A week and a half ago qtrhorserider tore a tendon in her right middle finger. Since she's taking the bar exam at the end of July, this is a matter of some concern. Arrangements are in process for her to take the bar exam typing instead of writing. But that means she'd have to bring her own laptop. Neither of the laptops at our house are up to two days of six-hour sessions: mine has battery and performance issues; and hers, though newer, has actually been generally in need of replacing for some time. This weekend we juggled the budget and got her a nice floor-model-discounted new laptop.

All of which is by way of explaining that she's sitting here playing a Mah Jongg game which makes whirring noises that sound as if Threepio is doing calesthenics in the room.

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( Featuring characters from DOCTOR WHO, STARGATE SG-1 and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA )

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I had occasion to post a portion of this stock essay of mine in an LJ comment today, which made me realize I've never posted it here before.

The "Not everything Doctor Who characters say is true" continuity patch is useful in debunking one or two contradictions in an otherwise unambiguous set of data. But if you go applying it arbitrarily to anything you just don't like, you might as well apply it to everything and admit that it's all fiction anyway. Not that it isn't, but there you are.

It's one thing to apply it to, e.g., the Doctor's single mention of TARDIS isomorphism in Pyramids of Mars, when there are many examples of other people successfully operating the TARDIS.

It's another to apply it instance-by-instance to every occurrence of the phrase half-human in the movie: "He was wrong there." "He was lying here." "He was joking that time." "It's part of a scam." "It's just a coincidence that they both say it." "Now this contradicts something the examining physician said in Episode 2 of Enemy of the Wheel in 1967." "I looked in the almanac and the moon wasn't full that night." ...

Whether the Doctor's physiology is part human is an ambiguous question - he doesn't seem to have grown a second heart until Spearhead from Space, and seemed to be otherwise indistinguishable from human to a physician on at least one occasion before then (Moonbase I think Wheel in Space according to a comment below) and to Ian Chesterton taking his pulse (whereas when Turlough took his pulse Tegan had to explain).

The "Not everything" school in this case answers no old questions while uselessly generating new ones. The new questions generated by denying the Doctor to be half human can only retcon; as in, "Then why did he say it? Then why did the Master also say it? Then what about the retina and Eye of Harmony things?"

The reason accepting the Doctor to be half human is smarter is that it generates new questions that point to whole new stories; for starters, "How the hell could a Time Lord and an Earthwoman happen to have a baby?"

And as for the complaint, "The Americans had to have a half-human Doctor because of the Spock precedent": that strikes me as gross ignorance ("gross" as in "substantial" and "gross" as in "icky"). Contemporary folklore heroes have always been part-human. Hercules was half-human. Gilgamesh was 1/3-human (now there's a neat trick). Merlin was half-human. Merlin! Matt Jacobs didn't make the Doctor half-human, Ben Aaronovitch did.

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Clarification: 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: the Doctor, Donna
Rating: G
Setting (spoilers through): the end of Partners in Crime
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: missing dialog from the last scene on the roof
crossposted scarfman dwfiction marriedonmars

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I just don't get Twittering. Even demiurgent's Twitters are banal to me. And I waited a week to say so, so I could be certain.

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( Featuring characters from DOCTOR WHO )

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I'm rereading King Kelson's Bride. That is, I don't recall reading it before, but it's eight years old and sitting there on our shelf - I must have. (I don't remember The Bastard Prince too well either, but I remember borrowing it from the library and I do remember a bit from the end so I must've read it.) I imagine this one has subsequentquels by now, right? What are the titles? Thanks.

Here are cartoons from Arthur, King of Time and Space since last Friday. No fanfiction cartoons this week (and next week is finals week).

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I just described this in a comment in a friend's LJ in response to a poll about dreams, and it really ought to go here too.

Several times when I was a teenager I'd have this dream that was a documentary or a docudrama. The scene was a dramatization of one man's last encounter with another man, from the first man's point of view. Though there was a narrator, I don't recall that I was watching the scene on a screen, but more like actually experiencing it. The second man walks up to the point of view and starts to speak. But then the shot is intercut rapidly with a shot of the second man dying in screaming pain, and I/the point of view can't hear what he's saying in the present over the screaming of the flashing vision. Then the second man is walking away utterly casually and the narrator says, "And he never saw him again."

This dream would wake me up, the three or four times I recall having it. The last time I was about seventeen, and I must have called out in my sleep, because my dad knocked on my door to make sure I was all right.

As far as I know that was the only time I ever yelled in my sleep, but qtrhorserider may correct me.

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( Featuring characters from DOCTOR WHO and STAR TREK )

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I forgot to link to it at the time, but the other week jeriendhal unearthed a piece I drew for the 80s RPG publisher FASA's house organ when they had the licenses to Doctor Who and Star Trek; and he posted it to snarkoleptics, the LJ comm for readers of Websnark which is where we know each other. I drew them at least one fullpage Doctor Who gag (this one) and at least three Star Trek gags (not all of which were printed), but ( this one is a gag I've been wanting to convert for AKOTAS for some time but have concluded it can't be done. )

Don't wanna go another Friday-to-Friday without posting anything, so ( here's a GARP. )

Here are cartoons from the fanfiction sketchbook website since last Friday. Arthur, King of Time and Space cartoons in a separate post.

( Featuring characters from DOCTOR WHO, M*A*S*H, TORCHWOOD, and ANGEL )

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