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It has come to my attention that not enough people on my flist are watching Batman: Brave and the Bold. Which is a fact I find greatly disappointing, because it means that I have no-one to talk about it with and make icons for me you are all missing out on the glorious crack.

Come on, it's a cartoon which seems to be run on the premise that it doesn't need to make sense, so long as it is AWESOME. It is completely and utterly ridiculously silly, and that is why it is brilliant.

I mean, this week's episode contained my darling Jaime (♥) in the teaser in all his lulzy adorkability, complete with snarking at his scarab/suit while he fought, a robot trying to work out what the Christmas spirit is, shout outs to all sorts of dodgy B-movies, Batman getting a "World's Greatest Detective" for Christmas, Batman beating up Santa, Batdickery, unexpected heartwarming endings, and even more unexpected tragic flashbacks.

It was ridiculous and silly and surprisingly touching. But mostly awesome.

And that is why everyone should watch this show. Look, have some Blue Beetle being lulzy to see why I love it.

(Also, I know some spoilers for an episode later this series which will be freaking win, and I can't wait until fandom hears)

In conclusion:

You know, given my recent posting frequency, I seem to have had very little to talk about as of late.

Though my neck is less ow, which is always of the good.

Fandom-wise, there's been yet another chapter in the never ending Lexicon Wank

On a Doctor Who note, they appear to have finally reached a critical mass of cracktastic rumoured spoilers, and thus nothing people are coming up with seems at all weird to me now.

I fear permanent damage.

Oh, and response to some bitchy comments over on Who fandom's new anonymeme, we have Reasons why Martha is awesome (with no bitching about other companions). Shinytabulous!

And your profound thought of the day, courtesy of someone in my Writing Through Character class:

"You can believe in multigrain."

Theoretically, I would be writing a post about the comedy night last night. But what is there to say, really?

Lulz were had. Ross Noble was funny. There were amusing running jokes, like the thing with the Whale horn and the Lemon Lady. It was horribly, terribly hot. And the next show will be the last one.

Etcetera and so forth.

In more recent news, our upcoming replacement for Chris The Nonexistant showed up to sign some forms at the iPartment. Which is good news, as we'll actually have a third housemate et al, and means a lack of having to advertise any more.

I also have a new book! Well, two new books. First was the third Felix Castor novel, Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey. I just finished it, and it was quite good. But then, you can't deny the appeal of a book with a zombie hacker.

I also possess the newest Obernewtyn book. I haven't as yet started it, as it may take some time to get through. Also, it's been an age since I read that series, so I may need to brush up on the plot before I get into it.

And I can't really be bothered to talk about fandom right now, so I'll just drop some links:
- Cinema trailer for Doctor Who S4 Need more icons of that Martha scene
- Shiny exciting Torchwood spoilers. Particular note to the pictures for Adam and Reset, and all the summaries of unscreened eps.
- New DWM cover.
- Also, over at lifeonmartha, there's been some lovely icons of recent pictures by angelfireeast and holo_daxy. And the Countdown to Martha has just generally been great.

Went to the Wonderful Day fundraiser Trivia Night thing last night (Wonderful Day being the production some of my friends, and a bunch of people I don't know will be doing in a couple of weeks). Anyhoo, I was on a table with saikogrrl and Yuhan and... some people I don't really know. But GGS (aka Gratuitous Gay Subtext aka our team name - what do you expect considering the people involved?) managed to tie for first in the questions. Lost out on the tie-breaker, though.

Still, I got half a kilo of chocolate coated coffee beans out of it, so I say it was a worthwhile night.

Lots of fun, too.

Apparently my teachers have all decided it's assignment time now. Bastards. That'll probably be in a post, soon, so I can keep track of due dates.

In fandom news, there's been a whole lot of rather daft - and not so daft - rumours going around. The most interesting (to me, at least) is the Children in Need one. Possibly because I had dismissed it as rubbish (though rubbish that would be ovely to see, if pulled off well), until I heard it was supposedly for CiN, at which point it became a lot more believable.

I'm still not 100% convinced, but as a charity special, I think it could happen, and am looking forward to seeing it. But will it be canon?

Also, lifeonmartha has an eye out for some more mods. If you're a fan of Martha and Doctor Who, and interested and able to help out drop us a line.

Oh, and over the weekend (yes, it's been that long since I posted...), I went and saw all the Dresden Files TV show. I may end up posting about my thoughts on it, but they can be briefly summed up as nowhere near as good as the books (which I seem to be rereading now). The one exception is Bob. Because TV!Bob is made of shiny and love and win, and is quite clearly the best thing about the show by far, and is in fact the best thing about most TV shows.

TV!Bob should have his own show. No matter what else happened in it, I would watch it for TV!Bob.

Well, so there's Who filming on in Cardiff again. I haven't heard anything of a spoilery note thus far, or seen pics of anything other than Le TARDIS.

If any stuff does show up, then I shall add it to the post over at lifeonmartha.

On a completely unrealated note, I've volunteered to be a mod at lifeonmartha. Which means I now mod comms for two Whoniverse characters with the surname Jones. I wonder what it is that says about me.

And whilst I am on the subject of vaguely Martha related things, I find it deeply interesting that the current DWM shows us the companion, rather than the Doctor himself dressed in the traditional garb of a Doctor. Totally doesn't try to tie this into my meta on potential themes.

Eeep.

This was going to be a post where I did that wish-list whatsit for the Christmas exchanges that everyone is setting up now, before wandering around my flist and finding people to swap cards/pressies with, but The Sick thing has made me grumpy and less focused. Instead of doing actual sensible things, all I want to do is wrap myself in blankets, have something hot to eat, and read Star Wars fanfic. Particularly with the weather going mental lately - hail and all, WTF?

So, that's been put off a little longer, alas. The computer seems to be being a bit slow to update to the next lot of broadband, too. Odd, that.

In any case, my Awesome Awesome thing arrived. More about this later on, perhaps.

Oh, and mina_de_malfois has been updated, so more reading goodness. Definitely check out the newest footnotes, m'kay?

On the subject of reading matter: Anyone up to rec me some more Star Wars fic? I haven't the faintest idea why, but I am drifting in that fandomly direction again.

So, I didn't end up having to get the first ep after Uni myself, at least, because altheas grabbed it for me. However, whilst I watched that I obtained the second, so I have now seen both eps. And I am too tired to watch them both again, so you just get smushed reactions of both episode. I may forget what happened in which one, alas.

( Spoilers liek whoa ahead )

*gratuitously pimps torchwoodcoffee for all new Ianto fans*

( ETA: Random shit as I think of it )

So after the Torchwood website became live, and the fandom started it's acceleration, I randomly decided that I loved Ianto. Because he bitched about people stealing his coffee blend, and worried about the pterodactyl.

Also, because he has "hidden depths of anguish and darkness".

Thus, because craziness only feeds off itself, I give you: torchwoodcoffee! Started by myself and seti_drd, we have the first appreciation comm for a Torchwood character who is not Jack.

Join us, and you too might discover what is hidden in those depths of Ianto. Or what's in his secret coffee recipe.

I've never been the boss of a comm before, oh god, oh god, whatever shall I do

And now I must sleep.

Also, I need an Ianto icon.

I'm off to my cousins engagement party this evening, so I thought I'd give you lot something to do instaed of getting into any discussions.

Anyway, Pirates of the Caribbean. Saw the movie last week. Loved it. Wish to discuss/squee over/read fic of it. But, I am not familiar with that side of the fandom.

So, my dear flist, does anyone know of any good PotC LJ comms? To clarify a few things, this is one of those fandoms where I prefer to go with gen and/or canon-ships (unless they are very good - I can see where people get the slash from, but I am not a big fan of PotC slash for the most part). So gen or canon-ships mostly, discussion, that sort of thing. And iconage.

Recommendations?