I mentioned in my last post that I've been watching a lot of River Cottage lately. I started watching because kath_ballantyne, iamshadow, and alisso were talking about it a lot, and now that I am watching it, it's gripped my imagination more than any show since Torchwood ( Read more... )

The other day, pica_scribit mentioned that she'd been reading along with Mark Reads Harry Potter -- basically, a 26 year old guy who had never read Harry Potter before (and surprisingly, was unspoiled for almost all of the major plot developments), and is now blogging it as he reads through one chapter at a time. Pica's post reminded me that I'd been planning ( Read more... )

How are we all today? I find myself, right now, still in my pyjamas, although I should be at uni working on my thesis. I'm telling myself that I'll go in one day weekend to make up for it, and that I'll let myself stay home today to work on writing.

• Speaking of this weekend though -- there's a rally on Saturday in support of marriage equality ( Read more... )

"Fiction is not a democracy ( Read more... )

This was coming up in a discussion I've been having with people in a locked/filtered post, but since there's no reason for this particular aspect of the discussion to not be public, I wanted to re-state it here.

Just because one doesn't like how one particular character death was handled does NOT mean that one is opposed to tragic endings or ( Read more... )

Because it's come up in a few comment discussions lately, and because it's relevant to what I said here, I thought it might be useful to have a post where I spell out my J/I fanon, for easy-linking purposes. And I would like to stress that it is, indeed, fanon -- while I believe that my fanon is based on evidence from both Doctor Who and Torchwood ( Read more... )

This meta is informal and rambly; if I felt up to doing formal writing right now, I'd be working on my thesis.

Title: Time and Choice in the Whoniverse
Author: lefaym
Beta: Many thanks to lionessvalenti
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures
Summary: This meta uses The Waters of Mars as a starting point for an informal examination of the relationship ( Read more... )

This post contains spoilers for both Children of Earth and filming reports for the Doctor Who finale. The Doctor Who stuff isn't until near the end, and I'm including a spoiler space in there, so if you just want to read the CoE stuff, then you can (though you might want to be careful if you look at the comments).

( I can't be satisfied )

( cut for obvious reasons )

Just a (hopefully) quick note to thank everyone who responded so thoughtfully to my navel gazing about slash and feminism -- you've all given me so much to think about, and everyone managed to comment in a way that was (a) niether dismissive of the concerns I raised, nor (b) dogmatic about their own position. You've all really helped me work ( Read more... )