time and relative dimension in space

Bullet points!

♠ I put my name on the AO3 waiting list, so we'll see what happens when that comes through and I actually have to. You know. Do stuff.

♠ I have officially booked a hotel room for this Wednesday. With check-in/check-out times it'll be more like 19 hours than 24, but that will still be immensely helpful. Isolation ♥♥♥ [/antisocial]

♠ Today I hit up a Borders clearance sale. And it's not that I'm happy they're going bankrupt, because I'm not, at all, it's really sad when bookstores can't stay open. But I did walk away with ~$80 worth of books and paid less than $8 for the lot. ...There was not a lot left on the shelves or I would've probably spent more than that. But y'know.

♠ There are evidently massive Doctor Who spoilers going around, and I would just like to alert everyone that, as much as a spoilerphile as I am, I would still appreciate not being spoiled about this. Please and thank you.

♠ Sometimes I feel sad and then I remember that I live in a world where Neil Gaiman wrote a Doctor Who episode and everything's shiny again. This is an oversimplification but nevertheless true.

♠ I wish I was in New York today to do the DW LineCon. MATT AND KAREN HANDED OUT DOUGHNUTS, YOU GUYS. WHY WAS I NOT THERE FOR THAT?

♠ I have finished Vol. 1 of The Swamp Thing and find myself getting annoyed by Alec Holland's unceasing emo. I suspect this is in part because every issue seems to feel the need to recap the first issue and I get frustrated at being repeatedly reminded of stuff I already know. (Also, they footnote everything. "After X happened, we knew we had to do Y!*" "*ed. note: as seen in issue #12" and I'm sure this was probably helpful to people reading one issue a month or whatever but for someone going at a faster rate OMG IT IS SO ANNOYING.) Also Matt and Abby have been MIA for much of the latter part of the volume which is frustrating because I find myself caring more about them than about the Swamp Thing himself. Maybe Vol. 2 will be an easier read?

♠ That was a really long bullet point, I'm sorry. Evidently I have more ~feelings about old comics than I suspected myself of.



...edited to fix tags and close a parentheses. *facepalm*

QUERY:

Have there been any retellings of Hamlet from Horatio's perspective? Preferably not modernized or otherwise setting-shifted.

Offhand, I know of retellings from the perspectives of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Ophelia, and Claudius (...I think? I can't confirm that last one).

Related, if anyone knows of a decent list of Hamlet retellings in general, that would be awesome.

(But seriously, if there isn't a Horatio-centric version of Hamlet in existence my fragile heart may be crushed. Someone get on that, I'm sure it's a moneymaker somehow.)


...no, I don't know why this is suddenly important to me right now.

Everybody knows the popular romantic image of the lighthouse keeper, right? Living alone in the tower, maintaining the light to bring ships in safely.

I would rock that job.


...sadly, if it was ever a real thing, it isn't anymore. Contemporary lighthouse keepers' jobs are more "tour guide for that percentage of the population interested in lighthouses", which is not a job I would rock.

Cater to meeeeeeee, world. *insert tragic face here*

YO DROM FANS

Were there any disabled characters in Andromeda besides the villain guy in the wheelchair (...or hoverchair or whatever it was) in "And Your Heart Will Fly Away"?


...I need to do a proper beginning-to-end rewatch someday. (Or not, I don't know if I can face season 4 again.)

You know what fanvid should exist in the world?

A Martha-leaves-the-TARDIS vid set to "Show Off" from The Drowsy Chaperone.

...It would be hilarious.

...don't judge me. :/

→ The Live At The Greek Theatre DVD is awesome, omg, no lie, trufax. It may have bumped them up the list of "bands I want to see live in concert", and they were already pretty high up there.

→ Today I made brownies. Which are currently cooking.

→ I was going to do laundry, but the washer does not appear to be working.

→ I also worked some more on that asexual!Kevin story I was talking about. I have it mostly written but I can't figure out an ending. Also I don't know if what I already have sucks or not. I keep going back and forth on how I feel about it. I'm not a good impartial judge. But mostly I just really want to find an ending.

→ → ...Regardless of if it sucks or not, regardless of if I finish it or not, I'm glad I've attempted it because it made me go back and rewatch TBD and that reminded me of just how much I love the show and all its characters. <3 ...I am still Not Okay with its cancellation. *sulks*

→ → But you know what the last fic I posted online was? 'sail fair to the far fields of fortune'. Which was almost a year ago. Seriously. I need to finish a fic and post it for my own sanity.

→ ...I'm so behind on Being Human. :/ I need to just sit down and watch the past few episodes. I want to watch them all in one sitting, though, which means I will need more time than I currently possess the ability to set aside. Maybe tomorrow when I am recovering from the trauma of seeing a dentist.

→ Speaking of which, tomorrow I go back to the dentist. Maybe this time they will actually do something to my teeth to justify the huge amounts of money they are charging me. Fingers crossed.

→ Oh, oh! Also, tomorrow is LOST. Maybe that and BH will balance out the huge amount of haaaaaaate and trauma that medical professionals tend to inspire in me.

→ This entry is so disjointed.

Endway has a third album out? How did I not know this until ten minutes ago? (They're offering it for free on their website which is nice 'cause if they were selling it I really couldn't afford to buy it right now.)

(They're also offering their first two albums for free, apparently, which doesn't affect me since I already bought them quite a while ago but still. How do these guys make money?)

Maybe this will inspire me to get more work done on Better Than It Sounds! Or maybe it won't. Who knows. Still, shiny new musics by band I like!


Also shiny: new Being Human, which I have not seen yet, but I'm excited about seeing.


The little brother has returned to school, so. Secondary TV and BBC America access are no more. On the up side, I don't have to share my quiet time during the day any more!


...I'm not sure this entry makes any sense whatsoever. o.0

Word count: 30,711

Tess is completely unable to tell when Liam and Conor are messing with her head. It's cute. <3

I'm behind on my word count, but if I hit 32,000 tonight and average 2,000 words a day for the rest of November, I can still make it! ...let's see if that happens. :/


Good news time: I have almost finished my RL Christmas shopping! I'm doing it all online but that's irrelevant! My mom is the only one I haven't bought for yet, and I'm pretty sure I know what's I'm getting her. (Related: FLIST. WISHLISTS. Pls? :O ) Animorphs is apparently being rereleased in 2012 with new covers and (possibly) somewhat modernized content! There are new Doctor Who spoiler filming pics on the Internet!

That's a lot of exclamation points!


UNRELATED: Please assure me that other people on my flist who are not me play/have played/are aware of the existence of the game Egyptian Ratscrew? ...please?

Today we hit the mall, and I bought two Terry Pratchett books (my Discworld collection continues slowly to grow!), "The Cheap Detective" on DVD (what an awesomely ridiculous movie), a new pair of earphones for my iPod (I'm just really hard on earphones...and my last pair my cat decided made a good chew toy), and two new hats -- a Marvin the Martian ballcap which is adorable but I probably won't wear much and a pinstriped fedora which I already love to ridiculous amounts and plan to wear a lot.

I think I may have a small addiction to hats.

Anyway.

I'm all caught up on my various fandoms, I think, except for Kings -- I still have the two-part finale to watch. But other than that. The Pushing Daisies finale made me very depressed, by the way. BUT THE POINT IS. I'm making progress!

Overheard: "So I was seriously scared that between how much I drank last night and how much I was sweating today that I'd walk out and hear some kid say, 'Mommy, why does Badger smell like Daddy?'"

During intermission for Twelfth Night tonight, Portland and I got on headset and started chanting the ASM's name in creepy whispers until she got on headset and yelled at us for being creepy. Then we started chanting the SM's name, until the ASM pointed out he wasn't on headset and so it was ineffective, so we started with one of the actors' names, and she pointed out that he never goes on headset ever, so we started with "We're bored" "Really bored" until the SM got on headset and then we chanted his name until he went "I'M GOING TO RUN AWAY IF YOU KEEP DOING THAT".

In our defense, we were really, really bored.

Also, I less than three my changeover crew. We finished tonight's changeover so fast omg. (Okay, so it was Twelfth -> Willows, which is our easiest changeover. Still. SO FAST.)

Also also, in a week I will be UNEMPLOYED. Unemployed, you guys. *sadfaces*


...non-work stuff? Um.

...I have a ridiculous amount of fandom consumption to get caught up on. I still haven't seen the last two episodes of Kings. Or all of Children Of Earth. Or the most recent episode of Psych. Or the two unaired episodes of Dollhouse. Or even the last episode of Pushing Daisies (which I am afraid to watch because then it will be really over omg). Also the tenth book of Everworld. And ARDU's rendition of "The Unknown".

I have all of these, I just haven't watched/read/listened to them yet. I'm so behind. It's tragic, really. Also, I maybe have too many fandom obsessions.