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red_satin_doll......and my first "official" act in fandom was to:
[Poll #1965322][Poll #1965322]
And the correct answer is....
#5! Yup, a massive, massive fail on my part. Actually, all of the choices represent a massive fail on my part, except for the last choice for which I DO NOT APOLOGIZE.
(She was mentioning how a character in her new novel has an opportunity to mindwipe the memories of another and doesn't because he respects her too much and it's not what she would want. Also, she just began watching btvs S1 at my urging and is NOT impressed with Angel or Xander. At all.) I actually spent hours making icons for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
slayerstillness challenge #22 "A Room Full of Emptiness" (Negative Space)" ("Ooh, I can do this one!"); hours dithering over which to chose before deciding to actually ask my beta ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wickedbish for help; and then failed to send him the link to the Photobucket folder so he could actually see the icons. By the time I figured out my mistake, it was too late to enter the challenge. (And I'm a little pissed at myself, because I think I made some good icons and really enjoyed getting back into the creative flow for the first time in weeks.)
But at least I manage to vote as the deadline isn't until tomorrow (midnight your time) hence still time to vote and pimp it - so there's a penance, at least.
And entries are being accepted for the latest challenge #23 (deadline Friday) so there's lots o' time left to enter. Yup, lots o' time....
The only fail more massive is #4 - I have NOT gotten around to congratulating all the winners of the Willowy Goodness Awards, includingvelvetwhip, snogged, foxstarreh, clockwork_hart1, tiny_white_hats, and snowpuppies amoung others. Congratulations to all the winners (by which I include "Runners Up" aka the silver and bronze medalists). I actually did vote in that one too and cheese on a cracker did you folks make it painfully hard to choose!
ETA: ALL credit to the amazingeilowyn for urging me to watch Orphan Black, which I'd never heard of until she mentioned it.
[Poll #1965322][Poll #1965322]
And the correct answer is....
#5! Yup, a massive, massive fail on my part. Actually, all of the choices represent a massive fail on my part, except for the last choice for which I DO NOT APOLOGIZE.
(She was mentioning how a character in her new novel has an opportunity to mindwipe the memories of another and doesn't because he respects her too much and it's not what she would want. Also, she just began watching btvs S1 at my urging and is NOT impressed with Angel or Xander. At all.) I actually spent hours making icons for
slayerstillness challenge #22 "A Room Full of Emptiness" (Negative Space)" ("Ooh, I can do this one!"); hours dithering over which to chose before deciding to actually ask my beta wickedbish for help; and then failed to send him the link to the Photobucket folder so he could actually see the icons. By the time I figured out my mistake, it was too late to enter the challenge. (And I'm a little pissed at myself, because I think I made some good icons and really enjoyed getting back into the creative flow for the first time in weeks.)But at least I manage to vote as the deadline isn't until tomorrow (midnight your time) hence still time to vote and pimp it - so there's a penance, at least.
And entries are being accepted for the latest challenge #23 (deadline Friday) so there's lots o' time left to enter. Yup, lots o' time....
The only fail more massive is #4 - I have NOT gotten around to congratulating all the winners of the Willowy Goodness Awards, including
velvetwhip, snogged, foxstarreh, clockwork_hart1, tiny_white_hats, and snowpuppies amoung others. Congratulations to all the winners (by which I include "Runners Up" aka the silver and bronze medalists). I actually did vote in that one too and cheese on a cracker did you folks make it painfully hard to choose!ETA: ALL credit to the amazing
eilowyn for urging me to watch Orphan Black, which I'd never heard of until she mentioned it. 
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Date: 2014-04-21 06:46 pm (UTC)IS THAT A JENNY AND VASTRA ICON?
*faints*
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Date: 2014-04-21 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 06:51 pm (UTC)(How could anyone NOT ship a lesbian inter-species, Victorian, crime-fighting married couple? Heck, if they ever got a spin-off, Moffat has already declared that it's be called 'Tipping the Scales'. *g*)
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Date: 2014-04-21 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 06:59 pm (UTC)And it would be glorious.
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Date: 2014-04-22 03:19 pm (UTC)The fact that we live in a world where this is an actual canon couple AND you're able to say that Lucy is a very very beautiful thing indeed - and completely unimaginable just a few years ago. The revolution is happening right here, NOW, everyday.
Heck, if they ever got a spin-off, Moffat has already declared that it's be called 'Tipping the Scales'. *g*)
For a second I thought "He's read Sarah Waters?" and then I remembered, oh, miniseries adaption - but anyway my favorite of her first three books is Fingersmith. But how cool is it that he can make that reference knowing his audience will "get it"?
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Date: 2014-04-21 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 07:14 pm (UTC)*curls up into a ball and disappears into a dot*
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Date: 2014-04-22 01:42 am (UTC)Never! You gave me the cliff-notes version, barb gave me the extended one - both useful to have!
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Date: 2014-04-21 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 09:50 pm (UTC)Ok, wait a minute - matriarchial sword-wielding lesbian alien women warriors with Victorian wives DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO ME HERE? *brain explodes a SECOND time*
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Date: 2014-04-22 03:51 pm (UTC)And here's a good picture of Vastra & Jenny:
(I'm being very naughty & hotlinking. Hope it'll show up!)
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Date: 2014-04-22 05:07 pm (UTC)Hotlinking? Bad fangirl! No biscuit for you!
Ok, so clearly I was just looking for an excuse to use my "Judging you" gif. Which is barely animated so what's the point really and YES that photo shows up and the quality is GORGEOUS. Is it direct from the BBC's site?
And holy cats in the cradle us that shot SEXY and there is so much communicated in that mutual look, in the slight tilt in Vasta's head. Ok, granted the two of them are meant to be as attractive as possible to the contemporary audience (and putting women in buttoned vests is ironically an excellent way to show off their figures - we look less mannish, not more so in them).
But The Gaze is not exclusive to gender, - and I like what I see! (there are websites devoted to this couple, right?)
Which seasons/which Doctor are they on?
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Date: 2014-04-22 05:19 pm (UTC)And holy cats in the cradle us that shot SEXY and there is so much communicated in that mutual look, in the slight tilt in Vasta's head.
And you don't even know what they're saying. *g* (The things Moffat gets away with. It goes straight over the kids' heads of course, but oh my.)
Ok, granted the two of them are meant to be as attractive as possible to the contemporary audience (and putting women in buttoned vests is ironically an excellent way to show off their figures - we look less mannish, not more so in them).
Usually they're in Victorian dresses (which are also flattering of course).
But The Gaze is not exclusive to gender, - and I like what I see! (there are websites devoted to this couple, right?)
I should think so! (But avoid spoilers. Don't go looking!)
Which seasons/which Doctor are they on?
Eleventh Doctor. The show isn't back on air until the autumn (S8 - August, I think), so now would be the perfect time to catch up! Start with (New Who) S5 - the first episode is called The Eleventh Hour (Eleven's first episode). Vastra & Jenny don't turn up until S6, but the Silurians (Vastra is a Silurian, other people have probably mentioned this) are (re-)introduced in S5.
ANYWAY. Have a go at The Eleventh Hour. See if you like it. (There are only 13 episodes per season - plus a Christmas Special - so it won't take you forever to watch. Going back and watching all the other Doctors is of course a different matter. *g*)
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Date: 2014-04-22 05:51 pm (UTC)Apparently that makes two of us because I've squirreled a copy away in mty PB. Who else do you who makes icons for shows they haven't seen, I ask you?
I hope this shows up, it's a png file, not a jpg. (I was going to submit a Spuffy icon I made months ago and I kind of adore to Slayerstillness and only yesterday found out it's a png file *pout*)
The entire time all I can think is, how do I get rid of the dude in the middle? *lol*
Going back and watching all the other Doctors is of course a different matter. *g*
Oh if you mean all the way back to #1, thank God I got aquainted via my friends and PBS in college twenty years ago! (Note to self: rewatch the Seventh Doctor and Ace.)
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Date: 2014-04-22 06:23 pm (UTC)Smart, intelligent, wonderful people. I can has?
The entire time all I can think is, how do I get rid of the dude in the middle? *lol*
*clamps mouth shut omg* (When you've seen that scene, you'll know why! *g*)
Oh if you mean all the way back to #1, thank God I got aquainted via my friends and PBS in college twenty years ago!
Very wise!
(Note to self: rewatch the Seventh Doctor and Ace.)
Ooooh, you have marvellous taste! Eleven is like a dotty grandfather version of Seven. (They are my favourites, can you tell?)
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Date: 2014-04-22 06:36 pm (UTC)Of course you can! (If I come up with something I like better, you'll be the first to know)
When you've seen that scene, you'll know why!
You mean the gift BGF linked to upthread, where she uses her prehensile tongue on him? Awesome.
Eleven is like a dotty grandfather version of Seven.
Interesting! *strokes chin* I recently read a wiki write-up of Seven and Ace to explain it to someone else and they sounded very very much like - Buffy and Giles in their dynamic. Which is part of the reason I want to watch it again. They were my first surrogate father-daughter pairing in fiction that I became fascinated with (later Satine and Zidler, Buffy and Giles, Jordan Cavenaugh and Garret Macy...it's a thing with me apparently. NOT biological fathers-daughters in fiction, though.)
Of course the effects will probably be even worse than I remember!
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Date: 2014-04-25 08:34 am (UTC)Of course you can!
Yay!
You mean the gift BGF linked to upthread, where she uses her prehensile tongue on him? Awesome.
And here I was, trying not to spoil you... (But it IS awesome.)
Interesting! *strokes chin*
I watched from the start of New Who (so, Nine onwards), and never watched any of the Classic show until fairly recently. But I wrote an essay for Chicks Unravel Time about Ace. <3 <3 <3
I recently read a wiki write-up of Seven and Ace to explain it to someone else and they sounded very very much like - Buffy and Giles in their dynamic. Which is part of the reason I want to watch it again. They were my first surrogate father-daughter pairing in fiction that I became fascinated with
Mmmm, yes. Although Eleven doesn't have that kind of relationship with his companions. He's more like a dotty grandfather, or mad uncle.
(Watch The Eleventh Hour and you will see. *g*)
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Date: 2014-04-25 02:47 pm (UTC)Three days isn't vanishing in my book. If you skip out for three years, then apologize. :D
(But it IS awesome.)
Well some things are too good to be kept secret! And it's not a major plot-point or anything like that.
But I wrote an essay for Chicks Unravel Time about Ace. <3 <3 <3
I think you mentioned that to me but I'd forgotten! Ace, oh yes! After we'd watched all the other "old who" doctors in college, Ace and Seven felt like a revelation to us.
One of the biggest differences with Seven & Ace to Buffy and Giles is that Seven held ALL the cards in terms of power, knowledge etc (but it's been twenty years since I've watched); it's closer to a "normal" parent-child relationship in that respect. Buffy has more "power" to the group than a child normally does - or rather, she's the child in the dysfunctional family who is expected to take care of the adults rather than the other way around, the one on whom all expectations are riding. (See also: Satine and Zidler.) And there's really not a template for that in our culture. It's how a lot of parent-child relationships actually function but not how the culture tells us they are supposed to.
(Watch The Eleventh Hour and you will see. *g*)
My must-watch list is getting longer by the day *Scribbles*
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Date: 2014-04-22 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-22 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-21 08:41 pm (UTC)*BRAIN EXPLODES WITH JOY*
Now I'm running out of excuses NOT to watch new Who!