sensiblecat has a marvelous discussion of Children of Earth and King Lear.

Title: Walking in Eternity 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: Doctor Ten, Sarah Jane, Luke, cameos by Sarah Jane Adventures characters I've never seen any of yet
Rating: PG
Setting (spoilers through): Children of Earth: Day One
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Everyone's wondering why the Doctor wasn't on Earth during the events of Children of Earth. I haven't seen anyone ask where Sarah Jane was. Actually they were both in the same place.
crossposted scarfman dwfiction

( ''Mum, I'm going to be late,'' Luke complained. )

Here are cartoons from Arthur, King of Time and Space since last Friday. Fanfiction cartoons are on their annual summer hiatus.

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I don't recall ever actually looking at the picture behind the cut in the post yesterday where I saw the post-a-picture-of-yourself meme, so I went back to look and now I can't find it.

Woo-WOO-woo-ooh.

Happy belated birthday, vvvexation.

Also, while I'm at it, J.D. Salinger breaks thirty years' press silence because he likes Terminator 4 (edit: link from tiggerallyn).

When asked what he thought of today's novelists, and whether he had plans to publish any new work, Salinger replied that he loved it when the helicopter crashes and John Connor gets grabbed by that terminator that's only half a torso, and then he blows it away with the mounted machine gun.

"But by far the best part is when they reveal the T-800 for the first time and it looks just like a young Schwarzenegger," said Salinger, his voice reaching a fever pitch. "I was like, 'Holy shit.' I guess they must've used CGI or something to get that face just right. But what a moment! I practically lost it, if you want to know the truth."

Besides setting the literary community abuzz, Salinger's decision to come out of seclusion has allowed scholars access to his massive archive of unpublished work for the first time. So far, critics have examined three never-before-seen novels, eight novellas, and more than two dozen short stories—all of which appear to be Terminator fan fiction.

"But make no mistake," said Salinger expert Professor Duane Hartworth of nearby Dartmouth College, "this is without a doubt the most personal and affecting body of Terminator fan fiction ever discovered."

Title: Posterity 1/3
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: Buffy, the Doctor, Giles
Rating: PG
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises c.1998, just after Innocence
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Mutant Enemy. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Buffy has a mysterious visitor just as the Doctor arrives in Sunnydale chasing the oldest vampire ever.
Having been composed in 1998, this story predates and ignores anything from more recently produced screen Doctor Who which might suggest that Time Lords have family lives approaching what might be considered normal by the target viewing audience, a subject left unaddressed and ambiguous by screen Doctor Who previous to said composition. Also predated and ignored is screen Buffy the Vampire Slayer addressing the issue of how old the oldest vampires are and what happens to them when they get that old.
crossposted scarfman dwfiction buffy_fanfic crossing_who

( The vampire charged the blonde )

Just now CNN did news coverage about the news coverage about Michael Jackson's death.

• I only recently learned that the internet idiom om nom nom nom is a transliteration of the Cookie Monster eating.
• At the store I saw a cereal box with an offer for a Star Trek t-shirt, with the insignia over the heart. The one illustrated was red. Who would want a red one?
• The problem with Men in Black II isn't that Will Smith couldn't carry a movie by himself without Tommy Lee Jones, cuz we all know he can. The problem was Agent K can't carry a Men in Black movie without Agent J. Unfortunately this is exactly the sort of thing that you can't know until you try it once.
• Weird Al's Eat It video is artistry in slapstick, but there's none funnier than Chevy Chase's You Can Call Me Al.
• [On my flist I was asked where my logon name comes from.] When I was a freshman at Northwestern I had a red scarf my mother had given me that I wore all the time. Sometimes my dorm buddies would call me Scarfman. One night late in the last quarter, on one of our excursions to the pizza place that didn't card, I lost it. It was replaced successively by handmade red scarves by my best friend from high school, my first lover, and my last lover (twenty-two year wedding anniversary next October).
  In May of 1995 when my mother recommended the ISP in my town as the best deal she'd seen listed anywhere for us to get online, and the system asked for a logon of up to eight letters, scarfman was what I thought of. It remains my first choice for logon names to this day, though I have been known to go with sc4rfm4n if I must.
• Torchwood: Children of Earth is airing in the US two weeks after it airs in the UK. I must now decide whether to read the spoilers on my flist.

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

"( He has ... )

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Here are cartoons from Arthur, King of Time and Space since last Friday. Fanfiction cartoons are on their annual summer hiatus.

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Thanks for reading.

( Opinion poll under the cut. )

1. The Doctor to Spock, on the prospect of a Federation noninterference directive: "No interstellar federation is an island, Lieutenant."
2. Zaphod Beeblebrox at Milliway's: "When I asked for volume three of the wine list, I was placing my order."
3. Angel: "If denial is a river in Egypt, Buffy has always been an Amazon."
4. Picard to Buffy: "No one stands alone against the forces of evil when the starship Enterprise is about."
5. The Doctor to Kirk: "Making a difference to only one person was never enough for you."

• The Doctor: "Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why don't I listen to myself, when I know how clever I am?"

Title: One Child Born 4/4
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: Lois & Clark, the Doctor
Rating: PG
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises c.1997, just after the Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman series finale
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Warner Communications. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Lois & Clark have had a baby left on their doorstep - but who is he, and what are they to do about it?
Having been composed in 1998, this story predates and ignores anything from more recently produced screen Doctor Who which might suggest that Time Lords have family lives approaching what might be considered normal by the target viewing audience, a subject left unaddressed and ambiguous by screen Doctor Who previous to said composition.
crossposted scarfman dwfiction crossing_who

( ''If you can sense the interference in your past,'' said Superman, ''why do you need the tracking device?'' )

Happy birthday, pete_wisdom.

Interesting that, just as SyFy is rebranding itself, BBCAmerica is promoting its new HD channel with Torchwood, Being Human and Doctor Who and calling it "the future of science fiction".