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Twenty years??  TWENTY years???

But seriously... Twenty YEARS???!!
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Well, hopefully the Great Pumpkin (assuming I'm not wildly mixing up festive occasions) will bring us all what we want tomorrow. Me, I want Moffat being like egregiously Moffat-y, but I suspect in the event he will tone it down a bit for crimbo.

I haven't watched The War Games in Colour yet, not for any particular reason. I may check it out in conjunction with the special tomorrow. That sounds like a plan, in fact.

EDIT: I meant to say, I am going to watch the no doubt very Gatiss-y A Ghost Story for Christmas on BBC Two tonight. That's become a bit of a Christmas Eve tradition for me over the last couple of years, even if they always go for exactly the same "twist" ending every time. :D Knowing the story this year's is based on quite well, I can already imagine exactly how the ending is going to be handled. Who knows, though, maybe I'll be wrong!

EDIT 2: I was wrong! A surprisingly restrained affair compared to past years. Very good, though.

Apart from that, I just want to extend the best wishes of the season to anyone who might be reading this, however you may or may not be celebrating. The world isn't a great place at the moment in lots of ways, it is fair to say, but I think you need to take whatever comfort and joy you can possibly get. All the best. <3
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 ...to those who celebrate. 61 is the new 50, or something. Not sure how others are marking the occasion (there was a time when I would have had my finger on that pulse, but alas), but I've just watched the live watch-along of Boom from the most recent series on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel. It's still a very good episode, imho - extremely Moffat-y if you like that kind of thing (I do!). The Xmas special looks like it might be good too, in the same sorts of ways.

Realising now that I never posted anything about Boom or the remainder of Season 1 (if we're calling it that) because I did my thing again of just disappearing without trace for a while and then popping up back here at vaguely Doctor Who-related moments. I keep saying I'm going to not do that again, but I keep doing it, don't I? And the general state of the world hasn't really got any better in the meantime, has it?

Doctor Who-wise, I've mostly been continuing to work my way slowly through what's on the BBC iPlayer, including the various more-recently animated stories from the 60s, not all of which I've seen before in these particular forms. I hear they're going to do a Daleks in Colour-style edit of The War Games now, which strikes me as...a courageous decision, given how long the original version is. Not exactly something I'm looking forward to, to be honest, but then I was pretty curmudgeonly about The Daleks in Colour - I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy it and have the general feeling that anything that might get the young'uns watching oldschool Who is probably a good thing.

Regarding the remainder of "Season 1," after a fair bit of teasing and misdirection, the Sutekh thing and the finale in general was...extremely RTD-y if you like that kind of thing. I think I've said enough. XD
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 Just to say - I hope wherever you are, whatever your circumstances and whatever holidays you do or do not celebrate, that you get a bit of rest and relaxation at the tail end of what has been yet another year and a half. Have a good one. Watch Doctor Who, any Doctor Who, but only if you want to. :D 
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Well, however you have chosen or been obliged to spend it, I hope you have had a good Who Day. And if you're giving thanks on the other side of the pond...well, 60 years of Doctor Who is something to be thankful for, I suppose. :D

I'm just about to watch the new colourised version of The Daleks on BBC4, and then An Adventure in Space and Time I suppose afterwards. It barely seems like yesterday since the 50th, to be honest.

Anyway, have a good one...!

Hello

Nov. 19th, 2023 09:13 pm
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I’m not sure whether anyone is going to see this or want to respond to it, but hey, I’m still extant as they say.

Ramblings Continue )
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 Jon Pertwee would have been 100 years old today, and I think this video of his son Sean reminiscing is Lovely:

 


That is all :)





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Originally posted to [community profile] who_at_50 by [personal profile] thisbluespirit :

"


[community profile] who_allsorts is a prompt table community open to all types of fanworks and all corners of the Doctor Who Universe. It's an old school style prompt claiming community, with bite-sized tables (varying from 3-20 prompts) and a more flexible approach to what can be claimed (characters, pairings, eras, themes, spin-offs etc.). Come on over, claim up to two tables at one time, and create new fanworks for Doctor Who - and everyone profits!

Further information can be found at the comm. Click on the banner for link. "

Well, go on, then!
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My contribution to the [community profile] who_guestfest ficathon 2018!

Author: [personal profile] jjpor
Title: Fortunate Son
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 15,400
Prompt/Chosen character: Everybody's favourite G-Man Canton Everett Delaware III
Notes/Warnings: Period racism/sexism/homophobia etc. Historical characters taken in vain. 1960s conspiracy-theorising.
Summary: Canton Everett Delaware III doesn’t know whether he’s coming or going.

Link:
@Teaspoon
@AO3

Once again I might just have managed to make my posting deadline in *some* time zones. I’ve actually been trying to write this fic, or something like it, for a few years now, so I’m glad the ‘thon gave me the opportunity finally to get it off my chest. Warning for salty language and 1960s period racism, misogyny, homophobia etc. No historical characters were harmed in the making of this fic. Doctor Who and its various characters and copyrights most definitely do not belong to me.
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Prompt! Sign up! Write! Post! Do it! Do it..!!



I mean, no pressure or anything.
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Just a reminder that it's not too late to sign up for the [community profile] who_at_50 52nd Anniversary Fanwork-a-thon, celebrating more than half a century of Doctor Who-related goodness. All - that is all - forms of fannish endeavour are welcome - fanfic, fanart, fanvids, fanmixes, icons, podfic, and absolutely any other medium in which you want to express your creativity and celebrate your love for that which is Who.

If you're interested in taking part, please take a look at one of the posts linked below for details and rules (there aren't many!) and if it looks good please leave a comment. See you there, hopefully.

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The 53rd Anniversary of Doctor Who is looming over us and, as in previous years, I thought it would be nice to commemorate it at [community profile] who_at_50 via the medium of fanwork.

I therefore announce the [community profile] who_at_50 52nd Anniversary Fanwork-a-thon, celebrating more than half a century of Doctor Who-related goodness. All - that is all - forms of fannish endeavour are welcome - fanfic, fanart, fanvids, fanmixes, icons, podfic, and absolutely any other medium in which you want to express your creativity and celebrate your love for that which is Who, almost certainly including some I've never even heard of. Signups are open from today; posting of fanworks will commence from 1 November 2016 and continue throughout that month. Anything evoking the idea of the extraordinary longevity and diversity of Who would be especially welcome, but maybe the best way to do that is by creating the most typically Doctor Who-like Doctor Who fanwork you can?

If you're interested in taking part, please take a look at one of the posts linked below for details and rules (there aren't many rules!) and if it looks good please leave a comment. See you there, hopefully.

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Written for the dw_guestfest Minor Characters Ficathon and unfortunately posted a day late. I'm actually amazed I got it finished at all, considering the way it just...kept...growing... ;)

Author: [personal profile] jjpor
Title: Low Town
Rating: Teen
Word Count: c. 25,300 (in four chapters)
Prompt/Chosen character: "Spandrell — Gallifreyan police procedural."
Notes/Warnings: Some violence, descriptions of crime scenes etc. Doctor Who and its many characters and associated copyrights do not – repeat not – belong to me.
Summary: A murder on Gallifrey is bad enough; the murder of a prominent Time Lord in the heart(s) of Prydon Academy is even worse. Fortunately, Castellan Spandrell is on the case.

On Teaspoon | On AO3

As this thing’s actually too long to post to Teaspoon in one chunk as per their rules, I’ll put it up chapter by chapter there, but the whole fic is now up on AO3.
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Story: Presidential Address
At Teaspoon - At AO3
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 695
Summary: Shut up and listen, Earthlings. The President’s talking.
Characters/Pairings: Just Twelve and his axe
Warnings: Some mild cumudgeonliness about aspects of NuWho, nothing bashing though, I hope.

Please allow the valiant Teaspoon Mods time to validate!

So, it occurs to me that we're more than halfway through his second series and I still haven't tried writing anything featuring Twelve. I quite like the idea of those console room straight-to-camera monologues of his, so this is along those lines. And it sort of came out being a bit critical of NuWho NuNIT stories in general and recent ones in particular, that sort of thing being uppermost on my mind after last Saturday's episode. Anyway...
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Came across this in the course of my internet perambulations and had to share (some of you may have seen it before, but I hadn't).

You know 70s Pr0n Colin? Well...

https://whopix.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/patrick-troughton-is-jason-king/
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Finished - at last! My entry for the [profile] dw_guestfest Whoniverse Minor Characters Ficathon! It turned out a bit longer than I was planning. I believe it is still, possibly, the 10th of April in some timezones...

Author: [personal profile] jjpor
Title: Focal Point
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 16,447
Prompt/Chosen character: Isobel Watkins from The Invasion. Sort of.
Notes/Warnings: A fairly strange idea for a fic that came to me when I was working on my other early-period UNIT fic and musing about UNIT dating etc. Once thought, though, I couldn't un-think it. I quote dialogue from the Who story The Invasion fairly liberally at some points, and also lyrics from the song Teddy Bears' Picnic, of all things. None of this belongs to me! With bloody violence, swearing, drug references, oodles of 1960s period misogyny and sexism and unpleasant stuff like that. Canon who characters bent wildly out of shape. OCs wandering into frame. You know, for the kids.
Summary: Isobel is in two minds about her involvement with the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie...

Link: At Teaspoon | At AO3
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Brought to you by the inimitable [personal profile] thisbluespirit:



Seriously - get over there and sign up! I'll be very disappointed if nobody picks up the Spandrell/Gallifreyan police procedural prompt (unfortunately I already have my own bunny demanding attention...)
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How the...flip did I not know that William Russell was in The Great Escape before seeing him dragged out of a tunnel by a German guard earlier today?!

Alas, the Luftwaffe dude did not exclaim "Hande hoch, Chesterfield!"

Pre-Who, too, as Wiki informs me the film was released in June 1963 - no wonder David McCallum looks about twelve!

In other news, Last Christmas was imho very good indeed - "Sweet Papa Crimbo!"

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