The 14th Doctor has been announced!

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I'm trying out Dreamwidth as my primary platform for a while. We'll see how it goes! I will continue manually crossposting to LJ at least for a bit, although tbh I will continue posting exactly as often as I have been, which, let's be honest, is not a lot.

Anyway, I've completed two more PDAs!

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Pirates & sea devils! Doctor Who is back!

(I am still seeking an alternative to LJ, preferably one that allows crossposting for at least a transition period. I've backed everything up to Dreamwidth, at least, but an attempt to crosspost did not work and frankly I don't really like Dreamwidth's interface, so...still looking. Recommendations, or even reccomendations for ways to adjust Dreamwidth's interface, are welcome.)

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Next episode (last episode of 2022 and not for several months which is wildly unfair): [Spoiler (click to open)]The Master! Kate! Tegan! ACE! REGENERATION! EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT ONCE!

Given world news, I'm looking to relocate my admittedly infrequent posts to a new server. It's a strange feeling, given how long I've been here on LJ, but I don't feel I can in good conscience continue on a Russian-owned and -affiliated business, regardless of how little my patronage might contribute to that. If anyone has any suggestions of where I can move to, I would welcome them.

In the meantime, I guess here's another Doctor Who post.

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I procrastinated writing a reaction post for the third Ninth Doctor Adventures audio so long that finally I was just like "oh well I'll just combine it with my reaction post for The Year of Martha Jones audio" and then I procrastinated that for so long that now I'm bundling it with the fourth Ninth Doctor Adventures audio ♥ it's fine it's fine life happens anyway here's the long-promised and little-awaited Big Finish post

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HIGHLY recommend all of these audios.

Rather belatedly, let's talk about the two most recent PDAs I've read. (There's just been a lot going on RL right now. Sorry. Big Finish post still to come.)

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HERE WE ARE AGAIN

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Happy New Year! May 2022 be better than 2021. The bar is on the floor, so hopefully we are able to step over it and not trip and fall.

I'm waiting for new Doctor Who to air and also to celebrate the roommate's birthday, so what better time to post my yearly media roundup?

According to last.fm, I listened to 10,686 tracks scrobbles in 2021, an average of 29 songs per day. I listened to 750 different artists, 666 different albums, and 4,793 distinct songs.

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In 2021, I read 206 books, exceeding my goal of 150.

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I don't track what I watch on TV anymore so we're going to be relying on my questionable memory for this next part!

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Trying to remember what movies I watched this year is an exercise in futility. Some standouts, though: In The Heights, which I've been waiting AGES for and which lived up to the hype; tick tick...BOOM!, ditto (I cried buckets); the Come From Away proshot, which also made me cry. Other than that? No idea. I know I've seen more movies than that! But what they were, whether they were this year or last year or 2016, no clue.


No live theatre for me this year, although Broadway and tours opened up (with multiple cancellations and early closures and just...yeah). One day.


It's been a weird year. I started two new jobs. The first was a temporary position, although turned out to be more temporary than I thought going on. The second will hopefully be permanent; I really like it so far, although it's only been a few weeks (and after two weeks of training I left for a week to go see my family for Christmas! they were very understanding. I was very nervous about traveling in these Covid times, but I took all due precautions -- 3 doses of Pfizer, everyone in my family is vaxxed, double masked in all public areas -- and I have now returned home Covid free). It's very nice to be out of customer-facing positions because I really hated the job I had before where I got yelled at by customers all day. Now I go all day either without talking to anyone or just occasionally talking to my coworkers. It's SO NICE. I'd still rather be working in theatre but, you know, health insurance and job security and Covid. We make choices about priorities.

I still owe you a couple Doctor Who posts, one about the two PDAs I've read most recently and one about a couple Big Finish audios I want to talk about, but I've just been very busy and stressed with things and I want to make sure I can actually do them justice. They're coming. Sometime. Soon. Promise.

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Happy holidays! I owe you guys a couple Doctor Who posts. Coming soon. (I started a new job and also took the risk of spending Christmas week with family, so things have been a bit frazzled. )

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And so concludes Flux. I don't know about you guys but I'm pretty happy with it. I want to sit down and watch the whole thing back to back and see how it hangs together when I'm less riding an adrenaline high with it, but right now I'm pretty happy with it.

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Next week: The Vanquishers.

Unrelated to the Flux, I've read two more PDAs.

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Next week, [Spoiler (click to open)]Survivors of the Flux; Dan and Yaz have been in the early 20th century for three years, everything is working for Swarm and Azure just as planned, and where's the Doctor?</lj-spoiler

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Next week: [Spoiler (click to open)]THE ANGEL HAS THE TARDIS

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Next week: Once, Upon Time

It feels so good to have Doctor Who back on TV.

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Dear Yuletide Writer:

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Series 13 news, including an airdate! [Spoilers, I guess, if you are picky]The series is subtitled "Flux" and will be airing starting October 13. We'll be seeing Sontarans, Weeping Angels, the Ravagers, "enemies from across the universe".

I'm on-board with the speculation that this might be tying in somehow with the Faction Paradox! Obscure? Yes! But I don't care! The EU has already brought the Faction Paradox back, in the anthology book Wintertime Paradox, and the idea of time as something that's constantly being rewritten -- including the Doctor's own past -- is something that could tie in with Chibnall's Timeless Child arc very, very nicely. Am I wildly spitballing? Yes! Excited to see where this leads, whether or not it's connected to the Faction Paradox.

Also hugely excited to finally have an airdate. Halloween! Yay! THAT'S SO CLOSE.


In other Doctor Who news.

Took a brief break from my PDA readthrough because I finally got my hands on the three new Target new-series novelizations, Dalek, The Crimson Horror, and The Witchfinders. (I preordered them in April of 2020. Mm, pandemic delays.) Thoughts below the cut!

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Three excellent reads. Recommended.

The Tony Awards Present: Broadway's Back! A Multi-Platform Celebration of the Best Of Broadway.

Or, you know, the belated Tony Awards ceremony from the 2019-2020 season that was cut short.

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Weird season! Weird ceremony. Good, though. Many great speeches. Great performances. I want rips of so many of those performances.