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.

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[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.