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2024-07-25 04:26 pm
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the hardest i've laughed all week

listening to the taskmaster podcast, skipping forward 30 seconds through the adverts:

You guys know me: you think Ed Gamble, you think - "why not?!"
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2024-05-13 05:32 pm

papped by rose matafeo

been mainline-rewatching tmnz lately. to the extent of having a lovely little dream about it last sunday. which i may have indulged in a bit on monday. then, improbably, on tuesday, was served a FACEBOOK SPONSORED ADVERT telling me that paul williams was doing an album launch gig on saturday?!

1) i need to sort out my mailing list subscriptions (and, indeed, now have)
2) did i... manifest this?! O.O

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2022-01-31 09:30 am

the true measure of a people's champion

fun taskmaster metagame: for each series, rank the contestants in order of how many fics you think there are in their ao3 character tags, and then check your guesses. play with a friend! hours of fun!

(i got the first two series i attempted BANG ON and every series thereafter was a mild disappointment :P)

no spoilers, but the absolute Taskmaster Monarch of AO3 (for all the series we've checked so far, and frankly i'd be surprised if anyone came higher) is eminently guessable

some series... capture the ficcing imagination WAY less than others o.O

a familiarity with the general vibe of ao3 is an advantage (this is why i am doing better than my partner/enabler :P)

if you wanna get all this guy (and i'm in danger of it), variants include: logged-in vs logged-out; tagged-as-taskmaster-fic-only vs full-character-tag; overall cross-series rankings

posting additional fics purely to adjust the rankings to match your own guesses is a) unsporting but b) impressive commitment (i was surprised to find some of my own fics didn't turn up in certain tags then realised i'd only tagged them as ensemble :P)

make good choices! (i.e. choose to play this game)
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2021-08-17 04:01 pm

my type: mouthbreathing twinks

it took me half an episode of taskmaster nz to start crushing on paul williams

i.e., until he got leafblowered in the face with a glassful of cream

do i just crush on anyone who takes slapstick humiliation well? spoilers: yes. although: sad indictment of alex horne, then o.O

my gosh, imagine the time i could have been having over 11 series of slapstick humiliation with an assistant i actually found attractive O.O

i'm so sorry, alex

he's very good and i like him very much! i just... can't get into that aspect of it with him


dammit i'm not ready for another celebrity crush... jacaster's still taking up enough time and energy as it is

plus this would be the first time i ever proper crushed on a celebrity YOUNGER than me o.O which feels like some kind of milestone

one of the episodes had a line about him being "handsome", which then i was like... wait, shit, is that a joke line or is he actually conventionally attractive?? i can never tell?? shit i think he might be conventionally attractive... that's embarrassing... he hides it well enough for it to work for me though :ok-hand:

(must be such a trial, wanting to play low-status when you're conventionally attractive ;) )

welp we've still got a series and a bit left to mainline so i guess i'll enjoy the ride and see what develops...

(and uh yeah this is what the previous entry was about >.<)
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2019-09-06 12:11 pm
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first half hour of taskmaster s9 trivia

- this is, presumably, the first ever series where none of the contestants has a foreskin

- ed gamble so straight he can't even correctly colour a pride flag :P
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2019-07-11 04:51 pm
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changing times

i once opined 'the fun thing about fancying [male] comedians is you can p much guarantee they'll have dressed up as women at some point or other'*

nowadays it's 'the fun thing about fancying comedians is you can p much guarantee they'll get ritually humiliated on taskmaster at some point or other'

(*i was young, it was the 90s, don't judge me, and ngl i still have a kink for feminisation, but it's no longer one that's satisfied by the misogynistic way male comedians would do it in the 20th century, if anything judge me for the implicit 'no comedians are ever women' in my framing)