mercury is in retrograde

1. So I'm back at school now.  Renaissance lit/culture looks good--it's focused on travel and speculative fiction of the period, so it should be kind of fabulous.  Stats is going to be just fine.  Linear algebra....bah.  It's already eating my life.  I have no idea what's up with my homework.  And I need to take this class for my minor, so I guess I'll have to just muddle through and stick it out. 

2. My mom bought me a copy of The Book of Common Prayer.  I know there are some Anglicans/Episcopalians on my flist--what would you say one does with such a book?  I'm quite pleased to have it, I'm just not certain what its purpose is.

3.  If you haven't seen it yet, go watch saywheeeee 's video Starscape.  It's a Doctor Who-themed song she wrote, sang, and put together herself, and it's gorgeous. 

4. I'm bored and going through autumn Doctor Who withdrawal.  So let's discuss it!  Leave me your favorite theory, your most beloved moment, your personal canon, or a rec, and let's have a Doctor Who party in the comments!

1. Anybody have strong feelings one way or the other about Merlin?  I keep seeing posts about it on LJ, and I can watch Season 1 on Netflix Instant Play, but I'm so bad at making decisions.....

2. Open letter to the universe at large: When you spell "Greek" with the "squiggly e," yes, the first time, it is cute.  After that, it's more like, "Do they not know they're spelling it 'Grssk'?"  Because sigma is, after all, equivalent to s and not to e....

3. Finally finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.  It takes a while to really get going, but it is really sweet, and the characters are most endearing.  Isola Pribby in particular is truly hilarious.  Definitely recommend it.  It's a little predictable but the characters are all so good-hearted that I could forgive it for that. 

4. I go back to college next week.  Stats and linear algebra--what was I thinking?  And Renaissance lit/culture on top of that!  But it should be fun, if filled with homework.  If I disappear, assume I've been eaten alive by Mathematica....

5. I started my first calufrax rec week today!  I'm very excited, since there are some stories I've been wanting to share.  But a lot of what I want to rec has been recced already....although, I suppose, in a sense, that is a good thing.

6. I think I've finally found a default pic I really like.  It's a crop of a piece of a wallpaper by summerdisregard, and it has space and Amy Pond and I love it!

7. Doctor Who, when are you coming baaaaaack?

So Amy and Rory remember the Doctor even in the new universe, and they remember their adventures.  But if those adventures, strictly speaking, never happened, is everything they did all season now undone?  Is the star whale still suffering?  Is the Silurian situation still unresolved?  Is there still a Krafayis wandering about in Holland?

Clearly I think about this too much.  Anybody thought their way to an answer?

Also, and I think I'm borrowing someone else's question here, In the end of Flesh and Stone, River says she'll see the Doctor again "when the Pandorica opens," which means that episode happened first in her personal timeline (maybe in a linear timeline, too, I don't know).  So how are there still cracks in time all over that spaceship?  And if this is just another thing that will be erased when the universe restarts, isn't that awfully weird from the perspective of River's travels?

So I think Doctor Who is taking over my life.  Just saying....

I watched the Ruby in the Smoke today, because how could I not?  It has Rose and the Doct--err, I mean Billie Piper and Matt Smith.  Mostly Matt Smith, if I'm being honest, because I love the Eleventh Doctor so much.  I've already seen the other Sally Lockhart special with them in it--Shadow in the North--and while it wasn't great, it was reasonably diverting, and, as aforementioned, is full of Who actors, including the actress who plays Martha Jones' mum. 

So Ruby in the Smoke was kind of confusing, but it was actually pretty interesting.  And there's this adorable little girl whom they have to protect from her evil employer, and there are some fun bits of her running around with Matt Smith's character.  Oh my goodness.  Is there anything the man's been in where he WASN'T wonderful with children?  I was ready to love it to pieces just for that, but then the little girl gets kidnapped, and they have to try to save her, and she gets kidnapped and disappears.  Disappears!  And at the end of the movie, SHE IS STILL GONE.  They're like, oh, don't worry, we will find Adelaide.  But I've seen the next movie, and she never gets found!  They just forget about her.  I don't know if this is the fault of the books from which the specials were adapted, or sloppy writing, or what, but it was really irritating, especially since I was more interested in what happened to the little girl than the main character.  *sigh*

It's so weird having a biological clock, and having it just go crazy whenever you see a guy who's good with kids, which is something several other people on lj have been noticing about Matt Smith.   Ahahaha. 

Title: Countable Infinities
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Eleven, Amy, Rory
Word Count: 506
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I own no Who, as usual.
Summary: Amy and Rory have lots of questions about the TARDIS.
A/N: from Challenge 1: Miscommunication over at whoverse_las 

 

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Title: Stand Outside (Woman's Work Remix)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Eleven, Amy
Word Count: 927
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I own no Who, as usual.
Summary: Amy knows he takes trips without her when she sleeps.  When something goes wrong, it's up to her to look after him. 
A/N: This is a remix of "Mad Nursing Skillz," by Sahiya.  The original can be found here or here.  The title comes from the song "This Woman's Work," by Kate Bush.

 

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Title: ache
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters: Eleven, River
Word Count: 378
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I own no Who, as usual.

Summary: She’s down the stairs in an instant, taking them two by two by two all the way to the front hallway where she throws open the door to see him sitting on her porch.

A/N: Written for the ficathon over at Spoilers!

 

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