through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered . . .

I have an Elementary prediction!

( I have not read any spoilers! This is pure speculation. )

Hi. I just wrote a serious academic analysis of the word "feels."

I fucking love college.

So tonight I went out and had a social life! I went and saw a talk from this woman, which was fantastic, and then went to a bar for a launch party for the latest issue of this because I am in a club at college with someone who works for the magazine. It was fun.

Possibly the best part was when I walked into the place where the talk was at, and a girl near the door took one look at my shirt (Sherlock 2x03 spoiler in the link!) and started laughing. I was DELIGHTED, because my previous experience with geeky shirts for UK shows has been that no one gets them ever. (Which admittedly, was the one shirt, but it was "the angels have the phonebox" and I wore it for three years before it had too many holes to be suitable for public wear, and really it's not like Doctor Who is super obscure.) So I said something like, "I wasn't sure anyone would get it!" and her response was,

"I get it! I get it. *giggly pause* I can't even talk about it right now."

Fandom. I love fandom.

So! In the finest tradition of students smack in the middle of finals panic, I have found my very favorite procrastination tool. Which, in this case, happens to be the Sherlock prompt meme. Naturally, I've picked up plot bunnies from browsing it, some of which are viable and some of which not so much. (Will someone please talk me out of the crossover with frigging Twilight where Anderson goes to work in Forks and, thanks to having picked up deductive techniques from Sherlock, is the only one on the force who figures out that vampires have been making kills in the area? It's not even my idea and it WON'T GO AWAY.)

Here is one that was good for a quick snippet! It's a Sherlock/Doctor Who crossover, because since when do I write Sherlock fic that's not crossed over with something? (I'm going to try to do it before new canon surfaces on the first, but I promise nothing.) Assume spoilers for everything that's aired for either show, though they're more implied than anything.



( When the air in the flat starts blowing around, accompanied by some kind of godawful wheezing noise, John's first thought is that one of Sherlock's experiments has gone horribly wrong. Or, possibly, horribly right. )

TIMESTAMP.

That is all.

Things I should have been doing this weekend:

* Class reading I fell behind on during vacation, because vacations render me incapable of summoning the brain power to even do things I want to do, never mind things I am merely obligated to do.

* Writing papers I have due tomorrow and Wednesday, because ditto.

Thing I actually did this weekend:

* Write several thousand words of self-indulgent Gossip Girl near-future fic after having spent the past month or so rewatching and catching up on everything I missed since wandering away during season three and being frankly horrified by some of the shit that went down in my absence, especially in re: Blair and Chuck. (At some point I also want to do this massive, angry meta post about Jenny's character arc, but that requires analytical power I should really be saving for those papers, so fic it was.)

This fic has spoilers for everything that has happened as of last week (5x03) and is based on some of my own speculation for what could conceivably happen given the plot threads they've set in motion thus far in the season. It will not be continued because it's frankly mediocre (except for the first scene, which I think could stand as its own fic with some polishing), and also because it becomes increasingly evident that a) I suck at writing Blair and b) that is not okay because this is her story and definitely should be from her POV, not Dan's. Whoops. But I'm posting it anyway just because it might be fun to compare and contrast later in the season. And I do like some of the character interactions. Maybe I can salvage them somehow for something else.

There are no actual spoilers for future eps that I'm aware of, because I live in a spoiler-free zone.



( click here for an example of why I don't write ninety percent of the fic ideas I have. )

Welcome to my very first fanmix! I've never bothered before because I don't usually think in music, but conversations with 10littlebullets (esp. the one about how David Bowie is obviously a Time Lord), inspired me to find out if I could do one about the Doctor that was composed entirely of Bowie songs.

Hint: yes I could. Easily.

This is kind of a work in progress. The class I took on Bowie's work this past semester only covered, like, a third of his musical output. I may tweak and add to this as I continue listening to albums we didn't cover. Also, the end kind of trails off by necessity, since the arc they've been setting up for Eleven isn't complete yet. You may see more versions of this fanmix in future.

Also I definitely did not make a cover, because my ability in re: visual arts and Photoshop is comically limited. If anyone's bored and wants to throw one together, I'll put it up and (of course) give you credit.

This fanmix is specifically about the Doctor's arc in New Who and how he's dealt with the Time War, his grief and his guilt, and with being the last of the Time Lords. And, most specifically of all, with being the Doctor.

(  In the event that this fantastic voyage/Should turn to erosion and we never get old )

WTF EVEN Doctor Who. This post got so long I did not even proofread because my brain was pudding by the end. Fair warning.

( Spoilers for all of series six thus far including today's ep, discussion of the prequel for next week's episode, and a whole bunch of speculation. )

So I've finally - after, uh, three years or so of going "I am going to watch that someday, no really, I am" - gotten around to watching Life on Mars. The files I legitimately acquired are ripped from the original airings for the most part, I believe, and I was entertained to learn that S1/S2 aired back-to-back with S1 of The Thick of It. (Until TToI ran out of eps, I would assume.) I find the idea of a Gene Hunt-Malcolm Tucker double feature to be both awe-inspiring and deeply terrifying.

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS. YOU GUUUUUUUYS.

GHOSTWRITER'S FIRST SEASON IS COMING OUT ON DVD IN JUNE.

I cannot EVEN. I loved this show so, SO MUCH omg I have to go explode now.

It is appropriate that I should find this link (thanks, Charles!) while I'm watching Titanic all the way through for the first time since it left theaters. So. For the eleventh time.

HATERS TO THE LEFT. You know what? I've been avoiding watching this movie again for years because I was afraid of finding out it sucked, as so many things one likes when one is fifteen tend to do, BUT IT IS STILL AWESOME. I don't even wanna hear it. TITANIC FOREVER. (I may be slightly biased.)