stunt_muppet

And other things, but that's the first item on my list.

1. I was freewriting a scene the other day, and I wound up describing a recently-regenerated Doctor's hands as "just beginning to callus". Reasoning: if the body only came into existence a few weeks ago, the skin wouldn't have had time to roughen in response to constant use. 

I belatedly realized that this actually doesn't make sense, since freshly-regenerated Time Lords still have a full head of hair, full set of teeth, etc., and generally already come with a few facial creases and wrinkles that would take time to develop and wouldn't be there if their skin was truly "new". They come pre-worn, as it were, so the wear on their skin would be there right off the bat.

But I really like the sentence that description is in. Can I get away with it? Am I in fact thinking about this too much and no one else would even notice or care?

2. New Trek fic recs: Proving Today, by eldee , a Chekov-centric ensemble gen about Chekov slowly becoming part of Team Enterprise, and and you take me the way I am, by londondrowning , a genderswapped Kirk/McCoy with a girl!McCoy that still sounds perfectly in character. Check them out.

3. All the genderswap coming out of New Trek fandom makes me realize just what a dearth of it there is in Doctor Who fandom - I've read some nice girl!Doctor and girl!Master fic, but there isn't nearly as much of it. Yet another fic project I must embark on: those girl!Doctor fics I meant to write oh those many months ago. Now that Trek has made genderswap cool I feel slightly less self-serving writing them.

Though I admit my reasons for writing them are still fairly self-serving, namely "girl!One with Ben and Polly during The Smugglers would be cute in a weird way, and girl!One would remind Polly of a grumpy schoolmarm at first but eventually they would bond" and "girl!Three/Brigadier would be so ridiculously awkward and yet terribly sexy". Oh, and "Steven would feel all protective of girl!One and girl!One would not take very kindly to that at all".

3.a. I still want to do that drag ficathon. :( I kind of dropped it because I wouldn't be able to run it properly over the summer (and I probably still won't, given that I went and signed up for who_remix  because I've clearly gone mad), but most fandoms need more drag and Who is no exception.

A question, however: How does one refer to a crossdresser's appearance in relation to their gender? I know that transgendered people use FtM and MtF, but is their an equivalent term for transvestitism? Or do you just use "a female/male transvestite"?

4. Watched the season finale of Miami without even realizing it was the season finale. As such, wasn't sure what half of the plot threads were on about, but Family and I came to the conclusion that the Miami crime lab is actually staffed by undercover superhero clones. Horatio is Superman, and the reason he's been so permanently annoyed at everyone since Season 4 is that with all the glass walls in the new crime lab he has nowhere to change into his super suit. Calleigh is Wonder Woman because bullets bounce off of her. I don't know what Ryan is, maybe the Flash.

The reason this came up is because we concluded that Eric would survive the finale because he was secretly Aquaman, and would call upon the gators and tropical fish to come to his aid. Oh, of course he's going to live. It's Miami; everyone but Speed is deathproof, and I still think they should go check on Speed, just in case.

I kind of want to write a crackfic along these lines, to be honest. I shouldn't, but I do.

And that wraps up this somewhat bizarre entry. Ta for now.