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Why is it indeed, livejournal, that during a series of Doctor Who that has been packed with more emotion than any preceding one (lost babies! True Love Conquers All! Possible DEAAAAATH! Time Displacement! Etc!) as well as the summer I spent reading a Song of Ice and Fire (also known as Emotional Gutpunch: The Series) AND the end of AC:Brotherhood the thing in recent media that has affected me most was grey!Twilight Sparkle after her friends had abandoned her, standing under a raincloud and crying?

I mean

I'm not sure I can even watch that episode again. That was just too distressing.

(Everything turned out okay, though! And it was a great episode, don't get me wrong: I think I'm just rather emotionally overinvested in pony friendship)

EDIT: Tonight's Doctor Who, by the way, was lovely until the last ten minutes or so. Matt Smith is a wonderful actor and I wish to give him all the hugs, and I am heartily sick of River Song.

I went to the Eurogamer expo with flying_girl73 today! It was the first thing of this kind I'v been to and it was pretty fun! I got to try demos of Mass Effect 3, Uncharted 3 multiplayer (no story, boo), Rift for... some reason, Arkham City, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and a bunch of other stuff. I also won a keyring for knowing Mr. Freeze's real name and where Batman's parents were killed, which was both kind of nice and a crippling conformation of my nerdiness.

Mass Effect 3 was the demo that was available in America with no new stuff. I was pleased to see the krogan princess irl though, her design looks great (I didn't realise she was wearing a veil!). I also liked that they retained the different-guns-do-different-stuff thing, so I could switch up to deal with shields and armour. On a more embarassing note, it took me ten minutes to work out how to climb a ladder. Damn those Ceberus fiends and their complicated technology!

Assassin's Creed: Revelations was just the multiplayer, which is more or less the same as Brotherhood multiplayer but streamlined a bit more- choosing ability sets is easier, I found that bleding worked a little better, etc. It's also set in somehwere new (middle east?) and I really enjoyed seeing the new character models. The lady models all look super fun! I wonder if you could cosplay them.

Arkham City was also really fun. Playing as Catwoman was great, and I loved her capoeira-y fighting style. It looked very awesome and graceful, and quite different from Batman's. Batman himself is pretty much as he was in Arkham Asylum! However it looks like he has some new gadgets (got to use a radio scanner) so that'll be fun. There's also more crime scene-y elements (the demo ended with trying to work out a bullet trajectory). They redacted the impirtant plot details during cutscenes, which got kind of confusing!

Uncharted 3 multiplayer was super hard because I am a complete dweeb at that kind of thing, but at least it was pretty!

(I also had a guy hit on me while I was playing Mass Effect 3, which was... interesting.)

I leave you with the only celebrity I met:

So regular readers of this blog will know that I a) find Ezio Auditore da Firenze very very hot and b) have a thing for Roman soldiers.

I just played the Passion Play Level (there are no good screenshots of him in the outfit why is this so)

I'll, uh... I'll be in my bunk.

So, I don't write much Doctor Who fic, considering, and there's a good reason for it: basically every once in a while episodes come along that satisfy everything I would put into a fanfic. The Girl Who Waited was basically everything I have wanted about Amy and Rory, forever. It did all the showing to Moffat's telling about the Pond marriage. I have so many feelings. SO MANY.

( POOOOONDS )

In conclusion: OH AMY. OH RORY. OH POOOOOOONDS.

I just deleted my very first internet book club review (the one I did on The Name of the Wind). It went up about a year ago and every couple of weeks since I've gotten a youtube comment telling me how wrong I am, how stupid my opinions are and, occasionally, to go f*ck myself. The final straw came today with this little masterpiece:

( Cut for NSFW language )
I know that in a sense I am letting them win by deleting it (also I'm not sure what exactly they meant, their grammar and syntax are a little odd), but I honestly can't be bothered with that level of vitriol over a book I haven't read since I reviewed it (and, thanks to its fans, will probably never read again). I have other reviews in friendlier forums and frankly I am not in a happy place at the moment and I don't need the extra grief.

[fanfic] Endless
Title: Endless
Author: thewaterbandit
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None, might be kind of pretentious
Rating: ME2 spoilers
Summary: A crossover of sorts between Mass Effect and Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe. Five ficlets featuring each of the Endless, set in the Mass Effect universe.

It's printed. It's sent. I posted my dissertation this morning. It's done.








Words cannot describe how weird I feel. From start to finish this has been an almighty hassle (let's not even talk about the £120 printing job that included all of the markup in the final version and nearly gave me a damn heart attack, or the £90 on top of that it cost to fix it) and now it's done done done and I am FREE. and now I need to find a job WAAAAAUGH



Incidentally, I went out shopping to celebrate and saw a pack of really cute postcards and wondered- how would you guys like to do a postcard exchange? If there's enough interest I'll look into how you set it up (can't be that hard, right?). It'd be nice to do something frivolous for a change!

I'm back from Cornwall! And crashed into a large amount of work ahshsjsjdnb.

Yeah, I officially have exactly a month now until my dissertation is due which means I've had to give up pretty much all net distractions. I'll still be commenting and stuff as that doesn't talk up much time, but I don't have the brainspace for anything more complicated than that. After a big freakout and breakdown yesterday I'm trying to maintain a positive attitude, and I think that I might get through this one. Hopefully.

In other news, I've read the first two books of A Song of Ice and Fire and holy cow, they're really good! I'm kind of frustrated I can't watch the tv series (damn you, sky atlantic). I want to see how it all translates.

In conclusion, why I should be doing my dissertation on Big Barda instead:



p.s I have a job interview on Friday! Wish me luck!