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Surgery's tomorrow; my brother had his wisdom teeth out today. I thought that would at least give me the consolation of having someone else in the house doped up and incoherent, but it turns out that he's back on his feet the same evening and hardly even hurts. Grumble grumble.

And Mom's been more emphatic about me working on my resume, so I don't think I'll even get much of a chance to write while I'm laid up. Though the last time I had surgery, I couldn't write anyway because I was too tired.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that I'll probably be offline for the next day or two, though there've been so many gaps in my online presence that it really won't make much of a difference. What I'm most worried about isn't even the operation so much as what I'll say under sedation; the last time I woke up in post-op I found it not only relevant but imperative that I inform the nurses present why "City of Death" proved that Four/Romana was totally canon, much to my later embarrassment. I'm moderately concerned about what irrelevancies I might blurt out this time.

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Still haven't gotten my hands on the Allspark Almanac Volume 2, because I live in boring suburbia and we don't have any comic book shops here anymore except for the one that mostly sells sports cards. But I've been looking up the trivia and such that's made its way to the Wiki, and part of the trivia was that, had the series continued, Jazz would have replaced Prowl as a permanent team member. Okay, kind of saw that coming. But what's that other - wait, Ironhide would have replaced Bulkhead in the team lineup? Wait, wait, but Bulkhead's not even dead, what's that about?

That makes me so very sad. Like it's not enough that the guy gets no love from fandom (though I can talk, having not written him either), he'd have gotten written out of his own show? Ouch.

I get that he didn't have quite the same character arc as, say, Optimus or Prowl, but isn't the solution to develop him more rather than writing him out? And I thought he was actually quite fleshed out; he was one of the only characters I've seen in anything with an interest in both art and engineering, he had interests and motivations and weaknesses and everything and his kibble can turn into a chair! What more could you want?

At least he gets a corresponding character in the Prime cartoon, though if Prime!Bulkhead does not paint Cubist portraits I will be very disappointed.

Once I'm done with my Springkink fics (and the dozen or so other things I have to finish, derp) I really will have to write that fic where Bulkhead tries to explain different modern artistic movements to the various Autobots. I've already decided that Optimus should get stuck with Dada, because he would completely not get it and I think it'd be funny, but I think Prowl would find Pointillism interesting, given that it replicates the effects of pixels but with the imprecision inherent in non-mechanical replication, which I'm sure is very profound in some way or another that I'm too tired to think about right now. Ratchet gets to try to figure out Abstract Expressionism because he finds even representational art pointless; listening to him rant about abstraction would be entertaining.

One of these days I'm going to write it. One of these days.

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In other news, it turns out that we get Season 5 of Doctor Who on demand, so I've caught up with the season until "The Lodger", with the exception of "Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone", which irks me somewhat as it means I've seen no new River and new River looks rather amazing. That said, my early Amy!love is completely justified even in the episodes where she only gets a little to do; she's smart and sharp and witty and has wonderful wisecracks and makes wonderful faces and I generally love her. And Rory! I am so glad that Rory is wonderful as well, and that the Doctor for all his ribbing actually likes and respects him and Rory calls him on his Doctorness at times. And let me tell you how wibbly I got at the end of "In Cold Blood" despite the reassuring spoilers that I'll not mention outside of the cut.

I'll go over my reactions more fully once I've finally finished the season (I intend to Make Requests whilst laid up), but I really, really love this season and this Doctor - it's one of New Who's all-around stronger seasons, I think. And Eleven is so Doctorish it surprises and delights me every time I watch him. And also, Eleven/Giant Fish is my new crack!OTP.


I AM SO TIRED. I should go. See you all once I've gotten all this metal cut out of my back.