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Thirteen is awesome. I love her. And she got some awesome episodes and some duds, just like all the previous doctors. I try to stay away from negativity in fandom generally, so while I'm aware of the sad fanboys that have done their best to drag her down since before she even started, I don't really know whether the decision to have less eps and the delay on having a new doctor has anything to do with her ratings/popularity.

I loved her first two seasons overall and her found family with Yas and Ryan and Graham. I watched the first couple of the 6 season 'Flux' arc a few months ago when they were airing, didn't really grab me and I got distracted. Finally sat down to finish off the series, and, full disclaimer, was tired, may have slept through bits, could tell it was an epic adventure with a cast of thousands, and was no doubt an excellent story, but I don't watch Doctor Who to watch the bad guys and one off characters take up most of the screentime while the Doctor and the companions are separated for nearly the entire series. I'm all for giving the companions agency and their own shit to do, but come on, four years?

Anyway, was pretty flat when I finished the series, but then, and this is how out of the loop I am, was pleasantly surprised to find the first of the three specials was there, Eve of the Daleks, so we watched that and I loved it to bits. It was everything I love about the show, the Doctor and companions fighting aliens together and taking care of each other and the guest stars were great too.

The Irish character sounded EXACTLY like my senior manager at work, from the sound of her voice to the phrases to the emphatic way of talking so I looked up the actress and she's a comedian as well and that sent me down a youtube rabbithole tonight.

So anyway, Aisling Bea, who i had never heard of before tonight seems great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViPE4w1hczM ;

(DW wouldn't let me embed the video or hide my link tonight, and I can't even anymore)

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We've been trying to secede since 1933...

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:29:11 GMT

“Later Losers!” Says Detached WA, Sailing Into Sunset

"According to McGowan, the decision to detach from the rest of Australia was made the way all his decisions were made; by seeing what NSW is doing and doing the complete opposite."

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Black Sails vid rec

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:15:29 GMT

Lovely vid recced to me the other day, ngl, if I hadn't been already comfortably obsessive in a fandom already this probably would have sent me down a nostalgic rabbithole of vids and fic consumption for a while. Such an awesome show, such great fics.

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So I cook now.

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:21:40 GMT

So, this last year I basically took over cooking for the household and have discovered that I actually enjoy it now. Possibly because i started out using Hello Fresh, which, yes, individual packaging bad, but also, exact ingredients so no wastage, plus healthy ingredients, yay. Someone said that HF basically teaches you to cook and I think that's a fair call. I could always scrape together basic meals, and had a few decent recipes I defaulted to, but HF shows you lots of easy tips for combining stuff and not using a lot of pans and the food is generally really tasty, so I still get a delivery every few weeks. But for the rest of the time I just use whatever veges are in the fridge, with chickpeas or lentils or nuts. I actually prefer cooking vegetarian, although I still choose the meat options when I get HF because I can't convince myself I'm getting value for money with the vegetarian options cos they're the same price. Oh, brain.

I use Supercook to keep track of my ingredients and generate recipes and it's useful, but I find it a bit unwieldy. Anyone use a better site/app they can recommend?

And for a rec, this zucchini slice is amazing. I use the feta option instead of bacon, and I use chilli flakes instead of fresh. So good.

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The Professionals rewatch s1

Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:17:07 GMT

Watching the eps on Britbox, two of the s1 episodes carry a warning that says something like how the content met the broadcasting standards and mores of the time but viewers might find it offensive.

Watching s1.4, Killer With a Long Arm tonight, have realised that they are actually censoring content as well. The closing scene has Bodie and Doyle in Cowley's office looking through the scope of a high powered rifle and debating whether something is '36-24-34', Cowley comes in and looks through the scope and the viewer sees that they are perving on a woman in her underwear. He then jokingly reprimands them for an incomplete report and says 'she's 5'7", 130 pounds, and a blonde.' What he really said, was 'a natural blonde'. Apparently that crude joke was one step too far?

That episode was always of my faves, lots of Bodie and Doyle content, including them talking about how a ghetto is people taking care of each other, which made the two of them a mobile ghetto (at 10:10 mark), and the plot is still engaging. It's just now I have to ignore all the sexism towards all the women all the time, not just in the way the men talk to them, but in the way the writers write them. Lol, the one female conspirator in the gang sucked up to the imported assassin, tried to seduce him, was sent out to do the food shopping then panicked when she saw a friendly policeman and ran away flailing only to be dramatically run over.

Oh well, I'm just hear for the Bodie/Doyle content :)

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Show and fic rec: Mr. Queen

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:18:21 GMT

This show is so much fun. An arrogant male chef who basically falls through time to wake up in the Josean era in the body of a woman who's about to be married to the king. Hijinks ensue. The king is pretending to be an idiot for Reasons and there is serious plotty stuff as well, which was good but I was there for the queer love story of course.

You can currently watch it for free on Viki with ads

It's from a BL novel which I did try to read but didn't get through more than a couple of pages, don't know if it was the translation but I didn't like the writing style. Apparently though, the premise is that the chef was the queen reincarnated, so the same soul, and somehow they switch and so you get the queen in modern day hitting up the gay clubs. And the chef and the king live happily ever after and have three kids. None of this is in the show.

I requested Mr. Queen for Yuletide because I wanted more relationship stuff and I got an absolutely awesome fic. You know that fic where the author has clearly taken on board your likes and and your prompts and also come up with their own twist and writes the perfect fic for you? Yeah, that happened, I am so happy!

This Episode Brought To You by ryfkah
Cheoljong of Joseon/Jang Bong Hwan, Queen Cheorin (1837-1878)/Original Male Character

Summary: Theoretically he knows it’s possible to bake bread using nuruk as the yeast starter, and he’s sure he’ll figure it out eventually, but making the bread is just the first step! Then he’s got to somehow recreate Italian seasoning from scratch, and that’s not even getting into the cheese—

In the past, in the future, Bong-hwan and So-yon navigate their appetites.

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Chocolate Box Exchange letter

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:07:02 GMT

Thank you for writing for me. Please have fun and if none of my prompts inspire you, please write something that does :)

Likes
- character driven stories that focus on relationships, add as much or as little plot as you like. I don't mind angst, as long as there's a happy ending.
- all the tropes: undercover as gay/married, only one bed, soulbonds, sex pollen etc

DNW: major character death, rape, partner betrayal, established relationship (unless they're getting together is in flashbacks or something), unrequited, A/B/O, mundane AUs (canon divergence is fine), surprise!het

( Regular Guys )

( Fyra år till | Four More Years )

( The Champions )

( Hogan's Heroes )

( MASH )

( 철인왕후 | Mr. Queen (TV) )

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How to find vids (we don't call them songvids anymore, do we?)

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:10:19 GMT

A friend of mine asked where the best place to find hockey rpf vids is, and I realised that I am also out of touch about where to find vids nowadays. When did I stop watching songvids? Was it when it became super easy to rewatch actual shows and new shows, or when AO3 came along and all the fic in the world was suddenly at my fingertips?

Now, I have gone looking for vids on AO3 before and I'm not great at searching, so maybe this is the go to place now and I just don't know how to go?

Usually if I get a hankering, there's enough just on youtube to satisfy it, but when there aren't good ones I'm like, I should try harder. and then I wander off.

Also, where do I find hockey rpf vids, please?

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My country is burning.

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:33:43 GMT

Tonight, WA is cut off from the rest of Australia, due to floods and fire and now a cyclone up north

Here in Perth we're not impacted by the fires that are burning in all six states. (Fire Map). In NSW and Victoria the fires have been burning since November. But we're not complacent, our Go bags are packed. We've had a close call before, where we got the official text instruction to either evacuate or stay and defend. It was scary, but nothing like the people over east are facing now.

It's devastating. I don't even want to link to articles, it's too upsetting. The loss of human life is bad enough, the biodiversity loss is incalculable. We're mourning.

The only, only, positive thing about this horror is that our pentacostal Prime Minister has finally been forced to acknowledge that there is a link between the fires and climate change. This is the same guy who once brought a lump of coal to parliament in order to laud it. Basically, we're the worst Australia ranked worst of 57 countries on climate change policy

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Chocolate Box Exchange letter

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 08:17:23 GMT

Thank you for writing for me. Please have fun and if none of my prompts inspire you, please write something that does :)

Likes
- character driven stories that focus on relationships, add as much or as little plot as you like. I don't mind angst, as long as there's a happy ending.
- all the tropes: undercover as gay/married, only one bed, soulbonds, sex pollen etc

DNW:
- major character death
- rape
- partner betrayal
- established relationship (unless their getting together is in flashbacks or something)
- Unrequited
- A/B/O
- mundane AU's (canon divergence, or really funky AU's are fine)
- surprise!het

( Regular Guys )

( Fyra år till | Four More Years )

( Green Wing )

( The Champions )

( Hogan's Heroes )

( Sense8 )

( Batman (Nolan) )

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Happy Season's Greetings

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 01:21:11 GMT

I have fallen down a Ted and Ralph rabbithole in the last few days (a fave of me and my BFF and we've been searching out all the clips, because some have been removed!!! There's a Lost Episode on youtube that has Ted actually ask Ralph to go out with him and the lads to a gentleman's club and then it literally cuts off!! And we can't find the rest, or anyone who knows what his answer was. AAARRRRGGHHH. Also, I have decided that this was Ralph's look during his Experimental Theatre phase (clip is the actor when he was in a punk band)

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British people question :)

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:38:23 GMT

Quick q - is it easy to get Halloween themed marshmallows in the shops or would you order them online? Is there a popular sweets brand that would do them? Like, google tells me Peeps is in the UK but more popular in the US/Canada.

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Show rec: Raising Dion

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 05:37:05 GMT

Single mom raising a super hero kid. Nine episode season on Netflix. Really enjoyed the characters, and interesting plot development and great climax.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6koPaImHzY

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Yuletide letter

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:31:11 GMT

Letter over at LJ because I can't be arsed to try and make the coding work on DW today. Fandoms: Green Wing, Regular Guys and Four More Years. (Not, for once, The Champions, but only because I somehow forgot to nominate it *kicks self*)

sarren.livejournal.com/785692.html

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Currently watching Black Lightning

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:43:45 GMT

SO GOOD.

I generally like my superhero shows to be escapism, not gritty realism with superheroes who beat up the bad guys who are gangsters and sex traffickers, which is why I didn't get through more than about half a dozen episodes of Daredevil or Luke Cage and wasn't even game to try The Punisher.

But I'm *loving* this, it deals with the shit black communities deal with, which is not comfortable to watch of course, but the superhero family are awesome and love and support each other but also have to work through all the crap together.

And honourable mention to the elder daughter, Anissa, being out and proud and it not being an issue.

( a few random pics )

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Anyone know how AO3 coding works

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:22:18 GMT

I just attempted to copy and paste a polished version of a fic for a challenge, only to find that for some reason it's picked up one of my italicise tags early in the fic and repeat it all the rest of the way through the fic between every paragraph break. so that I've ended up with <p><i> words</i></p>

I tried the c&p from both Word and googledocs, same result.

It's quite a decent length and picking them all out individually is going to be very frustrating.

Edit: It was user error, because of course it was, AO3 is awesome.

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Am ded

Fri, 31 May 2019 00:13:31 GMT

Guys, dreamwidth has defeated me. I'm stil around, check in on peep's posts periodically, but whenever I decide to do a catch up post - which tend to cover several topics and there therefore long and require a cut, I just cannot make the cut work - even by copying and pasting the code for the last cut that DID work. I just dunno what setting I've got on it (presumably I've figured it out previously) but I mess around and I mess around. Last night the cross post to LJ didn't cut either, but when I reposted it first into LJ it did work, but then when I copied and pasted it back to DW it didn't. GAH.

I'll try to post short, one topic ones, I guess. ha, like this.

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FanFic Ask Game

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:16:27 GMT

Oh, hey one of these things where I can probably answer the questions.

( FanFic Ask Game )

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Fandom 5k exchange letter

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:46:43 GMT

I hope I gave you plenty of ideas to play with and inspire you. I've tried to give you lots of scope, but if you find you can't work with them, or if you have another brilliant idea that excites you to write, then don't feel locked in to my prompts. I really believe the most important thing about these fic exchanges is writing a story that you're enthusiastic about and have fun writing.

Just briefly with the likes/dislikes - I love character driven stories that focus on relationships (either ships or devoted friendships), add as much or as little plot as you like. Please, please, NO character death, rape, partner betrayal etc. I don't mind angst, as long as there's a happy ending. I am all about THE HAPPY.

( Hogan's Heroes )

( The Champions )

( MASH )

( Green Wing )

( Blood Ties )

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Hurt Comfort Exchange Letter

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:37:27 GMT

Hello, have just got my assignment, apologies, time has gotten away from me, am unprivating this, but haven't done much, will add more in the next day or so.

Having said that, not sure if you're supposed to add anything more considering all the tags, so feel free to ignore anyway.

thanks for writing for me :)

( General notes and likes/dislikes )

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You can bid on betareaders too!!!

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 23:03:39 GMT

Only a few hours left to bid in the Fandom Trumps Hate auction! None of my super rare fandoms I'm desperate for fic in were listed (sadness) but then I remembered I didn't bother finishing my Being Human treat for Chocolate Box because I couldn't find a beta and I have bid on three beta readers instead, yay!

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