Dear F-List, 

I'm alive and kicking, just so you know. I simply needed some time off to recover and regain my fangirl equilibrium. A representation of the accomplishment of the latter are the following lists (train rides are just so handy for ordered introspection):

( 4...3...2...1 The Lists )

There, I feel all better now :)

With the promise of a more regular communication from now on I wish you all a great day.

 

Yours, Addy

 

( Don't read if you want to stay unspoiled for series 3 of TW )

I’ve been tagged by lemeep (who LJ doesn't want to acknowledge right now - oh well) because of one too many jibes on her own answers. So here goes.

 

 

( Another Meme (but as always I get to mention TW so I'm a happy duck) )

 

Right. It happened. The first ever Torchwood episode was aired two hours ago on German television.
My reaction? Mixed. I didn't expect much  - a lesson learnt the hard way by the sacrilege they committed with Doctor Who last year *is still shivering in memory*

( Click for easily side-tracked character-by-character analysis )

So, if after all this ranting and bitching you may wonder why I watched it in the first place and will probably continue doing so in the  foreseeable future? Well, somebody's got to do it. The channel has to have the viewers so they buy the second (and third) season off BBC as well so BBC gets more money and will produce a (proper) fourth and fifth and sixth season. That'll surely work out, right?

On a vaguely connected note: Does anybody know which HTML tag to use for crossing out (i.e. line trough) something in my bio info?

According to the FAQ, the 'span' tag has something like that but can't be used in bio info entries and I can't find anything like what I want in the 'font' tag options. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance :) 

Dear F-List,

now that I actually have an F-List to speak of, I thought I ask here first, though I know most of you are probably pretty busy with their own ongoing writing projects.

( Details under the cut )

So if you feel up to this challenge and/or have some advice on the subject let me know. Any comments will make me a happy fangirl.

Love,
doctor_addicted x

Just a little something that made me think about all the lovely words existing outside fandoms and fanfiction ;)

Acquired from demotu

Big Read
"The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

Right, enough of the book rambling (unless you feel the urge to comment, obviously). Copy it and have your own outing and you will probably beat my meagre score and then you will feel better instantaneously (works nearly as good as chocolate, promise). :D   

*crosses several appendages to make lj-cut work*

I just got home from a BBQ with some people I've only known a short while but whose company I really enjoy. There isn't much we can't chat about and there's plenty of things we have in common. Only problem so far was ... they don't like Torchwood. Most of them don't even know it (which is sadly the rule with people around here) and the ones that watched a couple of episodes didn't enjoy it too much (one of them I coaxed and threatened and finally quite literally dragged in front of my laptop to watch 'Everything Changes' with me but she was so not getting into it and kept laughing at the billowing coat and the very heroic team shots so I admitted my defeat and cried myself to sleep that night ... well, I very nearly did, anyway).

I therefore started to believe that I must be a very strange person to enjoy something so much that no one else seems to see the appeal in. It doesn't help that the amazingness that is 'Doctor Who'  is shown with some terrible dubbing in this country. I mean seriously - how can a line like  "If You are an alien, then how comes you sound like you're from the North? - Lots of planets have a north" work if the character doesn't sound northern in any way??? And which member of the 'We hate everything concerning Doctor Who' Club was given the job of deciding on letting The Doctor and Rose use the formal  form of address?!? Really! *shakes her head  disapprovingly*.
So people are not very likely to want to watch more of it if they accidentally stumble across it on Sunday afternoons. Did I mention that they cut out anything that is just remotely violent or a bit scary? They do and most of the time I really don't understand why. Although, one of my flat mates started watching it with me (another case of gentle *cough* persuasion on my part) and she stopped after "Boom Town" - the Slitheen had given her nightmares.

What all this came down to was that I believed myself to be the only one in at least a 200 km radius to love Torchwood and I felt very lonely *sniff*

Today, however, the magic word (=TW) was haphazardly thrown into the round of people (not by me, mind!) and - Lo and Behold! - one of them actually reacted knowingly and favorably! He'd watched all of DW (if at first only by accident - I guess 'Doctor House' and 'Doctor Who' can sound similarly if you're so inclined) and then went on to the first season of Torchwood. He's not quite as obsessed with it as I am (yet) but there's definitely potential.
I could hardly stop myself to invent him for a second season marathon right away (I do come across a bit pushy, don't I? Well, tough. It's Torchwood - I'm allowed *wink*) but I actually only met him today and I also don't own the 2nd season yet.

Even more important than having a proper conversation about Cpt. Jack and his 'minions' (watched KKBB today again - can you tell?)  face to face with another person, was that I now can believe what I should have known all along:
I AM NOT ALONE (and not extraordinarily weird).
And that's a darn good feeling :)