reindeer ringin' in the mistletoe
Merry Christmas, anyone who celebrates! And those who don't, omg, Yuletide!
I got VERY lucky in Yuletide this year and got FOUR stories! Two of them I have not seen yet because they're from Madness, but I have a Persuaders story called Geloso which is really cute, and a Nero Wolfe story called Two Turtle Doves which is also awesome! I am totally thrilled that two of my favourite fandoms got cute stories for ME, omg. I was also glad the archive let me read them before refusing to let me see anything else, heh. Poor coding; it's been hard work for the Yuletide section of the internets this year!
Um, otherwise my main news is that we are having a white Christmas! Not in the aryan-supremacy way, thankfully, but in the way where there is SNOW. The very cute four year old I live with is beside himself with joy. With that and the sheer number of presents that kid has managed, it will be incredible if we survive til tomorrow's family-reunion-fest without him exploding.
(Well, okay, I am maybe pretty pleased too. We played outside in the snow! Awesome! I am even more pleased by that than I am by the fact my family teamed up to buy me an iPod nano. Aww.)
In honour of that, here, have some pretty pictures of snow. You can also have a link to my current favourite Christmas message, from @mrsstephenfry (who I still suspect of having levels I am not privvy to, but find endlessly hilarious, mostly for the fact that real-Stephen Fry quotes her, ahahah).
Talking of Stephen, the QI Christmas episode basically IS a drunken office Christmas party, except if your office had Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, David Tennant, Alan Davies, and Lee Mack in it. I mean... pantomime horse, complete with "it's behind you!" HAHAHAHA WHAT.
Talking of crack... wow, that Doctor Who ep was mental, wasn't it? Seriously, the main thing it reminded me of was Aladdin - "PHENOMINAL COSMIC POWERS! ...eeeensy weensy living space." I mean, the lightning! John Simm in a dress jumping up and down like that's the same as a logical plot point! the craaaazy! God knows what's happening at New Year, although I am weirdly looking forward to finding out. I want Donna back as herself, goddammit.
I did like the ending with the Timelords in their proper cheesetastic glory, and Donna, and the creepy of crazy!Master, and also the bit where he goes "My name is The Master." I enjoy cracktastic, a lot of time, that was just... even more so than I expected!
I hope everyone is having a better day than my poor Aunt, who flew to Blighty from California for Christmas and whose baggage is still somewhere in London when she has to leave again the day after tomorrow. OMG. And now I am going to go and read in bed and then sleep, because I am not back at work til January 4th, and I can, and this is making me SO HAPPY.
I got VERY lucky in Yuletide this year and got FOUR stories! Two of them I have not seen yet because they're from Madness, but I have a Persuaders story called Geloso which is really cute, and a Nero Wolfe story called Two Turtle Doves which is also awesome! I am totally thrilled that two of my favourite fandoms got cute stories for ME, omg. I was also glad the archive let me read them before refusing to let me see anything else, heh. Poor coding; it's been hard work for the Yuletide section of the internets this year!
Um, otherwise my main news is that we are having a white Christmas! Not in the aryan-supremacy way, thankfully, but in the way where there is SNOW. The very cute four year old I live with is beside himself with joy. With that and the sheer number of presents that kid has managed, it will be incredible if we survive til tomorrow's family-reunion-fest without him exploding.
(Well, okay, I am maybe pretty pleased too. We played outside in the snow! Awesome! I am even more pleased by that than I am by the fact my family teamed up to buy me an iPod nano. Aww.)
In honour of that, here, have some pretty pictures of snow. You can also have a link to my current favourite Christmas message, from @mrsstephenfry (who I still suspect of having levels I am not privvy to, but find endlessly hilarious, mostly for the fact that real-Stephen Fry quotes her, ahahah).
Talking of Stephen, the QI Christmas episode basically IS a drunken office Christmas party, except if your office had Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, David Tennant, Alan Davies, and Lee Mack in it. I mean... pantomime horse, complete with "it's behind you!" HAHAHAHA WHAT.
Talking of crack... wow, that Doctor Who ep was mental, wasn't it? Seriously, the main thing it reminded me of was Aladdin - "PHENOMINAL COSMIC POWERS! ...eeeensy weensy living space." I mean, the lightning! John Simm in a dress jumping up and down like that's the same as a logical plot point! the craaaazy! God knows what's happening at New Year, although I am weirdly looking forward to finding out. I want Donna back as herself, goddammit.
I did like the ending with the Timelords in their proper cheesetastic glory, and Donna, and the creepy of crazy!Master, and also the bit where he goes "My name is The Master." I enjoy cracktastic, a lot of time, that was just... even more so than I expected!
I hope everyone is having a better day than my poor Aunt, who flew to Blighty from California for Christmas and whose baggage is still somewhere in London when she has to leave again the day after tomorrow. OMG. And now I am going to go and read in bed and then sleep, because I am not back at work til January 4th, and I can, and this is making me SO HAPPY.