1. Barrowman's collapse into depression after "Ballgate" is horribly familiar - it's what I went through during Racewank '07. I'm a terrible person, everyone hates me, my life is over. Anger helped me rally, too.

2. No, fandom, John didn't tell you at Torchsong that he'd injured his ankle in a car accident, and then swear you to secrecy. Thanks to ( Read more... )

Had a great old chat with the gastroenterologist. The last time I saw him, ten years ago, I was a trembling little creature who panicked at the thought of needles or operations. This time we were both "Bring on the -oscopies!" He wants to have a good rummage around in my innertubes and see if he can find out what's broken: I'm having what the ( Read more... )

Besides the real meat of the book - the glimpse into how a (frankly) genius works, and how TV is made - there are lots of bits of perspective on fansquabbling, eg RTD's remark regarding last December's Daily Mail article:"Far worse was the article's description of Martha as 'always going to be second best to Rose', followed immediately by a quote ( Read more... )

Last bunch of notes, ISTG.

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Well! *claps hands* Let's have some good news from the arena of the unwell ( Read more... )

... which reminds me. I was trying to work out whether I should close seeingred and instead post the anti-racist stuff here. That would mean a bigger audience, but might lose the people who are only interested in seeingred, and makes indexing a bitch - one of the advantages of those side journals is you can get way specific with the tags ( Read more... )

http://kateorman.livejournal.com/781303.html?thread=5400055#t5400055

And this time, for the first time, I'm not experiencing panic or crushing shame... partly because of this. I can't take seriously abuse from people who literally can't tell Black from White.

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I can has three chapters (an anaemic 10,000 words) and enough plot for a synopsis. (But no clean gym clothes, apparently. *(%*%^)

To my surprise, Racewank '07 is directly affecting the novel, forcing me to recognise what might have been an embarrassing cockup with one of the characters. Last week we did proofreading for Nobody's Children, and I ( Read more... )

I know I keep going on about this, but bear with me, it's an interesting twist to the whole mess ( Read more... )