Are we there yet?
Election day tomorrow. I'm pretty much resigned that Abbott will be PM, and bleah, whatever, if that means no more photos of him in budgie smugglers, ever, I'll have to consider that a win. My one source of amusement (all right, apart from The Hamster Decides) has been passing this poster every weekday. It's just so very... weird. Like, who thought up that pose? It's like: Assange goes bogan - people of Australia, he's one of YOU. Of course the video of him pretending to be Johnny Farnham singing "You're the Voice" is even weirder. It must get boring there in "Ecuador".
Saw The World's End last week - of course Martin Freeman is in it, but that was really just a bonus. I'd mentally classed it as "mindless English comedy" (in the good way), but it turned out to not be quite as mindless as I was anticipating. I think it'd have been even better if the trailer hadn't given away the cross-genre element - it really starts off firmly sounding all the requisite notes for what could just as easily have been a standard old-friends-reunite-for-an-unfinished-business-pub-crawl comedic film that I think would have been perfectly enjoyable, if not particularly thrilling, even as is. I have to say I love what they did with it - the paper only gave it 6/10, but I'd give it at least another mark or two for the fight scenes alone and the bizarre-yet-appropriate ending. Will need to borrow it on DVD to inflict on other people.
Fic: I'm quite predictable when it comes to what kind of fic I generally enjoy - short, porny, plot optional but appreciated. Kink is even better (but no mpreg or omegaverse). I generally don't read kid!fic, novel-length fic, or anything with less than an R rating. I don't like WIPs, either. Of course there have been exceptions, but they're fairly rare, and are usually along the lines of fandom classics. So I'm surprised to have fallen in love with dioscureantwins' This Is Where I Began series which is basically all of the things I hate combined - 180,000 mostly smut-free words (and counting... sigh) of Mycroft and Sherlock's childhood. I have to admit I only started reading it after bonding with her over Mycroft/Sherlock, but the world-building of their childhood home, family relationships, staff, etc. is so lovingly detailed, combined with some nice flashes of Sherlock and John in the present day, showing how Sherlock's childhood made him who he is today. And I adore Mycroft, even if it's really all about Sherlock. It's been a bit of an acquired taste, but I've definitely... acquired it *g*
Really not been watching much of anything lately, except Dexter. Still gamely plodding through Season 2 of Person of Interest, about a decade behind everyone else. I did finish Hawaii 5-0, though! I really want A New Show, but I'm out of ideas. I did try half of Welcome to Night Vale, but... nah. I've heard a lot of buzz about Orange is the New Black, but the scenario's not grabbing me. The universe at large keeps telling me to watch Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Wire and/or Downton Abbey, and I keep refusing, although I suspect I'll cave and watch Downton Abbey if I get truly desperate. Is there something else brilliant that I'm missing?
Saw The World's End last week - of course Martin Freeman is in it, but that was really just a bonus. I'd mentally classed it as "mindless English comedy" (in the good way), but it turned out to not be quite as mindless as I was anticipating. I think it'd have been even better if the trailer hadn't given away the cross-genre element - it really starts off firmly sounding all the requisite notes for what could just as easily have been a standard old-friends-reunite-for-an-unfinished-business-pub-crawl comedic film that I think would have been perfectly enjoyable, if not particularly thrilling, even as is. I have to say I love what they did with it - the paper only gave it 6/10, but I'd give it at least another mark or two for the fight scenes alone and the bizarre-yet-appropriate ending. Will need to borrow it on DVD to inflict on other people.
Fic: I'm quite predictable when it comes to what kind of fic I generally enjoy - short, porny, plot optional but appreciated. Kink is even better (but no mpreg or omegaverse). I generally don't read kid!fic, novel-length fic, or anything with less than an R rating. I don't like WIPs, either. Of course there have been exceptions, but they're fairly rare, and are usually along the lines of fandom classics. So I'm surprised to have fallen in love with dioscureantwins' This Is Where I Began series which is basically all of the things I hate combined - 180,000 mostly smut-free words (and counting... sigh) of Mycroft and Sherlock's childhood. I have to admit I only started reading it after bonding with her over Mycroft/Sherlock, but the world-building of their childhood home, family relationships, staff, etc. is so lovingly detailed, combined with some nice flashes of Sherlock and John in the present day, showing how Sherlock's childhood made him who he is today. And I adore Mycroft, even if it's really all about Sherlock. It's been a bit of an acquired taste, but I've definitely... acquired it *g*
Really not been watching much of anything lately, except Dexter. Still gamely plodding through Season 2 of Person of Interest, about a decade behind everyone else. I did finish Hawaii 5-0, though! I really want A New Show, but I'm out of ideas. I did try half of Welcome to Night Vale, but... nah. I've heard a lot of buzz about Orange is the New Black, but the scenario's not grabbing me. The universe at large keeps telling me to watch Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Wire and/or Downton Abbey, and I keep refusing, although I suspect I'll cave and watch Downton Abbey if I get truly desperate. Is there something else brilliant that I'm missing?