You had plenty money 1922

For all the Saxon devotees out there, taraljc has been making pretties.

First, fangirls watching Utopia. it is of the squee. :g: Go on. Deny that you did this. We won't believe you.

In other news? Further adventures of our landlord is a fuckwit. We're all moving out. For definite. Only one of us has actually confirmed this with the landlord, though. So, picture this, if you will.

He's already started advertising the flat to new tenants. As a whole, not room by room as it was previously.

And has he told any of us he'd be doing this?

Nope. nada. nuh-uh. I'd had a call from him - at least I presume it was him, since he's the only person I know who calls me and comes up as 'Anonymous' at 3pm when I was in a meeting. No attempt to contact anyone else.

We found this out when I'd been home ten minutes, and Anna was making noises about going out soon. Knock on door, buncha students there to see flat. Us : '....Huh?' Let them in, though, showed 'em round, gave full truth about the place and area. When they left, I phoned him, left message that was quite polite. But pointed out that at the very least it was irresponsible to be advertising a place when you hadn't even ascertained that anyone would be in (he doesn't live in London), didn't tell us you were doing this, and that it is not our job to do it. Wish I'd remembered to also point out that we're not legally obliged to let 'em in. Nor is he allowed to let anyone view it without our consent before the contract's up.

Seriously. Fuckwit.

ETA : it turns out that it was the letting agent who did this - Rachid literally just called me to say he was going to be arranging viewings and when would be good for us. Informed him that he better damn well chew the letting agent a new one.

Also? Another rec : Stalking 101. Mostly Tosh and Ianto. and what nefarious plans Ianto has. GLEEEEEEE. There's also a prequel focussing on Tosh and something mentioned in the other fic.

Persephone Lied. It's poetry. Sort of. (and some of you know of my distaste for most poetry, but they dangled the greek myth bit in front of me too) and it is AWESOME.

Ah, salmon with a cream, mushroom and white wine sauce. also samphire. yum.

(one day I'm going to hunt that chef down and yell at them for being responsible for my addiction to this weird seaweed)

Jack/Jack set to John Barrowman's version of 'Hero'.

Yes, I know it's a sappy song beyond belief. but the lyrics work far too well for that ep and that whole dynamic Cath Tregenna describes of them supporting each other, plus of course, Original!Jack being such a complete matinee idol cliche of an air ace hero. Yes, Matt Rippy, you are. Don't try to deny it.

And here's teh mp3 of just the song : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NI79NJU8

http://community.livejournal.com/torch_wood/819990.html - You have to watch this. No, really. It's Jack/Estelle, Jack/Jack, Jack/Nine done to Nickelback's Far away (yes, I know, me reccing a Nickelback song...) and it's *gorgeous*. Editing's damn near perfect.

Right, the list of recs for wiccachik :

If you were Gay from Avenue Q, Jack/Ianto.

Area 51 - that QAF story I mentioned from yuletide. And it turned out to have been written by Speranza!

The Bad Touch Jack/Ianto - try not to asphyxiate laughing.

Excessive, obsessive capping of a certain episode.

Song: "I'm Always True to You (In My Fashion)"
Artist: Cast of the 1999 Revival of "Kiss Me, Kate"
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: John/Rodney, John/Everyone
Theme: Humor, Semi-AU
Warning: Both slash and het themes
Format & Size: 30MB Divx

http://video.inkquill.net/download.htm

Try not to die laughing.

And it really doesn't help that me and Jenn, when I mentioned this, went :
Me : OMG, SGA vid, Mcshep, done to thingy, that kiss me kate song -
Jenn : Always true to you?
Me : Now, of course, we need OT4 team fic done to-
Jenn : Too Darn Hot.
Me : with the leaning and the
Jenn : stick fighting and the
Me : Enzyme and -

...Obviously SGA cries out to be vidded to Cole Porter. And brings the hive mind tendencies.

Have dragged (dragged, I tell you) Meg and Jen to the Globe for antony and Cleopatra. Cue immense amounts of squeeing, Jen saying to Meg 'see, this is why you duck behind the large german tourist', us having the new OTP of Octavian + porcelain god, more drunk Romans, 'mmmm, Pompeii' 'aw, ickle Eros', dancing, me and Jenn going 'dammit, Octavian was looking at *me* when he said that line!' and Jenn with the 'the vanilla colour and the coldness and the manipulative and we want Rome 2 and -' 'soldier! sailor! they so cute! boyfriends!'

...you may have possibly gleaned that me and Jenn have a thing for Octavian.

ETA : Oh dear god. 'Tom Dick or Harry' using Cadman (Rodney, John and Carson as suitors) or Rodney (choose your suitors). 'We Open in Venice' is clearly made for gen SGA everyone and their midgets. 'Where is the life that late I led' is trying to go 'hssst. Michael, dammit.' Weir appears to be going 'I'd be quite happy to do 'I hate men'. Not a problem, honest.'

:headdesk: The Kiss Me Kate ST can be shovelled into most SGA, it appears. Which isn't quite as bad as being able to vid the entirety of Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes using buffy-verse females. Several times over.

I will witter on about my life sometime, honest. And I may even write something about Serenity Squared, except that will go 'pretty cool funny actors. Lots of Neil Roberts converts. Communion was kinda boring if you've done it before. We love Nathan Fillion. stewarded, sold people photos. Radisson piss artists, especially re: triple booking us. Accountants that shouldn't be allowed out into polite society. Indian weddings of the pretty. Partying. Ridiculous amounts of photos in James Bond shoot, and most photos *ever* of the Ursula Andress Bikini (yes, it deserves capitals). Christina Hendricks loved my Saffron costume, and we got lots of cheers for the Mal-Saffron piece. Hawaiian Sith am I. Have decided that I'm going to always be an apprentice, dammit, because it's more fun and you don't have to wear the robes.'

Goblet of Fire was damn cool. Want dvd *now*. Helloooooo Beauxbatons robes. Canon HP outfits I would be willing to wear. (I want to wear Durmstrang, too, but it's boys only)

Anyway. Recs. Be My Fay Wray. It's Harmony fic. Harmony/Fred fic. In the Birthdayverse. That's three reasons right there.

Vid rec. PotC. It's Sparrington, though equally could be just straight Sparrow-Norrington, because it works on the level of both. The song and vid describe their relationship in both canon and shippy fanon. And it's fucking *hysterical*. Seriously. I grabbed one of my fellow geeks at work (I'm champion geek, according to the Geek test, which shows you the sad state of affairs when a never-roleplayed-in-her-life fangirl beats the entire software development department of an internet company), sat him down, stuck the headphones on him and he couldn't stop laughing. The song took over my brain to the extent that I went begging among my mates to get the Wicked ST because Play had sold out. But the song itself is pure genius, and the vid is even more so. What is this Feeling (aka Loathing) right click, save, and just watch the damn thing.

Oh, and you know those godawful fic challenges of BtVS-Scotland (the historically innacurate romantic bodice ripper version, of course) and then there's Africander, Xander does Africa (cue megolas frothing at the mouth and me screaming 'Angola has all this cool history that I want to explore' ? 'Swaziland RepraZENT, I did it in my UN module' ? WTFBBQ?'), So I have decided the time has come for the Buffyverse to do....

:drumroll:

Berkshire.

SEE Dawn get a job in the IT or insurance industry and go out and get lashed every weekend!

SHUDDER as Buffy gets a job as a secondary school PE teacher, quit with a nervous breakdown and then join Thames Valley Police in Newbury dealing with all the drug addicts and dealers because it's less stressful and she's less likely to get attacked, and mutter about all the bloody snobs coming in for the racing!

GASP as Xander gets a job at Wernham-Hogg in Slough because he helps fulfill the disabled quotient and knows how to fix the photocopier!

SCREAM as Giles gets his job back at the British Museum, commutes into London everyday from somewhere slightly less polluted but equally as expensive and spends his saturday mornings traversing the local Farmer's Market and his sunday afternoons at a series of country pubs near or on the Oxfordshire border, with occasional forays to Guildford on weekday evenings for the theatre and the cinema at his local multiplex on sunday evenings!

SHIVER as Oz comes to Reading during Festival season and never leaves, making his home from home in the world cafes, organic food places, and live music scene in the town centre, with occasional forays to Glastonbury, the other music festivals, Cardiff, Brighton and Cornwall and Devon, and goes about once a month to Camden to the food stalls along the lock and to get new clothing!

CONVULSE as Willow gets sneered at as a poser and retreats into some IT company in Bracknell, soul slowly dying amidst the concrete and ring roads, and no-one ever goes to visit her because they refuse to set foot in any part of the place that isn't the John Nike sports centre and she can't get out because it sucks her soul to pieces!

CHEER as Tara gets resurrected and starts work at an organic food place in a little picture postcard village that everyone else commutes from to London, Reading or Oxford, getting a nice girlfriend and having all their other food needs delivered by Opodo or Tesco's!

louiselux, fancy adding to any of these? er, dolores, this is ALL YOUR FAULT, so feel free to stop me anytime.