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This fanficrants post is guaranteed to fill you with either horror or a strange amusement at how far Twilight has spread—Dracula does not sparkle.

A kid is keeping a lending library of banned books in his/her locker. Edit: Thanks go out to brewsternorth for spotting that a few comments mention this is likely a hoax. Would have been fun if it were definitely true.

Disney is remaking Flight of the Navigator.

Apparently, Doctor Who is going to get an animated series, starring David Tennant, Georgia Moffett, and David Warner.

Found via whedonesque (I’m linking to the whedonesque post, which links to that): Vertigo Entertainment is in talks to do a Buffy movie—it would be a reboot without Joss, SMG, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendan, or anyone else. From the sound of it, I doubt it will get very far. Another post about it can be found over at Io9.

Ghostbusters 3 news: One of Bill Murray’s conditions for returning was apparently that Winston have a larger role, to put him on equal footing with the others. It’s mentioned toward the end of the article.

People are now linking to their finished (or unfinished, in some cases) stories for the Finish-A-Thon, hosted at multific. If anyone on my friends list missed mine, you can read A Beautiful, Pie-Filled Disaster here—or here at Teaspoon.

ETA: Can't believe I didn't think to link to this one. Over at Io9, they linked to a trailer made by a fan, to support the idea of Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern. I assumed it would be something that wasn't that well made, but wow. The person doing the trailer did a spectacular job with the CGI, even including what looked like scenes from Castle, Firefly, Superman Returns--and, possibly, Watchmen. You can watch it here at Io9--read the comments there, too.

Sign-ups were extended for the EDA ficathon hosted at henriettastreet. The sign-up post is here.

Five TV Shows Empire Would Like To See As Movies. Angel is listed, but I think it just wouldn’t be the same without Lorne. The whedonesque discussion of it is over here.

From Cracked: Six Superheroes Who Completely Lost Their Minds.

Editing some of the fanfic--rather than getting shorter, it just keeps on growing. As of this moment, it’s 3959 words. I’ll send it to you around tomorrow afternoon, persiflage_1.

As of right now, all that needs to be done in the fanfic is write up when the aliens get through the rift and attack, and tweak a few other little things, and I’ll be done. For the moment, I’m at 3259 words and still going.

Dollhouse may not be around for much longer. Fox keeps going back and forth on the subject.

Some news about the progress of Ghostbusters III.

And here’s something funny from ask_captainjack. Jack Harkness tells how to kill a vampire.

The fanfic is now up to 2429 words and still going strong. I mostly need to add a few things to the beginning, and the middle.

Since the baguettes keep on popping up—even going so far as to feature in a duel (mentioned in the previous post) between the Doctor and Jack—I’m thinking of changing the title from For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Pie, to something else. Also, a sneak preview is behind the cut.

( Click here to read part of it--mostly the Doctor rambling )

[Poll #1375511]

jblum summed up Lorne’s character and Hallett’s acting ability brilliantly over here. For anyone that wants to know how his heart condition started, read this article that someone in the comments at Whedonesque linked to. But following the sad news for the Buffyverse comes a bit of good news. Alyson Hannigan had her baby--a little girl named Satyana.

I was just friended by two journals. Both were made on the exact same day, both are friends locked, and both only contain spam. I’ve banned them from commenting here.

ETA: I see that one of those that randomly friended me has been suspended.

Harold Ramis on Ghostbusters III--apparently, it’s being written now. It can’t possibly be as good as the original. Besides, they already did the older Ghostbuster mentoring the new crowd with Extreme Ghostbusters.

I’m trying to think of possible titles for the Finish-A-Thon fanfic I’m about to start on--any suggestions would be great. Keep in mind that it’s going to involve the Doctor getting turned into a marionette, being held captive, and eventually saved by Donna, Martha, and Jack. And somehow, some sort of pie stops this type of alien. I picture the type of pie interacts with the body chemistry of the alien, stopping them dead in their tracks.

The only titles I’ve been able to come up with so far that might possibly work are: Marionettes And Baguettes (which doesn’t work, since it’s pies--unless I change it to aliens defeated by being thwapped with those things, which isn’t what people voted for; anyone want me to throw in baguettes as well as pie?), The Marionettes Are Coming For You, and The Secret of the Pie.

For reference, if anyone isn’t sure or doesn’t want to dig through the posts, this is the prompt idea:

“Donna must use pie to save the Doctor from a tiny alien race that have used a shrink ray on him and imprisoned him in their ship with other assorted animals and sentient beings. As you might expect from the summary, it would be a humor-filled story.”

And this is the expansion of it that I mentioned in another post at multific:

“Part of the shrinking of the Doctor apparently now entails him getting turned into a small marionette, similar in nature to Pinocchio.

I can just picture Jack, Martha, and Donna mocking the Doctor while breaking him out of his prison, before settling in to help him battle the aliens with the aforementioned pie.”

After I eventually finish on the Finish-A-Thon fanfic, I’ll start another poll with the other options from the Finish-A-Thon poll—because at some point, I do want to end up writing all of those prompts I had listed.

In other news, for those interested I just found out the Sci-Fi Channel will be having a Highlander marathon on Thursday--from 7 AM to 11 PM CST, I believe. It was mentioned over at Io9, and you can see the schedule here. It’s in EST.

Since I like what I’ve seen of Merlin so far, I was reading the Wikipedia entry for it--and found out there was a Children in Need special where they had to defeat a Pudsey, by locking Merlin in the stocks. Cute. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it here. How they kept from laughing during those scenes, I’ll never know. And from what I’ve seen of the series (up to episode 8) so far, I think Merlin likes getting locked in the stocks.

From Den of Geek: Underappreciated Movies: Ghostbusters II.

And answering the cliff meme one more time--netgirl_y2k gave me Bluesuit!Doctor, Merlin, the Master. First, I would throw The Master off the cliff. Knowing him, he’ll be back later. The next two are tougher, but I guess I would sleep with Bluesuit!Doctor. Marry Merlin.

azriona gave me Willow Rosenberg, Doctor Horrible, and Joss Whedon. Marry Joss, sleep with Willow, and throw Doctor Horrible off a cliff. I feel a little bit sorry for the guy, but maybe he invented something that will keep him from getting killed.

The Cartoon Network is changing—they don’t want to show as many cartoons.

And according to the final results of the poll over at the Finish-A-Thon, the story that I will write is...

“Donna must use pie to save the Doctor from a tiny alien race that have used a shrink ray on him and imprisoned him in their ship with other assorted animals and sentient beings. As you might expect from the summary, it would be a humor-filled story.”

I’m in two good LJ book clubs (mythical_truth and bibliophyles, if anyone wants to join them.) The two books for April at mythical_truth are The Princess Bride and Inkheart. I’ll probably just read The Princess Bride. They’re still voting on what book they should pick over at bibliophyles, but I decided to vote for The Hound of the Baskervilles.

I’m surprised this hadn’t already been done, what with all the Doctor Who prompts over there, but I went ahead and mentioned the polls with those Finish-A-Thon prompts over in the comments at who_daily.

Holly Madison may be forced to withdraw from Dancing With The Stars following a possibly broken rib. When I first read it, I misread it as broken hip. So this is kind of better? So now the injuries are her, Steve-O with his back, Steve Wozniak with his hamstring and messed up foot, and Gilles with his separated shoulder. And Jewel and Nancy O’Dell dropping out from injuries before the show started, of course. If anyone feels like keeping track of all the injuries or the show as a whole, I recommend joining dwts.

From Cracked.com: 14 Horrifying Soft Drinks From Around The World. The only one I had heard of was Thanksgiving Dinner Soda. I remember them trying the Green Bean Casserole and Stuffing ones on Live With Regis and Kelly one year.

( Cut here, so I can answer the characters I was assigned for the character meme. )

Voting is still going on for the Finish-A-Thon. If you want to see me write the Martha as an Immortal fanfic, or the one where Methos and Duncan go to Dracula’s castle, or one of another four prompts that there are--like the one where Donna, Jack, and Martha drink and share stories of what they’ve done with and without the Doctor’s help--please vote if you’re on my friends list. Here is the poll, located at multific.

So far it looks like Transmetropolitan v1 is winning the poll over at noscans_daily. I voted for Fables volume 1, since I recently found volume 2 at BooksaMillion--didn’t want to read it until I found the first volume. If I were able to vote for more than one item on that poll, I would have also picked Justice League International and Kraven’s Last Hunt.

David Tennant arrives via TARDIS on Comic Relief night. This clip and one where he’s with someone from the British version of Big Brother and answering questions are all I’ve seen of him there, so far.

blognewsarama linked to the Marvel skit in the 1987 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, for those that haven’t seen it before. Starring Doctor Strange, Wolverine, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Enchantress, The Hulk, Captain America, Luke Cage, Emma Frost, Green Goblin, and Rambo. No, I’m not joking on the last bit. It must be seen to be believed--I think I also spotted Iron Man running around. They’re all fighting to the theme of Back to the Future.

For the Paul McGann fans out there, The Sci-Fi Channel is airing Fairy Tale: A True Story at 10 AM, CST.

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything , regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom for Doctor Who/Torchwood, no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

If anyone could come up with a Doctor and Donna prompt, or something involving Jack or Martha, that would be great.

The 10 Worst Comic Book Vacation Destinations.

10 Greatest Science Fiction Show Endings Ever. A couple of the shows I've never seen before, but #1 is Life on Mars. Doctor Who is on the list for Survival. And all I can think of is Sylvester McCoy screaming "If we fight like animals, we DIE LIKE ANIMMAAAALLLLSSSS!"

Posting in between people burning limbs (still cleaning up post-ice storm)--the wind finally took a turn where it isn’t blowing over here. They're apparently doing it so the people that keep coming around to get rid of branches and assorted debris won't have as much to do.

The Sci-Fi Channel is changing their name. They will call themselves…The Syfy Channel. Honestly? They haven’t been that great for a few years now, what with the wrestling. And, apparently, a video game competition that they air once a week… Years ago, they had marathons of actual science fiction and it was good. I loved when they had Dark Shadows marathons. And without them showing old horror movies, I never would have seen The World of Dracula…which I’m still hopelessly trying to find again. There’s also a great discussion about the Sci-Fi Channel’s past and how bad it is now over here in settiai’s journal.

10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse. Personally, I don’t find any of this annoying.

In other news, I’ve gone back through old entries in this journal, to find any memes that could give me another idea for a fanfic, so that I can then join the Finish-A-Thon. As of when I quit for the evening yesterday, I had made it back to December of 2007. I managed to dig up a meme (and also saw that March 29th is Love Your Beta Day, if anyone wants to continue that) that I’ll spread again:

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything , regardless of whether or not I know the fandom or if anybody even writes fic in that fandom for Doctor Who/Torchwood, no matter how crack-addled it might be, what would you love to see me write?

ETA: Found another link about the Sci-Fi Channel’s name change, for those that are interested. They want to move away from science fiction and geeks, according to what the article says. They also say that geeks are people that live in their parents' basements in the interview...

Since I’m trying to come up with some plot bunnies to add to the stories I could possibly write/finish for the Finish-A-Thon, I’ve been going through the Doctor Who Plot Generator. A lot of the suggestions are either people from older Who (a lot of which I haven’t seen) or are people the novels (a lot of which I don’t have access to) or audios. So a lot of those I’ve been skipping. (And would there happen to be any plot generators for more than one fandom?)

Some of the more interesting prompts that could possibly work:
Iris Wildthyme/PC Andy Davidson/silence. Unfortunately, I’ve never read anything with Iris, so I can't do that one.
Jackie Tyler/The Master (Ainley)/books
The Valeyard/Donna Noble/a plan gone awry.
Rose Tyler/The Face of Boe/loss of clothing. Given who The Face of Boe is, that’s not all that surprising.

And just to let people know if they missed it—if they happen to have any interesting, humorous, or bizarre prompts (primarily in New Who—but I’ll also accept Torchwood, Highlander, Firefly, Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters, The Mummy, and the old New Mutants) you can either comment to this post with them, or stick them in the poll over here.

50 Reasons No One Wants To Publish Your First Book

Finally found the mention of the injury Gilles had. It was It was a separated shoulder, but he won’t be dropping out. However, Cheryl Burke wants him to lose one article of clothing per dance. That article may have been written prior to his injury.

The Finish-A-Thon is taking sign-ups now. Information on where to sign up can be found here. There’s not a minimum length requirement, so I’m trying to see if I have more than two fanfics on my to-do-list that could be finished with this. Other than the Martha as an Immortal fanfic. And that Highlander fanfic with Methos and Duncan at Bran Castle. I’m trying to remember if there are any other non-ficathon Doctor Who stories that I need to write.

The minimum requirement for story ideas to list is three--I currently have two, at the moment

I will be closing the PB poll at 5 PM CST. So far, Amy Adams is in the lead, and it’s a tie for second place.