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Here it is - the Eight/Fitz mix I've been talking about for so long, all ready for your enjoyment.

( What a day, a year, a life it is. )

Yes, it's another fanmix. riverdresses tried to encourage me to make one for Two/Jamie, but for some reason my mind drifted to M*A*S*H and to my het OTP for that fandom, Trapper/Margaret. Enjoy!

( song list )

Influenced by riverdresses's "The Great & Mighty Troughton Rewatch-athon", I decided to explore my music folder again and returned with enough songs for a Ben/Polly fanmix.
As with the Zoe mix, I tried to combine the message in the lyrics with the style of the songs, this time by trying to use songs from Ben and Polly's own time period. Only a few of them are actually from the exact year they came from (1966, for those of you unfamiliar with the Troughton era), but they're all from the same period - and, more importantly, I feel they all fit wonderfully with the two of them, together or apart.
Enjoy!

( Do you want to know a secret? )

Browsing through Google in search for some inspiration for my current fic (as chapter 2 is turning out to be harder to write than I expected), I stumbled upon 15 screenshots from a 1956 movie called X the Unknown, which I have now decided I must watch before leaving this mortal coil. No, I have absolutely no idea what this movie is about (though the title seems to suggest it's science fiction) but I need to watch the scenes these caps come from.

If you are a fan of Doctor Who, I'm sure these will be of interest to you, so here they are: ( I should warn you, though, that if you're also female, clicking on this lj-cut might make your ovaries kersplode. You have been warned. )

ETA: I couldn't resist, and did a wallpaper of the last three pictures - free for grabs if anyone's interested.

It took me ages, but I have finally finished my Zoe fanmix. Enjoy!




( song list )

This is the list of books I am planning to read this year. As with the previous list, I'll add books to it whenever I manage to get my hands on something new, and I'll strike a book once I finish it.

( The list. )

For those of you who want to support a sane (ahem) casting choice when it comes to the new Doctor, I bring you three icons for you to share the love:

( Under the cut. )

I decided to browse through the Tragical History Tour website, and found some pictures from the 1973 Radio Times Anniversary Special I didn't know existed. So, here's all the pictures of that special that I know of:

( Eight pictures, four companions, and three rather pissed-off beasties. )


ETA: These seem to be from that same Radio Times special: ( Zoe! )

My previous picspam featured caps from episode 1 of The Faceless Ones, the last serial featuring Ben and Polly. Sadly, the only other surviving episode of this is episode 3, which I'm including on this post, so here's a quick recap of what has happened so far:

( Previously, on The Faceless Ones... )

And now, on to the picspam: ( 62 caps. Beware of bandwidth. )

Part 3 of my massive picspam project, this time with Episode 1 of The Faceless Ones, the last serial featuring Ben and Polly - and this particular episode being the last one in existence in which they appear.
I've decided to split episodes 1 and 3 into two separate posts because otherwise they'd be just too big - this post contains 63 caps, so you can imagine what it would have been like if I had combined the two episodes like I did with The Moonbase earlier today.

Again, feel free to gank anything you like - no credit necessary.

( It's a flying beastie! )

Part 2 in my exaustive Second Doctor picspam. This time, episodes 2 and 4 of The Moonbase - 70 caps in total, so dial-up users beware.

Again, feel free to use the caps for anything you want. :)

( It's you! The Phantom Piper! )

I've enjoyed doing that picspam of Anneke's appearance in The Saint so much that it gave me the idea to do something similar with all the Second Doctor adventures I have on DVD - and this including the surviving episodes of burminated serials so that I can have some more Anneke (even though things will inevitably focus mostly on Two and Jamie in the end). Because of this, I've spent all afternoon capping episode 3 of The Underwater Menace and episodes 2 and 4 of The Moonbase. I'll post the (70!) Moonbase caps tomorrow, and focus today on that monument of silliness that is The Underwater Menace.
I'm actually rather fond of this serial, though I'm afraid I'm unable to take it seriously. Joseph Furst hams it up as Zaroff like nobody's business, and the fish people are just to die for - laughing, that is. :P But then, there's Jamie in that uniform (*points to icon*), which compensates everything.

Anyway, here it is - 21 caps of The Underwater Menace.

( Nothing in ze vorld can stop me now! )

As with the Anneke picspam, feel free to use any of my caps for icons and graphics, if you so wish.

The very first thing I've ever seen with Anneke Wills, a few years ago, was a 1966 episode of The Saint called The Helpful Pirate, which was made shortly before Anneke joined Doctor Who. Today, I decided to "borrow" my father's DVDs of that show and make screencaps of every scene Anneke was in, as she looked absolutely gorgeous in it (but then again, she always looked gorgeous). Feel free to make icons/graphics with them if you want. :)

( 55 caps - VERY image-heavy. )

I've just finished watching episode 1 of Day of the Daleks, and a scene caught my attention.

( Mini picspam with quotes from the episode. Contains 20 caps. )

loves_them_all is extending Companion Posting Month in order to spread the love to the companions that never made it to the April calendar, and it would be great to have more people sign up for this.

The companions that haven't been claimed so far are:

Adric

Ian Chesterton

Compassion

Chris Cwej

Destrii

Roz Forrester

Frobisher

Grace Holloway

Sam Jones

Kamelion

Sara Kingdom

Kroton

Trix MacMillan

Grant Markham

Adam Mitchell (yes, he counts. Shut up)

Astrid Peth

Izzy Sinclair

Ssard

Stacy Townsend

Mike Yates

I've just requested Katarina (what's with me and historical companions?) and I have this enormous urge to give my first-born to stunt_muppet for chosing to do Ben and Polly in one go, since they're inseparable anyway - the trouble is, said first-born is already reserved for Two and Jamie to raise as their own :P So, I hope she won't mind getting my second child instead; the third will go to whoever picks Sara Kingdom.

Anyway, you can request your companion here.

I have finished writing Jamie's biography for loves_them_all's Companion Posting Month (and I hope it doesn't suck *crosses fingers*) and I'm currently working on the second post for that project, which is a picspammy list of reasons why he is such an amazing character. So far I have a few points (enough for a good list, actually) but I'd love to hear what makes you love the boy so much.

So, feel free to comment to this post with reasons why Jamie McCrimmon rocks your socks. If you have an image or a quote to illustrate those reasons, feel free to add them as well. I'll credit you in the list :)
Keep in mind that Two/Jamie and the kilt were the very first thing I thought about :P

Also, since the third post will feature links and recs, you can also link me to a Jamie fic you might like, or to a Jamie website or community.

Jamie Day will be next Monday, so you have until Sunday to contribute. I'll be looking forward to your ideas.

This episode was never shown on BBC Prime, and I can see why. The theme is very controversial, and I can easily see the more PC people being unable to realize the social comments and satire of the script and vetoing its broadcast because it’s “OMG insulting!”

( My comments on South Africa. )