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So does anyone on my friendslist want to talk to me about British things? For that manner, was anyone a queer British teenager in the 80s/early 90s? Or know anyone who was? I have this idea that other countries might be different than my own.

1) Does anyone have any advice for getting into a fandom in another language? I am thinking of making the jump to reading in Spanish, but I don't know where to start. (Besides, you know, typing 'fanficción' into search engines. On the one hand, I would never do that in English; on the other hand, my Spanish reading comprehension is low enough that I will never know if I'm reading badfic)

2) Vidding ( woe, oh woe, and some navel-gazing )

3) I never really understood how people could not have time for fandom stuff, and then I, you know. Got a real job. It turns out eighteen academic hours != forty-hour work week. I've been coming home too sleepy to face real tv shows, so I've been watching That Seventies Show streaming on the theory that I couldn't possibly find subtext in it.

You know where this is going. As of this morning I have written 1500 words of Hyde/Foreman, and I'm showing no signs of stopping. At least I'll have something to post!

4) There's months to go, but I am sort of excited about meeting up with the Torchwood team again. They are ridiculous and dysfunctional and I met them before I met the Doctor and just sort of accepted their warpedness at face-value. And I find myself missing them, apocalyptic fuck-ups and all. (ETA: do I need to add a sanity disclaimer when I talk about fictional characters this way? Or do you, dear friendslist, also think of presently off-air dramatis personae as if they were colorful acquaintances of yours who have been on a long vacation in another country?)

5) I have been listening to so much podfic. I will make a rec list soon, because finding a good story paired with a good reader is pretty great.

6) Hi! How are you? The internet sure has been quiet lately.

Not that I read fandom_wank, but dude, skip the wank and go straight to the picspam (sadly, all behind links, so it takes a while to navigate.)

Also: David Tennant talks about his manpants on call-in radio?

Also:

I forget that John Barrowman has little glasses. ::spontaneously combusts::

though this, in particular, reminds me that he's actually ethnically Scottish, which makes the Barrowman-lust feel a little ... endogamous. But whatev, because, shiny!

Yes, this is another killing-time-until-the-ep-goes-live post. Hi!
Also, do you know how much fun it is to vid Saxon? A lot! He is superbouncy.

Okay, does anyone just happen to have eps of Dr Who s1 & 2 lying around + a hankering to ysi them to me? I'm usually willing to suck it up and wait for utorrent, but I'm on a real-life deadline (job starts on friday = no more five-hour vidding sprees) and I'm worried that I'm going to run out of time. Also, the Recent Troubles in some of the Doctor Who communities seem to have slowed things down a lot.

( I have these episodes ) already.

I figure it's worth a try to ask. Comments are screened in case of very good luck. And hey, I'm not above offering fic or a minivid as bribe, though (see: deadline) it'll take me a while to deliver it.

That aside, I'm about halfway through the song. In between church & garden and singing class last night I did about four hours of work in the coffeeshop, and that really is the perfect location: not too quiet, glare-free, and with a potentially unlimited stream of sugar-based beverages. I do believe I will do that again.

ETA: Wow. Episodes totally found. Thanks!

1) Hey, so: does anyone have recommendations for chatty, informative books about:
a) Jerusalem politics in the year 0
b) the Protestant reformation and major dramatis personae thereof
c) medieval cult of the saints and wacky behavior associated with religious orders?
ETA: or, actually, anything about any episodes of wacky religious factionalism in judeo-christian history at all. I should take this to a reference librarian so that they can roll their eyes and refer me to the entirety of Western history.


2) Does anyone know exactly where Rodney McKay lived as a child? Does anyone have a good guess? I haven't been to Canada since I was six months old, so my geography is, sadly, rusty.

Also, I may be more familiar with the geography of Nunavut than anything closer to the U.S. border.

Anyway, if anyone can point me towards any episodes at all, besides McKay and Mrs. Miller, where Rodney discusses his early life, I would be very grateful.

This morning my poor little vintage Thinkpad announced that it was going to explode if I didn't get some of my media off its harddrive now. It turned out I had about five megabytes of free space left on the harddrive. And yet my computer hadn't slowed down at all. How much do I love my laptop? Very much indeed.

So I burnt all my Due South season 3 onto cds, and started mislabeling them halfway through: example:
Hot Mounty Action
My Life Among the Muskox: A Documentary
National Curling Championships, 1998
Top Ten Canadian Sea Chanties
Rescue Breathing 101.

I am way too self-amused.

I've been playing with vidding software for the last couple of days. Of course I'm running Windows 98, which means no Windows Movie Maker for me. Right now I'm cutting up clips in one freeware program and putting them back together in another; it turns out neither of them is very handy for adding music. I will figure it out. I don't expect anything internet-publishable to come out of it, frankly, but it's been way more interesting than I expected to look at how episodes are put together shot by shot.

Tonight: Dinner (veggie burger and sweet potato fries) and movie (Marie Antionette) with townie friends. Tomorrow: hiking expedition. Skipping church, even. I'm a fanvid-making rebel like that.