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[drakyndra]

Next rec up at crack_van! (You really think I could go all month without at least one Ten/Reinette fic?)

In other fandomly news:

Jacob's TCI recap is up. It's as pretentious and tl;dr as ever, but as far as I could tell the word "intimacy" did not show up at all. (If it did I blocked it from my memory). But, I am glad to note, it touches on the "Rose losing her self/humanity" theme multiple times - nostalgia_lj might be interested to hear that. And there's a Peter Pan metaphor used in there at one point. You can kinda tell he's seen all of S2, really.

In fact, Mr Jacob himself went and showed up at the OG TWOP thread. And I was interested at his logic behind this strategy: "Plus, I have to conquer the shippers, don't you see? Or else S3 will be a bitch, and I'm ever so lazy."

Iiinteresting.

On another fandom note, does anyone else find that when people they know and whose opinions they respect find something about their canon rageworthy, you feel vaguely... guilty for just liking the show, and not noticing these things? As in, you can see their point, and you know there are some deep issues in the writing, and yet when you are watching, you love it so much you really don't care? I feel like I'm a bad person for liking things, sometime.

And away from fandom, and onto Uni.

We used Clag in my Astronomy prac today. Clag! At Uni! It made me giggle wildly, it was just so strange. Oh, and Astronomy test results are back. I got 17 out of 20, which I was happy with, considering it's the test out evil teachers sprung on us unexpectedly, and I hadn't studied for.

Wardrobe notes: Hot pink fishnets over purple opaque tights looks really quite funky.

And, some amusing non-fandom wankiness: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal spell-checker?

ETA: People who list their address in public posts worry me a little. No, it isn't anyone on my flist. Which is sort of the point.

Comments

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

The one for New Earth is up now as well. It's still very Jacob, but he doesn't actually completely adore the opening scene, so it's kind of worth it to hear him being tetchy.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

Whoa... what's happening at the end of page 12? Sounds like Jacob is making some kind of personal attack on someone, but I don't know who.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I just got to that bit, and was about to comment.

I don't think it's an attach on any one person, rather than on a group - I think all the shit that's been going down in the S2 forums while the series ran in the UK might be getting on his nerves (there's defintely a note of something like that when he talks about the shippers on the OG post). There's a whole bunch of people who left after the GitF exploded, there's people on the OG advising others to stay away (I don't know what that guy's story was), there's the rabid shippers who attack anyone who dares impugn the awesomeness of Rose and The Love... I think he's gotten fed up by the way some people are acting in the forums.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Btw, did I read wrong or did Jacob admit on the OG to pretending ignorance of plot twists he knew when he was watching earlier episodes?

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

(By which I mean, of course, the Bad Wolf thing.)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, he didn't explicitly say it, but it was certainly strongly implied. Especially by the "again". (He had to know some of it, seeing as his first ep was TCI, and he'd seen bits of some of the later ones)

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

If this is true, it's pretty damn skeezy - though it was fairly suspicious that his mad analytical skills were so accurate about the late plot twists.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you can stand to spend any time over there on TwoP.

[fannishnonsense]

It's fun to mock?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

*agrees with Corrie*

I officially left a while back, I just return to read the recaps. And mock the forum-goers.