Uffish Thought

Day 2: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

I just want to say that, as someone with almost 3500 bookmarks on Pinboard, asking me to freeform rec a small number, much less *three*, is just plain mean. :P

Let's go with the theme of "crossovers that should not work as well as they do, and yet are awesome" since I got tassosss talking about the subject the other day. Also, I love crossovers and have an enormous stash of them saved - uh, jesus, almost 10% of my bookmarks, now that I look at the numbers.

( Five stories under 5K )

( Three stories 5 to 20K )

( Three stories 20 to 60K )

( Two stories over 100K )

I think if Donna Moss, Donna Noble, and Donna from Suits ever happened to be in the same room, the universe might just explode from sheer awesome.

After being ruthlessly organized, put back on schedule, and cowed into submission, of course.

Happy San Jacinto Day, Texans! Here, have some miscellaneous links that have been piling up in my notes:

The Broccoli Test returns
A revival of the classic meme (an explanation is linked if you're unfamiliar) with analysis of three newer slash couples - Dean/Castiel, Neal Caffrey/Peter Burke, and Arthur/Merlin.

conversation I had with Lindsey about Damien Lewis and Doctor Who

Tomorrow When the War Began trailer
OMFG I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS MOVIE. (Basically: Australia is invaded and a group of teenagers who were camping at the time fight a guerilla campaign against the invaders.) And fandom should be excited, too! If the filmmakers even *vaguely* follow the books, they'll star an intelligent, brave, unbelievably (but believably) tough girl who blows shit up in creative ways, falls in love and lust in the middle of fighting a guerrilla war, and manages to keep her friends together and fighting through it all. Ellie is a fucking badass, y'all.

Speaking of awesome ladies, a gorgeous, sweeping female character picspam
The ladies herein are amazing - not just kickass, but flawed, intelligent, complex, cheerful, strong, funny, sexy, ambitious, kind. I recognized most of them, but ended up wanting to meet the ones I didn't. Let's just say my Netflix queue grew a bit the day I saw this post ;)

This week's fannish5:
Name 5 characters whose wardrobe you would love to have.

1) Penelope Garcia: Do I really need to justify this? *pervs on Kristen Vangsness*
2) Morgana: Rowr, gowns with pretty bodices and clean lines. (Though I expect Gwen's wardrobe would fit me better)
3) Sydney Bristow: All the wigs and stilettos I never knew I wanted to wear.
4) The Doctor: Fashion from across time and space, enough to fill a spiral staircase storage area. *wistful sigh*
5) Grace Kelly in To Catch A Thief

At this hour in the morning, one would have expected me to have 1) finished my paper or 2) gone to bed. But no, I go on IMDB and look up past Doctor Who actors.

This activity, however puerile, did inform me that Tom Baker, who played the 4th Doctor with the scarf that everyone (apparently) knows best, was Puddleglum in the BBC's The Silver Chair. *squee* OMG, he was fantastic in that movie! Damnit, I do not need to go searching for 40-year-old television seasons, I really don't....