Can't believe it ain't right to be gone
Then I stopped sleeping again, which I enjoy much less. I have been catching up on Torchwood (2006–11) and reading a lot after dawn.
1. As has been widely mourned across my friendlists, Diana Rigg has died. I was in the process of trying to rewatch the 1985 BBC Bleak House—in which she figured as Lady Dedlock—when I heard. I saw her first, of course, in The Great Muppet Caper (1981).
2. This post on types of stupid characters is a charming and valuable overview and also feels like an inevitable tag-yourself. "The answer is usually swearing and property damage."
3. I was just reminded of this comment I left elsenet some days ago, which I still want someone who isn't me to write the fic for:
. . . as soon as you said the thing about not allotting that much brainspace to physics, I thought of Watson in A Study in Scarlet (1887) making that list of his new flatmate's areas of knowledge, which encyclopedically include chemistry and sensational literature and singularly fail to encompass the basics of the solar system, because when would those ever be relevant to solving crimes? (From which I always assumed that someday Holmes encountered a problem for which it was necessary for him to learn some facts about stars and moon phases and the plane of the ecliptic and Watson just sat around the flat with the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and said nothing.)
4. Speaking of fic,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie correctly observes that this review of Francis Lee's Ammonite (2020) sure looks like critic-speak for a Yuletide request: "The final scene will frustrate some people, but it will also lead to some fascinating writing about where these characters went from here." After the debut that was God's Own Country (2017), now with queer women and paleontology, I am looking forward to this movie so much.
5. Have a hundred-year-old mood.
1. As has been widely mourned across my friendlists, Diana Rigg has died. I was in the process of trying to rewatch the 1985 BBC Bleak House—in which she figured as Lady Dedlock—when I heard. I saw her first, of course, in The Great Muppet Caper (1981).
2. This post on types of stupid characters is a charming and valuable overview and also feels like an inevitable tag-yourself. "The answer is usually swearing and property damage."
3. I was just reminded of this comment I left elsenet some days ago, which I still want someone who isn't me to write the fic for:
. . . as soon as you said the thing about not allotting that much brainspace to physics, I thought of Watson in A Study in Scarlet (1887) making that list of his new flatmate's areas of knowledge, which encyclopedically include chemistry and sensational literature and singularly fail to encompass the basics of the solar system, because when would those ever be relevant to solving crimes? (From which I always assumed that someday Holmes encountered a problem for which it was necessary for him to learn some facts about stars and moon phases and the plane of the ecliptic and Watson just sat around the flat with the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and said nothing.)
4. Speaking of fic,
selkie correctly observes that this review of Francis Lee's Ammonite (2020) sure looks like critic-speak for a Yuletide request: "The final scene will frustrate some people, but it will also lead to some fascinating writing about where these characters went from here." After the debut that was God's Own Country (2017), now with queer women and paleontology, I am looking forward to this movie so much.5. Have a hundred-year-old mood.
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YES
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You understand!
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Yay!
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Modern Sherlock Holmes but he’s a 27 year old, drinks energy drinks only, is astonishing polite and has no idea how the solar system works because it was never relevant to a case but can name every every person involved in making Super Mario Bros because he did need that for a case once.
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That sounds like Sherlock Holmes to me.
(Speaking of which, I saw the "metrosexual" comment from Variety on your Tumblr. Good job citing sources; also, has Variety ever seen Jeremy Brett?)
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Sorry to hear about the sleeping.
For a hot minute I thought Francis Lee was making a movie of Nicola Griffith's book Ammonite and I was tingly all over.
Is correct and also local!
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Thanks. The temperature has dropped, which traditionally makes it easier, but the pain levels have risen, which doesn't.
For a hot minute I thought Francis Lee was making a movie of Nicola Griffith's book Ammonite and I was tingly all over.
I wondered the same thing when I first heard the title announced and so did
Is correct and also local!
Cool!
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I love that post on types of stupid characters.
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I'm sorry about the flu, but the rest of that is a wonderful story.
I love that post on types of stupid characters.
"This character will give you profound advice about life and then end up falling-down drunk in a ditch in florida covered in alligator bite marks and sobbing about their ex."
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This post on types of stupid characters is a charming and valuable overview and also feels like an inevitable tag-yourself.
2, 6, 7, 8, and 10, alternating.
I am really sorry to hear about No Sleep.
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I had forgotten she hosted Mystery! I must have encountered it as a child because I have such vivid memories of the Gorey credits, but looking over the list of the series they presented, I can only see a couple that I would have watched airing—The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael, the occasional Poirot. The rest were all catch-ups on video/DVD or not at all.
John Hurt is almost my Platonic Fool in that Lear. I saw it for the first time last year.
2, 6, 7, 8, and 10, alternating.
I consider 10 a bit of an overstatement!
I am really sorry to hear about No Sleep.
Thank you.
*hugs*
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I very much hope you start sleeping again! ♥
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I am sick of losing artists and keeping people who just wreck things!
Diana Rigg seemed like the sort of person who would go on to be 100, still being awesome. Still, she was awesome and I'm glad we had her.
Agreed on both counts.
I very much hope you start sleeping again!
Thank you!
Re: “You're a special kind of stupid”
Practical but can't read room: My old buddy Russell is brilliant enough to deduce the punch line of the joke you’re telling - and promptly blurts it out, utterly insensible of thus wrecking your presentation.
(ADD is a factor too: Long ago this was, when he and his wife were having some private time, but the TV was on and well, those commercials are designed to catch your attention and here one did - all of his attention, even of the ‘joint committee meeting’ that had been in session just then…
Like Her Majesty the Queen, his wife was Not Amused.