frith and Old Compton, with off-screen cameos by: the waiter who likes capes; a Big Issue vendor with a nice sales pitch; and Kaz, who was concerned about my past self-harm but didn't want to be on camera ( Read more... )

Lovely review/pimp of NBO by Ruthi

Blogs
The Gamification of Dining

BrainsWell, socialising did not help. I felt out of my depth, continued to feel isolated, feel guilty and shitty about not being able to connect with people, and my brain feels like there are pins in it. Life now divides into: Things That Make Me Feel Guilty If I Think About Them ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2015 that you'd never done before?Passed a probationary period at a permanent job. Got a raise. Participated (albeit half-assedly) in Union activities. Booked, attended, and paid for an appointment with a private medical practitioner. Saw not one but THREE gender identity experts and had them reach the same conclusion as each ( Read more... )

Blog Posts

Tiny Product ReviewsToday I got up on the wrong side of the bed and determined to rectify this and get some exercise by walking to the garden centre and buying a glass dome for my taxidermy songbird, which I did. This also involved the purchase of a small conifer and another string of fake vine leaves because I am WEAK. The dome is a ( Read more... )

Blogs

Gaywyck by Vincent Virga: Shit Book Liveblog Chapters 1 to 3.

I should start doing the reading for this but then you'd miss my insights on Gaywyck.

( On Dora Byrne )

Have my unfiltered and highly spoiler-filled Batman feels:

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Still ploughing on through The Life to Come and Other Stories and have just read What Does It Matter: A Morality, which Oliver Tallybrass (who wrote the introduction to the collection) seems to have a low opinion of; I actually found it infinitely charming and - as far as Forster stories where his wish-fulfillment got all up in the narrative and ( Read more... )

( The Charioteer: spoilers )

Blog Post

Rivers of London review

Fic rec

When Jesus broke the bread at the Last Supper he did not say EAT ME. Misfits, Kelly/Probation-Worker-played-by-Craig-Parkinson,-who-for-the-purposes-of-this-story-is-called-Shaun, Mature/nsfw ( Read more... )