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130 Doctor Who icons from The Snowmen
Mostly The Eleventh Doctor with a few Clara
Part of the batch is Eleven as Sherlock Holmes

Teasers:

here @ my journal

69 more Doctor Who icons, mainly the Christmas episode The Snowmen
Victorian Clara, The Eleventh Doctor, then at the end 15 Pond era icons (sorry it's split into two)

3 more teasers from the second batch under the cut.

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second batch here @ my journal

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Current Mood: busy

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hannah

Current Mood: sore
Current Music: The Horizon is a Beltway - The Low Anthem

In preparation for Disclosure Day next month, I'm going through all of Steven Spielberg's movies I haven't yet seen. I know there's some good ones in there, so I started on the ones I've largely been avoiding because I know they're not his better outings. Let me say I don't think it's at all possible he's got something worse than Ready Player One. It might be better than the book, and there's only so far you can polish a turd. Though I'll give it credit for highlighting the difference mindsets of curatorial and transformative fandom in a way that's impossible to argue with.

Adjusting to the new schedule's going well enough. As with many jobs, getting a good night's sleep beforehand is key to a good day. I'm hoping to be done by July, which is why I told my client it might take me until August.

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ

My check-in: 750 words, in which I introduce the requested characters. Murky waters ahead; I might have to consult with the Shower Fairy or the Dishes Fairy to determine what happens now that I have everyone in the same place.

Day 7:

china_shop,

sanguinity

Day 6:

acorn_squash,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora

Day 5:

acorn_squash,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

luzula,

sanguinity,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

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Day 7: Favourite friendship

I suppose the one that is most obvious in canon is Vila and Gan, which I do like a lot, but Avon and Vila is my favourite one - their interaction and dialogue is just so much fun to listen to and to write. I can see it in S1 and S2: they seem at ease with each other and talk together more than with other people, and they work well as a team. Looking at body language, they often stand close together, touching surprisingly often.

Sadly, there's not much later, though there are glimpses, e.g. in Rumours of Death, Assassin, and Orbit (quite a lot in that, before the shuttle sabotage).

All the questions are on Tumblr.

aurumcalendula

I finished watching Sharp Downpour yesterday:

( spoilers )

settiai

Current Mood: accomplished

In tonight's game, ( the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.

tellitslant

Current Mood: cold

Work is absolutely driving me up the wall and I'm just not even going to talk about it because no one wants to hear it. (Are you hiring?) And I've been either working late or just working too hard to do much of anything creative. I had $400 worth of unexpected plumbing this weekend and it's cold and damp but I have to ice a minor strain. And also, I really don't enjoy my body's response to stress. I need a fucking tranquilizer and to stop drinking caffeine.

So I thought, why not get into playoff hockey?!?

I think I mentioned that I am trying to become a women's sports bro in general, and right now the PWHL is in the first round of playoffs. I have been a casual fan since the league started (this is its third year), but I realised recently why I haven't been not super invested and it's kind of funny.

I actually want to root for Montreal.

It's weird! This is the first time I am a fan of a team from a different city for no good reason! Obviously I retain my support for my hometown CFL team over the local team, but that feels logical!

Except, I know the reason. The reason is Marie-Philip Poulin and her wife, Laura Stacey, both of whom play for Montreal. Obviously all the teams have queer players on them, but Pou is just THE best player out there and has been incredible in the Olympics for years. And she and Laura are a delight!

I feel like I asked myself, am I more of a Torontonian or more of a lesbian? And I guess I got my answer. :P

PWHL playoffs are best of 5 and last night was game 2 for Montreal against Minnesota in the semi-finals. It went to triple overtime. That's practically a whole nother game! (I did not last past first OT because I had to start work an hour early.) And of course Pou came up with the game-winning goal to tie the series. On her wife's birthday.

I MEAN, C'MON.

Minnesota has won the league for the last two years, so I would be rooting against them anyway. The other two teams in the playoffs are Ottawa and Boston, so I am cheering for Ottawa out of national pride. But really, I just want Montreal to take it already.

Game 3 tomorrow night!

settiai

Current Mood: accomplished

I made chicken and dumplings in the slow cooker today, because it was a bleak rainy day so it seemed appropriate. The recipe itself is very basic (chicken, cream of chicken soup, an onion, butter, chicken broth, and some spices), and I cheat and use canned biscuits for the dumplings because I'm lazy.

The issue was that I had a few biscuits left over, because I needed about 10oz but Aldi only has them in 16oz packages. So I decided to experiment and attempt to make something sweet for dessert with the leftover biscuit dough, and I think it turned out pretty well.

I cut the biscuits into quarters, brushed them with some oil, popped them in the air fryer for eight minutes, dipped them in melted butter, dropped them in a bag with some cinnamon sugar, and shook it up. Then for the dip I just mixed together some powdered sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla.

They turned out surprisingly tasty for something that I threw together in a few minutes.

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ

My check-in: I added 2k to the new fic since last we spoke! Apparently now that the groundbreaking ceremony is over, I decided to bring in a backhoe.

Day 6:

china_shop,

sanguinity

Day 5:

acorn_squash,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

luzula,

sanguinity,

the_siobhan,

trobadora,

ysilme

Day 4:

acorn_squash,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

china_shop,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

glinda,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,

paranoidangel

What I Just Finished Reading
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I read this in about a day, it was so interesting. The author worked for Facebook and started when she thought it could be a force for good in the world. It was clear pretty early on that it wasn't a good workplace, but she gets used to it. And then it gets worse. And then worse again. And worse. In summary: the people in charge of Facebook don't care about anyone. Not their employees, nor their users, nor people who were hurt (literally) by their algorithms. It's really awful what they did (and are probably still doing). I did know this stuff, at least sort of, but it hits different when reading a first-hand detailed account.

Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow by Bob Cryer. This was really interesting to hear about his life and work. He was just a lovely and funny man who loved people.

Doctor Who: Origin Stories. This got a bit samey after a while - a lot of the stories were companions meeting a Doctor as children and then being made to forget about it. Which just felt a bit pointless. On their own they were fine, but it just me feel like I was reading the same thing over and over again.

The Return of Robin Hood by Paul Magrs. I found this a bit dull. There's nothing specific about it that I didn't like, it just didn't do anything for me.

What I'm Currently Reading
The Twat Files by Dawn French. This is stories from her life where either she behaved badly or made mistakes. It's quite interesting, I just stopped because I had library books to read.

A Witches Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna. I'm enjoying this. I got worried when it was clear there was a love interest, but actually the romance has been okay and not that big a thing. I'm only 30 pages from the end, so I'm confident it's not suddenly going to become one.

What I'm Reading Next
Excitingly, whoever had The Vanishing Box by Elly Griffiths out of the library has brought it back. I just need to finish the library books I have and hopefully this will still be there when I go. And then after I've read that, I'll read The Great Deceiver by Elly Griffiths, the last in the series, which I own but decided to save for last.

Mirrored from my blog.

aurumcalendula

I so hope Jeannelle M. Ferreira's A Remarkable Rake will be published one day! It and Rose Lerner's The Girl in the Cellar are the historical romances I'm most looking forward to reading!

profiterole_reads

The first episode of the GL Thai drama Love Beyond Dreams was awesome! After Lené (some sort of spy?) gets assassinated, Ran goes back into the past to save her life.

I'm so happy Aya is getting a full GL. <3 I loved her in Wedding Plan and Love Sea (both were BL with secondary GL). I don't know Mie yet, but she seems great too.

It's available on iQiyi.

vilakins

Day 6: Least favourite male character

If I have to pick from the regulars, then Tarrant for his bullying, though he did improve. Also, S4 Avon had to be in the running. [ducks for cover]

If it's from the whole series, then Jarvik, no contest.

All the questions are on Tumblr.

aurumcalendula

Any idea how to get non-sideloaded ebook thumbnails to show up on Kindle Fire?

Some of the ones for books I bought on Amazon are suddenly showing blank placeholder images on collection previews (the larger thumbnails that appear when I open a collection folder seem fine). The thumbnails for my sideloaded fanfic show up fine so far.

ETA: the same thumbnails on my phone's kindle app look fine

aurumcalendula

Desmond by Ulysses Grant Dietz:

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The Duke by Anna Cowan:

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hannah

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - Arcade Fire

Sometimes I think of myself as largely ignorant of computers, unable to identify a problem I've been having lately with enough precision to fully troubleshoot it or even find out what's going wrong sometimes. And then there's days like today where I meet someone who doesn't know what an operating system is. Key to this: she's at least a decade older than I am and does a lot of work on her own computer. I had to explain what an operating system is so I could explain a joke I made about Linux, and then I had to explain Linux.

It's for the best that I didn't go for the obvious Kinsey scale joke when she told her trainer she was straight. "At least a Kinsey two," is what I'd have said if I'd thought she'd have gotten it.

In other news, I only used a little of the bottle of prosecco I bought for the springtime asparagus-ramp risotto, and the pressure of the remaining bubbles had the stopper knock off in the fridge. I suppose the best solution is simply to drink it.

sanguinity

Intro/FAQ

My check-in: Broke ground on the new fic to the tune of 650 words. This post went up later than planned because I kept getting distracted by the arithmetic of pounds, shillings, and pence. (And guineas. And crowns. And…)

Day 5:

sanguinity,

ysilme

Day 4:

acorn_squash,

badly_knitted,

carenejeans,

cornerofmadness,

dswdiane,

glinda,

goddess47,

sanguinity,

sylvanwitch,

trobadora,