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Take that, Bembridge scholars!

2017-06-14T09:51:50Z

So, this new Tom Cruise Mummy movie has so far been very successful... in introducing a whole new generation to the classic 1999 version of the Mummy :)

Someone on Twitter was like, what to do if you are thinking of going to see the new Mummy movie:
1 Go see Wonder Woman
2 Go see Wonder Woman again
3 Watch the 1999 classic instead

Which was pretty much what we did, except we were already at the cinema to see Wonder Woman when the promo came on and Bunny was like, that looks good, I want to see that, and I was like, yeah, no, let me show you a thing, and then we went home and watched Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz being adorable and hilarious.

There appears to be a bunch of articles about how much better the original was, but I like this tumblr pimp post here

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Watching late season 3 TVD

2017-02-10T13:48:54Z

Klaus threatening someone as usual - I WILL KILL YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE.
Me - I love his growly voice.
Bunny - YES!!!

( a cuople of other minor observances )

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So much love for season 5 Once Upon a Time

2016-09-28T23:39:53Z

I've enjoyed OUaT well enough over the first four seasons, but mostly kept on with it because Bunny loves it so much. But I've really loved season 5. I've finally started to appreciate Killian, and Zelina used to set my teeth on edge, but now she's had character development and back story and I am sympathetic. But mostly, I think because of all the Regina/Robin, Emma/Killian and Regina & Emma relationship stuff and I love all those dynamics so much. I adore Regina and Emma and totally ship them but in an AU WAY, as I also love their canon true love pairings.

( Randomly - yay lesbians! Spoilery for their plotline and Bunny's reaction )

SO MUCH LOVE FOR REGINA

Much to my surprise I have become extremely invested in Emma and Regina's friendship because I am a sucker for found family.

( Basically a short random picspam of Regina and Emma )

( And I love that actors look like they are fun! )

( Pretty Swan Queen manip and fanarts )

( Very spoilery comments about the end of season 5 )

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Bunny's favourite show at the moment...

2015-09-26T08:17:21Z

Me - Why don't we watch an educational, improving documentary?
Bunny - Can we watch that documentary about wolves?
Me - ?
Bnnny - The one with teenagers?

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At the beach this arvo...

2014-10-02T13:47:56Z

Bunny *standing knee deep in a tidal pool with a net* How can I catch a fish when they keep running away?

Me - Try standing very, very still and maybe they'll forget about you.

Bunny - Great. I'm Winnie the Pooh but with fish.

( Context is a Cabin Pressure quote )

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new season telly ftw!

2014-09-25T15:33:19Z

Dragonfly and Bunny went late night shopping* tonight so we've only had time to watch one ep of something tonight. I gave Dfly the choice of:

New season eps of Downton Abbey, Sleepy Hollow or Person of Interest, or the pilot of GOTHAM

...and to her own gobsmackedness she chose Downton Abbey!!

Now we're watching it and I've shouted at Thomas to shut up twice already. GAH, I just want him to come to a sticky end and put everyone out of our misery. Every now and again they give us hints that he has redeeming qualities but it's just not enough, he's just a vicious little shite.

*For non-Australians, 'late night shopping' refers to the fact that shops shut on weekdays between 5-6pm, except on Thursdays when they stay open till *gasp* NINE PM. Periodically we have referendums to decide if we will reject our Parochial ways and embrace Globalism and start opening 24/7 and we keep knocking it back, but they are slowly finding loopholes and ways around the laws so that some types of shops now open Sundays and later in the evenings, but not the shopping centres.

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Anime recs for kids?

2014-09-14T02:40:12Z

Bunny has seen a couple of episodes of Swort Art Online and is very...passionate... about my acquiring the show for her, because it's AWESOME. Apparently.

Given my general ignorance of anime I did a quick 'suitable for children' google, and it seemed okay...except there's a non-graphic rape??? Am I being too protective in not wanting my 13 year old to watch this? (esp considering I was reading adult books at that age *sigh*)

Another quick google for anime for kids suggests Sailor Moon is the bestest ever, so I'll get that.

Any other suggestions? Does anyone on my flist even watch anime?

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Advice on buying Buffy graphic novels off eBay??

2013-11-27T14:37:40Z

Because I know nothing about eBay, shipping or, in fact, graphic novels.

Bunny's never enjoyed reading, though she has always loved being read to. She's officially had reading glasses since she was about 7, but has always refused to wear them. She does like comics though and her new fave show is Buffy so I figured Buffy graphic novels might get her interested in reading? Worth a try.
Of course, they're super expensive, plus I prefer to buy secondhand for environmental reasons, so I was looking at this this batch

36 issues for $36 plus $40 postage from the US. That's still a good deal, right? Too good?

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Her taste is eclectic!

2013-10-26T02:23:02Z

A few weeks ago a friend asked if Bunny would be a fangirl when she grows up. I assume so, we've certainly done our best to raise her properly and some of her fave shows have been Tower Prep, Eureka and Warehouse 13, and she's loved the first three eps of Agents of SHIELD. Her fave characters in those shows have been Suki, Zoe, Claudia and now Skye. How freaking awesome is it that shows nowadays have kickass young women for Bunny to identify with!

However, her current preferred viewing choice is Foyle's War, which is set in Hastings on the coast of England during WWII. It is about a DCI, his sergeant, and his driver, as go about solving murders etc. Any of us looking at this picture immediately know which character is which, but when Bunny first saw the characters she asked 'is the girl in charge?'

This got me thinking: anytime I see a cast promo photo, or if I see an ad for a show I don't know, my default assumption is that the white dude is the main character, because that's what I grew up with, and of course, is still the case to a large degree. But times they are a'changing, especially in the sort of shows we watch in our house.

Back to Bunny and Foyle's War. I started watching this when I was off sick with my eye, and then started putting it on when Bunny was on her DS, so I assumed she wasn't paying attention. I should never assume that. Now it's her preferred choice when we have 'family night' (having dinner in front of the telly and then cuddles till bedtime).

Foyle's War is historically accurate and has amazing attention to detail. Of course, unless I explain stuff Bunny doesn't really understand what's going on. We're up to the last season, and the last ep opened with the atomic testing in New Mexico in 1945, and then skipped forward a year and the plot is one of the scientists is suspected of conspiring to give secrets to the Soviets, and so there's spies and undercurrents and one of the other scientists is mysteriously getting sick, so as we're going along I'm explaining to Bunny about the Cold War and Communism and spies and radiation poisoning. At one point I was like 'am I explaining too much?'and she just shook her head, eyes glued to the telly.

(When she saw the mushroom cloud her reaction was OH, COOL. Because of course, she hasn't grown up with the threat of nuclear war like my generation did).

Oh and the subplot was a dude who'd been a POW and is returning home after 6 years and wanting everything to be the same but his son is now 16 and used to being the man of the house and his wife doesn't want to stop working. One of the reasons this show is so brilliant is it captures the minutae of what life was like during the war. In an early ep Sam has her billet bombed and can't find anywhere to stay for a while because housing is so short. A recurring theme throughout the war is that she has a healthy appetite and struggles with the rationing and food shortages.

Bunny's only seen the latest eps. I think after ~~Yuletide~~ Christmas I'm going to start from the beginning again, when the war's just started. It's the most interest she's ever shown in history!

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Taking procrastination to a whole new level.

2013-01-25T15:20:43Z

Posting random fandom squee when procrastinating about work or study, that's understandable. But these last couple of weeks I've had all this free time to watch telly and read fic and make LJ posts... and yet every time I've had an urge to post something I end up...checking out tumblr and I don't even know what else. I have emails and comments to answer - my brain just went into AVOID! mode for a while there, I guess.

So, the other adults are off scrapbooking, and the kid's finally asleep and I've got a cuppa and the telly is OFF and omg some peace and quiet.\o/ Bunny and I watched an ep of The Saint (yes, the old Roger Moore show) before she went to bed. Technically we were playing a game of chess at the same time. One of Bunny's more endearing qualities is her optimism. There'd been a dude following Simon around with a gun, but then there was this scene where one of the bad guys sneaking up on Simon pulls put a knife and Bunny suddenly anounces - "That's how I'd kill someone. Nice and clean, with a knife. No loud gunshot." Oh. yay.

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