Entertaining Distractions

[rusty_halo]

I made a deal with myself that if I finished three freelance projects this weekend, I'd reward myself by watching State of Play.

Unfortunately I only finished two, so no State of Play yet. I am the best procrastinator in the world. Among the things that distracted me from work:

* Barrowman/Tennant/(Gill) RPS from versaphile. (...jkljefioajkjklfdlefj... *ded from pr0n*)

* BtVS/Doctor Who crossover from rat_hospital. Giles is no match for the Master.

* Harry Potter/Doctor Who crossover from sheepybunbuns. Doctor/Snape, psychic sex, and Snape has lot in common with the Master. What more could you ask for in a fic?

* I finally finished The Pandora Project by calapine. It's a thirteen part Doctor/Master AU featuring pirates and a giant vampire squid. You can't really go wrong there.

* A gen fic with good Tenth Doctor characterization. Kind of depressing how rare that is.

* And then, right in the middle of getting actual work done, I was suddenly seized with the urgent need for an LJ icon of Stephen Colbert as a pirate. So I hunted down the video, took screencaps, spent an hour fiddling with them in Photoshop... and concluded that all the icons I'd made were ugly and that I didn't really need a Colbert!pirate icon anyway. Like I said, best procrastinator in the world.

Also there's this: ElJay continues to prove its utter incomprehension of the community that lives on its servers. Here's more crap to opt out of.

[Cross-posted to InsaneJournal]

Comments

[x-bluerose-x.livejournal.com]

Not surprised at the good characterization by frostfyre7. When you have a moment, read "The Man with No Name"--an EXCELLENT Firefly/Doctor Who crossover complete with beyond good research and characterization. I tend to shy away from crossovers but frostfyre7 made me a believer. It was AWESOME.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I did read that, actually. I had to skim the Mal/Inara parts, but you're right, the Doctor characterization was great. :)

[scarlettgirl.livejournal.com]

A gen fic with good Tenth Doctor characterization. Kind of depressing how rare that is.

You ain't kidding. Genfic is the kiss of death in this fandom. If the Doctor isn't dancing with someone it doesn't get read let alone reviewed. I salute the writers that persevere.

*runs off to read*

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

The more I dabble in other fandoms, the more I realize how completely spoiled we were in BtVS. There was so much amazing fic in that fandom, and at the time I had no idea how lucky we were.

[fallen-fizzgig.livejournal.com]

heyy how did you enjoy manson?

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

It was pretty good. I posted about it here.

Somehow I ended up in the front row on Twiggy's side, which was nifty, although I ended up all bruised and could barely move my neck for the next few days.

The show was definitely better than the last two (painfully depressing) times I'd seen them; they seemed to have some of the energy back, and the set list was good. I still don't think Manson's putting in even half the effort now that he used to give, though.