life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

Romantic test-thingie. Gakked from sreya

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When I was doing the test, the banner across the top featured three semi-clad girls and the slogan, "Find tons of sex partners in Bletchley". It also mentioned "millions" —stretches credibility a bit, for Bletchley, which must have the least sexy name in England. I speak under correction, of course.

Written for calapine for the Jack Harkness ficathon. She wanted Jack as a criminal and Cybermen, so here they are, for what it's worth. It seems to be massively longer than everyone else's. Woe.

Title: A Brief Experiment in the Life of Jack Harkness
Rating: PG-13 (for Jack being Jack and the general dystopia of the fic.)
Archive: Yes, ask please
Thanks to book_addict for beta-ing this!


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We've just got two kittens! Both boys, as far as we can make out; we think they're about 9 or 10 weeks old. One is black with white feet and bib and the other is a grey mackeral tabby. No names as yet, although I have heard Mithrandir or Fog, and Smudge suggested. And Schrödinger, of course. When I have a cat of my own, it'll be called Schrödinger. They're a bit wild at the minute, especially the tabby, so we've been taking it in turns to sit out in the porch (room in the house with least funiture) with them and talking to and stroking them. We've switched to using the kitchen door as our back door so they can't escape when someone comes in.

Also:

Guess that Friend! gakked from doyle_sb4

You have a total of 102 friends
You requested to guess 102 entries.
9 was skipped due to invalid content (surprising?).
You made 93 guesses.
You got 83 correct.
Doing the math for you, that means you got 89% correct

Yesterday the 1805 bus didn't arrive until 1835. Today I have a terrible cold in the head. thank you, Translink.

It's always a good thing to remember when you've pre-ordered books from amazon.co.uk.

Anyway, I now possess the paperback of Going Postal. ( Spoilers )

elerrina_amanya is down in Belfast. She's living where I lived, in the room that I had in second year. She's doing some of my modules. It's a rather weird feeling.

So far it does seem to have freed up the computer well at night, but the wrath of my little brother may descend on me at any moment. :)

And previously:
1. Padmé
2. Anakin
3. Chancellor Palpatine
4. Obi-Wan
5. Yoda
6. Old Ben
7. Luke
8. Vader
9. Han Solo
10. Wedge Antilles

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From: i_rule_the_galaxy_mwahahaha@empire.gov
To: skywalker_l@alliance.net, organa@alliance.net, sexy_scoundrel@galacticmail.com, vader@empire.gov
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: Re: Fw: Survey

Subject: Survey


NAME: Supreme Emperor Palpatine, Ruler of the Galaxy.

NICKNAMES: Your Supremeness, Most Noble and Mighty Emperor, Yes, My Master (that one's Vader)

SEX: Who needs sex when I have power?! UNLIMITED POWER! MWAHAHAHA!!

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We've started the annual rodent wars with a bang. Yesterday my mum saw a mouse run over the worktops in the kitchen. Bleach, mousetraps, chocolate. Then another one peered out from behind the Aga. (Someone must have left a door open recently).
Then after we came back from church my dad said, 'Look at the huge moth in the hall!', and we looked, and it was a bat. It sort of twitched when we put the light on, and we flapped at it ineffectually. Then it lay down on the floor and squeaked at us in a distressing manner. I've never heard one at such close quarters before; I can well believe they're ultrasonic. Eventually my dad got it onto a flattened-out cereal packet and got it to go out the front door.
Bat, mice...all we need now are the squirrels.

I saw it with elerrina_amanya the other day. The main problem I had with it was the length; too many things had to be left out, including most of the Wickham plot, which means there was no red herring for Elizabeth. And Lydia's elopement must have come completely from left field for anyone who hadn't read the book.
The Bennets in one way were too nice (Mary wasn't snooty enough, and Lydia and Kitty were giggly rather than flirty. Even Mrs Bennet was toned down a few notches.), apart from the eavesdropping. On Bingley's proposal and all! I'm surprised he didn't flee then and there. Diffident!Bingley was rather funny and likeable, if not exactly canon, and you could really see the good side of Darcy in the second half of the film. I liked Charlotte Lucas as well, the actress got across her plight of an unmarried 27-year-old in a way that the BBC didn't really.

Miss Bingley's actress I can't quite place—some UK soap? I wasn't convinced by her sleeveless ballgown; it kept looking like her corsets to me. And on the subject of clothes, why was there so much nightclothes interaction? Darcy's motive for hand-delivering his letter (much curtailed, of course, in the film) was probably to avoid the servants' gossip, which would have been achieved really well by visiting her in her bedroom after she had retired. Oh, and Mr Bennet talks about powdering his hair or something in the book, whereas in the film he didn't even seem to shave. And the Bennets are more close to their farm than the Bingleys, but I can't believe that they and their visitors would have walked through it every time they went out of the house.

Oh, and could someone please cast Lydia as a blonde or something, so that I don't have to spend the first ten minutes wondering which is Kiity and which is Lydia?

But I did enjoy the film, although it was no substitute for the book, or the beloved BBC version. Very nice visually—and for the making of icons, of course. I've done a few bases myself.

Teasers:

( 25 Elizabeth Bennet bases )

Comment, credit, and if you make icons out of them, I'd be interested to see them.

Went into town to try to get some gear for a wedding I'm going to in November. Also new trainers, because the current pair are getting scratched, and have been submerged in the sea and smeared in cow crap...

So, shoes and a dress/skirt, right? Returned home with a shirt/jersey all-in-one top. But it was a lovely jade-green colour which suits me well, and it's so hard to get that...