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netgirl_y2k1. Slightly peculiar week, actually. Family funeral of an uncle I hadn't seen in ten years or so. Feel slightly guilty that I wasn't sad that he was dead so much as I was slightly miffed at the prospect of having to spend an afternoon with a room full of people who equate not being catholic with having an especially offputting STD.
Also slightly miffed that I apparently don't own any black clothing any more. Apparently I'm what happens when goths grow up and start wearing things with yellow sunflowers patterned on them. Ah well, as I couldn't remember if he was the uncle who was the pervert or not I figured dark grey would do.
2. Watched Scotland - England in the rugby this morning. Scotland lost, which is oddly reassuring in the same way as night following day and the Earth continuing to rotate on its correct axis is. All systems functioning normally, etc. I have worked out what is so irksome about the England rugby team, it's that they're 80% dirge to 20% shocking brilliance. This will of course not stop me from spending the week before the quarter finals learning the lyrics to the French national anthem.
3. So,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anjali_organna is doing this cool thing where she gets people in fandom to answer questions about writing, and due to what one can only assume is a terrible shortage of sensible people to talk to she talked to me. So, I am here talking about writing (just a tiny bit) and tea and books and why Donna and Morgana are my favourites (quite a bit more) should that be of interest to anyone.
5. The BBC informed me that today was the sunniest October 1st since records began. This was news to me as it was raining torrentially and there was a fog so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Sometimes I wonder if they realise there are people in Scotland or if they think we've ceded it to the dragons and sea monsters.
Okay, it's possibly I am slightly more miffed about the rugby result than I let on. It's not actually the fault of the English that we have terrible weather. Probably.
French. National. Anthem.
6. I watched the finale of Doctor Who and my overwhelming reaction was... is that it? Don't get me wrong there was supremely cool stuff in there, of course Doctor who? is the question hiding in plain sight, of course it is, that's brilliant. It was an extremely nifty use of the tiny robot Star Trek people. Eyepatch!Amy & Rory were awesome,"We should get a drink, and married" being the finest and most Pondlike of marriage proposals. Amy killing Kovarian was horrible and brilliant and necessary and perfect all at the same time.
But. Beyond that. River's relationship/obsession with the Doctor is still unhealthy and slightly creepy. River's still in prison for a crime that she had no choice but to commit. And the fact that Amy and River occasionally get together for a glass of wine does not mean that the River is Amy's daughter plotline wasn't ill conceived and badly handled from the get go.
7. I accidentally watched Merlin, mainly because it was on after Doctor Who, with the intention of changing the channel as soon as it made me want to start chewing the furniture, which it didn't. It also didn't interest or emotionally engage me on any level. Even Merlin himself was only mildly annoying as opposed to creepy and repulsive as I'd been remembering him. So I supposed that's good for the sake of fannish closure, the opposite of love being indifference rather than hate and all that.
Also slightly miffed that I apparently don't own any black clothing any more. Apparently I'm what happens when goths grow up and start wearing things with yellow sunflowers patterned on them. Ah well, as I couldn't remember if he was the uncle who was the pervert or not I figured dark grey would do.
2. Watched Scotland - England in the rugby this morning. Scotland lost, which is oddly reassuring in the same way as night following day and the Earth continuing to rotate on its correct axis is. All systems functioning normally, etc. I have worked out what is so irksome about the England rugby team, it's that they're 80% dirge to 20% shocking brilliance. This will of course not stop me from spending the week before the quarter finals learning the lyrics to the French national anthem.
3. So,
anjali_organna is doing this cool thing where she gets people in fandom to answer questions about writing, and due to what one can only assume is a terrible shortage of sensible people to talk to she talked to me. So, I am here talking about writing (just a tiny bit) and tea and books and why Donna and Morgana are my favourites (quite a bit more) should that be of interest to anyone. 5. The BBC informed me that today was the sunniest October 1st since records began. This was news to me as it was raining torrentially and there was a fog so thick you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Sometimes I wonder if they realise there are people in Scotland or if they think we've ceded it to the dragons and sea monsters.
Okay, it's possibly I am slightly more miffed about the rugby result than I let on. It's not actually the fault of the English that we have terrible weather. Probably.
French. National. Anthem.
6. I watched the finale of Doctor Who and my overwhelming reaction was... is that it? Don't get me wrong there was supremely cool stuff in there, of course Doctor who? is the question hiding in plain sight, of course it is, that's brilliant. It was an extremely nifty use of the tiny robot Star Trek people. Eyepatch!Amy & Rory were awesome,"We should get a drink, and married" being the finest and most Pondlike of marriage proposals. Amy killing Kovarian was horrible and brilliant and necessary and perfect all at the same time.
But. Beyond that. River's relationship/obsession with the Doctor is still unhealthy and slightly creepy. River's still in prison for a crime that she had no choice but to commit. And the fact that Amy and River occasionally get together for a glass of wine does not mean that the River is Amy's daughter plotline wasn't ill conceived and badly handled from the get go.
7. I accidentally watched Merlin, mainly because it was on after Doctor Who, with the intention of changing the channel as soon as it made me want to start chewing the furniture, which it didn't. It also didn't interest or emotionally engage me on any level. Even Merlin himself was only mildly annoying as opposed to creepy and repulsive as I'd been remembering him. So I supposed that's good for the sake of fannish closure, the opposite of love being indifference rather than hate and all that.