How many times have I told you people that I am not a slash fan? Many, many times.

And I'm not. In fact, I'm rather a slash detractor. I have remarked that I don't really understand ladies who get all hot and bothered over two manly men locked in a sub/dom embrace. I know that people do find such stories interesting...stimulating, even...but I am not one of those people. And yet...I am a House/Wilson fan. I don't read House/Wilson slash, but I proudly wave the shipper banner for them. I am a fan of the canon relationship. I don't get all warm and tingly like I do for Rose/Ten but I very much enjoy the idea of House/Wilson.

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My lovely pony pal, milieva was drawing with six-year-olds on the theme of "What are you waiting for?" And she created a perfect montage of our Doctor Who Christmas wishlist in stick figure art.

I provide the link for all of you. You can check out her LJ for more info, but beware...there are a few spoilers.

None really in this picture...it is all about our Humperdinck beliefs.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m272/myjarofdirt/DoctorWhoWishlist.jpg

Yes, even you overseas people who do not celebrate as we do. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it is agenda free. No gifts to buy. No church services to attend in a funny hat and new shoes. No costumes (unless you are forced into the school play). And it is a holiday for the best of motives...only Arbor Day comes as close on motive. Planting trees and shrubbery is a noble thing to do. But Thanksgiving...is about giving thanks, being grateful. Gathering with your family and friends and celebrating that you have food to eat and a family or friends to take you in and offer you support. I love it. Hugs and my love to all of you and yours...even if you and yours don't celebrate.

Oh...and I have something to say about Doctor Who...The Waters of Mars...or rather the confidential...which I shall put under this cut ( Read more... )

Click if you would rather not have turkey again...( Read more... )

I don't recall any spoilers in this clip. What I find amazing...is THIS is the clip that they are using to sell The Waters of Mars and the remaining two specials to the American public that might never have seen Doctor Who.

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Okay...so under the cut we go to avoid spoiling anyone...( Read more... )

Rae

I have seen it. And I have this to say about it...( Read more... )

Well...David Tennant, anyway!

David has been making the rounds of television and radio in the U.K. because the next Doctor Who episode, "The Waters of Mars" is going to be showing on Sunday in the U.K. and then on the 19th of November here in the good old US of A. YES! ( Read more... )

If you were going to describe my stories as a formula...

Rae writes stories that are X and have Y.

What would that sentence look like?

For example: Rae writes stories that are deeply religious and have lots of slapstick humor.

Or Rae writes stories that are filled with suspense and have characters I love to hate.

I would hope that you don't think either of those things. But I am interested in what you, my readers, would tell an agent about my work.

What happened to Day 1? It got away from me.

Day 2 so far...lots of time on the internet...no writing as of 3:00 pm. I am wondering if I am going to sit here all day or if I intend to get some lunch anytime soon. The dog in my icon is staring at me.

Good times!

• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity

• Update your journal with the answers to the questions

• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions (I'll also answer more, if asked)


1. How did you come by your LJ handle?

I have answered this one before...long ago. But, I'm sure a lot of people wonder. So, way back when computers first needed passwords, our geek guy went around asking us to come up with a personal ID to log in. He called me RAB because those are my initials and I signed off on all of his paperwork with them. He get to my computer set-up and asks, "RAB what do you want your ID to be?" Yes, it is that simple. After that, I went online and joined a community which I will talk about in the next question. When we switched proxy servers, some other person grabbed RABID as their log-in name. So, I said, "You know, I was Rabid1st." This is what happens when you are there in the stone-age of the computer revolution.

2. What was your first online fandom and are you still involved with them?
Interestingly enough, my first FANDOM was Doctor Who...and I'm still involved in that one, too. But my first ONLINE fandom was for The X-Files. I am only attached to the fringes of that one. I am still a fan of the show and stayed active in my little corner of the fandom until this last movie. But I must say...now...I've lost heart and don't find it as interesting. I recently let all of my X-Files VHS tapes go...so now...if I don't buy the DVD sets...I won't even have the episodes to rewatch.

3. Despite a love of time travel storylines, why don't you like the Outlander series? (which I just started reading)

I am actually NOT a lover of time travel storylines. Just as I am not a fan of vampires, even though I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And Lost Boys and Salem's Lot and Dracula. I like Doctor Who because it had a lot of potential for story development. I fell in love with the Doctor and, in the new incarnation, with Rose. Though Rose is the reason I've lost my love of the Doctor. He's now become a character with very limited possibilites...like Peter Pan...and so he loses a lot of his charm for me. I think that when any story becomes about the LORE of the story...it loses it's charm for me. This is why I don't like Vampire stories...they are usually working in an area that has been worked to death already...so that's boring.

4. If you met RTD, what would you say to him? First, I would tell him that I am a huge fan and I think he's very talented. Then, I would tell him that he took the Doctor to a place where we saw him as limited and small and that wasn't the way to go...and I am very sorry that he didn't see how to expand the character. I suppose I would wish him better luck next time. <<--assuming he WILL screw it up...which judging by Sarah Jane...and some recent spoilers...it seems he WILL.

5. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? Victoria, British Columbia. First, Canadian health care and politics, both reasonable. Second, it's a beautiful place. Third, I could go watch things being filmed and offer up scripts for shows filming in Vancouver...like Supernatural.


5a. Why haven't you commented on this week's Supernatural yet??!!! LOL Because I have had a very busy week. We had relatives in from out of state and we were going hither and yon and then I was exhausted by that...so...no time to watch Supernatural. I just did watch it. So, commentary is on the way. Glad that someone missed it. :grin:

And I said I would...and I'm on a mission to save the fic from the sinking Geocities. And I don't think most of you will have seen this one. This is early, early Rabid. Unbetaed so excuse the awfulness.

Also...BE WARNED...my fic is Spuffy fic...so if you are a B/A fan (and I know some of you are)...look away!

WITH THE KEY OF SOFTNESS

Author: 1stRabid/Rabid1st/Raeann

Pairing: Buffy/Spike

Spoilers: This scene is set a few weeks after the Season Five episode “Fool For Love”. And those of you doing the math will note that I wrote this prior to Cuore Della Notte. But THIS is not a finished fic…merely a scene…and NOPE…not going to finish it…take it as a muse rambling. I have many scenes of this sort on my hard drive going back to Season three.

Rating: Not even PG-13

Summary: This story is set about three weeks after Fool For Love. Spike having traded his Slayer Killer training expertise for shower and laundry priviledges at the Summers’ House and $35.00 a week begins to make a pest of himself.

Disclaimer: Yep, I get it…I'm a bad, bad, girl! All of these characters belong to Joss and Co. If it is any consolation I've also stolen from Walt Whitman and Edwin McCain. ( Read more... )

So, it has been a long time since I have posted anything that resembles fiction here at the Rabid Journal. And looming on the horizon we have that annual exercise in futility and failure...The National Novel Writing Month. November is the wickedest month. And so, WriSoMiFu was born and it was...less awful, but still pretty darned demoralizing. Feel free to experience it for yourselves at wrisomifu

This year, I pledge to suffer for my art...every frakkin day...for at least 20 minutes. Maybe you will get some fic out of it.

Actually, I am thinking of posting my old Buffy Fic...since I had to rescue it from the Geocities meltdown. It would be in a less polished state than newer fiction...but it would give you all something to read while I labor away in my lonely corner of the living room.

Rae

I'm sitting her working on my writing and behind me Jan has the business news on...and the foreign affairs specialist talks about the new Iraq. He says, "We must try to redirect the Economic Insurgents." The newsperson provides us the following definition:

Economic Insurgents, those people who take money and then go into an area with an explosive device and blow themselves up thus creating a lack of consumer confidence.

Didn't we used to call those people Suicide Bombers?

It is good to have the gloves off when it comes to admitting this is all about the money. Especially as this is the business news and they are talking about Iraq as an "emerging market."

Now, I need a shower. Sheesh!

WARNING: This article will offend, I'm hoping, every last one of you. But I grew up surrounded by these morons and their rationalization for spilling such poison out into society.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_re_us/us_interracial_rebuff

The bathroom line really took me back to my childhood. It's like unearthing a t-rex fossil...only, instead of being happy, you suddenly realise it is infected with some species jumping previously extinct disease and you've touched it with your bare hands.

Dino-flu! Makes swine flu look wussy. Retro-Racism! We do not want it back in circulation. Someone spritz this moron with lots and lots of Lysol, make him choke on it.

After last week's really horrid filler episode I was hoping for something much better this week. And boy did the crew deliver. This was hyped up S1 Supernatural and I loved it. ( Read more... )

Not about Minotaur! But...oops! I forgot to add a link to my complete Nugget Slang Series.

Yes, there was a coda to Iced.

NUGGET SLANG SERIES

BURN THE PIPE:
BURN THE PIPE...CLICK HERE
SHOOT YOUR SHADE:
SHOOT YOUR SHADE...CLICK HERE
ICED:
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
PART FIVE
PART SIX

And, how could I forget there was a coda to Iced? I don't know...I am lame. Sorry, about that, folks.

RESTRAINT...the ICED coda

What time is it? 8:30

That's late.

Nah, Nah, that's early!

Supernatural night tonight, people. And this is the one that so many fans are dreading. But I have hope that it will be a much needed lighter episode after all of the angst and suffering we've endured for the last, what? 2 years? If we don't count Cas going to a brothel, I think the last really fun episode we had was Yellow Fever in S4. So, let's bring on the suicidal stuffed bears (or wind-up mechanical chihuahuas) and the House of Wax references. ( Read more... )

Here we go! ( Read more... )

First, I must confess, this is the first episode of SPN that I was thinking I might skip. But I'm very glad I didn't. It truly rocked. ( Read more... )