Dedication bordering on inhuman. Ruthless leadership abilities. My favorite.

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Apparently Gerard Way cures all ills (who's surprised?) because I just read the first issue of The Umbrella Academy and EEEE! Seriously, it's WONDERFUL! Bizarre and quirky and dense and fast-paced and funny and WONDERFUL. I looooove it, you guys, and I don't read comics! Like, at all! It's just really clever and I can hear Gee's dark, geeky humor shining through like a beacon. The artwork is lovely, both clear and understandable but also just complex enough to keep it really interesting. And dude, is it just me or does Gerard self-identify with Number One, aka Space Boy, aka dude with a gorilla body? I mean, he's the leader of a band of merry misfits, and he's all charismatic and whatnot, and he's got short peroxide blonde/white hair, aaaaand he's totally Gee. ILOVEIT.

I went to Forbidden Planet yesterday (how did I not know it was RIGHT THERE? FAIL!) and REVELED in the geekery (John Sheppard action figure! Spike! Skelanimals, n'aw! Tardises! ♥) and then of course I sought out the new Umbrella Academy to stroke the cover and check if there were any pics of Geeway. And they had all five issues lined up together! First of all: pretty. Second of all, temptation! I kind of hummed and hawwed a bit. The cover of the second one is my favorite, so I ended up buying the first two, haha. And I'm so glad I did, because I want to read the next one RIGHT NOW. (I was however surprised by how expensive they were - over 4 Euro each! That's six bucks! The price on the cover is 3 bucks, boo.)

REWIND! I found Forbidden Planet thanks to iltaru! I started to tell the story of meeting her last night, but 8 hours and a bunch of alcohol intervened and I never got to, hee. But anyway - I met her and three of her friends at Captain America's where they were having lunch, and we hung out and chatted about things like genderswapping alien fic (as you do), and then we took a stroll and I showed her the place where I got my tattoo so she could go get hers today! Unfortunately, she started feeling really ill because she'd had penicillin + pint of Guinness + a really rich, huge lunch, in that order, so yeah, not so much with the awesome. *pats her poor head* So she and her friend went back to their hostel after pointing me to where Forbidden Planet was. It was really fun to meet her though! Fangirls ftw! Hopefully I'll see her again before she takes off for England :)

I walked the way home today that takes me down the street I directed Gee and Lyn-Z down, and then past the corner where we chatted. It never fails to make me grin like a fool. And, on the way to school, I listened to the Frank And Mikey Interview of Joy. Pretty much those boys bring the sunshine to my day.

As does having a large group of fantastic friends. I still love the sci fi boys, but they're all really busy with their final year projects so I don't actually hang out with them terribly much. On the other hand, my biochem friends (Sinead and company) have schedules that overlap a lot with mine, and they like to spend an hour in the coffee shop, just lounging about and chatting and laughing. It's so relaxing and a wonderful dose of sociability in the middle of my day. It's also mostly girls, plus two awesome guys, so it's just a completely different dynamic and so much fun. They're all so lovely. Yay!

I ALSO watched Torchwood tonight, and all I've got to say is Ianto FTW. I loved it. And Gwen, shut up and stop surviving, dammit. (Er, sorry.)

*YAWN* Oh man, sleep soon.

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[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

Forbidden Planet might be where I got my Tardis. It's a mini-bank, and when you open the doors there's a picture of Rose and the Ninth Doctor and it plays catchphrases (i.e. "If you're an alien, how come it sounds like you're from the North?" "Lots of planets have a North.") and when you close it, it does the dematerialisation sequence sound and a little light on the top flashes. It's pretty fantastic.

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

OMG I've been to the Forbidden Planet in Dublin last year and I'm so glad my friends dragged me out of there because I would've spend a fortune. I WANT A PLACE LIKE THAT IN GERMANY !

[iltaru]

HI ANNE!

Wow, it's slightly odd reading your journal now that I've actually met you. Fun, though!

How are you? I hope that your drunken posts mean you've been having a good time! Thank you thank you again for showing Nu and me the tattoo place - I'll show you the pictures when I get them from her!

It's such a shame my phone died completely, I'd have liked to see you again... another time, maybe. Or clearly I'll just have to come Stateside in the next couple of years and say hi ^_^

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

HI JOY!

I love meeting people and then going back to LJ, because then I actually have a face and voice to associate with posts! It really helps me remember who's who, because otherwise my memory's a bit shit :P

Drunken posts do indeed mean a most smashing time! I loved this week :) But oh no, your dumb phone! I really would have liked to see you again too, alas. Well, now we have met and it won't be as weird or awkward to do it again! I wouldn't be surprised if I came back to England one more time, so I'll keep you on the to-visit list if I do :)

You're welcome! I hope it was a good experience! I can't wait to see the pictures.

[iltaru]

Oh certainly :D I like your meeting-positivity! Let me know if you are coming over, even if you can't get as far as Stratford-area I'll see if I can hop on a train and meet you elsewhere :)

And it was a fantastic, if mildly painful, experience. I think there's even a video somewhere, but I'm damned if I'm showing that to anybody. I didn't say "Oh God Oh God the world is ending on my ankle", which I intended to do, as a comedy line. But still!

Also, as you see, I overcame my LJ-separation anxiety, though my mother was quite alarmed that I started stroking my laptop and crooning (okay, crooning his name... he's called Sirius, although not after Sirius Black) while he was loading up for the first time in a week...!

So what are you up to this week? More random partying, or Actual Work? :) xx

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm glad it went well! "Mildly painful" about describes mine too, as well as "surprisingly quick" and "a little anticlimactic," haha. But I'm so glad I did it, I loff it <3

Man, I don't envy you - I would have been going through LJ withdrawal! There is definitely crooning and happynoises involved whenever I am reunited with my Sammy (yes, after Sam Winchester) (what is yours named after, if not Sirius Black? The star?)

Well, the very name random partying implies that I cannot predict it in advance... ;) I hope to at least hang out with people at some point this week. Guitar Hero will most likely occur Monday evening. There will probably be intoxication on Wednesday at least, and my roommate and I are going to throw a house (apartment) party for our friend's 21st on Friday, so that should be a BLAST. I can't wait \o/ Some actual work might sneak in the cracks there somewhere....