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9 years ago @ The Toast - A Slightly Subdued Ope... · 0 replies · +2 points

Here are a couple of Narnia ones I like - the first is a crossover with Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and the second is a Susan story.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/137185
http://ursulav.livejournal.com/1510426.html

9 years ago @ The Toast - If Tom Hiddleston Were... · 0 replies · +4 points

Clip of one of the songs is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBbgiUacho

You can get the full episode on BBC iPlayer (radio is not region locked) or as a podcast

9 years ago @ The Toast - If Tom Hiddleston Were... · 6 replies · +22 points

Does anyone else listen to Kermode and Mayo's film review programme? They interviewed Hiddleston in last week's episode and he brought in a guitar and sang a couple of songs, with Kermode backing on double bass. It was wonderful.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +4 points

The non stunt-casting is great, but they did start off-Broadway and they can't have possibly imagined how big it would get. The real test will be what happens as they expand.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +1 points

tl;dr it's much easier to get a referral to a private service.

Although a warning if you do go private - as I understand it, if medication is appropriate, it's difficult to get it on an NHS prescription based on a private dx and expensive to get an ongoing private prescription.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +2 points

I think you need a clinical psychologist and if you're going private you may be able to go straight to them without a GP referral. It's probably also worth trying a different NHS GP.

I'm also in the UK and think I may have ADD, but haven't had it checked out yet. However, I did get further than you with my GP - I went in to talk about exhaustion, overwork & stress and ask for a referral, because I think it's partly caused/exacerbated by ADHD. I told the GP that I have private health insurance through work, and after blood testing came back without any real issues she wrote me a referral (she clearly wasn't a believer, but said it was worth getting it checked out for my peace of mind).

Of course that was now over a year ago and I haven't progressed any further, basically down to inaction on my side. A while after I got the referral I filled in the online form for my health insurance, which told me I don't have psychological outpatient services on my plan (I do). I've got most of the way through filling in the online form to book a skype GP session through my insurance twice, but was logged out and lost the form after leaving it too long. I haven't built up the courage to phone them yet. This week I decided to just book an appointment privately and pay for it, chose a psychologist and filled in their contact form, and got a message back saying he's moved to Sydney. Sigh.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +7 points

I have a lot of affection for the Hugo awards. I first got interested in them a few years ago from reading blog posts and listening to podcasts by various people who cared about them, and then a year or two later realized how easy it is to get a Worldcon supporting membership to nominate and vote and feel involved.

I don't get a membership every year, but I do always follow along, and I'm sad about what's happening to them at the moment.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

Yes - File 770 lists the nominees alongside the Rabid & Sad Puppy lists here: http://file770.com/?p=28616

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +1 points

I had managed to convince myself that the puppies wouldn't be so dominant this year :-(. I actually don't have a problem with what the Sad Puppies did this time round - I would call theirs a recommendation list rather than a slate - but the Rabid Puppies/Vox Day continue to be awful.

I'm pretty happy with the novel and novelette lists, although I mostly nominated other things. Very pleased (but unsurprised) that The Fifth Season made it.

I think the shorter works and fan categories are easier to game not only because they tend to get fewer nominees, but because nominations are more spread out. There are only so many novels out in a given year, and the ones that are likely to make the ballot probably had a lot of buzz when they came out, and were discussed and reviewed in many places. Whereas there are so many different short fiction venues, and short stories don't tend to get much buzz. So I would guess that the nominations are spread out over a much wider pool of nominees and can be easily overwhelmed by a slate, compared to novel nominees with more consensus among non-puppy voters.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +2 points

A couple of years ago we rented an amazing holiday cottage that had been a priory before the reformation. There's nothing quite like hanging out in your own private museum with wine, a remote controlled helicopter and a harmonica...