"You look Time Lord."

Today, for the first time in a long time I picked up my embroidery paraphernalia: hoop and cloth, thread, needle, threader, scissors.

I'd been on a regime of wearing my compression gloves when typing, and it had eased the numbness. Now we'd see if I could get back into the hobby that, in all honesty, has really given me the most relaxation ever.

I did. I finished two words on the project that I put on hiatus last year. (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/999142058/7-species-challah-cover-for-shabbat?ref=shop_home_active_9&logging_key=1f1a15602b027fcd4d82ebd687194f6b6c423ef4%3A999142058>This</a> is my current project; at the moment I'm stitching the letters around the picture. On the good side: I'm really good at back stitch, because it's the second stitch you learn. On the bad side: it's a <i>lot</i> of back stitching.) Eyal is ecstatic. Crafting is pretty freaking awesome for the soul.

Title: "Real Science"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Ace McShane, Hex Schofield
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 985

Summary: Hex learns about science and why Ace loves it.

Notes: Written for the "chemistry" challenge (#257) at fandomweekly.

Read it on AO3.

Author's Notes: To be entirely honest, I wrote this in order to portray a scientist like they really are, as opposed to the stereotype we see everywhere in the media. Even though Ace loves explosives and explosions, she couldn't have gotten to the point of inventing nitro-9 and retaining a full set of limbs without rigorous preparation, attention to detail, and stringent safety protocols. So, she's verifying every last digit before starting to experiment; she's isolating her experiment in the right environment and even there, she's putting on safety glasses though they're not technically needed, and she's not allowing Hex to distract her from her work. She's not even wearing a white lab coat -- the things she's working on aren't going to splash on her regular clothes and ruin them, so she doesn't need one.

Yes, she really shouldn't drinking from lab glassware, but not because it's inherently dangerous (lab glassware needs to be very clean, because impurities will alter your experiments) -- it's because if you are working with other glassware, it's really easy to get your drink mixed up with your experiment. But, two things: 1) she wasn't working with any other liquids, and 2) chemists are also human and do stupid things like this. And it lampshaded the usual image everyone has of chemists, always working with vials of brightly colored liquid.

But, I'm still keeping with my story-per-month pace, even if some of them are stupidly short. I've been slaving over a WIP for a while now but it's been slow progress. Soon, I hope.

Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.


( Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

Fans Fiction (425 words) by lurking_latinist
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lizzie Abel & Hassan Chowdry & Robyn Gossage
Characters: Lizzie Abel, Hassan Chowdry, Robyn Gossage
Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s15e02 Lux (Doctor Who), Metafiction, Experimental Style, Spoilers, Ficlet
Summary:

Robyn, Hassan, and Lizzie decide to rewatch the latest episode of Doctor Who.

Major spoilers for the episode Lux in this fic!

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I've been lurking here but haven't made a post in quite a while; RL got busier and I haven't been writing as much (or rather, I have, but for professional purposes :P). I miss posting here however and am trying to come back a bit. So I thought I would share this fic! I really loved Lux, and I've written what I think may be the first fic with these three characters in, at least on AO3.

Also... while I hate begging for comments, I did something a little unusual in this fic and would really, really love to know how it landed. (Including if it didn't make any sense!) So while I am always glad for people to read my fics with or without commenting, know that in this particular case, if you do feel motivated to say anything in response, it will be extra-super-duper appreciated. :-)

The travelling portion of today went exactly according to the plan. It was grey and not particularly warm in York in the morning, and in Reading when I arrived there was a bit of drizzle in the air which turned into actual rain while I did a detour to buy some food for work lunches. It has since stopped, and the week's forecast looks pretty nice.

What's less nice is that I seem to have picked up a cold. I woke up with what was not a sore throat as such, but something like that, and felt snifflier on the train than I would have wanted to inflict on the other passengers, but not much I could do about it then. But it's wait and see to find out if it's developing into something or not.

Happy birthday, lexin!

My planned activity today was to go to Jorvik, as I had never visited it before. And it was good—I wasn't quite sure what to expect, really, but I think it was better than I imagined. And I suppose at this point in my life I got a bit more out of it than I might have got some years ago.

Otherwise, I spent some time enjoying the sunshine and the delightful Museum Gardens. And having spotted the river cruises the other day, I went on one on the Ouse. It was lovely, sunshine and lots of greenery on the riversides. I think that's been one of the things with which York has surprised me this time, the green spaces. On my previous visits, I think I've spent most of my time on the streets and in buildings and hadn't really got a sense of the parks and trees and things.

My expectation was most shops would be closed today for Easter Sunday, but I spotted more places open than I was expecting. Not that I feel like doing any shopping anyway, but seeing a shoe shop open I did look in.

Eyal: Looks like the would-be Messi next door has given up the Beautiful Game.

not thirty seconds later, two soccer balls come sailing over our garden wall

Me: Uh, Eyal?

points to garden

Eyal: A million dollars would never rain out of the sky and fall into the garden.

I started my day with some parkrun tourism. It turned out to be a bit of a struggle with the strong wind and a right calf that feels a bit tight. So I wasn't expecting a good time, but after the first little bit it wasn't completely awful even if I kept feeling it. And looking at the whole thing in a positive light, it was still my second best time this year. I need to do more stretching and mobility exercises.

After showering and changing I went to the Yorkshire Museum. I really liked the Star Carr exhibition. There was also lots of see in the post-Roman to medieval exhibition but I didn't feel I quite gave it enough of a chance. Afterwards, I did some aimless walking about, had lunch and browsed books. I was prepared to buy a couple of books, but nothing really caught my attention that way. I had sort of planned for shopping this afternoon, but in the end I didn't really fancy it. And after a grey and rather nippy morning it was actually sunnier in the afternoon, even if it still wasn't very warm. Before the sun came out, I overheard somebody talking about the "October weather", and that seemed quite appropriate right then.