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Peggy!

2015-05-10T16:20:18Z

My favorite pics of me from Wizard World Philadelphia. :) Because why not.

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I never post anything here anymore.

2014-10-15T23:05:51Z

So here are some pics of me as Effie at NYCC. Because why not? HI!

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I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!

2014-04-01T18:04:21Z

Thanks to an incredibly helpful comment thread on bois de jasmine I was given a bunch of recommendations for perfumes that Effie Trinket might wear. If you recall, this question is what got me into perfume sampling in the first place (which has been an amazing, if expensive, new hobby). And you know what?

I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!!!!!

The perfume that I believe Effie would wear is Insolence by Guerlain.

It's classic with a twist of something bright and fruity and the whole thing changes by the minute, but it also has those smells I associate with cosmetics. I feel like it would blend beautifully with her wigs and powders and become something uniquely HER. Perfect blend of BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT but underpinned with other, richer things. In other words, EFFIE!

Here. Have some reviews that describe the scent better than I can.

Oh man, I am SO HAPPY right now! \o/

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Hannibal and Perfume.

2014-03-12T19:49:56Z

So. What do we think? What perfume does Bedelia wear? Right now I'm thinking maybe Guerlain L'heure Bleue. This is from a review on bois de jasmin:

Guerlain L’Heure Bleue is the embodiment of refinement. When I read that Catherine Deneuve wore it for many years as her signature fragrance, I was not at all surprised. Its luminous orange blossom is beautifully contrasted with the rich plushness of vanilla, iris and incense. L’Heure Bleue’s sillage is among the most beautiful of great classics—bright, radiant, enveloping. It was also the first Guerlain perfume to use aldehydes (distinctive starchy-metallic notes) to give a lift to the rich floral accord. The carnation, ylang-ylang and anise introduce L’Heure Bleue, but then you become aware of its velvety layers–iris, vanilla, incense, musk, tonka bean. The leitmotif of anise persists through the layers of L’Heure Bleue. The eau de parfum concentration is plusher and warmer than the musk inflected eau de toilette. The extrait de parfum is even more memorable, a mouthwatering confection of orange blossom, iris, and vanilla with a touch of licorice.

I'm gonna go home and put some on and see if I can feel her. Any other suggestions for possibilities?

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I just LOVE that!

2013-11-27T19:35:35Z

I realized this morning that I never posted any pics of me as Effie Trinket here. These are from NY Comic Con but I also dressed up as her for Halloween. I think I would dress up as her for the rest of my life if I could get away with it. I have never felt more perfectly ME.

( Up, up, up! Its going to be a big, big, big day! )

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The odds have certainly been in MY favor.

2013-11-27T01:56:01Z

This week has been out of control as far as fangirling goes. I've already seen Catching Fire twice, all the Doctor Who madness, Frozen coming out...it's too much. I am exhausted from feels. And from the overwhelming love I have for Effie fucking Trinket and everything she is and everything she's becoming. And every choice Elizabeth Banks has made in her performance. And just...everything. EVERYTHING. Oh god.

The amount of jewelry I have bought recently because the designers were used in the movie is rather embarrassing. But Capitol Couture just DOES it for me. And you know what? People always love the villains. I'm not even going to feel bad about finding these particular villains unbelievable stylish. Because they ARE. Give me ALLLLLLL the Capitol fashions, please. Thank you.

Now I just have to wait another year for MJ1 and keep my fingers crossed that the movie inspires a flood of new fanfic.

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Doctor Whoooooooooo.

2013-11-23T21:25:12Z

I can't remember the last time I felt such love.

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Pacific Rim Soundtrack?

2013-08-16T23:24:22Z

Do any of you beautiful people have the Pacific Rim soundtrack? And if so, might you be willing to share it with me? ::bats eyelashes::

Thank you! I love you!

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I have finally figured myself out.

2013-07-31T03:42:44Z

This thing I'm doing with Effie? It's what I would always do right before I realized I just had to RP a particular character. Obsessing about her characterization. Working out her voice in my head. Focussing on every tiny detail, every reaction, every inflection in line delivery. Trying to work out headcanons and all that shit. Rewatching the movie over and over and over and over...

How did I not recognize that until just now?!

I don't think I am ready to go back to RPing (if I ever will) but at least now I get what's going on in my own head here. Kind of a relief.

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The Hunger Games are eating my life.

2013-07-30T03:26:35Z

This obsession is at Defcon 1, people. DEFCON ONE. I need help here. I need fic. FEED ME FIC!

PLEASE

I'll take anything well written. Anything about the Capitol, about previous Games, about Victors, about the Careers, about life in the other Districts, about Haymitch, about Effie...ANYTHING. Anything that doesn't center on Katniss or Peeta or Gale. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE.

Feeeeeeeeeed meeeeeee.

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So, I gave in.

2013-07-28T04:32:47Z

And read all three Hunger Games books today.

Someone hold me...

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Ok. Here's the thing.

2013-07-24T02:22:50Z

I have all of a sudden become completely obsessed with Effie Trinket. Movie Effie. Amazing outfits Effie. I haven't read the Hunger Games books, I don't know how much Elizabeth Banks' performance differs, but HOLY HELL I love her in the movie. I have also discovered that I ship her with Haymitch. As I have no connection to any sort of fandom here, I have no idea if this is a popular pairing or what. Don't care either.

What I do care about, and the reason I have popped in to say hello again ("Hello again!") is that it's been ages since I had even the slightest inkling of an idea how to go about finding good fanfic.

So. Can anyone help me? I want some good, dark, dark, dirty fanfic. For Effie. And Haymitch.

Anyone?

[Yes. This comes as much of a shock to me as it does to you. I can't explain it other than to say LOOK AT HER!]

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Hello!

2012-12-19T19:52:57Z

This is a post I am making for the sole purpose of using this new icon Em shared with me. :D

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH, HAPPY ALL THINGS YOU CELEBRATE!

I'm leaving on a cruise on Saturday so fuck yeah, I'll be on a boat. \o/

Look at Ros. LOOK AT HER. She is a goddess and I will worship her until the end of days.

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Dench!M icons? Anywhere?

2012-11-01T16:45:03Z

Help! Help! I need Skyfall icons. Or icons of Judi Dench from the Craig!Bond era in general and I'm not having any luck. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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I AM IN A WHEELIE BIN OF MISERY!

2012-10-02T17:28:20Z

I can't handle it. I just can't. I am drowning in River Song feelings and I don't even know what to do with myself anymore.

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You stand by and enlighten me...

2012-05-23T18:49:16Z

My obsession with Emilia Fox has reached Defcon 1. Which means it's time to post about it here where I can flail at some length. Yes, I so clearly have a type which seems to be blonde British actress over the age of 35 who probably plays some kind of law enforcement officer and you know what? I am SO ok with that. SHE IS PERFECT AND I LOVE HER.

Well, I love Nikki Alexander, which is kind of the same thing. I've been told (by Em, of course) that I fall in love with a character and then imprint on the actor and yeah. TOTALLY not gonna deny it. Nikki is SUPERB and Silent Witness is just BRILLIANT and I am happy, happy, happy. Of course I ship her with Leo because that's just how I roll, but it isn't even about that. The character is magic all on her own and I just want to eat her up with a spoon. I should have suspected I would fall for this show since long-running procedurals tend to appeal to me, but this woman. She is everything I look for in a character. Strong but damaged, brilliant but flawed, strong but vulnerable. I LOVE HER SO MUCH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I should have suspected Emilia Fox was something special when all of tumblr appeared to have a collective orgasm over her playing Portia to Alex Kingston's Blanche on Upstairs Downstairs (and yes, that was INSANELY hot, thank you, BBC) but I didn't realize just HOW special. ::happy sigh::

So, time to add her to the list of lady loves. <3

PS. And if you haven't seen Silent Witness, you totally should. I've only watched the later seasons so far but I love it.

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Sometimes you CAN go home again.

2012-05-08T04:16:15Z

I loved Lexx. I mean I really loved Lexx. One of my favorite series ever to the point where I named my gecko Xev and it was the first series I ever bought on dvd. But I hadn't watched it in years. I kind of figured it would be one of those shows that would live better in memory, that my love for it was so wrapped up in a particular time in my life it would lose something if I tried going back.

But I was thinking about it today and started discussing it with my beloved Em and she saw it was on Hulu so we watched I Worship His Shadow and Giga Shadow and I watched Norb and you know what? I love it just as much now as I did then.

I HAVE ALL THE LEXX FEELINGS and god this show kills me in so many ways. But in all the best ways. I am going to enjoy the hell out of this rewatch.

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More on Afterlife.

2012-04-13T15:54:09Z

I can't stop gushing about Afterlife because it is JUST THAT GOOD. And not only because Lesley Sharp gives a performance that is so over-the-top brilliant I can't even find the words to adequately explain its perfection. But, as usual, Em has done a better job than me of expressing things:

READ THIS NOW, PLEASE.

And then go watch the show.

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This, that, and the other thing.

2012-04-11T16:04:22Z

1) I made it back from Cambodia and it was one of the best trips I've had in a VERY long time. What a gorgeous, fascinating, welcoming, delightful country. Couldn't possibly recommend it more highly. I'll post some pics once I've gotten my shit together.

2) I have fallen back down into the Afterlife hole. This show is one of the most powerful series I've ever watched. How everyone doesn't know it, how it wasn't a humongous success...well, add that to the list of inexplicable mysteries of the universe.

3) Speaking of mysteries of the universe. HOW THE FUCK IS LESLEY SHARP NOT ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ACTRESSES WORKING TODAY. Her acting abilities are breathtaking. Her range. Her EVERYTHING. She should be a household name on par with like...Meryl Streep or Emma Thompson or some shit. Fucking travesty.

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PORN! PORN! PORN!

2012-03-19T20:04:55Z

SCANDALIZE A CONSERVATIVE! MAKE PORN!

You know you want to. :D

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Randomosity!

2012-03-13T18:26:13Z

Here's a lovely update on all the things going on in my life right now, both the exciting and the banal. Wheeee!

The most best exciting bit is that I am leaving for a trip to Cambodia and Laos in less than 2 weeks. I am so thrilled I almost can't stand it. It's one of those places I've always wanted to go and when I was in Vietnam a couple of years ago we tried to do a side trip to Siem Reap but couldn't quite fit it in. So this time it's all Cambodia (hopefully with a side trip to Luang Prubang, Laos if we can work out the flight).

The slight snag in all this is my guts. They have been acting up again something fierce so I had to have ANOTHER colonoscopy yesterday, 2nd in 2 years and really, it's not fun enough to warrant the repeats. The prep is horrendous and the actual main event isn't that delightful either. Way too much plastic tubing and things being stuck in me. And what is it with anesthesiologists? Do they get a special lesson in med school on how to be douchey? It's like they are caricatures of arrogant, golf-playing, country club medicos. My genius guy yesterday thought it was a funny little piece of trivia that the drug he was about to give me was the same one that killed Michael Jackson. Yeah. Barrel of laughs, that one.

Hmmmm...what else? TELLY! I've watched an insane amount of telly the last few weeks. I saw Inside Men which was quite good with amazing performances but with an ending I think was a bit TOO unresolved. What I found kind of charming was how the creators had pretty much hijacked the entire cast of Luther to be in it. Not to mention Nicola Walker and her smile that could light the world. And I gotta tell you, Kierston Wareing is a WAAAAAAAY better actress than I thought she'd be given her...well, given the way she looks. Seriously, though. She was amazing in Inside Men and she was also great in The Shadow Line which was SOOOOO complex and had a cast of thousands and I ended up watching in one go. All seven episodes. I looooooooooooooooooooved it. Well, I loved everything about it but the last 2 scenes. I honestly think if they had swapped those it would have ended on a much more powerful note. But I couldn't recommend it more highly.

I also watched Marchlands which was delightful. A bit creepy, a bit excellent. I actually watched it twice which is a pretty big indicator of my enjoyment levels on that (and I didn't ONLY enjoy it because of Alex Kingston.) Via Marchlands I discovered the absolutely STUNNING Shelley Conn and then a quick tumblr search showed me that she had some hot lesbian scenes with Anna Torv in Mistresses so I watched the first series of that. And considering it had Sarah Parish, Raza Jaffrey, Max Brown, and Shelley Conn and Anna Torv in gorgeous sex scenes, I can't believe how much I wanted to knock myself unconscious by the second ep. What a god awful show. Holy CRAP is it melodramatic and awful. What a waste of talent.

Finally, I watched a couple of episode of Accused and Chris Eccleston was his usual mindblowingly amazing self. I also watched the ep with Peter Capaldi who absolutely broke my heart. I'm forcing myself to watch PramFace because I love Anna Chancellor so much (don't worry, I ffwd to her scenes and avoid the rest) and Upstairs Downstairs has me shipping Blanche/Agnes so hard I can't see straight.

So, there you go. Massive post of a whole lotta nuthin'. <3

ETA. I forgot I also finally watched The Borgias and I can't stop thinking about it now. I want to wear those dresses and do my hair with one of those snoods with the pearls and I want it to come back for a second series ASAP. Good shit. Dirty bad wrong and delicious in its potential incestuousness, general lewdness, and perfectly bad ass female characters.

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Afterlife.

2012-03-04T19:35:51Z

So I'd wanted to see this show Afterlife. I fell in love with Lesley Sharp thanks to an obsession with Scott and Bailey and I saw some caps from the show on tumblr and it looked promising. Searched around for download links everywhere I could think of to no avail but I ended up lucking out and finding some wonderful human being had uploaded all the eps to youtube. Not the best quality picture but what can you do, I'm certainly more grateful to her than I can possibly say for making it possible for me to watch the series.

But here's the thing. I knew Lesley Sharp was an amazing actress and after watching the first episode I knew the show was going to be brilliant and painful but I didn't realize just how brilliant and painful. And after staying up watching episodes until 5am and then waking up to finish the show out I've now been crying for 2 straight hours. When I tell you this series was one of the most gutting, gorgeous, horrible things I've ever watched, I'm not exaggerating in the slightest. I've always had issues with death - with fictional death, character death. I tend to avoid ever watching episodes of even my most favorite shows when a character I love dies in it but this was just...watching these characters break apart and then find some kind of peace in the end. It was written so quietly and so perfectly and acted so heartwrenchingly it's difficult for me to really explain how beautiful it was. Or how painful. And I mean honestly? I could barely see the last 2 episodes through my sobbing.

I suppose the point I'm trying to make is that if you are an emotional masochist like I am, or you just love incredible acting, give the show a try. It's difficult for me to imagine drama getting much better than what I just watched.

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Screw it. I'm in!

2012-02-14T23:59:35Z

I haven't done a meme in AGES. Hit me!

Pick a number, I'll answer:

1. Who was your first kiss and what was it like?
2. Are you in a relationship? If so, are you happy?
3. Do you have a crush?
4. Who is your crush?
5. Are you a virgin?
6. What do you think of Valentine’s Day?
7. Who is your Valentine?
8. Have you ever asked anyone out?
9. Who is your celebrity crush?
10. Has anyone ever asked you out and you turned them down?
11. Do you think anyone has a crush on you right now?
12. What is your favorite thing to do on Valentine’s Day?
13. What’s the best Valentine’s Day that you’ve had so far?
14. What’s your idea of a perfect date?
15. How do you know when you’re in love?
16. Have you ever loved someone on a romantic level?
17. Do you prefer more or less clingy relationships?
18. Do you feel like you’re loved on an everyday basis?
19. Are you usually the first person to make a move.
20. Have you ever asked someone out and they turned you down?
21. Do you feel like you’re the dumpee or dumper most of the time?
22. What’s your “type”?
23. What are some of your favorite physical characteristics for your crush to have?
24. Are you a hopeless romantic?
25. Do you think that you’re a good kisser?
26. What’s the farthest that you’ve ever gone?
27. Have you ever had a secret admirer?
28. Have you ever been someone’s secret admirer?
29. Do you have romantic fantasies? If so, what are they like and who is in them?
30. What’s something that always turns you on?

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Another book recommedation request.

2012-01-31T18:35:30Z

This time I am looking for books about WWI. I'm fascinated by the realities of that war and would LOVE to read some good accounts of what it was actually like for the soldiers. I've got the politics and all that down, I've visited plenty of memorials and historical sites while I was in Europe oh so long ago now, but I don't feel like I have a strong grasp of what it was really like in the trenches. What it was like for the POWs. That kind of thing.

Anyone around here a war history buff? Got any recs for me?

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Feeling covetous.

2012-01-31T16:47:33Z

I want this necklace so badly it is distracting me from my life. I want it so badly I don't know what to do with myself.

I want it to a degree that I figured I would post a pic of it here so that it would be in everyone's head and if anyone happened to come across something like it in their travels, either through the interwebs or RL, they would TELL ME so I could snap it up with my greedy little hands.

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