I feel the strong need to get myself a consistently playable female character that kicks some ass. Madame Thénardier from Les Mis isn't really doing anything, and I'd like to replace her with somebody a bit more interactive.

So, likely candidates (despite misgivings and doubts about each of them, but that is the usual thing with me):

• Dot from Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (even though i only get the first season yet on Netflix here)
• Magdalena Kuisl, the Hangman's Daughter (here I am with yet another charrie from a historical novel written in German)
• Alex Vause from Orange is the New Black (which I am getting hooked on now I have Netflix -- but can I do her American-ness justice?)

So, anybody from Milliways who sees this -- any preferences due to your own charries and plots and fandom favourites?

 I made myself some really nice lunch and will now proceed to have my heart completely mangled. **wibbles**

( Here there be all the spoilers!! )

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1. I will not advise my Little Lady to do her mandatory internship at Night Vale Community Radio
2. I will not train my cats to do the dishes
3. I will not roast a whole dodo for any holiday whatsoever
4. I will not intentionally topple the precarious rock in Thingvellir
5. I will not join either HYDRA or SHIELD

Happy New Numbers, as Russell Brand so aptly put it.-

Yay Hobbit the first: my friend the Nazgul animated the trailer for 'Battle of Five Armies' in virtual Lego, as a proof of concept/portfolio piece. You can see it here:



Yay Hobbit the second: we just found out that we get the movie a week earlier than the US!!

Last night in chat I mentioned Oxarárfoss in Iceland, and how some scene in the 4th season of 'Game of Thrones' were shot there? It is known they were there when we were because in some making-of interview about the locations in Iceland they mentioned having had the best, nicest weather in Icelandic memory, and that started just shortly before we came. I am pretty sure that especially the approach to the Eyrie is Oxarárfoss.

In actual history, the waterfall was created by the Viking settlers at some stage in the 10th century to bring water to the assembly grounds of Þingvellir, where the entire country met to democratically (sort of) make policy.

( On to the pictures! )

My sister put an hour-long edit of her slide show with pictures from our vacation last summer up on YouTube -- with panning, zooming, animation, music, the works. Enjoy!

Now embarking on the adventure of watching the French 1995 version of Les Mis with Belmondo -- from what I have read, set apart by the fact it uses a framing device set in 1942 to stress the point of 'Why is the classical novel Les Misérables still relevant for us today?' Oh what a happy age -- nobody in 2013 or 2014 questions why Les Mis is still relevant. Globalisation, the raging neo-con and neo-liberal ideologies as well as the global economic crash they caused, and in consequence the movements trying to defend us against all this, like Anonymous and Occupy, have brought us right back to the barricade, and to the despair and poverty surrounding it. The book's opening motto is as painfully current as ever. Les Mis needs no justification for us today.

No, the most adventurous part for me is that it's entirely in French -- and there's not even closed captioning to support my far-less-than-perfect auditory comprehension of the language. I know the story, yes, but getting through the framing device and putting together who is who in 1942 and in 1832 (and before) will take some concentration.

( On to the bullet points! )

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1. I will not grow a garden in my bathroom.
2. I will not pursue plans to be turned into a vampire.
3. I will not slaughter any arch-enemy of mine just to make tandoori liver.
4. I will not buy a motorcycle for my Little Lady.
5. I will not paint my cats' claws magenta.