I'm not a Twilight fan, but I saw Aro (Michael Sheen) in the New Moon trailer... and he is pretty hot. >:D

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Quick Question to all you Who fans.

Anyone ever make a model of toy version of Captain Jack's Sonic Blaster

Looks like the Doctor will be hosting the BBC Christmas Idents this year: presumably that's Special Project 3.

The scheduling of the Christmas and New Year specials is confirmed. Good slots, positioning the show between the BBC's other big evening events, Eastenders and the Gavin and Stacey finale, but it looks like Part Two's lost some length since we last heard about it. Hmm. Hope they haven't cut too much out of David's swan song.

And a RTD quote that should delight Doctor/Master shippers, from his new Radio Times interview:

( Concerns The End of Time )

What do ya reckon?

Day 02 → Your favourite movie

unlike the favourite song question yesterday, this one's so easy. i don't watch a whole lot of movies, but no movie makes me laugh like Beavis and Butt-Head Do America makes me laugh. for once, they took an amazing TV show and made an amazing movie out of it. all those poor kids wanted was their TV back, but they got sucked into this crazy cross-country adventure...

my favourite part of the movie is Beavis's "never gonna score" monologue on the bus:



a fun fact about that monologue? a prototype of it was used in the episode "teen talk."

This rewatch reaches the Season 8 finale. It is the first story in this rewatch to feature Jo Grant, Mike Yates, The Master or magic\psi-powers. It achieved the rating of 81.76%, placing it at number 34 and making it the 2nd favourite Jon Pertwee story in this poll.

This is also the only one to feature Roger Delgado, as indeed the 6 main incarnations of the Master have only one appearance each in this rewatch (except Eric Roberts who has none). Respectively they are The Daemons, The Deadly Assassin, The Five Doctors and Utopia\ The Sound of Drums\ Last of the Time Lords.

But what do you think? Please post your reviews, comments and thoughts here. All are welcome

Next week we miss out a season for the first time since the William Hartnell era and watch The Green Death.

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hi, just discovered this community today and have had a great time looking through everyone's lists
of favourite villains. I thoroughly agree with most of them.

All my life i have preferred villains to heroes : ) so here i just thought i would post (with pics) some
of my faves! enjoy : )
sorry, for some reason i seem unable to cut the contents at the moment. I will log
on again tomorrow to try cutting them!!

WILLEM DAFOE IN spiderman. I pretty much love him
in anything, but his Green Goblin role was the first i ever saw him in so...
Messala (Stephen Boyd) from BEN HUR. Just...oh yeah
Hans Matheson as Mordred in MISTS OF AVALON. I love
jason Done in MERLIN too, but he's already been covered on here : ) Anyway,
hans is gorgeous.
Arjun Rampal as Mukesh Mehra in OM SHANTI OM. Yeah, i always
loove arjun when he plays a villain and he was great here.
John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum as Lionel and Lex in Smallville. Yummy family.

Can anyone tell me what the colour scheme should be for the Seal of Rassilon? I can't seem to find any pictures of it in context and really need to know. I'll be eternally grateful if someone can help me!

I just want to know which episode this is from:

( under here for pictureeee )

So, knowing myself, if I don't do a project painfully early, it just doesn't get done. In this case, I have decided since one of my favorite webcomic artists (Chris Hastings of Dr. McNinja) will be at Running GAGG this year, I'd contribute to the auction with an appropriately themed item created in...duct tape of course.



Images of the sketch and final product below:

( McNinja images! )

• 18:48 @sinistra_blache In your novel? #
• 18:51 @sinistra_blache I understand I let Six and Peir ramble in a fanfic and it became a nightmare. #
• 18:56 I feel lke I'm under quarentine. #
• 19:00 Updating my list of books I red on Facebook #
• 19:01 @sinistra_blache Have you gotten round to reading my stuff or is real life keeping you busy? #
• 19:02 @C4bl3Fl4m3 Started an ACTUAL BDSM Six/Peri fic... thought of you immedately. #
• 19:03 @sinistra_blache ah, trying to meet that deadline? #
• 19:04 @sinistra_blache See, I never do Nano, so I never have thnis stress. #
• 19:06 @sinistra_blache Ah I understand entirely. #
• 19:10 @sinistra_blache I need to write. #
• 19:54 @Kyrina Go to Pizza Hut, not as good but you can order online #
• 19:57 @Waltmouse I love lady Gaga, been listening to to her non-stop. Her song teeth inspired my latest fanfic. #
• 20:00 My transparent attempts to get people to Read and comment on my fic aren't working. #
• 20:00 I'm such a reveiw whore. #
• 20:06 What's wrong with me?! #
• 20:08 If only I was dying prettily of Consumption or some old fashioned disease. then everyone would love me and tell me how they will miss me. #
• 22:00 @Waltmouse I know that... no one dies prettily. #
• 22:05 @Waltmouse I'm sorry I offended you. I was talking about diseases people get in 19th century novels like brain fever. #
• 22:11 @sinistra_blache I offend people by talking about dying prettily, which is non- conpect. #
• 22:19 Speaking of 19th century diseases think I have whooping cough, in addition to this head cold. #
• 22:21 ...because I cough until I vomit. #
• 22:27 @sinistra_blache No you shouldn't put on Jeeves & Wooster that's cheery! :D #
• 08:41 I feel sorry for Fictional characters. #
• 08:59 @choochoobear Really enjoyed your comics but the one about Mike made me very sad. Man, you like having shitty things happen to him. #
• 10:24 Bah.... bah.... Wrote brain now dead. #
• 10:25 @sinistra_blache Creeepppy #
• 10:29 @sinistra_blache both maybe? #
• 10:29 @sinistra_blache do you have new compy yet? #
• 10:32 @sinistra_blache ah cool.I'm jsut being selfish because miss our crazy conversations on IM and Twitter doesn't seem the same. #
• 10:36 I am so sick of everyone mourning the passing Ten. #
• 10:40 I think everyone in the DW fandom is sick of me. oh well. #

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So it's Saturday. It's the Saturday smack in the middle of the four-day Thanksgiving Holiday. That would be the four-day Thanksgiving Holiday acknowledged by the U.S. arm of the company Himself works for, and for which the U.S. facilities close.

Which means, to the European home office, that the U.S. employees can travel on their own time, rather than company time. Much more efficient, don't you know, especially for travel /o/f/f/-/p/l/a/n/e/t/ to Europe.

Himself just left for the DFW Airport, where he's catching a plane for Munich. From there, it's a high speed train to Leipzig, and a week of meetings. Then a reversal of the process that is scheduled to put him back at DFW on Saturday, just in time to come home, shower, change, collect me, and head for the facilities Christmas Party. (It is considered A Good Thing for us to appear, since he's been wearing the Interim Head Honcho Hat, as well as his own, for a couple of weeks.)

I will be soloing during the period, hunkered down in hermit mode, dealing with whatever comes up. Communications are such, when he's Across the Pond, that he might as well be off the planet in practical terms. It tends to up the stress levels significantly.

Polyandry is beginning to look better and better.

Started the Wodehouse Kink_meme ohidosay

http://sue-denimme.livejournal.com/183993.html

Not dialup friendly.

Outlined the caste system for my scifi novel.

I think the designers of Chez Geek had geeks confused with stoners.

I shold write, I really should. I think I'll be lazy bugger and playu and the sime3 instead.

so bad. so sexy *faints*

I'm kind of interested in reading a couple of the novels so I'm looking for some recommendations, preferably ones that aren't based on television serials but rather are original. I vaguely know that there are a lot of Eight novels. Is there a site or something somewhere with good comprehensive information about them other than like the wikia?

Maybe that will be the First Doctor who'll knock 4 times. He'll laugh at Ten, call him 'old' etc, so Ten'll has a double heartattack.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/uclick/redmeat/~3/if8o1Nvj5Zk/474564

Red Meat for Saturday, November 28, 2009

It's either 27 degrees or 37 degrees, depending on which Web site I look at, but in either case it's been perfect weather to hide in the one air-conditioned room in the house and flail about with the novel. I desperately need to get a few synonyms for "grin", though.

Well, when you're at work dishwashing you have alot of time to think. And here's some possibly bumble theories that I came up with.

( WARNING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A SHIPPING AND SPOILERY THEORETICAL. MIND YOUR BRAINS. )

"I will not rest until I have seen a movie in which a werewolf falls in love with a baby" http://ping.fm/XchfY

I just wrote a short Doctor Who fic. Well, it was all formed in my head, I just finally got around to typing it. It's just a short fic of the Doctor traveling on his own and doing what he always does only this time all it takes is him talking not much action - none that's shown anyway.

Title: A Day of No Fighting and No Aliens
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairings: none
Length: 701 words
Summary: The Doctor, on his way to visit an old friend, accidentally lands in The New World - which is to become the United States over 100 years later - and is met with spears and rifles pointing right at him.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who, I'm just a fan. As in fanatic, not something that moves air.
Author's Notes: This was something that just sort of came to me and as I wanted to get it written as quickly as possible, I did not check for any historical accuracy so if you don't mind that sort of thing, read on, if you're someone who needs historical accuracy, stay away - far away.

Here at snows_writings

I hope you like it!

Originally published at Oh So Boring.... You can comment here or there.

So, this afternoon I was looking at a bottle of fuel additive and the instructions confused me. What it said was to only pour the additive into a nearly-empty tank and then fill it up.

My confusion is…why? Why couldn’t I just pour it into a half-filled tank and then fill the tank? It’s still one bottle of additive in one full tank.

My first thought is that maybe the additive isn’t very miscible, so it needs the physical action of the fueling to help mix? But, really, a fuel additive that isn’t miscible in fuel?

I suppose the real answer is that some yahoo had some overfilled gas tank and then added a bunch of flammable hydrocarbons to it and boom or something.

I dunno. Just irked me. Feel like they could just put “add to one full tank of gas”. But, well, we are the culture that came up with “Careful: Contents Are Hot” on a cup of coffee and all.

Hoping Warren, Younsgtown and Ravenna people are taking note
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A Cube Friendly Nikola Tesla Classic. We are certain you've seen these plasma balls before. They've been around ever since bad hair bands from the eighties. Recently they've become available in tech friendly USB versions...

Price: $9.99

I was just reading an interview with RTD and DT about the final eps and found this:

Spoilers for End of Time

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10643-Dr-Who-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Conversations-across-time-and-space-an-exclusive-interview-with-the-Torchwood-Cosplay-Gang-part-1

This is the first part of my exclusive interview with the Torchwood Cosplay Gang! If you like cosplay, Torchwood, David Tennant, Doctor Who, and the RTD era then this conversation is for you. Enjoy!

I always wondered this after the last finale, will Eleven technically be Twelve because essentially there was a regeneration even though the energy was channeled into Donna and 10.5 ? I mean if a timelord only has 12 regens (though I know RTD mentioned something about changing that?) then they must have a finite amount of regeneration energy and the Doctor must have used up 10/12ths already 11/12ths when Matt Smith takes over.

Does that make any sense, or am I talking utter rubish?

Okay, then, this is the story I've partially invented and I am supporting about The End of Time, so that I can stop hurting my brain and get on with my life until December 25th...

( Insane, spoilery, 'personal screenplay' here )

So supposedly Eleven is getting a new TARDIS inerior. Does anyone know what it's going to be like. I've looked but I can't find anything. Also what would you like from a revamped TARDIS. Extra rooms? White Console room? Name what you'd like.

After changing the course of history in "The Waters of Mars", the Doctor must face not only the unforeseen results of his choices, but also the responsibility of altering the world for the better- or for the worse. Now, with power in his hands that he's always known he shouldn't use, he faces the option of going back to change... anything. But where does that stop? And now that he has lost everyone, who will point out the line he has crossed? He's over the border of where rules define his travels through the world, and Here Be Worse Than Dragons: all the terrible things that he hasn't changed. How much does he dare revise, how much can he disturb the universe?

Exploring themes from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," this vid displays the burden of such choices in his past and present, and the anxiety of encroaching mortality. Featuring TS Eliot reading the poem (courtesy of HarperCollins Audio), Mogwai's "May Nothing But Happiness Come Through Your Door," clips from the BBC's Doctor Who, and photographs from the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Subaru Telescope, Wikimedia, Ken Carver, and others.

Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky...

(x-posted everywhere.)

Yes, I know where I am, traditionally, supposed to be. And while I'm a traditionalist in many areas, this is one I deliberately avoid with wild abandon. No way, no how, not if you paid me and sent me out with a cadre of leather-clad hunky studs.

Besides, I accomplished the majority, if not all, of my Yule shopping on Wednesday morning. In the privacy of my home, clad in my jammies, with a cat stretched across the back of my office chair, and a cup of coffee in one hand. If I must shop, that's exactly how I want to do it.

Today, being the eve of throwing Himself on an airplane bound for Germany, we're in get-him-ready-to-go-out-the-door, get-me-ready-to-play-hermit modes. He's out right now picking up the last-minute perishable survival supplies for me (milk, bread, that sort of thing). This afternoon, he'll pack.

And, even though we enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner yesterday, there's a small turkey breast and pumpkin pie in the oven. We're doing a T-Day Lite early supper. Partly because, while he's fairly adventurous in the food department and professes to enjoy German foods and beers, one last solid American, home-cooked meal can't hurt. Part of the tradition, for me, is turkey sandwiches and sides for a couple of days after T-Day, and having the fixing available for the first few days of soloing will go a long way toward putting off, for a few days, me going bonkers during his absence. At least, that's the theory. I'll let you know how that goes.

....I guess you'd call 'em woods. They look more like thickets to me, but what the heck.

Up at an obscenely early hour on Thanksgiving, and out the door literally at dawn for what has become something of the T-Day-traditional trip to the Hill Country ranch of friends. Traffic was lighter than expected (we apparently hit a "window" and stayed in it the whole way, and we made it in one hop and earlier than expected. Seeing no evidence of activity on arrival (mention had been made of "putting in the birds and going back to bed"), we tiptoed away, went up the road, and killed a little time over coffee.

We returned about an hour later to find folk arrived, bustle bustling, and mouthwatering aromas on full olfactory seduction mode. After warm welcomes and me getting into the house, Himself headed off to the kitchen to assemble his contribution to the feast.

And, ohboyhowdy, was there feast. Traditional fare that had my taste buds singing hosannas with every bite. Yum and likewise yum.

Conversation? Flying fast and varied and all of it good. There was the feting of first sale by one longtime friend of what sounds like a kick-butt YA graphic novel series. There was discovering that the first-time, friend-of-a-friend face at the table (away from home over T-Day and the arrangements to get her at the table worthy of a major military engagement) and I were TOC-mates in TURN THE OTHER CHICK.

After a marvelous day, night fell and we departed, with gratitude for a most delightful Thanksgiving. As expected, it took us longer to get home than it had to get there, with traffic heavy the entire route. A heavy police presence was much in evidence, and I'm happy to report that no wrecks were encountered. We got home a bit after 10:30pm, much to the delight of the felines, and I did a nose-plant into my pillow not long thereafter, still smiling.

this thirty-days meme is spreading like wildfire, and this blog needs some content. so, i think i'm going to try it.

Day 01 → Your favourite song

it's kind of hard to say what my favourite song is. i don't really have an Overarching Favourite Song anymore...just certain songs that i always catch myself going back to in certain moods, or songs that i get hooked on and listen to over and over again for a period of time.

however, there is one song that i've looked to as a personal theme song since i first heard it back in 2001: "the way you like it" by adema. i very often catch myself angry at people who react to individuality with consternation, and angry at people who act holier-than-thou about youthful stupidity. in other words, this song is very often appropriate mood music for me, and is an appropriate personal theme song. that makes it the closest thing i have to One Favourite Song.



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ps: speaking of memes, for all of you who wanted five questions, your questions are forthcoming--i promise! i'm planning on posting all of them this weekend. <3

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"Doctor Who: The Stalker of Norfolk" comic update.
Tennant and Davies on Radio 2.
Radio Times: Death of a Doctor.
Richard Curtis confirms casting. (Spoilers for S5.)
Christopher Eccleston and Naoko Mori to play John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Reader's Digest and Doctor Who Adventures.
End of Time Cleared for DVD Release.
Collinson joins Corrie.
DWO WhoCast episode 146.
Sonic Newsdriver (26 November 2009).
Rob Shearman interview.
BBC America Competition.
Daleks in Need.
Doctor Who: The Last Voyage - Cover & Info.
Doctor Who: A Legend Reborn - Audio CD cover & synopsis.
The Doctor Who Interview Archive has an interview with Bernard Cribbins.
Billie Doux reviews Voyage of the Damned.
Radio Free Skaro reviews The Sun Makers 3, 4 and Underworld 1, 2, 3, 4.
Tim's Take On...The Fourth Doctor Who Filming Locations Pub Crawl.
2MTL 80: Spoilers and Trailers and Tweets, Oh My.
2MTL 81: Great News from BBC America.
Doctor Who Methadone 2008-2010 reviews Human Nature & The Family of Blood.
BBC iPlayer has Dreamland Episode Five and Six, The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords, and The Valiant Quest (DW Confidential 3x13). (UK only!)

News via og_news and tardisscanner.


Discussion and Miscellany

thehornedgod posts various Bernard Cribbins related videos.
dweomeroflight has some questions about the Master.
ironlemur posts a picture of the Seal of Rassilon.
dictionary00 is asking for episode recommendations in the wake of Waters of Mars. (Possible spoilers.)
myvampireeyes wonders about the Cloister Bell.
youngwilliam posts a link to a guide of the female companions of Classic Who.
sue_denimme has her Celebrating Ten Picspam #7: The Girl in the Fireplace and #9: Rise of the Cybermen.
canadian_turtle is looking for S2-S4 screencaps.
snowgrouse has pictures of the Masters, 17th century style.
dweomeroflight has some theories about the End of Time. (Some spoilers for Waters of Mars and the CiN clip.
nimbusxl starts a Dreamland discussion post.
myvampireeyes speculates about The End of Time. (Possible spoilers.)
night_sky99 has theories regarding The End of Time and River Song. (Possible spoilers.)
johnnygoodtimes wonders about good online places for buying Doctor Who merchandise.
hamsterfur posts scans from a Tennant article.
the_willows posts a Friday Picspam of Matt Smith.
persiflage_1 has her DWM Mighty 200 - Top Ten Watchathon: #1 Reaction Post.
diggerdydum has a poll about Terror of the Vervoids.
touchthesky has a poll about a possible Holiday Doctor Who swap.


Challenges/New Communities

dd_icontest: Winners for Challenge #31 are announced.
doctor_rose_fic: Round One of the Time-in-Flux ficathon is over. S1 fics be here and S2 fics here.


Fanfic

Completed/Single Part
Deal by zero_ac [Theta, Koschei, Death | PG]
A Thousand Years of Waiting by zero_ac [Charley, Pietro, implied Eight/Master | G]
Lucy's Dress by bitterfic [The Tenth Doctor/Simm!Master | NC-17]
One Good Lie by goldy_dollar [Ten/Rose | PG-13 | spoilers for Waters of Mars]
The Proof is in the Pudding by azriona [Nine, Rose, Jack | PG-13]
Walks Through Walls by eve11 [Sixth Doctor, Erimem | no rating given]
Never Enough Time by stillxmyxheart [Rose/Ten | PG]
Atypical by ent_alter_ego [Jack/Ten | G]
Punishment by persiflage_1 (Martha/Jack, Lois Habiba, OC | NC-17]
Hidden Secret by madly_love [Doctor/Donna | PG]
Victorious by truthmaker [Master | PG | spoilers for Waters of Mars]
Drabble: Freeze-frame, rewind, loop, splice by senji [Sarah Jane Smith, Tom Ryder, Seventh Doctor, Iris | "Safe, implied violence"]
so close by stillxmyxheart [Rose/Ten | PG]
Remember by naughtybunny23 [Ten/Rose | adult]
Change of Heart by malicehaughton [Rose/Doctor, Jackie | G]
The Doctor's Donna by caz251 [10th Doctor, mentions of Donna | G]
Swear Jar by kuroshokora [Ten/Master | PG-13]
On Death and Dying by dune_drd [The Doctor | no rating given | spoilers for the Waters of Mars]
Adelaide, Survivor by stoplookingup [Adelaide, Ten | PG | spoilers for Waters of Mars]

Works in Progress
Dona nobis beatitas (6/11) and 7/11 by katherine_b [Donna and the Doctor (Ten) | PG]
A Happy Accident (6/9) and 7/9 by shengirl [Ten/Jack/Rose, Martha, OC | PG]
OK Doc (13/?) by betawho [9th Doctor and Rose | PG]
Home (3/8) and 4/8 by locker_monster [Ten, Martha, Ian, Barbara | PG]
The Offer (4/5) by 2cbetter2 [Rose Tyler, Romana III (or IV you decide), Ten | PG]
Epic Struggle by jhumor [TARDIS, Ten | no rating given | spoilers for Waters of Mars and the Children in Need clip]
Irrevocably Complete (6/?) by mrs_roy [Ten/Rose | PG]
New New (14/?) by othermewriter [9/Rose | PG]

Crossovers
Doctor Who and the Star of Arcadia – The Post Office Tower 10/16 and Wotan and the Wombles 11/16 by gogo_didi [Jack/Ianto, The Doctor (10), OFC, OMCs, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Johnson | PG-13 | crossover with Torchwood]
Prime Contact (4/4) by scarfman [The Doctor, Spock, Barbara, Pike, Number One, Susan, Ian, Colt, Tyler | G | crossover with Star Trek]


Icons & Graphics

touchofstardust: Icons from The Christmas Invasion.
from_the_corner: 17 Doctor Who icons, including icons from Waters of Mars.
teandcoffee: Waters of Mars icons.
carrythefire: Doctor Who and Tennant icons.
seether_79: Doctor Who icons in a multi-fandom post.
firestar28: 28 Waters of Mars icons.
firsttimelady: 7 Martha Jones icons.
rattus_aerius: Wallpaper from The End of Time (the CiN clip).


Fanart and Creative Endeavours

wicked_visions has made a Simm!Master/10th Doctor kiss manip, and accompanying icons.
wulfae has made a Doctor Who pop-up book for the TARDIS Day gift swap.
colley posts a cosplaying vid series.
snowgrouse has drawn Ten/Simm!Master/Jenny. (NSFW - NC-17)


Fanvids

Guilty Pleasure by kolosigma [10th Doctor/Simm!Master | PG-13]
Paparazzi by ayumicrea [Ten/Simm!Master]

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'You've seen 3 walking space suits. Certainly they weren't humans'

Silence in Library = The Ambassadors of Death?

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Title: Adelaide, Survivor
Author: stoplookingup
Rating: PG
Characters: Adelaide, Ten
Summary: Adelaide Brooke spent her entire life becoming the person history needed her to be.
Spoilers: Waters of Mars

Follow the link to my journal:

Adelaide, Survivor