rusty_halo | Random: Ikea, DragonCon, Babble, Recs

Why is London After Midnight playing in NYC the same night as the Cure? I would’ve liked to see them. That’s just weird.

I went to Ikea last night. Dude. I felt like I was trapped in the hedge maze from Harry Potter 4. It took me two hours to get out of there, dodging strollers and shopping carts and trying not to get distracted by all the shiny things. And I missed Vegan Drinks. :(

But the good thing is that I saw the bookshelf I was going to get, and decided I like another one better (this one, in black). The reason being that, in person, the one I was going to get is really obviously brown, a kind of ugly brown that I dislike. Whereas the one I like better is black--I like the "feel" of it more and it'll match my other stuff better. And the one I was going to get is only 75 inches high, whereas the new one is way tall, 92 inches. I have super high ceilings; why not take advantage of the vertical space? And the new one is only 40 inches wide, while the other one was 60 inches wide, so it'll be more flexible in terms of where I decide to put it. It'll store a bit less stuff, unfortunately, but overall I just like it better. (And, bonus, it's $90 cheaper.)

So, it's good that I went. Although they charge $70 for delivery (grrr), so I talked to my dad and maybe we'll rent a van (should only be about $30) and lug it home ourselves.

Did I mention that I got my plane tickets for DragonCon? Yep, I'm going. I might want to hide under a burka, but dammit, I can't miss DragonCon. I always have so much fun there. I wonder what the Doctor Who panels are like... (the good thing about DragonCon is that, if they suck, I can always find something else entertaining to do).

I tried out that Wordle thing with my "Midnight" review. Nifty!

Oh, and here's a short post-"Midnight" fic rec: Humans by

rosa_acicularis. Very insightful look at the various characters.

(Anyone have more post-"Midnight" fic recs? That episode is practically begging to be explored further in fanfic. And dammit, I need something to entertain me seeing as 95% of the links on my flist are off-limits due to spoilers.)

Also: a yummylicious John Simm picspam from

lozenger8. :)

Other nifty links: really interesting Doctor/Master discussion at

best_enemies and two compilations of Doctor/Rose squee here and here.

(I don't know why I love Doctor/Rose so much in canon--romantically or as best friends, either interpretation is fine with me--but am completely uninspired to read about them in fanfic. Maybe because their relationship is already a lot like what you get in fanfic--full of character moments and bonding and actual happiness and it's already got such a perfect ending that I'm not inspired to seek out more? Or maybe because my interpretation tends to differ from the mainstream in that I don't care whether they're having sex or not, and I get kind of sick thinking about them "settling down"? Whereas I can't get enough Doctor/Master, maybe because the stuff I'm interested in there is always heavily hinted at in canon, but it never goes as far as I'd like. It's just the kind of relationship that fanfic was invented for. Thus the fact that I could probably read Doctor/Master fic forever without getting bored.)

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