Boy Meets Girl had what is probably the most unsatisfying ending I have ever seen. If you are going to have a bodyswapped character start a relationship with someone without revealing that, oh, yeah, I used to be the guy you worked with, you need to have some sort of fallout and resolution after he has returned to his own body! How is this not ( Read more... )

There is a Female Characters Drabble-a-thon going on at the moment! If you're like me and feel that you don't write about female characters nearly often enough, here's your chance to redress the balance. (Sadly, there are almost no videogame prompts.)

Also, a rather fun meme. Stolen from eva_kasumi:

- Arrange the characters in your icons in alphabetical ( Read more... )

I have now watched the pilot episode of Supernatural! My profound and important thoughts:

- SAM AND DEAN'S PARENTS ARE CALLED JOHN AND MARY. This obviously means that they are the children of Dr. Watson and his wife. Mary Watson certainly died young, didn't she? Yes, all right, their surname is Winchester, and they're not British, and Supernatural ( Read more... )

_afterism has just been visiting! After a rather slow start, during which I swore at my computer a lot (it had inexplicably deleted my word processor of choice! ...which, er, appears to have inexplicably returned suddenly. I LOVE YOU, VIRGIL, AND I AM SORRY THAT I SHOUTED AT YOU SO MUCH TODAY) and we had many, many awkward silences (I've met nineteen people ( Read more... )

I went to watch Withnail and I in the cinema last night (missing the first twenty minutes, but that actually worked out quite nicely, as I'd missed the entire second half when I watched it on the plane), and I noticed so many things I'd completely failed to observe during the first viewing. I followed the sequence of events much more easily, caught ( Read more... )

When it seems as if the phrase might fit their speech patterns, it is incredibly difficult to remember not to have characters say 'How on Earth?' or 'Where on Earth?' when they are not, in fact, from Earth. Argh.

This is apparently going to be an entry of Laments About Writing. Hurrah!

- Getting the tenses clear is bloody confusing when ( Read more... )

Questions I Can't Believe I Have Genuinely Considered ( Read more... )

Back home! I must say, I'm already missing how clean everywhere in California (well, apart from Los Angeles) was; in London, there's litter everywhere you look. Life would be so much more pleasant if there were city-sized vacuum cleaners. Except not really, because people would probably use them to steal cars ( Read more... )

A while ago, there was a meme along the lines of 'arrange all the characters you have icons of in alphabetical order, pair them up accordingly, talk a bit about the pairings that result' going around. And, y'know, why not ( Read more... )

You know, it can't be normal to invariably, after playing a videogame or seeing a few episodes of something new or watching a film, sit down and think 'I wonder how the characters would cope with Silent Hill?' Withnail would probably be too drunk and complaining too much about the cold and the fog to even notice the monsters, anyway, and his ( Read more... )