Entertaining in a Disturbing Way

- I live!

- Went to visit the family over the holidays, saw most everyone. Sadly, mom had to put Ella down in early Dec so there was no doggie. I spent most of the visit watching Lynley, Marlowe Murder Club, and The Ladies' No 1 Detective Agency (mom really like the latter, so we watched all of it and lamented at there being now more).

- While it is cold here (is it ever), it's snowed heavily down there (ugh for them).

- Have been mainlining the Queen Latifah The Equalizer, it's very good, fills that Leverage/Pretender niche well (well, not the revenge as much, but a lot of the "this is the terrible thing that happens thanks to Corporate Greed" way). And I love 90% of Mel's outfits (and about 80% of Robyn's and 99% of Aunt Vi's and Dee has the most gorgeous smile). It is also occasionally hilarious when they'll all be standing around and Liza Lapira is wearing five-inch heels and standing on a box (she is pretty amazing, though).

- I have watched a couple of the Fifteenth Doctor's episodes. I really really like him. I still get hives with RTD's writing. But otoh, RTD is continuing to shove the Gay Agenda in as blatantly as possible, and I AM HERE FOR THAT. So. It's a toss-up. In a perfect world, it would be a patchwork of RTD, Jacqueline Rayner (her BF stuff is great), Moff, and Chibnall, with a bunch of newbie talent to breathe in wonder and fresh air.

- 3 Sentence Ficathon is running again. I was late in remembering it (I cannot believe it's 2025 and been a year, ok). https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/4733.html < - post 2 for leaving prompts, fills are still accepted on post 1.

I'm splitting these in two, so the Torchwood ones can faff about with themselves.

There's only one Companion Chronicle that I listed to, and it was
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant - while at the heart, this is a common SF trope, it still managed to be interesting, if only because of Jo's sheer perseverance in the face of adversity. I sometimes forget how very courageous and brave she is, and this one really encapsulates that. Not to mention her penchant for self-sacrifice. This one just made me love Jo more than I already did, which I was surprised by.

Diary of River Song, series 6 (Series 1-4 are smashing, 5 is the Masters one and also smashing) is a series with ties to four Classic Who episodes--some are closer than others, and except for one, all are prequels of a sort.
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1. I have seen more of Thirteen! Up through Demons of the Punjab were marathonned with my parents over Christmas. It means I actually watched Rosa all the way through (my second-hand embarrasment squick kicked in the first time). And I still think the guy at DragonCon was a racist asshole, and am still a bit annoyed that none of the panelists fucking called him out on it. No, there were no good white people in Rosa, jack-ass. That was the whole fucking point (including Thirteen and her treatment of Rosa, as much as she was trying to help, was so very micro-agressions).

2. Still not fond of Graham. Or Ryan, tbh. I think dudes are just Not My Thing (I didn't like the pregnant alien dude in the one episode, either).

3. I need to watch more of the season before I have any other thoughts.

4. Work for a full week after the break of the holidays has not been fun. I hates it.

5. I tried to write some femslash for the stocking thing, and failed for the most part. I did some Edith/Lucille, but I'm having a hard time writing them without involving Thomas (I think my brain finds them a very tangled triangle, and it's hard to sort out part of it). I was trying to write something for the femslash kink meme, but it ended up being full of Thomas, so I've stopped for the moment.

6. Speaking of, people should write more for the kink meme: https://femslash-kink.dreamwidth.org/ There's a ton of prompts and varieties, and the lack of Terminator: Dark Fate femslash there is baffling me.

7. Seven has fucked off for some ice cream.

This is a collection of radio plays featuring several female characters from Doctor Who - both original and current, and some of BF's OCs.

The set was created in honor of International Women's Day, and has a lot of women in both writing and directing, producing, and starring.

Episode 1 is River meeting Leela.
Episode 2 is NADW-era Ace & Benny without the Doctor (think Birthright, but shorter and with less Jack the Ripper).
Episode 3 is Paternoster Gang - Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Strax
Episode 4 is UNIT - Kate Stewart, Osgood, and Jackie the reporter who was last heard (for me) in the Lady Christina set (which was smashing, btw, if I haven't said).

There are some minor spoilers in the cut section.
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1. I do still exist, I just sort of got distracted and stressed with month end close hitting right after DragonCon and the lead up to it (since I'm still covering the bulk of stuff J did as there's no new hire yet; and may not be, given the future is still sort of up in the air for where this company is going).

2. So. DragonCon happened, and it was excellent and a blast. I saw a couple of different panels, and watched Eddie McClintock (Agent dude from Warehouse 13) be hilarious. A lot. Also, even though they're probably doing it for the crowd, Joanne Kelly & Jaime Murray totally ship Myka/HG (and possibly Myka/HG/Pete, when they're bored). Eddie was also the best Masquerade MC I've seen. Gina Torres is apparently getting a Suits spin-off for her character, which is awesome for her (I don't like lawyer shows, but that is still good news).

3. Jacqueline Pearce has died. This is sad and depressing, as I loved her so (Servalan holds a dear dear place in my heart; not to mention her Big Finish character was smashing, too).

4. Eight is one of the snarkiest audio Doctors, and I love him so (I occasionally forget he's snarky, and then he zings out with something, and I'm like "OH EIGHT")
Choice quotes from randomness:
"We can't go around making unmotivated prison breaks."

"I shall find out by using my super Time Lord powers of looking out of the window."

"How do you feel?"
"Like I've been beaten up in an alley-way and then fallen down a drain into a psychadaelic underworld."
"That happened to me once." (Eight being the first and third commenters; I assume Fitz was somehow responsible, myself)

5. I sort of accidentally fell down the rabbit hole of shipping Molly/Sherlock. :/ It wasn't intentional, but now I can't really help it (possibly it's that like Mac and Caroline I just want them to go round making out everywhere, investigating dead bodies, solving crimes and not shooting people. idk). It's especially intense for the Victorian era, for some reason (I blame the sex voices they both use in their first meeting. And the sniping. If she'd pulled a gun on him, I might have been a goner the first time I saw them together)

6. I have yet to untangle my thoughts on season four (I keep intending to and then not and then Mary drifts across my brain, and I'm incandescent with rage and the futility of it and frustrated). It's a bit like how I haven't managed to watch the last two seasons of Person of Interest.

7. Scandal in Belgravia still continues to be a most effective wake-up at work. I wish I knew why. It's not like I ship Irene/Sherlock (well, not in Sherlock, at least? and let's be real, my Ritchie Holmes OTP is Irene/Mary with both of them bowing to convention with John and Sherlock and then devolving into a poly relationship that sometimes includes letting John and/or Sherlock have sex with them while they steal things or solve crimes. Whichever strikes their fancy and dammit now I'm typing this, I am going to fucking finish that Irene/Mary hen party fic if it's the last thing I do), or even think it's that great an episode (the denouement of the plane continues to make no fucking sense, time-wise. It really doesn't). But for some reason, any time I'm drifting off, if I scroll down and play any portion of it, I'm wide awake.

None of the other Sherlock episodes has that effect. :/

8. I am still hopeful for new Doctor Who. I've not actually managed to make it past the pyramid one in season eleven (I'm told it's the low point, but I just hit a point where I just didn't care so I stopped). Also, I'm pretty sure I have an unhealthy attachment to Clara Oswald (she was my all the world). I like Bill, but I don't really click with her - I didn't click very well with Donna in her season, either (I know, shocking, eh? I loved Runaway Bride, but actual companion!Donna left me cold until Turn Left).

9. also, that time that Ace and Seven almost got married continues to remain a thing of beauty (Dark Husband is not considered a good BFA, but it is so so hilarious and awesome).

"Underwater sundials at night are more accurate than the TARDIS." (but she always gets them where they need to go!)

10. Er. There is no number ten. Probably.

YOu GUYS. Like, I keep not skipping when Amy's Choice plays at work, and I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS about season five because of it. And I miss Eleven and the Ponds due to that fact. ANYWAY. (and then I backtrack to end of Eleventh Hour because waiting hurts and then I skip to the middle of Venice because I'd forgotten HOW ANGRY HE WAS--and it's the anger he has in the Dalek episode, too)

I keep minimizing everything to stare at my desktop (because I have feelings about the women on it, and I miss them and also don't want to tempt fate by reading their comics right now, I mean, aside from the Marvels.)

ANYWAY. Someone told me Gail Simone is going to write a Domino limited series. And Timey didn't even have to sacrifice any small children!

I foresee more desktops in my future.

I managed to produce two ficlets for fandom stocking! I produced my requisite two fics for the year and it's not even the third week in Jan! Go, me.

And now, a tiny tiny (probably the Guy Ritchie movies Sherlock Holmes version) Irene Adler(/Mary Morstan) ficlet. It is technically from 2017.
Irene Adler - falsely imprisoned
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I finally sat down to watch (I'd re-watched Husbands of River Song not that long ago, plus, Netflix delivered it). So I'm partially caught up.
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(I mean, aside from giggling a little maniacally about how the numbering has been screwed up since the DoD retconning wherein there have been, like, eighteen Doctors already)
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1. Dragoncon happened, I am sure there was more to my thoughts on it, but I spent most of the leadup sick (strep) and it can be summed up as: Thursday--passed out early; Friday-Sunday--normal Lyssie DC hours (ie, up at ten, dead asleep by four am). Went to three? panels. Had birthday dinner. Ran around in my skirt. Bought comic trades. Had a blast.

2. sparktober is here. I have no fucking clue where the whole god-damned year went.

3. Layoffs at work with the FY ending (it's supposedly, like, 2K globally). So far, not laid off (also, they would shoot themselves in the AP foot and they fucking know it)

4. Have seen both episodes of series 9 of Who. Should at some point note down thoughts.

5. Listened to a lot of series 8/series 5 today. I miss River Song.

6. Who is damn quotable, sometimes.

7. I did attempt to catch up on Covert Affairs, I mainlined seasons one-three (I got stopped mid-season three last time), and now season four is... dragging. So I've paused that for a bit.

8. Am considering re-watching Farscape. Again.

1. I did not see the second Captain America movie in the theatre. This is a good thing as I'm pretty sure nique and I would have been thrown out given how many times we were loudly mocking things happening on the screen. (timjr was, too, but he was quieter. I think). It was all right--I really thought Natasha got a lot to do in it. And I didn't keep expecting Sharon to skewer someone with a revenge thing, so props to Emily VC for not being Amanda. And Sam was awesome. (I really think the next two movies should be 1. Sam and Cap road-tripping to find Buuuuucky the wangsty winter assassin and 2. Maria, Natasha and Fury doing fun spy-things.)

2. Moff continues to try to scare the shit out of me with 'Listen'. Clara continues to be lovely (and her dress was amazing, I want one).

3. I watched the first episode of Paradox the other day. Tamzin Outhwaite is one of the leads, it's SF, and it's... really dull. I can see why it was cancelled quickly. (seriously, HOW DO YOU MAKE TAMZIN OUTHWAITE DULL. I do not understand it. sigh) I think maybe it took itself waaaaay too seriously. Not to mention the establishing shot was pure Torchwood and nothing fun followed it. (no, seriously, so dull I skipped to the end after fifteen minutes of waiting for something to happen)

4. Now that Guardians of the Galaxy has done so well, I want space opera to come back, dammit. I NEED SPACESHIPS. And pilots. And aliens and ridiculousness. Sadly, none of the current crop of SF is even remotely helpful for fixing that itch. I am seriously considering a Farscape re-watch.