time and relative dimension in space

Oh, hey, it's a list of mostly-unrelated things. Haven't done one of those in a bit.

- I update my LJ once in a blue moon and mostly post about Doctor Who, using the same two or three icons. Therefore I obviously took advantage of LJ's birthday sale to buy a userpic package for the next year and expand my userpic storage to 393. OBVIOUSLY. . . . I maybe have an impulse-control problem.

- Working from home is going . . . well, it's going. I don't enjoy my job but working from home isn't any worse than working out of the office and in these current times it's a lot safer.

- Shortly before all of this this-ness happened, I started making arrangements for my first-ever trip to New York City to spend a long weekend seeing Broadway shows. It was going to be awesome, I was going to go with teh Niki, we were going to see four shows, we got amazing seats to Hamilton and Hadestown and very-slightly-less-amazing-but-still-very-good seats to Sing Street and Beetlejuice, I was holding off on posting about it here until we finalized the last couple of details about the trip and then all of the pandemic shit started happening and obviously it was not going to happen and it was just a matter of playing the waiting game until it was officially cancelled. I got the cancellation emails for all four shows last week. In light of everything else that's going on this is a very small thing, and one day there will be live theatre again and other trips to arrange, but I will admit to being disappointed nevertheless.

- So instead I used one of the vacation days I was going to use towards that trip and took most of today off work. Declan Bennett had a livestream concert for The Theatre Cafe/Leave A Light On and I got to catch it; he's one of my favorite musicians and he played some of my favorites of his songs, it was lovely.

- There is so much Doctor Who content coming out right now, it's incredible. I have not been able to participate in the watchalongs because they've mostly been arranged for times when I've been working, but I've read the tweetalongs afterwards and they're fab, and the videos and short stories and things being produced are amazing. Some favorites, if you haven't seen them yet, are Rory's Story, an introduction to The Doctor's Wife written by Neil Gaiman and filmed by Arthur Darvill; The Terror Of The Umpty Ums, a short story featuring the Thirteenth Doctor (...sort of) written by Steven Moffat; and Incoming Message From The Doctor, a short webcast starring Jodie Whittaker and written by Chris Chibnall. But all the ones I've seen have been wonderful. Also the suggestion that Neil Gaiman write a series for Big Finish starring the Corsair is perfect. Please do so.

- On my own I've also been rewatching New Who from Nine onwards via my collection of Blurays and DVDs, and including all special features. Which has been a bit of an education in how many special features I just never got around to seeing. I'm into series 6 now and a bit disappointed that I have it as 6A and 6B instead of the complete series 6, because the special features, comparatively, are rubbish.

- I've been pretty much all abut the comfort watches/reads, really. Doctor Who, obviously. But also I've been rewatching Derry Girls and Red Dwarf and So Weird and reading the Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels and the Iron Druid Chronicles and basically avoiding anything that is not escapist-y enough right now. New Amsterdam came out and said "We decided not to air an episode because it was about a flu pandemic and nobody needs that in their fiction right now" and you know what I am your target audience, New Amsterdam. I'm not rereading Doomsday Book anytime soon and that's usually one of my go-to rereads.

- I hope you are all staying safe and staying inside.

I don't expect anyone would, but just in case: please do not use the new Twitter/Facebook crossposting feature to reproduce comments left in my journal.

If, like me, you have no intention of using the new Twitter/Facebook crossposting feature and would prefer to get rid of the annoying tickyboxes in the comment field, daluci created this greasemonkey script to do just that, and it works fab.




I was tagged for this meme by riviyan_questa:

If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new question.

Tag eleven people. Don’t refuse to do that. Don’t tag who tagged you.

I hate tagging people. So I'm not going to. Woo.

( the questions & answers )

YOU GUYS. A la carte userpics!

...probably someone should smack me and tell me that I don't need more icon spaces.

...I'm trying to figure out how it works right now. The announcement was kind of confusing. Also apparently a lot of people in the paidmembers post comments are struggling with it. But that seems to be (mostly) confined to paid accounts on auto-renew? And I'm a permanent account? IDK.

140 userpics for 2 months: $4. I AM A WEAK ICON HOARDER. And I could just...test it out!



Unrelated, I got first feedback back from beta about my lgbtfest Glee fic, yayyy. Apparently I have good Puck and Rachel voices, which amuses me for inexplicable reasons. I have to get the new edited draft back to her, btw. Should do that now.

Also speaking of which, I really, really need to finish my first draft of my DW fic for lgbtfest, which is suffering from my usual problem of me having no clear idea of how it's meant to end. YAY ME.



The subject line of this entry is irrelevant. For some reason various tracks from Wonderland have been stuck in my head on and off the past few days. Why? ...IDK.