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Doctor Who 11.05
Nov. 5th, 2018 03:21 am( extremely negative reaction )
( spoilers for episode 6 )
On a far more positive note, I thought Next of Kin was fabulous: not just the parts set in England but also those in Lahore. There was also some (very brief) f/f content. From reading reviews, I know many viewers were unhappy with the idea of a Muslim family affected by terrorism, which seems the worst kind of cliché, but Archie Panjabi and Jack Davenport were both as amazing as they always are, and I thought the story was sensitively told. (Take notes, Chibnall, for pity's sake.)
Ugh, Doctor Who is suddenly making me feel so awful. This is one of those times I'm just going to tell myself that it's just TV; no need to get upset about it. But still.
( spoilers for episode 6 )
On a far more positive note, I thought Next of Kin was fabulous: not just the parts set in England but also those in Lahore. There was also some (very brief) f/f content. From reading reviews, I know many viewers were unhappy with the idea of a Muslim family affected by terrorism, which seems the worst kind of cliché, but Archie Panjabi and Jack Davenport were both as amazing as they always are, and I thought the story was sensitively told. (Take notes, Chibnall, for pity's sake.)
Ugh, Doctor Who is suddenly making me feel so awful. This is one of those times I'm just going to tell myself that it's just TV; no need to get upset about it. But still.
Doctor Who 11.04
Oct. 29th, 2018 02:55 pm( Read more... )
Speaking of anti-speciesism, I've been reading on ecopsychology (for my research project, and also because I'm supervising a marvellous student dissertation on the subject), and I came across a lovely point in one of the books on the topic. It says that maybe our very definition of 'sanity' needs to be revisited in the context of the world today. Why is it that so many of us suffer from depression and anxiety? When you think about it, isn't it perfectly natural to be 'mentally ill' when the world is anything but healthy and at peace? There's more, but I don't recall all of it, and the book's with my student, who took it home for the semester break. Will post more on the topic once we resume, I suppose. Lots to say about what I'm teaching next semester; but I guess it's mostly tl;dr. Have a couple of pics.
( The X-Files, just because )
Speaking of anti-speciesism, I've been reading on ecopsychology (for my research project, and also because I'm supervising a marvellous student dissertation on the subject), and I came across a lovely point in one of the books on the topic. It says that maybe our very definition of 'sanity' needs to be revisited in the context of the world today. Why is it that so many of us suffer from depression and anxiety? When you think about it, isn't it perfectly natural to be 'mentally ill' when the world is anything but healthy and at peace? There's more, but I don't recall all of it, and the book's with my student, who took it home for the semester break. Will post more on the topic once we resume, I suppose. Lots to say about what I'm teaching next semester; but I guess it's mostly tl;dr. Have a couple of pics.
( The X-Files, just because )
SPN 14.2 and DW 11.2
Oct. 19th, 2018 01:22 pmThis was a good, solid episode of Doctor Who. The TARDIS! ♥
I don't really have anything to say about SPN. I didn't expect to, given that 14.2 was written by the Terrible Duo. Onward.
I don't really have anything to say about SPN. I didn't expect to, given that 14.2 was written by the Terrible Duo. Onward.
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Oct. 14th, 2018 01:08 pmI can’t login to this ID from my computer, since LJ tells me my IP address is “temporarily banned”. I’m on the phone app, which is really not that great, so I’ll be at my smithkingsley ID until the issue is sorted out.
Guess this is also a good time to resume using Dreamwidth. I’m asra over there. I’m also smithkingsley on Twitter and Tumblr, if you’d rather.
WTH, LJ. :-/
The magic of 10/13
Oct. 13th, 2018 09:55 amHappy X-Files day, and happy birthday to Fox Mulder.
A phenomenon that only occurs once every 10,000 years: I actually remembered, in the morning, the fic idea I had when I was drifting off last night.
Weird thing of the day: I thought I’d lost my earring. Turns out it was inside my ear. Not even out of sight, just sitting there above my earlobe, and still attached. Huh.
A phenomenon that only occurs once every 10,000 years: I actually remembered, in the morning, the fic idea I had when I was drifting off last night.
Weird thing of the day: I thought I’d lost my earring. Turns out it was inside my ear. Not even out of sight, just sitting there above my earlobe, and still attached. Huh.
Next of Kin
Oct. 7th, 2018 10:32 pmI'd seen somewhere, on Shabana Azmi's twitter iirc, that Jack Davenport has worked with her, but I sort of blanked out on it. Now that I've refreshed my memory, I'll go look for the series, which stars Archie Panjabi and Jack. Here's an interview with him. I love how he fanboys over Shabana Azmi, and I must say I agree completely with the interviewer's description of his responses, on the very difficult subject of terrorism, as "precise" and "eloquent".
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I don't think there are any JackDav fans remaining on my flist, alas. Doctor Who fans may know him as Michelle Gomez's husband. (As an aside, just how cool would it be to see the first female Master meet the first female Doctor?) *I* know him as the gorgeously gay Peter Smith-Kingsley from The Talented Mr Ripley and, of course, Commodore James Norrington. ♥
In other news, I randomly discovered that Photobucket is working again. I spent a few happy hours going through all my old stuff. To celebrate, here's a (non-colour) colourbar I made for Peter, back when people on LJ still used colourbars.
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Speaking of the Doctor: IT'S TODAY, IT'S TODAY! See you on the other side. *g*
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I don't think there are any JackDav fans remaining on my flist, alas. Doctor Who fans may know him as Michelle Gomez's husband. (As an aside, just how cool would it be to see the first female Master meet the first female Doctor?) *I* know him as the gorgeously gay Peter Smith-Kingsley from The Talented Mr Ripley and, of course, Commodore James Norrington. ♥
In other news, I randomly discovered that Photobucket is working again. I spent a few happy hours going through all my old stuff. To celebrate, here's a (non-colour) colourbar I made for Peter, back when people on LJ still used colourbars.
( Read more... )
Speaking of the Doctor: IT'S TODAY, IT'S TODAY! See you on the other side. *g*
Fic and things
Oct. 1st, 2018 10:12 pmI watched A Very English Scandal without reading the book first, and I'm kind of glad I did, because I don't think I want to read it after all. It's by Russell T Davies (and Eve Myles plays a character named Gwen, lol), with Hugh Grant as the politician who wants to get rid of his former lover, played by the always-incredible Ben Whishaw. Maybe because it's based on true events, it's very bleak. (What else should I have expected from RTD?)
Fic reveal time; I wrote these:
- Gwen/Morgana ficlet, post-series, for Everywoman;
- Pre-series Sam and Dean fic, outsider PoV, originally posted here at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_summergen;
- SPN Masquerade fill, Sam/Dean, for a wonderful prompt that I just couldn't resist.
Things to write in the near future include: SPN Cinema (I've chosen Before Sunset in the hope that I can write a sequel to my trans!Jared fic based on Before Sunrise); SPN-J2-Xmas; Yuletide; SPN Reverse Bang - for gorgeous art by the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dizzojay. Will also probably do public_call, as well as snapecase (if I can manage to figure out how it works). Okay, that's a ~lot of writing.
Less than a week to go for Doctor Who! ♥
Fic reveal time; I wrote these:
- Gwen/Morgana ficlet, post-series, for Everywoman;
- Pre-series Sam and Dean fic, outsider PoV, originally posted here at
spn_summergen;- SPN Masquerade fill, Sam/Dean, for a wonderful prompt that I just couldn't resist.
Things to write in the near future include: SPN Cinema (I've chosen Before Sunset in the hope that I can write a sequel to my trans!Jared fic based on Before Sunrise); SPN-J2-Xmas; Yuletide; SPN Reverse Bang - for gorgeous art by the lovely
dizzojay. Will also probably do public_call, as well as snapecase (if I can manage to figure out how it works). Okay, that's a ~lot of writing.Less than a week to go for Doctor Who! ♥
Janice Pariat's The Nine-Chambered Heart is the sort of book that has my students in raptures and has me going... uhhh, what am I missing? It was a quick read, which does say a lot about the author's ability to engage the reader, and I also loved the premise: we see the protagonist through the points of view of nine characters she's been in sexual/romantic relationships with. (It's a really good premise for a fanfic, am I right?) Predictably, the part I liked the most was the one with the female roommate, although, alas, it's pretty much the only 'relationship' in the novel that doesn't actually turn into a relationship.
Only a few more Fandom Studies classes to go before the semester ends next week. There's SO MUCH I wanted to introduce my students to, and not enough time. At least I've got most of them hooked on Doctor Who/Torchwood (although it was my duty to warn them that the latter comes with a huge 'be prepared to have your heart torn out and stomped on' warning). Here's a (fan-made) video I posted for the class today.
One of the students has just submitted a Sam-centric Stanford-era fanfic. BRB OFF TO READ.
Only a few more Fandom Studies classes to go before the semester ends next week. There's SO MUCH I wanted to introduce my students to, and not enough time. At least I've got most of them hooked on Doctor Who/Torchwood (although it was my duty to warn them that the latter comes with a huge 'be prepared to have your heart torn out and stomped on' warning). Here's a (fan-made) video I posted for the class today.
One of the students has just submitted a Sam-centric Stanford-era fanfic. BRB OFF TO READ.
I just finished rereading Jamyang Norbu's Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Years, aka The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes. (I set myself a reading goal of 52 books this year, hence the title of this post; although, considering it's already September, I don't think I'm going to complete the challenge this year.) I read it twenty years ago when it was first published, and reread it now since one of my students is doing her dissertation on it. It's about Holmes's post-Reichenbach time in Tibet from when he's pretending to be dead in the gap between "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House".
Some of it didn't stand up well to a second read, but THE END, THE END! Pretty much every review I've read of Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire says that you ~must read it, if only for the very last page, and I have to say the same of Norbu's Holmes. If you're a Sherlock Holmes fan, whether ACD or Granada or BBC or whichever version, read this book for the last few lines. (It's a bit like the very last scene of An Adventure in Space and Time for Doctor Who fans.)
Re fandom things, I'm pretty disappointed that neither of my recipients for the last two exchanges I participated in responded to their gifts. Oh, well. I did manage anspn_masquerade fill, and I enjoyed writing it, so that's something.
Also also,yuletide nominations are open!
Hope everyone is doing well. <3 LLAP!
Some of it didn't stand up well to a second read, but THE END, THE END! Pretty much every review I've read of Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire says that you ~must read it, if only for the very last page, and I have to say the same of Norbu's Holmes. If you're a Sherlock Holmes fan, whether ACD or Granada or BBC or whichever version, read this book for the last few lines. (It's a bit like the very last scene of An Adventure in Space and Time for Doctor Who fans.)
Re fandom things, I'm pretty disappointed that neither of my recipients for the last two exchanges I participated in responded to their gifts. Oh, well. I did manage an
spn_masquerade fill, and I enjoyed writing it, so that's something.Also also,
yuletide nominations are open!Hope everyone is doing well. <3 LLAP!
Sign-ups for femslashex are open. Alas, I completely missed nominations because the exchange only posts at DW now, and no one nominated any of my go-to fandoms. Got to love whoever nominated Bill Potts/Eowyn, though.
