time and relative dimension in space

Word count: 37705. 75% done!

Hoping to hit 40000 tomorrow. If I do, then I refuse to allow myself to feel guilty should I fail to write anything on the drive up to New York.

It's looking like Mila and Nalini are going to put the Big Plan in action around the 40,000-mark, anyway. They're beta testing it now. I'm not sure the actual execution of the Plan will take anywhere near 10,000 words, but we'll see. If nothing else, I can resort in my desperation to Ending Fatigue to pad my count, IDK IDK. Too soon to tell? Possibly I should have had an actual plan for the plot before I started, but it's far too late now.





Doctor Who is filming in the States right now and I am in entirely the wrong part of the country, dammit. D: D: D:

Am in New York!

The nephew is adorable, btw. <3

Getting caught up on the 30 days of Who meme:

Day 24 ♥ Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

(for Saturday)

TVTropes' Crowning Moment of Funny page for Doctor Who

Featuring all kinds of gems from

Barbara: Is it frozen?
First Doctor: No, impossible at this temperature. Besides, it's too warm.

to

‘It’s the Law of Conservation of Niceness,’ he said. ‘It’s a fundamental principle of the universe, like Schrodinger’s cat or Heisenberg’s knickers.’ He twirled the chocolate bar in his fingers. ‘The Doctor’s always got to have someone around who can be fluffy and sympathetic. With your alter ego gone, for the safety of the cosmos, I have to make the supreme sacrifice. Give up smoking. And practise saying “Gosh wow!”

Day 25 ♥ Favorite Who Actor

(for Sunday)

It is a tossup between William Hartnell, Noel Clarke, and Matt Smith. Ilu guys, I can't choose.

Day 26 ♥ Favorite Who Actress

(for today)

Another tossup! Jaqueline Hill, Mary Tamm, Lis Sladen, Freema Agyeman, and Karen Gillan. ...how so awesome, Whoniverse girls.

( the rest )

Pick 25 movies/comic books/video games/literary works/tv shows and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

1. The Cold War boils down to a Jerkass facing an adulterer over a really old board game. The adulterer falls for the jerkass's manager. Chess, guessed by nwhyte

2. Four "idiot teenagers," a gloomy bird, and a television junkie with an endless appetite skip school to hang out in a barn. Animorphs, guessed by sanestlunatic

3. A Badass Longcoat, his oversexed half-brother, a policewoman who is not his girlfriend, a religious fanatic and his jail-bait goth girl daughter battle the forces of darkness. The main character says "Hell's Bells" a lot. Dresden Files, guessed by oc_pixie

4. People stuck in a place where weird things happen and no one has any idea what's happening. Not even the producers. Also features a soap opera set in East Asia. LOST, guessed by turquoisetumult & crickets

5. Teenagers fight Satan by reading aloud from stolen library books. Young Wizards, guessed by sanestlunatic

6. A recovering addict, a neurotic in denial, and a woman with serious confidence issues share a house in Bristol. Being Human, guessed by petrichor_fizz

7. Young man suffers from mental illness, hallucinates, desecrates a grave, then murders his family. Hamlet, guessed by melengro

8. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London. Neverwhere, guessed by morgeil

9. Two men have vaguely philosophical conversations while waiting for someone who never shows up. Waiting For Godot, guessed by petrichor_fizz & crickets

10. A bunch of Americans living abroad in the 1950s talk and act like it's the 1970s, and crack a lot of jokes about death. M*A*S*H, guessed by melengro

11. Producers find canonical excuse to keep a popular character and just replace all the actors. Doctor Who, guessed by petrichor_fizz & crickets

12. A man walks around aimlessly all day while his wife does not cheat on him. Incomprehensibility Ensues. Ulysses, guessed by melengro

13. A Farm Boy saves the prince's life and everything goes to hell. Also known as: Ian McShane gets dicked over by NBC. Kings, guessed by oc_pixie

14. A man is let out of prison and is hired as chauffeur and bodyguard to a weird man who's conducting a secret war against another bunch of other weird people. The story is occasionally interrupted for history lessons or stories that are almost completely unrelated. Neil Gaiman's American Gods, guessed by nwhyte

15. A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! Firefly, guessed by turquoisetumult & crickets

16. A variety show—starring assorted singing and dancing animals, not to mention talking food—where nearly all of the acts end in total disaster. Comes complete with its own MST3K riffers. The Muppet Show, guessed by petrichor_fizz

17. Passionate animal rights activist with a weird skin condition learns magic, befriends the Libby, steals her boyfriend, and sets up the Libby as a benevolent dictator by faking her own death. Her sister also becomes dictator of an agricultural Ruritania and then dies violently (though she might have survived after all). Wicked, guessed by oc_pixie

18. People travel through space on the back of a giant turtle, have adventures, and discover things that we take for granted in modern society. Major characters include a perennial coward, a crabby old woman, an ape, a despotic tyrant, a recovered alcoholic middle-aged chain-smoking cop, and a 6-foot-tall dwarf. Discworld, guessed by nwhyte

19. An immature slacker convinces the police that he has ESP. He and his reluctant best friend solve murders. Psych, guessed by turquoisetumult

20. A bored boy drives a toy car through an education-themed world, which nonetheless has no rhyme or reason. Because he has nothing better to do, he goes to rescue two princesses who were locked up by their stepbrothers. Accompanying him are a blowhard insect and a dog that can tell time. The Phantom Tollbooth, guessed by petrichor_fizz

21. Ordinary man from an ordinary planet (which has recently been torn down) goes galaxy- and dimension-hopping with a hot scientist, a perpetually unhappy robot, an alcoholic daredevil, and a narcissist with two heads and three arms. Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy, guessed by petrichor_fizz & crickets

22. A girl has second thoughts about running away from home after her new mom threatens to rip her eyes out. Coraline, guessed by petrichor_fizz & crickets

23. A semi-deranged FBI agent investigates a detective agency/bodyguard service/high-class brothel run by a manipulative British businesswoman, a nerdy scientist and an ex-cop. While a woman who is meant to have no personality and no memories because she has been voluntarilly mindwiped and enslaved by said dectective agency/bodyguard service/high-class brothel starts to gain her personality and old and new memories back and an Axe Crazy Knife Nut may or may not be trying to kill her. Moral ambiguity ensues. Dollhouse, guessed by turquoisetumult & crickets

24. A baby is switched at birth, which causes great problems later on. Meanwhile, a cynic with a fondness for antique cars, a rare book dealer, a Granola Girl, a man who breaks things, one of the last witch-hunters in Britain and the witch-hunter's landlady attempt to prevent four rather sinister bikers from causing The End Of The World As We Know It. Good Omens, guessed by petrichor_fizz

25. Hugely popular remake of arty French opera La Boheme. RENT, guessed by petrichor_fizz & crickets

( LOST 5x14 The Variable: wherein everything goes downhill )

Weirdly, I have difficulty remembering that Charlie is younger than Aaron. There's no reason for this. Aaron's been around as a character longer, we've seen him being older than Charlie, we've seen them both being born, they drop ages often enough. There's no reason for this mental confusion, but I do have to keep stopping and reminding myself that, oh yes, Aaron's older than Charlie. IDK.

We can has LOST tiems agin nao?

The Massive iTunes Transfer is done and working fine. Playcounts intact. Woohoo! Now I just need to get around to updating (and probably overhauling) my trades list. (Has anyone on my flist ever used Weebly? Is it any good? Are there any other good free alternatives to freewebs? I'm considering moving because I'd like to have a little more flexibility with my site.)

In the meantime I'm trapped in TV Tropes which is never a good thing. (The fictional geek-rock band that forms an important corner of one of my original 'verses has just been renamed from "Xanatos Roulette" to "A Good Name For A Rock Band". This is not my fault!)

Doing laundry, which is boring.

Yesterday was International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day, which I somehow managed to miss, so, uh, a belated happy IPSTPD to you all!