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Hello, flist!  I hope your October is off to a good start.  Mine started off with an exam grade getting raised from a D+ to a B, so that was ever so nice!  I do have more exams approaching, so I guess I'll be a little swamped by the end of the week.  But not too badly, I hope, and I expect I'll be around, lurking if not posting.  

Things have been a little bit crazy in fandom-land, since Angels aired this weekend (still crying, btw, but the good kind, I think?)  I sort of posted a bunch of Whoish things all at once, so to recap:

- If you missed it and would like to read, there was domestic Amy/Rory fic, pre-finale, no spoilers
- If you saw the finale and want to hop around and have feels, I have a reaction post
- If you want to prompt/read/write Amy/Rory fic, the Amy/Rory Cheer-Up Comment-A-Thon that I am hosting with sarah531 is still going on!  We've got lots of prompts and have had several fills already, so you should definitely go take a peek. :)

And now, for an incomplete list of things you should GO READ NOW:

( cutting for space and one mildly spoilery comment )

So I have finally started catching up on Sherlock and am now through 2.1.  Irene Adler is my new favorite person.  I feel like I have missed all the fic/icons/vids/graphics/etc. by being late to the party, so would anyone care to rec me?  I'm not too worried about spoilers for the rest of Season 2, but I pretty much don't read fic that's longer than 10k words.

P.S. If you know where to find an icon that says "Brainy is the new sexy," you'd kinda be my hero. :P

ityellsback you are a genius for finding this and I will now proceed to spam it all over the world.  I think most of you on my flist like at least one of the following and this has all of them: ladies being awesome, fairy tales, Marina & the Diamonds, diversity.  

If you've not read "The Weight of Us" by dollsome, you really ought to.  It's a fill-in between AGMGTW and Let's Kill Hitler, and it's really bittersweet and lovely and sad and gently funny and so very in-character.  It's really the sort of thing we need in canon to make sense of all the reveals and pacing and character shifts, and the author has a wonderful, subtle touch.  Spoilers, obviously.  

Oh my goodness, you guys. I just read a really fantastic story.  It's about Rory having nightmares after the events of "The Doctor's Wife"--no other spoilers that I noticed--and how the Doctor makes him feel better in his own strange way.  But that doesn't really tell you much--it's about so much more than that.  It's really magical and it captures the feel of the show perfectly.   It has the Doctor being weird and kind and a little bit scary and Rory being brave and terrified and brilliant and just a good person trying his best and four-dimensional space creatures and telepathy and the TARDIS and it's absolutely fabulous.

You should go read it here at the Teaspoon.  All of you.  And then tell the author how wonderful s/he is.  

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!