...confessions of a rebel Welsh chick, I guess. ? OK - I know that there are international fans of this series, but since it's less well-known outside the UK, a little background: Gavin and Stacey is a BBC sitcom about a Welsh woman from Barry and an English dude from Essex meeting on the internet, falling in love, and trying to get together despite being from opposite ends of the country. It's also where James Corden hit the big time, in the UK at least. So... there's that. Make of it what you will ? Read more ..read more

  It's Thursday, somehow it's May now (? #Rude,) so let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness! Read more ..read more

  ...a post brought to you by my boredom with walking, and my doctor's insistence that, if I go walkies, it'll help with my mental health. (I'm not buying it - it's never helped before, but I'll try anything.) When there's been no rain for a couple of days in a row, it's not so bad 'cos I can go to the woods, but otherwise said woods are like a very slippery mudslide.  So if it's been raining within 48-72 hours, then I have to walk around streets and shops and sh** so I don't trip, fall, and end up in the river/bang my head on a tree/anger one of The Fair Folk by falling into th ..read more

  '"No, Sam, you're on vacation. Phone it in, let someone else do it." "Bucky, it's an hour. We can go check it out, then stop at mine and get my stuff and be at the airport by five, half five at the latest. We've got time."' Narrator: it did not take an hour. ...OK, so this is a The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) fic because I am trash and have run out of effs to give. ? Read more ..read more

  It's Thursday, I'm tired, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness! Read more ..read more

  Warning: pet death One of my cats died this week. My beautiful boy had a seizure in my arms, and never fully came back. We had to take him down the vets to ease his journey. Read more ..read more

  It's Thursday, I have had a truly awful week, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness! Read more ..read more

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  'He feels faint himself, his head swimming with a startling lack of oxygen. Stars peek through the leaves ahead, and he turns his eyes upwards, counting them over and over again.' Never have I been tested so much by my 'if it's well-written, I must rec' rule... ...I genuinely didn't know whether to rec this fic. Read more ..read more

  It's Thursday, I am freaking tired, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness. Read more ..read more