I feel up to speed again, hurray!

[such_heights]

Warm and very belated birthday wishes to the folks I've missed recently: happy birthday, oddsbobs, ponkie, ladylai, fauxkaren, mindabbles, la_onza, out_there, _emeraldgreen and snorkackcatcher! I hope all of you had wonderful days. ♥ ♥ ♥

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Rec! My story at dw_cross has been posted, and it is fantastic.

No Such Gorram Thing, by anonymous at dw_cross, PG-13, Doctor Who/Firefly.

In which the crew of Serenity variously encounter a strange man with a blue box. Funny, ingenious, and sometimes not a little gut-wrenching, this is a perfect meshing of two canons with bang-on insights into the characters from both shows.

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The masterlist for Round Two of the rs_games is up! Authors stay anonymous until the 21st, and I know I have some catch-up reading to do before then. I really want to talk about my story, actually. *sits on hands*

HBP delayed until summer '09, oh noes! I'm not really invested in the films per se, but they're a lot of fun through the visor of fandom, and something to get HP fandom buzzing a little post-series. Mind you, having it in the summer is no bad thing in my book - plenty of time for multiple viewings and inappropriate amusement. (Ah, the OotP film, in the Summer of Potter, watching it on the IMAX screen with bruadar and laughing way too much at Aberforth and the goats, good times.)

Speaking of HP, I just found a whole bunch of ficbits written for hogwarts_elite contests, some of which are probably worth posting. I should get on that.

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I'm very excited about the Torchwood radio play, now confirmed for broadcast on September 10th as Radio 4's Afternoon Play (hahahaha what will the Radio 4 crowd make of it?). Written by Joseph Lidster, previously seen writing 'A Day In The Death', and perhaps more importantly, a writer for Big Finish, I am hopeful this will be good! The link also provides information on how to listen to it if you're outside the UK.

The title of the miniseries they're doing next year has also been announced: 'Children of Earth', whatever that might mean. So there really is going to be a five-part honest to goodness plot, what show am I watching again? *g* I'm really interested to see what it's like with the new format, yet simultaneously sadfacing about British telly's continued aversion to lengthy shows. *sigh* It's a long time to 2010!

And lastly, I am so pleased the Who vid lovefest that I posted yesterday seems to be spreading the warm fuzzies out a little. This was the aim! I love my show and its immense amount of hugging.

Comments

[gorgeousnerd]

I think what's so annoying about the HP movie delay is that the fandom has so little left. I'm just glad that Beedle the Bard in December should be great, although nothing'll top Summer of Potter (omg, last year).

[avendya.livejournal.com]

♥ you, and dw_cross

(Warning: rant.)

Honestly, I am not terribly looking forward to Lidster's take on the LHC. The summary sounds like there's going to be a lot of awful science - possibly entertaining, but having little to do with the LHC's actual mission (of, you know, finding out about the universe). I love that the BBC is giving coverage to when the first protons circle the ring (turn on is a bit of a misnomer).

The summary is even scarier: "But so much could go wrong – it could open a gateway to a parallel dimension, or create a black hole – and now voices from the past are calling out to people and scientists have started to disappear..." NO NO NO. I will not say the LHC is perfectly safe - what is? - but I will say that even fictional presentation of the LHC being dangerous are problematic. This is cutting-edge science; it's amazing and beautiful; this is one of the wonders of the world. The LHC certainly needs more press coverage for the non-scientists of the world, but surely there's a better way to balance it? I'm prejudging it, I know, but nonetheless, it's worrying.

I suppose that it's possible Lidster will have talked to a scientist or three, and checked his science, but I rather doubt it. It annoys me more than a tad when "liberal arts people" do that with science - not doing enough historical research is a huge sin in the world of writing, but accurate science? Of course not.

[is too much a scientist for her own good]

[burningmarl.livejournal.com]

welcome home :] so glad to see you back!

[such_heights]

We have so little to cling to these days, don't we? Alas, alas, I miss the heydays.

[such_heights]

I didn't really think about that! The fact it's about Proper Science, I mean, rather than just a general tie-in. Because oh Lord the summary does sound a bit ridiculous. And yes, I do share your irritation about the lack of science research, but then I won't really spot it on a case by case basis the way I would historical things - as is of course the case with us liberal arts types, hence the double standard. Boo!

Still, considering the rest of the day's programming looks much more informative and exciting in terms of the actual project - live on TV and everything! I look forward to it. That, and my ridiculous space opera, heh.

[such_heights]

Hey hey! ♥ Oh, how I missed LJ. How's tricks with you?

[avendya.livejournal.com]

I may be hypersensitive about the LHC - ATLAS, one of the two large experiments at CERN - is the one I (occasionally) work on. I love and adore HEP, and do everything I can to get other people to understand just how amazing it is.

See, I do notice the lousy science. I've gotten to the point where I can ignore in Who, but no explanation would be better than some of the ones we've gotten in the show. (Biology doesn't work like that! Physics really doesn't work like that!)

I just wish that fiction had decent science. [plays world's smallest violin for self]

[saint-claws.livejournal.com]

STUPID DELAYED HARRY POTTER.

What is this miniseries? I'm so behind. :(

[gorgeousnerd]

Me too. So much. *sigh*

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Alas, my friends & I were planning our costumes and everything! *sadface*



That story is indeed fantastic and then it's terrifically sad and makes me all shiversome. Thanks for sharing!!

[cherryfeather.livejournal.com]

Missed your earlier "Home!" post, so I shall massively tackleglomp you in this one. -tackleglomps in a massive fashion-

Hm. -rubs hands in plotting fashion- Radio play. I must get my hands on this somehow. BBC website, please be awesome. And I am still v. v. depressed about the Total Lack of Proper Who/Torchwood Next Year. Especially in America. Where there is nothing fun. Except maybe Bones, and House if it stops. sucking. omg.

[such_heights]

I am excited to learn some more about CERN and things, because I really don't know much about it!

but no explanation would be better than some of the ones we've gotten in the show.

Oh, word, it's the tagging of "and this could actually happen! No, really!" sometimes that makes me eyeroll.

Yours is a sad story. Does Proper Science exist in sci-fi, you know, at all? I feel, optimistically, it must do somewhere.

[such_heights]

Fandom's reaction is pretty lolarious, though, so it's worth it just for that! (Omg noooo we're gonna boycott IN THE FUTURE, that'll show 'em. Um.)

Torchwood's doing a reduced year as well as Doctor Who, and they're broadcasting one five-part story over the course of a week in the spring.

[such_heights]

Oh noes! Delayed geeky fun is a bit of a tragedy.

Yes, isn't it marvellous? *squishes it greatly* :D

[such_heights]

Whee! *is glomped* Hi hi! (Omg, have a couple of other things to rattle off first, but keep getting distracted in plotting your birthday fic, which is giving me GLEE, you should know. *g*)

Website should indeed be awesome! Available to stream for a week, and someone's bound to have got a download together by then.

Oh, I dunno, I'm quite looking forward to the returns of Pushing Daisies and Supernatural, as well as Bones, yay. But none of that's any match for Who, let's be honest. D:

[http://users.livejournal.com/_emeraldgreen/]

Thanks so much for the birthday wishes! I had a lovely day, thank you! ♥

[such_heights]

:D Glad to hear it!