HELLO PALS. How are you?

I actually have something fannish to blog about! That's exciting, isn't it.

I went to the Horrible Histories Season 5 Premiere at the BFI, and it was spectacular. I had so much fun. Some stuff about it and general reflections under the cut!

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I'm not the sort of person who would normally write a blog post when a famous person dies, even when I'm genuinely sad about it, because I often don't know what to say. But I'm going to do my best to find the words this time, because I owe thanks ( Read more... )

OMG you guys, I got retweeted by Russell Tovey! ACTUALLY GOT SO EXCITED I ALMOST DID A WEE. And he even replied to me to tell me he was RTing it! With a kiss at the end!

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OMFG MERLIN SCREENING.

Naturally, spoilers abound, so let's just cut the whole thing, yeah? Warning: longpost is LONG.

( Près des remparts de South Bank, avec mon ami, o_deanna, J'irai danser la Séguedille et boire du Manzanilla, avec mon ami, o_deanna... )

Guess who got tickets for the BFI's preview screening of Merlin, including live Q+A with the principal cast?

... That would be me.

*fangasms*

I am going with o_deanna; we are both bringing along a male accomplice, because we thought it would be useful to have someone to physically restrain us from molesting the owners of certain sets of cheekbones/ ( Read more... )

OK, this is me 'fessing up.

On Sunday I went to see Bruce Springsteen. It was my fourth time seeing Bruce Springsteen, because I am a huge, huge fan. Look, The Boss is a fucking legend and to anyone who disagrees I say HANDBAGS AT DAWN. ^_^

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So I have watched the first three episodes of Merlin (moar coming soon, LoveFilm tells me) and OH MY GOD, IS THIS THE MOST HOMOEROTIC FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT SHOW EVER OR WHAT ( Read more... )

Preamble: Watchmen is a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It is brilliant; if you haven't read it then you totally should. I will keep from saying any more about it because, srsly, you need to read it, but I will say that it is... quite dark. And edgy. :D ( Read more... )

JKR's 800-word ficlet has arrived! You can read it here (and while you're there, I highly recommed you check out the other stories; in particular, Neil Gaiman's story is sublime, and I really liked Irvine Welsh's too. I was also looking forward to Margaret Atwood's, but her handwriting is literally unreadable, so I'll come back to that one when I' ( Read more... )

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