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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.

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel OMG AWSOME.
listening to Portishead ♦ Over

Firstly, meme time! (since I forgot to do it in my last entry.)

( The Letter Meme! )

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I persuaded Mother to come & watch Withnail & I with me tonight. I swear, she was half-asleep during it, even if she claims otherwise. But she said she liked it, & that she liked it a lot more than she'd expected to. I of course, still adore it, even on the fourth viewing & I still laugh like the craziest of girls through most of it.

& I realised (I promise, I won't babble!) just why that girl, the girl that I had known so long ago, liked that film. When I remember her, I remember the sort of girlie she was & I realise, that would have been a perfect film for her. & she loved British things so much. & now, I wish I could ask her what she thought of it.

O, silly girlies we both were.

& I miss her still.

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So. I'm sure a fair few of you are familiar with the community

loves_them_all, which celebrates all those who've travelled with the Doctor throughout the years. I love that community; it's one of the things that helped me start watching the classic series & introduced me to so many amazing people who travelled with the Doctor. It's where I first met Romana & where I first met Harry & where I got a closer look at Sarah Jane - the companion who pulled me into classic!Who. It's how I discovered Susan & why I know I have to see at least one of her stories. Since then, I've dug all around the place, looking at various tributes & essays on all of the different people who've walked in & out of the TARDIS in the Doctor's nine centuries of life.

But, as far as I know, there's no similar community that celebrates the Doctor himself, in all of his different regenerations & timelines. I know some of the more popular of his regenerations have their own communities - off the top of my head, there's

venusianakkido for Three &

halfhumandoctor for Eight, though I know there are a few more out there.

But I'd really love to see one community where everyone can just discuss the Doctor, no matter what version, in one place. A single place, much like

loves_them_all, where information, essays & all of that kind of stuff related to just the Doctor can be kept & those interested in learning more about past regenerations of the Doctor can go & have an easier time finding out what they want to know.

(Of course, I'm remembering how I had to find out about various Doctors - I still don't even know anything about about three of them - I just sort of picked up what I could find, by reading up on different companions, reading what others said about certain Doctors & basically, just scrabbling around in some very dim light for information because I had no idea of anywhere else I could look. & also, I HAVE been over to

idol_reflection & came up with almost nothing.

ship_manifesto has a few Doctor Who related entries, but those are of a shippy nature, obviously, & I'd prefer to just read about the Doctor himself.)

So, I suppose, what I'm asking you bunnies is this: if there IS a community like that on LJ, & if there isn't, should there be one?

& also, this sort of stems from my sadness & slight annoyance of the slight lack of classic series related fanworks & things related to that - I know there's

classicwho, but it's been a bit quiet lately, as

greenbubblewrap's been, if my memory's right.

Basically, I want to see more classic!Who discussion, focused on the classic!Doctors & a little less on the new series. Like I said, it would also be nice to have such a place for those who know zippo about any classic Doctor to go & learn more, & for those that adore the original eight, to have a place that caters specifically to them.

(Or is this just me being mad bitchy that I can't find anyone who will flail/discuss/witter on with me about how fabulous Two is?)

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I've a holiday tomorrow, not sure what I'll be doing though. I should finish up The Sarah Jane Adventures - gah, I've been so terribly lazy about watching the rest of it! (Bad Sunday, no cookies for you!) So maybe I'll do that tomorrow.

Edit: I'm listening to the Living Legend audio featuring Eight & Charley & OMG it's so cute. Charley dressed up as & pretending to be a Time Lady! (& she makes a very good one too!) Eight in proper Time Lord fashion! (I rather abhor the fashions of Gallifrey, but o, Eight & Four could wear them rather well . . .)

( & omg this biiiiit )

::bangs head on desk:: I will not write this, I will not write this, I will not write this, I will not smut up Eight & Charley, I will not smut up Eight & Charley, I will not smut up Eight & Charley ~~no matter how much I think Eight deserves it~~ . . .

~~O, the smut bunnies are going to war with my insecurities & sensibilities right now . . .~~

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel thoughtful
listening to Matt Elliott ♦ Berlin and Bisenthal

Spent roughly four hours screencapping The Ark in Space for part two of the great big ongoing Harry!spam. For some reason, my caps this go seemed to turn out even more shitty than before. I don't know why, I didn't do anything different from before. ::sigh:: I hate capping in VLC.

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I'm continuing to nestle happily in my vintage!Who obsession. I like it here - a girlie could stay forever, if she wished.

Which is most likely why I found myself, on this rather warm, early fall day, contemplating different Doctors & their bedrooms. O, no, I don't mean it like that, I mean I was merely contemplating how would they all decorate & furnish their boudoirs throughout each regeneration. I couldn't imagine them all sleeping in the same room they preferred in their last cycle, or even in the same physical setting - how dull! I'm sure each of them had such maddeningly different tastes & aesthetics that they'd just have to redecorate when they regenerated, don't you?

& as you might imagine, whilst reflecting on such matters, my attention turned to the sort of room I'd prefer to live my days in - I just hate the way my room is now - it's neat, but it is so incredibly dull & boring. It's even worse at night, because there is simply nothing to ever look at! It's horrible.

My ideal room (& o, come now, how can this be ideal if it could probably be achieved if one invests a little effort & such things?), I think, well, rather, has always been, since I was a tiny thing & could see such similar things, very much like Inara Serra's shuttle in Firefly. Lots of dense, silky curtains all around the room, fat, full piles of pillows on the floors & all across the furniture. Only where Inara favoured reds & golds & darker, earthier, more sensual colourings, mine would be populated by the richest blues & pinks & purples & silvers, with maybe a touch of light, opalescent green silkiness in places, just to liven my room up even more. I'd adore the ceiling to have a beautiful spacescape, maybe something very similar to this, only minus the TARDIS, of course! (though I would make such a commission on the grounds that it had to look as three-dimensional as possible - a piece that, if you stand far away from it, or aren't expecting it, looks almost like it exists in the physical realm - a bit of a mind game, for myself & for my visitors!

I'd enjoy the idea of instead of having a silly traditional sort of bed, to have a great big round one, but hopefully it wouldn't be as tacky as those ugly, tasteless things they have in honeymoon suites! A round bed is far superior to a rectangular, commonplace one, I think - you'd be less likely to outgrow it, if you should still be growing. Also, there's be less danger in falling out of a round bed if you're prone to night terrors as some people are. & of course, should you find yourself entertaining a guest, a round bed would probably have far more space for each of you to sleep, possibly without ever having to come in contact with each other, should that be your intention. (if not, well, you'd still have plenty of room to move around on a round bed!)

(& also, I rather adore the symbolism of a circular bed in one's room.)

Though it would be hard to find nice sheets & bedding for a circular bed - you'd have to have everything custom made, since I don't think that they make fitted sheets for circle-shaped beds. (though a circular fitted sheet would be far easier to fold than those rather troublesome rectangular ones!) & having satin sheets custom made would be expensive, unless you're quite good at making things like this! Then you'd only have to worry about the fabric.

Of course, in my room, I would go just one step beyond a simple circular bed. All my life, I've wished for a canopy bed, or one with curtains all around it - those sorts of beds are just so beautiful! & if you enjoy your bed, you'll sleep better, I think. But in my case, I'd love the bed to have a gazebo-inspired overhead - a white tipped wooden roof, with the bed in the center, of course, & white, almost transparent curtains on every side. Having little low side walls, like a proper gazebo would be even more wonderful!

& if one truly wanted a gazebo-esque setting, you could find a way to add teeny flowerboxes at the top & grow jasmine & honeysuckle in them. Imagine having a wreath of real honeysuckle&jasmine about your head as you slept - you'd never need incense or sleeping pills again!

If I had a room like this, I would not mind being in it most of the time. A prison is still a prison nevertheless, even with the finest silks & satins, but this would be a lovely one indeed.

(& o, because I am such a silly girlie as you well know, I couldn't resist the urge to babble about the Doctor's boudoir for a bit!)

( &&three! )

( &&four! )

( & I felt a bit guilty that Four & Three got to play, but the others didn't! )

(o, darlings, will you forgive me for leaving Five, Six & Seven out?) I can't stand Five or Six, & Seven I know absolutely nothing about, other than his companion Ace is one I NEED to meet.)

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel good
listening to Tori Amos ♦ Liquid Diamonds

The First Annual "Because We Are Awesome" Drabble-a-thon, as hosted by medie.

Everyone. GO. SUBMIT PROMPTS. Or just pimp it out. It looks awesome & I CANNOT wait to see the awesome ficlets that'll come out of it. My prompts are here & OMG, HOW HAPPY AM I TO SEE THAT I WAS NOT THE FIRST GIRL TO OFFER TEN/REINETTE PROMPTS. Look!

Hmm. I wasn't going to update for a bit, since I've been updating so much & I'm just so boring, but since I'm here, I might as well.

I'm trying to read a bit more, lately. I finished The Time Traveler's Wife yesterday & started House of Leaves today. I loved The Time Traveler's Wife, even though it made me so sad at the end & in certain places. It's beautifully written though, & made me think lots of Rose & Ten. House of Leaves is good so far, very spooky & twisty & scary. I wasn't going to buy it at all today, but whe I contemplated putting it back, I had a sensation that I often get, of a book that I'm thinking of buying, or reading, getting stuck to my hand & not letting me put it back. That happens a lot to me & I never regret paying for said book.

& I realised yesterday why I don't like to buy used books as much as I used to.

You see, when I go into a secondhand bookshop, no matter how big it is, I am instantly overcome with feelings I can't describe very well . . . it's like being hit with so much knowledge & memory & nostalgia all at once & it can be very overwhelming. For me, I enjoy the feeling very much, but it can get so intense that I actually have to close my eyes & stop moving for a bit, just to process everything. Sometimes it helps if I touch the spines. Or when I (seeeeeeeeeecretly!) rest my head on them & take a few deep breaths. It's just feeling so much when I go inside. It always happens, but less intensely, if it's a place I've been in before.

Then, I feel almost guilty when I buy something, at times. Secondhand books can be very intimate things, I think. You never know who owned them before, how much they loved them, why they gave them up in the first place. When I open the cover, hear it crack, inhale the scent of the pages, it's like stealing a peek into a person's life. Secretly knowing them without ever seeing their faces. Skipping the awkward chitchat & cutting deep to the bone of a person.

It's the easiest way to know a person - through their books. Especially if they're marked & underlined & folded over at the bottoms. You want to run your fingers down the pages & try to glean why this passage meant so much to them that they chose to underline it in soft lead or number two pencil, or why it held such knowledge to them that they folded down the corners of the pages to always keep those words close.

It really is like looking into a person's mind, especially if the book is so clearly loved.

I like to mark my own books up. To buy them new, savour the virgin scent, rub the paper between my fingers, know that it's free to be imprinted with my thoughts & feelings. Every book to me can be like a diary of how I feel about it, if it's new. If not, my thoughts will just conflict with those of it's last holder & I'll just get so confused & not know what's mine or theirs anymore.

So I like to buy mine new. Buy mine new, slather them with my thoughts, my opinions, my emotions. Mark the pages recklessly, noting everything, writing little spontaneous things in the margins, bending & double bending & triple bending the bottoms to remember everything.

Always in pencil. The impermanence of ink lasts just a little too long on books for me. I hate it. Pencil please.

♥♥♥

Acquired more Doctor Who for my iPod today! She now has The Shakespeare Code, The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords, School Reunion & The Girl in the Fireplace on her now! Tomorrow will be The Idiot's Lantern, then some non-iPod stuffs.

& I also have a new layout, friends-only banner & pretty new userinfo! Go seeeee!

galadarling's outfit for today is so awesome! & her story is most lovely to read.

& I've taken this version from

shanaqui, because I like the way she does it better!

Take at least six new photographs every day for a week. No skipping. Post your photographs each day, sometime after the last picture is taken. You can babble about them as much or as little as you want!

I need to do more creative sort of things. More reading. Writing. Photographing. Not be so lazy & sluggish in this spring weather.

& lastly.

( on writing. & other stuffs. )

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel contemplative
listening to PJ Harvey ♦ A Perfect Day Elise

Okay. So I don't do squee posts/episode recaps anymore because min e SUCK TO THE NINTH LEVEL OF HELL & BACK, but here are just a coup0le of things about Midway that I loved.

( Stargate Atlantis 4.17 - Midway )

So! While waiting for Midway, I watched Trio, which I missed last week, due to my own laziness & Seinfeld marathons. As I watched, I flipped about during commercials & found a nice, odd, interesting film with James Spader in it.

Betsy: "Ooo, James Spader!" ::watches during commercials::
Betsy: ::catches a scene in which James Spader makes out with another guy::
Betsy: ::DEAD FROM THE HOT::

. . . I got David Hewlett & James Spader making out with guys in ONE NIGHT. NOTHING CAN TOP THAT. ~~Unless it was David Hewlett making out with James Spader, of course . . .~~

Whee, it was a nice Friday today. While waiting for the bus, I poked my nose into a couple of shops in the Haight & in one, I found several BEAUTIFUL & PERFECTLY RIVER dresses on sale in sizes that may actually fit me! They aren't yellow, but OMG they are just LOVELY. (also, I saw something I want to send you,

elite.) I think I'm going to go back there tomorrow & buy one. Also, the weather was so nice & I got to wear one of my lovely riverdresses!

Hmm . . . I swear, I actually had something to say, but apparently, I don't anymore. So let's have a meme I stole from

pocky_slash.

( fic survey of dooooooooom. )

Okay, that came out a little more depressing than I meant it to. & GODDAMN, THAT'S A LOT OF TAGS.

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel happy
listening to Tori Amos ♦ Code Red

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