time and relative dimension in space

First the depressing one:

♦ Caroline John has passed away, and I don't know what to say. I'm only familiar with her Doctor Who work, but Liz Shaw was one of the greatest companions, due largely to Caroline's skill. The Whoniverse is that much smaller now, and it's a terrible loss.




Less depressing and totally unrelated:

♦ I've reached 50K on my Camp NaNo, which on the one hand is nifty because I've reached my wordcount goal nine days earlier, but on the other hand this story is not quite half finished. I think I'm going to take the weekend off from this project (see next item) and then decide whether to keep pressing through on it now or to use the second half as my August Camp NaNo project.

♦ I will be spending this weekend with teh Niki and her boy, which is long overdue; haven't seen her in waaaaaaaay too long. There's a Big Damn Shindig in Norfolk on Saturday, so we'll be hitting that up. Shiny.

♦ I don't have anything else to talk about.

Most awesome-tastic thing heard in a while: The Pogues covering "Do You Believe In Magic?" *laughs*

Close second: The radio-friendly version of "Boys From The County Hell", mainly because the lyrics stop making sense when you replace all the profanity. "We got him out the back and we beat him 'til he bawled"? Really?



Some old fannish5 entries, just because:

( cut to spare your flist )


And, fandom_memes!

Pick 10 characters from whatever fandoms you like -- and pick LJ usernames for them. Don't peek at the questions until you've made your list!

1. Martha Jones (Doctor Who/Torchwood) - walkedtheearth
2. Spot Conlon (Newsies) - spot_the_con
3. Alfredo Aldarisio (Pushing Daisies) - losingatmo
4. Seamus Harper (Andromeda) - supergenius
5. Joanie (The Black Donnellys) - junkie_girl
6. Florence Vassy (Chess) - worldcitizen01
7. Toshiko Sato (Torchwood) - tw3techie
8. Desmond Hume (LOST) - yourwonderwall
9. Tobias (Animorphs) - lonelyhawk
10. Karen Vick (Psych) - interimchief

( questions! )


And
You ever write a fanfic where you think certain lines are just fantastic, but nobody seems to have noticed or commented on them? Comment on this thread with a link to your fanfic, and I'll give you a full-fledged line!post with at least 5 of my favorite lines from that fic.



...I have to go in to work for Kinetix in, like, an hour and a half. *makes face*

( alphabet meme )

AND

( I wanna know you better, flist! )

New LOST this week! *bounces happily* And my Niki and I are planning to get together this Saturday and do something usish. And she says she's going to finish her Firefly epic "Details of the War". YAY! I love my girl.

...theatre humor is so inappropriate. :D



Instead of doing homework like I should have done and like I'm still not doing after work and before rehearsal, I vegged out and watched my new Hair DVD. OMG I LOVE RAÚL SO MUCH. And him singing "Hair"? SO MUCH LOVE. If those jeans were any tighter they would cut off circulation, and grabbing his crotch on the line "Down to there"? SO MUCH LOVE. *dies*

(Major props also to Adam, Julia, Shoshana, Jai, and Lillias, but OMG RAÚL.)



Anna meme (from fandom_meme), because I am a meme whore:

Choose 12 characters and put them in a numbered list. Once you've chosen, go behind the cut and grab these questions to answer them. No peeking until your list is complete!

And because I'm in a Mood (specifically exhausted), characters I don't usually throw onto these lists!

1. Penny Widmore (Lost)
2. Doyle (Andromeda)
3. Ian Chesterton (Doctor Who)
4. Jeremy Darling (Dirty Sexy Money)
5. Olive Snook (Pushing Daisies)
6. Florence Vassy (Chess)
7. The Archive (Dresden Files)
8. River Tamm (Firefly)
9. Juliet O'Hara (Psych)
10. Quinn Mallory (Sliders)
11. Joanie (Black Donnellys)
12. Rhys Williams (Torchwood)

( the questions )


And from fannish5: What lost episodes (or lost issues, or cut scenes) would you most like to see discovered?

1. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
2. Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
3. Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
4. The Black Donnellys: ANYTHING EVER
5. Newsies: all those scenes that originally gave Sarah a personality

From fannish5:

What five character deaths affected you the most?
1. Shannon Rutherford (Lost)
2. Charlie Pace (Lost)
3. Rachel (Animorphs)
4. Hoban Washburn (Firefly)
5. Angel Dumott Schunard (Rent)


I finally got around to tracking down and checking out the new public library yesterday. It's biiiiiiig. The only problem is that they don't have nearly enough books to fill out all that space, so there's an awful lot of empty shelves and that's depressing. :( :(

Guessssssss who spent the day with her Honeybear? That's right, me! ♥♥♥ I love my Niki. I want to spend more time with her. Just us. Plz?


( Which RENT character am I? )


And snagged from kawaiispinnel:

( fandom countdown meme )

Title: Misguided Angel
Vidder: chicafrom3
Song: Misguided Angel
Artist: Cowboy Junkies
Fandom/Characters: Firefly - Kaylee/Jayne
Description: Kaylee defends her love of Jayne.
Size: 37.2MB
Time: 4:17
Link: Download at GigaSize or Stream at YouTube

Alternate links provided on request.

Made for cheshiremonkey, who bought me my services from Sweet Charity. I hope it suits. ♥

Soooo. Both my Sweet Charity vids are Very Nearly Done. *bounce* They both just need v. minor edits, and they will be finished, and I actually like the way they turned out, quite a lot, and this makes me happy 'cause I've been working on them since, um. *checks* March? March 25. That. Yes.

Yay. :D


Also, I have new Chess recordings to listen to, which is more yayness; and, also, I have a bunch of new icons, also yay.


Poss I am a bit shallow, ys.


I MISS MY NIKI. :(



ETA: OMG look at the Torchwood Babiez!

I'm in the mood to post a lot! That's not a bad thing, is it?

Anyway.

( Meme: 10 Ways You Know Chica Wrote It )


( a bit of a rant, just 'cause )


I have an inexplicable urge to write fic about the Arbiter. *blink* Not that it's not a good idea--among other reasons for it being Not A Bad Idea, I think all other Chess fic has focused on the Freddy/Florence/Anatoly/Svetlana group, plus maybe Molokov and/or Walter, and I admit the idea of being the first person to write Arbiter fic is amusing--but a) I'd have to find a starting point, first, and as awesome a line as Don't try to bribe me, you've no hope/I don't like women, I don't take dope is, I don't know how I'd go from that to a fic.

On the other hand, I did manage to write ten nine fics about Lost's Sinjin, who had about ten seconds of screentime and no lines at all, so maybe I could pull it off.

And b) I still have The Trial of Brendan Lahey, rommies_voice's Harper/Rommie fic, ninja_headcrab's cat!Jack fic, and...I think something else that I'm forgetting to write. At least I dropped my ot3_100 claim so that's not stressing me out anymore, but still, I would like to cut down my current to-do list before going on to new projects. *poke*

Meh. We'll see what happens. If I can come up with a starting place I'll write the Arbiter fic and try and work on the others as well.

...It's three-thirty in the morning! Somebody send me to bed!!

Snagged from fandom_memes

( another shipping meme )


Doctor Who The Shakespeare Code non-spoilery review: Loved it. Love Martha. Kinda want to smack the Doctor, but Shakespeare is awesome enough to make up for that.

Also, that is really a fairly accurate representation of real theatre. Opening night, you're doing your best, the audience loves you, and then the playwright staggers onstage drunk, yells that you have to stop the show, and passes out, leaving you to drag his body offstage and keep going.

I'm joking. Mostly.


Dresden Files Things That Go Bump (TV-verse) non-spoilery review:

"I am not always blowing things up!"
"Right. Sometimes you set them on fire."

Hee, Harry, ♥ you.


Dresden Files White Night (book-verse) non-spoilery review: Okay, no, I'm not finished with it. Actually I've barely started. But anyway, my roommate spoils me willfully as to plot turns because she knows that I'm a spoilerwhore and RAMIREZ. ♥ ♥ ♥


RL: Midsummer has a set! It looks like a set! Er, kind of. One of the trees looks rather like the leg of a giant elephant which is not geographically correct, but we'll have that fixed, ys. Anyway, we have a set that can be used and climbed on and things so now we just need to get the cast used to it. Yay!