26 November 2009 @ 12:06 pm
Today's annoying public transport person: the woman getting off the train at Moorgate in front of me who spotted a discarded hat on a seat, stopped to pick it up and consider it, then discarded it and continued in a slow zig-zag in front of me to the platform exit towards the Northern Line, where she stopped dead. GET OUT OF MY WAY! Also at this time of year, a curse on people waving big umbrellas around without the vaguest notion of who they might be poking in the ribs.

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This week's Radio 4 book of the week is Family Britain. Listening to it every night has reminded me that I've had its predecessor, Austerity Britain glowering fatly at me from a bookshelf for probably somewhere over a year now so I stuck it in my coat pocket - I like that at this time of year I can wear my big coat with its capacious pockets - and I've been reading it on the train for the last couple of days. It's v good so far but man, it's disspritingly huge. I have little hope that I'll ever read anything else.

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Taste London are giving away 2000 free annual memberships right now! Sadly, the website is obviously overwhelmed, as I can't get the page to load. Tsk.

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What food are you currently slightly addicted to? I'm obsessed with lemon curd sandwiches at the moment. Morrison's finest lemon curd is excellent.
 
 

The wonderful Judi DenchGreat news this week as my favourite Shakespeare comedy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) is coming to the Rose Theatre next year, featuring one of my favourite actresses (Judi Dench), set in one of my favourite periods of history: the court of Elizabeth I.

But that’s not all. The fantastic Rachael Stirling (she’s Diana Rigg’s daughter, y’know) is playing Helena – the most fun a girl can have in a Shakespeare show without the responsibility and cross-dressing silliness of a Rosalind. Add to that the sexy Ben Mansfield as her love interest Demetrius (he was great at the Open Air Theatre this summer), and Oliver Chris from the Green Wing and Nathan Barley as Bottom, and, well, it’s all pretty exciting.  I’m also looking forward to seeing the ace Msimisi Dlamini (Philostrate) again after enjoying his performance in the Arcola’s Spanish Tragedy this season. And it’s all directed by Peter Hall. *And* tickets start at just £5. What a treat.

In other casting news, I’m happy to learn Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook are going to reprise their performances in the West End version of Jerusalem, particularly as the show won some top prizes at the Evening Standard Awards this week. Many of the other original Royal Court cast members are also coming back for the West End move. Even better news: if, like me, you haven’t got around to booking tickets yet, Jerusalem is offering 20 best-price seats at £10 each, available from the box office from 10am on the day of the performance. Bear in mind you’ve got to show up in person.

Speaking in Tongues has been in the news this week as Ian Hart allegedly lost his temper with an audience member. If you were there, tell us about it… If this has made you even more eager to see the show (which also stars the brilliant John Simm and Kerry Fox), book now: you’ve only got until 12 December…

Finally, news about a show which is a long way from posting closing notices: Billy Elliot. Not only have they extended booking until December 2010, but there’s also a new Billy to boot! Dean-Charles Chapman, 12, is no stranger to the show: he played Small Boy in the original cast when Billy Elliot opened in 2005; and has been playing Michael (Billy’s best friend) since the start of the year. Incredibly, he’s been training for Billy for two years. Break a leg, D-C!

 
 
26 November 2009 @ 06:14 am
Well, first off Richard Curtis has stated in an interview that Tony Curran is playing his big historical guest character.

Then a thread on GB has reported that TV Cream tweeted that Adrian Lester from Hustle will be
playing )

It won't be pretty on LJ in that case...
 
 
25 November 2009 @ 05:45 pm
Helllo,

I'm on the end of a 3 day run of non drawing comics work.
Mostly reworking the King city dialog and doing balloon placement for
Lucas at Tokyopop to letter it.
I'm making lots of pages that look like serious debates about the alphabet

And the guy talking to pete is Exekiel, from Green porn that was in my
escalator collection.

Doing this stuff gets me excited about making comics, for some reason I get much more burned out doing covers and one page jokes. It's the storytelling that gets me most hyped these days.

And here's the cover to the issue I just got together.


Here's a panel from the Korean xombie war flashback in that issue.
Relentlessly cat. pat pat pat.


Here's an old catmaster cover from 2002. I'd made a photocopied
book of pre King city king city to give out at a nyc con.

I think I was trying to get some 70's Conan lines in my stuff back then.

I got some exciting emails with drawings in them:
Aaron Conley:

(check out those catpaw sneakers)
http://www.invademyprivacy.com/

AYO:

http://nervousystem.livejournal.com/

HARVEYJAMES

http://harveyjames.livejournal.com/

Also Speaking of mr harveyjames-- he's printed along with me in a new Meathaus sketchbook book that my pal Chris McD just put together.
Here's the cover Chrs did for it--


It's looking to be a pretty serious book chocked full of all the hard core meathaus dudes-- Farel Dalrymple, Thomas Herpich, Tomer Hanuka, James Jean, Jason Sacher, Mu Pan ,Dash Shaw, Zachary Baldus, and a bunch of other impressive artists -- Al Columbia, Nathan Fox, Nick Bertozzi, Peter Chung, Ron Wimberly.ect etc
I'm excited to see it.

Here's a small picture of the Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame and Tom Herpich of being a genius fame--

more on it here:
http://meathaus.com/read/go-for-the-gold-3-preview/

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ahem--

I got the full set of the 1990 Viz printing of Buichi Terasawa's COBRA
that I've been eyeballing at RX comics(bestcomicstoreever)


So it starts out like Total Recall with a guy with a boring life
going to a clinic that sells fantasies that awake who he really is.

You know how it is, sometimes stuff gets too rough being a lone wolf
space pirate with a phycho gun for an arm.
Sometimes you just have to erase your memory a reconstruct your
much too pretty face to look like gene wilder and just hide out for a
hot minute.

It's like plastic surgery to make him look less like he got plastic surgery-

It's set in a 70's more starwars than star wars universe.
Look at that wookie belt and those serious star wars vent/lights.



Every sign in the comic is labeled as basic as possible: CLUB and BAR
like in the future use of the english language has been trimmed down to
its basics. in Cobra my next book would be called COMIC.

Oh and see that dude casually scooting out of his hover car?

that's the evil plant phychic named Tarbeige. He takes off his already creepy gas mask to show vagina mouth metal tounge face.
He plants his seeds in the hindbrains of his victims to control their minds.

look at that casual look in his eyes.
He's so bored of women screaming in terror.
yawwwnnnnn

He even dies creepy.


Cobra has such good villans.
check out this smooth skelleton in a spacesuit on the left-


The main villan in the first couple issues is CRYSTAL BOY.
He's a dude that used to be human and is now made out of polarized glass
so lazers have no effect on him. and his creepy mask face never changes even when he's laughing his seethrough polarized ass off.

He's such a dick.

I think it's inevitable that when you encounter a cyborg that you'd wonder the state of their cyborg crotch--Like how Briaroes has almost no human parts on his outside but his dong is still there.
Crystal boy has gone out of his way to show you exactly the state of
his buisness.
Dude wont even wear pants!

I find someone that used to be human so much creepier than just a robot.

He cant taste booze and he has no genitals --he cant even poop.
But he remembers doing all those things.
so what's left but cold conquest of the universe.
brrrrrr

I'm 7 issues in now. right now Cobra and his sexy sex robot sidekick
are on their way to where?

PUBE!

Aside from Cobra the other best thing I saw in a comic this week was
this ad-- Elf hating pervert!


And here's some early Shirow I thought was cool.

I like how this comic is trying to pass itself off as
battle comics when it is clearly thong backed um-puming bath comics.

That japanese lettering on that is so cool.
Like its made out of wrenches or handcuffs.


And this , I guess it was from a Dirty pair radio play,
broadcast on the Internet.

This site mentions it--
http://www.elenorecity.com/seiyuu.html
Also I really like seeing the photos on there of the american vs the japanese
voice actors. I remember watching Ranma with my pal david, trying to guess
what the voice actors looked like.

and some drawings from the 90's anime, Weathering Continent.
I like the colors on these.



And some old Otomo art I hadn't seen.


that guy is good.

This moring my pal Steve Rolston sent me this page from his Oni book-
Ghost Project. He drew me and james Stokoe (in a russian sex bandit hat)
in that top left panel.

I'm looking forward to Steve's Russian ghost comics.

Oh also, I forgot to mention it but the issue of Resurrection that I did
a back up comic in came out last week.

ok?
ok.
now im going to go watch some polar bear documentry.
 
 
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25 November 2009 @ 07:01 pm
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"Doctor Who: The Stalker of Norfolk" comic has been updated.
Den of Geek has an interview with Rob Shearman which includes interesting facts about Dalek. (link via [info]thehornedgod)
The Doctor Who News Page reports on and briefly analyses the viewing figures for Waters of Mars.
Bleeding Cool has a spoiler/rumour concerning a throwaway TW line that's apparently resolved in the specials. Spoilers!
Io9 reprints the spoiler/rumour above and has some opinions based around it.
Io9 quotes Michael Moorcock's recent responses to questions about his forthcoming Doctor Who novel.


Discussion and Miscellany - general
[info]greenpear found something very TARDIS-like in an old episode of Superboy.
[info]bemkah has the Australian airdate for Waters of Mars.
[info]hammard posts the final viewing figures for Waters of Mars on BBC1.
[info]sue_denimme posts a picspam, Celebrating Ten #6b: School Reunion
[info]shinyjenni reviews Terror of the Zygons.


Discussion and Miscellany - the Christmas specials - Spoilers, duh!
[info]ukraine_girl has scans of TV & Satellite Week with a preview of Xmas viewing.
[info]myvampireeyes has some speculation about what might be returning.
[info]skydawnjade has a 'stupid' question.
[info]bardingtide has some thoughts on the regeneration.
[info]magicallaw has some issues with the Bleeding Cool/io9 spoiler/rumour.


Challenges/New Communities
[info]best_enemies announces the prompts for Drabble Challenge #10.
[info]500year_diary announces Challenge #3.25.
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[info]iconsofrassilon posts a reminder for Challenge #23.


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Completed/Single Part fics
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Vitalis Metuo by [info]persiflage_1 (Martha/Jack, New TW team, Eleven, Amy, Tom Milligan | NC-17)
Paradise Found by [info]the10th_rose (Ten, Rose | PG-13)
Dreamscapes Nightmares & Post it Notes (3/3) by [info]emraldeyedauter (Martha, Tom Milligan, Tenth Doctor | PG)
Of Inappropriate Awakenings by [info]karenor (Ten/Rose | Adult)
Hurt me by [info]finmagik (Six/Peri | R/NC-17)
Frail in the Kill (3/3) by [info]estas_absentis (Master/Lucy | R)
For A Long Moment by [info]hermionepadfoot (Rose, the Tenth Doctor, the TARDIS | PG)
Lie by [info]malicehaughton (Jackie/alt!Pete | PG)
Bricks and Mortar by [info]shinyjenni (Sarah Jane Smith, Romana | All ages)

Works in Progress
Doctor Who and the Star of Arcadia (9/16) by [info]gogo_didi (Jack/Ianto, The Doctor (10), OCs, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton, Johnson | PG-13)
Watching (1/3) by [info]the_tenzo (Ten/Rose/Ten2 | Adult)
Water Music (10/17) by [info]azriona (The Doctor, River Song | PG)
Heart of the TARDIS (15/?) by [info]jhumor (The Doctor, TARDIS, Jack, Martha | teen)
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Sound the trumpets, beat the drums, and unfurl the biggest, angriest Union flag you can find, for the first version of the soopersekrit database that is the National Identity Register is with us - comprising all of 538 names, one of which is not even a British national. Just 538 people after all the hype about launching them in Greater Manchester and to airside workers! I'm tempted to fire off an FOI request regarding how many of the 538 are civil servants working for either the Home Office or IPS. It's telling, too, that Sir Joseph Pilling, the senior civil servant who has drawn the poisoned chalice here, has been given a mere six-month contract. While we can't be too careful, especially not with a bristle-skulled, swivel-eyed loon like Chris Grayling set to take over as Home Secretary should the Tories win the election - and there's talk from well-informed sources that Grayling got the gig replacing Grieve as a proviso for Murdoch's support of Cameron - this news looks encouraging as regards the long-overdue administration of the last rites for the NIR.

Even Pakistan, a country with far more problems than the UK and with a similar-sized population, managed to implement their biometric database within six years, though I'm sure there was considerably more coercion involved, and NADRA, the agency that oversees such projects in that country, employs over 11,000 people. While I don't recommend the idea of outsourcing this Orwellian project to the Pakistani government - they appear halfway competent at building intrusive biometric databases, after all, and the only place the NIR should be outsourced to is the bin - imagine how that appointment would cause the collective brains of the unthinking nothingtohidenothingtofear knee-jerkers to short-circuit! Perhaps the Pakistani authorities have been taking a lead from the British police here, what with all this talk of arrests being made just to harvest DNA samples for their own database. Former ACPO president Chris Fox claims that it is not police practice to do so, but as ever in such cases, the words of Mandy Rice-Davies apply.

Nice to find a little parcel from HMV in the post just now; my fiver's worth of spare vouchers proving very handy in snagging a copy of Walerian Borowczyk's filthy nunsploitica classic Behind Convent Walls, which goes for more than three times as much on eBay. Hey, it's got subtitles and it's directed by a Polish bloke with a big consonant cluster in his name, so therefore it is ART and not pr0n, and doubtless I could back up that assertion with observations about the cinematography and the mise-en-scène and the fact that it's based on a story by Stendhal, but then again the audience in the old Studio 7 never noticed such things as a rule...
 
 
Very True Music: Radio 4
 
 
25 November 2009 @ 01:43 pm
I've just had one of those post-meeting 'debriefings' where, as line head, I really could have done with a bottle of whisky or vodka (the two other people in the debriefing were a Scot and a Russian) to pull out of the bottom drawer in order to drown our sorrows.

ψcomputer science = |dead>
 
 
 
25 November 2009 @ 11:34 am
I wasn’t able to get back to comments on this post yesterday. Rather than break things down into a series of different responses to different people I thought it simpler just gather it into one comment. Except the comment grew somewhat, so in the end I was left with a new post. What follows is inchoate, but it follows (sometimes obliquely) from what other people have said there.

In the first place, do not interpret the fact that I have no problem with spoilers as advocating that spoilers should be used. No serious reviewer would arbitrarily reveal the various twists and turns of any film or novel, unless there was a good reason to do so. However, there are times when an adequate analysis of the success or failure of any work depends for its evidence on just such ‘spoilers’. In such instances I would have no hesitation in describing exactly what the work is doing, because in those circumstances avoiding spoilers would be getting in the way of me doing my job.

I do have a problem with terms like ‘Spoiler Alert’ or ‘Spoiler Warning’, which disfigure rather too much of what passes for criticism these days. Do not expect to see them in any review of mine.

I also have a problem with what is considered a spoiler these days. I have seen spoiler alerts attached to less information than is contained in the blurb of the book under review. Shakespeare’s play was originally called ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’, which rather gives the game away that it ends badly. But if Romeo and Juliet were to be produced for the first time today and a critic said ‘it ends badly’, that would be classed as a spoiler. Everything that was described by Hitchcock in his own brilliant original trailer for Psycho would nowadays be considered a spoiler. As I noted to Jonathan, one author accused me of ‘spoiling’ his novel in my review because I described what happened in the first third of the book, yet without that information there would have been no sensible way of explaining what the rest of the book was about (and in fact I gave away nothing that wasn’t fully laid out in the publicity material accompanying the novel).

One of the reasons I have no problem with spoilers is that nobody is a perfect reader. I have, while reading a novel for the second or third time, had the reaction: ‘I didn’t see that coming.’ The book hasn’t changed, and it’s not that I have forgotten things. But on earlier readings my attention had been on one aspect of the book, on the re-reading another aspect had come to the fore for me, and that shift in focus had triggered the surprise. But if that is the case, how can we know which revelation will or will not spoil things for any particular reader? In my teens I went on an Agatha Christie jag, reading some 50 or more of her books over the space of two or three years. In some instances someone would give away the ending – ‘Oh, X did it’ – but those revelations turned out not to spoil the books, because I still had to read on to find out why or how X did it, what gave X away to Hercule Poirot, how the more obvious suspects were found to be innocent, and so forth. So even an obvious give away isn’t necessarily a spoiler. The only way you could unfailingly ‘spoil’ a book is by reproducing the entire book. But of course critics don’t do that, we have no ambitions to be Pierre Menard; what we do is pick and choose nuggets from the book to support or emphasise a particular reading, but any novel is going to have many many secrets still buried within it.

And such secrets will be different for each reader, for each reading. I might be flabbergasted by a plot twist that every other reader considers obvious from page 1. Should I mention it because it is key to my understanding of the book, or should I hedge and haver and leave a great raw gap in the middle of my critical evaluation? I have, on occasion, hedged, but the result has been a review that I consider unsatisfactory and that fails to do the book any justice. So now I don’t hedge around such things, nor do I plaster my reviews with ‘Spoiler Alerts’, because any detail from the work could be somebody’s spoiler. Not that I expect what I tell you about a book to spoil it for you, because any novel has got to be bigger than a 1,500-word review. Doesn’t it?
 
 
25 November 2009 @ 10:38 am

Sexy singleton, 28, WLTM gorgeous, fun, creative guy w GSOH and similar hobbies: photography, visiting exciting London venues, meeting new people. Preferably ready for a challenge / competition? A passion for sexy slideshows a must.

Bag yourself a sexy photography fan at Shoot DatingWe know there are plenty of Lonely Hearts out there in London. If you’ve tried speed dating, online dating, silent dating and dating in the dark (really), we’re here to tell you about something brand new. And a lot more fun.

Funky creative photography collective Shoot Experience are holding their debut Shoot Dating event next weekend.

If you find small talk difficult under the pressure of a date, let the power of creativity play its hand at match-making. You don’t need any photographic experience to find love through a lens: just a little enthusiasm and some of cupid’s dark-room magic.

In teams of four (two boys, two girls), you’ll be given a clue and asked to photograph an answer. With each clue comes a new team, giving you the chance to meet eight different dates during the afternoon.

Shoot Dating is being held at the deliciously sexy underground Turkish baths in Bishopgate. Post photo-clue hunt, daters will return to The Bathhouse to watch a slideshow of the day’s images, and get the results of the competition for the most creative photos.

Tickets cost £20; alongside the afternoon of match-making fun and creativity, you also get a themed photobooth, lovers cupcakes, drink offers, prizes *and* free entry to The Bathhouse’s Rockabilly-themed night after the event for your cash.

At the end of the evening, daters who’ve ticked each others’ boxes (ahem) will be put in touch via email, leaving you to complete your own romantic adventures…

Sound like fun? Check out www.shootexperience.com/events for more details.

 
 
25 November 2009 @ 10:36 am
Just to let people know, there is now a community for the 1st International Clanger Symposium, to be held at Odyssey. If you are interested in getting involved then please come and join us at [info]clanger_symp.
 
 
25 November 2009 @ 08:08 am
Mr Weasel woke me up just as the singing angry people were about to make the most important anouncement (in song) about socks that humankind has ever heard. And now I'll never know wnat it is. Bah.
 
 
 
25 November 2009 @ 01:55 am
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OFF-LJ LINKS
The official site marks the 46th anniversary of the first episode
The official site reports that the full-length version of Dreamland will be broadcast on Saturday 5 December on BBC2
Wired Top 10 Who villains, part one | part 2
io9 on television tie-in novels and how they can expand the show's universe
Bernard Cribbins has been given a special award at the BAFTA Children's Awards
Big Finish supremo David Richardson on his work and the Lost Season
thehogshead.org on C.S. Lewis and the Doctor
The Inverness Courier on Karen Gillan's cousin taking a part in season five
TV Squad on the three-minute CiN preview of The End of Time
Blogtor Who on a Who-related edition of Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Details on the first audiobook for the eleventh Doctor
Podshock episode 171 reviews The Waters of Mars
Big Finish podcast on the new lost story The Nightmare Fair
CaptionWho 877: The Infinite Quest
Doctor Who Methadone on '42'
The Chronic Hysteresis on Image of the Fendahl, The Sun Makers, Underworld
The Happiness Patrol Episode Two: Interview wth Ken Deep on podcasting

SPOILERS
BBC Press Office on The End of Time parts 1 & 2
Christmas schedule discussion on TV Scoop | Daily Mirror | Radio Times
Den of Geek on the festive specials, with information from the BBC press office
...and has a new picture and spoiler info for the specials
Examiner.com on The End of Time
DavidTennant.com on The Tennant's astonishing ubiquity this Christmas
... and the Doctor Who news page does the same, but spells Tennant wrong. (Oh, nul points and poor show, DWNP!)
A Radio Times gallery on the specials
[info]cosmosin_strife reports on a schedule for S5 episodes (LARGE SPOILERS)
The Doctor Who news page on Karen Gillan's cousin and a larger casting spoiler for S5
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DISCUSSION & MISCELLANY
[info]bardingtide asks what gadget does a rebel Time Lord have?
[info]scarfman has an unpopular fannish opinion about regeneration
[info]doom989 has a theory about companions
[info]darkphoenixrisn thought the Waters of Mars had real emotional depth
[info]sue_denimme celebrates Ten in a picspam: pt 6, School Reunion
[info]ionlylurkhere has some detailed questions about Romana
[info]biichan has S5 spoilarz which are trufax!
[info]wshaffer reviews The Nightmare Fair and gives in three out of five stars
[info]loves_glamour declares it to be random Ten/Donna macro time
[info]thehornedgod has a post of news plus a joke item at the end
[info]badsign is hosting a Doctor Who friending meme

COMMUNITIES & CHALLENGES
[info]plusone_rumble has round 5, challenge 7: breaking out of the square
[info]betterwiththree has a weekly discussion post: What's your favourite theory about Jack's missing memories

FANFIC
Completed
Anniversary by [info]honeynoir [Martha, Martha/Tom | PG]
Not This Time by [info]bitterfig [Ten/Simm!Master | PG-13]
Untitled Drabble by [info]theladyhel [Ten/Master | G]
On Death and Dying by [info]dune_drd [The Tenth Doctor | G | linked drabbles]
Two-way Seduction by [info]abbyromana [Donna/ Ten | R]
A Domino of Headstones by [info]kowarth [Sarah Jane Smith, Lavinia Smith, The Doctor, the Brigadier | PG]
A Less Than Simple Understanding by [info]rallalon [Doctor/Rose | Adult]
Strong Drink by [info]canaana [Nine/Rose/Jack | NC-17]
I Don't Have To Save The Planet by [info]truthmaker [Eleven, Amy | G]
Friendship and a Picnic by [info]persiflage_1 [Martha/Ten, Ian and Barbara Chesterton | G ]
Just Improbable by [info]malicehaughton [Jackie Tyler/alt!Pete | G]
Mind Melds by [info]anomoly_fetish [Ten/Simm!Master | PG-13]
Get To The Point by [info]lost_spook [Fourth Doctor, Leela | All]
Fever Dreams by [info]unfolded73 [Ten/Rose | Adult]
Dear Diary ... by [info]time_converges [Donna/Doctor | PG-13]
New Worlds to Explore by [info]katherine_b [Ten/Donna | Adult]
Sola Gratia by [info]nostalgia_lj [Doctor/Donna, Donna/River | R]

WIPs
Blackout (1/5) by [info]darkestboy [Tenth Doctor, Martha, Jack, Torchwood cast | PG-13]
Donna Nobis Beatitas (5/?) by [info]katherine_b [Donna, Ten | PG]
When the Debt is Called In (1/?) by [info]imzadimylove [Rose/Jack, Ten, Ten II, Torchwood | Adult]
Solace by [info]thascalos [Ten II, Rose | Adult]
The Prydonian Chronicles (2/?) by [info]kolosigma and [info]ayumicrea[Theta/Koschei | NC-17 for series]
Suspension of Disbelief (2/?) by [info]bassair [Clyde/Luke, Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha | PG-13]
The New Transmission (1/?) by [info]northstar91 [Ten/Rose, Jack/OFC | Teen]
Home (1/8) and (2/8) by [info]locker_monster [Ten, Martha, Ian, Barbara | PG]
The Crane Wife (4/7) by [info]x_los [Five/Ainley!Master | R]
Doctor Who and the Star of Arcadia (1/16) by [info]gogo_didi [Jack, Ianto, the Brigadier, Benton, Johnson | PG-13]
Cloisters (23/26) by [info]wildwinterwitch [Ten/Rose | Teen]
Doctor Who and the Othersiders (Prologue/10) by [info]misshapenmuse [Ten, Martha, implied 10/Rose, 10/Martha, Torchwood cast | R | strong warnings]

Crossovers
My Immortal, Between Canons: The Year That Never Was (Pt 2) by [info]elisi [Master, Doctor, Martha, characters from Angel, Buffy | Adult]
I Want To Believe by [info]angstytimelord [Tenth Doctor/Fox Mulder | PG | crossover with The X-Files]

Spoilers for The End of Time
Hymen's Torch by [info]doctordiehard [Ten, other, 10.2/Rose | strong warnings, adult]

ICONS & GRAPHICS
[info]radioactivepiss with 15 icons from The Waters of Mars
[info]snowxqueen has 45 Waters of Mars icons
[info]rattus_aerius has an End of Time wallpaper
[info]justlook3 has 18 icons, mostly 10/Rose, in a multi-subject post
[info]stickycons has nine new series icons in a multifandom post
[info]nasirah has five new series icons in a multifandom post
[info]tardis_mafia has tenth Doctor icons (including images from CiN preview) in a multifandom post
[info]xafirah has six icons from the End of Time trailer
[info]how_we_dance2 has 10 icons of the Tenth Doctor

FANART & CREATIVE ENDEAVOURS
[info]honorarydoctor has scarf tips and advice

FANVIDS
2001: A Who Odyssey, on YouTube (hat-tip [info]citygirl2)

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24 November 2009 @ 11:17 pm
For reasons not unconnected to [info]molly_brown's recent infection of my brain with a particular tune, I seem to be using a picture of Lady Gaga for one of the player characters in Earth Girls Aren't Easy. Another will probably be Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars). Not sure about the male characters yet, but I think they will be equally famous faces.