Teeth and books and Hellbazer (It all goes together better than I expected.)

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I have survived dental things, and eaten sausage rolls as a reward. I feel pretty good about that.

I ditched my regular dentist - the practice changed hands, and while the dentist was fine, the clinic manager/main receptionist was ghastly, she messed up appointments, was weird about my phobia when nobody else was bothered (like she'd never seen anyone with a dental phobia before), and did that thing where she dressed down other staff in front of patients, omg so unprofessional.

The new dental clinic is great on all fronts except that they don't automatically use a lead apron when taking x-rays, which kind of disturbed me. They were fine to give me one when I asked, but I wouldn't have thought it was an option these days.

Otherwise they were great - I went in with lilacsigil just to talk with them about dental phobia and the clinic manager was very calm. She knew about dental phobias, she offered me options like sedation or gas (neither of which I actually need if I have understanding people), she knew which dentist I'd be best off with, she was able to book us consecutive appointments (I have no idea why this was a problem at our old dentist, but the clinic manager there could not get her head around it.) The dentist was very gentle, and unfazed by me crying and trembling in the chair. The nurses have all been calm and kind. Nobody seems bothered, which is the easiest way for me. My gums are not too traumatised by the filling I had, and the dentist decided I only needed one, not the two that she had originally thought, so that's even better. Now I just need a crown on my back molar, which I have apparently cracked vertically. Through tooth grinding, presumably. That's not going to be awesome fun but now that I know them better, I think I can get through it.




The renovations drag on. Oh, but look! We had shelves built for the library:

Apologies to the people who've seen them on Facebook already.





The left side of the shelf is stepped, so that the cats can easily get to the top and run around. The bookshelf guy was a bit O.O when we explained to him in gestures and pictures from the internet but then he really got excited about the design. We're planning on getting him to build us a lift-top coffee table so we can keep the laptops inside. (Something like this but with wooden legs)

You can also see some of the 65 boxes of books. Not including comics. Which lilacsigil has toted on our little trolley over a period of months because of my flop-knee. It's definitely the most epic part of the move.




So, Outlander the series - yes/no? Is it good? I was never into the books, but I was hugely into the Lord John Grey books, so I kept picking up Outlander and putting it down again. I'm pretty sure that John isn't going to be in this, but the gifs look pretty on Tumblr. I feel like the Outlander books (like Game of Thrones) is a source that a TV treatment will work really well for. (In the sense that to me, they needed a big edit.) Also, somewhat cruelly, I am hoping that there will be a great wash of fanfic, just because of the way that Diana Gabaldon shot her mouth off about it. And because it was fanfic that brought me to her books. (If anyone is interested, it was this POTC crossover by penknife: Trade - NC-17, Captain Jack/Lord John Grey.)


I watched the leaked pilot of Constantine, and I've got mixed feelings on that. Mixed feelings and some paranoia -

I'm super enraged about them straightwashing the character, and the stupid things the showrunner has said about why they've made a canon bisexual character straight. (There's an interview here: Constantine Will Not Be Bisexual on the NBC Show, if you haven't got enough rage blackout in your life.)

If it was a deliberate leak to gauge response, then I'm kind of disappointed that the network's response to people saying that the female lead had nothing to do was to write her out. Not, you know, give her some plot. On the other hand, they're writing Zed in, and I like Zed.

I liked Matt Ryan as John Constantine well enough - he was detached and a bit heartless in the right way. He wasn't American - that helped a lot, too. He had the right bedraggled, tired of life expression. I had more feelings about Chas, though Chas had fewer lines and less presence. Best of all was Harold Perrineau as the angel - not sure if we got his angel name? Imdb has him listed as 'Manny'. He was fantastic - leapt right out of the screen.

Okay, no, the best thing of all was all the snotty comments on Tumblr about how they'd ripped Constantine's look from Castiel on Supernatural. Oh, you sweet summer tumblrinas! Bless.


I think I'm done with cuts for now.

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*hugs* Getting my grown-up on.