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I did college
we're writing poems

first we wrote down everything we could think of from the prompt "I remember"
since I was half asleep I mostly remembered Doctor Who.
and also conventions, with dancing.
I can make a poem out of that.
So I now have a Theme.

I also wrote a small poem about fish. Except it's not about fish because they weren't fish really.


Then we had to go concentrate on a particular sense. Everyone that wasn't me did this by wandering around college. Teach realised this might present problems. Offered to do the writing things down part, but frankly I was so close to asleep the wandering round parts appealed in the way that is not, so I was just vague and got to sit still. I like that.
I did do the assigned work. I made many words about the assorted textures of the room we do lessons in.
Also I found two staples and a sequin. Actually, lots more than two staples, but I only picked up the two that were in arm's reach.
I do not know why the sequin.


Then we did studying rhythm and metre, and I did some reading stuff out to tell the class what a syllable was. I got it right, thankfully. And barely stuttered. I might get the hang of this yet.


And then there was going home right afterwards.


So I like today. It felt short and quite a lot of it involved thinking about the Doctor Who dance or the way the lights look extra trippy when one has been awake 27 hours. Kind of low effort.

Poems are going to be tricksy. But I've already thought of something to do with the form that will make the point more pointy, so now I just have to think up the words. Easy.
;-)

ethics and retcon

so I just clicked on a link at random to get a new window with a particular background style to check something.
hadn't checked the content warnings.
now want to scrub my brain out.

So... braino - ethical use for retcon?

If there's things you really don't want to know... where's the bad?

You know, assuming you don't overdose and/or get reprogrammed.

Just: Use of retcon to get rid of unwanted memories. Ethics?

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You know how in The Ribos Operation the Doctor and Romana disagree about the Doctor's age
and Romana says the Doctor lost some years somewhere?


... I'm suddenly having plot bunnies where these match the years Jack lost.

... it's kind of a slow moving bunny, though, cause the lost years thing has been around for a while and yet it only just got me.

Doctor Who Stones of Blood

Got to love the style of Doctor Who FX. There's a great big rock monster, sooooo... get a great big (polystyrene) rock.


Romana costume watch: Impractical shoes as plot point! Heh!
Orange pyjamas. And a flat cap. Well, it's a look.
Better - red swirly skirt, yaays! I could wear that. It just wouldn't feel like a costume.


Physics name dropping again - Einstein this time. Obviously the Doctor has talked to everyone famous ever.


Doctor: Not from Outer Space, from Inner Time. Huh.

"They say it's a theoretical absurdity. I've always wanted to be lost in one of those."

Silver body paint yaays!


And now there's a random half dressed man. Shirtless for no readily apparent reason. Watch me not complain.

Scary glowy rocks of doooooooom! Turning into skeletons! Wheee!
Doctor Who does the funnest stuff :-)


Words they can't read, in the hyperspace ship.

Little glowy light! Is it of doom? ... of course it's of doom.
Justice machines :-)
Who have to execute whoever lets them out? Very clever.

oooh, silver dress and body paint! And a sparkly head cloth! NICE! Costume: Vivien Fay.
... except the body paint would probably be less fun to actually wear.


Heh, snuggling up to Romana with the old the transporter beam is very small line. Smooth ;-)


How many times has the Doctor been on trial and/or sentenced to death?


LOL! The Doctor randomly has a little lawyer wig in his pocket!

Doctor uses 'Miss Dvoratrelundar' as Romana's formal mode of address.
He's probably being silly.

We get a bunch of interesting bits from the Key to Time stuff.
Doctor is 700+ and has been travelling for 500+ years
thinks 140 is young
and 140 is just graduated from the Academy (with a triple first)
the Doctor scraped a pass on the second try, with 51%


They spend a lot of time having Romana - representing Time Lord education - be very wrong.
Is fun.




Stones of Blood is fun too - no blowing things up, but being sneaky so someone has to tell truth to the law. And then she gets turned into a standing stone, which is sort of traditional. Cool.


if I keep watching them at current speed I will run out again relatively soon.


is annoying, that thing where it takes so much longer to make things than use them that things keep running out.



I could have food.

I, er, ate half a cake sort of absent mindedly while watching this though, so I'm not precisely hungry.

Should probably have some vegetable at some point though.