• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."

• I'll respond to the first five by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.

• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.

• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. (I'll also answer more, if asked)


Formy's questions, answered by me:

1. What is it like to grow up speaking English with an accent?

Terrible. No one trusts you or lets you steal their things. Given that I have a Lancashire accent, it means all people from Yorkshire automatically try and stab me in the face with blunt knives and then sell my organs on eBay. It's happened at least five times already.

2. Can you remember your life before Dr. Who?

Yes. Dark times. Dark times. I only got into Doctor Who in the early twenty hundreds when it was being repeated on UKGold. My first Doctor was Sylvester McCoy. :) Before that I was a bastard who no one liked. Huh, not much change there....

3. Can you imagine the rest of your life without Dr. Who?

I can try... Egad! I'd have to do something constructive in my spare time! THE HORROR!!

4. Elves vs. Ents: which are better and why?

Ents! They have far better skin and less hate. Also, they don't randomly sail away when they might be needed.

5. Someone offers to sell you Tolkien's pipe--how much would you pay for it?

I'd pay £4.57 ;D

From Gallifrey Base;
"Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston is to play Beatles star John Lennon in a new play commissioned by BBC Four, with Torchwood star Naoko Mori playing Yoko Ono."

Now, for a second I thought it had said "Eccelston to play Lenin". 0_0
But, with Chris working for the BBC again maybe he will one day do something for DW again? :)

Oh, thought I should show off the reason I have no money...



And while I'm uploading pointless pictures, here are a few Matt Smith photo shops I've done recently...

Star Trek The Next Generation episode list.

( List of DOOOOM! )

Still a few more to go. Then I think I'll re-watch the TNG movies. :)

Currently watching The Gambit Part 2. I FUCKING LOVE DATA!! :D Any time he's acting captain is just awesome. I always want him to get his own ship like in that one episode. He'd have a great spin off career. Alas for the end of Nemesis. ;_;

Had an odd dream last night in which there was an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation where Peter Davison was playing some delegate from some planet wanting to join the Federation. Piccard wanted to keep Data away from him because he was afraid that Peter would mistake him for Kamelion. Thus ensued a series of amusing scenes in which Data and Peter kept missing each other and Piccard was getting more and more frustrated because Data wouldn't stay in the cupboard where he put him.
It all culminated in Q appearing and telling Peter that he had to go back to his home planet because the Federation employs androids. Peter didn't understand and then, on the way to the transporter, he bumped into Data and they had a fight. It involved swords for some reason and they went onto the holo-deck and fought in, you guessed it, the TARDIS. Piccard managed to stop them and Peter went with him to Ten Forward and they had some Romulan ale together.
Then the dream changed into something different involving me rushing around Manchester for some unknown reason.

Well, that was weird.

Grr. I need a job. Going to the Job Centre tomorrow, so maybe I'll get a little closer to that goal. Ho hum. I want something part time for now. I think a full time job would be such a shock to the system that I'd be more terrible than usual. If it's part time I may slip under the radar for a while... Plus I'd have money. DAMN YOU CAPITALISM!

In other news...

I'm currently in the process of going through tDP and noting down all the names and places mentioned. I accompany them with a brief description and sometimes a history. It's good for minor characters anyway and I can use it as a reference later. I'm almost half way through and the list is already 15 pages long. Didn't realise I had so many characters and places mentioned. 0_0
I also realised that the word 'Adonia' isn't actually in the book until somewhere around Chapter Ten... Oops. XD

In some what related news...

Been looking into more literary consultancy groups. The Writer's Workshop (mentioned in an earlier post) appears to be a well known one and the most successful one. There are others, some more, some less expensive. I think I'll spend a day contacting them and getting some more info on them and seeing if any of them think tDP has potential. There's a neat list of a few in the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook.

In other, other news...

I find myself, more and more, wandering down memory lane. Well, in terms of TV. I've developed a liking for thinking of old shows I used to watch, looking them up on wikipedia and then realising that holy crap there's so much I haven't seen of them. Some recent highlights have been; Fairly Oddparents, Invader Zim, Thomas the Tank Engine and the Thunderbirds. I gave some of the TV movies of Fairly Oddparents a watch today. Good stuff.

Heroes was amusing today. Something about Sylar eating lunch and pretending to be civil amuses me. Plus it looked like he was regenerating at one point. Hahha!

Doctor Who – The End Of Time: Part One

It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey – but his psychotic nemesis the Master has been reborn, on Christmas Eve. With both determined to cheat death, the battle ranges from the wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate, while the alien Ood warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire Universe.

David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor and guest stars include John Simm, Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate, Timothy Dalton, David Harewood and June Whitfield.

The End Of Time – Part One is written by Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn. The producer is Tracie Simpson.

Doctor Who – The End Of Time: Part One is simulcast on the BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel, available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.


Doctor Who – The End Of Time: Part Two

The Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control. With the sound of drums growing louder, and an ancient trap closing around the Earth, the Doctor and Wilf must fight alone. But sacrifices must be made, and the deadly prophecy warns: "He will knock four times."

David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor and guest stars include John Simm, Bernard Cribbins, Catherine Tate, Timothy Dalton, David Harewood and June Whitfield.

The End Of Time – Part Two is written by Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn. The producer is Tracie Simpson.

Doctor Who – The End Of Time: Part Two is simulcast on the BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel, available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

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The Immortality Gate? Makes me think of the Warrior's Gate. But, wait, they already went to Warrior's Gate Land in that Sarah Jane episode... Oh well. XD
With the Doctor and The Master both looking for a way to cheat death it once again emphasizes how strikingly similar they are to one another. But neither of them would ever admit this.

They are returning? Hmmm....

I live on Gallifrey...



XD

My camera came breifly back to life and so I tried to make a TIME LORD picture. My face is a bit too srsbsns I think, but most of the other pictures were either FLASHED TO DEATH or at the wrong angle.

Anyone want a Gallfrey picture? I'm a bit bored, so if you want me to photoshop you wearing Gallifreyan robes I'll do it. Just send me a picture of yourself (preferably looking directly to the camera) and tell me what colour robes you'd like. :)
(I almost made mine Lord President, but didn't... XD )

There's this organisation called 'Writers Workshop' that I found out about today. I decided to look it up on the internets. It seems okay and they claim to have "stunning contacts with agents, publishers, ghostwriters and others". They say that they can help edit a MMS and then, if they think it's good enough, give a personal recommendation to an agency. All well and good and promising.
The snag is the charge. £160 flat charge plus £3.50 per thousand words. The Dinosaur Prince is 125,000 words long. That brings the total up to £597.50... 0_____0

I'm going to start saving up. Hopefully if I get a job soon this won't take so long. What's more is they have special writers weekends (one in Oxford on Saturday 22nd May 2010... Tempting) where you get to meet agents and other writers. They also sponsor a Writers festival in York which is also tempting. 9-11 April, 2010... May be a bit too soon; probably won't be able to afford it, but it DOES sound like it would be helpful given that it offers "2 One-to-One slots with agents / editors" and a variety of workshops. The main problem being that TDP is so fucking LOOOONNNNGG. 444 pages, man. It wasn't until I rang up the Writers Workshop people today that I realised it was quite long for a book. Apparently a good 80% are 90,000 or less. o_O I'm scared.

Anyone got any ideas on weather this sounds like a good idea? The website is HERE if you want to check them out. That price is what's thrown me most, though. I hope they're legit. :\

In other news...



Clare Short would make a 'good' Doctor.... *cough*

Gosh, The Stone of Norán is looking pretty long. 50 Chapters I make it so far. Once again, you may like the chapter titles. I do so enjoy writing them. XD I'm in the process of planning them each out with a few paragraphs each. But take a look at the titles so far. They're subject to change, of course.

( Chapters of EPIC )
The Burning Empire, Book Four, may not be quite so long, but it will have more EPIC to it. ;D I'm still pretty sure that The Sword of Seleven, Book Five (also the last book), will be the longest of all of them. It has a four part Epilogue anyway. In the third book I think that Chapter 49 is the most monumental. It unveils the great villain of the story and BAD THINGS start to happen. Very quickly.
You can still read book one, The Dinosaur Prince, at joelcornah. PLUG!! :p

In other news...

I got the Key to Time the other day and there's a documentary on The Pirate Planet about Douglas Adams. Apparently he and his friends at University used to make Doctor Who radio plays together. One was about Daleks being powered by Rice Krispies. Because Davros worked for Kellogs.

Right now I feel like going back to writing. :)

Made this today... It's a mid-season trailer for P&A...

Using Star Trek Musics! ;P



I really have no life. XD

Got the Key to time today... That's the rest of tonight sorted then... D:

Thanks to eBay and the fact that there are people out there willing to pay out of the nose (or, more accurately, wallet) for my crap, I got some £200 today. :D
I may have mentioned this before, but I had these Lord of the Rings collectors models that came with magazines. My grandmother used to pick them up for me as her newsagents got them and ours didn't. At about 50 I asked her to stop as I had no more room and the figures were just getting ridiculous. Then one day she came over with #50-100 and told me I could have them. For the last three years or so they've been taking up cupboard space. Since I hit my financial crisis I decided to see what they could get on eBay. I sold them in packs of ten and each went for about £30. I'm still keeping some of them, mind; the ones I like. :)
It was kind of annoying to post them all, though. I started off with about 4 large packages, each with 10 figures / magazines in. These were too heavy and would have to go Parcelforce, which would cost about £50 each! HELL NO! So the Post Office person told me to separate them into smaller packages. Thus bringing it to 7 packages, each at £5-£10 to post. Some of them went to Istanbul, while others to Spain. There are still three more yet to be paid for. If we add those my grand total is about £231 minus about £50 shipping, so £181 all together.
That money will go towards Christmas costs. I've already got a few gifts bought and will be making plans for more once the Job Centre start paying me. Though I still hope I get the job at the local shop; apparently the person responsible for looking at the applications has been away on holiday and gets back this week. So I may hear about that soon... :\

In other news...

I'm going to start reading The Mabinogion. First because I love saying the title. hehe! Mabinogion! It's a cool word. Second because I have a strange love for Welsh mythology and third because I've only read bits of it in the far flung past and feel it's time I gave it a proper read....

In other, other news...

Still no Key to Time... Amazon has betrayed me! D: Or maybe I put it on free shipping... Probably. XD

Oh, and Heroes... What is this shit? It seems that we are FINALLY getting some direction to this series. My money is still on Samuel being the cause of that world splitting in two thing that they went on about in season 3.
House has been good this season, though. Best line so far; Wilson: "I need.... PANTS!"

That's all I can think of right now.

OH

MY

GOD!!

( The Waters of Mars )

There's a whole thread of these on Gallifrey base, but here are a few of my favourites...

( The EVERYTHING of Rassilon )

Hoho, anyway...

Not much going on at the moment. Re-applied at the Job Centre so I may actually get some money before Christmas. I'm planning my gift giving, but if I get anyone out there in LJ land anything, be aware that I'm on a tight budget. Sorry, proskynesis, no solid gold statues of William Shatner and Colin Baker in the bath for you, I'm afraid. :p

In other news,

I'm trying to rewrite an old Short story of mine, The Silver Chair. The further I get with it, the less enthusiastic I feel about it. :\ Hmm. I'm going to get to the end of it and perhaps re-edit it a third time and see how it looks. After that I'm going to do a major rewrite of another short story called 'Ell'. I'll make it make more sense this time. Short stories are easier to get published than novels. All the same, I'm going to start work on the plan for Book Three: The Stone of Norán soon. That's where the deep and dark secrets start to come out. >;D

Now, I'm going to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Because I CAN!

This was a weekend of much Doctor Who geekery. :D

( Cut for EPIC PICTURES OF EPIC )

My camera broke down after we left. It's now completely dead. :( I'm getting a new one for Christmas, but if this one had held out just a little longer... There were Ice Warrior pictures and Zygons and stuff that were needed. More sad times.

Well, all this leaves us in anticipation of The Waters of Mars next week. It had better be DAMNED good. Making us wait so long. >:(

Oh, and one more thing...



CYBERMATT SMITH!! XD

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Is it the 15th yet? D:

In other news...

Spooks is back! *dance time* Yeah! Harry ALWAYS lives. He's been shot, covered in petrol, kidnapped, tortured and shot again but he always comes out of it more awesome than ever. It was nice to see token history geek character Ruth make a reappearance. Spooks doesn't have reappearances very often, but its nice when it happens. :)

In other, other news...

I wish it would stop fucking raining. :\ It's not even cool epic rain. Grr.

Well, I can't think of much else to say right now...

It finally happened, people. It finally happened...

Being the lame kind of person I am and having far too much time on my hands, I made these...




The Supreme Dalek welcomes you to the end of Parbold! 



This is Dalek Fred, he's been relegated to being a scout. He first checks out the Parbold Bottle.



Another Dalek, Bob, flies away from the canal and near the wind mill with no sails. Who will he exterminate first? Probably me.



And now the mother ship comes in! (I tried several times to get a picture of the ships from the new series but couldn't get it to work).



There we see the shuttle hovering over Parbold hill! Oh dear. Can anyone save us?



Whoo! Looks like the Doctor arrived just in time. I wonder if it'll be Colin Baker... :D

Parbold Quarry is surly the only quarry in Britain where Doctor Who has not yet been filmed. It's only a matter of time... and space. But one day... one day... :)

Thanks to some drastic action I've managed to gather together just over £60 through Amazon and eBay sales. This money will go towards the countless pieces of SHIT I will inevitably buy over the coming DOCTOR WHO WEEKENED OF EPIC DOOM starting on Friday with a trip to Forbidden Planet. :o Then there's a con-type thing in Manchester on Saturday (McCOOOYY!!) and the final, last ever day of the Blackpook DW museum on Sunday. It will be a sad day. But I hope proskynesis and I can get some more fantastic pictures of TARDIS console tomfoolery. ;D Here's hoping we can steal the TCE or something... *cough*

OH

OMEGA'S

GOD!!

PETER DAVISON DOING PANTOMIME IS THE MOST TERRIFYING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! XD

In other news...

There was talk today of me possibly getting redundancy pay. Although, it all rather depends on if my boss put my wages through 'the books', i.e. informed the government. Otherwise not only will I not get any money, but I may be hunted down for taxes I had no idea I owed. D: I have good reason to suspect that this will happen because my boss was never very... um... good with accounts keeping and book keeping. Barry, who was later hired to deal with the accounts, always moaned about how, whenever he thought he'd cleaned up one of her messes, she'd made another new and more chaotic one. XD

In other, other news...

I today found out that I'm £200 over drawn. WHAT!? How did that happen? *hides DW DVDs*. Seriously, I did NOT spend £200 on them in the last three weeks. £20 at best. Oh, I know what it might have been! Levi wanted me to buy something from eBay for him. I can't remember if he gave me the money for it. Must track that down... :\

And finally...

um... I have't thought of anything...

A few things to talk about...

( SJA )

( Merlin )

The Twin Dilemma
Woo! I now has all of Colin Baker on my shelf. Why yes, it is reinforced to hold his weight. XD
This DVD has some great extras! There's a documentary about the Doctor's costumes where Colin criticises everyone. HOW DARE HE!? XD Mind you, he clearly does have the best costume.
And a note to proskynesis, there's a bit where he said something like "I have had crazy fans say to me that they actually really like it and would wear it". My first thought was that he was taking about YOU, but I'm pretty sure it was filmed before our Glasgow adventure. Sad times. :(
There's also a documentary about FROBISHER!!! Okay, it's actually about the Doctor Who comic strips, but has a whole twenty minutes or so on our Pengish friend. It's cool. :)

Now, in other news...

Was thrown about Wigan today in a frantic and wild attempt to find employment. I am not getting my hopes up as almost everyone I approached was just like "haha! You want a JOB!? YOU? hahaha!" then they spat on me and stole my clothes.

I've noticed that my father uses the phrase 'as a mechanical engineer' in almost any argument he tries to make. Whether it be about god, climate change or, I don't know, what shoes to wear. :\

Ah, one more thing! In The Waters of Mars there's going to be a little robot called, oh so imaginatively, Gadget. He looks like this...



Um... Not sure what to make of that. K-9 will not be happy.

EDIT:

AAAAAAGGGHHH!!!

ASJASDHLASD!!! Watching a documentary on Mawdryn Undead... PETER DAVISON... WITH A BEARD!!!?! SO, SO WRONG! D: My life no longer has meaning.

Just spotted this on the Doctor who News Page...

The forthcoming special The Waters of Mars will be broadcast on Sunday 15th November at 7:00pm; the date and time were confirmed by David Tennant during this morning's GMTV.

The press preview for the episode is also due to take place today.

Whoo! :D Can't wait.

( Ice Flood? )