"No, Not the Mind Probe!!?!"

Twenty years??  TWENTY years???

But seriously... Twenty YEARS???!!

 ...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

 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 

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 )

Originally posted to who_at_50 by thisbluespirit :

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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!

Prompt! Sign up! Write! Post! Do it! Do it..!!



I mean, no pressure or anything.

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 who_at_50 via the medium of fanwork.

I therefore announce the 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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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...

Finished - at last! My entry for the 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: 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

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!"