KnitChick's Crafty Ramblings

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As usual, snagged from my good friend Paxie :)

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Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

(I'm at Starbucks and I have four books that are equally near... *reaches randomly in purse*)

"He had seen no pools or streams anywhere."

From Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment Target novelization. :)

Day 30 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

I've been procrastinating on this last day of the meme because frankly I'd run out of ideas for the "Whatever tickles your fancy" days (srsly there are too many!)

So I've finally decided, I'll give y'all a preview of a Doctor Who story I'm working on right now (first fic I've written in months actually, I've been running up against horrid writer's block). It's just the start of it, and I don't know when it'll be done because I'm still trying to figure out the full plot but I've been dying to share it. :)

( From the mind of a knitter... )

I've got a little more written than that but this is just a teaser ;) Let me know what you think of it so far!!

Day 28 – An Episode Idea You Created Yourself

MUSICAL EPISODE!!!

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Day 26 – Favorite Who Actress

This one's easy -- hands down, Catherine Tate!! She is AWESOME! I love Donna's attitude, the fact that she has NO PROBLEM telling the Doctor off, she packs like me, and OMG in Journey's End when she did her Doctor impersonation, EEE! :D

Plus everything else I've seen so far of her has been amazing. Her Nan character is just too hilarious for words, and scarily is just like my Nana is starting to become. The "Nan's Christmas Carol" special she did this year was the funniest thing ever!

Not to mention, I heard one Doctor Who audiobook she did and she's so great with the different voices! There were a couple characters in there where I momentarily thought I was listening to a Big Finish audio and there was another actor in there. She's that good!

So yes, I am a TOTAL Donna fangirl, and Catherine herself outside of Who as well :D

Day 24 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

I'm running out of stuff that tickles my fancy so I'm gonna open this up.

Suggest audiobooks, Big Finish audios (cuz they're totally a different thing than just audiobooks y'know), fanfics, websites, etc to me!

I haven't been reading much fanfic lately but I could use some good fic. Tenth, Fourth, or Eleventh Doctor stories; or Jack's Coat/Doctor's Coat porn (there's not nearly enough of that out there!); or total crack!fic.


I'm gonna go get some soup and hope it helps clear this stuffiness. Evil sneezing!!! :(

Day 22 – A Who-Related Fan-Site

Hmm... I already posted a link to Witty Little Knitter, my fave Doctor Who scarf site...

So I guess instead I'll point out Life, the Universe, and Combom, which I haven't been keeping up with very well lately but is a great source for filming spoilers and the like :)

Day 20 – The Character Who Is Most Like You

Hmm that's a tough one. I'd have to say Toshiko. Whenever I take those "Which Torchwood character are you?" quizzes, I get either Jack or Tosh or sometimes half & half (I srsly did in the one from the magazine). I tend to be quiet when I'm not in cosplay (I used to be worse! Most of y'all didn't know me when I was little miss super shy), and I'm pretty good with computers. Not Tosh level of genius, but I have managed to disassemble and reassemble a laptop and have it still work afterwards ;)

Day 18 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Hmm... well since today (well, technically yesterday now) was Big Finish Day and I splurged on four Doctor Who audios from them, let's make this a Big Finish post! I'll talk about some of my faves, and if you like Big Finish please tell me what ones you think are good so I have ideas what to grab during the next sale or at Chicago TARDIS!

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So anyway that's a selection of audiobooks I like! Tell me what else is good and I should start looking for! (I do have a bunch more that I didn't list here, because they weren't spectacular or I haven't listened to them yet - there's about *counts* wow, 34 audiobooks in my iTunes that I haven't listened to yet, most of them Doctor Who).

Now that I'm back... time to return to this!

Day 16 – Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic

Oooh that's a tough one. I have to give two and they're really series rather than single stories.

faithharkness has a whole AU, the Hannah-verse, that I adore. Grace is the main story (which is long but OMG so worth the read! Trust me!!!), but it was the list fics of everything Hannah learned working at Torchwood that hooked me initially. I don't even remember how I stumbled on them but I just remember reading the list going "Who is this Hannah character? I love her, but seriously why do they let her answer the phones?" :) Read anything by faithharkness, you'll not regret it!

My other pick is Children in Time by huskyfriends. And the sequel Children Through Time that's still in progress. Yeah I'm a bit biased considering Lynnae is totally based on me and I also have helped brainstorm a lot of what's in that series but it's still an awesome book. The first book was written for last year's TARDIS Big Bang, the first part of the sequel for Scifi Big Bang, the second part for this year's TARDIS Big Bang, and she's doing the rest for Torchwood Big Bang. It's again a very long story (the first book is over the 80K mark) but SOOOOO worth it!

Day 14 – The Villain Who Scared You the Most

The Vashta Nerada. I think mostly because I am a librarian, I work in a library, and when the lights went out at work the other day my first thought was "OH NO THE VASHTA NERADA!"

Doesn't take much to freak me out ;) especially when it's Moffat's writing. He's too dang talented!

Day 12 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

Hmm... I think I'll point to a couple of my favourite internet places to talk Who :)

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