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Stuff and Recs and Things!
Sep. 10th, 2008 05:49 pmOnly signs of a parallel universe today have been excessively cheerful people all around me (Overheard the following exchange with the bus driver when someone departed my bus: "Could I get off before the lights, please?" "Certainly! You have yourself a great day!" "You too, sir! Thank you!") and the fact that my boss's boss came to me in order to find a certain obscure scientific paper in a certain obscure journal. Lo, my Google-fu is getting known even there.
I've now written three dozen pages of extremely dry reports, which made me fear for the interestingness of my subsequent ficcings (though not, apparently, my ability to make up words), until I realised I'd managed to sneak in things like: "The GEMLAM model makes several valiant attempts to mimic the observed wind patterns, but the subtleties elude it by Day Two." IN UR LABS, PERSONIFYING UR SUPERCOMPUTERS' OUTPUT.
Anyway, in honour of finally having watched Scream of the Shalka, I've got a couple of recs that are born of having scoured the interwebs at large for fic:
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calapine has written the requisite Withnail & I crossover, Making Time (Lords)! It is made of win, truly.
There's a spectacular longer fic by Cryptile as well, which I vaguely remember reading when it was recced on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
calufrax here - it is shiny and terrible and wonderful, and it is definitely one of the best fics I've read. The whole story is suffused with the confusion and bitterness and snarkiness and hysteria that makes up REG!Doctor, and the final product is just amazing. Go read it!
My Googlish peregrinations also came up with a shiny piece of art on the BBC website here. Neat!
(You can watch "Scream of the Shalka" here, on the BBCi player, free of charge! You don't even have to be in the UK - it loads fine for me. Don't let the flash animation throw you off! Persevere! It's Paul Cornell writing for Richard E. Grant and Sophie Okonedo and Derek Jacobi!)
And now I think there should be a quotespam. What can I say? It's a quotable serial.
( And there's no Pachelbel on this jukebox! )
I've now written three dozen pages of extremely dry reports, which made me fear for the interestingness of my subsequent ficcings (though not, apparently, my ability to make up words), until I realised I'd managed to sneak in things like: "The GEMLAM model makes several valiant attempts to mimic the observed wind patterns, but the subtleties elude it by Day Two." IN UR LABS, PERSONIFYING UR SUPERCOMPUTERS' OUTPUT.
Anyway, in honour of finally having watched Scream of the Shalka, I've got a couple of recs that are born of having scoured the interwebs at large for fic:
calapine has written the requisite Withnail & I crossover, Making Time (Lords)! It is made of win, truly.There's a spectacular longer fic by Cryptile as well, which I vaguely remember reading when it was recced on
calufrax here - it is shiny and terrible and wonderful, and it is definitely one of the best fics I've read. The whole story is suffused with the confusion and bitterness and snarkiness and hysteria that makes up REG!Doctor, and the final product is just amazing. Go read it!My Googlish peregrinations also came up with a shiny piece of art on the BBC website here. Neat!
(You can watch "Scream of the Shalka" here, on the BBCi player, free of charge! You don't even have to be in the UK - it loads fine for me. Don't let the flash animation throw you off! Persevere! It's Paul Cornell writing for Richard E. Grant and Sophie Okonedo and Derek Jacobi!)
And now I think there should be a quotespam. What can I say? It's a quotable serial.
( And there's no Pachelbel on this jukebox! )
