1. 17-19: Calgary Comic Con! Cuz Dragon*Con wasn’t enough. Or, rather, I’m going with a different group of friends.
2. 26: Leverage season 4!
3. 13&20: Last two Sanctuary episodes of the season. And it looks like the period of crappiness is well behind us so omg omg omg.
4. 22: The day Virgin (allegedly) switches to SaskTel’s new lines and thus gets the SIM phones. I plan on upgrading from this piece of crap (except I totally have the green version and I didn’t buy it refurbished) to this slightly less crappy piece of crap. I still can’t afford an iPhone.
5. 24: Payday! As is today, but I think the money is already in my chequing account so I’m no longer looking forward to it.
6. 29: I suppose I should put my birthday on the list.

Turns out that it was posted yesterday (on the first day possible, hmm) and I was amused and skipped down to the comments to view the epic wank that love would produce.

Aaaand there was none. It was like a whole slew of people appeared to profess that I/the characters/Doctor Who was awesome and that everything must be full of love. There was only one negative comment in the entire thing, and that was just someone questioning the validity of how someone could love every Doctor Who character simply because there are so many and are so different. And it wasn’t even a wanky comment (though at least one anon jumped on it to create a little bit of wank) – very calm and rational. Whoever that anon is, I like them.

Anyway, here’s the thread if you ever need a reminder that the Doctor Who fandom isn’t entirely full of hate. :D

No.

Just… no.

Contrary to popular belief, a single person does not have that large of an effect on science. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying that these guys aren’t brilliant and don’t deserve their credit or anything, I’m just saying that if one person discovered something, so could someone else. Maybe it’ll take a little while longer and maybe we’d be be living slightly differently because of it, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near as drastic as sci-fi makes it seem.

And, no, I’m not just saying this. I totally have historical anecdotes to show that more than one person can, and will, discover or invent something.

The most universally known one idea, many inventors stories is, quite simply, the telephone. There were, what, five different people who all invented the telephone at roughly the same time as Alexander Graham Bell?  It was a lawsuit mess and we still don’t entirely know wtf went down.

And the same thing happened with calculus. Way back in the day, Newton was all grr cuz math wasn’t capable of handling his calculations so he went off and invented his own math, calculus. Eeeexcept Gottfried Leibniz kinda invented it too. And published his book on his calculus first. And, no, it wasn’t just copying each other’s notes – there were differences in their calculuses.

Then there are the times in which people do brilliant work and are ignored in their own times, such as Gregor Mendel. His contemporaries thought he was a nutter and that his pea experiments didn’t mean anything so he died with his scientific work unrecognised. Fast forward a couple of decades until all the other scientists caught up to his genius and realised that, damn, Mendel was fucking awesome and called him the father of genetics. Basically, Mendel’s discoveries were pushed back a few decades and it was like he hadn’t even existed until then – y’know, like what’d happen if Fleming hadn’t noticed the magic properties of mouldy bread. And, y’know what, the planet didn’t imploded and devolve into some lawless, heathen state.

Finally, how about the fact that ancient civilisations like the Romans did little things like, oh, invent running water and did some pretty sweet stuff with math, a lot of which was forgotten for a long time? Hell, the Greeks invented a fucking computer. Okay, so this kinda almost undermines my point, but the downfall of Greece and Rome kinda had to do more with stabbing than math. And we totally reinvented it all anyway, so the question is more like ‘how much more advanced would we be if the Romans hadn’t failed to keep all of their conquered land’.

I’m generalising, of course. I’m by no means a historian, just a girl who picks up a lot of odd facts and likes to rage at science fiction. Cuz, dammit, it’s very rare that I can read or watch sci-fi without groaning about how they fucked something up. Would things change? Probably, especially if you’re following the butterfly effect, but it wouldn’t be as immediately drastic as sci-fi makes it out to be. Things might be different, but it wouldn’t be the end of the world and I doubt that we’d all be living in concentration camps if we had no penicillin.

But, as per usual, I digress.

I ended up starting to write the Rizzoli & Isles college AU simply cuz it requires no planning. I have enough plot details in my head for that and, well, it’s not like I have to develop characters with fanfic. I just have to stop college!Jane from being too much like me. But it’s kinda hard when I’m writing Jane having a bitch of a time in biochem (gee, writing from your own experiences much, Nikki?) and having her stubbornness work destructively against her. Jane is a lot more focused and assertive than I am (and had more on the line), though, and is thus actually willing to get help and is far less destructive than I am. (Or maybe it was just the lure of Maura’s boobs. I would totally be willing to ask for help if the TA looked like Maura Isles.)

Still. She’s behaving way too much like me and it’s bugging me. Maybe I should rewatch R&I for the fourth time (more, for some episodes) to ensure that I have her character down. :P

In all seriousness, this is actually a pretty common concern for me, though mostly with original fiction where I care a lot less cuz none of the characters are entirely me, just have some aspects of my personality. And I actually expected that I’d write Maura too much like myself, not Jane. Though I have only written Maura through the (third person) eyes of Jane so far. And I have always said that if you combined Jane and Maura’s personalities (and sucked out of all their awesomeness), you’d get someone very similar to me.

Anyway, I have written 2287 words of the first draft of an R&I fic (and femslash – I am finally writing femslash instead of bitching about how not enough people write f/f) and it is going wonderfully. Yay me for succeeding at goals (thus so far).

In other news, my mouse batteries croaked and I’m posting this from the WordPress iPhone app. Likely something will end up wrong. Also, I forgot the HTML for the more tag and can’t be arsed to google it so suffer with the lack of a cut.

Not that I’m ever consistent with remembering to cut posts. Sorry for making you all scroll.

Anyway, what I meant to say before I went off on a tangent, is that, since I have no 30 page paper looming¹ over my head this summer, I should make my own damned writing goal for the next three months. Far simpler than nano too – I’m just going to write, at minimum, 1000 words per day of whatever I damn well please as long as it is fiction. Cuz I can totally write a 1000 word blog entry without effort. I mean, c’mon, all of my posts are just me rambling on about nothing anyway – it’s only a couple of steps above stream-of-consciousness.

Basically, I want to accomplish something, writing wise, with my newfound 8-5 life. Not even 8-5, really, cuz, as a chemist, I spent a lot – a lot – of time doing dick all timing slow moving liquid dripping through screens. Science (well, my science) is a lot of hurry up and wait so I spend a looot of time rushing about in a mad dash about the lab cuz I have to start an experiment by an hour after I arrive so that it’ll be done by five. And I do pretty much nothing between nine and five. Seriously, best career decision ever. Except for the part where you run experiments that last twelve hours and you end up working split shifts. At two in the morning. But other than that.

So much for having a blog entry about writing. Back to that.

In order to publicly humiliate motivate myself into actually following through with this goal, I am going to spam everyone with posts about how much I haven’t written and why I suck at life, possibly every day. However, unlike nanowrimo, I’m not going to post what I’ve written cuz I don’t have the excuse of lol I wrote it all in word wars to explain away my crappy first drafts.

And that is all.

Also, feel free to mock me when I fail at this.

And I start tomorrow. Either with my sci-fi romcom comic script, a novel(la?) length Rizzoli & Isles AU fic (boring AU – no vampires or space monsters or anything, just Jane attending BCU as an athletic scholarship student right after Maura broke up with the axe murderer and started her MD) or the modern,  genderbent Sherlock Holmes reimagining (or whatever the cool word for remake is these days) novel (series) @Sildra told me to write (well, sorta) a few months ago.

Basically, I’mma gunna be writing a lot of femslash. Or preslash, in the case of the girly Sherlock Holmes thing. It’s a series and I really, really love UST – especially slash goggle/deliberate shiptease type UST. Though I’m not sure if it counts as femslash for the comic script as one of the characters is an alien whose species has three (or more, haven’t exactly decided) genders. She, uh, looks pretty feminine? Well, more on the androgynous side of femininity, but still very clearly a woman. Except not.

Wait, how does word count work if I’m writing a script…? And I haven’t exactly, y’know, properly plotted out any of these ideas. I haven’t written much down for the first two and I don’t even have a crime for the last.

Dammit.

¹Heh. Looms.

I’ve got this all planned – motorhomes are super cheap when compared to houses in Regina (and, surely, houses everywhere) and undoubtedly there’s some sorta rack thing I can put on the back so that I can have a motorcycle for exploring cities. AND, in the futures, there will presumably be either really awesome satellite internet or cell phone data plans will be affordable. Cuz I’d need two phones (or two sim cards) if I’m just going to wander throughout Canada and the US. The only problem I haven’t solved is where I can ship stuff off of Amazon to. But, then again, I can’t have a lot of stuff in a motorhome and I don’t want to weigh it down either – a tank of gas on those things must be ridiculous.

I’d do the same thing in Europe, but it’s slightly more difficult in that I dooon’t think they let Canadians just drift about aimlessly country to country.

Aaand I just realised that this is actually a fairly odd life plan. My friends, when talking about the future, are all husband, house, kids, mortgage, pets. Me? I assume that my mortgage is paid off, that I don’t have any sort of SO and certainly never any kids. Pets, though, pets I’ll have. But not in my motorhome. That’d be cruel.

Cut for spoilers. Not that the cuts work in the RSS feed, so, uhhh, suckers?

Not a lot to say other than omfg amaaaazing. The Five reuniting! TPTB confirming that Helen and James were totally involved! James, John and Helen all aware that John’s really the person that Helen loves mostest! More blatant John/James subtext that even I notice! Nigel being casually naked in front of Helen and James!

Yeah.

I’m so in the The Five were all screwing each other camp.

And I totally swore at John for being in that Nazi uniform. And having hair. Mostly the hair, cuz, really, John a Nazi? He’s a depraved sociopath, yes, but racial purification isn’t really his thing. He’s more about the indiscriminate murdering.

Also, is it just me, or did Tesla have less control over his vampyness than usual? I don’t really pay attention to Tesla (usually cuz Helen’s on the screen at the same time and c’mooon, Helen vs Tesla? No contest) so idk. Maybe I’m just used to him being devamped.

Speaking of Helen… mmmm French speaking wide eyed flirty Helen. Oh Helen, I love you as much as a person can love a fictional character and not be a crazy astral wife.

And now for the whiny part: wtf why was Will’s grandfather in it? What was the point of that other than making Helen look like a super creepy stalker? Also, no Kate. ): I mean, that’s no surprise, but I still miss her.

And that is all.

• Sarah Jane’s stuffed owl. All I know is that it was in the scene where Four and Sarah parted ways and it was absolutely adorable and I absolutely want one.
• Romana. Particularly, Romana I. Blame Darcy for that one.
• Jamie and his kilt.
• The Master’s inflatable chair of death and his strangling of the Doctor with a telephone cord. YouTube and Darcy again.
• Liz Shaw. Fanfic, actually. I’ve read a lot of fic with her in it. I should stop reading Sarah Jane fic when I haven’t seen a lot of Classic Who – so many references keep flying over my head.
• Jo Grant. Cuz she’s awesome on SJA.
• K-9!
• The companion who’s name currently escapes me (dammit!) who apparently has a girlfriend on every planet. Darcy is at fault for this one, of course. She either always knows exactly what will interest me or our tastes are very similar.
• Ace. Who apparently has explosives? I like explosives.
• The penguin companion. Holy shit, a penguin is a companion.

Pretty much everything on this list is Darcy’s fault. Even if she wasn’t listed at fault, I’m still blaming her.

Actually, I’m not sure how far I’ll make it before depressing myself so much that I run away. I primarily read/watch happy things for a reason, dammit!

I’m not sure why I’m making this a blog/LJ entry… it should be a doodle comic, hmmm. Or I should make a doodle comic of it after I finish the rewatch.

THE LIST

• Being Human (I’m about halfway through series two.)
• The Big Bang Theory (Only a couple of episodes behind.)
• The Closer (I watched season one out of boredom last summer. Not really my thing, but then I learned that Mary McDonnell is in it later on and I was all fuck it I’m going to watch the next five seasons for Mary. Cuz Mary is wonderful.)
• Doctor Who (I’ve seen An Unearthly Child, season 12, the first serial of season 13, the movie and all of New Who. I need to watch everything else. Cuz Classic Who is wonderful.)
• The Dresden Files (I’ve been watching this on and off for about two years now. Self, there are twelve episodes of the entire show – it should not take you this long.)
• Fringe (I, uh, haven’t seen the last six episodes. Bad fan, I know.)
• The Guard (It has Ryan Robbins and Zoie Palmer!! In a sorta relationship idk I’m only a couple episodes in.)
• Hercules (Doesn’t have enough Lucy Lawless or Renee O’Connor to hold my attention, really. I think I’ll just skip to the crossover episodes and the cracky shit like how Kevin Sorbo is apparently really Hercules?)
• Jekyll (I really will watch this, Darcy, I swear! It has Gina Bellman and you know that I love Sophie so, yes, it will be watched.)
• Legend of the Seeker (Haven’t started. Downloaded cuz of the crazy fan campaign.)
• MacGyver (What? It has RDA! With a mullet, but he’s still hot.)
• Merlin (Halfway through series two. Still.)
• NCIS (I watched seasons 1-7 (well, half of seven) in a little over a month in November/December. I’m currently in the beginning of season eight.)
• The Outer Limits (Torrent quality is utter shit – I think I’ll just wait until I have the money to buy the DVDs.)
• Primeval (Couple episodes into series one.)
• Sherlock (Ummm… I still haven’t watched the last episode?)
• Spartacus (I’m partway into Blood and Sand, but mostly I wanna watch Gods of the Arena cuz it has Jaime Murray.)
• Star Trek (All of it. Except for Voyager, which I have already seen. Actually, put Voyager back on the list – I haven’t seen that in, like, five years.)
• Taken (I don’t even know what this is about or why I downloaded it.)
• Torchwood (Partway into series one. It’s not that exciting since I watched Doctor Who first and, consequently, got spoiled for some of Torchwood. Also, Owen pisses me off like whoa.)
• V (The second miniseries and then the show from the 80′s.)
• The Walking Dead (I’m not a zombie fan, at all (the science is too bad even for me – don’t even get me started) but everyone I know freaked out over the pilot so I downloaded it… and then never watched.)
• Women’s Murder Club (Watched the pilot. Too much discussions on men and relationships and not enough about the dead fucking body in front of you. But pilots suck so I’ll keep watching.)

So! Which should I watch first?