"It's more like collateral feminism."
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1.) Wrote and submitted my pitch for Big Finish's opportunity for new writers thing over the weekend! It is not that great, but I think it follows all their rules, is reasonably in character and is mostly punctuated correctly, so should hopefully not be the cause of too much headdesking. I know a few other people on my flist have sent in pitches too - good luck, everyone!
2.) Last night I picked up a knitting project that I hadn't work on for a couple of months. Within three rows I'd made a huge mistake that needed lots of unpicking to make right. Why you do these things, self?
3.) I listened to the latest Big Finish audio, A Thousand Tiny Wings, over the weekend. It was fantastic. I didn't have much of an opinion one way or another about the return of Klein, but I thought the character worked brilliantly: she's antagonistic, but she's not a monster, and it's great to hear someone challenging the Doctor the way she does. I also liked the supporting cast, especially the fact that it was almost entirely female - I love Big Finish but they do tend to go for majority-male casts. O'Donnell in particular was a great character and I liked that the script didn't shy away from her racist views. She's got plenty of admirable qualities, certainly, and her views are a product of her time, but that doesn't excuse them, and I'm glad they weren't handwaved. The only niggle I had was that the reveal of what was going on didn't quite live up to the build up, but really that's only because the build up was SO good.
4.) QI was great this week! As was The News Quiz, which had two female guests for the second week in a row. Since the chair (the wonderful Sandi Toksvig) is also female , that meant more women's voices than men's, hurray! This may sound like a small thing, but the The News Quiz is about the only thing I can say this of, out of all the things I watch/listen to (except deliberately women-focussed things like Women's Hour, obvs), so... yeah. More like this, please!
2.) Last night I picked up a knitting project that I hadn't work on for a couple of months. Within three rows I'd made a huge mistake that needed lots of unpicking to make right. Why you do these things, self?
3.) I listened to the latest Big Finish audio, A Thousand Tiny Wings, over the weekend. It was fantastic. I didn't have much of an opinion one way or another about the return of Klein, but I thought the character worked brilliantly: she's antagonistic, but she's not a monster, and it's great to hear someone challenging the Doctor the way she does. I also liked the supporting cast, especially the fact that it was almost entirely female - I love Big Finish but they do tend to go for majority-male casts. O'Donnell in particular was a great character and I liked that the script didn't shy away from her racist views. She's got plenty of admirable qualities, certainly, and her views are a product of her time, but that doesn't excuse them, and I'm glad they weren't handwaved. The only niggle I had was that the reveal of what was going on didn't quite live up to the build up, but really that's only because the build up was SO good.
4.) QI was great this week! As was The News Quiz, which had two female guests for the second week in a row. Since the chair (the wonderful Sandi Toksvig) is also female , that meant more women's voices than men's, hurray! This may sound like a small thing, but the The News Quiz is about the only thing I can say this of, out of all the things I watch/listen to (except deliberately women-focussed things like Women's Hour, obvs), so... yeah. More like this, please!
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Date: 2 Feb 2010 13:27 (UTC)2) And aww, boo about knitting! I have yet to buy myself some wool/yarn FOR a project yet, oops. ;D
3) Hee, I'm so out of the loop with Big Finish but glad it was awesome! :D
4) Ok, so iplayer-ing both of those!
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Date: 2 Feb 2010 22:09 (UTC)2) I just did the same thing again, woe. Buying yarn is a slippery slope! You think "oh I shall just buy a little bit" and then you have three boxes and a drawer full of the stuff. It is fun though!