So while I was busy ignoring everyone again, Remix happened. My brave remixer decided to tackle Integration in Reverse, which a couple of you will remember is that thing I wrote once that almost nobody knows wtf even happens in it. So I was kind of already impressed before I even read it. The result is a neat fixity remix which, given a certain line from The Neil Gaiman Episode, is probably a good prediction as well.

It can be found here: Disintegration (The Next Chapter Remix) by such_heights (Doctor/River and characters from the Library episodes, gen though I suppose it's also het, probably around PG just for one character hitting on another, no warnings I can think of, about 2k words).

That was one concise mini-header I just wrote.

I really wish I still had my data ghost icon.

1) It's going to be hilarious when he doesn't actually set off the bomb, and nearly all the fic out there is instantly Jossed. I may applaud.

2) Have strong desire to write genderswap fic in which John is still named John but Sherlock has a feminine equivalent of his name. It will be plotty and not just a weirdly structured essay on feminism. Sherlock will actually be a sociopath.

I don't know how to write genderswap. I almost never even read genderswap. Is there a manual somewhere? Have any advice? What would I know if I were familiar with the genre? And what can I possibly call Sherlock?

Title: The Console
Characters: Mickey, Ten, Rose
Rating: Everyone
~1700 words
No spoilers as it's just set in some vague part of early series 2.

Summary: Mickey thought the console room needed more console. The Doctor almost objected, until Mickey added, "The princess is blonde." This was the result.

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Title: The Rooftop Scene
Characters: Jo, Eleven, Mickey, Lazarus
Rating: PG for a monster?
~1500 words.
No warnings, spoilers only for The Lazarus Experiment.

Summary: A scene from The Lazarus Experiment, with the cast swapped out for The Eleventh Doctor, Jo Grant, and Mickey Smith.

Notes: For the Doctor Swap Fic Meme. Though I'm not sure I really changed enough. It's pretty much all little character stuff.

( Jo admired him, her boss, the sponsor of the new life she was making for herself. )

I need some kind of writer's group thingy, but for fic. Or just like, a good fic-discussing friend or two. To bounce ideas off of each other, and so there's someone to lament to and ask for advice when I realize hours into a project that it's deeply flawed and I can't fix it. Where do I find such people? Are you interested? (And familiar with Doctor Who?) Are there any active comms for this?

(To be clear, I don't mean a beta. I mean for discussion way before finished fic appears.)


And apologies in advance for the four or five posts I'm going to spam up your flists with this weekend. Blame Remix. And procrastination.

I direct everyone to this nifty fic meme where you post a mix of Doctor and companion(s), and then someone gives you an episode and you stick your team into a scene from it. Yes, it is available to you new series-only and Torchwood types. If you get there quickly enough, you can tell me to use your favorite episode and there's a chance I'll actually do it.

Also once I stop being angsty over the fact that the Doctor doesn't sound like the Doctor and the second half has almost nothing to do with the first, I need a beta for a 1700-word fic where Mickey gets Ten hooked on Super Mario Bros., and then Rose saves the day.

(Yeah I know, way to sell it.)

0 words. Seriously.

A big cold hit me when I was supposed to be planning. Then IRL stuff came up, which is why I haven't posted since October.

I also defaulted on a ficathon. Go me.

My River fic is at 5,688 words and nothing close to done. I may cheat and try to make that 56k words. I want to get it done before it gets jossed by the Christmas Special. 56k would take a pretty serious B plot though.

I need guidance. Or like, words. :(

There was an RTD quote from an interview, or a panel, or a commentary, or a confidential, or that book. It was along the lines of:

'There were so many times when I almost put in a line saying "Thank goodness we all got 200 extra regenerations to fight in the Time War."'

I would like the exact quote. Does anyone know where this is from? Anything to narrow it down would help. Google gives me lots of Rassilon and Master stuff with "for the time war" and lots of spoilers for about anything else I can think of to try.

The quote is at least as old as 2009. (I found someone else referencing it in December.)

Hey everybody, check out eleven_romana, a ficathon about like some time lords or something. Signups are open until the 23rd and due dates are scattered throughout November (you claim a day). They take pretty much any length and genre, too. They even take art and graphics, but you should do fic because then I could read it.


There's still most of a day left of fic_rush. The perfect way to work on your eleven_romana submission! There will also be a round in the middle of NaNoWriMo. The perfect way to work on your nearly overdue eleven_romana submission!

From platoapproved.

1. Find a sentence / stanza / paragraph from a book / poem / what have you that you adore.
2. Write it out, along with the name of the source and the author's name, using your usual handwriting (and for extra points, your favourite pen)
3. Scan it / take a picture of it / etc. and post it in the comments.
4. Copy this to your journal

I present to you the following IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION.

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I asked this in fic_rush and lolmac helpfully suggested a poll. Which doomed fic idea should I use for NaNoWriMo, which I have stupidly decided to attempt?

( Cut for verticalness. )

Was going to just post "Not dead. More later" and then vanish again, but realized I was a bit lacking in the "more later" department.

Basically I didn't ever pop back in and let people know I was leaving because I was sure I was a couple days away from coming back anyway, and then after the first month or two I forgot all about it. Then I didn't come back as soon as I could have because that involved 116 gmails and figuring out what to put in this post and how to apologize to all the people who I was supposed to be helping run comms and stuff.

Sorry everyone.

Now I will go start leaving comms I'm still in and shouldn't be. Then I will ponder the expense of getting my paid account and icon expansion back. And whether I should continue where I left off in the 30-Day TV Meme even though it probably wouldn't be funny to anyone but me if I did.

Hilariously, nowgold still hasn't noticed that I accidentally got left as maintainer of wlbronze after helping run a game one afternoon in May.

Procrastinating on the 30-Day TV Meme because I can't think of a best scene ever. Might cheat and do a top 10 good ones I can think of right now, or something.

In the meanwhile, I want to ask the world where all the Squall's Dead-compatible fic is. Come on, people!

I'd probably write some myself (ad for fic_rush here) if I had any ideas for it. Which I'm open to, btw.

Day 08 - A show everyone should watch

The original Star Trek.

Star Trek is the great grandmommy of all those other scifiish shows about a crew having a series of adventures in space. You know, Stargate. Battlestar Galactica, mostly. Babylon 5. Blake's 7. Farscape. Other versions of Star Trek, and Andromeda. Basically an entire genre -- a big, popular one -- is copying, drawing from, and attempting (attempting) to improve upon Star Trek, directly or indirectly. I know Gene Roddenberry didn't invent the concept, but he did permanently make it a part of TV by creating a really good show.

Which also, as a bonus, has Uhura in it. <3

For such an old show, Star Trek holds up really well. The pacing doesn't suck, like with a lot of other old shows I've seen. The plots often make sense. While imperfect, Star Trek is a lot more politically correct than you'd expect for its time and even beats some shows being made today. The characters were so memorable that they've stayed in the public's mind for 40 years. Everyone knows who Spock is.

So basically, taking "everyone" to mean "people who have ever shown an interest in scifi" (other people don't count anyway), Star Trek is something everyone needs to see.

In an effort to spend at least five minutes today not thinking about awesometopia (which you should all join, especially if you're into pirates, fish, or dragons), I'm going to catch up on a couple days' worth of this meme. I keep forgetting about it. :\

BTW, since I'm advertising things and the rest of this post is about RTD-era Doctor Who, I might as well mention rewatch_tennant. It's a live-blogging-style rewatch of Tenth Doctor episodes. We meet Sundays at 9AM PDT. I think Gridlock is next. Some of us are conspiring to make the mod do Hamlet at some point.

( My most & least favorite Doctor Who episodes. Virtually no RTD hate this time! )

I have no idea what to do for the next two days, but I'm sure at least one of them won't be about Doctor Who. This meme starts with the obvious questions and then gets more creative, so my answers will get more varied as it goes on.

awesometopia, is up and running. Signups are open right now, and the first challenges are up with more on the way soon. I'm going to steal a blurb from co-mod crumplysnorkack:

awesometopia is a multi-fandom land community. (If it's geeky, it's welcome here.) Members compete in graphics and writing contests, play games, and do all manner of weird and awesome things to earn points for their teams: Team Dragons, Team Piratefish, or Team Rocketgeese. At the end of the round, the team with the most points wins.

The intro/faq post is here, and this is the sign-up post.

Pass it on. :)

I may make a big post about Lost, Cold Blood, or both later tonight. In the meantime, here are some days I missed in the 30-Day TV Meme.

( My favorite and least favorite shows, cut for length. )

LJ is being incredibly slow for me these last few days. I'm now looking at a tab bar full of "http://...l.com/" because pages here aren't even loading without trying them several times. Is this happening to everyone? Did I miss a maintenance announcement?


30-Day TV Meme, day 2: A show that you wish more people were watching
(Off by a day because I was planning to skip days 2&3, and then I decided to steal someone else's answer for day 2.)

The Sarah Jane Adventures!

Basically, RTD took his Doctor Who and split it in half, putting all the good things about it into SJA and all the bad ones into Torchwood. So SJA is made of cracky adventures, silly aliens, and best friends running around having a crazy fun time. In the middle of all the ridiculous alien plots, there are often deep emotional messages. Things that the main characters learn and grow from. This kids show can be deeper than most serious "adult" shows. But mainly, it's the cracky adventures.

The one good thing that's missing from Doctor Who is, of course, the Doctor. But you know what SJA does have? LUKE AND CLYDE. Definition of adorable. And Clyde is one of the coolest, funniest characters on TV. Also, I heard there's some old companion or something on the cast, idk. The whole team are BFFs there to have fun together. I really enjoy watching that.

SJA is just a very fun and heartwarming show. I can't think of any good reason that it isn't more popular.


Still skipping day 3 because it asks for my favorite new show this season. The only new show I can even name is Happy Town.

At this point, I feel comfortable saying that Lost is a good show.

I understand everything except this: ( SPOILERY LOST QUESTIONS )

Question and then a meme. I need to replace my external HDD. I'm going to buy one where the connection between the cord and the drive is just another USB slot, so that if the cord wears out, I can replace it with a new one and not have to replace the drive itself again.

Do any of you know of good brands or models, or ones I should avoid?


Now this meme:

From joking, faeriesfolly, and in the time it's taken me to get to this, pitry as well: the 30 Day TV Meme.

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled

ARGH TV NETWORKS! I don't take a show seriously until it's been canceled, they're so bad about this. I grew up in a world where Doctor Who was a canceled show. There are so many obvious ones here: Firefly, Farscape, Star Trek (I mean come on), Dollhouse, Angel.

I'm going with Invasion.

Invasion was basically Invasion of the Body Snatchers reimagined as a big network TV series of the same vintage as Lost. (In fact, the only Lost I ever watched on actual TV was a bit of a rerun of the pilot, while I waited for Invasion to come on.) It had a fascinating ongoing plot that was never resolved because of the cancellation. Invasion had some great dramatic scenes that stuck in my mind for years between when it aired and when I finally got to rewatch it. The characters weren't as great as those of the shows above, but most of them were interesting, and some had mysteries surrounding them that were also never resolved. Plus there were actually kids. Sometimes TV is a bit like Morrowind, and I'm sitting there waiting for Emma to make a mod to fix it. But not Invasion. It was also pretty, on account of the big network budget.

But apparently, there's only room for one big Mysterious Plot Show at a time, and Lost won. (By the way, don't bet on Happy Town as the next one. Just saying.)

( For meme purposes, the list of the other 29 days is under this cut. )