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jjpor ([personal profile] jjpor) wrote2020-04-02 06:12 pm

How Are You Doing?

 I realise I've not been very active at all, either here or in Doctor Who fandom generally, for the past...well, longer than I care to recall, to be honest.  We can discuss my feelings on the Chibnall Era (which is what I choose to call it because, no, I don't like it much, but it isn't anything to do with Jodie Whittaker or the Thirteenth Doctor) some other time.  There are more important things going on at the moment.

This is, I think it is fair to say, a pretty strange, scary time for pretty much the entire world and everybody in it.  I'd wager those of us who indulged in dystopian fantasies about what might happen if X or Y won a particular election, or if a particular referendum mandate was indeed seen through to its bitter end, didn't quite expect anything like this to happen.  Myself, I'm managing to get by both work-wise and personally, and keep myself and those I care about as healthy and safe as I can.  However, I realise that depending on your personal circumstances that could be a lot easier said than done.

So, I don't know, I just thought I'd post something here and just ask how people are doing, and offer my good vibes and best wishes to all of you.  It's been a while, but I hope all of you are keeping as well as can be in the circumstances, and if you'd like to offer your greetings (from a safe social distance, of course), I'd be very glad to hear from you.
thisbluespirit: (dw - clara)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2020-04-03 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
I've been cheating on Who with other fandoms again and stuff like that. I'm not proud. ;)

Shocking! How could you?

I mean, it's not as if I've written like 20,000 words of Star Wars since January, including a fic about Obi-Wan Kenobi's mother!

Well, as you know, I'm a big Master fan, and I thought Dhawan was pretty good indeed. I think Whittaker and the other regular cast members, and quite a lot of the guest stars, are really good too.

Oh, yes. Which makes it worse. And the stories were less risk averse this year and even mostly less dull and I was almost feeling hopeful... and then we got the finale. And now I just feel weird abou DW. I've decided at the moment that Big Finish and other EU things and Moffat Who feel comparatively unaffected but I can't Classic Who at all any more which I hope passes sometime soon, but it was a weird sort of betrayal in a way that nothing else has been, and I did not like it. I don't like feeling this way about Classic Who, either. :(

And based on the couple of really quite likable scripts he wrote for Eleven a few years back, I'd thought he might be getting over those. How naive I was...

I've never trusted him, never! He's my nemesis! Although, I would very much have liked to have been proved wrong on that front. (You can share my nemesis if you like, but he's been mine since at least 2007 so I got here first.)
thisbluespirit: (sw - obi-wan)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2020-04-03 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Call me back when you find yourself creating another pseud on AO3 in the hope that nobody you know will notice you writing fic about roleplaying game vampires. XD

If you're really worried about it, you need a sock account! ;-p But, ha, whatever works, and I have been known to write the odd vampire myself. (And since that was mostly old telly stuff, very odd vampires indeed.)

I just shamelessly wrote SW Prequel fic under my usual pseudonym anyway without any thought of what the subscribers might say.

I'm actually really sorry to hear that the finale has made you feel that way about the classic series. I hope it passes. It just made me think that maybe I won't watch anymore until Chibnall's gone and somebody else has the opportunity to set things back on the right track.

It just changed too much. I'm sure I'll come back around, but I still feel weird about it - it's not what I thought I was watching all this time.

I'm sure Chibnall does love the show; he's been a fan of it for long enough, after all! But his love takes strange forms and we're not obliged to appreciate them! :/
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2020-04-04 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
You have layers!

I think I'd write Star Wars fic (that quarter-million-word epic about Captain/Admiral Piett that's surely coming one day soon) quite brazenly, though. Star Wars is ace. Even the prequels :D

I know people in the Imperial side of fandom; I'm sure they'd be happy to have you!

I think a ret-retcon is probably needed to restore classic Who to its rightful state. So, fingers crossed whoever comes after him is thus inclined.

Here's hoping, but it still feels weird if people can just keep changing it like that.

thisbluespirit: (james maxwell)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2020-04-04 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Imperial fandom. :D

They're real! They reblog my gifs of Julian Glover, and understand about the awesome of cheesy Thriller episodes where James Maxwell and Julian Glover move in together and bury girls in the back garden. (Well, Julian does the burying in knatty knitwear like a manly man while JM sits inside being dangerously into classic lit and pop music and angsting over how upsetting it is to have to kill girls). Or at least the one who's very nice and part of B7 fandom does and these are the important things in life.

I don't know if they have any rules about takes on Piett, though. They seem the sort of fandom that's small enough to welcome anyone with a well written 250,000 word epic. :lol: