stunt_muppet

Aaaand I completely forgot about this. Ha.

Anyway, about a year and a half ago, who_otp ran a mini-mini-ficathon, and there was much frolicking with strange pairings and elaborate summaries and finely-crafted works of tiny genius. So I thought, why not have another one?

With that, I'd like to declare this post a
The Rules:

1. Post fic in the comments
2. Fic should be no longer than 40 words.
3. Title and header info doesn't count towards those 40 words, so make those as long as you please.
4. Profit! Repeat as desired!

1. It really does irritate me when people start the whole "ew, cosplayers are freaks/cosplay is creepy" meme. I know a lot of cosplayers; I've cosplayed myself, once, though it wasn't very good; I'd still like to do it someday (I'd be girl!Five). Dressing up as a character doesn't mean you think you are them or whatever; dressing up as a character and acting in character still doesn't mean you think you are them. It's just fun. People have fun in different ways; for some people, dressing up is fun. Put your judgement away, it's yucky.

But what irritates me more is when the people who call cosplayers freaks ARE POSTING ON AN ANONYMOUS INTERNET FANDOM MESSAGE BOARD. Let me clarify: the single-fandom equivalent of 4chan.

POT. KETTLE. BLACK.

2. In non-meme-related thoughts, it also irritates me when I finally find new fic for a pairing I love that gets, oh, maybe two or three new fics a year? And I start reading it and it's funny and hot and plays with a fanfic cliche that I like and so far so good -

- and then it breaks out one of my biggest fanfic pet peeves. In this case, epithets.

*headdesks* No, no, no, fanfic writer! You were doing so well! And I want to like this fic, I really do, but when you call your characters "the Gallifreyan" and "the scientist" and "the Earther" (?) instead of just using their names I just can't! It would have been so easy to fix! You were so close!

Yeah. I hate it when that happens. I kind of want to mention it to the author in my comment, since it'd be such an easy thing to fix and it'd make the fic so much better, but I don't know how this author feels about concrit and the Who fandom has already had one big screaming tantrum about concrit; I don't want to wind up in the middle of another. Not that I think this author is that delicate (I'm sure she isn't) but you know how it is.

3. Less ranty note: I have developed a mysterious craving for Three/Brigadier post-Inferno fics wherein the Doctor seeks some sort of comfort or reassurance from the Brig after what he saw in the parallel world (because I know he walked it off by the end of the serial, but if it's showing up as one of the things that scares him the worst in The Mind of Evil, it has to have affected him more than he let on, symbolism and control issues notwithstanding). I can kind of imagine him wanting the reassurance that the Brigadier he knows could never be the Brigade Leader, not in this universe; that possibility of who he could be had been negated and would never come back. Especially given the uneasy dynamic between the two of them, where despite the Doctor being the intellectual and technical superior he is still dependant on the Brig's good graces because if the Brig turns him away he has few other places to go, and no other resources to try to get the TARDIS repaired. Having the Brig as a potentially threatening figure would be especially troubling in that instance, methinks.

Of course, since both the Doctor and the Brigadier are about as capable of expressing their emotions as a sand dollar is at doing multivariable calculus, it ends up being mostly awkward and halting and unspoken and roundabout and very little if anything actually gets resolved. Entire conversations are held using naught but uncomfortable points of ellipsis.

I really don't know why I want this, given that I don't even like hurt/comfort as a genre okay actually I do a little bit but I pretend that I don't because I know I shouldn't since the express purpose of hurt/comfort is to provide a cheap emotional fix and it's most often derivative and unsatisfying and I just have no taste at all, I'll just put that out there and that scenario is nothing if not glorified hurt/comfort. But I want it. Kind of want to write it, but mostly I want to read it because the absolute last thing I need is another writing project.

4. SPEAKING OF WRITING PROJECTS. I transcribed all the various bits and pieces of my Remix from my notebook and cell phone onto a single document, and guess whose fic is now a total of 850 words? \o/ Apparently I had written more than I thought I had. Granted, the actual story isn't near finished yet, but at least I don't have to stress as much over making my word count. That I should be able to do.

*dances*

And now I must go back to work.

If you've hung around my journal for a while, you may have heard me talking every so often about the Classic Doctors as women - what they'd be like, how that'd change their storylines if at all, how girl!One and Polly would totally team up to tease Ben, etc. But when I think of them, I would always imagine a feminized version of the actors who portrayed them, not a different actress. And that got me thinking: Who would I pick to portray each Doctor, if I were to pick from among the fine ladies of British drama?

I turn the question to you: if you were recasting the Classic Doctors with actresses (from any era, not necessarily just those from the 60's, 70s, and 80s), who would you pick?

Tragically, my knowledge of British actresses is somewhat lacking, so I have only a few ideas. For some reason, Cherie Lunghi strikes me as a really good girl!Two, especially after seeing her in Horatio Hornblower. She has that mischeviousness about her, that sense of fun and energy, and she does the stealth!mockery really very well. Plus, there's something about her eyes. I don't know. It'd be difficult to make her look properly "cosmic hobo", but I think she could pull it off.

( It's very hard to find pictures of her looking anywhere near floppy, though. )
Also, girl!Three would be Joanna Lumley. I do not know why I am so certain. Maybe because I've seen her in so much 70s gear; maybe because she shares Pertwee's pechant for comically huge sunglasses in her publicity photos. Or maybe because I just got a mental picture of Lumley swordfighting Roger Delgado, nicking his lunch, and then giving him a flirty little pout when she throws his sword back. It was beautiful.

( Also, she's already played a Doctor, so it works out nicely. )
I'm tempted to cast girl!One as Maggie Smith but I do believe that'd be typecasting.

( But here's a picture just because she's lovely. And I still think she'd be a good One. )

So, who would your girl!old-school!Doctors be? Why? Pictures, explanations, and discussion are highly encouraged!

A quick and mindless meme, because I really, really need something quick and mindless right now that doesn't take up as much time as screencapping (the picspams are coming along, really, but capping takes a while and it's not time that I have right now):

Name any pairing from any of my fandoms and I'll talk about my thoughts/opinions on them!

Again, mostly just posting on it so I can make you all do it in turn. :)

And, so this post is not entirely self-indulgent and memey, have a video of the Muppets' take on Ingmar Bergman:

( Cut to spare dial-up users )

1. So I finally saw Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, approximately a year or whatever after I was supposed to have seen it.

( Thoughts, spoilery but in no particular order: )
So that was fun. Best part was, it topped off a day of going to dinner with friends, walking around outside, clustering around friends' computers watching Muppets shorts, and just...generally feeling much better than I have been. Note to self: getting outside and spending time with people: it helps.

I even managed a tiny bit of writing (finally), though little of any consequence. ( The rest of this is writing wittering. )

 

Aaaaand it's way later than I thought it was. Off to bed with me, and I really, really cannot neglect my laundry tomorrow.