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Apparently there was a Doctor Who sort of spin off thingy filmed partly at the UEA.
Downtime, with the Brigadier and Sarah Jane and Victoria and a plot and stuff.

http://www.drwhoguide.com/downtime.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180654/

It's on amazon on VHS
But even if I bought a tape, I would have to then buy a VHS player.

Is it available anywhere in a form I could use with existing equipment?

There is considerable in the Doctor Who world I have very little knowledge of. Even with the episode guide for the BBC episodes, there's all this other Stuff. I not only have no map, I have no map for finding a map, sort of thing.



See this is part of why I find myself so reluctant to start writing Doctor Who stuff. Sure, I've seen all the 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 episodes, and a bunch of 3 and 4, and some of 6, and a bit of 1 & 2... but even if I watched all of them (no longer physically possible) there's still this vast sprawling empire of stuff people have already made. I feel a great reluctance to write the stuff that must have been written a bazillion times already, quite likely often better. But then there's LJ fandom and the apparent difference from this other fan stuff I keep wandering around the edges of, so is there different sets of What Everyone Writes anyway?

But flip side, I feel like if I do dive in and somehow absorb every story connected with DW... I'll end up writing based on a set of texts that's not at all like the set the vast majority of people, the millions that make up the impressive numbers in new episodes, would be working with. Sometimes I feel like watching these early 1&2 eps is diving into a completely different series. But then I find places in the new series where they've pretty clearly drawn on stuff from there, so...

... big confusions.



This be why they can make a university course on it? Already so much stuff existing!


PS NO this isn't the French New Wave. I shall go and read at least a few pages on that immediately. Yep.

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Giles and Oz receive some help with their research. Buffy wants Giles to do something for her.

This chapter is rated FRAO.

LOAH - Chapter Eighty-Four

On Saturday, in celebration of breadandroses last final exam ever, we took the shiny new cheap bus up to NYC. We brunched in Brooklyn with breadandroses's college friend A and her husband. The husband is as charming and conversationally engaging as the wife, though from his name I had expected someone large, blond, and dourly Scandinavian, who might sit in a corner carving a longboat and occasionally grunting.

After zucchini-watercress soup, porcini-and-cremini-mushroom-quiche, mimosas, strawberries with yogurt cheese, and tea, we hopped on the subway and headed back to Manhattan to see (sit down, please, the management is not responsible for injuries incurred in envy-induced collapses) Patrick F**ing Stewart in Macbeth.

Unfortunately we had to wait a while for a subway, and then our train had to hold at a few stations, so we got to 42nd Street with only minutes to spare. We ran the several blocks to the theater, thrust our tickets at an usher, then pounded up, up, up, up an oval stair and through into the back of the upper balcony just in time to hear, over the whine of a heart monitor and the rattle of machinegun fire, "When shall we three meet again?"

( scattered thoughts about the show )

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Book-length works available online

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/site-redesign.php

I'm making some major changes in my site design. The existing design is
substantially the same one I've used for about seven years; during that time
the Web has grown and changed and it's time for my site to change to meet
it. I'm deleting a fair bit of old stuff that's no longer current or
attracting readers, and I'm re-arranging the remaining material in the hope
it will attract more readers, and to create good places to add the new
material I'm planning. RSS feed logic is changing. Links will
break. I'm going to add redirects where appropriate and possible, but it's
unavoidable that some things will break and not get fixed. Please bear with
me.

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Astrology and related subjects

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/professional/index.php

Academic and other professional stuff

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Resources for typesetting astrological documents with LaTeX. NEW: initial beta release of my "horoscop" package for typesetting wheel charts.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/astrology/charon.php

The IAU is talking about changing its definition of "planet" - or, more correctly, actually creating a firm definition of "planet" in the first place because until now it hasn't really been all that clearly defined - and that has raised some interest in the astrology of the potential new planets. I'd like to emphasize, for readers who aren't familiar with how astrology works, that what the IAU decides doesn't really have any direct bearing on astrological practice; astrologers will follow their own traditions and the definitions used in astronomy aren't really part of those. That's why the old canard about the astrological signs not corresponding to the astronomical constellations, falls apart under examination - both are precisely and accurately defined ways of describing locations in the sky, but they aren't identical to each other because they were designed for completely different purposes. However, even though astrologers don't need the IAU to determine what will or won't be astrologically important, the recent public attention to relatively newly-discovered solar system bodies seems like a good opportunity to look at the astrology of new planets.

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A pushy dame attempts to hire Flank.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-ii.php

A trip to the laundromat ends in violence.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-iii.php

Flank tries to get some sleep.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-iv.php

A visit to the mall; trouble with the cash card.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-vi.php

The Happy Hacker goes to work.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-vii.php

The pushy dame pushes further.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-viii.php

Catgirls and wizards and nuns, oh, my!

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/fff-ix.php

Flank starts investigations at the hentai studio.

violetisblue had an early doctor's appointment, so I'm up. Lucky you!

Reading
Not too much as of late. I finished Fingersmith by Sarah Waters right before vacation a couple of weeks ago and it popped the top off my little peanut head quite nicely. Seriously, it's an amazing book, one of those where you think you're reading one thing, and it's nothing like that at all, and the reversals and deviousness keep piling up and piling up and oh man. I incoherently loved it.

Have been slogging through The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates and cannot get into these ten short stories. Saturday I started one called "Feral" and just lost it ala Tom Servo in the Gamera films: you take everything good and you rip my heart out! *glub glub* Will take it back unfinished.

And I picked up a copy of "Westcountry Mysteries" off Ebay last week. The first true thrilling tale is called "The Beast of Exmoor." It couldn't *possibly* be a wild cat who was killing sheep because the wildlife pickings were particularly thin one year, oh noes! It were a mysterious raging hellbeast! Good times.


Watching
The Sarah Jane Adventures. Couple of things: 1. I love it, 2. When did Sarah Jane get hot? I always thought she was pretty before but never rang any bells and now it's all NOM NOM NOM all the time, and 3. Crotchwoot wishes it had a tenth of the dignity these kids get to have. We watched Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane last night. violetisblue thinks it's a good cross between It's a Wonderful Life and Hellraiser, which is just about perfect.

Last week's Doctor Who wasn't as bad as the trailer made it look, but that would've been pretty hard to do as it made me feel like an un-MSTed Hobgoblins episode. It ultimately get a thumbs-down from me because the civilization that has been screwing up for umpteen berdillion centuries before the Doctor and his gang come along and solve everything in 13 minutes? How many of these episodes does a gal need exactly? But has little bits in it that were fantastic, and most of them had to do with Doctor-Donna. Doctor-Donna makes me squee. It makes me want to put on the tinfoil hat and basically never take it off. It's not anything they did specifically in this ep that did it, it's more of an overall feeling of "See that Donna over thar? She are Teh Boss of Me." Oh merciful heavens yes. She tells him to jump and he says how high. NOM NOM NOM NNNOOMRRRRGHHHHHH.

Please let me change the subject before I lose the remaining shreds of my dignity.

Gardening
I planted some asparagus crowns this weekend. The instructions said they don't like cold damp soils, so naturally the day after I planted them we had 30 mph winds and about an inch of rain. Still, here's hoping. The garden is amazing, actually-- mostly what I'm doing is weeding, composting, and trying to stay out of the way while it does its thing. Yesterday when I Freecycling one of my young maple trees my neighbor runs out and says, "I hope you don't mind, I have a lilac bush that's under a tree and it doesn't get enough shade. Would you mind taking it off my hands? And I was like, um, well, see the thing is OF COURSE I'LL TAKE IT OMG. She's such a nice lady. This weekend am going to stimulate the economy by getting a couple more bleeding heart plants for the front bed.


Fan Stuff
A lot of that lately. I finished all my crafty stuff for Mediawest: Flying Spaghetti Monsters and some Harry Potter themed knitted stuff. The latter I'm going to try and sell at the art auction. Considering no one has more than two nickels to rub together I *probably* could've picked a better year to start doing this, but fuck it.

Am finished choosing pictures for a Hot Fuzz moodtheme and am only waiting on someone who promised me a .gif of Nicholas Angel jumping over fences for "bouncy" and "hyper". Anyone else know how to make an animated .gif? *paces paces*

Am also almost but not quite finished as well with the first draft of a Hot Fuzz story written with annlarimer. It's about swans. Last night I cracked the 7000 word mark, 'crack' being the action word in this sentence.

Pepsi Points
65, w00t! Am thinking either the 2GB thumb drive, but I think I should be good and get Mom a digital keychain for when I go visit.

Pepsi Loot so far
Meerkat Manor Vol. 2
The French Chef Box Set Vol. 1
Casino Royale
Noise Cancellation Headphones
Witch Hunter Robin anime box set

Yes, I am a pig.

Been busy, sorta. Still busy, kinda.
Woke up to find this, which is not the sort of article to wake up to if a James fangirl wants to have a productive day. Now I feel like setting Hyde lose on a rampage of blood and gore with the "journalist" as the guest of honor. I couldn't even read through the entire article it made me so furious. Actually, I'm kinda surprised at my protective nature for a bloke I don't even know.

Back to being busy... and angry. Busy and angry. Urgh!

Ficlet: Subterranean
Rating: PG
Spoilers: DW 4x06 The Doctor's Daughter
Characters: Ten, Donna, a bit of Martha
Summary: Ten at the end of The Doctor's Daughter.
Link to all
my DW fic


( Cut for spoilers. )

This is reposted in its entirety from a post by countessmary. [See the link and email at the end on where to send comments. Thanks.]

The Law in Fandom - Help Please

If you could mention this on your journals I would love you forever because I'm going to need some serious help here.

I'm planning a panel at Dragon*Con this year that's about what is or isn't illegal in fandom. I was wondering several things.

• If there are any lawyers out there who have experience defending people who have been sued for fandom related acts or any understanding of interpreting the law for this purpose I would love it if you could contact me.


• Obviously, I'm going to have to do a fair amount of reading and researching for this one any links you might have about this subject would be immensely helpful.


• If you have seen the original creators commenting on the use of their source, it would be nice to compare and contrast them.


• We're talking about fan art, fanfic, and fanvids and I'd like to speak to people who have actually gotten the Cease & Desist letters.


• If you're coming to con, and would be interested in speaking on the panel, please also contact me, either by commenting here, or by emailing me at countessmary at gmail.

Thanks so much for your help!