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I. I've rewatched Being Human S1 and it's still stunning. I'm enjoying the current season too, though I miss the sense of family the original OT3 had. I know it's the point that the new one isn't as close but I don't like it. And I didn't really enjoy the last episode much at all (maybe because of that?). But the episode before that was very funny and made me warm up to Hal a lot.
I'm also still watching The Vampire Diaries, Parks and Recreation, Shameless US and Smash. I never talk about those because I hardly have any feelings on them, but I feel like I should mention I'm still watching them? :P

II. In real life, not much is going on that's even remotely interesting. I'm trying to get it together and plan for the future and work hard etc but you know. I'm me and it could be going better. I'm making an effort though, and I only have 9 hours of class each week AND decided not to take a weekend course thingy I wanted so I could focus on the work I have to do. Hopefully it'll work out.

III. Some excellent questions that space_dementia6 asked me for that one meme that's been going around:

( Belgium, movies, music, and tv )

I. I'm rewatching Luther for the third time right now, and you probably don't know this about me but this is a big deal. I don't generally rewatch episodes at all. Sometimes when something is really good I'll watch it again the next day and sometimes I rewatch my favourite episodes but not a lot. I don't think there's any episode of anything I've seen more than 4 or 5 times, and those are very rare. It's the same with movies, really, but there are more exceptions there (I think I've seen Moulin Rouge 20 times or so).
I do rewatch scenes a lot though. The record is probably joint between the reunion in The Stolen Earth (one of these days that Dalek won't appear!) and that one scene in the Life on Mars finale. You know the one.

All this to say, the things I do for Ruth Wilson's face and Idris Elba's voice are getting ridiculous.
I've talked about this show on Tumblr before, but not on Lj - despite the fact that I changed my default icon to the cutest psycho on tv ages ago. Basically, I have a complicated relationship with ir, because I don't even like the plots in this show! And Alice is in like one scene in most episodes. But I'm still rewatching the whole thing! So I guess this is also me telling you to go and watch this show. It's cop drama but if you watch selectively, like I do, it's about good vs evil and grey morality and sociopaths in love. :D Only 10 episodes so it's worth it.

II. In sort-of related news, I bought the Being Human boxset with all three seasons for 21 € on Play.com - they even deliver for free in Belgium! So I'll be rewatching that, probably.

III. The Vampire Diaries this week was all about how pretty the cast is and how everyone has chemistry with everyone, right? All it missed was Katherine, but I say that every week.

IV. Leave me a character and I'll tell you my top 3 ships for them.

I.Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

I was doing this meme for the hell of it and wasn't gonna post it but:
"This model was not promiscuous, but neither was it wholly monogamous". DEAR LORD. I kind of hope this comes true.
(it's from the bio Young Romantics. I've only just started reading it so I don't know the context, which only makes it more hilarious)

II Because I have been reading fic as procratination, and that fic is mostly Sherlock and a regression to Doctor/Rose; a Sherlock and Doctor Who meme, from mrv3000

( Sherlock vs Doctor Who )

III. I had my last exam today and it went really well! It was the same professor as my other exam and at the end of both he said it had been good, which is really nice of him because it means a lot less anxiety. Now I only have to worry about the papers I handed in, and I was pretty pleased with them myself.
Classes start again in two weeks, so I plan to use the time to work on my thesis (and celebrate my birthday :D).

I.So you know how last time I posted about Sherlock I warned people who loved it to stay away? I think now I'll warn people who hated it to stay away (WHO HATED IT, COME ON :o).

( SPOILERS for Reichenbach!!! (+ fanvid) )

So if anyone already knows of good reunion fic I would...not be averse to that.

II. Speaking of writing: 10 page paper that has to be finished by tomorrow is currently 4 pages long and NOT growing longer. I'm tempted to just add long quotes from academic sources, that's always good right? :)

I'm really in a writing mood, though. Just not paper-related :( I kind of feel inspired for the first time in forever to work on my novel of doom / eternal WIP (which is a collection of interludes atm because I CANNOT DO PLOT. Like, the plot exists in my head but whenever I try to write it I end up writing introspection or 'babbling over tea'-scenes).

This is a post where I sum up the best things I read/heard/saw/did this past year. I made one last year and I like the idea of making one every year to catalogue my life. This is mostly for myself but everyone can take a look ;) Introduced by possibly the crappiest graphic ever but it's representative of how much tv I watched and how many awesome lady characters there were ;)



( The best things of my year )

I like end-of-the-year lists so I expect this is the first of more to come. I'll definitely make a personal Best Of 2011 later, like I did last year.

( My year in fandoms )

I'll already wish you all a very happy New Year. I'm going to the seaside for the evening with some friends,we'll have a party and watch the fireworks and go back in the morning. :)

II. This weekend I'm going on another film weekend, same concept as that week I did this summer. The theme is romantic comedy so it should be fun. I'm a bit worried though, because the end of the semester is fast approaching and I haven't really done/finished anything yet. I've only been watching films for my thesis, which means I haven't written anything yet, I only have a vague idea for my film&narrative paper (I'm thinking of writing something on Tarantino). There is another class where we are allowed but not obliged to make our own short film and I didn't think I'd do it, but like yesterday I agreed to maybe do it after all with a few other people. But it's very last-minute and I am starting to freak out.

And add to that the fact that I still don't have a clue what I want to do next year. I really want to go abroad for a semester or a year but I don't know doing what. If I stay here I want to get a job or study something else but only if it really interests me. I'm not doing something economic or whatever just because it would make it easier to get a job because I would just hate every second of it.

III Because I tend to only post about tv shows, some other things I have been enjoying lately:

• Music: Stars! I've been listening to them for a long time but I am having a total revival lately. Some favourites are: Barricade, Personal, Your Ex-Lover is Dead, One More Night

• Books: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Pretty well-known, but if you haven't read it yet and are into historical fiction: buy it. Now. It's tudor-era, about Thomas Cromwell and spans the period of Henry's struggle to marry Anne Boleyn. It's marvellously written; she can make you laugh or cry in a single paragraph. The ladies are also excellent; I admit I am a bit biased about this period because I love it so, and Anne Boleyn is one of my very favourite historical figures, but how Mantel writes her is amazing. But the best character is probably Mary Boleyn who only shows up now and then but is wonderful.

• Movies: I watched Clue the other day and it is hilarious! People kept telling me it was terrible but I still wanted to watch it because of the concept and also Tim Curry. And I love it, idec how ridiculous it is!
  I went to see Tintin because those comic books are my whole childhood (I think I read them like over a 100 times). I gotta say I was severely underwhelmed though. Action-adventure movies aren't really my thing anyway and this was just all chases and epicness and the characters were just there to move the plot forward. Which isn't that different from the comics but there it works better?

• Is there anything I should be watching in the cinema these days? I hardly ever go anymore. Hell, I hardly watch movies made after 1960 (other than...Asian longtake cinema? :p)
  And if you have any music or book recs, feel free to share!
  

1. Pick 16 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb (or Wikiquote) and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it correctly and the name of the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb/Wikiquote search functions.

I've tried to pick somewhat well-known and mostly (but not all) recent movies, AND I obviously only picked quotes in English (which helped to narrow down the choice :D)


1. But I got a word of warning for all you would-be warriors. When you join my command, you take on debit. A debit you owe me personally. Inglorious Basterds, guessed by sunnytyler001

<2. Purple in the morning, blue in the afternoon, orange in the evening. Requiem for a Dream, guessed by hanelissar

3. Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time. Casablanca, guessed by mizzy2k and sunnytyler001

4. I married you even though I didn't love you. But you knew that. Aren't you as much to blame for what's happened as I?The Painted Veil guessed by hanelissar and sunnytyler001

5. The story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life Atonement, guessed by sunnytyler001

6. Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get. Reservoir Dogs, kindof recognised by swift_tales

7. Are you trying to save my soul?The Fallguessed by mizzy2k and penny_lane_42

8. A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be. A Single Man guessed by sunnytyler001

9. What do you see when you look at me? A grumpy old man who never answers questions? Who mixes everything up? Who's kept busy by getting his meals? That's not me. Me... I wear shorts. I'm nine years old. I can run faster than the train. I can't feel my aching back anymore. I'm fifteen. I'm fifteen and I'm in love. Mr Nobody, guessed by indybaggins

10. Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that's a lot of romantic bullshit, but people have gotten married for a lot less. Before Sunrisen guessed (kind of) by breakattiffanys

11. Where is this love? I can’t see it, I can’t touch it. I can’t feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can’t do anything with your easy words. Closer, guessed by breakattiffanys

12. You'd better start believing in ghost stories, XX. You're in one.Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, guessed by hanelissar and sunnytyler001

13. I owe you nothing. And you are nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love.Moulin Rouge!, guessed by sunnytyler001

14. Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. Serenity, guessed by hanelissar and penny_lane_42 and sunnytyler001

15. Never judge things by their appearance... even carpetbags. I'm sure I never do. Mary Poppins, guessed by mizzy2k, johnmayergirl23 and penny_lane_42 and sunnytyler001

16. A boy's best friend is his mother. Psycho, guessed by hanelissar, johnmayergirl23 and penny_lane_42

Give me a show or fandom and I will tell you:

+ Favourite female and male character
+ Favourite scene
+ Favourite ship
+ Unpopular opinion

So I think it's pretty clear I'm not on Lj much anymore. Not sure why, because I do still spend a lot of time online (Tumblr mainly). I imagine it might change at any moment and I will start posting and commenting a lot again so we'll see. Anyway, I'm making an update now!
I. Real life-wise, I went on holiday to Mallorca, which was FUN. Basically did nothing but lie in the sun and eat and drink. The week after that I went to Paris, which was also fun, if a lot more tiring.
Biggest news is that I passed all my exams (very unexpectedly), which means I got my bachelor's degree! :D This year I'm doing my master in theatre and film (but mostly film).
II. Tv-wise, I came back from Paris to the start of the new tv season. I kind of forgot how many shows I follow until they all came back in one week :S. For the interested; I'm watching How I Met Your Mother, Community, Parks and Recreation, Glee, Chuck (when it starts) and Downton Abbey. There are some new shows I may start (Revenge, Pan Am,...) but I'll wait a few weeks to see what the consensus generally is.
The one of these that I am having the most feelings over is by far Downton Abbey, because the construction is flawless and so are the characters. Mary is forever my favourite and I have so many emotions. I am also attached to Thomas even though I have tried not to be. But I don't even care anymore. I just hope his storylines this season will validate my headcanon :P
Of course I am also still watchingDoctor Who. I really liked The God Complex a lot but unfortunately it mostly made me want a new season of Being Human and made me realise how much I haven't been enjoying the rest of this half season. I hate what they did to River and Amy and just want to hit Moffat in the face even more than before. :/

Okay, I was going to say more but it's later than I thought and now I have to leave because I have a horrormovie-night to go to :) And if I postpone finishing this post it'll never get posted like the last five so here it is!

If you want to talk about any of the shows I mentioned, go in the comments and squee/complain/question because I would love to hear from you all. Or if you want to talk about anything else, of course!