y'all are excellent!

[lirazel]

You got all of my ships except for #20! The answer to that one is

It's Tommy/Jenny from The Black Donnellys. Come on! He's always killing people and there's that awesome scene of her scrubbing the stairs at the Firecracker when she sees the blood? Scrubbing the blood away so that your gangster boyfriend won't get hauled off to jail after killing people: that's true love, y'all.

ALSO! In case you are intrigued by #16, it's from Press Gang, most awesome of awesome "kids'" shows about a group of students running a newspaper. IT IS THE ACTUAL BEST (scroll down for my ramblings), and you should all watch it and you can find it here. WATCH IT AND COME BACK AND TELL ME HOW YOU LOVE IT.

And also: one last plea for a Doctor Who beta? I should be finishing the story in the next few days, and I'd love for someone to take a look at it considering it's my first real DW story.

And now I am off to work on NaNo.

Comments

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Want me to beta? I don't really have the time, but your lack of comments to this post made me sad.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

That's super sweet! It might be a day or two--I'll get back to you then and see if you have a few minutes to spare to at least look over it. *hugs*

[next_to_normal]

I can beta! Now that I have free time, haha.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Have eowyn do it! She's done with school!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Also she's a great beta! :)

[next_to_normal]

I even have references. :)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! Thanks so much! It'll probably be a day or two before I find the time to finish it. Can you pm me your email address so I can send it your way when it's done?

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! I've read about Press Gang before! (Probably when you recced it previously.) I will have to approach it with caution, because Moffat and I have some serious artistic differences, the kind that come with broken crockery, but I'll definitely look into it!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Probably it was when I flailed about it before!

Honestly, I don't know that that show shows a lot of Moffat's problems? Like, the show can be a little too much "A Very Special Episode"-y and it's not as great in its last two seasons, but I don't think it has the issues that most people have with Moffat. I'd be interested in hearing if you think it does, though.

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I'm very curious too! I'll get back to you, once I get around to it.

I am watching Sherlock, at an agonisingly slow pace, and I find I rather like it. Basically, as long as Moffat writes two blokes interacting and nobody mentions sexuality and there are no women, everything is hunky dory and hilarious. But I find that 75% of his sexuality-related jokes/plots/ideas drive me up a spiky wall and 95% of everything related to gender makes me want to yell. It's honestly not so much that he's Problematic (I mean, he can be, the episode I'm watching has a plot that's basically "lol those kooky Chinese terrorists, they're so small and athletic and dragon ladyish"), it's just an innate unmeshingness of his kinks and my peeves, I guess.

(That said, I do recommend Sherlock, I think! It's pretty, anyway, and it's basically "a slightly more scarred, single Rory moves in with Eleven and they run around a lot", which is actually quite gratifying on an id level.)

(AND his Sherlock character is a lot less sociopathic than the internet led me to believe. Kind of cuddly, really. It's like watching a pretty yet dysfunctional kitten and a grizzled alley kitten romp about London town solving suspicious suicides.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, this show was made before his divorce, and I think it has way less problems in general. Lynda is undoubtedly the hero of the story, and even though she's definitely a Bitch in the capital letter sense of the word, you definitely aren't supposed to hate her for it. She's awesome because of it. So I think there's way, way less questionable stuff in this show than any of his other stuff.

Yeah, I love Sherlock, that second episode aside (for what it's worth, he didn't write that one. I know he was still ultimately in charge, so we can totally blame him for letting it proceed, but he didn't write it, which makes me feel slightly better about it).

AND his Sherlock character is a lot less sociopathic than the internet led me to believe. Kind of cuddly, really.

Agreed. And Sherlock is even less sociopathic than he thinks he is, too, which is kind of great. I spend a lot of time saying YOU JUST KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THAT, BABE.

[laeria.livejournal.com]

Right? I love it when characters are under the delusion they're Above It All (... or, as the case may be, Big Bads) but are in truth endearingly clingy and, in their own way, moral.

It does help that he didn't write it! I'm, perhaps irrationally, way more forgiving of -isms people don't notice than of -isms they spew themselves. I'm relieved to see Gatiss didn't write it either. (I like Gatiss!)

[anviloverheaven.livejournal.com]

I remember watching & loving Press Gang when it first aired. It's a little faded from memory now, but my first thought when I saw your icon was a really squealy; "OMG! It's Spike!!"

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Boys named Spike! Why are they so appealing?