Terrible news:

I was driving my poor (mostly) blind mother to the bank today (don't feel sorry for her; as will soon be revealed, she's an awful person and doesn't deserve it) and we were chatting happily about tater tots and Jeopardy and asbestos - you know, normal mother-daughter stuff - and out of nowhere she says, "I do like the way you wear ( Read more... )

ETA: Much thanks to boxed, who saved my bacon when I was an idiot and let LJ have its wicked way with this post. It probably wasn't worth all my anxiety over its loss, but that doesn't make me any less grateful to her for saving it. Big thanks also to phoenikxs and mylittlepwny for answering my call of pain and rage.

And now, back to our formerly scheduled post:

In some ways ( Read more... )

The first of what may be a series of New Year's memes, because I love them. Stolen from eponymous_rose, because she's awesome. Click the link below, because you want to read more.

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So, this happened.

Title: Long Night's Moon

Characters: Rose Tyler, The Doctor, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith, Jimmy Stone

Rating: Teen

Notes: Unfinished fic fragment and werewolf AU. Because why not?

( long night's moon )

Things and stuff:

1) I moved last week, and have since discovered that unpacking in a new house is vastly preferable to packing in your old house. I wasn't fully aware of this fact, as I somehow managed never to fully unpack in the last three places I've lived.

2) I have feeeelings about the Who series finale, but I have yet to find the words to ( Read more... )

So my mother, my aunt, and I are moving in together at the end of the month with our collective five dogs and decades worth of baggage both literal and emotional, but it is also that most wonderful time of year when 1) Portland turns into a rain-ridden, gloom-filled purgatory, and 2) we get NEW EPISODES OF COMMUNITY. I think that if someone opened ( Read more... )

Waiting for New New Who to download. Twitching with anticipation. Writing a post.

Thanks to a recommendation from the wonderful and wise pendrecarc, in the past week or so I've devoured Terry Pratchett's young adult series about a young Discworld witch named Tiffany Aching, and am now wholly consumed by a renewed love of all things Pratchett. So I'm embarking ( Read more... )

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Title: Epitaph

Characters: Rose Tyler, The Doctor (multiple incarnations), others.

Spoilers: AU after series two episode Fear Her. Some spoilers for series three and five.

Beta: The wonderful tricksterquinn read this in an earlier draft; thus all the good bits are at her suggestion, and she can claim no responsibility for the bad.

Warnings: Explicit violence, ( Read more... )

All right, then. Let's talk Doctor Who.

( she is strange, and full of spoilers. )