You Are Doing Well, Subject 15837. You Are A Good Person.

[rionaleonhart]

This is an entry of many unconnected things!

- Here is a rather well-done Flash version of Portal (for those who aren't familiar with Portal: it's a puzzle game in which you try to reach your goal by creating portals that lead to each other and harnessing THE POWER OF PHYSICS). It works surprisingly well in two dimensions, and there is a real sense of achievement when you work out how to get past a tricky point. The portal controls (mouse to aim, Q to fire the blue portal and E for yellow, or the left mouse button for whatever isn't the last colour you fired) aren't as intuitive as they could be, I feel, but perhaps that's because I'm using a trackpad. (Use the arrow keys to move and jump.)

- I actually rather like the Eleventh Doctor's outfit. Possibly this is because I can easily envision the elder of my brothers wearing it, and the idea of one's younger brother being the Doctor is rather cool. Well, until one remembers that the writers are probably going to blow up his siblings in a supernova for the angst potential. I'd better stay away from any supernovae until Twelve appears. (Actually, it's probably not a great idea to wander into a supernova no matter what the Doctor is wearing.)

- DEAR ELEVEN: PLEASE GROW SOME EYEBROWS. Perhaps your eyebrowlessness is supposed to emphasise how alien you are (although the actor himself doesn't appear to have eyebrows, so unless he's a Time Lord...), but I find it really disconcerting.

- I really, really want some Derren Brown hetfic, and I don't know why. Is it just because there isn't any? Is it because he is so very, very charming to the women on his shows (just before he ties them up and throws them into a lake)? Is it because I am contrary enough to want a pairing just because it contradicts a character's established sexuality? I hope it's not some sort of subconscious self-insertion desire; that would be very embarrassing. Whatever the reason, whenever Derren Brown strays anywhere near a lady in anything I am writing, I immediately want to pair him up with her. (Then again, more or less the same thing happens whenever Derren Brown is near a man. Apparently I just want to pair him up with everyone.)

- I think there should be fanfiction in which Derren Brown and Misha Collins meet. What would happen? I have no idea, but it needs to be written. One mocks his fans incessantly; the other sends them to sleep, then kidnaps them and abandons them in Morocco. They could get on marvellously.

- I've started rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist, and it seems I'd somehow managed to forget how soul-crushingly depressing the anime is. The manga isn't the happiest thing in the world, certainly, but the anime just piles eight million bricks on the viewer's chest. The third episode makes me cry so much.

- Somehow, I managed to come away from Sunday's episode of Top Gear with the impression that Sienna Miller/Jeremy Clarkson would be sort of cute. I don't know.

- Help, help, I think I 'ship Mitchell and Webb.

Comments

[thinkpink20.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with shipping Mitchell and Webb?! I've been at it for months; it's delicious! :)

[rionaleonhart]

I, er, may possibly have been 'shipping them for a while. After rewinding to rewatch the massage bit in last week's episode of That Mitchell and Webb Look, however, I can no longer even pretend that I am sane.

[thinkpink20.livejournal.com]

Ah, sanity is over-rated. At least you haven't started writing them and have a large batch of M/W icons like me...

[urawrd.livejournal.com]

High five? \o

[thinkpink20.livejournal.com]

*matches your Ginger icon with one of her own* o/

[urawrd.livejournal.com]

We're the best ever. :D

[thinkpink20.livejournal.com]

You know it, sista ;)

[subtle-rift.livejournal.com]

Have you seen "The Mitchell and Webb Situation"? They kiss all the time. It's not even worth rewinding, 'cause you know there'll be another one coming soon.

[rionaleonhart]

...I have not, but clearly I must.

[subtle-rift.livejournal.com]

I think it's episode 5 you'll want. I can send you a copy if you get stuck. Actually, would screen shots do?

[kadrin.livejournal.com]

Help, help, I think I 'ship Mitchell and Webb.

Who doesn't? I mean, they had to overtly deny it on that one interview for Magicians. (And, luckily, since I know my half-held occasional RPF desires are fictional, having something denied only makes it easier to write. Fictionally.) And they've got such good chemistry. It makes their show work.

In short, shipping Mitchell and Webb is much saner than writing a mentalist into every fandom in the world and then making him pansexual, BUT I THINK YOU KNEW THAT.

[rionaleonhart]

This is simultaneously reassuring and a shameful reminder that my Derren Brown-writing tendencies are severely odd. But, yes, I am very glad that apparently everyone 'ships Mitchell and Webb.

(There doesn't appear to be a fanfiction community for them, but I swear I'm not creating this one.)

(EDIT: Also, if you could possibly point me towards this overt denial, I would be worryingly grateful.)

[kadrin.livejournal.com]

(EDIT: Also, if you could possibly point me towards this overt denial, I would be worryingly grateful.)

I will look it up! ...But I am afraid I will have to look it up in two and a half hours. I woke up extremely early to dash to the computer to write down a thing for my face-to-face D&D campaign. I'd thought up a riddle for a sort of combination lock thing in a dungeon called the Downward Spiral (which I may or may not mark with Nine Inch Nails music, given that they had an album with that name), and I was proud enough of the clue for the fourth number that I couldn't risk forgetting it. (Fourth is simple, know it well: Those who count on 'scaping Hell. Those who Vecna's secrets know, those who disdain weal for woe, those who'd take a troll to wive, those who'll leave the Spiral alive.) Anyway I have to go back to sleep for a bit.

(There doesn't appear to be a fanfiction community for them, but I swear I'm not creating this one.)

Mitchell/Webb fanfiction would be so easy. You've got so many setting options; sketch on the show, backstage, or - to make it fictional and yet still them - those little slice-of-life moments on the show, which as they showed after the cavemen scene are "as scripted as everything else". It would be PERFECT.

...Hell, I'm doing that enabling thing again, aren't I?

[kadrin.livejournal.com]

It wasn't "The Making of Magicians"! It was on Parkinson! In my defence, in the interview, he talked a lot about Magicians.

Anyway, it's here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aFiNNoockM). The bit where Parkinson says that David Mitchell had said once that working with Robert Webb was like a marriage is at 5:20, but you'll want to watch at least from 3:10. Trust me on this one.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! (He pretended to be the Doctor! In an airing cupboard! Oh, bless him.)

The little false backstage moments do rather invite fanfiction, but I think someone else is going to have to create the community. MEANINGFUL GLANCES AT EVERYONE HERE.

[kadrin.livejournal.com]

I could see David Mitchell as the Doctor. Unfortunately, while he'd be wonderfully snarky, he wouldn't be Miranda Richardson, and as such I have to disapprove. (See, the Doctor has to change race or gender ONE of these days, and Miranda Richardson is wonderful at everything ever.)

[urawrd.livejournal.com]

My icon seems rather pleased. :DDD

[rionaleonhart]

Your icon is adorable.

[urawrd.livejournal.com]

I can't even lie; when he smiles, I smile. I'm just that far gone.

I wonder if this is how Robert feels all the time?

[thinkpink20.livejournal.com]

This is how I feel all the time! :)

[anewcitylife.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's become fashionable (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/20/style-models-eyebrows) to bleach your eyebrows so it appears you're completely lacking. I'm convinced they're just copying Eleven.

[rionaleonhart]

I find this fashion rather alarming. (I hope they are copying the Doctor, though. That would be brilliant.)

[hold-onhope.livejournal.com]

I'm fine with Eleven's outfit, except that I HATE BOWTIES.

His eyebrowlessness is curious... I mean, I have blond eyebrows so you can hardly see them (without makeup), but Matt Smith has dark hair. Weird.

[rionaleonhart]

The bowtie is a bit jarring. BUT NOT AS JARRING AS THE EYEBROWLESSNESS. I wouldn't mind if he were blond! As it is, it is just odd.

[thrennion.livejournal.com]

My lady. May I sincerely pimp out the kink meme that I set up last year. It is in my memories, and there is some excellent Mitchell/Webb there.
Of course, may I remind you that 'shipping Mitchell and Webb is PERFECTLY NORMAL BEHAVIOUR.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you for the rec! I don't usually go onto kink memes (too porny for my tastes), but that Mitchell/Webb/Brydon fic was really rather good.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

If Misha and Derren meet, I fear for the fans at the next SPN conventions. Wait, Misha would practise the skills he learned from Derren on Jared and Jensen first, wouldn't he? Hours of fun!

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, dear, that's a good point. Everyone at the convention (and, yes, on the set) would be doomed. Fans stumble away unable to remember their names or where they live, whilst Misha cackles to himself.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Misha does have plans to take over the world using his fanbase, so using mind control skills seems like something that's right up his alley.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

- I am now irrationally convinced that at least one of your brothers is secretly a Time Lord, and if it isn't literally the fate of the world depending on it, you shouldn't open any stray pocket watches lying around.

- I have no idea what species Matt Smith is, but I don't think he's actually a Time Lord.

- I'm trying to remember that thing I read which made it sound like Derren Brown had tried things with women, involving his creepy seduction powers, back when he was still pretending to not be gay. It wasn't the whole "Look at me, Derren, look me in the eye" interview, but something. This is going to drive me nuts trying to remember it.

Also, please no Derren Brown/me. I'm already annoyed that you apparently wish my DEATH in as much as you ship me with Sam "Penis of Death" Winchester.

- Derren Brown and Misha Collins meeting would be the greatest and best thing in the universe, and you should write it right now.

- Sienna Miller/Jeremy Clarkson would be sort of cute. Although not as cute as Sienna Miller/Stig naughty driving lessons fic (NOT ACTUALLY SPEAKING WOULD NOT INHIBIT THE STIG'S ABILITY TO GIVE DRIVING LESSONS, SHUT UP!!!).

[rionaleonhart]

- Now that I think about it, a pocket watch is exactly the sort of thing the brother who could potentially dress a bit like Eleven would have about his person. Hmm.

- I still like to think that Derren Brown didn't actually realise or accept he was gay until he was in his thirties. Delighting in the idea of decades of repression probably makes me a bad person.

(Oh, all right, no Derren Brown/you.)

- When they first met, Derren would pull off some incredibly complicated and astonishing trick and Misha would be entirely unimpressed.

- Of course the Stig can give driving lessons. He transmits the impulse to brake or turn the steering wheel directly into the driver's head.

(EDIT: I DIDN'T MISSPELL 'BRAKE' I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT)

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

"He transmits the impulse to brake or turn the steering wheel directly into the driver's head."

So, obviously, Sienna's gonna go 'so, er, Stig, what other impulses have you been transmitting into my brain, then?'

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

- Don't open it. You would be sad.

- That fits with what I think I remember. So it may make you a bad person, but at least you're an...accurate bad person? Um.

Also, if you had a time machine, you could probably meet him during his repressed phase and have a shot.

- Mischa would mock him and tell some outrageous lie, and Derren would at first be all "You have no skills and you mock my amazing skills! You sir, have failed to impress me!" But he'd be grinning along in spite of himself.

- Like when David Tennant was all "I can feel the Stig in my head!"? Yeah, he'd telepathically teach her to drive, and she'd be all hilariously destructive, and he'd find her adorable.

You think that 'crisis' moment she had was telepathically induced by the Stig? What about Stephen Fry's "Oh, you bitch!" moment of 'crisis'?

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

We have stray pocket watches lying around in my house. Does that mean I/some member of family is a Time Lord?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

It depends. Are they old, broken, and possibly stuck shut? Because if so, yes.

Probably not you, though. I don't think Time Lords like Pokemon.

[gulliblesnail.livejournal.com]

They're the other Mac and PC, I think I am REQUIRED to ship them.

[rionaleonhart]

I just looked up those adverts, which I had never seen before. They are really rather cute.

(And thank you for the birthday wishes!)

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

Happy really belated Birthday!!!! I'm glad that you had an awesome day and your Derren Brown finger puppet is amazing. I hope you have a fantastic year, although I don't see how you couldn't, now that Derren Brown: Finger Puppet! can follow you everywhere.

I think that's one of the reasons why I can't watch the anime (either one, really). It's just too depressing. Also, I am constantly shocked by how colorful things are.

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! I had no idea how necessary a Derren Brown fingerpuppet was in my life until I received it.

The manga does seem to be slightly more balanced in terms of woe. Or, rather, in place of the angst it has GREAT BIG GOUTS OF BLOOD.

[adraekh.livejournal.com]

I got to Level 15 on that Portal game before I gave up. Will give it another try tomorrow when it's not 3:30 in the morning. (I remember seeing the trailer to that game way back when; gave me such a headache).

I watched the anime and read the manga concurrently, so I wasn't quite as depressed with regards to the anime. It was very nice knowing that in some alternate universe, Ed didn't end up dancing with the gypsies in Germany. *g*

[rionaleonhart]

Level 15 took me quite a long time, but it's all right when you work out how to do it (the technique I was attempting to use was unnecessarily complicated).

Ahahaha, oh, the ending of the anime. There's quite a lot I don't remember about the later episodes, but I do remember that the ending made no sense whatsoever.

[hegemony.livejournal.com]

I think there should be fanfiction in which Derren Brown and Misha Collins meet. What would happen? I have no idea, but it needs to be written. One mocks his fans incessantly; the other sends them to sleep, then kidnaps them and abandons them in Morocco. They could get on marvellously.

This already has its plot, you're like five minutes away from writing it. Misha would mock until Derren did something and made Misha suggest that they go to Morocco, and then when they were in Morocco, Misha would suddenly and very easily mock himself for Derren's amusement and perhaps have sex with him. If Derren asked nicely (meaning, if Derren had convinced Misha that the only way he wouldn't get abandoned is if they eventually did it.)

See, Marvelous.

Also, the cake is a lie.