I did another lockdown fic...

I blame BuggreAlleThis, because they inspired it. ;) Sort of a prequel to the Elfland one. One-shot, 1475 words.


A Pilgrim’s Progressive Panic

Summary:

AZIRAPHALE WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Put down The Pilgrim’s Progress and step away from the Bunyan!

(Or: Finding reasons why Aziraphale declined Crowley’s proposal through his reading materials.)

Oh and there's a Doctor Who lockdown thing today???

I'm just going to keep editing this post, hope you don't mind.

IT’S DOCTOR WHO'S 56.5th BIRTHDAY! 🎉

Let's have a big online celebration!

5pm #DoctorsAssemble release

6pm Something fab from @bigfinish

7pm An Adventure in Space & Time with @Markgatiss & @sacha_dhawan #London1963

Oh, and we may be hearing from @bradders_david too... ✨ pic.twitter.com/WRwm8p4VN1

— Emily Cook (@Emily_Rosina) May 23, 2020

This is the actual thing, not a trailer:

Watch on YouTube

ETA: OK, it is DELIGHTFUL! Full marks, will listen again! :D If you ever wondered what would happen if ALL the Doctors got together... This is the answer. So much love. ♥ ♥ ♥

Oh and there's a Doctor Who lockdown thing today???

I'm just going to keep editing this post, hope you don't mind.

IT’S DOCTOR WHO'S 56.5th BIRTHDAY! 🎉

Let's have a big online celebration!

5pm #DoctorsAssemble release

6pm Something fab from @bigfinish

7pm An Adventure in Space & Time with @Markgatiss & @sacha_dhawan #London1963

Oh, and we may be hearing from @bradders_david too... ✨ pic.twitter.com/WRwm8p4VN1

— Emily Cook (@Emily_Rosina) May 23, 2020

This is the actual thing, not a trailer:

ETA: OK, it is DELIGHTFUL! Full marks, will listen again! :D If you ever wondered what would happen if ALL the Doctors got together... This is the answer. So much love. ♥ ♥ ♥

Update from The House of Plague, Day 68 (and breathe)

Re. today's news, then the parody account of No 10's cat is doing a better job than our Esteemed Leaders:

This is going to be another one of my rare serious threads, so feel free to ignore if you’re just here for the cat pictures (more of those soon)

Senior government ministers leaping to defend Dominic Cummings for breaking the government’s lockdown regulations is VERY dangerous

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) May 23, 2020

~

Otherwise:

Ok, everyone just stop for a second. Take a breath. Relax a moment. And realize that we're all living through a fucking worldwide plague. I mean, that's crazy. A plague.

So, yeah, maybe it's ok if if you're freaking out. Give yourself a break. It's a plague.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) May 23, 2020

So I give you:

Watch on YouTube

From the presenter's comments at the end:

The Fifth premiered here at The Royal Albert Hall in June 1943 at the height of the Second World War. Sir Adrian Boult (sp?) was listening in on the radio and afterwards wrote to Vaughan Williams that 'the Symphony's serene loveliness is completely satisfactorily in these times and shows, as only music can, what we must work for when this madness is over.'

(Although please don't skip the comments at the start!)

And from the comments on youtube:

More even than The Lark Ascending or the Tallis Fantasia, when my psyche needs repair this is the piece I turn to. In the thirty-seven years I've known it, it has never once let me down.