Five Things Make a Post
Nov. 26th, 2019 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. The Rep Club's Christmas show opens this week. I'm running lighting and sound. I don't recall off the top of my head if it's the largest and most complicated show I've ever run lighting and sound for, but it's certainly the largest and most complicated one I've done recently. The night after the first dress rehearsal, I had a stress dream in which everybody got eaten by zombies and then I forgot to pack for an important trip (in that order).
. I've finished clearing out the pigeon nesting site and other clutter in the garage, and am spending a few days making noises at random times and other stratagems to convince the pigeons that it's not a good place to hang out. Once they've got the idea, I look forward to being able to store stuff in there without it getting decorated by pigeon droppings.
(While I was waiting for the baby pigeons to grow old enough to leave the nest, I had some interestingly ambivalent feelings about them. Fuzzy baby pigeons are a miracle of nature that made my heart warm when I thought of them, but at the same time I would prefer them to go and be miracles of nature somewhere where their family won't be crapping on my stuff.)
. At gaming group this month, I've played Dungeon Busters, Custom Heroes, and Betrayal Legacy.
. On homeward leg of the Globe trip, I listened to the audio book of Doctor Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks, the first official Doctor Who tie-in novel. I first read it years ago and enjoyed it, especially the bits that expanded on what was on screen; I didn't enjoy it so much this time, because parts of it are very much of their time. Ian has some moments of taking it for granted that women are the weaker sex that needs to be protected, and everybody, including the Doctor, is completely on board with the idea that the Daleks must be evil because they're ugly and the Thals must be good because they're beautiful. There's also a weird bit near the beginning where Ian, a non-smoker in the TV series, lights a cigarette to settle his nerves; it doesn't help that it's fairly obviously happening to set up the next bit of the plot, and Ian never so much as mentions cigarettes again for the rest of the novel.
. Here's a delightful Star Wars sequel trilogy fic that more people should get to appreciate before it inevitably gets stomped on by Episode IX:
a gate to many wonders (3643 words) by melannen
In which Luke Skywalker does his first manifestation as a Force ghost, and there's some interesting thoughts about what it actually means to be a Force ghost, and also the first person he meets is the last person he was expecting.
. I've finished clearing out the pigeon nesting site and other clutter in the garage, and am spending a few days making noises at random times and other stratagems to convince the pigeons that it's not a good place to hang out. Once they've got the idea, I look forward to being able to store stuff in there without it getting decorated by pigeon droppings.
(While I was waiting for the baby pigeons to grow old enough to leave the nest, I had some interestingly ambivalent feelings about them. Fuzzy baby pigeons are a miracle of nature that made my heart warm when I thought of them, but at the same time I would prefer them to go and be miracles of nature somewhere where their family won't be crapping on my stuff.)
. At gaming group this month, I've played Dungeon Busters, Custom Heroes, and Betrayal Legacy.
. On homeward leg of the Globe trip, I listened to the audio book of Doctor Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks, the first official Doctor Who tie-in novel. I first read it years ago and enjoyed it, especially the bits that expanded on what was on screen; I didn't enjoy it so much this time, because parts of it are very much of their time. Ian has some moments of taking it for granted that women are the weaker sex that needs to be protected, and everybody, including the Doctor, is completely on board with the idea that the Daleks must be evil because they're ugly and the Thals must be good because they're beautiful. There's also a weird bit near the beginning where Ian, a non-smoker in the TV series, lights a cigarette to settle his nerves; it doesn't help that it's fairly obviously happening to set up the next bit of the plot, and Ian never so much as mentions cigarettes again for the rest of the novel.
. Here's a delightful Star Wars sequel trilogy fic that more people should get to appreciate before it inevitably gets stomped on by Episode IX:
a gate to many wonders (3643 words) by melannen
In which Luke Skywalker does his first manifestation as a Force ghost, and there's some interesting thoughts about what it actually means to be a Force ghost, and also the first person he meets is the last person he was expecting.
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Date: 2019-11-26 09:23 am (UTC)I think that's a very natural reaction! Go and be cute elsewhere, pigeons...
I seem to remember that the exciting adventure with the Daleks was pretty much the one DW novelisation I always disliked, mostly for those reasons - it was so different and wrong. I loved David Whitaker's The Crusade, though. It was very shippy!
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