Entertaining in a Disturbing Way

(because I want to be the awesome cool great-aunt who is 100, ok)

er.

1. Christmas holidays with the family went fairly smoothly, aside from my sister's need to constantly hate on Clara Oswald (like, ffs, I get it, you don't like her. LET ME HAVE MY LOVE FOR HER AND SHUT UP). I'm fairly sure my sister has started at least one gleeful thread about the crow episode and how awesome it was (being non-spoilery).

It was annoying, though, as I wanted to get into talking about Bill, but the negativity basically sucked out that idea.

2. I am up to the pyramid episode of season ten and. I am taking a break. On a good note, though, I do like Bill.

3. I was using the ersatz genremixer the other day, and got "Irene Adler - falsely imprisoned" as a prompt. And. lol. Just lol. Also, these two? I feel like they are a given (if one has recently re-watched the Marple Sittaford Mystery--also, fandom, where is my Emily/Violet femslash)
Emily Trefusis - hostile climate
Violet Trevelyan - trust issues

This one is tempting, too. Martha Jones / Lee Adama - lost childhood

Also. Chiana / Ianto Jones - Four-leaf clover

Erm. As you can tell, I was all about the crossovers. Also. These two were separated a bit, but I LAUGHED AND LAUGHED. Because it is so true.
Jane Marple - holiday
Jane Marple - cursed

I have a bunch I plan to write ficlets for and will post at some point.

4. I randomly made a new desktop while down south, out of a bunch of the Noto art (whoops, and Mockingbird is not Noto but Joelle Jones. My bad) I have. It is shiny, although I feel there are one or two spots I could have improved. Oh well, it works for me.
https://lyssie.dreamwidth.org/file/5466.jpg

5. Mom and I watched season five of Scott and Bailey (sadly the end) and I don't have a lot of deep thoughts upon it aside from being a little... uncomfortable with Janet's actions. I should make a post with spoiler cuts and more thoughts at some point (right after I finish up the Sherlock one which I came across notes on just now).

6. Along with Midsomer Murders fanfic. Oh, self.

7. I have this file at work that I basically open in notepad, add the new date and then... whenever there's anything I want to write, I write in it. It means I end up with all sorts of things jumbled together including episode quotes.

Sorry, there was a random impromptu Not Paying Attention To Anything. And I'm back now. I'm only at skip 160, dudes. That is just sad

1. I came across this on my travels: In a statement, SFX said:
Revisionists would have you believe that Who was always a show with emotional impact, but barring a couple of companion departures, that didn't really become true until the advent of Russell T Davies.


No. No. You are wrong and everything you will ever think or say is wrong.

2. I suppose it's a good thing I pay no attention to magazines these days (but OH my collection. It's sitting over on a box right now because I was digging for old Avengers issues out of boredom last week)

3. Matt Fraction's Sex Criminals is entirely ridiculous, but hilarious and very readable. I read the TPB. And then I read it again right after. It was that kind of night.

4. I did Summerfest last week. Wednesday was the Airborne Toxic Event (not bad, I think I liked them better when we saw them two years ago? idk). Thursday was New Order (OMG THEY HAVEN'T BEEN HERE IN 25 years. /old). NO were amazing and lovely and the new stuff they played had an excellent beat. Sadly, the vocals were drowned in the WALL OF SOUND. unf.

4a. However, before I saw New Order, I suffered two hours of the dullest DJ ever. DJ Whitney? Please never play anywhere near me again. For reals. THE SAME SONG OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

5. But at least it meant I plowed my way through most of Neil Penswick's The Pit, Good god, were large parts of that book dull. And let's talk about disjointed. And I felt like the end was very rushed. I really liked the Benny and Spike bits, though (especially how he never 'broke his programing'). I seem to recall liking this NA a lot more in my younger days. It also felt like Penswick was still stuck on the early Seven characterization, which fell a bit flat for, um, me. Because Seven is clearly the trickster who's playing tiddly winks while everyone else is Seriously Into Chess.

6. After my Ponds and Clara marathon over the weekend, I've been reading lots of fic. It's hard to find in-character stuff. There's a lot that almost manages it, but then Amy or Rory will say 'arse' and it throws me out (yes, yes, I know it is something UK people say. I just can't imagine Rory or Amy saying it. Clara, yes. Especially Victorian!Clara). Even worse are the crossovers where Amy, Rory, River and Eleven tell everyone their life stories. All. The. Time.

No. No, they wouldn't. They're all very private people. Eleven may babble, but there are some secrets he'd never tell (and River and Amy and Rory are secrets ffs)

(I am suddenly intrigued at more thoughts of Pryde & Wisdom vs Daleks, which is neither hide nor hair to this)

7. Still working. Should post about it at some point, and talk about how out of my depth I'm feeling at times.

I suppose that is the way of all things, in the end.

Anyway.

1. I have a new phone.

2. I finally listened through the last Seven, Ace & Hex trilogy. Thoughts: ACE IS A VALKYRIE. There should be all the marvel Gods crossovers ever. sigh.
however, my heart, me heart, Heeeeeeeeex. no.

3. er. I have nothing else. I should sleep.

Random comment to havocthecat (paraphrased): "I should write some Phoebe Green/Dana Scully fic" --> Scully vs. The Silence.

My train of thought (whilst flopped sideways on the bed with the cat purring up a storm) went something like thus.

I don't really feel like post-episode hatesex or angst, but if I set it a few years down the road, with Scully getting pulled into something--perhaps Phoebe's in trouble?--then I could have some adventure-y femslashiness and maybe a bit of flirting and anger.

But getting to that point requires some sort of hook, some way to pull her into things.

Then I made a joke to the cat about Canton Everett Delaware III showing up randomly for a silly "don't I know you" moment (as the same actor was Cecil Lively), which led to:

"Canton was FBI. Huh."

And a bit more speculation on him showing up (retired) to pull Scully into a case--

Which would have to send her to England (for Phoebe) and be something that would resonate with her, and all I could think was redheads and stolen babies (because Amelia Pond may've gotten her coat, but not her child, and the forced/stolen pregnancy trope is so alive and well).

And, well, the Silence were a part of that (distantly).

But then, how does a normal human fight something they can't remember?

(Canton's contact in London is always going to be Pete Wisdom. It's just how it goes)

Which is why the obvious choice is Scully vs The Silence, but there's really no plot to hang that on (what istheir ultimate goal--one child isn't worth ten billion years of pushing human destiny, is it?)

(so, yes, I am still here, I've just been silent and corporate and my nomadic, lonely, existence there is wearing me doooown)

1. It is Tuesday. Can it be Friday now? I am exhausted after two days of work.

2. I'm re-reading Anne of the Island, and there's letter from Davy wherein he mentions someone going to the 'silem' because said person thinks they have a snake inside of them. My immediate reaction was to ponder Stargate fusions. *embarrassed*

3. I have watched Doctor Who (Hide), and I really liked it, I just don't feel like I have anything to say. (ok, other than that I really do think the episodes are too short. I feel like only a third of any given story gets told, and I find it frustrating)

4. I probably have more thoughts on Orphan Black.

5. Motive needs to come back off hiatus, I am watching 200 Cigarettes and pretending Lucy is Angie. This is sad.

6. I want a multi-era (starting with One) Doctor Who fanvid to Adam Lambert's 'For Your Entertainment' focusing on the mental and physical toll of traveling with the Doctor. Because I'm sick like that.

1. Wrote a Doctor Who/Lost Girl crossover wherein Jo Grant and Three run about with Kenzi, and Bo. Against Daleks (probably Three-era Daleks, even). My fingers are cramped. I wrote it long-hand. (you know the Daleks would experiment on the Fae if they discovered them. Daleks + magic = invisible Daleks, once and for all. Yes, I did listen to Planet of the Daleks once too often. Also, Terror of the Autons)

2. Discovered that I'm pretty sure I stan for Queen Xanxia (SHE IS SO EVIL AND ANCIENT. I sort of do not care that she wrecked her own planet and went round destroying others. She just wants to live, y'know. Awww.) Also, Vivian Fay (wtf was it with that season's obsession with LONG-LIVED WOMEN ARE EVIL, anyway?).

3. Listened to Terror of the Autons and Stones of Blood and Pirate Planet. Again.

4. AMELIA RUMFORD FOR COMPANION. A slightly younger (but not by much, I'd just prefer to not have a companion moaning about heart attacks and rheumatism, though that could be amusing) Amelia, that is--possibly somewhere in her late forties, and then Eleven has to let River explain WHY she has to 'forget' their adventures when they meet again. (I know, I know, Evelyn Smythe is Amelia Rumford)

5. Vivian loved Amelia. Maybe only platonically, but there is such sadness in her voice when she might have to kill Amelia to keep her secret. ALSO. Vivian knows all about space travelers, and is so so amused that Four and Romana are pretending to be normal humans. Also, Romana/Vivian hatesex, why is there none, internets?

6. eta: also, I apparently ship Jo Grant/Kenzi like burning (and then write drabbles about said shipping)

1. Did I mention I'd seen the new Sherlock movie? I did. It was entertaining and somewhat mindless, and my beloved Mary Morstan was awesome. and I have half-written hen night fic I should finish. hrm

2. Things one should never crossover: Foyle's War and Doctor Who. Specifically, Curse of Fenric. Christopher Foyle is called to a remote town to investigate the strange goings-on in Maiden's Bay! The War Office objects and Hilda Pearce tries to dissuade him! Sam Stewart tries to talk her uncle, the Rev Wainright, back into having faith (because Sam has uncles everywhere)! Milner and Ace exchange war stories and flirt a bit!

3. My desktop tower has a trio of redheads, the Baroness and Spiral vs a clockwork droid, a weeping angel, Mr. Sinister and a soldier from the Golden Army. My desktop is awesome. (ok, Scott Summers and Hellboy are sort of hanging around as back-up. But I think Jean, Natasha and Scarlett got this covered, yo)

4. RL-wise, it was very cold today. ugh. (ok, not as cold as it gets other places, but I had to use my winter coat!)

eta: 5. oh god, I finally did it. They Don't Give Out Trophies for This (kinky Esther/Vera pre-Miracle Day femslash).

6. Oh, and A Palace Broken (Resident Evil AU Alice/Claire fic. Not porny.)

1. I'm really digging Johnny Hollow's 'Dirty Hands' album. (Human Lullaby and Aegis are the only two tracks I skip consistently) (gothy electronica? idek how to classify music these days)

2. I got two compliments on my hair today. The first from the supervisor across the hall (which, well, felt awkward, as, STICKLER FOR EFFICIENCY or so I've been told), the second from someone in another department. I was asked who in my ancestry had red hair and admitted it was fake. Next time, I'm telling them Amelia Pond was a great-grandmother of mine.

3. Speaking of Pond, I realized why I haven't really felt critical of this season's DW stuff. It's because it is id-crack for me, so I don't see the point of doing so, as I simply love it unabashedly.

4. The smoke haze was gone by the next day. But it has been ridiculously cool. Dammit, fall, I want you, but I'd prefer winter keep its mitts elsewhere for a while longer.

5. I never managed to do anything for the womenwelovefest thingie, but I couldn't think of anyone I wanted to do (and then it was too late to sign up/claim anyone anyway). But my clearest memory is still going to be the fact that there are people who don't like Ros Myers. And that just. What.

That is like finding out people don't like to breathe.

Srsly. (my thoughts on Ros aren't particularly coherent, and usually go something like betrayal/that one time in the embassy/KILLED A MAN WITH A FORK/her reaction to that one spoiler/HEADHUNTED BY BAD GUYS... No, srsly, she is awesome and gets her own story-lines and isn't above being awful to people, but still looks out for her own crew and I am going to get flaily, so I shall talk about something else now etc)

6. Actually I sort of want to think about some of the other disliked women, like Sgt. Hadrian (my first marine sergeant gf); or Melanie Bush. (or others whom I am blanking on)

7. I need to do a whole post on DW spoilers, so that I can make up horrible fic ideas to frighten people with. (I should catch up on Eureka/Lost Girl, too)

8. Speaking of, BSG/the Mummy fusion. In space. y/y?

eta: 9. Also, apparently, Nine Lives of Chloe King has been canceled? I would like to be surprised, but it wasn't focused on boring white men, so it was pretty much doomed the instant it was proposed.

A mountain of paper, in fact. I found my nano-novel, in all its badly-written glory. Badly-written, first-person glory, even. Or rather, I found the 120+ pages of "edits to do" that I'd been working on, and re-read the end.

I also found some reviews of season three of Blake's 7 that I don't agree with, anymore (omg, I hated everything, apparently, whereas now I'm just like CALLYDAYNATARRANTVILAVON<3<3<3 about it all). Though, to be fair, Harvest of Kairos still sucks.

I have a fascination with drawing police boxes.

Also with throwing bits of random dialog onto paper and then never remembering what they go to.

Also found two versions of edits for the massive re-write of the Faith thing from season four of Buffy (it includes Cordelia, shifts the timeline, and kills more people; incidentally, this whole thing is canon in Marya DeZorga-verse despite never being published)

And, of course, nine chapters of The Slayer, the Cat and Some Wisdom. It is so so so awful, you know. I can't even. I should really find out if the edits on the chapters ever made it in, then toss them (there's no point in having them around, these days--even if SCW was the first fan fic I ever wrote, because my sisters were gone during the summer gap between Buffy seasons two and three, and I was still reeling from Marvel's evil breaking-up of Pryde and Wisdom. NONE of which is an excuse for the junior-high-school-level plot and writing)

*coughs* I digress.

SCW was also the first fic I ever went "I totally need a beta for this" and then managed to find, like, three and failed to ever utilize them.

One of these days, I will manage to strip the good bits out and re-write the whole.

1. Writing Kesha rpf AU fic where she runs around post-apocalyptic worlds killing zombies whilst wearing horrifically ugly, yet vaguely adorable, shoes and sparkly inappropriate cocktail dresses. (see, here's the thing. I could just say screw it and go the original novel route, but then it would still be thinly-veiled Kesha RPF AU. So.) (in the meantime, Hollywood, GET ON THAT MOVIE IDEA, pls--with my luck, it would end up being a Skiffy Saturday night special, sadly. Probably with a cameo or two from the Vancouver Actor Pool of Twelve)

2. Staying up all night. (I am sleeping soon, so)

3. Watching Spice World and any other pop star ridiculousness I can get my hands on... while staying up all night.

Instead, I shall go to bed.

(I already failed at not making icons from the video, so)