Alright, my lovelies, who wants a Christmas card from Germany? Just leave your address here and it'll be on its way to you soon. :) Comments are of course screened.

So we all know tomorrow is DOCTOR WHO DAY wooo Waters of Mars woooo! Yeah? Well, I made something special to celebrate the occasion. Special unique cupcakes!

Proof that my parents love me after all: They sent me a tea advent calendar (which also inexplicably included a CD with violin music, but hey, I'm not complaining). That is kind of awesome, y/y? I get to drink a different kind of tea all through December!

Less awesome: ear infection. Ow ow ow. Last time I had this it was mostly gone the next day, so there's hoping. But owww, not fun.

More awesome again: Cuppycakes! I'm going to bake them now and then I'm going to decorate them for Doctor Who. I even got dark blue napkins to fashion a cape for the Maylin Cupcake. :P It's gonna be fuuuun.

Rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you.
Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.
Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of esoteric/oblique.

You'll only get five words if you do include 'WORDS!' in a reply to this post, meaning you can safely comment (should you wish to do so) without having to play.

werepuppyblack gave me
( Words and Pics )

Roleplay Love Meme

Also, I'm quitting NaNoWriMo in favor of NaTaKniMo. That is all.

Hmm, I could probably stand to update this here thing. Sooo, two days after I got back from Oxford, I got a nice mean cold. Took a couple of days to get better, nothing tragic, but I STILL HAVE THE COUGH. I swear it's getting worse instead of better. And there's not even any congestion or anything! It's just this awful feeling deep in my chest and it's making me cough until I wheeze. WTF, lungs, get a grip.

School started this week. My classes are alright, I guess. The change in sleeping schedule is horrendous, of course, making me ready to go to sleep right about now (at 7pm, pffft). Having to get up at 7 and 8 on Thursdays and Fridays respectively doesn't help. The class on vampires in American popular culture promises to be fun, even though I won't get to do a presentation on vampires in science fiction, because I could only think of SGA's Wraith and the vampires in Doctor Who, which don't count because it's British. Meh. What really scares me about that class is that I have to read Twilight for it. O_O And today I had Text Production. Bleargh, writing. But I've lived through two of those courses before, I'll survive this one as well.

Hahaha, did I just say bleargh writing? Yeah, I signed up for NaNoWriMo. DX I was peer pressured into it, and mertondingle convinced me by saying I could be a NaNo Rebel and just not write a novel. Using it as an incentive to write shorter stuff seems much less scary. I just wish I had an idea. :( Probably gonna end up having something to do with Doctor Who and particularly the TARDIS, because RPing her is eating my brain right now. It's so bad, I went and bought a plush Jabberwock because of it. I'll name it Zagreus. XD Also, the icon.

And uhm, I think that's it. I can't be sure, because I'm totally sleepy right now. I think I need sleep before I can write the opposites day post for brbg. Yes, sounds good.

Oh gosh, you guys. My excuse for this is that I'm sleep-deprived, and Jazzy... well I guess she's always like that. XD So we were talking about the TARDIS and Zagreus...

Dragonessa24: the tardis almost pitied him for being at odds with the universe, when she was high
Dragonessa24: i look at her now and she's just a great big wall of NO WAY

batchomp: I know! They were getting on so well. It was lolarious.

Dragonessa24: XD I loved that too

batchomp: too bad he won't run into her high again, most likely.

Dragonessa24: yeah, I don't see that happening again
Dragonessa24: I keep wanting to ship them, it's ridiculous

batchomp: it would be the hatiest ship evar.

Dragonessa24: what is it they say? the hatesex would be great? XD

batchomp: the insanity of it would blow minds. oh my.

Dragonessa24: they'd need a 10-mile safety radius, srsly

batchomp: and the needling forever afterwards would probably blister the air.
batchomp: I should be disturbed that I even have these thoughts. god help me, internet, what have you done.

Dragonessa24 : my excuse is sleep-deprivation
Dragonessa24: I don't know what I'm saying anymore

batchomp: good thing we have chat logs
.
Dragonessa24: is there an opposites day? there should be an opposites day so they can live their ~love for a day

batchomp: BWAHAHA
batchomp: but it would still be hatey, right? XD

Dragonessa24): they can't be anything but XD

batchomp: Zagreus/ship: their love is so 3rd grade. hair pulling, name calling, pranking, shoulder punching, 3rd grade.

Dragonessa24: lmao

batchomp: you know I'm right.

Dragonessa24: i'm loving it, oh gawd

batchomp: I warned him not to hit on her, gdi. Truly I did.

Dragonessa24: forget the searing anti-time and the black truth, she hates his winking and blowy kisses the most
Dragonessa24: what are the people going to think, dear god

batchomp: bwahaha.
batchomp: I can't get over the lols. Zagreus as a hovery hair-pully little boy. this is distressingly twisted. and yet so apt.

Dragonessa24: you know the Tardis is the little proper know-it-all who couldn't stand to be seen with the schoolyard bully

batchomp: ikr? dear lord.

Snagged from amare_est_esse to see if I can get 10 ships together. I'm very unshippy.

~ list 10-20 of your favourite old and new fandoms
~ have your f-list guess your favourite ship from each fandom
~ strike out the fandom when someone guesses correctly and and put the name of the first person to get it right

1. Doctor Who - Doctor/TARDIS : amare_est_esse
2. Stargate Atlantis
3. Hornblower (movies) - Horatio/Archie: amare_est_esse
4. Star Trek: Voyager
5. HIMYM - Barney/Robin: cosmic_celery
6. Dead Like Me
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Buffy/Spike: cosmic_celery
8. ...

I CAN ONLY THINK OF 7, DEAL WITH IT.

In other news, I just braved a week's worth of dirty dishes. Pls to be sending pictures of cute animals and rainbows now, thank you.

This is it you guys. Oxfooooord tiem! I'm gonna miss you all, my lovelies. <3 See you in a week! *flails out of the door*

Sooo, I'm back home in my dorm room. No major disasters have occurded here while I was gone, except that I seem to have missed some sort of official letter, possibly from the student support people. :/ Have to figure that out tomorrow. Other than that, the only bad thing is that I'm freaking lonely once again. Buuut not for long, because OXFORD! IN THREE DAYS! WOO! I'm so excited.

We got the program for our stay a few days ago, and it's awesome. There's lots of lectures and tours around Oxford University and such, but also cultural things like a night at the Catweazle Club and Blenheim Palace (yeah, I've never heard of it before either, but it looks great on the website). And on Monday we're going to London. We'll be busy until 5.30pm, but after that we get free time. Which I've got no idea what to do with, since all the interesting places I want to go to close at 5 such as the setting of Jubilee, aka the Tower of London. I don't know if I've got anyone on my flist who lives around there and would be up for a meeting, but I'd love to have someone to check out the last real Police Box in Earl's Court with. ;) Suggestions for what else to do there are also welcome.

I'm also finally catching up with the Six & Charley audios, yay. I've finished all the Eight&Charley ones, by the end of which I had really gotten to like C'rizz and even Charley (I didn't really enjoy her before). Last night I listened to The Doomwood Curse, which was so much fun, omg. Only in Doctor Who land can you be possessed by novels. XD Once I'm back here I'm going to order a couple of audio CDs from Big Finish omg are the studios in London? I could go worship the ground they stand on. Right now I'm thinking Zagreus and Jubilee, possibly also The Next Life and The Holy Terror. Oh, and ...Ish! Need to listen to that again before I leave too, since it's so fitting and all. XD Any more suggestions? My requirements are basically awesome story + pretty cover art, lol.

Gotta go make lots of lists now, of things I need to do before the trip and what groceries to buy tomorrow so I don't have food sitting around for a week that really shouldn't. Which sucks because thinking of food is making my stomach turn right now, blah. But! After that I can listen to Brotherhood of the Daleks or watch another Hornblower. I'm quite smitten with that series, heh. So much manliness and prettiness and honor. XD And I believe the next episode has Paul McGann, woo!

It's time for some pimping again!
- fic_rush has its 3rd round this weekend. If you join, you dedicate yourself to writing as much fic as you can in 48 hours. Every hour, there will be a post where you can talk about your progress with other participants, whine about obstacles, and cheer each other on. The next round starts in 8 hours! Also, I unfortunately managed to acquire a life this weekend and can't mod, so if one of you has the time and inclination to help out, that would be grand.

- iconsofrassilon is a Classic Who icontest with weekly challenges. If you love me, you'll join. ;)

- http://www.herorat.org/ Is an organization that trains giant pouched rats to sniff out landmines and tuberculosis in Africa. Because of their great sense of smell, the rats can clear an area of landmines in 30 minutes, for which a human deminer would need two days, and because of their leight weight they don't set the mines off. The rats used in tuberculosis detection can evaluate 40 samples in 7 minutes, which is the equivalent of two days of microscopy work for a lab technician. To support them, you can either make a donation or adopt a rat for about $5 a month (you get cheery little emails from your rat and updates on its progress if you adopt one, heh).


This is Kim, the tuberculosis sniffer rat I adopted. :D

So it's the 22nd and our internet hasn't died yet. Still crossing my fingers that we won't even notice the switch or something. It did die last night while I was listening to The Next Life, so I couldn't continue my running commentary on Twitter, which was a shame because there was a lot of ZOMG going on. XD I did love it, but the whole Divergence arc is so very muddled now and trying to make sense of it is making my head hurt. Did one of you possibly get it?

Anyway, have a meme snagged from pintsizeninja :

1. If you're on my friends list, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine.

2. Comment here with your answers and repost the questionnaire on your own journal.

01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
26) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
27) Do you believe in ghosts?
28) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
29) Do you swear a lot?
30) Biggest pet peeve?
31) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
32) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
33) Favourite and least favourite food?
34) Do you believe in God?
35) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

I'm sure you can all imagine how horrible the internet-less time was, but I did kill some of it by listening to Zagreus again and taking notes like a nerd, and I decided to write up the piece of dialog that always brings tears to my eyes.
( Hell hath no fury like a TARDIS scorned. )

Hello all, I'm back! I see most of you did the sensible thing and ignored my lovely friend

imwithrebel 's rambling. She has a very vivid imagination. ;) Anyway, like she said in the comments, the internet fail probably had something to do with the fact that my parents' providers switched something around or upgraded or whatever. However, we got a letter today saying the switch is going to happen on the 22nd. O_o Sooo, I may very well be gone again for an indeterminable amount of time. :-/ I'm sorry for any inconveniences I know I'm not that important, but still and I'm sorry I ruined fic_rush this weekend.

 

Protestations of "yay you're back!" are welcome. ;)

Hello Laura's friends list! This is imwithrebel, Laura's bff from Georgia, here to update you on all of the latest news about Laura! Laura asked me via text message to hack into her account and update her lj buddies as to why she hasn't been online and won't be back again for several days.

You see, Laura got herself knocked up and her baby daddy kicked her out. Due to her fragile condition, she is unsure how she will ever find a way to support herself and the poor baby, though she assures me that getting an Internet connection is the number one priority on her to-do list. She hopes she won't have to resort to desperate measures aka prostitution, but also knows she must act quickly before she and the poor child she is carrying freeze to death since it is always cold in Germany.

Well, it's either that or her internet is broken and they are unsure when it will be fixed again. I'll let you be the judge. ;)

Oh, and any comments you leave to this post will totally make my day, especially if they aren't the typical mushy-gushy "OMGILLMISSYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!!!!!" crap.

Let the Laura bashing begin!!!!!!!

It really is totally cool though if you want to leave her the mushy love nonsense about how you can't bear to live a day without her though. It is her journal after all. Plus I'm sure she needs it given her "condition" right now. ;)

Yes, I know Laura will kill me for this when she comes back, but it is totally worth it.

Snagged from peoples on my f-list!

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Ask them a question!


Aaand Post a list of all your roleplaying journal names and explain what the names mean, if anything.

history_woman (Evelyn Smythe): She teaches history... and she's a woman? Lol, I took the name from that redscharlach icon of her.

theoldgirl (TARDIS) : It's what the Doctor calls her, obviously. I thought it was sweet.

bigtalkingbird (Frobisher): In the audio The Holy Terror he gets worshipped as a god and the people exclaim "All hail Frobisher, all hail the big talking bird!" It has a fun sound when they're chanting it and he secretly enjoyed it, heh.

justanemptybox (Turn Left!TARDIS): That's what the TARDIS is without the Doctor. Omg so sad.

good_insupport (Rosencrantz): "I can't think of anything original! I'm only good in support." It's what Rosencrantz says of himself, and it rang a particular note with me, because I feel that it describes me as well.

Alright folks, here is my murder mystery idea. I should warn you that I came up with this while half asleep, so I couldn't judge whether it is win or fail. But now it's stuck in my head, so I at least want to get some opinions, lol.

A long long time ago I was part of a murder mystery RP with my character *insert fond memories of Iago the parrot here*, and I tried to piece together what I could remember from that with how brbg works. What I'm seeing is this:

I make a post explaining how the game works, announce the date, and tell everyone who would be willing to be the murderer to contact me via PM. The murderer has to come up with creative and clever deaths, as well as clues to their identity left at the scene of the crime, so I'm not going to force that job on anyone, heh. The actual game will happen in an abandoned villa or something, to give people opportunities for exploration and such. Maybe we also need booze. XD Everyone can mingle, and then bam! Someone's dead. And anyone could be the culprit. The murderer can pick who dies, of course. He or she just has to send me a PM with the description of the murder and I'll post it in a new thread. The victims will have to cease all the conversations they may be having and leave the game immediately. They might be left with a dream-like memory of the events, in case any awesome interaction happens in the game that they want to carry over into normal RP.

Questions and Problems:
1) Should non rp-people be allowed to play? I kind of want to say no in order to keep the number of participants low-ish, at least in the first round, but I dunno.
2) How is the murderer caught? There will be clues to the identity, but I can hardly let everyone accuse people wildly and the first who gets it right by dumb luck wins. There needs to be... some sort of proceedings, so I can declare "Yes, this is the murderer, you win the game" or "nope, try again".
3) Should wrong accusations be punished? If so, how?
4) How may the murderer win? I mean, how does everything play out if only two or three people are left in the game?
5) How often should murders happens? Should I let the murderer send me deaths whenever he or she wants, or should I let the murderer know when I think a new death is appropriate? I don't think doing them by a set schedule, like hourly, would work, since neither me nor the murderer will be around constantly.
6) Should deaths make sense? Like, if the murderer is Rose, she can hardly kill anyone by extermination. Similarly, if the victim is a Time Lord, they'd need to die from something like beheading, something that keeps them from regenerating.
7) Any other issues you can think of?

You guys, I think this may be too complicated to pull off. D: But still, tell me what you think.

You Are a Mediator

You understand people well and are a natural born therapist. A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around. You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you. You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people. Your strength: Your devotion Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness Your power color: Lilac Your power symbol: Heart Your power month: June

That... is kind of pretty accurate. Creepy.
( My life in the next few weeks. )

01. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked!

amare_est_esse picked these:
( They say of the acropolis where the parthenon is... )

In honor of my new and improved icon space, I made a few more icons! They're mostly Six and the TARDIS, obvs.


( Icons here )