Ack! LJ ate my comment. It really has been playing up recently. I had to re-upload about half the images for this post because they just vanished.
First of all, brilliant as always. I was waiting for this like so many other people. I might write more (mostly about 'the women') but this just all hang together.
I love your inclusion of River; thinking about her this way helps complete my personal understanding of the Moment. Yay! There is always the underlying idea of 'all the women are woman' (and all the men are - quite literally - one man!), and I might have to play with that a little more.
I think yours is the first mention of the importance of the Marcus Aurelius qoute I've seen. Oh, there's this beautiful review which uses his writings throughout. (S)he gets the timey-wimey wrong, but other than that it's pretty perfect. And all the quoting is brilliant.
And I'm so pleased you tied in to that wonderful Seven moment: I used it for inspiration for a ficlet: http://hawkmoth.livejournal.com/339944.html (which I titled "Unforeseeable Ways.") Seven is my DARLING. And that moment is just one of that sums up everything brilliantly. Will have to check out your ficlet. (Realised that I didn't have you friended. Have amended that now.)
Can't wait for more, and I know your meta for the Christmas Special is going to be heartwrenching. Where the show goes, so do I...
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It really has been playing up recently. I had to re-upload about half the images for this post because they just vanished.
First of all, brilliant as always. I was waiting for this like so many other people.
I might write more (mostly about 'the women') but this just all hang together.
I love your inclusion of River; thinking about her this way helps complete my personal understanding of the Moment.
Yay! There is always the underlying idea of 'all the women are woman' (and all the men are - quite literally - one man!), and I might have to play with that a little more.
I think yours is the first mention of the importance of the Marcus Aurelius qoute I've seen.
Oh, there's this beautiful review which uses his writings throughout. (S)he gets the timey-wimey wrong, but other than that it's pretty perfect. And all the quoting is brilliant.
And I'm so pleased you tied in to that wonderful Seven moment: I used it for inspiration for a ficlet: http://hawkmoth.livejournal.com/339944.html (which I titled "Unforeseeable Ways.")
Seven is my DARLING. And that moment is just one of that sums up everything brilliantly. Will have to check out your ficlet. (Realised that I didn't have you friended. Have amended that now.)
Can't wait for more, and I know your meta for the Christmas Special is going to be heartwrenching.
Where the show goes, so do I...