Outward travel must not be in the past.

Lovely interview with Jessica Hynes here. ("You think of Emily Davison as the only martyr, but it was all quite serious. It was no longer Carry On Up the Suffrage. I was crying into my tea...")

Watched the first episode last night (twice!) and rather loved it. Sort of the opposite of Miranda... Very quiet, very understated, but with real bite. Really can't wait for more.

Seriously though - it's a sitcom about Suffragettes!

From the BBC's Doctor Who site:

River Song made her first appearance five years ago today, leading an expedition to The Library where she found the Vashta Nerada, Donna Noble… and the Doctor. Although he didn’t have a clue who this charismatic archaeologist was, she certainly knew him, recalling days he had yet to live with an affection that indicated they would become more than just traveling companions.

Go here for more (their favourite quotes, a new gallery, a quiz etc.): Happy Anniversary River Song!

I shall celebrate with macros from Texts From the TARDIS. And I'm keeping them more-or-less worksafe! This one might be my favourite, but there's plenty more below the cut...



( Ladies and Gentlemen, the Doctor's Wife... )

Plus a vid to tie in with the theme:



OH MY PONDS THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYONE LIKE YOU!


To finish (for now) my favourite River vid. (Well one of them. V. different from the macros, needless to say...) It's S4/5, but one that has held up beautifully:

Run With Me by chaila43

Summary: There there, baby, it's just textbook stuff. River/Awesome, River/Doctor.

Happy Birthday green_maia! Hope it's a very good one with lots of David Tennant. :)

(Spoilers up to - and including - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS.)

I don't ship them, even though Whouffle is the most adorable shipping name ever (I just never ship the Doctor with Companions) - they just have the most wonderful dynamic, which this vid showcases beautifully. And Clara is this tiny adorable little thing with a spine of steel.

Which reminds me. Someone (*looks at vidders on flist meaningfully*) needs to make a Clara vid to 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)'. Because it is the perfect song for her & her journey:

I must become a lion hearted girl

Ready for a fight
Before I make the final sacrifice

This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?
Midas is king and he holds me so tight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight

Raise it up, raise it up
Raise it up, raise it up

And in the spring I shed my skin
And it blows away with the changing wind
The waters turn from blue to red

As towards the sky I offer it

Oh and green_maia suggested Scarborough Fair/Canticle for Doctor/River...

Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley sage rosemary and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strands
Then she’ll be a true love of mine

Hello BtVS/AtS fans! I'm still here! *waves*

So, Buffy's anniversary. I wanted to do something to mark it, but couldn't think of anything... Until I remembered this fic. I started it back in 2006 or 2007, and wrote 14 chapters (amounting to about 50,000 words) but never posted anything because this story (unlike pretty much all my other stuff) has A Proper Plot and A Story Arc and I didn't want to joss anything in the story by writing my self into a corner (seriously, it's long & complex). Plus those 14 chapters were only about half the fic (or a third...), and I didn't want to leave forever between updates. However, as you can see, I was so invested that I got ruuger to make me an icon, and kathyh even semi-beta'd the chapters. ♥


ANYWAY! In honour of the 10 year anniversary I thought 'Sod it, I love this fic, I'll start posting!' And then hopefully people will nag me into finishing it, because it's a properly EPIC story with world building and character development and PLOT and all kinds of things that people should appreciate. Of course fandom is now a fraction of what it was, but I'm hoping to lure in a few readers for old times' sake... Because I'm seriously proud of this fic. (My guarantee to you: it's better than the comics!) Figure I'll post a chapter every few weeks, and then hopefully be able to get started with writing again once I reach the end of what I've got...

Divided Destiny
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Rating: Teen.
Characters: Spike, Angel, Illyria, Buffy, Scoobies + cameos from more or less everyone in the 'verse.
Feedback: Is bloody ambrosia! (The secret ingredient is otter...)
Setting and Summary: This is the sequel to ‘Maybe Someday’ (or, more accurately, Maybe Someday was the prequel for this - Master post of 'verse here), in which Spike, Angel and Illyria turned up in Rome and encountered Buffy (Sept. 2004). During the following week Buffy and Spike started dating (and working through their issues), Illyria picked up some handy portal opening powers and Angel got a lead on someone who used to know the Wolf, Ram and Hart. This fic starts the evening after that fic ended. The story chronicles Angel, Spike and Illyria’s attempt at taking down W&H. Can it be done? And if so, what will the price be? (That’s all the warning I’m going to give you, OK? Don’t yell at me later. Also see quote below.)

SPIKE: What do you think all this means for that Shanshu bugaboo? If we make it through this, does one of us get to be a real boy?
ANGEL: Who you kidding? We're not gonna make it through.
‘Not Fade Away’

( Chapter 1 )

Really like this:

Radio Times Review.

Especially describing Clara as 'plucky'. :)

(So much meta! I'm very slowly working my way through things...)

I didn't watch the show live last night, as I was ded from Doctor Who. (Am still trying to gather myself.)

However thanks to the magic of replay I watched Eurovision today (and could skip all the dull songs & the voting!), and here are my highlights:











And then the interval act (well one of them), which was just... outstanding! If you want to know about Sweden, and how they see themselves - or you just want a laugh - watch!

Dan Brown's appropriation of Dante is (IMHO) something close to sacrilege, whereas Clive James has just finished a translation (after a lifetime's work). Interview here, but I've pulled out what is for me the money quote:

On working on his translation for 40 years: "In view of the likelihood that Dan Brown's Inferno novel will coin money like the mint and be turned into a huge Hollywood movie (Jeremy Irons as Dante perhaps, opposite the meltingly spiritual Beatrice of Angelina Jolie), it might be asked why I slogged away at a mere translation. The answer is simple: The Divine Comedy is a work of art so incandescently great that if you think you can convey some of its force and colored fire, you should. It was a duty. For 40 years, since my brilliant wife showed me what the lovers sounded like when they spoke Italian to each other in the fifth canto of hell, I knew it was my duty. I just didn't know how to do it. Somewhere in Dan Brown's new book, a professor says that Longfellow's translation does the job. But when I read that translation, and all the other translations, I still thought that nobody yet had quite caught the way that Dante's verse flies along, infinitely varied, infallibly vivid, totally brilliant. So I pushed on, and the effort brought me where I am today, competing head to head with one of the biggest-selling writers of all time. Smart move, eh?"