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BEAUTIFUL. =DDDDDD 80s commericals were so much better than the ones we have now. Also I am now officially convinced, I want to watch Old Who. Any recommendations for episodes?

I don't normally like to speculate on people's extracurriculars but what on Earth was RTD smoking when he wrote this?

Today I watched Kamen Rider Kabuto and Mei-Chan no Shitsuji! One is a tokusatsu where our heroes fight evil shape shifting aliens called Worms. The other is delicious shoujo crack about a school of rich girls and their butlers. They both have the extremely important unifying factor of Mizushima Hiro's face. =DDDDDDD I think I am going to watch more of Mei-Chan because I wasn't really feeling the first episode of Kabuto. Possibly because I was mentally comparing it to the only other tokusatsu I've watched, Keitai Sousaken 7, which was awesome and had TALKING CELL PHONES

Also you may not be aware but femgenficathon started posting a week back and there is much excellent fic to be had. Here are a few of my favourites.

Harbingers of Blood Queens have power. They need not hide who and what they are for safety's sake. But more than that--queens have names. And Lady Macbeth would do much to be known and remembered under her own name. So GOOD you guys. I always liked Lady Macbeth for being so much more hardcore than her husband but this fic manages to humanize her really well, while blending in some actual Scottish history at the same time. So far I think this is my favourite fic to come out of the comm.

Noli mi tangere There was a gentle woman in the Courte, called Anne Bulleyne, daughter to sir Thomas Bulleyne, Viscount Rocheforde, whom the kyng muche fauoured in all honestie, and surely none otherwise, as all the worlde well knewe after. I have read so many actual published books on Anne Boleyn and the Tudors and I think this could stand up well with any of them. viorica8957 said in the comments that it struck the perfect balance between Anne-the-ambitious and Anne-the-person which WORD. I especially liked how she handled her relationship with her sister (neither of them being demonized! I can think of one or two published authors who could take a hint here, -cough-PhilippaGregory-cough-).

This one isn't from femgenficathon but it's gen and it's about Martha Jones so I'm reccing it anyways.

Twenty Truths About Martha Jones

12.

She had protested a bit about it but Martha had really loved 1969.

It was a bit like in the movies, like in the old tv shows. The colours, the music, the pretty girls in white leather boots. Except it was real, and not a movie.

She loved the most the way everything seemed to quiet down, after the rush of adventures with the Doctor, intergalactic danger and always running, heart in your mouth.

Now she could just be. And be with the Doctor.

They fell into the habit of buying silly little presents for each other, every day. Martha gave him a wristband made of seashells and the Doctor gave her an awful watercolor painting of a cat, which Martha dutifully hung in the hallway and never failed to make them double in laughter. The Doctor gave her second-hand shoes laced with emerald-like stones, but he didn’t get her size right. Martha gave her a Sherlock Holmes-like pipe that the Doctor pretended to smoke when he wanted to make her giggle.

He seemed content enough to play house for a while, with her. He used to wrote messages for her in the steam over the bathroom mirror, after a long, hot shower. Sometimes they didn’t make sense, sometimes it was even just numbers, sometimes he would make a simple doodle of himself. He would always draw a smiley face and Martha wished she could always see him happy like that.

1969 was a bittersweet holiday, if anything.

They sat together in the evenings, crosslegged on the big red couch and eating their meals from folding trays.

And sometimes he would look at her profile as she watched tv and Martha would feel his gaze on her skin and it occurred to her, for a moment, that maybe the real problem, the destruction of it all, was the her love was not quite as unrequited as she had been led to believe and that was what would set them apart, in the end.

I believe this very very much.

So I watched Midnight. It was brilliant and I am finally understanding what people see in Ten. Have also managed to stop wishing he was Eleven every time I see him (Eleven wouldn't really fit in the kind of plots Ten gets anyways).

EDIT: Also! Also the professor's name was Hobbes and this was an episode about the worst in human nature and foreshadowing is the greatest, woo hoo! Also COLIN MORGAN ladies and gentlemen (and variations thereof).

About halfway through this episode and can I say how sick I am of Doctor Who's tendency to ALWAYS kill off the black guy? I mean it's starting to get seriously noticeable! I expected him to die when the angel servicebot things were after them and he was struggling to get through the opening but then he didn't and I was like wait? He might live? Really?

NOPE. =_= This is hitting Merlin levels of bad here (I love the show but do you know the life expectancy for a black man with a name on any given episode? ZILCH)

Man I am starting to wonder if it's just something about UK family shows or something.

Oh my God I want to cry. That was amazing. This is my absolute favourite season of Doctor Who from every single one I've ever seen. Eleven has replaced Nine as my Doctor

Oh Moffat I knew we could count on you. <333

How much do you suppose the complete season on DVD will run for when it's out? Because I don't care what, I have to own these episodes and loan them to everybody I love.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA TINKERBELL JESUS DOCTOR, WHO YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME, I'M AT SCHOOL.

BRB DYING OF LOLS.

P.S. MARTHA JONES IS A ROCK STAR, IMMUTABLE UNCHANGEABLE FACT.

Okay I keep watching this video and you all should too.



Ugh I love it so much. I feel like tiny Amelia Pond looking at something new and wonderful. Basically this video is my feelings about this season of Doctor Who, summed up to song. ♥♥♥

Doctor Who is so DIFFERENT when I love the Doctor. I just finished my season 2 catch up this morning and I watched the new episode this afternoon. I don't actively dislike Ten anymore but I don't think I'll ever really love him like I do Eleven. Today's episode just made me happy in the best way. Also there is such a huge difference in emotional investment; I know RTD was trying to pull on my heartstrings with Doomsday but I didn't really feel it. Compare that with last week's Vincent and the Doctor which was just gorgeous and sad and uplifting at the same time. <3

tl;dr I love fifth season Doctor Who the most.