I have a bad habit of getting tangled up in questions of whether something I'm working on is 'worth' writing or sharing. Is this long enough for me to post to AO3; is it good enough? What's the point of this fic ( Read more... )

'Is that my phone?' Mum asked, in a terrible panic. 'What's it doing?'

My dad was using it to time a boiled egg. My mum had seen the timer and assumed it was some sort of self-destruct countdown.

Very unfortunately, my housemates have insisted on introducing me to Gossip Girl. We're in the second series, I think. I managed to remain emotionally ( Read more... )

Well, my 'Torchwood: Miracle Day will contain an average of one explosion per episode' prediction was clearly a bit on the conservative side. How many explosions were there in the first episode, again? Three?

I'm quite gripped by the concept of Miracle Day, though! I'm interested in seeing where it goes. At the moment it seems to be at 'good ( Read more... )

My mum, reminiscing about her schooldays: 'We had a groundsman who we all fancied. And then we decided he was full of himself, so we all turned against him and locked him in a shed.'

Torchwood: Miracle Day begins tomorrow in the UK (nine o'clock, BBC One)! I've been a bit torn on whether to watch it, because I really don't know what level of ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I watched the first two-and-a-half episodes of Misfits with reipan and hippyjolteon.

My main impression so far (apart from 'the opening credits are gorgeous'): it's a bit like Torchwood, in that it's about a group of generally-unadmirable characters dealing with weird things, but the execution is about eighty million times better. Also, seeing the first ( Read more... )

Further to my previous entry on Waterloo Road (saaski_moql, incidentally, informs me that the video clip in that entry is available outside the UK, so if you are interested in sexually confused schoolboys you may wish to check it out): here is a scene from the previous episode (it begins around 5.45; the link should take you straight there), which ends with ( Read more... )

Oh, my goodness, who renewed my Paid time? Thank you so much! I was just resigning myself to being without comment-editing and polls and userpics and protection from advertising, and all of a sudden: unexpected anonymous loveliness! Amazing ( Read more... )

Is there anything along the lines of f_march_madness for videogames? Because I would be all for that.

f_march_madness is a lot of fun, though; for those who don't know, it's a television character championship. I am desperately hoping for Donna to represent the Whoniverse. She's fifty votes behind at the moment, but that is totally not an impossible gap to close! I rather lost ( Read more... )

All right: the fic in which Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell find themselves thrown together in the midst of a zombie invasion definitely needs to exist. I say this largely because petrol has introduced me to the mental image of Brooker fighting zombies with a baseball bat, bloodied and sweat-soaked and exhausted, and, for reasons I'd prefer not to ( Read more... )

I think I am going to be answering the character-number questions in instalments, and here is the first! You may still ask questions, if you wish, but try to ask them before reading this entry; it's cheating if you know which numbers all the characters are ( Read more... )