girlofprey | Entries tagged with my little pony

Hello. It's me again. It has occured to me that this is probably the first time since I've had a Livejournal or been in fandom that I've had a new Elder Scrolls game, so you probably wouldn't have known what it's like (if indeed you care). This is what it's like, basically. I play them and don't do much else, except truly necessary stuff (maybe).

Things I haven't been watching, especially, since I started playing Oblivion:

Emmerdale or Coronation Street, except when they were on when I was downstairs eating my tea. Although this is also partly because I've not been terribly interested in much that they're doing lately.

Spy, despite waiting for it to start since about three or four months ago.

Misfits.

I have been watching some things though. And they are:

Death Valley. ( Huge spoilers up to 1.10, some for 1.11 too )

Once Upon A Time. ( Spoilers up to 1.03 )

Grimm. ( Spoilers up to 1.02 )

I have caught up on all of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic that has been aired so far. I quite like it. I like Rainbow Dash the best. Twilight Sparkle kind of freaks me out with her slave-having, mind-controlling ways sometimes. But mostly I like it. But I don't really have anything to say about it. But it is lovely.

I also haven't been to see many films lately, and now a bunch of the ones I did sort of want to see have gone out of the cinema. But the ones I have seen in the past few weeks are:

The Adventures Of Tin-Tin. ( Spoilers )

Tower Heist. ( Some spoilers )

In real life, some other things have happened. There was Halloween, and then my dad's birthday and Bonfire Night. We went out for a meal at a restaurant/pub and then went out to the bonfire they were having. I had to spend time with my sister, but I mostly ignored her and it was pretty okay. I filled in an application for a job with the help of my employment coach, and sent it off. I haven't heard back from them, but apparently it had a really late ending date, so I might still hear back from them, who knows. I started counselling, and it went fine, but it got cancelled this week, so I've only had one session so far. And this weekend I'm planning on going to an art market to pick up a necklace that's been made for me.

And Halloween and Bonfire Night are over, and it is currently the period I count as "Christmas". And my mum dropped the bombshell about a week ago that my sister, who's due to give birth in a few weeks, will probably have to stay with the baby in the hospital for five days after it's born, and with Christmas coming her partner can't afford to take time off work, so we will probably be having both my nephews living with us for those five days. Which I'm not exactly looking forward to. But I'm sure it will all be fine. Probably. And that is basically everything that's happened in my life lately.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: None

Hello. I went to Connotations this weekend, but now I am back. It was lovely, even if the hotel did put us in their ghetto, aka Riverside Block. It sounds lovely, but it kind of isn't. And mostly you have to get through a maze of corridors to get to it, and then back again. But it was lovely. I saw people, and also the first episodes of Once A Thief and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which were both good. I even co-modded a panel, and tried to give people the benefit of my extensive, grinding experience with them. And...there were other panels, but I'd have to look at the con schedule to remember them. Fandom fails, rare pairings, and fandom reboots, I think. But yeah. The people were lovely, the people I was staying with were lovely, I completely accidentally picked up the one book I was missing from the Night Watch series in the book mooch, and we played the new version of Slashtrap, which always completes the weekend. It was very good.

And then today I went to my first session of a jewellery making course in Leeds. It was the second week of the course, so I had to catch up, but it's really practical, so that wasn't hard - basically the tutor tends to show you some thing and techniques at the beginning, you buy some metal to work with, and then go off and practice it, so while the other people were practising the new techniques, the tutor showed me the ones from last week. It's very hands-on - the first thing you have to do to get a piece of metal (copper in this case) soft enough to do things with it is to anneal it, which basically means standing it up on some stone blocks, and then heating it with a mini-blowtorch until it goes cherry red. By which I mean, that's the colour it is, not like until it is literally red hot and glowing. But you still have to grab it with tweezers and put it in a little trough of water to make it cold enough to touch. But yeah, it was good. I learned how to cut copper, how to anneal it, how to print patterns on it with a print roller (I think), how to hammer and press patterns into it, how to use a domer to make it round, how to drill it, and how to saw it. Next week we're learning soldering, and the basic idea at this point is just to practise the techniques, experiment with them and see what happens, and then eventually start making actual pieces using them. It is good though, it's kind of amazing what you can do with the right tools. How much I'd be able to do when I didn't have a mini-blowtorch to hand is still questionable though. Perhaps they're freely available in the right craft stores.

And yeah. That's it really. I'm tired, and what I mostly want to do is play Oblivion. I think I might be shipping my character with another character, or at least have a crush on the other character myself. And I've levelled up a bit, which I think means that the game is trying to make things harder on me, but also means that I'm getting slightly harder, better quests. So hurrah. But my nephew's here, and dinner's in a few hours, so I'm probably best leaving that until I can actually do it and focus on it. Oh well.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: None

Other things:

Remember my fancy new jeans? They're still lovely and fancy, they're a sort of charcoal colour that I don't know why all jeans aren't. But previously I got my jeans from Gap, and it was a size measured in inches but according to their table that made them a UK size 16. But the last time I got jeans I got them from the outlet Gap shop at Junction 32, and I had to get size 18s, and they were still really tight right away, which was a bit of a shock. But I just figured fair enough, I have put on some weight.

So with these jeans I picked up a size 16 and a size 18 to try them on in the dressing rooms. I tried the 16s on first in cheerful optimism, and was delighted to find that they totally fit, and were comfortable even. So off I danced to the till, I got them home, and ended up putting them on the same day so I could go out to my nephew's birthday party thing at Pizza Hut, happily ripping off all the tags because haha, they fit. However. According to the label they are 'slouch' jeans. It turns out they're a little too slouchy. I basically can't walk without them slipping down and the ends getting under my feet. Like properly, unable to walk across a room without having some problems. Seeing as how I can't take them back because I've ripped all the tags off, it's meant I need to start wearing belts, but that's okay because I totally have some I got from River Island last year that I've never worn. They were men's belts, but ask me if I care about that. You don't have to ask: I don't. Anyway, so it's all fine and everything, I could buy another pair that are slightly smaller but that seems a bit like overkill. And I'm getting some use out of my belts. And apparently I'm a size 14, I guess, at New Look. Mostly I just wish clothing sizes made any sense. Especially when you're on the run and have to buy jeans to go out to your nephew's birthday party in that night. Dude.

The fun I didn't mention on Tuesday: I slept in late, which I was pretty much expecting after Monday, and when I got up my mum wasn't in. But that wasn't unexpected either, given that she had to do all the shopping she hadn't done on Monday, and was going to visit my aunt in hospital at some point. I messed about for an hour or so, then the house phone rang, then rang off before I could get to it. It was my mum, and I tried calling her back, but it just went straight to answerphone. Then about ten minutes later the phone rang again, and it was my mum calling from a payphone in the bus station, because her car had a flat tire, she didn't know how to change it, and her phone had died. She wanted me to call my dad to tell him, and I was in the middle of juggling two phones when he came home. So he had to go out to sort out the car while she did the shopping, which she hadn't done by then. It was not a brilliant set of days.

The fun I had on Wednesday: After my Jobcentre appointment, since I was awake and about at a reasonable time, I decided to try to go to Junction 32 and maybe Leeds after that to have a look at the shops and the sales. I was in my town centre until about 11-ish, then went to walk to the train station to get the train. I got to the road leading up to the station just in time to see my train in the station, and then pulling out. I walked back into town and went to the bus station, and went to get the first bus that said Junction 32/Xscape on it. There was one in a few minutes or so, and I got on it, and we set off, and then I noticed it was going down a route I never went down, because I'd gotten on a bus that had already gone past Junction 32, not one that was going to it. I do not know why our bus station claims buses are going 'via Xscape' when they're already been 'via Xscape'. Truly. But anyway, I could see the bus I wanted just going past us. So I got off, walked back into town, and went back to the bus station, to wait for the next bus, which ended up being the same number but the opposite, correct route. And when I got on the bus, I noticed it was the same bus driver that had been on the other bus. So I could have just stayed on it. But whatever. In the end I only went to Junction 32, not Leeds. I think I mentioned the lack of sleep, and then after the fun with the buses - and spending a bit more than I intended to - I was kind of done.

I copied over my Favourites bar successfully to the new laptop, and I installed Morrowind and the two expansion packs, and I copied over the saved games I'd had on my other computer. And after all that, I had enough spare space on my hard drive that, for the first time in a few years, I could install Ghost Master on my computer again. Ghost Master is the best game in the world. It's as good as Morrowind at the very least. The game is basically this: you are a ghost master. You have ghosts. You get to go to a bunch of buildings in a town, set up your ghosts, and either scare everyone inside away or, if you can, drive them crazy. And there's usually trapped ghosts to free on each level, so it's a bit of a puzzle game. But mostly it's a scaring people with ghosts game. On the back of the box it says it's for 7+. Let me tell you, 7 year-olds are good and all, but they in no way deserve to keep Ghost Master all to themselves. I was a bit worried that, having bought it quite a few years ago, the graphics might not be any good on my new laptop, and the same with Morrowind. But the graphics are fine, if not better and prettier than before. Anyway. Ghost Master is so good I have accidentally finished it just a few days after installing it. But then you get to go back and replay any level you wish. It makes me very happy.

Speaking of things I love from my childhood (sort of), when I was going through my Links last week I ended up refinding and watching again the My Little Pony specials I used to watch when I was young, which someone uploaded to Youtube. I sort of don't understand at the moment why every tv show, book or film isn't about people being basically kidnapped and taken to a fantasy land where they have to help magical ponies fight evil. Think about it for a second. Jason Stackhouse would lead them with military precision and only some ineptness. Luke Rattigan would probably sell them out to evil at the first chance he got, so he'd probably need the Doctor or Donna or someone looking after him. Nathan Wylde would be SUPERB at helping magic ponies fight evil. It would probably be a slightly corrupt world he built for them in the aftermath of defeating evil. But they're magical ponies with an innate sense of right and wrong, so probably they could look after themselves in that respect. It would be incredible.

Last night I remembered a bit of Adam and Joe podcast I'd found funny (among many bits), and wanted to listen to it again. But when I went looking for it, I realised I hadn't actually transferred my Adam and Joe Xfm podcasts over, because they were in iTunes, which I wasn't planning to use on this computer. And I think I got them by subscribing to the podcast through iTunes, so I didn't have them as MP3 files either. I went looking for a way to download them last night, and ended up downloading iTunes again, then subscribing and downloading most of them, one by one, again. I say most of them because part of the way through I realised that the iTunes software was about 70MB, and each podcast was a few Megabytes as well, and there were quite a few of them, and my dad had a finite download limit. So I decided to stop just in case we ran out of download capacity about halfway through the month. I'm totally get the rest at the end of the month or next month though. Also: Adam and Joe podcasts. Including some I don't think I've had before. Score.

Speaking of which, no-one told me Adam and Joe had released Song Wars Vol 2. Or that it had a physical release. Dude.

I don't know why they won't make David and Gary friends on Coronation Street, I don't know why they haven't just done that by now. I know they're developing Gary's relationship with Izzie, and I know David has that other storyline coming up. But. They live next door to each other, they have great chemistry, they've looked out for each other already a bit a few times, and if they wanted someone to sympathise with Gary about having nearly been killed once, they could do that with David, and if they wanted someone to sympathise with Gary about feeling guilty about feeling like they let someone die/having nearly killed someone, they could do that with David. I know Gary's situation is a little bit more complicated than that, but. Dude. ( Mild spoilers for next week, and the next few weeks sort of )
. I could be wrong. But I find it very hard to pin my hopes on things actually happening in fandoms/soaps that I want to see. I just WANT IT TO HAPPEN. CORONATION STREET! I KIND OF HATE YOU.

Another thing Coronation Street is doing is having Maria start dating a known wife-beater, and the actor who plays him has warned there are 'troubled times ahead' with the story. The only way I'm okay with this storyline is if Tony Gordon comes back as a ghost to UNLEASH HELL on anyone who would ever DARE to hurt Maria. Otherwise, fmeh.

Also, there was an interview on Digital Spy the other week with Kevin Fletcher, who plays Andy on Emmerdale, and whether or not he started the fire that's just happened. He said that Andy is 'basically a good man, who is just unlucky at this particular point in time'. A good man who used to beat his wife. And still kind of hates women. Nice.

Mostly at the moment I'm trying to decide what to spend my leftover Christmas money on, and then not buying anything at all. Or buying a new pair of jeans. Or a scarf from out of the sales. It's slightly frustrating. I kind of need to get my money sorted out pretty soon though. And even buy stuff or put a stop on it for a bit.

I also keep meaning to post more. A part of me wants to do a series of posts pimping films I love, or picspamming people about my favourite, little-known film pairings, every day for 30 days or something. The idea of doing a picspam every day - in the way that I tend to do them - is a little daunting though. Yet at the same time, quite attractive.

Current Mood: good
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: None

The latest crazy 80s song I have fallen quite in love with: Gold by Spandau Ballet. They played this in one of the shops in Camden that K and I went inot, and it was so loud I sang along at the top of my voice pretty much, and no-one could hear me. K and I went upstairs where it was a bit quieter, and talked about what a good song it was, and then it ended and we said we wished they'd play it again. And then, they did. We think someone heard us, and put it on again in the hppe that we'd stay in the shop and buy somehting. Otherwise there's a vintage clothes shop in Camden that plays Gold on repeat. Possibly allt he time. Which is a pleasant thought.

In toehr news about stuff that is brilliant - I can't believe I never thought of it before, but I found Rescue from Midnight Castle, the My Little Pony special I used to watch when I was younger, on Youtube.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Megan! Scorpan! The Sea Ponies! Everything I remembered and forgot!

And so is Escape From Katrina:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Cartoons for the win.

In other other news, I got a power bill yesterday. Which put a dampener on my plan to buy everything I could afford from Threadless. Hmph.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: The flat
Current Music: My little pony!

We took my nephew to the park, which has a lake in it. We saw a swan with signets, and a duck with ducklings. And then a dead bird floating at the edge covered in flies. And the circle of life was complete. And I was slightly put off ever going outside again. My nephew is sleeping now, or possibly tormenting my mother and making her show him the garden, again.

In one of the My Little Pony specials from when I was younger, they were up against a demon man who lived in a big dark citadel, and had a bag of darkness. The darkness used to twitch sometimes, and he had to stroke it and tell it to calm down. And when he opened the bag, the darkness would whoosh out and surround things, and make them evil. Puppies were turned into hellhounds. Butterflies became huge hawks of doom. The ponies turned into dragons, which pulled his chariots and killed things for him. It just keeps coming back to me nowadays how memorable that was, and what a great plot point it was. And how it's what more fic and books/films/TV shows need - a BAG OF EVIL. Just enough to make things evil and kickass. Dude.

It has occured to me that a lot of my favourite stories and plot ideas are about demons, witchcraft and guns. Possibly I'm just in all the wrong fandoms for this to mesh with. Although I was once going to write a Green Wing story where it turned out Mac was the Devil, and Guy was the Antichrist, and they both ran off on his motorcycle to corrupt churches and cause havoc. While Caroline, Holly and the hospital chaplain (and possibly Statham) joined forces to try to stop them. It occured to me I might not have the stamina for a story as huge as that would need to be. Though I still stroke it for its shiny sometimes.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Bedroom
Current Music: None

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