Aug. 22nd, 2010 05:30 am
riverdresses: (eight ; mad march hare)
Trying my imp of Galvanic Goggles out at the moment, which I was lucky to receive free in my last BPAL imp order.
Metallic notes with Indian musk, tobacco flower, and African balsam.

Erm . . . well, I did just put it on a few minutes ago, so maybe I need to let it sink in better, but so far, it's proving just too masculine for me. Plus, it's quite strong & I wasn't expecting it to be so strong, & I've got a fair bit on one wrist. (& it might have even got on my nose during my usual obsessive wrist-sniffing after I put it on)

I've been listening to the heap of audios I acquired in preparation for my new iTouch, which, somehow, Amazon is now informing me, has been lost in the mail. (Well, near enough, anyhow; they're going to call me back on Monday & if I haven't got it by then, they'll send me another one) Incredibly frustrating & disappointing, yes, especially since I've been waiting nearly a whole month for it & have been waiting years to actually get one.
But, audios! I have Situation Vacant, Nevermore, Solitare, Medicinal Purposes, Assassin in the Limelight, The Juggernauts, No Man's Land, City of Spires, Wreck of the Titan, Night's Black Agents, Legend of the Cybermen, Cobwebs & the stageplays. I've actually listened to City of Spires, Legend of the Cybermen, Solitare, Medicinal Purposes, Assassin in the Limelight, The Juggernauts & No Man's Land, along with a relisten of An Earthly Child earlier tonight.
No Man's Land was actually kind of disturbing, I have to say, but not on a Natural History of Fear level . . . it was more of a story I found very disturbing in how dark it was, rather than anything else. (& now I'm debating just how much Seven & Ace even care about Hex now) Medicinal Purposes & Assassin in the Limelight are loosely related, but I found the latter not quite as engaging as the former. It dealt with American history, which, despite bad Amercian accents, I love when the Doctor gets involved in, but . . . it just sort of left me cold. I think I preferred the conflicts between Six & Evelyn much more in Medicinal Purposes.

& Solitare, since it's newer & some silly capslockery )

& yes, I was a very bad girl & listened to City of Spires, then went right into Legend of the Cybermen - very, very bad Betsy! I couldn't help myself! THERE WAS ZOE & CYBERMEN & SIX & JAMIE & SIX & JAMIE & ZOE, I HAD TO DO IT!

If it makes anything better, I know there were bits I didn't understand due to not having heard the other two. But I wanted to save them to listen on my new iTouch. But I might end up listening to them sooner, since it's been lost. ::sigh:: Nothing's ever simple with me, alas. Ah, fuckery.

Also, I'm in a really big Eight mood for some reason. Not EDA-related, but solely audio-related. & maybe the TVM. & lots of Eight/Charley fic. & possibly some Zagreus-related fun. Hmm. Must find all of that, & quickly, if I may.

Hmm. How ironic this should happen when I'm nearly done with my silly little Eight/Fitz mix . . . thing. That I'm still not sure I should really be doing at all, because everyone I know & some that I don't know have done it all before & all far superior to what I could have done. But . . . I just like embarrassing myself, apparently, eh? ::shrugs blithely::

&&&&&

I was thinking back to this silly, whimsical post I made once, what feels like eons ago today. Goodness me, I was a silly bunny, wasn't I? Silly bunny, yes, but it was a fun exercise, thinking up each of the different bedrooms that the Doctor would have in all his different regenerations. Silly & delightful!

& so, I did it with BPAL after a while.

O, honestly - I always do this! It's really too much fun. ::giggle:: It's a lovely, silly, fun little game to play that I should play more often with people!

Though it can be rather hard. One is a very hard Doctor to pick for - he's the classical gentleman of the lot! Even more than Three & Eight! So it would have to be very subtle or traditional . . . as odd as it may sound, I might actually pick something from the Phoenix Steamworks Research Facility line - perhaps No. 93 Engine or even Galvanic Goggles - I keep thinking of One working on the TARDIS controls & engines a lot, for some reason, which makes me think of mechanics. Galvanic Goggles has a hint of tobacco flowers, which would also fit him, since One is said to be the only Doctor ever seen smoking a pipe once. Though No. 93 Engine matches the idea of him working on bits of the TARDIS better. Hmm. But Velvet in the Bewitching Brews section would be welcoming & cosy for him - after all, he is a grandfather: Envelop yourself in the soft, sensual embrace of gentle sandalwood warmed by cocoa vanilla and a veil of deep myrrh. I would actually say it's a perfect match!

Two's also a bit hard, I think. Something clean, but hardly easy to pin down. Nothing too traditional either, or anything honestly flirty - whatever it is, it's very quiet, yet memorable, like Two himself. Perhaps 51 from the Wanderlust collection: Luminescent, glowing, and otherworldly: green mandarin, neroli, honeydew, white amber, guava, freesia, white and green musks hovering over desert scrub, smashed wood, and the dry, biting scent of night air over the Groom Lake salt flats. It could be slightly overpowering, but if worn lightly, could be perfect!
Though he's also a very Zen space beatnik, so perhaps he'd enjoy Kathmandu: The scent of sacred incense swirling up the steep slopes to Swayambhunath Stupa. Saffron, blessed sandalwood, Himalayan cedar and the miraculous lotus of the Buddha with chiuri bark and Nepalese spices.

Of course . . . maybe he prefers Glasgow, to tease certain hot-blooded young Highlanders that he knows . . .

& of course, I had to ramble about the others as well! )

One day, I'll figure out something for Eleven. Promise. ::beams:: For now, I'm feeling quite weary & am longing to retire to bed. Goodnight all,
riverdresses: (dw ☄ eight ;; infinity made finite)
::beams merrily::

Today's post shall consist of the following things: smut, Doctor Who, smut, Doctor Who, dreams, the hot girls of Torchwood, a bit of Horatio Hornblower, wi-fi frustrations, memes, & Sunday Aeryn's adventures in life on falling asleep at four, then waking up at eight-thirty! (A.K.A known as the post of the massive LJ-cuts.)

So, dreams first, y/n/bunneh?

this is called my subconscious is a strange place to be. )

Okay, now the rest of the post.

smut, Eight/Charley, plotbunnies & Violet Blue. )

I'm thinking of making a moodtheme of the girls of (twenty-first century) Torchwood. I was going to just do a Gwen moodtheme, because I like Gwen, but I think a moodtheme of all the Torchwood gals would be even more fun! They're all win - Suzie, Tosh, Gwen & Martha. (yup, I'm counting Martha as a Torchwood girl - I wish she could be a full-time member!)

Also, I'm halfway through Lieutenant Hornblower. MY GOD, THE SUBTEXT. GETS THICKER EVERY PAGE. I need to get another two books. SOON. (I'd quote you a bit, but then you'd have two paragraphs worth of quotes & I haven't even FINISHED this instalment.

Mmmph. I WANT MORE.

& lastly, my wi-fi connection has been rather poor these past two days. NOT FUN, OKAY. & Firefox no longer opens up for me, for some reason. I assume it's related to River's total lack of space & I hope it is.

& because I love the five things meme, I played it with [livejournal.com profile] bornbackwards & [livejournal.com profile] nevacaruso!

[livejournal.com profile] bornbackwards gave me )

& [livejournal.com profile] nevacaruso gave me )

& GODDAMMIT, I NOW HAVE A BORDERS COUPON FOR FORTY PERCENT OFF ANY BOOK THIS WEEKEND. They WANT to ruin me, I swear. Horatio Hornblower, here I come!

Jan. 10th, 2009 10:42 pm
riverdresses: ([film.w&i] marwood ;; pretty & lost)
::sprawls out over LJ for no real reason::

(& also, heartpoints are very good, yes? Yes.)

♥ I had the most curious Wednesday. I was waiting at the bus stop when this rather odd fellow suddenly began a bit of a conversation with me. (I say 'odd', but really, the only word to aptly describe him would be 'tweaker'!) It wasn't a normal, how-do-you-do-my-the-weather-is-nice-today conversation. It was just a sort of strange conversation. He asked me if I'd ever heard of an anti-psychotic medication that I never had heard of & now I can't even remember the name of. Then we talked a bit of antidepressants & he asked me what my most favourite thing to do was. (I said something about things to do with words, as you'd expect.)

After a bit, he left to go find a water fountain & my bus came. I felt a bit guilty about leaving him, because I'm a dumb girl who wonders about the outcomes of such chance meetings, but I had to be somewhere & I didn't want to be late.

(Therapist says he was probably flirting with me. I . . . agree, shockingly. WHAT IS THAT ABOUT.)

♥ My cousin's baby shower is tomorrow. She's due next month on the twelfth - the same month Mummy & I have our birthdays. I'm actually looking forward to it, somehow, but I dread the socialising aspect of it. (must bring my medication with me tomorrow.)

♥ Stopped being a lazy girl & watched The Keeper of Traken & Castrovalva, both of which I can say I adored. DUDE, WHEN DID I START LIKING FIVE? 'cause I do like him a lot more now! & his regeneration was definitely one of the best ones the Doctor's ever had & by that I mean the utterly scatterbrained nature of it & the total confusion he was having every ten seconds. It made me kind of want to pet him & make him soup.

But that's not the biggest shock of mine - that would be that I think I'm a) starting to like Nyssa & Tegan (& maybe even Adric a tiny bit) a LOT & b) that during The Keeper of Traken, I was totally shipping Adric/Nyssa, then while I watched Castrovalva, I was all 'OMG TEGAN/NYSSA OMG SO FEMMESLASHY & AWESOME.' & I might have been casually flipping between 'ooo, Adric/Ainley!Master, anyone?' & 'Adric . . . you are very tedious after a time.'

(& FOUR. STOP GROPING HIM, PLEASE. I know you miss Romana, but QUIT PAWING THE BORING MATH GENIUS PLZ.)

But the ending of The Keeper of Traken made me a little sad, for obvious - or rather, not so obvious reasons - it made me sad because at the end, without ever knowing, Nyssa loses her father to the Master. & she never gets to say goodbye to him or even try & stop it. & then when she sees him again in Logopolis, she finds out that effectively, her father's dead to her. I . . . I think Nyssa got a really raw deal & I hate it. It was unfair to her & heartbreaking to see, even though it's so fast.

But it's not out of sympathy that I like her - Nyssa reminds me a bit of Zoe, so that automatically makes me like her! & she's not as annoying as I thought she'd be. Same with Tegan, somehow . . . in The Five Doctors, she annoyed the hell out of me. But in Logopolis & Castrovalva, I thought she was kind of cool. & I really want to see her in Time-Flight & I do hope she's more femmeslashy with Nyssa. I LOVE THE NYSSA/TEGAN.

So. I somehow went from detesting Five & his companions, save Turlough, from liking all of them, but being lukewarm on Adric. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN I DON'T GET IT WTF.

(I want more Five please.)

♥ Lately I've been having a bit of self-doubts about my signing up for [livejournal.com profile] getyourwordsout this year - self-doubt being along the lines of 'OMG why can't my wordcount be higher, why does everything I write suck, why can't I do anything else, o fuck, am I keeping Sarah & Romana in character (still working on that project, made it to part three, OMG), I suck, I shouldn't have signed up, I can't do things like this, I can't take pressure O CHRIST WHAT WAS I ON WHEN I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA I CANNOT WRITE TO SAVE MY LIFE GODDAMMIT.'

::breathes:: I guess everyone gets like that when they do something like this, but that's why I never take challenges or do things like this - I buckle under pressure at a certain point & I'm already obsessing on my wordcount instead of my story.

I hate that. I hate it when I get all about one aspect of anything I do & sort of let the rest meander along on its own merry way.

Um. At this point, a slap upside the head would not be turned away. As long as it brings with it some sense & a reminder of 'YOU MADE YOUR BED, NOW LIE IN IT, STUPID GIRL.'

& since we're on the subject of writing, I took the night off last night to watch (partially for research, but really because I wanted a break & I wanted to see this) The Dreamers. (Yes, I actually was doing research for my Sarah/Romana/Eight thing whilst watching.) It's a lovely film & yes, much sex happens in it, but I actually enjoyed the story far more than the sex. The story & the music, actually - The Doors were played!! ::squees::

(& o, Eva Green is a gorgeous girl. Unfairly gorgeous - why can't I look like that?!)

Okay, off to slog out another page or two for the night.

O! Before, I forget, day seven of the happiness meme!

♥ Getting to talk to my mei-mei [livejournal.com profile] softlyy last night for the first time in ages!! ::glomps her::
riverdresses: ([dw] four ;; laughter like windchimes)
HAPPY NEW YEAR SWEETHEARTS! ♥♥♥♥

& since I've been quiet: my holidays were lovely, I've lost three days & may lost tomorrow as well & I've spent so much on DVDs today when I should be saving my money.

ALSO! new moodtheme (which I may change in a few days I FOUND AN ANIMATED LIFE ON MARS ONE FUCK YEAH), new layout, a few new userpics & new userinfo!

(& um. I actually watched Logopolis tonight. It ended at exactly 12:59 AM. & gave me the feeling of numbness, sadness & somehow . . . peace. Mostly because I'm pretty sure I've reconciled my hatred/dislike for Five at this point in time. FIVE♥ But I highly doubt he'll replace Four or Eight in the category of MY Doctor[s].)
riverdresses: (four ;; figure it out)
I do seem to talk an awful lot about fashion, fandom, the combination of both & other such things, don't I? Though I think it would surprise some people to learn that I (very sadly) sometimes don't always practise the applications of such. & really, if I'm going to babble on about it constantly, I should apply it, shouldn't I?

Well, today, I decided I would.


A Theory of Practical Fandom to Fashion Influences in Everyday Styles, In Addition to a Semi-Comprehensive Fashion Review of The Third & Fourth Doctors, written & compiled by miss Sunday, in Her Sheer & Utter Madness.*

What it says on the tin, basically. )

caps: by myself in VLC Media Player. You're welcome to take them, but please credit me.
Episodes capped: The Three Doctors, The Claws of Axos (the Third Doctor), Robot & The Ark in Space (the Fourth Doctor).

*the title of this, obviously, is not meant to be taken seriously. I just thought it sounded cute. Have some fun please!

abandon hope all who enter here

Elizabeth (Betsy). Twenty-two, almost twenty-three, but perpetually seventeen. Whirls back & forth between vulgarity & delicacies like a dervish proper & has been known to disappear for months on end. Worshipper of Carroll, devotee of Lovecraft & BPAL hoarder absolute. Destined for the madhouse.

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