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There’s another trailer for Being Human, this one focused on Annie. So far, I haven’t spotted one for George, but I’ll link to it once I do.

SFX lists quite a few in-jokes that have shown up on Doctor Who.

If anyone missed it when it aired, you can watch Inside The TARDIS (the BBC America special) in five Youtube clips over at barrowmanfans.

Another auction for Support Stacie is coming up January 15-18th. This time, it’s a Vampire Author Auction. More details can be found here. It can be a fandom with vampires already, or you can add them or do crossover fandoms. I’ll likely sign up to write Doctor Who or Merlin for whoever wins me. Maybe Ghostbusters or Highlander: The Series.

You can watch David Tennant hosting the latest Masterpiece Contemporary here, if you’re interested.

For those that are signing up for Yuletide this year—when the time comes, you will apparently need to use Firefox to do so. Thankfully, I have the portable version. It also looks like the Yuletide nominations page has been cleaned up some more, if you want to take a look at it.

The grand total donated for the Support Stacie Auction in the last round was $40,692.63.

The Merlin fandom is doing a Secret Santa this year. You can sign up here.

I just finished watching a download of Repo! The Genetic Opera. I think I liked it--not the gore or Paris Hilton aspects of it, but the rest of it. Although, that was probably mostly due to Sarah Brightman, Anthony Stewart Head, and Alexa Vega.

Someone nominated The Super Dictionary for Yuletide. I’m just…imagining fanfics with the concept of: “Lex Luthor stole forty cakes. That’s as many as four tens. And that’s terrible.” Somehow continuing on for 1000 words.

And for anyone on my friends list that might be thinking of signing up for yuletide for the first time this year, you can find some helpful hints here.

Joss Whedon will direct an episode of Glee. He confirmed it himself in a comment at whedonesque.

For those interested, the Support Stacie Auction is doing an auction from November 14-15th. It’s called I’ll Be Homemade For Christmas, and rather than doing fanfic, you can make items yourself to be mailed, as well as icons. Everything is explained here. I’ll sit this one out, and wait for the next fanfic auction.

The Best Spin-Offs Never Made. Includes a mention of a Faith spin-off, as well as Ripper and the Buffy animated series.

There’s a new trailer for Sherlock Holmes—you can watch it here, thanks to superherohype. Holmes has apparently killed Watson's bulldog more than once, and it keeps being brought back. And Irene Adler says Holmes and Watson have been "flirting for hours."

There’s a Ninth Doctor/Rose ficathon—timeline and rules are here, and you can pick a prompt from the list here.

Reboot is apparently getting a reboot.

ABC has picked up Castle for a full season.

Oh, and Dad went back to the vet, since he hadn’t heard anything about how much the last few visits were going to cost. The answer? No charge.

I’ve pretty much finished the Support Stacie fanfic as of now. It’s 5163 words. However, there is one small bit when Martha is about to go after everything, and the TARDIS is acting silly. She starts playing a song for her, because she doesn't want her to go yet.

I can’t think of what it should be, though, as I don’t know (I don't know enough songs in general) of any songs that reference Shakespeare--because of that sonnet written for her in The Shakespeare Code--or really suit her personality. Me And Mrs. Jones wouldn’t really work. Doctor, Doctor would just be cruel. If anyone on my friends list has any suggestions for songs the TARDIS would play for her, simply put the title (and artist, so I can look it up) in the poll.

[Poll #1464572]

Here’s the trailer for the new adaptation of Riverworld. Peter Wingfield is in there somewhere.

14 Reasons Why TV And Superheroes Don’t Mix. The tv movies for Generation X, as well as Justice League of America (the live action version) get mentioned. Lois and Clark is mentioned--I had forgotten the clone Lois marrying Clark, and needing to eat frogs to survive storyline until now. Wow, that was awful.

Primeval has been uncancelled.

I’m still working on the fanfic for the Support Stacie Auction. As of this moment, it’s at 4386 words, and still growing. Also, I want to thank everyone that voted in the title poll. A Slap Is Worth A Thousand Words won. I’ll probably post a small excerpt of it tomorrow, too. Once I finish up one last section, I should be done.

By the way, at what number of words is a fanfic too long for one LJ post? Just curious.

A cat update: Rather than sleeping more, she’s gradually been more and more alert as the days go on. There’s a towel on the back of a brown chair we have. When Mom and Dad were trying to give her medicine, she reached over, sunk her claws in, and was strong enough to tear the thing off. Oh, and Mom has a few holes in her arm, too. When Mom looked at her, just thinking that it was time for her medicine, the cat laid down on the floor--face down--and put one paw over her head, as though she was thinking ‘not again!’ I’ve never seen a cat do that before.

Of all the footage I’ve been seeing of the sandstorm in Australia, I find this one to be one of the most amazing. And over at Io9, you can find at least one more video in the comments to this post.

And for those that are interested, I stumbled across a site called Comic Book Movie Fansites, where someone named TheHawk compiled a list of pretty much everyone (I think a few of the Exiles, and a few from Generation X are missing) in the X-Men and Justice League comics, and who should play them. 108 characters from the Justice League. 330 X-Men characters. Some of the ideas are pretty good. A few are horrible, but others might actually work

Regarding Dancing With The Stars, I’m glad that Macy Gray went home. I think the reason Tom Delay didn’t go home, was because of what I like to call The Cloris Leachman Effect. Ashley Hamilton was awful, anyway, so it’s good that he went.

I’m working on the plot (from the prompt I’ve mentioned over in this post, if anyone missed it) of the Support Stacie fanfic. I also need to think of a good title. Any ideas? A Slap Is Worth A Thousand Words is the only one I’ve been able to think of so far, because at some point Jackie (or Donna, or Martha—while the clone wisely sits back and watches in amusement, grateful it’s not him) will slap the Doctor for even entertaining the notion of running away from everyone.

Sarah Michelle Gellar finally gave birth to a baby girl. Her name is Charlotte Grace Prinze.

Embedding videos on LJ was disabled for a while—here’s why. Personally, I’ve always hated embedding videos, and prefer to just link to things. For some people—like me a for a while there a year or so back, when IE crashed whenever it encountered them on my friends page —their browsers just don’t like embedded videos.

ETA: I've just gone through and checked, and I don't believe that my account was affected by this. There is now a news post about it, over here.

I got my prompt from wendymr and The Shadow Proclamation, for the Support Stacie Auction, and I love it. Before I get started on it, I’ll rewatch The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End one more time. Here’s the prompt: “The final 10 minutes of Journey’s End: Jack, Rose, Donna and the Duplicate Doctor gang up on Ten to make him change his mind about running away from everyone. OT3 conclusion, with or without the Duplicate and Donna on the scene, would be lovely.”

Did anyone else watch Dancing With The Stars last night? I was wondering how Kelly Osborne was going to do, since she seemed like she had grown up quite a bit. She was fantastic.

In contrast, I’m hoping that Macy Gray (from the male celebrities, I want Tom Delay to be kicked off) goes home tonight, as it’s obvious she doesn’t want to be there.

And now, a meme, taken from a few people on my friends list:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Title: No—Not The Fuzzy Handcuffs!
Author: calliopes_pen
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Doctor Who
Word Count: 502 words
Summary: The Doctor thinks Jack is corrupting his TARDIS, and should face the consequences.
Author’s Notes: This was written for yamx, as a drabble incentive for the Support Stacie Auction. The prompt was this: "Jack annoys Nine and has to face the consequences. *g* (Can be Jack/Nine or Jack, Nine or include Rose or be undetermined, I'm not fussy. *g*)" I do believe this is the closest I can get to smut. It was supposed to be an innocent conversation about how the TARDIS shouldn’t be corrupted by Jack, and it just went off somewhere else. Thanks to seandc for both causing it to go off track, and for beta reading. It’s Jack/Nine.

( Please click here to read. )

Well, we just had an interesting sight. One side of the sky had dark storm clouds. The other side had a rainbow. The middle area was blood red. Not sure what that meant, and it only lasted a little while. And, strangely, the storm that followed didn’t last as long as predicted. When the sky was green a few years back, we had tornadoes at midnight every night for a week.

And in the Support Stacie bidding so far:

-I owe wendymr one drabble for hitting $50. Ten/Rose/Jack, prompt life-saving.
-I also owe wiggiemomsi a drabble for hitting $65.
-I owe yamx a drabble for hitting $80. Prompt: Jack annoys Nine and has to face the consequences.

The bidding continues until this evening—my auction thread is here. Please remember that today is the last day of auctions. In the Doctor Who fandom, bidding ends at 8 PM CST tonight. However, because I have a couple miscellaneous fandoms in my offer section, bidding ends for me at 10 PM CST. Just follow the Support Stacie tag, if you want to go back to everything I will and won’t write.

Going by what I’ve heard from people that were around in the past for the auctions, bidding really goes nuts in the final few hours. I also made a post mentioning that I’ll gladly write OT3, over in this post at dwsupportstacie.

Barring more storms, I should be in the chat room for the auction for a while this afternoon.

And a meme that I’ve done before is going around again.

Comment to this post saying something - anything - about me. I'll then put what you've said in my profile. This means that you can say I eat babies, and it will still go up to describe me to the world. Then post this in your journal, so we can do the same thing for you!

ETA: Added who else I need to write a drabble for.

In a little less than 20 minutes, my block starts in the board’s chat room. From 5:00 PM, until 5:30 PM, you can ask any questions you feel like, regarding the types of fanfic I’m offering in the auction. As of this moment, there’s only one bid for me, for $25. Hey, it’s better than nothing.

Just a reminder that my auction thread is located here, and this previous post of mine explains what I’m willing to write in the Doctor Who fandom.

The Support Stacie September Auction opens later today—tonight, at 11:59 PM. And here is more on what the auction is about, for anyone who may have missed a post about it.

I am up for auction, and beneath the cut is what I’m offering in the Doctor Who fandom--along with the details I left out, but added over at dwsupportstacie:

( Due to length, I’ve put this behind a cut. )

My auction thread is located here. I will be in the board’s chat room for the auction tomorrow, from 5:00 PM, to 5:30 PM, where I can gladly answer any questions, or just chat about Doctor Who if you like--or if you’re not sure of a character or pairing I might write for and want clarification, ask away during that time. I don’t have a mod for that block of time, as I couldn’t think of anyone.

Anyone looking for banners like the one I posted can go here. If you would like to see what I’ve written in the past, you can go through the “fanfic I’ve written” tag here.

There are a few promo banner for Torchwood, for the Support Stacie Auction, over here. And I might as well link to my own revised Doctor Who sign up again--you can read it here, in a comment at dwsupportstacie. I added that I am willing to write something OT3 related—I was surprised that I had forgotten to include that, as I’ve been in the OT3 ficathon a few times now.

From Cracked.com: As Seen On TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads.

50 Films That Nearly Had Very Different Casts. Ghostbusters is at the top of the list. Gozer was nearly played by Pee Wee Herman. If Sandra Bernhard had been Janine, I would have avoided this movie like the plague. Christopher Lloyd as Peter? I just can’t see him working in the role, even if I think he’s great.

At Dragon Con, James Marsters received a birthday present from some of his fans—apparently, a Storm Trooper costume. Here’s the whedonesque post about it, which includes Youtube links showing it. If you don’t want to go to their site, go here and it continues here.

Kristen Kreuk is joining the cast of Chuck.

AbeBooks now has a section for listing the weirder books out there. Yes, I will be looking through there shortly.

For the Support Stacie Auction, there’s going to be a group chat—authors sign up for a certain block of time. I have signed up for the time frame of 5:00-5:30 PM on Saturday, September 12th. For the portion that’s in the Doctor Who fandom and in the Support Stacie Auction, there’s dwsupportstacie--you can clarify on anything you will and won’t write in that fandom here.

Thanks to fillion_daily, I’ve found two sneak previews for season 2 of Castle. Here and here.

azriona has done a great (and with some of the options, hysterical) Choose Your Own Adventure type of fanfic, set during Parting of the Ways.

Guy Ritchie is due to direct a live action Lobo movie. And Guillermo del Toro is supposed to be doing a Deadman movie.

Through this post at doctorwho, you can find all the relevant links for the Support Stacie Author Auction.

10 TV Shows That Should Never, Ever Be Made Into Movies. The only ones on the list that I’ve heard of are Quantum Leap and Small Wonder. Thought I had seen VR.5 once before, but I was thinking of VR Troopers. Which, in turn, makes me think of Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills. In relation to the topic, those two should never be dug up and made into movies.

Original Pilot, vs. Official Pilot: Which Shows Changed The Most? The Buffy pilot with Riff Regan gets a mention. I think there was also a pilot for Charmed, where there was a different actress playing Phoebe—that’s not on the list, though. Heroes gets a mention, as apparently it was originally going to be a lot darker than it turned out to be.

Disney bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. And I had a sudden image of Stan Lee cackling in an evil mastermind sort of way, while wearing the mouse ears. Not sure why.

Peter Wingfield has been cast on Caprica. I really have no interest in BSG or its spin-off of Caprica, but having Wingfield there almost makes me want to watch it. Almost.

I just found out that apparently, there might be a blogathon to raise money for the Louisville library, after so much was damaged by the flooding. Found out about it via libraries.

From Cracked.com: 7 Iconic Characters They Saved From The Cutting Room Floor.

And lastly: Thanks to Comcast On Demand, I watched the final two episodes of season 1 for Being Human. I love the show now, and I’ll be looking for fanfic and icons.

BoingBoing has an exclusive interview with David Tennant and RTD. You can watch it here—there’s at least one slight casting spoiler, for someone returning. Just warning anyone that might be avoiding all spoilers. RTD had to be stopped before he spoiled anything else. It’s a 19 minute interview.

Io9 discusses what shows people are hooked on, and recommends a few. After reading the comments over there, I’m considering tracking down the tv series of Invisible Man. Is it worth it? Farscape gets a mention—might try to get through the first episode one last time one of these days.

TV Shows We Wish Would Swap Writing Staffs. The best one to me is Torchwood and Dollhouse swapping writers.

The Science Fiction Sitcoms That Never Were. While the original (and awful) pilot for Wonder Woman isn’t mentioned in the main article, it is linked to in the comments.

And also from Io9: SF Television’s Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits. Includes K-9 and Company, the short-lived Sci-Fi series version of Flash Gordon, season 5 of Smallville, and many others. Enterprise is listed--the theme song is the only thing I liked about the show.

Over at the Support Stacie ficathon message board, my entry for what I will be willing to write once bidding starts has just been posted. It tells what fandoms (Doctor Who/Torchwood, Merlin, and Librarian) and what the restrictions are for what I will and will not be willing to write. I notice that I didn’t say what pairings I would be willing to write in the Doctor Who/Torchwood fandom. Doctor/Donna--Doctor and Donna as friends is just as good. Also, Jack/Donna, Jack/Martha, Martha/Doctor, Doctor/Jack. That’s all I can really think of at the moment. The bidding begins on the 11th.