To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

Teasers:


( 50 in total under the cut )

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I was listening to Stones of Venice again as I was making these. I'd forgotten how much I like that one. It's so cracktastically fabulous in so many ways; I'd love to see it filmed. (Actually, I'd love to see ANYTHING related to Eight and Charley filmed, because dude, Eight and Charley.) And you can play Spot the Literature Title with it! Well, One Hundred Years of Solitude is mentioned in the fourth part, and of course there's the title, taken from Ruskin's work of the same name. (I say "of course," but really I only realized that this week. Does this mean I have to give up my snobby intellectual card?) Probably there are others, and I just wasn't paying close enough attention.

I still love the ending, where the Doctor tells Charley she's his best friend. Awww. While he's doing the gondolier act, I might add; given the footage from Shada with Four and Romana on the river, I think we can totally draw the conclusion that the Doctor likes to take his girlfriends punting when they're on dates. *cough* *g*

Various Old Skool Who icons, plus a few new series ones. Most are new(ish); some I've been using for a while and have just been too lazy to upload for public consumption. Spoilers through "The Idiot's Lantern."



( Six icons from the Four and Sarah Jane episode 'The Pyramids of Mars' )

( 16 others, Five through Ten (minus Seven, but including the Eight audios) )

( and one extra of David Tennant, just because )

Comments and credit are appreciated. Dress them up as you please. Brushes from Hybrid-Genesis, caps either my own or from the DWIA.

How's that "no yearnings" thing working out for ya, then?

( Heh. (Spoilers for 'Time Works') )

So I watched a whole lot of TV last week. Sunday night, we showed Kate and Meg "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances," because everyone needs to see those. I showed them the Fifth Doctor two-parter (only 20 minutes each, thank God) "Black Orchid," then I showed it to Chandra. (Ellen couldn't take the eightiesness of it and had to leave partway through. Silly girl.) So...lots of TV. Followed by lots more TV, with a side helping of audios.

And here's lots of commentary. Lengthwise, it's the equivalent of a ten-page essay. Yeah. Amazing what a bit of NO MORE SCHOOL EVER until grad school/library school will do for one's time and inclination towards fannish activities. Now I just need to put some of this energy towards finding a job...

( Black Orchid ramblings )

On Monday (or possibly it was Tuesday) I also watched ( Earthshock )

I also got my hands on a copy of the parody, ( The Curse of Fatal Death )

( One more thought about TEC/TDD, with a reference to TGitF )

( And finally, the promised Eighth Doctor Audios spaz post. Spoilers through 'Other Lives.' )

Ah, Doctor Who night. We snared laserhead, pezprez, and Meg for "Dalek." Hee. Then we blew each other up with Nintendo. Ahhh, fun times in the flat.

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In other Wholiganisms, I've been listening to a few of the Big Finish Eighth Doctor audios (namely Scherzo, The Chimes of Midnight, Storm Warning, and Neverland; why yes, I am going in a very erratic order).

I'm truly amazed at how well-done these are. I've tried listening to radio drama before on two occasions, and it never took. One was some forgettable contemporary sitcom I ran into on iTunes radio when I was bored. The other was the original War of the Worlds. I figured if that classic didn't take, then audio drama wasn't for me. These are, though. They're fantastic. Maybe it's due to seeing DW in some version on TV--although I haven't seen the McGann movie, and obviously Charley was created just for the audio plays--but it's more likely because Paul McGann and India Fisher play their characters, and play off each other, so very well, and the guest actors are quite good, too. Plus those sound effects guys are amazing. Okay, so there does of necessity have to be a certain amount of spoken description of the surroundings that can, in the wrong hands, get a bit grating; the Doctor having two long spells of doing such in "Storm Warning" got kind of old, even if he did make a joke about talking to oneself being the first sign of madness. But. Generally they don't have to resort to that, though; it's rather amazing how much of an environment you can convey through sound alone.

Charley is fast becoming one of my most favorite characters ever, in any medium. She's like a cross between Rose and Cassandra Mortmain (of I Capture the Castle, a book which, if you haven't read, you should check out RIGHT NOW) with something else uniquely her own. I think I may like her more than I like Rose, in fact. And of course India Fisher is fabulous. She's so exuberant and eager and lively, she just sucks you right into the story even if it's only audio and you have to make up the visuals yourself. Plus, she's adorable. I want a little version of her I can keep in my closet and pull out when I'm sad; she'd cheer anyone right up.

There's something about Paul McGann's voice or accent that bugs me just a little, but he's certainly very good at this voice acting thing. ( There's a spoiler for 'Scherzo' and 'Chimes of Midnight' in here )

So, yeah. Audio = good. It's been quite nice for the hours I've been stuffing envelopes at the Kenyon Review this week; something to keep my from going crazy while I do a monotonous task, and a monotonous task to keep my hands occupied while I listen to the plays.

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I'm thisclose to finishing my story for Fiction. I need another three scenes, basically, and then I can give it an edit and have it be done, at least in this version of it. It's really either a short story or a novella trapped in novelette form (currently ~7,000 words; will probably be ~8,500 when I'm done), and I'm not sure whether I need to cut it down or expand it. I'm leaning towards the latter, but...that's for after I turn it in on Tuesday. Because whoa, there are some revisions that need more than a weekend.

Anyway, because I'm not using it for my final piece, that means I didn't have to turn it in today, and it can be turned in on Tuesday, as I said. elflore, when I send it to you (it will be by tomorrow evening--er, this evening--because I really have other work I have to get to, and THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE, OMG), take as long as you like reading it.

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Ooof. Bed. Or shower, at any rate...