More notes on the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered':

DON'T GET INVOLVED IN LOVE SPELLS, XANDER
DON'T GET INVOLVED IN LOVE SPELLS, XANDER
YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME, XANDERI love Giles trying to make coaxing-a-rat noises ( Read more... )

Today, encouraged by th_esaurus, I started reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I've only read the first four chapters, but I thought I'd note down my impressions so far.

It took me a while to dissociate The Hunger Games from Twilight, possibly because of the first-person perspective. When Katniss and Gale were hanging out on the outcrop, all I ( Read more... )

Here is an entry of scattered points ( Read more... )

Riona: (no, really, I was actually thinking this yesterday.) Okay, it's been a difficult sixteen months, but I think things are looking up. I've got work, for now; I've got a sort of plan for my near future; the hairdresser said I'd been losing my hair due to stress, but she also said it was growing back, which has to be a good sign. I just need to ( Read more... )

Tales of Riona's Family: once upon a time, my father went into a McDonalds' bathroom. They had, he noticed, installed rather fancy new urinals: stainless steel, set into the wall ( Read more... )

I'm sorry for not being very nice about Puck/Kurt in my last entry! I feel bizarrely guilty about it. I considered writing a Puck/Kurt ficlet by way of apology, but quickly realised that I couldn't write Kurt. Or Puck. Or in a style compatible with the tone of Glee. Whoops ( Read more... )

Thank you so much for all your kind comments on the past couple of entries! I ran off to my cousin's wedding for the weekend (and very pleasant it was too), so I wasn't able to respond to all of them, but I really appreciate them all ( Read more... )

To go under the heading of 'unfortunate things to happen in the midst of writing': suddenly becoming confused into envisioning the 'Charlie' in your Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell fic as Charlie Swan of TwilightCharlie Swan/David Mitchell: probably not true love. I love Charlie, particularly in the films, and I love Mitchell, but I do not think ( Read more... )

Watching episodes of Screenwipe, I found myself with the vague feeling that Charlie Brooker's style of speaking and humour reminded me of something, and then I discovered that he was one of the primary influences for Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame and it all fell into place. (The place into which it fell was pretty great! Especially as Brooker is ( Read more... )

An incident from my Jane Austen seminar earlier this week:

Tutor: It's a bit like Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson: the genius detective and the really stupid--
Riona: WATSON IS NOT STUPID.
Entire Class: ...

BENEATH THE CUT: possibly the worst crossover idea I have ever had, presented in image form. Beware of flashing image.

( Jedward Cullen? )