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So I have been a little MIA lately, because ... well, because life. You know.

Still, there has been a bit of fandom stuff in my life so I figured I may as well discuss it a bit. Get the old toes wet on LJ again, and all that.  First, and probably most fun & most scary is the Lizzie Bennet Diaries.  Fun, because wheeeeee, we're getting close to the end. Only two episodes to go & the last few have been all filled with squee and fun and all.  Not to mention ties. Ties are good :)  Scary because an idea lorelaisquared and I had to re-watch while reading along with P&P exploded & is now huge and scary and just plain daunting.  The result of that discussion is over here. Darceny is live for discussion, chat, squee & other similar fannish stuff.  The actual read along will begin in just over a week on Monday, April 1st.  I hope to see lots of familiar faces as we go through it all again :)

Also - I have been going through my WIPs on my hard drive, just because & there are several that might just be close-ish to being done.  I'm going to open it here to see which one (or ones) people would like to see done first.  They are:

1.  a new chapter of my old, very neglected Harry/Ginny epic detailing their post-Hogwarts life. (Harry Potter)
2.  a short one shot set after 'Angels Take Manhattan' as Brian finds out, then comes to grip with, the loss of Rory & Amy into the past. This is probably the closest to being finished.  (Doctor Who)
3.  beginning to post my NaNoWriMo from last year. Intended to be 50 short chapters focusing on Rory, it ended up (so far) being about twelve, but there is a plan for the rest.  (Doctor Who)
4.  my take on why 'I can't have more babies' would cause Amy & Rory to get their silly not-very-long divorce. Involves Kovarian & brainwashing.  (Doctor Who)
5.  the oldest - and least finished - set during 'Vampires of Venice'-ish time, an exploration of the cracks in the wall & the Torchwood rift as part of the same phenomena. Contains Eleven, Amy, Rory, Jack, River & Gwen. (Doctor Who, Torchwood)

Hmmm, that's very Doctor Who-centric.  Oh well :D  Feel free to put your thoughts in the comments.

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!

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 ... )

I am borrowing this from honeynoir  just because I found her answers fascinating and because it's a handy way to have all my fic from this year in one handy dandy location.

( fic, 2010 style )

Title: Nine Sacks of Pipi
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 400
A/N: Pipi is a type of shellfish and I had no idea what to do with it until the ever lovely whirl_gig  made this suggestion and I ran with it.  She also did a great beta job on this one, but I ran out of time to carry through on all her suggestions so all the clunky writing and mistakes are still entirely my own.

 

( Nine Sacks of Pipi )

 

Title: Seven Eels A-Swimming
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 600
A/N: I don't like eels; they are kind of gross and scary so yeah.  Monster eels is the result :D

 

( Seven Eels A-Swimming )

Title: Five Big Fat Pigs
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 500
A/N: Yeah, big fat pigs ... pretty self-explanatory really.

 

( Five Big Fat Pigs )