miscellany

[such_heights]

+ My Pottermore email arrived at last, though given how overloaded the servers are, I have not been able to do much in there yet. My username is StarKnight142 - feel free to add me, but do let me know who you are so I can nickname accordingly. They sorted me into Hufflepuff - I figured it was going to be that or Ravenclaw, and I am very okay with this.

+ The BBC have cancelled Doctor Who Confidential for budget reasons. :( Guardian article, official announcement on the BBC (a little spoilery for the next episode). This Saturday's will be the last.

+ Inspector Spacetime: a case study in how fandom is The Best. I haven't actually watched last week's Community yet, but apparently it included a throwaway gag featuring a spoof of Doctor Who called Inspector Spacetime. Fandom has run with it like you would not believe. TV Tropes has a tropes page as well as a fanon section and list of episodes. My particular favourite is 'The Earth Goes "OM NOM NOM"' and 'The Om Nom Nomed Strike Back'.

Also:

The Inspector and his Associates having to cram themselves inside the DARSIT was intended to capitalize on the fad of Phonebooth Stuffing, which had just arrived the UK in 1959. Now the ridiculousness is lampshaded with the characters' catch phrase "I thought it would be bigger on the inside!"

+ There's an Inspection Spacetime Confessions tumblr too. Obviously.

+ Go read all of pocketmouse's recent Doctor Who fic for kink_bingo because it's great. Here's a handy list. All Amy/Rory or Amy/Rory/Eleven, all brilliant. Three Turtledoves is possibly my favourite, partially because it's long and glorious.

Comments

[pocketmouse]

Dear Confidential -- if you're being canceled because of budget reasons, here's a hint: DON'T LET ARTHUR DARVILL SWIM WITH SHARKS.

[such_heights]

I feel like that's good life advice ANYWAY, but yes.

[pocketmouse]

Imagine Arthur hosting a nature program: "There were lions, but they wouldn't let me pet them." He pauses, thoughtful. "Or the man-eating leopard. But it looked so soft!"

[such_heights]

ahahaha, oh god. why is that plausible.

[pocketmouse]

He wears themed outfits each episode.

[such_heights]

Mostly they consist of horrible jumpers with the featured animal on them.

[pocketmouse]

Don't forget the matching button!

And sometimes there are hats.

[such_heights]

Matt presents a special segment about badgers.

[aria]

I am going on a Pottermore friending spree (or at least I am whenever it lets me on the site) so if StormScarlet127 friends you, that would be me!

I appreciate how many of my friends are apparently Hufflepuffs. :D

[such_heights]

Hurray! Shall add you back when I next am allowed on.

BADGER PRIDE. Which, er, does now mostly make me think of Matt Smith. He can be our mascot. :D

[musesfool]

I love that Inspector Spacetime has become a thing. It reminds me of why I love fandom.

As Abed would say, cool! Cool, cool, cool.

[such_heights]

Seriously! It's so tongue-in-cheek yet also totally earnest, and also super creative. Now I just need to actually watch the episode. :D

[trouble]

I adore that Rory Williams is a named Associate.

[laura47]

INSPECTOR SPACETIME: YULETIDE REQUEST #1

[such_heights]

I WILL BOTH REQUEST AND OFFER THAT SO HARD. :D

[laura47]

YES YES I WILL ALSO NOMINATE IF NECESSARY.

MUST FIND ALL THE CANON. FOR INSTANCE HAVE YOU SEEN THIS? http://drunktuesdays.livejournal.com/154395.html

[ashpags]

I'm MoonSeer83! Haven't even made it past Chapter 2 yet, though, so I don't know what house I'll be in.

[(Anonymous)]

Oooooh Pottermore!! You didn't tell me that! How exciting! I demand a full report on Friday, so you had better spend all of tomorrow playing it. Ok? Also, haha, the Doctor may be a Ravenclaw but Matt is TOTALLY a Hufflepuff with his badger obsession :-D

Off to bookmark ALL THE PONDS FIC now! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

[youarefree]

I'll add you on Pottermore next time I can get in! I'm HazelHex145 (this is cetacea, btw)

[theniwokesoftly]

I cheered at Inspector Spacetime. I loved the Blogons saying ERADICATE.

[fly_to_dawn]

Am FlameSpell46 - added you! Sad about DWC getting cancelled, where will I get my space hipster fix? :( Oh well, I suppose I can live with them spending the budget on drama instead.