Four things:

[cosmic_celery]

So, I'm riding in on the tail-end of this five things meme. pimpmytardis gave me these things to elaborate on:

1) Six/Rani



Ever since I watched The Mark of the Rani, with it's absolute, wonderful crackiness, I seem to be seeing this ship that very few others see. In fact, I think I've written the only Six/Rani fic in existence...and it's short, and doesn't even have Six in it. =(

I think Six works best with people that can challenge him and notice when he gets a bit hyperbolic for his own good. That's why Evelyn is such a great companion for him. She's old enough that she doesn't take his BS, but also notices that he's fundamentally a really gentle guy. The Rani is much the same, but is feistier, morally corrupt, and a Time Lord that went to school with the Doctor. She offers the same challenge to the Doctor that many people see in the Master, probably even more so because she's not totally obsessed with bugging him like the Master is. In fact, the Doctor is the one more likely to chase after her.

Also, Six has a well-documented thing for strong-willed older women.

It was this dialogue from Six that cemented it:

"The Rani is a genius. Shame I can't stand her.
...I wonder if I was particularly nice to her she might...

...nope, no, no, of course not."

There's no way the end of that sentence is "join with me to save the galaxy!"
In my head it is a far, far, dirtier sentence.

In conclusion:


2) Knitting and the Season 18 scarf in general

I've been working on my Season 18 scarf since around January, and so far I've gotten this much done:


This is my second project, and my last project was a scarf as well, so I still have a lot to learn about knitting. I'm thinking about knitting Romana's long, white scarf. That might be a fun project to practice stockinette with. Hopefully I can work my way up to sweaters and hats and things. Maybe I'll try socks soon! Goodness, isn't knitting exciting?

3) the Super Writing Challenge

Last year I forget National Poetry Month, which is April. A lot of people take the opportunity to write one poem a day for a month, which is a great writing challenge. But, since I forgot about it, during May I issued my own challenge. The challenge was to do one creative thing each day...a poem, a short story, or a comic.

Of course, in the end, I did a few things and then ended up making up the rest with haiku, but I still think it was a great idea. Maybe again this May?

5) socal_who

I created this with urchinmoppet on a whim, to see what chance there is of getting Whovians in Southern California together. I hope something comes of it, or at least it will be a convenient place to talk about the next Gallifrey One. I'm not sure how much use it will be to me personally since I'm a bit of a hermit, but maybe I can get over that if it means being able to ramble on about Doctor Who in public sometime. =) Flisters, if you're in Southern California, join up!

If you're observant, you'll notice that there's no number four. Number four was "Owen love" which I'll have to talk about later because I want to do him good, analytical justice.