I went to the cinema this morning to see Kong: Skull Island. I guess they're positioning it as the first in a possible franchise - no movie has a colon these days without a franchise lurking somewhere behind it! But I hope not, because...it was not a good movie.

I mean, it wasn't bad, don't get me wrong. Or maybe it was, in the way that big ( Read more... )

Not a meme, or if it is, it's a Tumblr one, not Livejournal. I came across this list of 100 questions on Tumblr and thought it would be a fun way of making myself post more often. Or more than just book reviews and the occasionally fandom squee. So I'm going to try and do at least one a day, maybe more some days, maybe not at all on others, as Real ( Read more... )

Did anyone watch the first episode of The Night Manager, the John le Carré adaptation with Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie?

I mean, sure, I'm biased because I'll pretty much watch anything with either of those actors in, plus Olivia Coleman to boot - but I thought it was excellent. Had me hooked. I thought the updating from the original Soviet-era ( Read more... )

So I'm currently reading Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
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So after seeing Thor: The Dark World yesterday I'm having all these Thor/Loki feels. I blame Tom Hiddleston. The man is just ridiculous. I don't know he can exist.

So does anyone have any fic recs? I've never really read any fic in the Marvel-verse before, so I have no idea where to start with good authors, good series...

Where awesomeness like this happens.

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Tom Hiddleston, you absolute adorable dork.

Mainly prompted by this article and class calculator on the BBC website, which posits the new theory that there are now seven classes: elite, established middle class, technical middle class, new affluent workers, traditional working class, emergent service workers and precarious proletariat.

( Class seems to be a particularly fraught topic of conversation, particularly in the UK, but I have to confess it's not something I've spent a great deal of time thinking about. Perhaps that is an indication of my class itself - that it's not something I've ever felt impacted negatively on my life in any way, so it's something I've taken for granted. And I'll hold my hands up to that. )

Why yes, I did just buy this T-shirt. Is being an enormous geek a viable defence in court?


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Goosebumps, sobbing, cheering, stirred blood and downcast visage - this is how Shakespeare is meant to feel ( Read more... )

Tom Hiddleston speaks Greek. He speaks Spanish. He speaks French. He knows Latin. He loves Shakespeare and Sophocles. He studied Classics at Cambridge and graduated with a double first ( Read more... )