SLUMBER PARTY

Close the door, close the blinds, turn off the lights, watch six hours of Doctor Who, then play video games. Separately. According to fantabulous (fuck you, spell check, that's totally a word) best friend, Rainbow Condor, this, honey, is how we socialize.

We party hard on Saturday nights. When I'm not trying to explain to my roommate via text that you can't play DVD's in the Wii and to use the DVD player built into the TV. (Roommate r u drunk.)

With that, let's move on to the next installment of...

ADVENTURES IN THE TIME VORTEX

(sparkle sparkle)

Today we officially started season 2, the season of sexy hair, brainy specs and pinstripes, i.e., the embodiment of hotness that is David Tennant.

Oh yeah, also there's some aliens and stuff.

And David Tennant.

David Tennant.

Did I mention David Tennant?

ANYWAY, we started with "New Earth" (or new new new new new new new new York) and the new Doctor (or the new new new new new new new new Doctor) as he and Rose traveled to a futuristic hospital. They met up with the familiar Casandra and her BFFL Mr. Chips, who attends to her physical needs. (Please mean food...please, oh please mean food...)

The zombie apocalypse happened, the Face of Boe decided he

didn't feel like dying that day and procrastinated instead, and then Casandra made us care about her.

That bitch...

Next was "Tooth and Claw," which started out with Scottish

kung-fu masters (which are apparently a thing) showing off their mad skillz. Because every good werewolf episode in any decent sci-fi show needs kung-fu to make it watchable.

"Silly Irish people...I mean Scottish people."

-the wisdom of Rainbow Condor

Next up was "School Reunion," which basically had enough nostalgia to give any Classic Who fan a heart attack from the sheer force of their memories exploding back into the forefront of their mind. We learned about physics. Physics. Phyyyysics. Physicsphysicsphysicsphysics PHYSICS, and discovered that teachers really DO sleep in the school overnight when all the students go home.

Is that my high school math teacher???

Then we moved on to "The Girl in the Fireplace," which features a young woman, Madame de Pompadour being stalked through time and space by a bunch of steampunky automatons. Honestly, it sounds more like something Captain Jack would do...

If I break my clock, will David Tennant appear in my fireplace? Because if so I will smash that shit and suffer the resulting lacerations gladly.

We met the Cybermen in "Rise of the Cybermen" and "Age of Steel." More importantly, it featured David Tennant in more brainy specs. Also robots whose weakness was their own emotion (which apparently caused them to suffer some kind of weird seizure and explode...weird...that's also what happens to me when I feel things.)

Also, I now ship MickeyxJake

We finished with "The Idiot's Lantern," which proved that the first Skype call happened in the 1950's. Also it stole peoples' faces. Probably why it disappeared for the next fifty years...

ZOMBIE BLOG

So I'm back from the dead, apparently. Either that means this is the blog equivalent of a zombie or maybe Rory Williams.

ANYWAY, what's happened to me since November? Well, first of all, I finished NaNoWriMo, managing to churn out just over 50k words in about 28 days. I'll call it a victory, even if the "finished" product still needs a ludicrous amount of editing (I honestly just might re-write it) before it can see the light of day. I'll get it whipped into shape eventually. But the point is, I can proudly say I won NaNoWriMo, and I'll take that win. :)

In other news, I've turned evangelical when it comes to Doctor Who (evanwhosical, maybe?) and converted one of my best friends to the fandom. Or I'm in the process of converting him, anyway. We recently sat down and watched season 1, and will be continuing our rampant binge of sci-fi every week. I think I should document it for posterity, since it's just too much fun not to. So I hereby introduce a new segment I like to call...

ADVENTURES IN THE TIME VORTEX

(sparkle sparkle)

As I said, we started out with season 1, Christopher Eccleston's (Ninth Doctor) season, or as I like to call it, "The Eccly Era."

We began, appropriately enough, with the first episode, "Rose." Together we marveled at Nine's fan-tas-tic Northern English accent and tough leather exterior.

We moved on to "The End of the World," then "The Unquiet Dead." We skipped over "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" since he'd seen them already, and I didn't mind, since the Slitheen are one of my least favorite aliens.

Next came "Dalek," the episode I'd been waiting for since we'd started, since we finally got to see DOCTOR RAGE. Then he got sad. And we got sad.

Christopher Eccleston sad! D:

After that came "The Long Game" (with douchebag Adam!) and then "Father's Day" (where tears were shed). Next were "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances." It was at this point

that I started shipping. Again. Dammit.

We skipped "Boom Town" because neither of us had any desire to watch more Slitheen episodes at the moment, and moved straight to "Bad Wolf" and finally "The Parting of the Ways." Many fangirlish squees were had when Jack kissed the Doctor, and then it got down to the Doctor

sending Rose home. I promised myself I wouldn't cry.

CE: This is emergency program one. Rose, now listen, this is important.

Me: I'm not gonna cry.

CE: If this message is activated then it can only mean one thing. We must be in danger, and I mean fatal. I'm dead, or about to be at any second without any chance of escape. And that's okay. I hope it was a good death. But I promised to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. The TARDIS is taking you home.

Me: I'm not gonna fucking cry. Stop trying to make me.

CE: And I bet you're fussing and moaning now. Typical. But hold on and just listen a bitmore. The TARDIS can never return for me. Emergency program one means I'm facing

an enemy who should never get their hands on this machine. So this is what you should do. Let the TARDIS die. Just let this old box gather dust. No one can open it. No one will even notice it. Let it become a strange little thing standing on a street corner. And over the years

the world will move on, and the box will be buried.

Me: NO! Not the TARDIS! Why are you giving me all these feels? D:

CE: And if you wanna remember me, then you can do one thing. That's all. One thing. Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life.

Me: ...fuck. *bawls*

Then some series deus ex machina shit went down, and Rose came back and saved everyone. Then they kissed.

Many more fangirlish squees were had.

But all good things must come to an end. "Everything dies," as the Bad Wolf might say. And it was time for Nine to go. Needless to say, we will miss our fan-tas-tic Ninth Doctor, but on the plus side, this means we've officially entered "The Time of the Tennant."

We finished off with "The Christmas Invasion" for good measure.

The adventure continues...