Holiday Love Meme thingie

Okay, I'm going to do this, despite the fact I feel a bit silly about it and despite the fact there's a slight chance I won't be able to actually read any of the comments because I am a bit rubbish when anyone says anything nice at me ever.

Nevertheless, my thread at the Holiday Love Meme, Secret Santa style.

Suspect the fact there there are dozens of pages to look through for People What I Know will provide adequate procrastination activity for the next couple of hours. Excellent. I shall not fall back into the trap of Treasure Island. (Like Farmville, but even moar shaming, yo.)

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I have allergies and no antihistamines. Today has therefore been FUN, and full of snotty hankies. Aren't you glad I told you that?

Happily, however, the Interwebs have been full of Lovely Things, such as:

• Bioware offically announce Mass Effect 3! How excited am I? Very excited. And competitive. My sister completed ME2 before me and I'm terribly bitter about it. I must win this round! (Though she did get more fictional people killed than me, so the moral victory is surely mine. Er, anyway...) Sadly the trailer offers only m!Sheppard (as ever, meh). I assume people do play him, boys probably, but he is so very bland. I tried it once, and gave up after twenty minutes. Also, is that Sean Bean doing the VO? Is he going to be in it and die horribly as Sean Bean does? He does have a very good voice, yes. I will have a right whinge if Alenko ain't in the party though. Possibly there will be whining too, and ranting. Oh yes.
  
  
• For the Britishers: a marvellous film version of Rupert Goold's Macbeth is up on Iplayer, starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood. I am generally quite rubbish at MacBeth as that's the one I got Way Too Often at school and it totally sucked out any interest I have in it. However, apparently if you take it out of Scotland, put in Patrick Stewart, and some really scary witches (this is what I got from them turning up in the hospital then the kitchens - they're totally murdering patients and roasting them for the people upstairs...I really hope that's not just me, ahrmm), I'm tots on board. And still the very best thing about it is none of those things, but Fleetwood and her pretty damn amazing Lady MacBeth. It's an awfully scary version of the play, very claustrophobic, and muchly enjoyable.
  
  
• This amused me a lot: five sci-fi series as children's books. Particular yay at Paul Atreides being a wee bunny rabbit, heh.
  
  
• The second podcast of The Writer and the Critic is up. I haven't listened to it yet, but I will, for I enjoyed the first one immensely. mondyboy and Kirstyn McDermott talk about books and it is great, for they are funny and entertaining and have very nice accents.
  
  
• A link to this photo of an Exciting New The Pandorica Opens set of toys appeared on my Twitter, courtesy of Radio Free Skaro. I am RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY about Eleventy in a fez and will, sadly, probably end up getting it for that, cause that's the sort of fan I am, but WHERE IS MA RIVER? It's very nice to see Rory in Roman get-up, sure, and I've always wanted a small grey plastic cube, but WHERE BE RIVER? Hmph.