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Am I right in thinking that there is a creepy/possibly dangerous character in a movie who says, "Hello, poppet"? (or 'ello, as it were, with some vaguely British accent) Or have I just creepified the phrase in my memory for no good reason?

I haven't seen the first performance show for SYTYCD Canada yet, but I am about 10x more excited for the dancers than I was for this season's US group. And so many of the people I liked in auditions made it through!

I had an idea for an Arthur/Eames snippet while making pie pastry tonight. Said idea has nothing to do with pie pastry, for the record. I'm considering trying to shoehorn it into silence porn for [community profile] kink_bingo. If anyone would like to suggest a semi-public location (for these purposes, the odder the better, seriously) that would require silence, I am open to suggestion.

Wholly unrelated to any of that: While I am capable of being elitist about many, many things, I am not generally elitist about people's gear in MMOs. However, there's this addon in WoW (that I have been trying to ignore since I started playing again) that assigns a numerical value to people's gear. Literally minutes after installing it, I was having disparaging thoughts about people in my group whose gear was (numerically! theoretically!) worse than mine.

Here endeth the entry.

ETA: ha-ha, I lied, because I hadnt checked ye olde reading page recently.
Glen Weldon at Monkey See writes about Read Comics in Public Day.
What do you want?
To peruse sequential art in the bright light of the upper world without getting accosted by street toughs!
When do you want it?
Now would be good! If that's okay!
healingmirth: The Office quote, Michael Scott: what part of shorn't don't you understand? (shorn't)
I'm going to make a sweeping Captain Obvious observation and say that people play video games in order to do things that they can not do in real life. I generally make a painstaking effort to present myself positively in MMOs, the same way that I do in text. It's not about being false, but I have the benefit of distance or time to look at what I want to say, or do, for a moment that buffers a bit more than the speed of real life conversation or action.

And then, in contrast, there are the people who go out of their way to ruin other people's moment/hour/day. I can only presume that they are doing, in game, what their parents/employment/law enforcement/morals/manners prevents them from doing in real life. Or maybe they're all assholes in real life too.

And now, back to Torchwood, where people are witty and charming for all of their flaws, and I don't end up wishing I could move someplace with no people.