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Slash Christmas Gathering was lovely. Excellent company, excellent conversation, delicious food and media consumption.

psycho_tabby made delicious strawberry daquiris. I've never had one before and was worried it would be too sweet, but it was delicious.

Also, the free range ham was the best ham I've ever tasted. I am a Ham Convert.

Secret Santa was the type you have random picking order, and then the next person can steal your gift. Stolen and restolen amongst much hilarity was a glass cherry bowl and an adorable yellow metal watering can and plastic animal shaped water diffuser thingy. I was very happy with my Doctor Who tin.

Of course, we HAD To watch the SPN episode 'Fan Fiction' because two people in the group had somehow not yet seen it. This ep literally sums up how far fandom representation and shipping has come. It could not be more perfect.

I babbled about my current fandom obsession, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which I am extra excited about because First Australian Fandom. I showed them a Phryne/Jack vid, but did not put an ep on since this is still, technically, a slash gathering.

Instead I pimped The Originals, aided and abetted by mr_booboo. We watched the pilot (which is hilariously exposition heavy and involves many characters and flashbacks). Poor zebra363 was like 'my comprehension is about 20%' but mr_booboo and I provided lots of important explanations about relationships and pairings, and I think some people plan to watch it.

(I did do a tiny pimp post here a while back but I see now that it was totally inadequate).

To the person who asked if there are lots of flashbacks, Yes, there are!

This is one of my fave scenes. Marcel has just come back from war and Elijah literally says to Marcel about Klaus - "Ï'm glad you're back, he's been beside himself while you were gone".


( Also, Klaus and Elijah are VERY devoted brothers (cut because image is huge in DW) )

So I've requested Weekend Update (SNL) for Yuletide - I did an excited little pimp post once before, when an amazing thing happened - a slash pairing became canon! Yes, it's a comedy show, but baby steps! Anyway, even though the actors have moved on to bigger projects they haven't stopped making little skits and referencing this fictional relationship as though it's still relevant.

Seth Meyers is a real dude who now hosts a late night talk show. However his FICTIONAL persona, 'Seth Meyers', hosted a news show on SNL, Weekend Update, and he would regularly have city correspondent 'Stefon' (played by Bill Hader) on to update viewers on the best places to visit in NY.

Disclaimer: I rarely find SNL humour to my taste, but Seth Meyers and Stefon are ADORABLE together.

( This lj-cut has EVERYTHING )

Inexplicably, the new season ep of Haven has not yet fallen off the internetz bus near me yet. *goes to check again*


I stole this piccie off tumblr, not sure about the etiquette yet, killabeez had reblogged it from someone...

( A bit of pimping under the cut )

Cabin Pressure is a hilarious British radio show about a tiny airline company. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch and "that guy who played Javier in Les Mis". Lovely smooth voice. Oh, and Anthony Head turns up for a few eps and they sing a bit of opera together.



Overview and links at UK Comedy Guide

youtube links, total 19 eps

tumblr with artwork and asstd fun

John Finnemores blogWriter, plays Arthur

Fics on AO3

Fic rec page

Community is a clever and funny 21 minute show about a study group at community college who become an unlikely group of friends.


The show isn't afraid to go to wacky places, for example, watch ep 2.14 - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Part 1 Part 2

And then there's Troy and Abed!!!!


Troy and Abed are BFFs. Often they get their own little unrelated skit at the end of the ep, here they are as Bert and Ernie.

( Troy/Abed 4EVA )


( Troy and Abed vs zombies!!!! )

Misfits is a British show about a group of delinquents who develop superpowers, which doesn't actually work out very well for them.



I don't understand why people I try to show this to don't appreciate it like I do. Okay, the people aren't particularly pretty, or nice, and the ships are definitely het, but it's so well written, and original, and character driven...did I mention original???

One minute promo for first season

Hee! Character Update promo Certainly get a feel for the characters *G*.

You can watch it all on youtube!!


( Kelly's my favourite )

Having now seen the first seven episodes of Stargate Universe, I am LOVING it. Apart from episode 6, which was just your standard Stargate plot tweaked, the story so far is freaking EPIC.




( Picspam!!! )

Recently I successfully pimped Wiseguy to zebra363.

Even more recently I successfully pimped Lewis to blue_pax solely by email. She was hooked before she'd seen an episode.

Either I'm really good at this, or my friends are easy! *g*

( Email pimping - includes description of unbefuckinglievably slashy episode )


I do not own Lewis on DVD, and since they're British shows, they're obscenely expensive. Therefore I am only getting to watch them at an excruitatingly drawn out pace, as I have to invite myself over to ravenclaw_harpy's for viewings. On the plus side, I still have more to see, yays!!!

I have however, had to buy season 2 because of the SLASH JACKPOT episode, despite the fact that I am now saving all my money for house-buying. Really. I'm pretty much living on hommus and fruit for lunch weekdays. I think I may actually be getting sick of hommus, which I didn't know was possible. Or it might me that I'm just not that fond of the Black Swan brand that came in an economy size tub and as such have been plowing through all week.

It was like FATE - season 2 was on sale at Amazon UK for under ten pounds!! Bargain!!! Once you add postage and do the currency conversion it's only....$28. For 4 movie length eps. OOOPS.

Pretty Hathaway piccies:
Melancholy Hathaway
Pouting Hathaway
Thoughtful Hathaway
Pride party!

Watched a great three part series last night called Whitechapel about a group of cops trying to catch a Jack the Ripper copycat. I've never been much interested in Jack the Ripper but as one news article said, this series "makes ripperologists of us all".

But as interesting as the Jack elements were, of course I am all about the TEAM!

( Spoilers for personalities and team interaction )

What's not to love???

Community with a few short fics, all good here

Very cool vid, not spoilery for the end here I watched it before I saw the show and it didn't ruin anything for me.

Well, having had time to reflect, I have decided my initial assessment of Demons was overly harsh.

It's like when you somehow end up at fanfiction.net. You don't know why you're still reading that fic because it's clearly written by a 12 year who's self-inserted themselves as the irresistable emerald-eyed love interest, and yet just when you decide you really have to stop there'll be something which encapsulates why you read fanfic in the first place.

There should a tv channel equivalent to fanfiction.net, so that people pretty much know what they're getting themselves into before they accidentally lose several hours of their life they'll never get back watching six episodes in one go.

( So, DEMONS, huh. )