| Walking in Eternity 1/1; the Doctor, Sarah Jane, Luke; PG |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|12:48 am] |
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. ) |
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| Gaslight |
[Jul. 9th, 2009|05:48 pm] |
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. |
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| first time I saw this meme since I had a computer with a camera |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|06:28 pm] |
1.Take a picture of yourself right now. 2.Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. 3.Post that picture with NO editing. 4.Post these instructions with your picture.
( View more ... ) 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community abuzz, Salinger's decision to come out of seclusion has allowed scholars access to his massive archive of unpublished work for the first time.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." |
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| roundup |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|04:20 pm] |
- 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.
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| worth repeating |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|10:16 am] |
"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." |
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| Five lines from your own fiction meme |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|05:20 pm] |
Post five great lines of dialog from your own fanfiction. - The Doctor to Spock, on the prospect of a Federation noninterference directive: "No interstellar federation is an island, Lieutenant."
- Zaphod Beeblebrox at Milliway's: "When I asked for volume three of the wine list, I was placing my order."
- Angel: "If denial is a river in Egypt, Buffy has always been an Amazon."
- Picard to Buffy: "No one stands alone against the forces of evil when the starship Enterprise is about."
- The Doctor to Kirk: "Making a difference to only one person was never enough for you."
Bonus: - The Doctor: "Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why don't I listen to myself, when I know how clever I am?"
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| mantle passed on |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|11:00 pm] |
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". |
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memed by qtrhorserider |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|08:43 pm] |
1. Your Middle Name: Gilbert 2. Age: 49.538 3. Single or Taken: That you know. 4. Favorite Movie: The Muppet Movie 5. Favorite Song or Album: presently, the Star Trek film soundtrack. 6. Favorite Band/Artist: Chicago 7. Dirty or Clean: What? 8. Tattoos and/or Piercings: None 9. Do we know each other outside of LJ? see 3 10. What's your philosophy on life? Don't worry, be happy. 11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty? Half-full. 12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest? That trick never works. 13. What is your favorite memory of us? What did we do today? 14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure? Secrets communites. 15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you: You know all the odd/interesting facts about me. 16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they? Health, bills all paid, see this journal entry 17. Can we get together and make a cake? Is this code for you're sending me to the store? 18. Which country is your spiritual home? The USA. 19. What is your big weakness? Reese's peanut butter cups. 20. Do you think I'm a good person? The best. 21. What was your best/favorite subject at school? English. 22. Describe your accent Median midwestern (?) 23. If you could change anything about me, would you? No. 24. What do you wear to sleep? see 15 25. Trousers or skirts? Guess. 26. Cigarettes or alcohol? Alcohol. 27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!) Drive to Chicago to see the kids. 28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you? Done. |
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