Don't Give Up Until You're Dead

 SPOILER WARNING: A rant. I live in the UK, so with a great number of movies/TV shows etc... the release dates over here are a long way behind those in the USA, but sometimes even when we are just a week behind with a show, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a spoiler warning on a review or when someone is about to start live-tweeting about something so people like me who don't want to see spoilers (I know some don't mind being spoiled) at least have the  option  to look away. I have only just seen a spoiler for a show that I watch less than 24 hours after it has been aired. And not just a little scene, but a HUGE character development. And with absolutely no spoiler warning whatsoever. And before all you social network people say "you should have muted the tags" - it wasn't tagged, so that wasn't possible. Also, web twitter doesn't allow you to do that does it? (If it does without an unofficial add-on that would be GREAT) I co-run a fan-...

 So we're five months into the year... let's have a quick check in on how we're doing with these: Resolutions: FINISH the fanfic I started writing.  YES!! I finished it just yesterday! It's FINISHED and I wrote a couple of others too! DO NOT GET ANY MORE BOOKS until my to-read shelf (and to-read folder on Kindle) are both empty! FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL. I have read a couple from both shelves but also bought several books. DOH. Get a good mark on my first year at Uni. My marks for the first semester were good! Just waiting on the second semester now! Try not to get sucked into fandom nonsense: um... can I just... many fandoms. Much nonsense. I can't help it! Think before I speak/type/tweet.  I think this is going okay? Except maybe when drunk. Three out of five. Not bad. Let's see how I'm doing a couple more months down the line!

 I didn't do a round up of the year at ALL, I just realised! And after this  post, so much is different, I really think I should! For starters, I quit my job at WeightWatchers. Our house (and car and every available space basically) was completely overrun with stock, there was no room to move, and since becoming employed - as opposed to self-employed - the previous year, it had all been about the numbers and not so much about the members any more and that wasn't how I wanted to work. so in March 2012, I resigned. And my weight hasn't been the same since! HA! The holidays. Ah the holidays. The Chicago/NYC trip was amazing :D I saw my friends and we had an amazing night in Chi-town, followed by me making my way in New York City and indeed getting the lovely Andrew Garfield's autograph on my  Death of a Salesman playbill :D :D :D Having never seen or read that play before, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I loved it. Whilst at the theatre, I also managed to  liter...

 I can never really stick to resolutions. Especially ones that require a dramatic lifestyle change. Nobody wants to do anything like that in the post-Christmas funk that is January and I am no exception to that rule. Still, I always make some. Last year's were to make time for myself (by way of my Cineworld unlimited card) and.... be more organised I think. Neither of which I have been particularly great at, seeing as I started university and couldn't use (or really afford) the cinema card anymore, and organised? Well let's just say I still haven't completed my 2011/12 tax return which has to be done by the end of this month. Crap. This year they are as follows: FINISH the fanfic I started writing. I'm great at getting them started. Not so great at finishing.  DO NOT GET ANY MORE BOOKS until my to-read shelf (and to-read folder on Kindle) are both empty! Get a good mark on my first year at Uni. Try not to get sucked into fandom nonsense. Think before I speak...

 So, I was just reading through Tumblr - as you do - and I came across a reply that someone had written to a question they had been asked. I read their answer, but I didn't agree with it. It's one that can have many opinions by the way, but I wanted to make my own reply without it looking like I was jumping on theirs. So I'm doing it here. The question she was asked was: worst noel fisher character (morally etc.?)/worst noel fisher character you've actually felt sympathy for?/nicest n.f. character? Noel's worst/most morally wrong character:  The person in question chose Dale Stuckey. Stuckey, for me, was, let's say, overenthusiastic? I don't think he started out with any intention of killing anyone. He was trying to do his job in the best way he knew how (which, okay, wasn't very good) and kept being literally put down and humiliated in front of anyone until he flipped. His morals were misguided but I don't think Stuckey was ever truly evil - he ...

 **SPOILERS**  Marc Webb & Curt Connors explain the end-credits scene Speculation abounds about who the "man" is in the end credits of this summer's The Amazing Spider-Man. Here's my take on who it is: It's Electro, people!! Now, the first time I saw that end scene, two things stuck in my mind. One, the fact that he appeared and disappeared from Dr. Connors' cell without going anywhere near the door (he appears by the windows in the shadows and at the end of the scene, the camera pans up to the ceiling and we see that he has not moved, but is gone on the right of the shot, and the door is visible to the left) and two: he is fiddling with a hat (a bowler?) in his hands. I'm still not sure if this is relevant or not, but there was a lot of focus on it. The voice/actor are not important at this point, otherwise they would not have named him in the credits - thus avoiding further speculation and questioning the actor! What IS important, I believe is ...

 So I don't know what made me think about them earlier today, but I've decided to get my Sims out again. I was going to play TS2 (that's The Sims 2) as I'm much more familiar with the gameplay and have all the expansions, but I think I want to do my Marvel legacy - either continue it or restart it - and I can create better characters with TS3 so I'm going to use that instead. For an example:  http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=104007&asset_type=story&user_id=1460272 I somehow remembered my passwords though for my old logins to the TS2 official site where I used to upload my Sims Stories (basically comics with Sims!) and now I'm reminiscing! So much fun!