Oh, hey, The Mentalist now qualifies as one of my major fandoms by my 'at least ten thousand words across at least three fics' rule! I suppose I should give it a 'my fandom history' writeup.

The Mentalist

I got into The Mentalist at the age of twenty-one, as a direct result of being into Derren Brown. All I really knew about it was 'a Derren ( Read more... )

More adventuring through my fandom history! All three of my real-person fandoms are in this instalment, so it's easy to skip if RPF makes you uncomfortable.

ScrubsFirst saw this when I was seventeen. I don't remember exactly how I got into it, but I think maybe my brothers were watching it? I was surprised by how little fanfiction there was at ( Read more... )

I'm really disconcerted by the fact that occasionally characters in Ace Attorney seem able to hear Phoenix's thoughts. Are the (blue bracketed bits) muttering or whispering, rather than, as I assumed, thinking, or is everyone in this game just psychic?

I was enjoying Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, but I wasn't really interested in Edgeworth and ( Read more... )

Derren Brown's most recent touring show, Svengali, was on Channel 4 on Tuesday evening! As always, it was a strange mixture of Derren Brown being terrifying (in particular when he had a creepy doll 'possess' a man from the audience; the poor guy looked as if he wanted to bolt off the stage) and Derren Brown being all giggly and adorable and ( Read more... )

Oh, my goodness, Jody is the most adorable person in the world. The entire world! I kept clasping my hands over my heart and making little squeaking noises whilst watching Derren Brown's The Guilt Trip. Bless him!

I think The Guilt Trip is one of my favourite Derren Brown specials ever, not only because the victim was completely adorable (he was ( Read more... )

Well, Derren Brown's The Gameshow was the most uncomfortable thing I've watched in a very long time. Probably the one thing of Derren Brown's I'd actively advise against watching. I felt quite ill. I shook all over. I almost cried at one point. It was meant to be horrible, of course, but - although it's obviously better than a programme that isn't ( Read more... )

I wept madly throughout the entire latest episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic ('Luna Eclipsed'), and I'm not even sure why. Princess Luna! I love her, and I now feel really bad for having killed her off pre-story in the Merlin crossover AU I may possibly be writing. Sorry, Luna, but something had to turn Celestia against magic ( Read more... )

Once again, Derren Brown both fascinates me and makes me want to bury myself under ten feet of solid rock so he can't get anywhere near me. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, DERREN BROWN?

EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.

(That bit with the ice bath! I could barely watch.)

(Derren Brown could commit so many murders and nobody would ever catch him ( Read more... )

I had a day out with th_esaurus yesterday! We watched X-Men: First Class in the cinema and ate ice-cream and went to a private art exhibition where I pretended not to be aware of the fact that Matt Berry was standing next to me. It was a wonderful day.

So! X-Men: First Class!

( Thoughts on X-Men: First Class. )

Channel 4 broadcast a really interesting Derren Brown special on faith healing last night: Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale, in which Derren attempted to illustrate and expose faith healing scams by sending a member of the public undercover into Texas as a 'faith healer ( Read more... )