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If I had a TARDIS, I wouldn’t have to wait.

21 Monday Oct 2013

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Waiting for Doctor Who
(Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburger Network.)

BBC seems to like torturing its fans.  Just saying.  First, the interminable wait for the next season of Sherlock.  But currently, the wait for the next episode of Doctor Who.

Now, I’m a Doctor Who fan.  I wouldn’t call myself a die-hard, or even a “true” fangirl (whatever that is), but I do own a sonic screwdriver.  Two actually, but that’s besides the point.  I also own Series 1-4 + the specials and seen them WAY too many times.  And even though I’m not as big of a fan of Matt Smith as I am of Tennant and even Eccleston, I’m really, really looking forward to the next episode.  That being said, I’m actually trying to avoid the hype. (I’m never totally successful though.) I hate spoilers (so no spoilers, please), and I find that BBC is bad for revealing too much of their episodes (in my opinion, anyways).  Then again, I like total surprises for what’s in the next episode when it comes to Doctor Who, so anything is a spoiler for me.  I just want the new episode to be here.  I can’t wait to see Tennant again!

So what about you?  Looking forward to the next episode.  Who is YOUR favorite Doctor?

Commercials

17 Thursday Oct 2013

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Now, I’ve never been a huge TV watcher. In fact, I grew up without a TV for most of my childhood. Some people might call that child abuse (lol) but I’m actually rather thankful for it. I think it helped contribute to my love of reading and writing and many other things. It also had another side-effect: I hate commercials. Now, I’m still exposed to commercials on the radio, but even then I have little patience. If an obnoxious enough commercial comes on, I will simply turn it off. My tolerance for commercials is extremely low. However, every so often you get a really good commercial. There’s a special place in my heart for those. I don’t even really mind that they’re trying to sell me something. Like the following:

The innocently adorable:

The humorously morbid:

And the classic:

Constructed Languages

10 Thursday Oct 2013

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Constructed languages, or “conlangs” are something that have always fascinated me. I was never a Tolkien fangirl or a Trekkie, but the invented languages in those fandoms intrigued me nonetheless. In the Valdemar series of books (some of my favorites), there was also a people who had their own language – multiple ones, come to think of it. As much as fully constructed languages intrigue me, however, I think I have more of a soft spot for when key words and phrases are cherry-picked and used the way the Valdemar books did it. Regardless, here is a very cool presentation on conlangs:

I’ve always wanted to create my own language, but I have to admit that it’s not yet something I’ve done. I’ve tried making bits and pieces here and there, but they haven’t ever turned out quite how I’d like… maybe one day!

Crazy Awesome Woohoo!

05 Saturday Oct 2013

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So this weekend, I attended WANACon! WANA stands for We Are Not Alone, and it’s a community of writers online. WANACon is an online conference (the second so far) that I attended last year, and then again this year. Want to know how awesome it was? Here’s a sample from the little social (PajamaCon) session that kicked it off. According to Gry (another attendee), this is Danish humor:

The next day there were TONS of talks – not as much infodumping as I recall from the first one (which I actually rather liked) but tons of interesting and engaging speakers. Kristen Lamb was one of my favorites – I hugely respect her for her work with writers and her writing itself, and she’s an all-around fun person. She summed up Lord of the Rings as a story where an evil ring needs to be thrown into an evil volcano before darkness covers the world. …It’s strangely accurate, however humorous. If you’re a writer, her blog is a must read. She also has a book out that’s extremely helpful, I recommend it.

The second conference day was awesome too. The idea of writing a unicorn horror story even came up at one point (I’d read it). One presenter talked about websites. It inspired me to tweak mine, but it also admittedly made me feel a little insecure about it and wish I had money to throw at a website designer. Alas, more money is going out than coming in at the moment. *sigh* One day… Anyways, I got a couple of those infodump sessions I was looking for this day too. Hurray!

In other news, I found an editor! I sent her my short story, so hopefully everything goes well! I’m very excited… and nervous. Regardless, this means the short story should be up soon! I will, of course, make an announcement and link to it the moment it’s up. :D

And finally, my scalemail costume has been coming along nicely. I work on this project on and off (more off than on, most times). Here are the update pics:
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That is all.

Nerd Decision

03 Thursday Oct 2013

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It has come to my attention that there is a very important decision to be made:

Now we all have our fandoms of choice. I must admit that Doctor Who would be my favorite fandom… but would the sonic screwdriver be my tool of choice? Honestly, I think I might go for the wand… as awesome as having a sonic screwdriver would be, I think the wand is more versatile. Oh the conundrum.

Which would you choose? Comment below!