The 2-hour premiere of Agent Carter aired tonight (2 episodes shown back-to-back), and I gotta say, it was pretty damn wonderful.


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...that the moment I squeed the loudest in The Hobbit was when Martin Freeman not only got into a flap about his doilies, but also snatched a certain macramé plant hanger from the hands of an impertinent dwarf.

Because I felt that it obscurely vindicated this. *cough* Slashy manly fibre arts FTW ( Read more... )

...After watching it being put off for 4 months here, 3 months there...?

It's actually HERE. Hallelujah!


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Something WONDERFUL has happened <333

Recently, and entirely out of the blue, @Glinner (Graham Linehan) tweeted:

No-one is paying me for this tweet! Buy official Ted T-shirts (some of them designed by ME!) here! tedstees.comAnd OK, sucker for T-shirts here, so I looked *cough* ... and if I may say so, these are feckin' gorgeous. I may have to ( Read more... )

Update, 25-Aug-2017:
Seeing a bunch of ugly broken Photobucket images? See my post on how to fix it.

And here's the second part of this two-part essay... because LJ does not like long posts :-P


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Update, 25-Aug-2017:
Seeing a bunch of ugly broken Photobucket images? See my post on how to fix it.
For Loz, who wanted this :-)


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Sporfle-worthy feminist wisdom here. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Originally posted by jimhines at Striking a Pose (Women and Fantasy Covers)

A while back, we had a discussion on the blog about the cover art for my princess novels. For the most part, I really like these covers, but they’re not perfect.

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...or maybe just a rabbit wearing a Trojan.

Our local movie theatre is kicking off a participatory-cinema series with Quote-Along Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I can hardly wait. And OK, I'm not so hard-core that I know all the lyrics to "Brave Sir Robin", but I do sort of adore this film. Plus the spouse is seriously gung ho! So, sounds like a ( Read more... )

Moustaches: the very hair of manliness. Where would Life on Mars be without them? Nowhere, that's where. Can you imagine Ray without his moustache, or Litton? I can't.

So when I read that Dean Andrews is regrowing his Ray moustache to raise money for prostate cancer, I realised that Movember is indeed the perfect month for a picspammy profile of ( Read more... )

Weather report for Emo* says that Sam's in for a bit of rain! Click the pic to see the full five-day forecast in all its glory :-)


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