(o, this uncertainty is taking me over)

[riverdresses]

Eye exam tomorrow morning at nine-thirty. Grrrr. Definitely not looking forward to sporting my Tenth Doctor/Clark Kent specs or lacking my Edie Sedgwick-esque eye makeup. But I need an eye exam & more contacts quite badly, so sacrifices must be made, alas.

Damn, why don't I ever buy waterproof eye makeup? Waterproof eye makeup & defogger for my specs.

Screencapping continues to be a pain in my arse & there's a good chance that I'm just going to have to do it manually - screencapping is always nice, but doing it manually in VLC is such a drag - tedious, tiring & frustrating. But my caps just . . . vanish if I try to do it automatically, so if I want caps, I'll just have to do it all by hand. Ah, well. I've got some pretty subject matter to work with, so maybe it'll be less of a chore! It'll just take longer to get it all done.

& in less wah-wah-wah, I went skipping off to fanmix in search of Zod/Tess mixes & whilst I came up empty-handed (booo!) for them, I found - & yes, I'm shocked that I'm even going with this; but crack is fun - a really nice Zod/Lois mix! (Again, my shock is almost immeasurable, but Pandora is wicked shippy if you liked those two. & the phone fakeouts & Salvation up until the phonebooth scene are also pretty shippy. I'd . . . read it? & okay, maybe ship it. But I'm too busy scheming on how to promote moar Zod/Tess to think of them.)

I also forced myself to sit through watched Superman II last weekend. It was . . . well, not my thing, but it was nice. & I thought the fortress of solitude looked really Gallifreyan in design, which amused me during all the dull bits, i.e., the non-Zod or Clark bits.

& you know, the weirdest thing? I came out slightly hearteyes for Clark Kent. But then again, I've never been overly fond of Superman - he bores me, actually, & I was a Batman girl as a child. But Clark? Awww! He gets me right in my heart because of that sweet awkwardness he has. I like cutely awkward sorts!

Hmm. I remember once talking with nentari about how Sarah Jane Smith, in her early serials with Three, was very Lois Lane-esque herself, even in her wardrobe & overall look. I definitely saw that in the film & I sort of see it in Smallville!Lois too, even though I don't think she & Sarah are as much alike there. I think Smalliville!Lois is maybe a bit more Martha Jones-esque (especially in Pandora!) than Sarah-esque, but they're still a fair bit alike. But, hey, I loved Martha too, so it's a win-win situation all around.

& I'm pretty sure all of that preamble was just so I could mention how the Genesis song Me and Sarah Jane made me think of Clark & Lois without everyone thinking I'd lost my mind. (well, it sort of does! I think you just have to use your imagination to make it fit a bit.)

I went back to using my Twitter today at wordsindreams' enabling suggestion, since she's using hers more lately. I'm riverdresses there as well, should you want to follow me! (I update way too much there; you've been warned)

Hmm. Sort of want to practise my eye makeup now in lieu of of being able to wear any tomorrow - I know some of it will stay on & make it look like I have some on, so I'd have more of a Nico-esque, rather than Edie-esque look.

Also, LJ fucked around with the tags again, & made it so that any tag with a slash is basically a broken link, so I have to start reorganising my tags soon. GAH, WHAT THE FUCK WAS WRONG WITH THE OLD SYSTEM, REALLY.

Edit: AAAAH OMG, THE MAKER OF SAID MIX MADE A BUNCH OF BEAUTIFUL ZOD & ZOD/LOIS ICONS FUCK YES! ::DANCES:: (It's been a bitch to find good, gorgeous, awesome Zod-centric icons. I DO NOT APPROVE. ::hisses:: brb, swiping & uploading all of them.)

Edit II: I forgot to add above, that after a little thinkythink (& seeing the Zod/Lois icons I flailed about above), I've come to the conclusion that Zod/Lois = Simm!Master/Martha, but somehow, not as squick-inducing for me. (I can read Simm!Master/Martha, but it kind of makes me uncomfortable & I've never figured out why.) Zod/Lois, on the other hand is just hot & twisted, & not like Zod/Tess - that's just evil & hot. So I could feasibly enjoy them more than I ever could Simm!Master/Martha. Go figure.

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Part 2 of my letter:

As part of my research I ordered some VHS tapes, one from each Doctor prior to the Vegetable Man; I got An Unearthly Child, The Troughton Years and The Pertwee Years, and tried to get Genesis of the Daleks - but I messed up that last order and ended up with Death to the Daleks instead. I have to say I wasn't as disappointed with the story as I'm sure Tony must expect, but I guess that's because I had no expectations and was unaware of Terry Nation's tendency to recycle plotlines. The only thing that made me think "what the hell...?" was the infamous cliff-hanger to episode 3.
Anyway, I was hooked. BBC Prime was airing the show at a rate of two episodes a week, with both being repeated side by side on weekends, and I did not miss a single one ever since. My father would sometimes catch a few minutes of it, and complain that he couldn't understand how I could watch such rubbish. Invariably, he'd conclude his rant with: "You know what's a good sci-fi show? The Tomorrow People!"

So that's how I discovered Doctor Who. A Portuguese cable channel has been airing the new series for the past few years, but so far they've only shown it up to Journey's End. My 8-year-old cousins (identical twin girls) love it almost as much as I do, and because they're mostly only familiar with Eccleston and Tennant I've taken it upon myself to show them stories from the other Doctors. Some time ago I've shown them The Eleventh Hour and The Beast Below, and they absolutely adored Matt Smith; the scene where he's trying all sorts of food is their absolute favourite Who moment, and luckily for us they're yet to request we make them some fish custard. When I decided it was time to show them some Old Who, however, I had to stop and think. What would be the best choice? I considered several options from my DVD collection, and eventually chose The Mind Robber - first, because Patrick Troughton is my favourite Doctor; second, because I felt that the story, with its theme of fantasy and literature, would appeal to them as they love reading and recognize several of the characters from books or cartoon adaptations; and third, because they don't speak English and the BBC DVDs (obviously) don't have Portuguese subtitles, so I have to translate things for them, and if that's the case what better way to endure a session of translation and explanations than with one of my absolutely favourite stories from my absolutely favourite Doctor and companion? And I'm happy to say this was the perfect choice. The idea was to show them only an episode a day, but after episode one was over they started pleading for me to show me the next one; after that one was over they asked to see more, and next thing I knew we had watched all five episodes and they were sad because they were still ready for a few more. They then went outside to play, and after some ten minutes I started to hear them arguing; I went to see what was happening, and I heard the following:
"But I want to be Zoe!"
"No, I'm Zoe and you're the Karkus!"
"But the Karkus is mean and ugly!"
"Yeah. So?"