lyssie: (can't talk now zombies)
- I'm on a Narnia kick again, just as a warning. Part of that is telling everyone to go watch this vid, because it's amazing, and I've watched it like 8 times in the last two days: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41655432

- I've been re-watching the Walden films, and the commentary and BTS stuff, and really enjoying them. I disagree with various choices, but I do at least love the final product for the first two films. The third one is... ok. But really pales to the other two (unfortunately, but I don't know how they could rescue it).

- I listened to some of the Torchwood: Soho box sets, they are the gayest fucking thing ever, and the snark is perfect. A quick grouping of quotes (the best was Norton whining about wanting to kill more Nazis, I love this man, ok)

"No woman has ever had an idea that a man hasn't improved by repeating it louder." - Norton Folgate (being sarcastic, though somewhat honest given history)

"I saved her life, and she didn't give me a biscuit." - Lizbeth Hayhoe

"Alien invasions don't normally stop at the county border." - Andy Davidson

"You're a rebel."
"Oh my god, please tell my mum, she'll be well pleased." - Gideon & Andy

- Seriously, TW: Soho is so gay (Gideon is Norton's boyfriend/ex/boyfriend, Lizbeth corrupts Wrens [and is sad she's no longer with the war office to do so], Andy is Gideon's sugar daddy...); and so OTT, and the characters are complete assholes (except Andy, who is always having a very Trying Day). I cannot imagine them managing to get this as a tv series without toning people down, but I'd love them to make a go at it.

- I tried listening to the Last Centurion stuff they did for Rory, and unfortunately, it's not as gay as TW, and Arthur Darville sounds too American. I have most of the Amy & Rory era as sound files, and I used to listen to them constantly, so that tiny variation, which is probably sound quality or something put me off.

- Now if only BF would do another Torchwood One box set. I miss Yvonne. :/
lyssie: (Martha Jones is amused)
/gigglefits forever
lyssie: (Andy and Quynh ready for battle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyivgZ074PY

I m so excited.
lyssie: (Women with swords are the best)
As I realized, when I was looking at the file, that I never ever actually pulled the list together and posted it to my DW.

So, lots of stuff from last year, and the only things I posted (I did check AO3, I think I uploaded some stuff for prior years, but nothing in 2024).

37 ficlets, 21 fandoms, 4 crossovers.


This is a long list, in alphabetical order
BSG
- Battlestar Galactica, any, nothing on but the radio - Tory Foster
- Any, any, words left unsaid - Kara(/Sam)

Buffy
- Any, Any, They came back wrong, but their loved ones accept them anyway. - Dawn, Buffy

Campion
- Any fandom, any character(s), revenge while naked - Albert and Lugg

Doctor Who
- any, any, poisoned tea - Missy, River Song
- Doctor Who, Tenth doctor & Martha, John Smith falls in love with Martha instead of Joan
- any, any, apocalypse called on account of chocolate chip cookies - Missy, Clara
- Doctor Who, Fourteenth Doctor & Martha, the Fourteenth Doctor sees Martha again

Foyle's War
- any, any, pineapple cake - Milner, Foyle, Stewart

Ghostbusters
- any, any, haunted kitchen appliances - Dana Barrett

Labyrinth
- Labyrinth, Sarah/Jareth, first time

Marple (ITV), Sittaford Mystery
- any, any, magical Paris tea shop - Emily/Violet

MASH
- mash ; bj/hawkeye/peggy ; nightmare

The Mummy
- any, any, patience is a virtue - Evy/Rick

Narnia
- any, any, There's a box I acquired from Pandora/Should I break the seal that binds/I want the answer/relieve me from this fear - Susan Pevensie
- Narnia, any, Narnia is haunted
- Narnia, any, dragonrider au - Lucy, Pern fusion

Pern
- Chronicles of Pern, Kylara/Lessa, that time a gold dragon flew another gold

Pirates of the C
- Pirates of the Caribbean, Jack/Will/Elizabeth, all three spending a night on a deserted island

Primeval + New World
- any, any, dinosaurs sang like birds - Abby/Connor
- any, any, professionals have standards: be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet - Angelika Finch

Queens of Mystery
- any non-zombie fandom, any, surviving a zombie apocalypse - Matilda Stone
- any, any, aunts are the best, lesbian aunts with copious disposable income are better - Matilda

Sanctuary
- Any, any, Bigfoot makes everything better. - Ashley, Bigfoot

Spooks
- any, any, I'm always here - Ros Myers, Juliet Shaw
- any fandom / any pairing / we’re dancing and somehow my lips end up on yours - Ros(/Adam)

Star Trek: TNG
- Star Trek: TNG, Riker/Troi, only one bed

Stargate
- Stargate, Janet Fraser, we're going to need bigger folders for these medical records - SG-1, Janet

Stranger Things
- Stranger Things, Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler, "I'm sorry for ruining your wedding."

Torchwood
- any, any, yelling at a gravestone - Rhys Williams
- Any, any, Everybody wants to know / If we fucked on the bathroom sink - Owen, Jack
- any, any, vivisection - TW One, Yvonne Hartman

Crossovers
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Lorelei, any SFF crossover/fusion - GPB/Babylon 5, Londo + Lorelei (whose name I managed to misspell)
- LotR/any, any, crossover where the fellowship gains a new member - Person of Interest/LOTR, Shaw assists
- The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Verna, beginnings - very spoilery crossover with Fool Me Once, the Coben min-series, Maya Stern, Verna
- Loki (TV series) & Doctor Who, any Doctor & Loki, "Time Lord? I'm a god!" - Peri makes everything better.

Original
- Any, any, the cracking sounds bones make. - Horror.
lyssie: (Zhaan Comfort of Fireflies)
- I live!

- Went to visit the family over the holidays, saw most everyone. Sadly, mom had to put Ella down in early Dec so there was no doggie. I spent most of the visit watching Lynley, Marlowe Murder Club, and The Ladies' No 1 Detective Agency (mom really like the latter, so we watched all of it and lamented at there being now more).

- While it is cold here (is it ever), it's snowed heavily down there (ugh for them).

- Have been mainlining the Queen Latifah The Equalizer, it's very good, fills that Leverage/Pretender niche well (well, not the revenge as much, but a lot of the "this is the terrible thing that happens thanks to Corporate Greed" way). And I love 90% of Mel's outfits (and about 80% of Robyn's and 99% of Aunt Vi's and Dee has the most gorgeous smile). It is also occasionally hilarious when they'll all be standing around and Liza Lapira is wearing five-inch heels and standing on a box (she is pretty amazing, though).

- I have watched a couple of the Fifteenth Doctor's episodes. I really really like him. I still get hives with RTD's writing. But otoh, RTD is continuing to shove the Gay Agenda in as blatantly as possible, and I AM HERE FOR THAT. So. It's a toss-up. In a perfect world, it would be a patchwork of RTD, Jacqueline Rayner (her BF stuff is great), Moff, and Chibnall, with a bunch of newbie talent to breathe in wonder and fresh air.

- 3 Sentence Ficathon is running again. I was late in remembering it (I cannot believe it's 2025 and been a year, ok). https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/4733.html < - post 2 for leaving prompts, fills are still accepted on post 1.
lyssie: (Boomer suggests you don't try it)
If you haven't heard, Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault/abuse: https://snickfic.dreamwidth.org/963211.html - this post has a decent round-up/discussion.

And while I have lots of thoughts, they mostly boil down to a couple of things:
- I'm tired of hearing reports about this. But that's my choice. The people who are subjected to these things have no choice in being violated.

- I'm not surprised. And this isn't just Gaiman, but society as a whole, which continues to be complicit in the way sexual assault/reporting is treated. It's always, always, "well, Not All Men." And NOT ALL MEN is PART OF THE PROBLEM. YES, all men! There are no fucking exceptions! Yes, all women, too, but that's a lot less likely to happen (and the people being assaulted are a lot less likely to be able to admit that is what happened). Men are constantly fed a diet of "you are apex predator, women need to know their place, women are sexual beings for you to take" - even as young children, they're not told, "you have to read about girls as people" because little boys are catered to with stories about boys boys boys, because they're such picky fucking readers.

- Yeah, I do believe this happened. And I absolutely believe it's a pattern of behavior that has been known for years. The SFF community as a whole has been massively complicit in Everything Goes-type sexual expression, so a lot of things just slide right under the radar because people don't want to Harsh The Buzz or be known as That Uncool Bitch.

- The dead silence from the wider SFF community is actually mind-boggling to me. But I'm also not surprised on some level. After all, old white dudes can still be useless as fuck and get people to call them the Greatest Fantasy Author Ever. See: GRRM being unwilling to follow normal procedures and fill out a form so he could have a panel at WorldCon. Of course his fans are whining about how he should totally be the exception to all rules because he's the most famousest fantasy author ever and how dare people not treat him with deference.

In closing, if you're like, "omg, but innocent until proven!" or "clearly fake!" please get the fuck away from me. Because you are part of the problem.
lyssie: (Women with swords are the best)
1. I watched Netflix's Damsel and it was fun! Not as meaty as I was expecting, though. And the logistics of the world-building--I don't know that they put enough thought into it, but, uh, I came away with Questions. But if you're looking for Woman In Peril Saves Her Own Ass, this is an excellent choice.

Skimmed AO3 for Damsel fic, and there's a distressing amount of people who clearly are too fucking stupid to be allowed to watch media with women. (I say distressing, but that's hyperbole, as it was only like 4 out of the 20 or so fics there which were Clearly Wrong).

(if you think Elodie should have lived Happily Ever After with Henry, you are clearly an idiot, please go back to watching Barney the Dinosaur, that's about your level of media comprehension)

2. I picked up Small Town Terrors (Livingston, Galdor's Bluff, and Pilgrim's Hook) in the last sale, not that I remember what sale that was. But anyway, I was trying to get everything from the same company that put out Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams (which is 50s SF themed and amazing), and these three seemed to be related. I think they're a different company, though.

- Galdor's Bluff is kinda The Prestige: The Game - or at least, borrows some of the elements of rival magicians. It was all right.
- Livingston is The Walking Dead: the Game, but you're a mother looking for her kid. I didn't manage to play much as I wasn't in the mood for zombie horror.
- Pilgrim's Bluff is Cthulhu: the Game. This isn't a bad thing, it has a great atmosphere and the mystery is fairly well-done, and there are definitely some creepy bits I wasn't expecting. Of the three, this is the one I'd recommend, though the other two aren't bad (and all three are very different in style and tone).

3. I listened to two of the Torchwood One box sets, and Yvonne Hartman continues to delight and terrorize everyone around her. She's terrible, but so much fun to listen to - and she has some great moments of just being human. But I also like how she's so deep into the Old Boys Net to the point they all owe her favors. Also, Ianto just keeps getting more and more tragedy dumped on him (I seriously think that's GDL's whole reason for coming back every time: to make Ianto's life worse and worse =D ). Both Before the Fall and The Machines are excellent sets, so if you're looking to delve more into pre-Torchwood Torchwood, definitely given them a listen.

- Before the Fall starts out a little rocky, but jumps right into some great character beats for Yvonne (and just because she doesn't want people dead doesn't make her not ruthless as fuck, ok.)

- The Machines brings back a First Doc enemy, as one does, and it's an absolute blast!

Both sets had some great laugh out loud moments, even as everyone is dying and The Worst Is Happening to the World. Or just London (also, I get the impression that Cardiff accidentally raising a demon wasn't a one-off for Torchwood as a whole; Yvonne was just better at cleaning up and retconning her messes).

4. In RL news, not much is happening - I mean, work and all. And the people upstairs moved out (at 2 fucking AM, keeping me awake half the night, the assholes), and left a bunch of trash behind.
lyssie: (Default)
1. I have survived the first quarter of the year. Not that it was in contention, but you never know.

2. I went through and listed all of the hidden object games I own. I might have a slight addiction problem. That said, there are some I will probably play multiple times (and already have).

3. Seriously, though, how is MCF: Fate's Carnival so great while MCF: Dire Grove, Sacred Grove is so (to pun it) dire? Elephant Games, you nailed it out of the park with the first and then napped on the second. So sad.

4. Speaking of Elephant, I finally played Grim Tales: Dual Disposition. Sigh. The Grim Tales games have really gone downhill since sometime around Heritage (or the one right before it, I think). So much pick object up to place here, then get another object to place there with paper-thin plot that doesn't do much to be interesting. Even having Anna's mother round, while on the surface is cool, is just dull. She's disappointing as a character, considering that Richard was an asshole, the woman he married should have been a badass siren. Even her backstory is awesome! She was the Fairy Tale Detective with her twin! Then she got married and they drained all the life from her, apparently (to be fair, she starts the series dead and is still dead. But. She should have a personality that isn't Bland Mother Type A)

Which is to say DD wasn't that great. Also really short. Someday, they'll make a game as long as the fucking Heir, which is always like nine billion hours long when I play it (this isn't bad! The Heir is one of the better ones from the series or I wouldn't have replayed it twenty times at this point).

5. Since I've been working from home, I finally got up the energy to donate the car I wasn't driving (and wasn't working anyway) to charity. Hopefully, they'll get some use from it, even if it's scrap.

6. That said, I now am going to get a car, since they're starting to require us to be in-office three days a week, and I can't be having with that much bus riding. I'm not 39 anymore, and I need more sleep and less annoying stinky bus people.

(I almost got right back off the bus the other day, only the distant seat I could see made me stay on board)

7. I finally found the Midsomer Murders season I knew I'd bought but had clearly put 'somewhere safe' and hadn't been able to find for two years. The dvds were keeping company with the car title and Flux.
lyssie: (Default)
It's here it's here it's here, and I have a three-day weekend.

https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/2727.html
lyssie: (can't talk now zombies)
I took a ridiculous amount of time off (20th through NY), and hoooooly fuck was that Tuesday going back Into Work the WORST. Then this week, I went into the actual office today. The office that was closed for like nine months as they surveyed and redesigned and designed and did tons of construction work to make it look exactly the fucking same just with two monitors on every desk, terrible wired mice and terrible tiny keyboards.

What. What was the point of that.

Clearly, I need to go into interior design so I can scam people out of money, too. (I saw the invoices! I know how much cash was laid out for nothing!)

In non-RL news: femslashkink meme happened, I didn't see anything inspiring (also, I'm getting old and a lot pickier and more vanilla, not kinkier - I think I'm much less kink-leaning in fandom than I was a decade ago).

OTOH, Fall of the House of Usher fandom keeps delivering the femslash, so, yay for them (there is Madeline/Annabel Lee out there, I am so fucking gleeful about it).

Aside from that, it's almost time for the 3 Sentence Ficathon!
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/2396.html

I am reeling, too. Like, ffs, HOW HAS IT BEEN ALMOST A YEAR. HOW.

That does mean I'm pulling the list of fic written together -

Divinity Was Never Her Strong Suit - a Shilling and Sixpence drabble, spoilering a bit of the second series, and implying Desmund/Lavinia could be a thing.

Heat Broadens the Mind - femslash ficlet for Violet Trevelyan/Emily Trefusis from the Marple version of The Sittaford Mystery. They leave together, of course I ship them like burning!

Lost Beginnings in Time - Doctor Who ficlet for Nyssa/Tegan. Inspired by the 60th anniversary trailer.

Unrolled (But Not Punched Yet) - Doctor Who/Spooks crossver double drabble as Jo takes babysitter duty of Jo.

wind from the clouds (by day) - The Fall of the House of Usher, series insert with Madeline Usher + Annabel Lee.

3-Sentence Ficathon ficlets:

This is a long list, in no fandom order
Miss Fisher, Phryne/Jack, imminent pegging
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=69728#cmt69728

Narnia, Susan & Edmund, Golden Era fluff
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=90720#cmt90720

Torchwood, Rhys & Gwen, Exit Wounds insert
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=142944#cmt142944

Leverage Redemption, The Team, planning fluff
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=171360#cmt17136

Primeval: New World, Toby & Dylan, golden butterflies
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=52576#cmt52576

Star Wars, Leia, Time Travel and Baby-napping 101
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=85856#cmt85856

Blake's 7, Servalan, Avon, post-GP
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=48480#cmt48480

Loki (TV), Loki, Sylvie, things we left behind
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=426080#cmt426080

Doctor Who, Third Doctor, Missy, Three is unsettled by Missy (and a second fill) Three, Jo & Crispy!Master
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=544864#cmt544864

BBC Sherlock, Molly Hooper, telling John
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=631904&posted=1#cmt753248

Primeval, Helen Cutter, the end of the world
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=636000#cmt636000

Person of Interest, Shaw, key
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=82784#cmt82784

Narnia, Susan/Edmund/Caspian/Peter, Caspian suggests they fuck the stupid out of him
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=971616#cmt971616

Narnia, Lucy/sea girl, modern reincarnation AU
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=991840#cmt991840

Narnia, Doctor Who, Stargates, MCU, etc.
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=128096#cmt128096

Doctor Who, C'Rizz, Charley, Eight, Dragons!
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1109890#cmt1109890

Pirates of the Caribbean, Calypso/Davy Jones, somebody that I used to know
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1217666#cmt1217666

Blake's 7, Dayna Mellenby is a wolf
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=982880#cmt982880

Stargate: SG-1, season six team, snowball fight
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=958048#cmt958048

Person of Interest, Root/Shaw, time parameters, "Increments"
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1533570#cmt1533570

Doctor Who, Yaz, angsting over memories
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1407362#cmt1407362

Torchwood, Ace McShane, Mr. Colchester
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1717890#cmt1717890

Doctor Who, River/Thirteen, kissing
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1521282#cmt1521282

Stargate: Atlantis, Sparky, trapped in a closet (or other space) AU
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1732994#cmt1732994

Primeval, Abby/Connor, prompt: do you ever wonder why we're the ones who made it out alive?
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1722242#cmt1722242

Star Wars, Rey/KyloBen
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1770114&posted=1#cmt1905538

MASH, any, tasteful without being gaudy
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=267616&posted=1#cmt1905760

Scott & Bailey, autopsy in the middle of a case
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1492098#cmt1492098

Crossover, Eureka/Torchwood, Jack Carter Isn't Amused
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1917058#cmt1917058

Crossover, Eureka/Torchwood, Tosh asks Jo for coffee
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1982082#cmt1982082

Torchwood, TW One, Yvonne Hartmann
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1493890#cmt1493890

Torchwood, pre-season one
Prompt: any, any, ninja pirate zombie robot
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1495682#cmt1495682

Anne of Green Gables, Anne(/Diana implied), these last golden days
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=2141570#cmt2141570

MASH, B.J, Hawkeye, After The War, Some Habits Are Hard To Break
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=723808#cmt723808

X-Men (Excalibur), Kitty Pryde, rescue mission to the afterlife
Any, any, elm and ash
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1751170#cmt1751170

Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, briar and woodbine
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=2257248#cmt2257248

Battlestar Galactica, Kara/Sam, Boomer, New Caprica Drinking
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1933698#cmt1933698

SG-1 Firemanverse, Vala/Sam
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=2259330#cmt2259330

Doctor Who, Martha Jones
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=2386818#cmt2386818

Green Wing, Guy + Mac, plumeria, freesia, lily-of-the-valley
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=824160#cmt824160
(the trick to writing Guy is to just assume he's going to say he most assholish thing possible, and go with it)

Narnia, Susan, relics, Caspian movie
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=640096#cmt640096

primeval, helen, you will not grow weary / you will never cease / you have been made warrior
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1721730#cmt1721730

BBC Sherlock, Molly/Sherlock - any, any, If we fall at least we're falling as one
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1922.html?thread=1320578#cmt1320578

MCU, Jane Foster/Thor
https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/1632.html?thread=647520#cmt647520


I did consider linking to all of the ficlets I've posted on meme, but that would be complicated (they're separated out by fandom in files, and sometimes, I forget where I am in the file and they get shuffled, so some of 2023 might be in 2020, etc). Also, maybe weird? Idk. I do keep intending to post them on AO3/fanfiction.net and then kinda... don't.

Too much effort for a title and summary?

Probably.
lyssie: (Women with swords are the best)
1. Have watched RTD Who. As always, his style/writing grates on me, so I'm mostly blah about everything barring Gatwa, who is amazing. I think I'll be vacationing until either bbc cancel or we get a new show-runner sadly. I don't need more re-hashing of RTD era shit that annoyed me the first time through, so.

(I wish his writing worked for me! I wish it didn't make me want to claw my eyes out! The last episode had a villain I have enjoyed in Big Finish, and tons of women! It still was Not My Thing)

(I don't know why Torchwood worked for me, but I expect it was the Chibnall of it all. And James Goss, these days.)

2. I cannot fucking believe it is almost christmas.

3. Went to Teslacon, did random things.

4. Mom and I watched Gallowglass together. It was equal parts compelling, frustrating, and omg. the 80s have a lot to answer for. It was also less lurid than I'd remembered.
lyssie: Myth Seekers game screenshot (Emily Violet Paris Cafe)
Femslash kink meme open for prompts! https://femslash-kink.dreamwidth.org/55086.html

I have the next several days off, and don't know what to do with myself. But that aside, I'm happy about not working.

Albums! I've still got a huge music post semi-finished, but these are the albums I've loved so far this year (and possibly last year):

Metric - Formentera (there's a second outing with remixes, but I've not listened to them yet).

Meg Myers - Tzia

Louise Post - Sleepwalkers (do you miss that 90s girl-pop-punk sound? I do, and this delivers in spades with some slightly more adult slants)

Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point (think this might be last year, but whatever, it's great)

Something for Kate - The Modern Medieval (technically, last year or the year before, but it's a great album)

Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart

Adam Lambert has a covers album out, but I honestly only really like the Ordinary World and Holding Out For a Hero covers (and the latter has a fucking amazing video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7NsWHCQv4 )
lyssie: (Ace + Shou = adorable)
These look like they will be fun:
https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/welcome-to-the-whoniverse-and-tales-of-the-tardis

I also clicked on the Dooms Day thingie, and my fucking god is that costume a hideous conglomeration of "I bought this rubber corset off Amazon for two dollars and some random fabric from a bin" and not in the fun Doctor Who way, either.

Let's go back to Jo's impractical boots and Nyssa's velvet, please. :/

Not even Avon's matador (or the one that should have had spikes, which might be the same, come to that) was that terrible.
lyssie: (Sparky rides forever)
Dragoncon happened! I saw Havoc and Mr. Havoc for a bit (where they suffered Lyssie Is Working scatterbrained no concentration--it was day one of close, unfortunately), saw a couple of others for annual dinner thing. Spent most of Saturday sleeping, and the night avoiding everyone (did not feel social--no lie, I think I might be turning into an old lady hermit). Saw a couple more people on Sunday.

(and when I say 'saw', I spent a lot of time realizing that I have lost the ability to socialize during Covid, because I mostly sat around feeling awkward, and trying to remember how to small talk and such, and I maybe should get into some current canons? idek)

Spent most of the con rediscovering that I want my robot body soon, and science needs to get on that.

It is Sparktober (yay!), I... kinda have no motivation (blah), but I will, perhaps, try some AU silliness.

I've been listening to the John Moffat Poirot radio plays, and while they're all right, he sounds too old? Also, Hastings is played by Simon Williams, and I keep getting side-tracked wondering why Group Captain Gilmore is hanging out with Poirot (he is old enough to have met Poirot later in HP's life, though, so it sort of works. But I still keep expecting weird things to start happening or Allison and Rachel to show up).

I also listened to the June Whitfield Marple ones, and they're... ok. Some of them, though, are kind of terrible at telling the story, so if you haven't read the books or seen any of the adaptations, you'll be fucking lost as to why certain things happen.
lyssie: (Indira Varma in orange)
This popped up on Netflix, so I decided to watch it (because the preview was mildly entertaining, and I'm always down for "women who are spies and punch things").

And it was great - I won't say it's perfect or whatever, but it did a lot of things in the time it had, and I loved 99% of them (the 1% is the bit I wanted to punch someone for). I would seriously love a sequel, and there's total setup for it. I AM HERE FOR THIS, NETFLIX AND SUNDANCE.

The reasons: it was entertaining. Also, there were multiple female characters, who had conversations. ALSO, and this is something that still annoys the fuck out of me about most Action Women movies: a good 50% of the background characters were women. This was where The 355 fell down for me, because, yes, that movie had four (five?) women as a team, but every single person they encountered or walked past was a dude. Women didn't exist in that movie outside of them, and it made the movie terrible for me (aside from the laser focus on all the dudes, ugh, I'm getting off my soap box now).

Right. Heart of Stone (2023) stars Gal Gadot, Jamie Dornan, Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer, Paul Ready, Jing Lusi, and Alia Bhatt

There will be spoilers beneath the cut, but also for Person of Interest (seriously, if you've watched POI and you watch this, there are a couple of moments where you will cackle like hell, because, really? REALLY?)
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lyssie: (Cally needs a drink (so do I))
A while back, I bought some of the American Poirot/Marple adaptions:
Evil Under the Sun
Death on the Nile
The Mirror Crack'd

I'd seen the second before, ages ago, so I was hopeful they'd be at least all right.

I finally got round to watching them, and I was honestly surprised.
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lyssie: (Tosh & Suzie are here to fix your plumbi)
I'm slowly continuing my way through, and being gleeful because it's Torchwood.

Er, I should note that neither Tosh nor Suzie appear in any of the ones I reviewed.
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lyssie: (Janet and Rachel and wine.)
Where in books, women will take down their hair or someone near them will complain about how the hair is too tight it's making their head hurt?

I just had to take my hair out of the ponytail it was in because it was making my head hurt worse. Even with it only loosely up, it hurts. Fuck this air quality bullshit.
lyssie: (Caprica + Gaius still can't believe I OT)
First, I'm not entirely sure I've ever really talked about Star Cops before? Like, I know I touched on it during the last post, but I don't have a Star Cops tag.

Anyway, Star Cops was a late-80s SF show written by Chris Boucher (of Blake's 7/Doctor Who, yes, that Chris Boucher), about cops in space which was dedicated to being Very Grounded In Almost Reality, and while it was all right, it had Issues, and only lasted the one season.

It was something my father really liked (his favorite Annoy The Children joke related to Star Cops was to call it Space Cops)

Thirty years later, and Big Finish have got hold of it, and of three of the original actors.

So, Mother Earth is two box sets, and eight episodes in total and feels very much like one series/season of Star Cops. This is great in that it has a natural start/stop, and also in that I feel like I have most of the story.

BTW, my biggest letdown (aside from the spoiler at the end) is that they didn't get the song (It Won't Be Easy, sung by Justin Hayward from the Moody Blues) from the original series to play as the theme tune. I fucking love that song, and it encapsulates both Star Cops and that 80s SF feel that the series is meant to be.

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lyssie: (S & B Stairwell this show was so pretty)
Then I remember I don't have one, so it wouldn't do any good.

A) Sapphic Summer! https://sapphicsunshower.dreamwidth.org/18139.html - Runs until 1st September.

B) I managed to read actual books towards the end of the year, I really really like Tilly Wallace's Manners and Monsters series. It hit all of the pining/regency parts of my id with some great horror bits, and I didn't spend any of the six books wanting to punch anyone. Mostly, I liked the covers and was quite charmed by the prose.

C) I've taken up fluid art, or whatever it's called. Pouring bunches of paint on canvas makes pretty designs.

D) Games-wise, I replayed several MCF entries, and appreciated how long they were. Also replayed Sacra Terra: Angelic Night (the game that got me playing HOG games in the first place, and remains my GOLD STANDARD for people talking). Also several Mystery of the Ancients I find it weird how Lockwood Manor and No Escape are such completely different vibes to the rest--well, the one with the Kraken is closer to Lockwood Manor, I suppose.

E) Still need to catch up on Doctor Who. I got stuck after Demons, and then, well, dad died, and I stopped watching it entirely save for Jo Martin and the end of Thirteen's era. Not sure what I'll think of the specials (and not really holding my breath about RTD).

F) I keep having terrible luck when ordering donuts - they always seem to arrive stale and terrible.

G) I listened to the first Star Cops set, Mother Earth and the first episode of the second set. I really really liked how it sounded (and I like the new characters they slotted in, since two of them have died in RL). It was fucking hilarious to hear Pal Kenzy again, and I'm gleeful they got Newton back for it--it just doesn't feel like Star Cops with Kenzy & Devis. Even if I want to slap Devis a LOT. It also sounds like they're all having a blast revisiting the characters in the behind the scenes stuff.

H) Mom and I are still going through Poirot and Marple, and I've started pulling up the audiobooks on youtube to listen. I really appreciate how much of the racism they cut out of the aired stories, though it's sort of like archeology to hear it/read it. Although some of them are terribly long-winded (The Blue Train, for instance, was a DNF for me, as it is so fucking long, and it goes on and on and on... It's actually one of the adaptations I really like, though, so I stuck a lot of it out, then skipped to the end. Also, shocked that the Katherine-Kettering stuff in the novel was cut from the adaptation, yet I still shipped it like burning without knowing their whole romantic sub-plot existed??? Also, loathe the idea that Katherine just Went Home and didn't continue traveling. Bollocks to that.)

I) I have started a Music I Like post, but it is nowhere near finished.

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