I have found my tea kettle and tea pot (only a month and a half after moving :-P) and am having tea ( Read more... )

I haven't really ever been a part of the Harry Potter fandom proper, though I do like the books/movies/world, but I saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them today and found I have some things to meta/theorize/speculate.

( Contains spoilers for film )

[No Spoilers]

OH HELL YES.
So. Very. Yes. All the yes. Possibly my new favourite movie of the MCU. I have read some Doctor Strange comics in the past and know a little bit about the characters from playing the late lamented Avengers Alliance iPhone game. This movie. Yes ( Read more... )

Live-Bloggish Picspam Reaction/Recap for Sherlock 2015 Christmas Special
PART ONE
( PART TWO )

I've just finished reading the novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster and wanted to post a little review, and also a bit of meta about a character arc I think is likely in future films.

( Review and Blithering Meta-Speculation )

I don't remember if I posted about it when it happened, but the European Space Agency landed a probe (Philae) on a comet back last November, which was amazing considering it was like throwing a pea from Paris and landing it in the eye of the Statue of Liberty or something. However, due to some difficulties on landing it bounced into a shady spot ( Read more... )

[Brief and incomprehensible]
*KEYMASHING EVERYWHERE*

*randomly blurts single plot and character-relevant words and flails around like an electrocuted octopus*

OH MY GOD. And the foreshadowing!? Will kill me. Stone dead. Oh my god. I'm already freaking out about the finale now. Which is not that far away since this first season is so short. Why does this show not have a ( Read more... )

-I have accomplished about half the cleaning I intended to, but didn't get much else done either. Blah.

-mini-wrimo sign ups have begun for November, and I've signed up for 100 words a day. I was hoping to go for more this year, but RL shows every sign of being horrendously soul-sucking for the next several months and onward, so 100 it is ( Read more... )

['Scorpion' and 'Forever' premieres, some spoilers]

Awkward setup with a lot of tell, don't show, and a few "You're going to do WHAT? Are you a CARTOON?" level plot contrivances, but a lot of fun with quirky genius badasses, a main character with angst issues visible from space (who's child self needs to have been Sherlock and Mycroft's childhood BFF from Ireland, seriously), decent tension and ( Read more... )

WARNING: CONTAINS IMAGES AND DETAILS OF THE SHERLOCK SERIES 3 FINAL EPISODE. If you have not watched Sherlock Series 3's finale yet, this post is CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Live-Bloggish Picspam Reaction/Recap for Sherlock Series 3 Episode 3
PART ONE
PART TWO
( PART THREE )