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Yesterday was sarie_gamgee's birthday!! I was too busy to say anything, though. SORRY. I will write something for you, dear, it'll just take me a bit. Still. So much love for you, Sarie. ♥ ♥

I--I hadn't seen a movie in nearly a month. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. Is it really me, anyway? Have I been swaped with aliens? How, how is it possible.

I saw Becoming Jane yesterday, and I have to say it was completely charming. The camera work was real good, and there were some really lovely shots. The music was lovely as well - I might have to get part of it. The cinematography was good, but with all the, uh, potential, the sets had, it could've been used better (I am thinking of Pride and Prejudice, which had an astounding photography). Oh, and the acting was wonderful! I was... quite dubious, of Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen, but her accent was actually somewhat decent and she gave a good performance. James McAvoy, on the other hand, was just a joy to watch. Oh, he was so good and cute and I like how he gets inside character's skins - he truly was Tom Lefroy. (Who, by the way, was such a well rounded character - I didn't expetc that).

So yes, I liked it lots - it was hopeful and then not and while it still felt a bit on the fantastic side, it still felt quite real. So yes, it draws rather a bit too much from Pride and Prejudice* and it is in no wan an biographical film but it was still pretty good and I smiled throughout it.

So yeah, I'm a BIT obsessed with James McAvoy and IT'S ALL mellafe's FAULT. Or his own fault for being so cute AND such a good actor, I guess. AND NOW I WANT TO SEE HIM IN A FILM WITH DANIEL BRÜH. BECAUSE HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE, MY TWO CELEBRITY CRUSHES TOGETHER?

Also, have a meme:

What would you say are the trademarks of my writing? What themes or quirks or turns of phrase have you noticed? What is it that makes a story by me -- well, a story by me?

*Which I'm finally considering to read because it's getting embarassing to like, be the only one left to do so. Um. It's just that I've never really liked classics...

I went to my favorite bookstore today to buy both Atonement, by Ian McEwan and Pride and Prejudice. They were out of both, but I left them, uh, what's the word... 'saved'? In any case, I paid a bit and they'll tell me when they arrive so I can go get them. So anyway, whoo! Books. Seeing that I got both of those in English and the books on my reading list are The Portrait of Dorian Gray and The Great Gatsby, I though something in Spanish was in order, so I got El Hombre Sentimental by Javier Marías. In all: ALE = HAPPY.

I probably shouldn't be spending money when I want to go to the Travis' concert in two weeks time, though...

Thanks to Becoming Jane yesterday, I'm really in the mood for films of epic, well-written romances. Got any recs?

And oh, yeah, would someone mind beta-ing about 1500 words of Life on Mars fic? Pretty please? I haven't finished it yet, but I'm about to do so. Pleeeeease. *bats eyelashes*

I'm still writing that 1969 set Ten/Martha fic, but sarie_gamgee's birthday present takes precedent, lol.

Ugh, I really dislike that 'brown cortina, blue cortina, motherfucking rainbow cortina' code system over at the LoM fandom.

I feel the same way about the spanking new 'hanky code' over at SPN fandom. IT'S DUMB.

Really, it's not THAT hard to type 'watersports' or 'bestiality' or 'sickeningly sweet fluffy-ness' or goddamn 'NC-17'. Those are UNIVERSAL. Everyone understands them and silly people like me don't have to go through life wondering if she didn't put down the wrong cortina and people wandered into their story thinking a big gay orgy was going to happen inside only to find gen.

REALLY. COMMON SENSE, PEOPLE, IT EXISTS.*



*most of the time, anyway.