So Much Filing

[ask_aboutcoffee]

I am buried in the Archives today, but I am logging on briefly to make it very plain that I do not dance around the flat when Mambo Number Five comes on the radio, and if Jack shows you photos or video of such a thing they are fakes.

Especially if I'm wearing the Snoopy boxers.

And Andy, you didn't tell me your old dad was Chief Superintendent

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[ask_arealdoctor]

Well, you won't understand it, but if Jack doesn't want to keep it you'll have to archive it anyway. Make a new file under "Spoilers": "Detritus": "Bad Wolf".

See? It's just a painting of a ship. Nothing special at all.

[ask_aboutcoffee]

It's very well done, though. Someone paid a bit of money for this, I reckon.

Er.

Maybe more than a bit.

You did see the signature, didn't you?

[ask_arealdoctor]

No, I didn't. I was concentrating on other things. Who painted it?

[ask_aboutcoffee]

It's a van Ruisdael. Uncatalogued, I imagine.

It's worth, oh, a few million pounds, probably.

Perhaps a few less now that Jack's been crinkling it.

[ask_arealdoctor]

Oh. Well, I don't know that painter. But it's beautiful, isn't it? Even if a bit crinkled.

You might want to start that file anyway, for cross reference. There may be more out there. Um, not paintings, but ...

just start the file, all right?

[ask_aboutcoffee]

It's absolutely lovely. Van Ruisdael painted around the same time Vermeer did, the bloke in Girl With A Pearl Earring?

Not that I've seen Girl With A Pearl Earring or own it or anything.

File started and intel noted from one Martha Jones. Too bad the original file went up with the servers and all my friends in London.

[ask_arealdoctor]

I love that film! That poor girl, so close to such a brilliant genius that she can't help but fall in love with him, but she knows it's for the best that she return to normal life...

not that I identify with that or anything. Because I don't.

[ask_aboutcoffee]

Of course not! You're not ordinary, after all.

Do you know I don't think I've quite managed the "returning to normal life" bit down, on my own account.

[ask_arealdoctor]

"Normal life" is so twentieth century!

[gwen_e_cooper]

Yeah, no way. That's so bloody unrealistic.

Hollywood!

[ask_arealdoctor]

Truly! As if any woman would waste time on an enigmatic, troubled, gorgeous genius when she could be with a ginger butcher played by Cillian Murphy!

... I think we need to have a Movie night, don't you?