life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

To think that's it's two whole weeks since the end of the programme! *twitches*

I was at Sainsbury's yesterday, and I reached a hand into the potato bread on my way past, but I came up with, not Ormo 4-pack potato farls, but a Doctor Who tie-in novel. I wasn't greatly tempted by it, although that may change by September or so when I'm screaming 'Not another Doctor-and-Rose-have-a-baby fic! Give me plots!! Plotsss!!!!'.

Anyway. For the first time I saw what the people who own the copyrights are driving at when they crack down on fanfiction. No matter how much Harry Potter fic I read, I'll still buy the books (and probably see the films, unless the divergence from canon becomes utterly unbearable). I've sent many, many pounds into the LucasFilm coffers. I've bought cinema tickets and videos and even a few EU books. Fanfiction isn't stopping me from buying the other bEUks, because frankly I wouldn't read them if you paid me.

Doctor Who, on the other hand...it depends on the quality of the writing, but if I can get my fix from free fanfic, why should I buy the books? This is true even more of the shippers. The programme itself is wildly shippy (too much so, IMO. Subtext, people), but it is shown at 7pm, therefore there are things that aren't going to happen on it (I sincerely hope).

The tie-in novel issue explains why Lucasfilm and the Beeb are more uptight about fanfic than JKR. Part of the solution, of course, would be to hire writers who a) are functionally literate and b) have actually seen the source material (Courtship of Princess Leia, I'm looking at you).

Was tagged by sarah531
1. Pick your 5 favorite OTPs
2. Find pictures and post them
3. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom they're from
4. List your favorite moment between them
5. Tag 5 people from your flist to do this meme

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Again, not tagging anyone.

Gakked from ladyaeryn:

Lurkers out there, yo, today's your day. Whether you're a LJ-lurker or from
someplace outside reading this journal, you are the reason this journal
isn't locked by default. So, come out and say 'hi' or something. Tell
me what you're doing here, how you feel, who you are, whatever. No need
to be shy.

AND tell if you are a regular reader of this journal
or just like to drop in when I'm being snarky or whatever. You can tell
me what you like and what you don't like about it. It's okay, I have
pretty thick skin. Well, sometimes ;)

Or just drop in to say
hi... because it would be nice to know if there's more than the same 8
or 10 people that gets good use out of this journal, you know what I
mean?

I've been swotting up on CT and stuff for my interview. They sent out a wodge of stuff on it, along with map etc, which seems a bit weird. It's like trying to revise for an exam. I did manage to impress my mam with my mad scanning knowledge, though. It's the mathematics of it where I go a bit wobbly, unfortunately.

I wrote this for the RotS challenge over at http://a-larger-world.com. It's my way of filling in the plot hole about Padmé and Leia.
It's unbeta'd, so concrit is most welcome and if anyone wants to beta it, that'd be great too

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"Mami!"

Bail smiled as he heard the voice of his little daughter. Her nanny had insisted that she was already sleeping, but he hadn't been able to resist the temptation to kiss her goodnight. He hadn't seen her in weeks and these days every day brought new changes in her. He hadn't been able to wait.

Leia was sitting up in her little white-curtained bed, babbling away in baby-language. The soft light by her bed fell on her curly brown head and plump arms.
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1. Padmé
2. Anakin
3. Chancellor Palpatine
4. Obi-Wan



From: kenobi@knights.jedi.org
To: amidala@naboo.gov, offee@padawans.jedi.org, organa@alderaan.gov, palpatine@republic.gov, skywalker@padawans.jedi.org, tachi@knights.jedi.org, windu@council.jedi.org, yoda@council.jedi.org
Subject: Re: Fw: Survey

NAME: Obi-Wan Kenobi

NICKNAMES: Obi. My Master used to call me 'young apprentice', and my Padawan Anakin calls me 'old man' when he's being cheeky and 'yes, Master' the rest of the time.

SEX: No thanks, I'm a Jedi.
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1. Padmé
2. Anakin
3. Chancellor Palpatine

From: palpatine@republic.gov
To: amidala@naboo.gov, dooku@tradefederation.com, jamilla@naboo.gov, kenobi@knights.jedi.org, skywalker@padawans.jedi.org, yoda@council.jedi.org
Subject: Survey


NAME: Palpatine

NICKNAMES: Chancellor, mostly.

SEX: Male.
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I wish there was an edition of Semagic with tags in it already.

I can't believe it's the last episode of Doctor Who tonight. It must not be missed. Dinner? What dinner? (The fact that my nose is blocked up and I have lost most of my sense of taste is irrelevant, yeh!) I can't think what I shall do on Saturday nights, now!
Yesterday had to be the worst birthday EVAH, even including my ninth when I was bad and had no cake. I was ill and so was almost everyone else. But elerrina_amanya made me some nice Star Wars icons.

I'm going through my journal tagging old posts. I have May-December of 2004 still to do. I'm not tagging all the 'going away' or 'my life sux' posts, or memees which are boring. All the same, it's a surprise how many more are worth tagging in 2004 compared with 2003.

ETA: It's done! Ow, my eyes!

Silly little humour. Email forwards in the GFFA. Suggestions for improvement (better answers, other questions) are more than welcome.


1. Padmé

From: amidala@naboo.gov
To: dooku@tradefederation.com, jamilla@naboo.gov, kenobi@knights.jedi.org, mothma@chandrila.gov, organa@alderaan.gov, palpatine@republic.gov, skywalker@padawans.jedi.org, yoda@council.jedi.org
Subject: Survey

NAME: Padmé Naberrie Amidala Skywalker.

NICKNAMES: Ani calls me angel sometimes.
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Whom should I do next?