Oddments

[raven]

This entry is going to feature everything I want to talk about at the moment, regardless of relevance to a)the rest of the entry or b)anything else at all. Just so we've got that clear before I go on.

time_and_chips is the most irritating community ever posted in. Ever. Gah. But taraljc is writing me fic, which is never a bad thing. Yay.

In other news, the exam I had yesterday morning was Talk In Life And Literature. It's module five, and I think it went fine. I was being insomniac and sleepy when I went into the hall, and I was more than a little worried I'd sit there and not write anything, but I managed. The two Othello passages were easy to put into context, and I wrote about six sides on Shakespeare's subversion of spoken convention before my hand quite dropped off. The other question was much harder - the unseen texts were a doctor/patient transcript and an extract from Middlemarch - as it always is, and I went to some effort trying to pick out conveyed attitudes and values. But I wrote something, and finished in time.

The afternoon's exam was General Studies. I didn't even know which module it was (good thing I took my calculator, in retrospect), and on the science essay question I wrote two sides before I just... stopped. Forty-five minutes of sleeping on my desk later, I handed it in. I have failed it without a shadow of a doubt. Oh, well, as they say; it's not like it's important.

The next exams I have are on Tuesday - Biology module five (Ecology and the Environment, or that stuff we did while wading through manure in Rhyd-y-creuau), and English synoptic. I have my pre-release for that. If anyone else has the same pre-release (it's A2 English Language and Literature spec B), please do comment. We can have a mini-study group before Tuesday. I'm terribly sad but I like this paper, as it's challenging without being difficult and also the only past paper I have ever got full marks for.

Let's see, what else? I've been tagged for two memes:

dynamitebebe wanted to know five songs I'm listening to at the moment, so here we go:

Coldplay - Speed of Sound (it's lovely, and has a gorgeously psychedelic video)

Indigo Girls - Language and the Kiss (I initially didn't like it, but it's really grown on me for some reason)

John Barrowman & Kevin Kline - Night And Day (because)

Counting Crows - Anna Begins (it reminds me of Hannah and it's a lovely song anyway)

Placebo - Protege-Moi (the end of it gives me chills)

And someone else wanted to know five things I do to relax, which I will write about when I'm feeling more... well, relaxed. In the meantime, daegaer is propagating a meme where you talk about what fic you like, regardless of what everyone else says you should like. Which seems to be a meme worthy of propagation.

I like fic about complex relationships. Most of the time this means I like slash, because a het pairing explored by the canon loses its complexity very quickly, or at least its unexplored complexity. I am shamelessly in love with characters with issues (witness my six-year crush on Remus Lupin), and I like relationships with issues. Which is why I insist on inflicting Remus/Hermione on the general population, and also why I'm so impatient with the shippers trivialising Doctor/Rose. A brief digression - I like Doctor/Rose. I like that our beloved, war-damaged Time Lord is joyfully showing Rose the universe for the first time, and I like the way it's played, with the hand-holding, the assumptions made by the other characters, the lovely, indefinable sweetness of it all.

But to forget the context of the (probable) longest-running sci-fi show in history, the universe, the characters, the plots, all in favour of sappy, saccharine badfic - urgh. Spare me.

And I also like that the Doctor, who lost his world, takes Rose to see the demise of her world; he nearly lost her at the end of WW3, but shamelessly manipulated her to get her to come with him; he messed with Mickey, threw out Adam and was instantly jealous of Jack. He might love Rose, but he's so emotionally fucked-up he'll probably damage her until she's as far gone as he is. Why don't we get fic that deals with that, mmm?

And after that, it's amazing that I like gen too, but I do. Actually, I only wrote gen for my first couple of years in fandom. Not very good gen, but gen all the same.

Sigh. Bedtime. A whole new day of study leave tomorrow, whoo-yay.

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

like that our beloved, war-damaged Time Lord is joyfully showing Rose the universe for the first time, and I like the way it's played, with the hand-holding, the assumptions made by the other characters, the lovely, indefinable sweetness of it all.

Mmmmm, yes. Two little kids in the big, wide universe. With Rose, the Doctor can forget he's 900 years old.

He might love Rose, but he's so emotionally fucked-up he'll probably damage her until she's as far gone as he is.

More yes. This is not something that can turn out well.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Definitely not. :) There is a suggestion of something sinister about it.