shirasade 🐘 @shirasade@fandom.ink

Quick update for my #introduction post: 38, female, Swiss 🇨🇭 , ace-aro (aegosexual), fandom old. Writer, vidder, giffer. Currently mainly into #jalec #stucky #guardian but also lots of other fandoms (mostly tv).

Came here after seeing posts on fandom-after-tumblr - really enjoying this place, especially because I never did fandom twitter.
I'm shirasade pretty much everywhere else - also Hubzilla (fandom.stopthatimp.net), previously LJ (deleted).

Just finished, and wow, I love this adaptation! It was gorgeous - and I adore the ending, which feels so true to Alcott's spirit!

Just started the new movie, and I think the decision to start in medias res is smart. It shows us Jo writing in New York and Amy in Paris before their childhoods. So maybe in this one I won't be distracted by my dissatisfaction with the romantic pairings, because I've seen Jo & Prof. Baer and Amy & Laurie before Jo and Laurie becoming best friends. (I'm such a sucker for childhood friends to lovers, it's made enjoying the book wholeheartedly difficult.)

I might accidentally have turned into a woman who Gets Her Nails Done. Thing is, manicures are incredibly expensive here in Switzerland (as are most things, lbr), but I found a place where you pay half if you go to the apprentice.
So I went before Christmas for shellac nail polish, y'know, and then again before my bday - and last week, I broke 2 nails, so she fixed them yesterday. They look almost real! And I already set a next appointment, so I guess this is a Thing I do now. Weird! :)

Remember what I said yesterday about the annoying Inspector Mallory on Father Brown? As if they heard me, the last episode of the series brings back BOTH previous inspectors - and they're both happy to include and listen to Father Brown. In your face, Mallory! I feel rather vindicated. :D

So I really enjoy the Father Brown mysteries, which always have new series out in early January - they have little to do with G.K. Chesterton's stories, but they're just my type of cozy historical crime show.
However, there's one thing that's been driving me mad ever since Inspector Mallory took over. He's just such an annoying buffoon - it was okay the first couple years, but to see what Father Brown's capable of & continue to sneer and stubbornly obstruct... Ugh, I want to slap him so hard!

Did I mention that the whole water damage thing in my bathroom still isn't fixed? After six weeks. Thanks to my utterly incompetent rental management company only TODAY two handymen came by - to assess only, mind you. Let's see how long it'll take until it actually gets fixed.
I need an completely new ceiling and part of a wall, because of fungus. Fun... and what do you bet I won't even get a rent reduction for these two months?

Am I rewatching the first nu!Who ep with Nine and Rose? Yes. Yes, I am. I just felt the need to see "my" Doctor, it's been a while.

Got some spa vouchers for my bday (my greatest wish), so I'm currently wonderfully relaxed after an afternoon in the saline baths & sauna. Heaven! And I have two more vouchers left, yay!

Knives Out was an utter and complete delight for my Agatha Christie-style murder mystery loving heart. Also, Chris Evans, my favouritest Chris. :)

How do people cope with long finger nails? I'm not even talking artificial ones, just the natural growth when they're strenghtened by shellac nail polish. The nail on my left middle finger is maybe 1/2cm and I've already begun to find it irritating when typing.

Today I post-celebrated my bday with a few friends, just chilling at home, eating plenty of unhealthy snacks and talking. :)
These gatherings have a long tradition - some of my friends only see each other on these occasions and always look forward to them. Now they've all gone, after helping me with clean-up because they're all wonderful. Still, introvert me is done in and is about to fall into bed. Will clean the rest tomorrow.

I just walked by a guy dressed as Elsa on rollerskates, getting money from an ATM. Sometimes life is just wonderfully random.

In light of the fact that Australia is still on fire, I’m snagging an idea from a friend:

Want me to write you something? Any of my fandoms/ships to any prompt. For proof of a USD 5 donation to any charity combating the effects of the fires you get 500 words.

Not sure if anyone will be interested, but I figure I’d put this out there. :)

Today's tv program: finally watching The Witcher. Rather enjoyably pulpy, although it took me a while to figure out the various timelines. And it doesn't take itself seriously at all.

This episode isn't subtle, is it? I know it's a children's show, so they want to keep the message simple, but this is like Black Mirror meets the Matrix.

Nice entrance! A bit Doc ex machina, with the sudden fluency in Kavaden technology, but I do enjoy the Master getting his just desserts.

So hopefully we're getting an explanation why the Master is suddenly back to being mad-evil. But hey, they brought back the timeless child from last series!

Overall a bit of a mixed bag.

Of course the Master turns up in Nazi garb.

Jeez, Barton erasing his mum? He sure thinks she's dead, but I'm not so sure. No one knows the Kasaven's real agenda.

Whee, Noor Inayat Khan! She was such a fascinating character. Not a superspy but very shy and timid - yet she proved herself extraordinary.

Oh boy, not sure how I feel about this psychic connection between the Doctor & the Master.

So the destruction of Gallifrey is the overarching plot of the series, is it?

My ambivalence for the new Master notwithstanding, I enjoy him being vexed.

And whee, please tell me this is a steampunk London!
Okay, maybe just an invention exhibit. Pity.

So. Crazy evil!Master is annoying rather than scary. But oh, I like Ada, who I just realise is Ada Lovelace. Just please tell me she doesn't come by her intellect because of the Kevarden? You simply can't do that to one of the few famous STEM women in history.

I normally don't mind spoilers but I caught the one about "O" that I wish I hadn't.

Anyway, I am so there for the Doctor's party suit! (But did they really think Barton wasn't running surveillance in his own house?)

But hey, I didn't think the Master would reveal himself at the end of episode 1 already! More proof that Timelords can influence the face they assume. But honestly I miss Missy's playfulness and dual nature, this Master is once again so scene-chewingly evil.

Hi Stephen Fry! Bye Stephen Fry! This is all rather exciting!

Okay. So that happened. (Jaz getting "erased".) I jumped in my seat! I'm just grateful they show us immediately that she's still around, because anything else would have been unacceptable. But is she a sleeper agent now? (Ever since they said that spy got her DNA rewritten, I remember the Torchwood ep where that happens to a woman and she doesn't know until she's activated.)

Sitting down to watch the two new episodes of #doctorwho back to back - looking so very much forward to more 13!!!