rumpelsnorcack

So, yes, like Central New Brighton, any merger won't take place for 3 years.  So, in the worst case scenario the two schools merge at the beginning of 2016.  We now have until December 7th this year to consult with the community and have a response to the proposal ready to be put forward to the ministry.  There's another date of April 5th when something else happens, but I didn't quite catch what the principal was saying when he talked about that.  Apparently there's an email coming out which will have all the dates and the full timeline.  The good news is that Seth at least will be finished primary school even if the worst happens but that's still not good enough for me :D  We're still going to fight the decision as it is anyway, but at least there's breathing space.  So, better than 28 days, but 10 weeks still isn't long.

I watched the footage of our team from Comic-con talking about Doctor Who and it hit me viscerally that Amy and Rory are going to leave.  I understand that that is fairly obvious and has been since the day they appeared on the show and that in many ways it's well overdue - they hung around longer than most other modern era companions.  Team Doctor kept stressing the message that this is how the show works and it's necessary and I agree with all that. What got me was realising for the first time that characters I'm totally attached to are going to leave.  I've been sad before, mourned other companions before (Donna, for example - her ending will never not hurt me) but it's always been with a sense of 'yay new companion, so excited' or 'Wheeee! New Doctor, it's about time' etc.  This time, while I'm curious about the new companion I know I'm going to be devastated when Amy and Rory leave.  I'm worried that I won't re-engage with the show again too.  I've always enjoyed it, looked forward to it, been excited to see what was coming but I've seen the way die-hard Rose fans have been about everything that happened since and I'm afraid the same will happen to me.  On the plus side, we still have Moffat running the show (yay!) and we still have Eleven (double yay) so I hope that's enough to push me past the loss of the Ponds.  There was a rumour back a while ago that Mat Smith would be leaving the show after this season and I remember getting quite upset at the idea.  Back then, while I was attached to Amy and Rory I was quite prepared for them to go (it was, I think, between the first two Eleven seasons) and I think it would have been easier if they had gone then ... or in the middle of last season as it appeared they had.  Now, because they've 'gone' and/or died and come back so many times, I think it's going to be harder.

Anyway, that's me - a bit of a maudlin thought on what this companion switch will mean to me.  Still, maybe once they've gone I can go back to not being completely stressed every time something happens in case it kills one of them. Here's hoping I recapture what I had in my teens when watching Four and Five or how I felt watching Nine and Ten. I doubt I'll love any future companions in the way I have loved Amy and Rory, but I can try to regain what I had before.  Besides, it was mostly (so far) season 5 that made me feel the way I do; season 6 has been hard in many ways so perhaps a new companion can wipe that slate clean a little and rekindle the happiness that was always hiding behind the stresses of season 5.  Season 6 in many ways was a little too dark for me, I think.

So, here's to knowing I'm going to cry like a baby when Amy and Rory leave but here's also to hoping for a fun rebooted future!

Title: At War With Himself
Author/Artist: rumpelsnorcack
Rating: PG-13
Characters & Pairings: Rory, River. Rory/Amy, hints of River/Eleven
Warnings: Some very strong language
Word Count: 6,457
Summary: Rory finds it difficult to reconcile all the different selves he has roaming around in his head.  
Notes: Many thanks to the wonderful whirlgig who is just the best, most helpful beta a person could ever want.
Disclaimer: Sadly none of the characters are mine, I just enjoy hanging around in their sandbox.



( At War With Himself )

This was supposed to be posted for the hg_silverlining summer fest approximately 6 months ago.  Extremely sorry for the late posting.  I guess - at least it finally got done?

Title: All's Fair During a Plant War
Author/Artist: rumpelsnorcack
Prompt: #22: Neville helping Harry and Ginny out with their not so green thumbs
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 2,609
Summary: Harry and Ginny think a competition involving plants will be easy to win.
Notes: Many thanks to the wonderful whirlgig who held my hand through many of the stages this fic went through and also did a fantastic beta job to get it up to scratch.  Also thanks to lorelaisquared who helped with the initial brainstorm and was an excellent cheerleader through the whole, drawn out, process.
Disclaimer: Sadly none of the characters are mine, I just enjoy hanging around in their sandbox.


( 'It's not a competition, Ginny,' Harry growled, 'but if it was I'd definitely be the winner.' )

But when you look at how Haiti is 2 years after their quake you realise that we aren't really doing all that badly.  It makes me grateful that we live in a country whose government, however much I may dislike the current one, does actually try to get things moving.  At the very least we don't have to live with (many) piles of rubble lying around in the streets and what is there is fenced off.  Yes it's frustrating and yes it's depressing and yes we do have issues that are really hard to live with, and broken roads and buildings etc, but ... it could be worse.

However, I don't want to minimise what some people here are going through, so this blog shows a walk someone took through the red zone close to where I live. The kids' school is tucked in behind and between all these streets mentioned here.  I know many many people who live in these streets and in those houses (well, most of them used to live in those houses), and it's hard to live with.  Edit: explored the blog a little more and found this one of the streets immediately by our school.

I stole this from lorelaisquared who did it ages ago.

How it works: I post descriptions of 20 couples I ship, you all guess in the comments and whoever gets the most correct gets to choose a ship for me to write a drabble for (which could be interesting since for some of these I have NO idea how to write the pairs, but I will gamefully try). Some of these are obscure, many are things I will never have spoken about on here and one is added by my husband. They come from books, movies, TV shows and video games. So have fun :D

( It's very shippy under here ... )