I'm a dying breed who still believes, hunted by American dreams...

[allfireburns]

So Evie and I might actually have a car soon. This is awesome! Not only in that we can, you know, get groceries and stuff, but soon we will be able to move. Road trip ZOMGYAY! I'm less enthused about a road trip in winter, as... Midwest... winter... not exactly a combination conducive to driving and I really don't fancy the idea of dying in a blizzard somewhere, but... still. And there will hopefully be visiting a few people who are (kind of sort of) on the way, so that is fantastic.

About the Doctor Who news, I'm surprisingly calm. A part of this just might be that I was honestly pretty sure he wasn't going to live through the end of S4 since... early on in that season. The Tenth Doctor? Yeah, I know it's a weird question to ask in this fandom, in this context, but... honestly, don't you think he looks tired? And you can't blame him, when every season ends with him sad and alone on the TARDIS. He's always been one to take insane risks, but since Doomsday he's done quite a few things that were patently suicidal.

So as much as I'm going to miss the character - I adore him, he is my Doctor and always will be - I think he needs to be someone else as much as David Tennant needs to move on from the role. I'm okay with him dying. Now, when it actually comes down to it, I'm going to flail and cry and I've got some strong opinions about how he should die and God, Rusty, don't you fuck this up, but... I'm okay with it.

Although now I'm seriously never going to be able to let the Doctor regenerate in beyondtherift, just like I can't ever kill Tosh there. Even if I could bring myself to it, I think several people would get together and murder me, and they would never find my body.

I've been poking at my NaNo the past few days, and I'm so ready for it to be November. Not every bit of the plot is hammered out, but I expect it'll fall into place when I need it to (it usually does, during NaNo), so come on, let's do this already! ...Yes, I'm upset with the world for not revolving faster. Or something.

Again, if you want to watch it, I'm going to be posting it over at onasaturday. Which right now just has a bunch of character profiles and worldbuilding information, but thaaat's not the point at all. Join the comm if you'd like to read my NaNo (it has zombies!) - it's moderated membership, but if you're on my flist, I'll let you in.

Here, have a meme from newredshoes. Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon.

Comments

[crazedcrusader.livejournal.com]

I am curious about this 'favorite icon' business. :D?

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

YES I MADE IT. SO WHAT?

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

Lay it on me, babe.


...fuck, I need a place to post my nano.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

...I'm sensing a pattern here. I SWEAR I LIKE ICONS THAT ARE NOT MINE.

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Sure you do.

[quinby.livejournal.com]

How about my icons?

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

[allaroughdraft.livejournal.com]

Meme me, why not?

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

[allthismadness.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, that's my favorite too.

(Ignore the NaNo journal.)

[chicafrom3.livejournal.com]

Meme me, why not?

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

or

One is just SO DAMN CUTE, and the other is... *Flailyhands*

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

The whole David Tennant business, which I completely agree with you on, really only has me sad on two things, which Jordan brought to my attention. One is that we get no Moffat-run Ten, which is sad, and then if Neil Gaiman writes an ep (which, I mean, famous author who is a HUGE fan of your show and has said repeatedly that he would write an ep if they ask, why wouldn't they have him?) it won't be with Ten. But. Those things aside, as far as DT himself? I'm kind of over it and I'm really excited about who will be the next Doctor. :)

Though I was reading one article that had a side-bar of "potential" new Doctors and one of them was John Simm and I was like "Hi, confuse the viewers to death, much?"

And MEMEMEME!

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

That is sad, because Moffat does so well with Ten and Neil Gaiman and Ten is just a combination I badly want, and just once I wanted Ten to have a season where he didn't end up sad and alone and broken, but... mrrph. That's what fanfiction is for (and I may or may not have been plotting an alternate series five even before this was announced).

And yes, I heard about that. I would actually not mind a Simm!Doctor - a large part of that is probably just that I'm so in awe of John Simm's talent that I badly want to see what he would do with it. It's not like Time Lords regenerating into a face identical to someone they've met before is unheard of... (After all, one of the people that's at the top of the list when people speculate on Eleven is the guy who played Rodrick in Bad Wolf - as well as the Marquis in "Neverwhere". I'm kinda "meh" about the idea of him as the Doctor, but whatever.)

Chances are, when we get an Eleven, it's going to be totally out of the blue and not on anyone's lists. I'm pretty sure David wasn't on anyone's list before he was cast, and he's brilliant. Plus, I really liked the descriptions of Moffat's Doctor in "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead". Really liked it. What can I say, I'm a sucker for the Doctor being just that badass - which Ten quite often is, but... yes.

Aaaannd... god, that's hard. I love so many of your icons.

I've always loved this one:

And for some reason, I did a happy flail when I saw this one for the first time:

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Jordan and I were speculating last night over who it could be, and going on about, even characters we know being the next Doctor. And I made fun of Ianto-is-a-Time-Lord fics, because, well, that's be great for Jack. He'd get Ianto and the Doctor all in one.

Yeah, I'm for all new and out of the blue when it comes to just about anything. It makes for more-fun speculation, I think. And a different kind of expectation, because you don't know where they'll take it, instead of getting an idea of how it'll be done - and often being completely wrong and/or disappointed.

I don't know what got into me, but I'm all about the Jack/Rose. The post I got that icon from had like 5 icons that were pretty similar to that one, and I saved them ALL. I'll probably be using more of them, too.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

...I'm still pining over 9.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

I know you are. *Pets* If I hadn't seen a couple episodes with Ten first and gone and fallen in love with him, I'm pretty sure I would be too.

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

I'm surprisingly okay with the news, honestly. I mean... Yeah, Ten is MY DOCTOR too, and I don't want to see him go, but I do want to see someone else try the role. That and I really do feel bad for Ten, as you said. He does like tired, and dear God, Rusty don't screw his exit up.

(Rrrrh. I don't know if you guys should bother coming this way if you were still planning on it as... There would be no place for two girls and a dog to STAY around here and it'd probably be a big waste of effort, which is a shame, because I WANT AN AUBREY AND EVIE. *pouts* Stupid lack of... A place of my own.)

And YES. NANO. SHOULD HAPPEN. I'm ready, dammit.

And because I'm here... THE MEME, BOSS, THE MEME!

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm okay with the fact that it's happening. How I feel about it depends on the way that it happens. Regenerations and new Doctors happen, but damn it, it had better happen right.

*Cuddles* One day you can has an us. I promise. We will find a way.


(It was a very hard decision.)

[kawaiispinel.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Rrrh. After all this time though, I'd like to THINK Ten would have a brilliant send-off, but.. You never know with Rusty really.

*nuzzles* Yes. Even if I have to magically have a windfall AND FLY MYSELF TO TEMPE FOR A FEW WEEKS... Because that would be awesome.

XD IT'S AN ICON THAT SPEAKS TRUTH.

[45ygb.livejournal.com]

Meme me :)

...I need new icons...

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

[45ygb.livejournal.com]

btw, I'm really excited for your Nano :)

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay, I'm glad! I so can't wait to get started.

[theformofstars.livejournal.com]

I took the news about the same. I mean, I'd heard that was going to be the case ages ago, so I went through the whole mourning bit then. Now I'm simply excited to see who's going to be next and hoping in the background that Ten will get a respectable send-off. I would say brilliant but I don't want to get my hopes too high, I just want something that isn't going to make me hit my head against the keyboard at this point.

Low standards, I has them.

And y'know, since I'm here I may as well do the meme dance.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO SCRITCH HIM.

[theformofstars.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I want to do that in mot of the icons of him smiling though. He's very scritchable when he's happy.

[technicolornina.livejournal.com]

YOU SHOULD CAN HAS COME VISIT ME.

I have no couch/spare room for you guys to crash in, but hotel rooms here are pretty inexpensive and we could go to Presque Isle . . . ? *puppy eyes*

Oh, and why not. Meme me.

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Where do you live again? We're probably not going to go too far north, because... like I said, driving in snow and a slight phobia of dying in a blizzard, but if it's not too far out of our way...

[technicolornina.livejournal.com]

*pout* I am in NW Pennsylvania. Right by the lake. Probably too far for you.

(Still, if you find yourself with time to spare in the summer, YOU SHOULD COME. We have Presque Isle, and all kinds of other amazing things.)

[timeisalion.livejournal.com]

Pick me, pick me!

Or, well, pick newredshoes. But still, same difference!

[allfireburns.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's not fair at all. You have the best icons...



It was not an easy choice.