Trabia Garden

Oh, my goodness, Jody is the most adorable person in the world. The entire world! I kept clasping my hands over my heart and making little squeaking noises whilst watching Derren Brown's The Guilt Trip. Bless him!

I think The Guilt Trip is one of my favourite Derren Brown specials ever, not only because the victim was completely adorable (he was completely adorable!) but because it actually bothered to stay with him afterwards and make sure we knew he was all right. Derren Brown's work can sometimes cut off quite suddenly and leave us going 'wait, but - but what about the poor person whose life Derren just ruined?'; I'm glad that wasn't the case here.

Also on a keeping-up-with-the-participants-afterwards note: Derren Tweeted 'I'm sat watching this at my home with Jody. He keeps saying "Oh my God!"' during the broadcast, which made me smile a lot. He performs incredibly sadistic psychological experiments on people, and afterwards he invites them around to his home to watch themselves on television with him. Derren Brown, you lovely evil man.

I was sort of half-hoping that Jody would punch Derren in the face at the end - much though I love Derren, he would certainly have deserved it - but of course he didn't, because he is the nicest man in the world.

Seriously, Jody has completely captured my heart. He seems like such a genuinely good guy. I want to give him a hug and be friends with him and never be part of a massive conspiracy to convince him he's committed murder. Even though it was fascinating as well as heartbreaking to see him spiralling into completely doubting his own memory.

(I was, incidentally, inordinately amused by the fact that everyone in the setup was named after a Cluedo character.)

If you're interested in watching The Guilt Trip, in which bearded hypnotist, illusionist and probable Antichrist Derren Brown tries to see whether he can manipulate someone into confessing to a murder he didn't commit, it is available here on 4oD!

(If you want to write about a pairing you wouldn't usually touch, y'know, you can still do that. You can even write pairings that don't involve Top Gear Dog!)

IT IS TIME FOR AN EPISODE OF 'STRANGE THINGS I HAVE DISCOVERED IN MY NOTEBOOKS'. I only actually have three of my many writing notebooks here at university with me, but there's still quite a lot that makes me go '...wait, what? I don't remember writing that!' when I'm flicking through them.

Under the title of 'Unlikely Silent Hill Crossovers':

Cluedo: by observing the personal torments of Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard, Mrs Peacock, Professor Plum, Mrs White and the Reverend Green, the reader must work out which of them was responsible for the murder of Mr. Black.

I have absolutely no recollection of writing this down or indeed of coming up with the idea, but I love it. There's generally not enough board game fanfiction, is there? Monopoly could be the Silent Hill of board games. Of course, it'd have to be a special 'Monopoly: Silent Hill edition' for the purposes of fanfic. The currency would be sanity, and you would be trapped in an endless, hellish loop of going around and around and around the board for ever and ever, with no prospect of the game ever finishing. Much like regular Monopoly.

(The only annoying thing is that I'm having trouble thinking of 'characters' from any other board games suitable for the nightmarish torment of the Monopoly board. Ooh, the Cluedo characters could come across a horribly rusted deathtrap version of the contraption from 'Mousetrap'!)

Under the title of 'Lessons I Have Learnt In California':

- A safe is not a microwave.

Oh, I wish I could remember how I learnt this.

Under the heading 'a brilliant idea, rejected on the questionable grounds of being "too awesome"':

The Master has some sort of intriguing shiny thing he could potentially use to take over the world. Balthier, in his sky-piratey way, swoops in and steals it. The Master sets out to track him down. AWESOME ENSUES.

I had no idea that I had actually thought about Balthier meeting the Master before! Under this idea, I have written things along the lines of 'tsk, Balthier, stop being noble, you are ruining my dreams of an amazing and brilliant team-up of evil with the Master'. Still, I have discovered the wonder that is introducing Captain Jack Harkness to Balthier and Fran since them, so that's all right.

Other strange extracts:

Beekeeper Holmes goes insane, concocts elaborate scheme to make Watson come and live with him again. (This one sounds bizarrely like a headline. Was it supposed to be a fanfiction idea? I hope it was a headline I saw somewhere. SHUT UP, IT IS TOTALLY PLAUSIBLE.)

I do have a slightly worrying habit of viewing things in terms of videogames sometimes. Today, we drove past a patch of interesting vegetation, and my mind leapt instantly to which species of Pokémon could potentially be lurking within it. (Why, yes, I do have a tendency to write things in my notebook as if I'm writing in my Livejournal. Quite a bit of the stuff I note down there ends up in here.)