hope | i was going to spoiler cut, but it seems kind of pointless (because, duh)

Didn't it just make you feel warm and fuzzy? :)

I might have made squeaking noises. At work.

Thank you for reccing it :D

It was selfish, really. I wanted people to squee about it with. :)

And so much better than Lost Souls, oh my god what is with that?

WITH THE

AND THE

It seems clear that "Lost Souls" was written in a hurry. "Quick, we need something about the Large Hadron Collider!... I dunno, something with aliens!" And that's what they got.

Yeah, and I suspect that writing a play is not like writing a novel. And also that Eve Myles is somewhat of a better actor than John Barrowman *g*

How can I, too, listen to this? I have never heard anything of the audio, though I have all the available novels in print. Will I freak out?

Ohoh! The awesome thing about the audio is that they're all read by the cast. Naoko Mori and Catherine Tate lulled me to sleep with their dulcet tones on my flight over here.

Ha ha! The idea of Catherine being lulling cracks me up, but I do not doubt.

OH MY GOD SQUEEEEEEEEE.

I'm only partway through disc one. OH MY GOD thsi is wonderful. Ianto! Chair! Whee!

*falls over ded*

INORITE!? I listened to it all pretty much in one go today. <333333333333333333333333333333333333333

Believe me, after 20 hours cramped into the same seat on a plane she's divine.

Gah, that's one hell of a flight. Where were you coming from, Jupiter?

Melbourne to London. I thought I got a good flight this time - just under 24 hours from gate to gate! But there was a delay which added about another 8 hours.

BARRELS OF FUN!

Oh jeez, and I thought my flight from Pittsburgh to Manchester was going to be long. Perspektive. I has it nao.

Thasright, bitches. Don't you forget it.

I may have a slight chip on my shoulder about the comparative travelling time one has to deal with as an Australian.

I was going to go down there for a convention a few years ago, and the flight prices alone took my breath away. Stunning.

And it's actually stupidly cheaper to fly *to* Australia than away from it!

Yeah, but I have to leave eventually! I have cats to feed!

Are you going to Hub3 by any chance? I'll be tooling about the UK in October/November and going to the con as a stop in my unplanned travels. I would buy you a drink (or two, or hell, three).

Oooh. Link? I've not really been paying much attention to TW cons over here (as I don't really know anyone going and don't have particularly love for guest cons in themselves), but I'll still be in the UK around then, certainly :D :D

Uhm, yeah, I'm going (it's all an excuse to go the UK!), and well, I'm not much for celeb cons, but I figure I might run into a few people I know there. I hope.

http://massiveevents.co.uk/thehub3/

Whoa, that's bloody expensive. Depending on what I'm up to at the time I might come and hang about in Birmingham, but I don't reckon I'll fork out me pounds for a ticket!

If you're around for a while though, we should totes hang out :D Are you planning on going to Cardiff?

CARDIFF? OF COURSE I AM.

I so badly want to see Ianto doing this on an episode. His little 'wheeee!' face, in the middle of a SRS BZNZ mission - and Jack would have been talking, and would stop, mid-word, and stare for a bit and try to reconcile this image of Ianto with everything he's ever previously known about Ianto. And it takes him a moment to reboot his brain because just as he starts to reboot, Ianto pushes the chair back the other way and goes 'whee' again and Jack whimpers because, really, he shouldn't have to choose between Saving Cardiff and Shagging Ianto.

\o/ SILLY OF ME TO ASK, REALLY

BTW HERE IS A PICTURE OF ME IN CARDIFF JUST THE OTHER MONTH

INORITE

SO MUCH LOVE

I made

cupidsbow watch "Sleeper" with me again the other night, because I had been avoiding it since the first time I watched it on account of the skeevy, skeevy issues, BUT.

IT IS SUCH A FUCKING BRILLIANT IANTO EPISODE. He is snarky and saucy and childish in turn. He makes Jack GROWL.

I LOVE IT. If I just ignore all that 'plot' stuff.

ETA:

IT'S LIKE IANTO'S IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SHOW. IT'S BRILLIANT.

It's wonderful and SQUEEEEE and IANTO. *squishsmishesianto*

It's like Ianto woke up that morning and was all "Fuck it! I'm not taking it seriously today!" because he broke the coffee decanter at home, or something, so clearly the day was going to be a wash.

And I love how Jack mostly just rolls with it - trying to keep some semblance of order and not minding too much when he fails. Although there *could* have been spanking, after.

Yes. I shall be braving the rails of the UK.

ZOMG YOUR TARDIS MUST BE TAKING A BREAK FROM ITS BUSY JOB OF SELLING TOYS IN PITTSBURGH. (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c341/turned_earth/various/TARDIS.jpg)

Also, you are tres cute!

NNGK. *draws big sparkly hearts around him*

My theory is that they totally went on The Date between 2.01 and 2.02 and that's why Ianto is so saucy (albeit in a rather SFW way).

Though the broken coffee decanter makes sense too. Broken coffee decanter, woken up with blow job, either way.

I do love that Jack's delighted but yes, mildly perplexed on occasion.

WHEEEE!

IAWTC

RAILS YAY!

I'd advise to buy train tickets around the UK at very least a few weeks in advance unless you want to pay ridiculous prices. Advance fares are quite reasonable; one-the-day tickets are absolutely outrageous (difference between £10 & £80, not even kidding).

DUH THE TARDIS CAN LIKE TRAVEL AROUND AND STUFF IT'S PROB NOT BUSY AT ALL LOL.

Hi!

See, I need to know these things. I was thinking of getting a rail pass, because I think I'll be going from Manchester to Birmingham and then to Cardiff, etc. I don't really know anything. It's on my list of "shit to research" this summer. Along with "how does money work in the UK?" and "How can I, as American, travel innocuously and not get tarred and feathered in the UK?"

I joke. I joke. Not about the rail pass, though.

YOU ARE WISER THAN I. I FORGOT THAT IT WAS A TIME MACHINE AS WELL AS A DELIGHTFUL TOY DISPLAY TO SHOW OFF JACK ACTION FIGURES.

Feel free to grill me for information, I've had to learn all this stuff too :) I can give you good tips on the best train routes etc. You're flying into Manchester, then?

Rail passes are pretty expensive - how long are you over here for? Do you know whereabouts you want to go in general? (what bases you want to hit?) You'd probably save heaps just booking tix in advance.

I visited for about 6 weeks in 2007 and looked into rail pass, it turned out better value to just buy my train tickets as advance fares. (Then again, I also have about 30% off train fares with my youth discount card :D)

Yeah, I'm going to fly into Manchester (I have friends in Alderley Edge), and that was as far as I got, you know, except for my manic hand flapping and "I want to do THIS!" because honestly, It's two weeks without my kid, and I'll probably never get to do this again. I will look into rail passes. I was thinking of picking up a guidebook and perusing so that I could pick some places, because honestly, I also need places to stay.

But I'm still in the hand flappy stage. HAND FLAPPY.

Trains here blow. It takes 17 hours to get to Chicago by train, and 8 to drive from where I live. This might very well be my first time on a train.

Hee! I once caught a train from Chicago to Baltimore, it took about 30 hours itself! But much more comfortable than a plane.

OMG yes. God bless him, Barrowman is more of a personality than an actor, I think. :) Eve is so good that I enjoy her even when the writing of her character annoys me. She was great in "Little Dorrit" too, I thought.

Psssst, where can I find this new audiobook?

That was FANTASTIC, thank you for the rec!!!

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