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spectralbovine

Is This a Dagger I See Before Me? Or a Pizza? Mmm...

Aug 04, 2010 00:11

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sainfoin_fields August 4 2010, 07:21:45 UTC

CMV's lj is yuki-onna. I've never read any of her books, but I've been reading her blog since 2003 or some shit.

spectralbovine August 4 2010, 07:29:17 UTC

Thanks! I knew she was on LJ somewhere. I haven't read any of her books either, but I am more inclined to now.

By the way, I feel like CTDL is relevant to your interests, re: your last post. There is a whole essay on Martha Jones!

sainfoin_fields August 4 2010, 07:35:40 UTC

I still haven't seen quite half of Martha's season. THE TENWICH, IT IS SLOW-GOING.

But I will remember it!

sophia_helix August 4 2010, 15:43:37 UTC

Heh. I swapped BPAL with her a few times back in 2005 or 2006, and found that she had grown up where I was going to school at the time, but have not read either her blog or her books.

Also, I looked through some of the authors and that DW book is totally Fandom Gets Published!!

gingerwood August 4 2010, 12:04:25 UTC

Fan-run cons are awesome, especially if you want to meet and chat with other fans. Also *anything* is less insane than comic-con

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spectralbovine August 4 2010, 15:19:25 UTC

Oh man, I wanted to see the one-man Star Wars too! He's not as good? That's unfortunate.

soundingsea August 4 2010, 15:29:14 UTC

MacHomer looks like something ironchefjoe would love! And it's coming to a small time near Minneapolis. *ponders*

mycenae August 5 2010, 00:16:02 UTC

The DW collection sounds interesting. I love meta! Especially critical meta! :D

I find the cover interesting. I read "chicks dig time lords" and translated that as "chicks find time lords attractive," but then the cover shows a girl in possession of several iconic Doctor items. It really seems to highlight the "I want you/I want to be you" duality a lot of straight fangirls feel towards male heroes. Do any essays in the collection deal with this? I recently caught up on series 5 & I've been thinking about this duality in the context of the character of Amy Pond.

Also, I really want to know what it's like to think Doctor Who is a documentary, so I may have to check that out.

spectralbovine August 5 2010, 01:23:06 UTC

Cat Valente touches on wanting to be the Doctor rather than the Companion as she grows older, but most of the essays share the sentiment of wanting to travel with the Doctor in his magical blue box. I think the fact that the girl possesses several iconic Doctor items is more a symbol of fannishness, but you may find some instance of the duality in the essays that I didn't see.

Also, I really want to know what it's like to think Doctor Who is a documentary, so I may have to check that out.
It makes for fun times in history class.