Anonymous benefactor love

Whoever just gave me the extra icons, thank you very much. It's very sweet of you, and I don't really deserve spontaneous gifts. On that note, I only had ten icon slots filled anyway and I've meant to post this for a while. Can all you lovely people rec me icon-makers and icons (and self-pimp liek woah, naturally)? Fandom icons are fab, but I'm also after still life icons - inanimate objects and suchlike - to go with. Thank you, anonymous benefactor!

I have to go out now, and I have to get the bus. I have no idea how one gets buses. Trains are such infinitely more sensible things. So I will just leave with a pimp for dw_recs. taraljc has started it up for Doctor Who fic recs of all sorts, all Doctors and companions, and I'm co-modding. Go forth and rec, you know you want to. And I'm quite excited about the possibility of old-skool recs, too.

And I hope the library folk are having a good day at school.

anything you can do I can do meta

Loki! I will never speak a word against you again. My beloved laptop is now connecting to the internet and yay, Loki.

I’m having a girl!Doctor moment, in that for some reason I can’t find a bra. All the ones I own are either hideously itchy or have the wires sticking out or were once white and are now the colour of an overcast sky in winter. I hate bra shopping because I don’t like lace, wires or the colour pink, I don’t need a bra anyway and I am a Time Lady in disguise. Although one of those things is a lie.

Anyway, talking of girl!Doctor, troyswann was talking about fannish AUs and a paradigm shift in the way we see characters, and suddenly I’m in the mood for self-indulgent meta. As I’ve said once before, girl!Doctor is unique in my experience for being a canon character who is still an OC. The challenge is writing her as recognisably the Doctor but still a personality in her own right; I decided to take the easy way out and write her as a mixture of Four, Five and a bit of Nine thrown in, and let her natural personality evolve. I’m quite fond of the way everyone else’s perceptions of her have changed the way I write her – she is Rachel Weisz for me now, thanks to tenebraeli and larakailyn - and um, general yay for the whole concept.

As well as my three stories – Bohemian Rose, Scratch and The Cat – there have been snippets from doyle_sb4, amchau and katemonkey. They’re all hidden in comments and snippets and even text messages, so I sort of wish they could all be put in one place to stop the hunting about and make more people write them, omg.

Anyway, so yes. Paradigm shift in that a feminine Doctor can be, in some ways, a stereotypical woman, who changes her clothes and paints her toenails red, but still saves planets day in and day out and has that alien, Time Lord viewpoint on human life.

Yes, blah blah meta. I need to go to work tomorrow and pick up about five books, and wait for the UPS people to pick up my iPod, and send my tution fees to the college. All’s well in the world.