01-29 TV (The Vampire Diaries, The West Wing, Scandal, Parks & Rec, Community)
30-43 Movies (The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Snow White and the Huntsman)
44-52 Misc celebs (Jennifer Lawrence, John Hamm/Rebecca Hall, Christina Hendricks, Jennifer Garner)
53-55 Misc (Divergent)



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I think we can now we officially call 2012 the year that I completely lost my shit over YA. Between Insurgent, Spell Bound, The Montmaray Journals and The Hunger Games I think I have lost all ability to care about things in the real world. I live for the dilemmas of fictional teenagers.



That graphic was originally going to be a fanmix cover but I’m really anally retentive with fanmixes. I spend my life judging mixes that don’t get the balance right between choosing tracks that make sense lyrically and making sure that everything fits together tonally! Austra’s ‘The Beast’ is a perfect song for Tris...



The morning that I was born again,
I was made into a beast.
Am I free now, am I at peace?
Is that the ground below me, or your feet?

PERFECT YES?!?! BUT if you pick tracks that fit that then the mix would be too delicate given that the books are fairly dark/violent... I guess I'll leave the fanmixes to the pros and just ramble about my feelings instead...

( INSURGENT FEELINGS! )

I was going to do the standard year end top 5s but my interests have been so erratic that it seemed more sensible to just lump everything together. I'd like to state for the record that I really did try to make this look less ugly but this new LJ formatting just isn't playing fair! WARNING: IMAGE HEAVY.



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I made it to the north in one piece. The house is fine though I’m going to have to splash out a whole £10 to get a bookshelf from Ikea because all my textbooks are piled up in my desk which is making for bad studying feng shui! Term hasn’t started yet but I’ve spent the week on newspaper databases trying to do some preliminary research for my DPhil application. Current title: ‘Presenting female physicality: Media coverage of women’s sport in inter-war Britain’. I’m really REALLY hoping that my favourite tutor from my undergrad will be willing to supervise me so I’m going to email him with my ideas tomorrow and see what he makes of them. TERRIFYING.


Speaking of terrifying, I was cowering behind a cushion the whole way through this week’s Downton Abbey!



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summerstorm gave me icons for the ( icon meme )


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