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Title: Don’t Lose Your Marbles
Author: calliopes_pen
Rating: G
Fandom: Doctor Who
Summary: The Doctor’s lost his precious Gallifreyan Marbles. Will he find them again?
Word Count: 815
Author’s Notes: Thanks to persiflage_1 for beta reading. This was written for the help_haiti auction. The prompt was “platonic Doctor and Donna, misplacing something.” Preferably a bit of fluff.

( When the Doctor loses his marbles, he gets Donna to help him find them. )

When the earthquake hit Haiti, help_haiti was created. With the earthquake in Chile, now help_chile has been created. A few of the entries are in Spanish as of the last time I looked, but the English sign-up page is here. I’m considering signing up later, with Ghostbusters or Doctor Who or with an offer of a time stamp to anything I’ve written.

The next season of Warehouse 13 begins on July 13th.

The Sarah Jane Adventures gets two more seasons.

Tim Burton is going to direct a movie where Abraham Lincoln is a vampire slayer. This sounds about as weird as Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead. Sadly, I haven’t tracked those two down yet.

A Brief History of Comic Book Arcade Games. I remember in the late 80’s, very early 90’s I played a lot of the X-Men and Ninja Turtles games at Showbiz. After watching the clip of that first Ninja Turtles game, I believe I died a lot trying to save April from the room with flames in it.

With the first X-Men game listed, I was always Storm--or, if someone else had her, Nightcrawler. Other than those (the rest of which I’ve either never heard of or just barely heard of) and a few Atari games when I was really little (something with buckets of water and bombs—something else where a city slowly blew up) I didn’t play video games. Wait, no--I played something else at Movie Warehouse when I was 11, but I don't know what. It took a few weeks to get through, since I could only be there for an hour after school. Mortal Kombat or a game like that.

ETA: A search through Google and Wikipedia show that the arcade game was Street Fighter II, not Mortal Kombat.

dark_fest is accepting prompt submissions, from now through February 14th. It’s a ficathon where you can eventually claim a darker sort of prompt, in various fandoms. There’s one prompt involving Cornelius Sigan (from Merlin) that I really want to see written. I’ll try to think of a few with The Master, and I’ll add them later.

From Cracked: 9 Inventions That Prove Leonardo da Vinci Was A Supervillain

Io9 discusses the DVD set for the Doctor Who specials. They include a link to a Youtube clip of the Doctor Who Proms. I hadn’t seen the portion where a Cyberman and Judoon were in the audience. Elsewhere, I had managed to find the skit with the Graske and the Tenth Doctor.

Working on both help_haiti stories (one full-length Doctor/Donna/Jack story and one Doctor and Donna drabble) right now, and I’m thinking I’ll likely be done around Monday or so. I’ll let everyone know when I need a beta reader.

The 20 Nerd Commandments.

This one probably isn’t good—La Femme Nikita is being remade for The CW. I never watched the series (the Peta Wilson version) the first time around, but I did eventually download the first episode. It just didn’t seem interesting enough for me to stick with—part of that is because I don’t really care for Peta Wilson as an actress.

Weekend at Bernie’s is also likely to get a remake.

For anyone interested, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theater has made a spoof of The End of Time Parts 1 and 2—which has been divided into three short chunks. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Very funny.

The second Lightning Round begins today for the help_haiti auction, and you can sign up here. As I’m currently working on a fanfic for the person who won me for the regular auction, I’ll either sit this round out, or offer to write a drabble in the Doctor Who fandom. I’ll decide on that later.

Here’s a detailed explanation on what’s currently going on with the status of Rex Is Not Your Lawyer. NBC has not passed on the pilot as of yet, despite all the rumors going around.

Jim Cantore—apparently that guy from The Weather Channel—will not be showing up in Paducah this year. He doesn’t believe it will be as bad as last year. He’s the one I’ve mentioned that if he shows up, you’re going to die or just barely survive a post-apocalyptic scenario. The front page of The Paducah Sun said in big letters “Santore Is NOT Coming--We’re Okay!” They also interviewed him, and he thinks the worst of this year’s ice storm will be in Tennessee. On WKYQ, they made up a song to the tune of The Brady Bunch, using the words “Jim Cantore, You Can’t Come Back.”

They’ve updated the snow prediction. It is now likely to be 4-7 inches of total snow accumulation for us. There is a chance of sleet, but only tonight. Once you hit Tennessee, they’ll get 7-10 inches. Dyersburg will get 4-7 inches of snow and sleet.

Looks like David Tennant won’t be in Burke and Hare after all—he bowed out of that, and Andy Serkis will be replacing him. It would have been an interesting role for him.

Both David Tennant and Doctor Who won at the National TV Awards in the UK. And since I’ve managed to find the clips via Youtube, I’m linking them for anyone else that hasn’t seen them. David Tennant presenting an award at the NTA’s. David Tennant wins an award, and gives a cute speech. Doctor Who winning for Best Drama—and Tennant gets Cribbins (who says “what bloody cheek!”) to give the speech, in a cute moment. And magicallaw has a great picture of Cribbins and Tennant goofing off—presumably before the awards ceremony.

So far, the help_haiti auction has raised—in just the Audio and Food posts, as they haven’t totaled the rest yet—over $7600. sykira? Once you’ve donated your bidding, just let me know the prompt or scenario you want me to write via PM or e-mail, and I’ll get started on it. Your wish is my command.

Reportedly, Fox is going to be making an American version of Torchwood. I think I can say that bad idea doesn’t begin to cover it. And it would likely be cancelled within three episodes, knowing that channel. Let’s not even comment on the idea of redoing Doctor Who, since we all know how well that one went in 1996.

It’s confirmed: Marc Webb is signed on to be the new director for Spider-Man. And if this rumor is true, then Peter Parker might end up being played by Taylor Lautner. I doubt it's true, but it’s still a horrible thought. I have no idea who would actually work in the role.

As of when the help_haiti auction ended at 11 AM CST, sykira had won me for $10.

Did anyone else know that MTV apparently started showing reruns of Buffy? At 10 AM CST--today was Dead Man’s Party, from season 3. I spotted it thanks to TV Guide Channel.

And, lastly, a meme:

What's surprised you the most about me (if anything) since beginning to read my LJ (or when you met me IRL, for those who have)? Has anything about me been completely unexpected or have I always fit the picture of me you had in your head?

Doctor Who’s Top 10 Emotional Moments.

Remember that remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that was due to be made by MTV? It’s been stopped.

From Cracked: The Five Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts. It includes the Max Headroom one that interrupted Doctor Who.

I have to give a big thank you to the person currently bidding for me over at help_haiti. Anyone else that might want to help out and get a story, you can bid here. As it’s for a good cause, I’m even willing to try out writing Doctor/Master. Other pairings I am willing to write (as friendship or relationship) include: Doctor/Donna, Rose/Doctor/Jack, Martha/Jack/Doctor, Donna/Doctor/Jack, Martha/Jack, Martha/Doctor, Jack/Doctor, and Donna/Jack. My entry over there tells everything else I’m willing to write.

As a reminder: The Vampire Auction portion of the Support Stacie Auction begins tonight, and runs through the 18th, ending at 9 PM CST. My thread is here.

To help out the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the help_haiti Auction has been set up. People can offer fanfic, original stories, art, icons/graphics, fanvids, food, as well as other things. More information on where the money goes if you donate that can be found here, in the comments. I am offering to write one fanfic of at least 1000 words in the Doctor Who fandom—the starting bid is $10. My thread is here.

The auction will close on Wednesday, January 20th, at 11 AM CST, and fanfic should be completed by February 14th.