Somewhere Different Now

Cat lady problems:  I was sitting in my desk chair scrolling through tumblr when I heard Noodles meowing to come in to my bedroom.  I got up and let her in. While I was closing the door again for roommate privacy, she jumped on to the desk chair and lay down very cutely.  Normally I'd deal with the cat taking my seat by sharing it with her, either by shoving her towards the back and perching myself on the front edge of the seat or by lifting her up, sitting down, and setting her in my lap.  However, it is way too hot today to share a small chair with a fellow warm-blooded creature.  Too much endothermy for one piece of furniture!  I considered moving her from the chair to the floor or the bed, but she looked so relaxed and started purring.  I considered taking the laptop to sit on the bed, but the laptop is also a source of too much heat to be on my lap right now.

So now I am kneeling on the floor to type at the desk while Noodles sleeps on the chair.   It is the only logical solution.

Meanwhile, I have some fanvid recs to share!  First, stop what you're doing and watch this Agent Carter/Captain America vid right now:


I love this SO MUCH.  Here are Peggy and Steve, losing each other but getting on with their lives and being amazing and badass.  That's what the other would have wanted, after all.  The song choice is perfect and the editing is great, with so many wonderful character parallels.  (I think my favorite may be when Peggy is balanced on the ledge on the outside of the building, being very careful not to fall, and then the vid cuts to Steve just throwing himself through a window way too many stories up, because he has superhuman endurance no common sense.)  Bittersweet and joyful all at once, this is basically everything I want out of a Steve/Peggy vid.  Here's the vid post on LJ so you can comment to the vidder or download the vid, or on AO3 here.

Next, here is an excellent multi-era Doctor Who vid focusing on the companions, especially those whose lives we know about after leaving the Doctor or in between adventures with him.


It's so much fun, and I love the focus on the companions' lives not at all ending when they're not with the Doctor.  Also, the section with the Brig and his "getting real tired of your shit, Doctor" expression is great. Here's the vid post on LJ.

Update:  Noodles left the desk chair, so I claimed it back for myself.  She returned and briefly attempted to sit in my lap before rapidly deciding that she agreed with my rule that until it cools down there can be only one warm-blooded organism per piece of furniture.  Now I'm still in the chair and she's on the bed.  Everyone is content.

I present to you a slashy fanvid of the movie musical 1776.  It's John Adams/Thomas Jefferson.  Though the vid is titled "Brokeback 1776," I believe that it could also be called "America Has Two Daddies."



Thank you internet for this valuable contribution to freedom.

And now back to my usual wishing I were British.

There has been some debate this season about the morality of some of Eleven's actions this series and to what degree the Doctor does or should tolerate violence.  Personally, I imprinted on Nine, who would sometimes cause the baddies' deaths and even threatened to use a gun (and didn't bother Jack about his gun use quite as much as Ten did), but he hated it and generally found some other way.  He ultimately declared that he'd chose to be a coward, not a killer, every time. 

However, to add to this discussion, I bring you a video of classic Doctors shooting stuff/aliens/etc. set to gangsta rap. (Lyrics NSFW)


(found via io9)

This meme has been going around my flist.  While I normally think copy & paste memes are a bit pointless, this one made me smile because it is so true.

Copy and Paste if you have enjoyed the blessing of meeting people online that you never would have met any other way. This is an end of the year shout out to the many friends I have never been in the same room with but who have inspired, amused, comforted, encouraged, and touched me in so many ways. Here's to another year together.

I've been bad about posting and otherwise communicating lately.  Nevertheless, dear flist, I hope you understand that I'm so grateful to have the chance to know you.  I might have no clue what your voices sound like, but we have shared squees, whines, the occasional stray deep thought, and much more.  I am also immeasurably thankful for the friends I know from offline, and for the way the internet enables me to keep in contact with you when you're scattered across the country and the globe. 

You are all such wonderful people that you deserve David Tennant narrating a video of polar bears playing with robotic spy cameras.



Hooray for friends!

I've been doing too much mindless internet and too little in the way of productive activities lately.  However, I do have a few things to share with you, o flist.  Well, four things.  Well....four things and a manta ray.  Some of the things are vids, and some are my thoughts on various matters.

(1) Dance can express many things:  emotion, identity, sheer physical talent...and science.  Yes, science!  , Behold, the winner of chemistry category of the Dance Your PhD Competition, "selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using SELEX."  Both the idea of the competition and this specific video are AWESOME.

( video and other the things under cut to spare your flist )

A local movie theater does monthly showings of old favorite movies, and tonight was The Princess Bride.  I own that movie, but nevertheless I shelled out the money for the privilege of seeing it on a big screen with a bunch of other enthusiastic people.  There wasn't as much quoting along with lines as I might have expected (probably for the best), but there were big laughs all the time and also massive applause when Inigo finally finished off Count Rugen, the six-fingered man.  I adore that movie so much!  Westley's snark is a thing of beauty.

Meanwhile, on the subject of humor that has some relation to books, I recently learned of the blog Good Show Sir, which makes fun of really bad sf/fantasy book covers.  Some of the book covers are in hilariously poor taste, and the captions are often very funny (though occasionally poorly punctuated, alas). 

Also, while I suspect that almost everybody has seen it by now, if you haven't yet watched di_br's vid "Tenth Doctor:  the Musical," YOU MUST REMEDY THAT IMMEDIATELY.  It's embedded below for your convenience, or visit the vidder's LJ post here to comment in LJ or for download links.  It really does sum up Ten's era in a hilarious manner.



You're welcome.

I often find fan videos disappointing, but this one was wonderfully crafted.  The images are attuned to both the lyrics and the pace of the music.  The song is from the musical Rent, and I've thought of it before as a great song for the aftermath of Doomsday.   Warning:  contains sorrow!