Motivational Picture – Dalek
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Trock Tuesday – The Doctor – Turn Left
But I’ve Been Dieting!
Unlike Donna, I haven’t been living in virtual reality. As far as I know. But I have been dieting, and I’ve been using SparkPeople to manage my intake and fitness. This is my third attempt, so this time I’m using the community features as well as the trackers. This means teams and message boards and blogs.
What do you know, I found two Doctor Who themed SparkPeople teams! One focuses on Doctor Who since 2005 and the other is about Doctor Who and Torchwood in general. This is fun! I signed up for one of the team goals as well as my own.
One of the Fast Break goals I chose was to collect one motivational picture per day. This is yet another way I use screencaps. My motivational pictures so far:
I didn’t have access to my caps when I posted this one, so I used a standard BBC desktop:
Why I Love This Picture – Library Card
This is a great picture. I’ve come to really like Matt Smith, and I love moments like this that tie him into the greater continuity. Another such moment is in Vincent and the Doctor when he’s testing the identification machine, which also refers to the Hartnell image.
Here, this actually looks like a library card from 1963, typewritten. As an anachronist, I just eat this up. Here’s a zoom-in on the hi-def version:
Random Desktop – Boys Standing in Doorways
Trock Tuesday – Amy Pond’s Lament – Allegra Rosenberg
Screencaps – The Parting of the Ways
Screencaps for The Parting of the Ways are up. Considering how low the definition is on the entire first series, it’s a bit amazing that I wound up with 145 final caps.
Tomorrow is Trock Tuesday! I expect the next nine-ish months to be fairly fertile for the trock (Time Lord rock) sub-sub-sub-genre. The music type was born during the big dryness right after series four, where there were just a few specials for 2009 and fans had a lot of time on their hands. With Harry Potter inspired wrock (wizard rock) as a template, it sprang out all over. By now many of those links are dead, but people are still producing. As I find them, I’ll be bringing them to you.
This Is the Sort of Achievement I Like to See
Lots of Screencaps Posted
Just posted:
Screencaps for The Christmas Invasion
Screencaps for The Rebel Flesh
I didn’t overlook The Parting of the Ways, but the folder of images didn’t get weeded right away, so it should be ready next.
Happy New Year!
Out! Out, evil yuckiness! I got a wicked cold right after Christmas that turned into a major production number, so being bedridden and mostly unconscious has impacted my opportunities for doing fun things and posting about them.
However, I received this, the coolest Christmas present ever!
It is indeed bigger on the inside, as you can see here:
Made by lovely and clever Tabitha. Love it!
I finally have the entirety of the 2005-present run of Doctor Who on my external hard drive. Legal and everything. I made a playlist, and the whole thing, not counting any prequels or minisodes, comes to 88 episodes for a runtime of 69.9 hours. Fantastic!
I have learned knitting (not biplanes) and am currently working on a scarf inspired by the 4th Doctor’s. Later I will do a for-reals replica involving one of Tara Wheeler’s wonderful patterns, but that can come after I’m better at it. Right now my edges are all wibbly.
My Wordboooker plugin seems to be broken or de-configured. Something else to figure out what the heck if I ever get the time. So if you’ve been relying on Facebook to tell you when I’ve posted, I’m sorry.
In the lovely world of videos, BBC America has posted these top 5 moments of Series 6. For the most part, I agree with their selections, especially #1.
Speaking of America, here are Graham Norton and friends being surprised at American Doctor Who fandom as described by Matt Smith:
And speaking of Matt Smith, here’s a video that proves the man can act. I truly do believe you could hand him a stack of recipe cards and he’ll show you a gripping saga. This is the minisode that students competed to write, and while it’s fun, it’s obviously what it says on the tin. That doesn’t stop our Matt from acting it beautifully.
And here are “What are you doing here?” moments from the beginning through 2008. I’d love to see this updated through Wardrobe – there was even one in that!
And this T-shirt made me LOL: