Updates!
For those of you who care, here’s a textual update (sorry, I’m not a cool person who takes the time to photo-document anything ;o;) on where I stand with ACen stuff. :D
Last Unicorn Costumes:
Molly: All done but coat & scarf; if I can whip these together I will but as they’re not in every shot, I could almost do without. I have the fabric.
Amalthea: Needs the zipper put in and the trim hand stitched on. Waiting for an evening where Tori doesn’t work to put in the zipper (just to make sure it’s perfectly fitted).
Schmendrick: Coat done, Top tunic is almost finished. The tunic needs it’s sleeve cuffs attached and hemming. I need to pick up bobbins and thread to match this because I have like three bobbins that actually fit my newer Singer. -_-;; Damnit, man, why couldn’t it take universal bobbins!! ;o; The belt also needs to be done. Liz is doing the hat, bag, and tights.
Lunar:
Starting this week. Boy, am I cutting this close. Crossing my fingers here, guys.
Tori convinced me I should wear my Shampoo costume again at ACen so I ordered some extensions that match my wig so I can remake her hair buns as the Sharpie just never managed to match properly. XP No worries though, that took me all of an hour to style last time.
On a random note, I fucking hate the fax machine next to my desk here at work. If I had a window in this office, I'd through it out. I'd throw it out and trample it with my car and beat it with a baseball bat, à la "Office Space." I hate it's little "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrings!" & it's obnoxiously (self-aware?) "Bloooooooooobs." It's driving me effin' crazy!
God I need sleep. ;_;
This Saturday I got a little pensive and it started to occur to me how lucky Rose Tyler was as a companion. I know some people feel that what happened to her at the end of season 4 was tragic (or rage-inducing, depending on your feelings on her as a companion), although I never was one. I considered it a wonderful moment in fandom. These thoughts were further excited when Tori was explaining to me that Russell T. Davies had confirmed that in a cut portion of the script that Donna & the Doctor explained a way to dramatically speed up the process for growing a new Tardis in the other dimension so you could, canonically, suppose that Rose & the Doctor.2 could be very soon having new time/space travels.
That very thought tickled my fancy. Finally the Doctor(.2) will be able to live out one life with a single companion and they won’t be limited to their own planet. What would that be like? We (the family Dedman) have long discussed the very nature of the 9th as he was written and have described his first adventures with Rose as a man besotted. You may argue, I am certain, but we have felt that his actions with Rose were written as a man trying to impress someone-Rose in specific. He takes her wherever she wants, allows her to break the very rules of time just so she could have a few moments with her deceased father, and is openly jealous at anyone who gets close to her.
The “Father’s Day” fiasco is something that would get a normal companion kicked off the Tardis but instead, it only endears her to him. As further evidence, I submit Adam’s case. Irked at his presence as Rose’s companion and that he traveling with them took away attention from himself, at the first slip up he’s booted out. I think the Doctor could never consider Mickey as a real rival and I can’t blame him-you get the impression they're more friends than lovers in episode one. As for further examples, need I mention that he gave up a regeneration cycle so that she might not die? You might say that this in his nature-he was willing to die for all of humanity-but this single act seemed to prove the power of his feelings for her.
Perhaps this is the effect of the Time War on him. Being lonely for so long he allows himself to open up to the idea of love so when the young, buxom, and completely facinated-by-him Rose comes along, his interest is piqued and he allows her to get closer to his heart than he is used to. He doesn't seem very apologetic about it and even though he still flirts with anything that has a skirt, his preference is paramount.
I think on Rose’s part, she didn’t actually fall in love with the Doctor until Season 2 and by then, I think the 10th regeneration was fighting against this breech in etiquette; fighting against his feelings and doing practically everything to get rid of her when she was determined to stay. Yet, he’s heartbroken when he actually does lose her-nevertheless, he’s the Emo Doctor and he gets off on being sad so that works for him. You know this to be true.
Being given the opportunity to be the handsome 10th with the mind of the compassionately brave 9th is almost too ideal for words. In those forms, both Rose the Doctor are able to meet each other on terms of affection; the 9th can now express his feelings (as he does on the Beach) and she can be with the Doctor forever-in human terms, that is.
All of these thoughts occurred to me over the weekend and I must say the idea of a new Timelord family traveling in the Tardis together made me smile. It reminded me of the vision of domestic timetraveling bliss that was shared in Back to the Future III with Clara & the Doc. What sort of adventures could such a family experience? Would new abilities of the Doctor.2 manifest itself in time? Would he be able to handle monogamy and most of all, will he be able to think in mortal terms? One might say you’d have a really hard lesson in one-life-to-live if you previously were a Timelord that was used to running through your lives like batteries.
Still, the idea of them being a family made me very happy as a fangirl of that ship and as an utter romantic. I know not everyone liked Rose or even the idea that she got her own Doctor as a consolation prize, making her the victor over all the companions so far (I mean, even as beloved as Sarah Jane is, all she got was a tin dog), but you have to admit it was a great way to satisfy all fans of her character. She is permanently removed from the universe of the original Doctor and yet at the same time happily living with the Doctor forever. If we all could be so lucky!
I can only imagine was sort of fluffy rubbish is being written in fanfiction right now about it.
Last Unicorn Costumes:
Molly: All done but coat & scarf; if I can whip these together I will but as they’re not in every shot, I could almost do without. I have the fabric.
Amalthea: Needs the zipper put in and the trim hand stitched on. Waiting for an evening where Tori doesn’t work to put in the zipper (just to make sure it’s perfectly fitted).
Schmendrick: Coat done, Top tunic is almost finished. The tunic needs it’s sleeve cuffs attached and hemming. I need to pick up bobbins and thread to match this because I have like three bobbins that actually fit my newer Singer. -_-;; Damnit, man, why couldn’t it take universal bobbins!! ;o; The belt also needs to be done. Liz is doing the hat, bag, and tights.
Lunar:
Starting this week. Boy, am I cutting this close. Crossing my fingers here, guys.
Tori convinced me I should wear my Shampoo costume again at ACen so I ordered some extensions that match my wig so I can remake her hair buns as the Sharpie just never managed to match properly. XP No worries though, that took me all of an hour to style last time.
On a random note, I fucking hate the fax machine next to my desk here at work. If I had a window in this office, I'd through it out. I'd throw it out and trample it with my car and beat it with a baseball bat, à la "Office Space." I hate it's little "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrings!" & it's obnoxiously (self-aware?) "Bloooooooooobs." It's driving me effin' crazy!
God I need sleep. ;_;
This Saturday I got a little pensive and it started to occur to me how lucky Rose Tyler was as a companion. I know some people feel that what happened to her at the end of season 4 was tragic (or rage-inducing, depending on your feelings on her as a companion), although I never was one. I considered it a wonderful moment in fandom. These thoughts were further excited when Tori was explaining to me that Russell T. Davies had confirmed that in a cut portion of the script that Donna & the Doctor explained a way to dramatically speed up the process for growing a new Tardis in the other dimension so you could, canonically, suppose that Rose & the Doctor.2 could be very soon having new time/space travels.
That very thought tickled my fancy. Finally the Doctor(.2) will be able to live out one life with a single companion and they won’t be limited to their own planet. What would that be like? We (the family Dedman) have long discussed the very nature of the 9th as he was written and have described his first adventures with Rose as a man besotted. You may argue, I am certain, but we have felt that his actions with Rose were written as a man trying to impress someone-Rose in specific. He takes her wherever she wants, allows her to break the very rules of time just so she could have a few moments with her deceased father, and is openly jealous at anyone who gets close to her.
The “Father’s Day” fiasco is something that would get a normal companion kicked off the Tardis but instead, it only endears her to him. As further evidence, I submit Adam’s case. Irked at his presence as Rose’s companion and that he traveling with them took away attention from himself, at the first slip up he’s booted out. I think the Doctor could never consider Mickey as a real rival and I can’t blame him-you get the impression they're more friends than lovers in episode one. As for further examples, need I mention that he gave up a regeneration cycle so that she might not die? You might say that this in his nature-he was willing to die for all of humanity-but this single act seemed to prove the power of his feelings for her.
Perhaps this is the effect of the Time War on him. Being lonely for so long he allows himself to open up to the idea of love so when the young, buxom, and completely facinated-by-him Rose comes along, his interest is piqued and he allows her to get closer to his heart than he is used to. He doesn't seem very apologetic about it and even though he still flirts with anything that has a skirt, his preference is paramount.
I think on Rose’s part, she didn’t actually fall in love with the Doctor until Season 2 and by then, I think the 10th regeneration was fighting against this breech in etiquette; fighting against his feelings and doing practically everything to get rid of her when she was determined to stay. Yet, he’s heartbroken when he actually does lose her-nevertheless, he’s the Emo Doctor and he gets off on being sad so that works for him. You know this to be true.
Being given the opportunity to be the handsome 10th with the mind of the compassionately brave 9th is almost too ideal for words. In those forms, both Rose the Doctor are able to meet each other on terms of affection; the 9th can now express his feelings (as he does on the Beach) and she can be with the Doctor forever-in human terms, that is.
All of these thoughts occurred to me over the weekend and I must say the idea of a new Timelord family traveling in the Tardis together made me smile. It reminded me of the vision of domestic timetraveling bliss that was shared in Back to the Future III with Clara & the Doc. What sort of adventures could such a family experience? Would new abilities of the Doctor.2 manifest itself in time? Would he be able to handle monogamy and most of all, will he be able to think in mortal terms? One might say you’d have a really hard lesson in one-life-to-live if you previously were a Timelord that was used to running through your lives like batteries.
Still, the idea of them being a family made me very happy as a fangirl of that ship and as an utter romantic. I know not everyone liked Rose or even the idea that she got her own Doctor as a consolation prize, making her the victor over all the companions so far (I mean, even as beloved as Sarah Jane is, all she got was a tin dog), but you have to admit it was a great way to satisfy all fans of her character. She is permanently removed from the universe of the original Doctor and yet at the same time happily living with the Doctor forever. If we all could be so lucky!
I can only imagine was sort of fluffy rubbish is being written in fanfiction right now about it.