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The Lust Bites results for the Flash and Win Fiction competition have been announced and are here.

But - Congrats to LeatherdykeUK for third place and to Busaikko for First Place! W00t! I have talented friends! You both get a pile of wonga, so have a very smutty time.

As for me I'm within a gnat's crochet (name that reference) of finishing Junction X and I feel utterly drained. /vapours.

There was an hilarious new comedy on BBC2 last night "Freezing" - which was, I believe, originally shown on BBC3. Basically a man decides to leave his publishing house and write his own book whilst still attempting to freelance and pass work back to his old firm. It's full of enfante terribles and people who worship the Emperor's New Clothes (this 19 year old writes 3 chapters of a sci-fi novel and no-one can tell if it's genius or if it's crap) so a lot resonated with me. There's also an hilarious agent who hates all his clients, the man's wife who's not a great actress and attemtping to find work. I don't usually like this type of comedy (Lead Balloon and the Office did nothing for me at all, for example) but I did find this funny. Probably because I recognised so many people in it from my real life! One amusing thing was the partial that the genius boy author sent out was all bound, and even had a cover illustration on it. Yeah. Right. Like any agent/publisher would even look at something like that.

Film Night: "Jumper" - Mahdi's petition

Jumper:  Visually very stunning (although a bit too much "wobbly camera" for me at time which I was sick of five minutes after the first director used it) and logistically it must have been a NIGHTMARE to film as it jumped from the north pole to London to New York to Cairo to Tokyo to Ann Arbor all in the space of ten seconds of screen time.

Jamie Bell acted Hayden Christensen off the stage, but even his diction failed at times and it took me about half the film before I realised that they were saying "Paladin" - And w00t!  Samuel L Jackson as a very convincing bad guy! Hayden was more of the Sith-same, really. Instead of grabbing the girl and getting the hell out of dodge, it was all "Let me explain...." when the very bad guys were just about to bash the doors down! Less yak, more escape for gawds sake!!

However, what was really wrong with it was completely unnecessary Girl (and that has nothing to do with any slash, but she was utterly pointless) without whom they could have managed more of what was really missing, e.g. any plot at all.  The whole thing seemed like a set-up to the sequel, really, which was a shame.  Has anyone read the book? Is that better?  I liked the idea of it, and I had a feeling that it was probably a lot more deep than the film gave it credit for.

On a more sombre note and found on ruth_sims' LJ - Please go and sign this petition and try and stop Mahdi from being extradited back to Iran where he will most certainly be exected for homosexuality.

(Mahdi) came to England on a student visa to study, his boyfriend in Iran was caught out and executed, and under torture gave Madhis name. Mahdi has already been refused asylum in the UK and shall certainly face horrific torture and most likely execution if the British government is allowed to send him back to Iran .  A campaign must be started to prevent this from happening, especially as the young lad had already suffered and is now going on a hunger strike.