Being a Hook fangirl is getting really frustrating.

Which is my own damned fault, of course. I didn't have to go head over heels for the pretty bad boy. I usually manage to keep at least some sort of distance for the type. But not in this case ( Read more... )

So, in response to the death threats sent to Amanda Abbington and the cyber-bullying of Caitlin Blackwood, all because they quite like Steven Moffat, I posted the following on Tumblr:

So, to sum up: people are now “battling misogyny” by harassing little girls and sending death threats to women who disagree with them ( Read more... )

This right here is why I shouldn't seek out disability fics (from a Supernatural AU on Ao3):

"He's just a normal guy. Who doesn't speak."

She nodded. "I know, Sam. And you're just an extraordinary guy, who takes care of him."Okay. Here's the thing. Anyone who thinks it's "extraordinary" to "take care" of a family member with a moderate disability ( Read more... )

I'm still watching Second Noah, as some strange form of masochism - okay, okay, and because of the baby Cyclops. (The most awesome thing from that perspective is that I keep finding shots I recognize from illustrations to minisinoo's X-men stories.) From time to time I tell myself that the show might have some redeeming qualities, so that I'm not just ( Read more... )

Back from visiting my family, which included a three-day trip to Legoland with my siblings and their kids. Five adults to care for five kids, and it was still a full-time job for all of us, what with the thousands of other people around! Still, the trip was great fun, and so was hanging out at my parents' for a couple of days afterwards, with the ( Read more... )

Author complains that Joss Whedon took the tropes she wanted to use. Except every single trope she lists was a trope waaaaay before Joss Whedon, and no, Ms. Dean, he did NOT do all of them best ( Read more... )

Oh, look. My still-new DVD player just stopped working. It loads fine, it PLAYS fine - but the TV will cheerfully go on showing TV programs instead of DVD movies, despite the settings and cables being EXACTLY THE SAME as when the DVD player worked ( Read more... )

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...and people are idiots. I mean, wow. No wonder sparkly "Miss Fairy makes a new friend and learns that bullying is WRONG" books still exist, if readers like this get to make shopping decisions.

( Examples under the cut, for length and ranting. )

In my defence, this post is only tangentially related to Sherlock Holmes.

I read a very gushing LJ review of the film, which among many other things mentioned that Law's Watson is a total BAMF (agreed) and that the sword-cane is... well, the word she used was "guh", but I think it translates to what I tend to call "awesome". Again, agreed ( Read more... )