1. Recently it has been my pleasure to co-beta kore_rising's Inception fic World's Beyond Number, the inspiration for which was Possession by A.S. Byatt and Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. Do check it out.

2. I've stopped watching The Vampire Diaries and The Office and I'm particularly sad about the latter which was one of my first fandoms. But it's just ( Read more... )

Dear London,

I did not move here for 35 °C weather. I moved here so that I could wear awesome coats and pretty scarves and woollen hats and knee high boots.

No love,

Ben

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Shows I am no longer watching: The Secret Circle. Boooooooring.

Shows that have one more episode to get their act together: The Vampire Diaries. Aimless. Muddled. ( Read more... )

So all my Thursday night TV shows were pretty great this week.

Parks and Recreation was glorious. ( Spoilers )

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Wow, The Vampire Diaries just does not let up, does it? I think it's having the best second season of all the returning shows at the moment - it's even got the edge over The Good Wife which has seen Eli hold the idiot ball when he's supposed to be some kind of Xanatos Speed Chess Master (apologies for linking to TVTropes) and has been trying too ( Read more... )

There is a quote from Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms that perfectly explains why Stefan is ten times more dangerous than Damon, despite by the good guy.

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over ( Read more... )

I finished/handed in my thesis a couple of weeks ago and since then I have been decompressing. This has involved sleeping in late, taking the time to cook elaborate meals, reading books with no other purpose than enjoyment, re-establishing contact with friends and family, and watching a lot of TV that I missed out on ( Read more... )