There's an Aldi to the left of me, an Asda to the right, yet here I am stuck in a Lidl with you. 😭 I hope we can get out of here before the shop shuts and we are trapped in it all night. I do not want to have to go through all that again.

postman just delivered something i bought off ebay in june of 2024. must have been accidentally redirected to mars or something. but at least i now have the plug for the kitchen sink that i needed 18 months ago! yay! (i bought another one when this one did not turn up. because it was on mars.)

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people being mean about "only 50 kudos" hits very differently if you spend enough time in fandoms where 50 *hits* can be considered a success. some of you will never know the joy of "i need TWO hands to count all the kudos on this one! 🥰"

here's a gif of me watching the night manager

scottishgrocer.co.uk/2025/12/18/i... i saw "irn bru zero" in a shop yesterday and looked it up and it's just xtra with a new name, not a third kind of diet irn bru. two's probably one too many as it is tbh. i've always assumed calling it xtra was some sort of fragile scottish masculinity thing tbh.

Another week, another Fratricide Friday.

Over on AO3 we'e trying to turn The Night Manager from a "Reader, You Fucked Him" fandom into a gay porn fandom.

my fave tumblr thing of the past week or so is someone asking how a fictional character previously shown as being into women could now be into men in the tags of a post that - wait for it, here's the punchline - they'd reblogged from someone with the word 'bisexual' in their username.

The streetlight that's been out since August has been fixed!!! IT IS WORKING!!! 🥳 \o/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RLP...

the new night manager series is a lot gayer than i was expecting and i am enjoying that immensely. almost makes up for the lack of any hotel management this time round and for luring us in with a cute ginger cat that has not been seen since the first episode.

no they *should* have called it the sylvie series, she put away more work into the plot than her male variants did. once again the men fall upwards and the women don't even get to fall off their flat home planet and invade a different much rounder planet and have to free all of reality instead 😡

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODU... Free my girl she did nothing wrong. But she should have, because she's supposed to be the baddy from the first Avengers movie. SUPPORT WOMENS RIGHTS TO THEIR OWN WRONGS.

Had to stay in until the ice on the pavements melted enough to let me get to the shop 😭 I think I'd have been okay had I been able to get onto the road, but that metre or so of pavement was an impassable wasteland. Or something like that.

archiveofourown.org/works/77097426 Night Manager slash. Short and not as filthy as I had hoped but they do bang in it.

based on these first two eps it seems like the night manager trailer actually UNDERsold how gay it is. hope this continues in the rest of it🤞

got my christmas cards in the post today 🎄

Never been so grateful for a location caption, this could be literally anywhere.

Geniunely fascinating (+ funny) to me that Amazon Prime seem to be marketing The Night Manager 2 as a serious spy thriller while the BBC have put all their chips on "THERE'S A THREESOME IN THIS!!!" I hope it doesn't mean the Beeb know they've got a dud on their hands and are desperate.

To help celebrate the festive season I have at last completed the Loki/Sylvie Satanists AU It is 9000 words which if you ask me is a lot. archiveofourown.org/works/618982...

‘We’re your dream throuple!’ The Night Manager is back – and it’s even steamier

THE BISEXUALS HAVE WON AGAIN 🥳🎉🍹🏳️‍🌈

The sense of BETRAYAL I felt when I found out Olivia Colman's posh. Can't even trust a significantly-north-of-London accent anymore. 😭

Remember when autocorrect/spellcheck would fix "salt nad pepper" with 'and' rather than deciding that you somehow must have meant 'biscuit' or 'Constantinople'?

archiveofourown.org/works/75900306 Wrote some genfic in a fandom where most of the fics are self-insert porn. Arguably a questionable investment of my time but if any of you have the film recently enough to remember who Toby is then maybe this is the fic for you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxvx... It's summer in Asgard and the Moon is upside-down there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-11... Had to reupload, pretend I didn't.

archiveofourown.org/works/75663686 Here is a fic about Earth having lesbian sex with another planet and they have a baby (the Moon). It's tagged as sibling incest but your Astronomical Units may vary.

archiveofourown.org/works/75590636 Night Manager omegaverse fic

archiveofourown.org/works/75511271 300 words, not AI but I tried to pretend it was. (I checked Wikipedia for how to do that, like a professional.)

Got a text from my GP surgery saying to stay at home if I have flu symptoms to avoid spreading it. Never had one of those before, seems Bad. I got flu-vaccinated last week, hope it works 🤞

it is VERY WIMDY here btw. wheelie bins blowing in the breeze, and that sort of thing.

Saddened to admit I've changed my default search back to Google because DuckDuckGo was even more useless. (Don't worry I'm in Firefox, I have the AI shite blocked, etc.)

Is public transport bus a reserved matter or a devolved matter? I need to know who I need to write to about how you still cannae shove your granny aff a bus, after all this time.

'Alternate Universe - Cat Sylvie'

This one cracks me up.

It is not in Greek. None of it's in Greek. Why would you think it was Greek, you stupid machine?

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Don't think I said here, but I did on tumblr so might as well. archiveofourown.org/users/Pornas... <- this is where I posted my kinktober fics this year, on my (formerly) secret 'weird edgy smut' AO3 account. I will probably use it as my main AO3 self for the foreseeable future. FYI, BTW, etc.

i need male tv/movie writers to understand that i WILL yell "oh fuck off!" at the screen when they inevitably give every character daddy issues just because they have. guys PLEASE hug your kids and tell them you love them, this tedious trend needs to die with your generation.

negative covid test but i have some kind of plague with a cough and general soreness/tired. rescheduled my winter vaccines appointment cos i don't want to take whatever this is to a gathering of the sick and disabled. i'd skipped the low-mobility exercise classes this week cos of the tired.

I finished watching all 3 seasons of Invasion, I got very into it by the end but I seem to be almost alone in that. It's a bit slow at times and it's not until S3 that you finally get to see all the remaining main characters in the same place at the same time.

i had no idea there was a movie about tennis players having a threesome but this is a thing i have learned this week.

So anyway hi how are you?

Quite interested in how the BBC are marketing the follow up series of The Night Manager, catering to a specific female/gay male appreciation of Tom Hiddleston in a MMF scenario… Look at Tom and Diego Calva touching each other - this is what our lusty dreams are made of. 😈🥵

These three characters had better actually fuck each other in The Night Manager S2 because otherwise the BBC have moved well into bi-baiting territory at this point. They've promised us a bisexual threesome now and if they don't deliver one they'll deserve the online torrent of rage that ensues.

Glasgow says "Fuck the polis" 🟦

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the night manager but it's a version where the pet shop boys have upped the slash content by almost 19.3%