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So, according to Teh Papers, yesterday was the second hottest October day on Record. 36.5 degrees Celsius. Yep, this summer looks like it might be less than fun, bushfires and droughts and water restrictions, oh my!

Onto more fandomly events: MsScribe "apologises". Yep, the queen of sockpuppets herself speaks out against the account of her deeds (which, although she denies reading, still claims it is mostly false). As people have commented, MsScibe appears to have a slight lack of sincerity. If by slight, I mean "huge".

In more cheerful topics, the BBC Torchwood site is now live. Yep, it's not long until it starts up. (If you are out of the UK, try this link to see more of the cool stuff - thanks to taraliveson for that).

Conclusions: As much as I do like Jack, I think I might end up watching this show for the rest of the ensemble. Because right now, they are the ones that really interest me. Maybe it's just the "I know nothing about them" factor (which has been known to compel me to certain characters), but still...

I have decided that I shall like Ianto. Because his pissy memo on the flash site is win.

Though as others on my flist have commented, certain things on the site give me a "trying too hard to be edgy" vibe. The excessive darkness, and overwritten angsty character descriptions. And the trailers obsession with the "adultness" of sex and violence. I'm hoping that the series is a little better than it's advertising.

My first rec is up at crack_van!

The very first Doctor Who fic I added to my Links List. God, that seems like an age ago - when all we knew about Ten was "new teeth" and I was getting into flame wars with irrational Ten-haters. Almost a year ago now. Weird.

What else has been going on in the universe? The latest from Charlotte had a cameo from a mouse with some serious ethics issues, and it looks like there will be more to come in that saga.

My Creative Writing tute was cancelled today, because the Tutor was sick. Don't know when we'll catch that one up...

Oh, and there was a guy on my tram this morning with a LiveJournal t-shirt.

ETA: Oh, and something I said on otf_w got iconised.

Also, this Friday is the Sugar Ball. Now, though the official theme is "Darkness and Light", pretty much costume-wise you can wear anything at all sci-fi or fantasy. Any ideas of something I could go as (with a quick visit to Savers or similar)?

So, I have worked out what it is that gave me that blood blister on my foot yesterday. There's a broken zip on the cushion next to my bed. How did I work this out, you ask.

Well, I stepped on it. Again.

I hope I didn't get blood on the carpet.

Teh Links List is almost done - I'll have it up later tonight. It's rather shorter than the last (being out of the inital post-Doomsday boom), and appears to contain a worryingly high proportion of Martha fics. The advantage of an as yet impossible to be OOC character, I suppose.

Oh, and there are two more sections of the bad_penny thing up.

Also, on a vaguely meta note: "if [x] was here now they wouldn't love this version, how could they love this version?" is quite possibly the stupidest bit of Doctor vs Doctor character criticism I have ever come across.

( Cut for ranting )

So, it looks like the Harry Potter fandom might be gearing up for a meltdown. Again

Yep, bad_penny strikes again! I await the rest avidly.

Next chapter of the Cassie Claire thing is up now. Complete with lots of plagiarism examples and all!

*gets popcorn*

ETA: But wait, there's more!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the HP fandom, we have... A Bad Penny write up of the Cassie Claire plagiarism fiasco.

Oh boy. I think The Shit is about to get very up close and personal with The Fan.

*gets out popcorn*

ETA: And the next section's up.

A rather interesting quote that gave me an amusing mental image: fanfiction.net's policy says "no second chances."

ETA2: Anonytrolls! The start of any good wank

ETA3: Section Three Up!

And now we are up to Chapter 9 of the MsScribe epic.

And it has to be one of the most horrific accounts of fandom I have ever come across. Some pooor woman with cancer getting stomped on by a whole bunch of BNFs just because she asked one of them to link her fundraising website. After they had been going on about how fandom supports it's own and all that, too.

I don't think I have ever been so appalled by fandom as a whole. The things that were said...

I take back everything I have said about the craziness of Doctor Who fandom. There is no fandom crazy like Harry Potter crazy.

...And yet somehow I, little fandom n00b that I was, managed to remain completely oblivious to all this until about 2 years ago.