Photos, Who, Victorians

[icepixie]

Okay, people, I'm jumping on the photo meme bandwagon. (How could I resist?) Tell me what mundane part of my life you want to see pictures of! Shoes, house, bookcase, computer, my favorite [insert noun here]...whatever. You can even request stuff from Kenyon or Exeter, since, given the amount of pictures I've taken over the last two years, it's not entirely unlikely that I'll have a picture of it.

Heck, request multiple things. I like taking pictures.

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So I watched "Pyramids of Mars" yesterday, and oooh. Sarah Jane is awesome. Competence is so becoming on a companion. Also, pretty dress. Not to mention just the right amount of snark and willingness to talk back to the Doctor. Hee.

The story was...not scary in the least, but that's okay. It was period, and that's cool. Tom Baker's googly eyes still kind of freak me out, though.

The Awesomeness That Is Sarah Jane inspired me to try "Genesis of the Daleks" again, and...it's just. not. happening. It should be interesting, but it's not. I'm somewhere in episode four or five, I think, and I just can't make myself finish it. Perhaps it has something to do with Harry.

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Part of me is giving serious thought to writing the Eight-and-Charley-meet-the-SAJV-gang crossover my brain keeps threatening. And then somehow making Rebecca Fogg Charley's great-great-grandmother or something, because hee.

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Judith Flanders's Inside the Victorian Home is love. Yay for social historians who can write both authoritatively and engagingly. As with all studies in the social history of the later nineteenth century, this makes me think that, had I been born then, around age four I would've gone up to my parents and said something along the lines of, "I've got...a disease...called, um...well, it doesn't matter, but the upshot is that I'm now a boy; please start treaing me like one," so that I could actually, oh, go to school.

Her chapter on servant life is one of the better ones as far as detail goes; in fact, it is so detailed that it makes me want to go lavish praise on the inventor of the washing machine, because OMG, ow. Taking apart a dress and sewing it back together by hand every time you wanted to wash it? Ack.

Comments

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Sarah is indeed teh awesome. *g* Genesis...isn't bad, but it suffers the same problem a lot of the Who six parters did...it feels padded like crazy. Plus Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, had that tendency in his stories...he very much wrote pulp serials, collections of adventurous events which often aren't so important to the plot.

Harry was a sweet guy, but generally superfluous. They invented him before Tom Baker was cast, not knowing if the new Doctor was going to be an athletic, action type...apparently they were thinking he might end up more First Doctor-like, more of an old man again, in which case they'd need an Ian Chesterton. (Dunno if you've seen any first Doc yet, but Ian is *awesome*.)

Who, SAJV Xover: Despite never having seen SAJV, this sounds great to me. *g*

Oh, and I've been meaning to ask you...how are you liking Anansi Boys?

[icepixie]

Yeah, Genesis is...plodding is a good word, I think.

Harry's all right, or at any rate what I've seen of him is okay, I suppose. I can see the superfluousness, though.

I'm trying to figure out a way to write the SAJV xover in such a way that it will be satisfying, but that I won't get bogged down in plot. I'm not getting anywhere fast. But another Charley fic sprouted like a weed tonight (and required me to slog through parts of Zagreus again for a definitive answer to my earlier questions about Charley's sisters--I really hope that Charley's mother/that information only appears in the first third, 'cause I just can't make myself go through the other two), and I'm still trying to finish one I've been working on for a while, so, yay?

Oh, and I've been meaning to ask you...how are you liking Anansi Boys?

Haven't started it yet, actually. It's on my list after the Nathaniel Hawthorne biography I'm starting tonight. (The list at my LJ is in no particular order. You might have noticed. ;)) Have you read it yet?

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Charley's family: Naw, there really isn't anything about her family after she starts jumping into the other worlds and times. Though of course there's the Gallifrey audio about her sister, which I've not heard yet.

Anansi Boys: Oh yes, read it when it first came out, loved it...Gaiman is my favorite writer. *g*

[icepixie]

Charley's family: Naw, there really isn't anything about her family after she starts jumping into the other worlds and times.

Excellent. I think I finally worked out the birth order for her and her siblings, which had been bugging me for a while. (Sissy is mentioned as the youngest, and given that Margaret was said to be engaged, while Charley left when she was still in school, I'm thinking Charley is the middle child.) I got strange vibes that Charley's father might be dead, although it was never explicitly mentioned. Also, I'm torn between whether her father is a baronet or a knight. Either one gets Louisa Pollard the title of "Lady," while the kids don't get any honorifics (I imagine that, since it's never been mentioned, Charley is just "Miss" and not "Honorable" or whatever.)

Oh, well. Time to make things up!

Though of course there's the Gallifrey audio about her sister, which I've not heard yet.

I haven't heard it either, and for the purposes of the thing I'm writing, I'm blithely ignoring its existence. *g*

Anansi Boys: Oh yes, read it when it first came out, loved it...Gaiman is my favorite writer. *g*

More and more I wonder if you and asinpterodactyl were separated at birth. *g*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Charley's family: Hmmm...I've not thought this through enough, it seems! I'd always sort of vaguely assumed Charley's sisters were older, that she was the baby of the family, but apparently that's wrong. Her father I'd just sort of assumed was your typical cliche distant aristocrat father, rather than dead...I dunno, though. Are you a member of the Outpost Gallifrey forum yet? I bet if you posted there all the facts--including any from the Gallifrey audios--would be compiled for you in no time. :?)

[icepixie]

I too thought that Charley was the youngest of the three sisters, but I can see her as a middle child as well. She's definitely not the oldest, though! Hee.

I only wonder if their father is dead because he's not mentioned at all in Zagreus, beyond Lady Pollard saying that Charley takes more after herself with her strong will, while Margaret and Cecilia have "more of their father in them." There's nothing to really confirm either way.

I'm resisting the OG forums because a.) I don't need the time-suck (or I won't, once I've graduated from job search-hell) and b.) frankly, they kind of scare me. *g*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Hmm...not much to add here, this all makes sense.

The OG forums aren't so bad...I tend to skim them. :?P I think they could certainly be of great help for this kind of project, though.