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30/5/14 18:30 It's been a while for me since I've posted and now I find myself with lots of things I want to say. Mostly, hope you're all well!!
( Under the cut: Canada! Renaultx! Rarewomen! )
( Under the cut: Canada! Renaultx! Rarewomen! )
holidays are coming
15/4/14 20:56 A minute ago I was thinking "oh I should post about things" and now I have forgotten those things!
Oh well.
winterlover I'm so sorry to have missed you over the weekend. Had a weird few days and didn't make it out to see any lovely fangirl visitors and I am sad. :( Sounds like you had a great trip and I know it won't be long before London tempts you back again. <3
But I did get to see a
surexit on last week which was awesome. (she is alive!!!) We saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier which I really did enjoy. Mostly it was just great to see the friendship between Steve and Natasha and have it not be at all sexual, even when they had a moment on the escalators, it was totally cool! That was lovely and refreshing.
Other news: I get to go on holiday soon! New York! Canada! Lovely long train journeys with friends at the end! I am beside myself with excitement. <3333
I'm learning to fly a plane on Saturday. My first, and likely, only, lesson. Code Name Verity eat your heart out because I am taking to the skies!
I am so excited about all these opportunities! I spent a few hours today with someone for whom having nothing was a wealth compared to the way he was treated back home. His physical safety was all he was asking for and even that remains pretty precarious. But here I am with an embarrassment of riches, I struggle to know how to be appropriately grateful. So I want you to know, I'm really grateful!
Oh well.
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Other news: I get to go on holiday soon! New York! Canada! Lovely long train journeys with friends at the end! I am beside myself with excitement. <3333
I'm learning to fly a plane on Saturday. My first, and likely, only, lesson. Code Name Verity eat your heart out because I am taking to the skies!
I am so excited about all these opportunities! I spent a few hours today with someone for whom having nothing was a wealth compared to the way he was treated back home. His physical safety was all he was asking for and even that remains pretty precarious. But here I am with an embarrassment of riches, I struggle to know how to be appropriately grateful. So I want you to know, I'm really grateful!
Malta Update
30/9/13 21:58 The Malta update is to say, I'm in Malta! I am sat in a rocking chair with a glass of red Maltese wine, very full from the beautiful food
lilithilien cooked me earlier. All round we are having a Very Nice Time. We spent the day exploring the ancient walled city of Mdina (Mdina apparently meaning Walled City) which dates back 4000 years from when it was first settled. Then we explored the city outside the walls, Rabat (no guesses what Rabat means), and then the Catacombs underneath Rabat.
Lil said she felt all Night Vale-y when we descended the steps into the Catacombs while the audio-guide voice intoned, "Do not fear the Catacombs."
Mdina is notably very pretty and is used for filming all the things. I mostly couldn't tell though. I was just thoroughly charmed.
We are also watching Wentworth starring Danielle Cormack of Legend of the Seeker fame as a woman who goes to prison for attempting to murder her violent husband. So far we're up to episode 5. It's awesome. Episode 5 is the episode in which everyone talks about how they like to masturbate. Basically all the women are in pretty dire situations and they're trying to cope in a violent, scary environment but enforcing a brutal loyalty amongst themselves. The "found-family" is just as dysfunctional as the home lives most of the women have escaped but it's potentially all that's keeping them going. So far my favourite character is Boomer "I used to knock a few heads together" Jenkins, long may she continue.
Has anyone else seen it? Anyone wanna place bets on how f-ed up the Franky/Erica thing could get? Any other ships people want to float by me?
Tomorrow we're going to see the waters of the famous Blue Grotto and visit some prehistoric temples.
Hopefully I can pass on some holiday cheer to you guys!
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Lil said she felt all Night Vale-y when we descended the steps into the Catacombs while the audio-guide voice intoned, "Do not fear the Catacombs."
Mdina is notably very pretty and is used for filming all the things. I mostly couldn't tell though. I was just thoroughly charmed.
We are also watching Wentworth starring Danielle Cormack of Legend of the Seeker fame as a woman who goes to prison for attempting to murder her violent husband. So far we're up to episode 5. It's awesome. Episode 5 is the episode in which everyone talks about how they like to masturbate. Basically all the women are in pretty dire situations and they're trying to cope in a violent, scary environment but enforcing a brutal loyalty amongst themselves. The "found-family" is just as dysfunctional as the home lives most of the women have escaped but it's potentially all that's keeping them going. So far my favourite character is Boomer "I used to knock a few heads together" Jenkins, long may she continue.
Has anyone else seen it? Anyone wanna place bets on how f-ed up the Franky/Erica thing could get? Any other ships people want to float by me?
Tomorrow we're going to see the waters of the famous Blue Grotto and visit some prehistoric temples.
Hopefully I can pass on some holiday cheer to you guys!
GOOD THINGS!
24/9/13 22:07GOOD THING 1) It was always going to happen but it still turns out that watching the West End version of Les Miserables with 8 other visiting fangirls is guaranteed to make you need all the fic. The singing was fantastic obvs, everyone's voices slapped me in the face with their power and feeling. We were all leaning on each other and sobbing, it was glorious. Marius was ridic! Grantaire was all handsy over his militant boyfriend and heartbreaking over Gavroche. I love the older, beer-bellied Grantaire! Also the same actor played the Bishop at the beginning which was kinda hilarious. I mostly cried for Javert and his life choices. All in all it was devastatingly better than the film. Also yay, fangirl reunion weekend, it was wicked fun.
Does anyone have any recs or know of any good rec lists I can/should devour? I'm happy to read book-based things too. *g*
because GOOD THING 2) I'm going on holiday on Saturday and need to download all the fics to read while lazing about in exotic Mediterranean locations. I'm going with the irreplaceable
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GOOD THING 3) FILM FESTIVALS! London Film Fest and UK Jewish Film Fest are both coming up and have a ton of excellent stuff going on. Am waiting till I get paid tomorrow but I have big circles around far more than I can afford anyway! All the big films are basically sold out at this point but I don't really care because that's the stuff that will get an ordinary release too down the line. I'm gutted about The National docu, Mistaken for Strangers, already being full though. :(
Also I just re-watched The L.A. Complex through again and it was still utterly fantastic in the best, most fucked-up kind of ways. *sigh* WHY YOU ALWAYS GET CANCELLED CANADIAN SHOWS?
Wishing you guys all good things as well!!!! *smooch*
Theatre Review Time!
24/8/13 19:31 I just went to the theatre!
I saw The Pride with Hayley Atwell and Al Weaver. It was bloody glorious. It was set simultaneously in 1958 and The Now and the characters in both parts had the same names but were living slightly different lives. I think the suggestion being that the times they were living in were affecting who they were or could be. Obvs it was about two gay blokes. In the 1958 side Hayley's character, Sylvia is married to one - Philip - but introduces her husband to her author friend in an attempt to pinpoint the loneliness in all their lives. The two men start an affair but Philip's self-disgust leads it to end in tragedy and betrayal. In the modern times Sylvia is a friend to the semi-suicidal Oliver who's boyfriend, Philip, can't put up with Oliver's need to have anonymous sex sometimes - casually referred to as "the slut thing".
The staging was utterly fantastic, the way they slipped back and forth through time was inventive and served to highlight both sides so well. I really loved the impression that even though things had improved for Philip and Oliver in their second lives, the trauma of their past continued to haunt them and inform their behaviours and psychology.
Hayley was incandescent as the modern girl, gay's best friend who had to extricate herself from her friend's life in order to live her own. Al Weaver was phenomenal as Oliver in both settings, the 1950s author who thinks he's finally found a kindred spirit only to have the hope beaten out of him, and as the modern queer journalist trying to come to terms with who he is and keep his boyfriend around at the same time!
It was super funny, I always love a good joke referencing the Victoria line. I only had one qualm, ( And here I'm cutting for potentially triggery talk on depictions of sexual assault )
The set was so good, it was like a massive rusty mirror and was a perfect reflection of the storyline and enhanced the telling in all sorts of ways. Did I mention Hayley was gorgeous and funny and sad and an excellent crier! She had all the tears, even when she had her hand in front of her eyes I could still see tears falling from her face! She was perfection.
Have some pictures!

Descrip: Matthew Horne as the Role-Playing Nazi-for-Hire and Al Weaver as Oliver, who thought that was a good idea.

Descrip: Hayley Atwell with the To Russia With Love placard the cast carried at curtain call.
I saw The Pride with Hayley Atwell and Al Weaver. It was bloody glorious. It was set simultaneously in 1958 and The Now and the characters in both parts had the same names but were living slightly different lives. I think the suggestion being that the times they were living in were affecting who they were or could be. Obvs it was about two gay blokes. In the 1958 side Hayley's character, Sylvia is married to one - Philip - but introduces her husband to her author friend in an attempt to pinpoint the loneliness in all their lives. The two men start an affair but Philip's self-disgust leads it to end in tragedy and betrayal. In the modern times Sylvia is a friend to the semi-suicidal Oliver who's boyfriend, Philip, can't put up with Oliver's need to have anonymous sex sometimes - casually referred to as "the slut thing".
The staging was utterly fantastic, the way they slipped back and forth through time was inventive and served to highlight both sides so well. I really loved the impression that even though things had improved for Philip and Oliver in their second lives, the trauma of their past continued to haunt them and inform their behaviours and psychology.
Hayley was incandescent as the modern girl, gay's best friend who had to extricate herself from her friend's life in order to live her own. Al Weaver was phenomenal as Oliver in both settings, the 1950s author who thinks he's finally found a kindred spirit only to have the hope beaten out of him, and as the modern queer journalist trying to come to terms with who he is and keep his boyfriend around at the same time!
It was super funny, I always love a good joke referencing the Victoria line. I only had one qualm, ( And here I'm cutting for potentially triggery talk on depictions of sexual assault )
The set was so good, it was like a massive rusty mirror and was a perfect reflection of the storyline and enhanced the telling in all sorts of ways. Did I mention Hayley was gorgeous and funny and sad and an excellent crier! She had all the tears, even when she had her hand in front of her eyes I could still see tears falling from her face! She was perfection.
Have some pictures!

Descrip: Matthew Horne as the Role-Playing Nazi-for-Hire and Al Weaver as Oliver, who thought that was a good idea.

Descrip: Hayley Atwell with the To Russia With Love placard the cast carried at curtain call.
Who doesn't love a list?
1. I wrote a fic the other week! My sister was on holiday so I lived in her house and it was calm and tidy and a really fun hideaway. So I wrote my first Vorkosigan fic for the Bujold Ficathon 2013 and its Kareen/Drou femslash, which I did not expect to write but really enjoyed. The two halves of the fic are pretty disjointed but I liked both parts so I posted them both anyway. Yay I typed words.
A Sanctuary of Sorts on AO3
Kareen Vorbarra/Ludmilla Droushnakovi, Vorkosigan Saga
Kareen's pregnancy has led to increased security and increased intimacy between Kareen and Drou, her bodyguard.
2. Work continues to be the most exhausting thing. ( cut for moaning )
3. I get to stay where I'm living for the next year. I sign on Monday. I like my flatmates and the location and the cheapness! That means that I'm holding at 11 moves in 3 years and making a significant step to lower that quota going forward! I think this means I can buy some furniture!
4. My boss is ill. :CCC ( Cut for sadness )
5. Quick, find something cheery! I'm on the Welcome to Night Vale bandwagon. Being the best bandwagon ever. It does weird things to your brain and is positively dangerous for people who already had enough narrator-like voices in their head anyway.
6. Just bought Les Mis tickets for all the Eskimo Kiss Project fangirls who are descending on me in September. Eskimos! I could not be more excited. I have spreadsheets and Plans for their Entertainment. SEPTEMBER BE HERE NOW. Fan meet ups are the perfect antidote to everything. <333
1. I wrote a fic the other week! My sister was on holiday so I lived in her house and it was calm and tidy and a really fun hideaway. So I wrote my first Vorkosigan fic for the Bujold Ficathon 2013 and its Kareen/Drou femslash, which I did not expect to write but really enjoyed. The two halves of the fic are pretty disjointed but I liked both parts so I posted them both anyway. Yay I typed words.
A Sanctuary of Sorts on AO3
Kareen Vorbarra/Ludmilla Droushnakovi, Vorkosigan Saga
Kareen's pregnancy has led to increased security and increased intimacy between Kareen and Drou, her bodyguard.
2. Work continues to be the most exhausting thing. ( cut for moaning )
3. I get to stay where I'm living for the next year. I sign on Monday. I like my flatmates and the location and the cheapness! That means that I'm holding at 11 moves in 3 years and making a significant step to lower that quota going forward! I think this means I can buy some furniture!
4. My boss is ill. :CCC ( Cut for sadness )
5. Quick, find something cheery! I'm on the Welcome to Night Vale bandwagon. Being the best bandwagon ever. It does weird things to your brain and is positively dangerous for people who already had enough narrator-like voices in their head anyway.
6. Just bought Les Mis tickets for all the Eskimo Kiss Project fangirls who are descending on me in September. Eskimos! I could not be more excited. I have spreadsheets and Plans for their Entertainment. SEPTEMBER BE HERE NOW. Fan meet ups are the perfect antidote to everything. <333
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