vid rec!

Fiery Crash by noldo (Doctor Who; Amy Pond)

*flails* ack, this is really amazing! This vid is an incredible, kinetic and slightly unsettling look at the last season of Doctor Who. noldo has a gorgeous sense of timing, colour and motion, and there are moments in this that are just breathtaking.

Oh, and it's her first vid. I don't even, I just know that after I saw an earlier draft I was instantly pestering her to teach me her secrets!

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( cut for discussion of suicide and homophobic abuse )

+ As a response to the above, the It Gets Better project. I keep watching, and smiling, and crying because I'm a giant sap and I wish I'd seen some of these videos when I was fourteen.

+ In 'I blame glass_icarus' news, I appear to have been sucked into Health Month. I like the format - it's very easy to personalise and focus on your own health needs, including mental health, sleep and adding things to your diet. I've signed up for a little preventative mental health care and a couple of things I've been meaning to do to improve my blood sugar control. Not to mention that I couldn't resist joining Team White Lotus. Sign up for the October round runs for the next twelve hours or so.

+ Article about the casting of Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Undercovers.

+ sasha_feather: on living without a diagnosis.