this is not even touching about my massive crush on Fitzgerald Kreiner

[luciazephyr]

God now I kinda wanna watch some Old Who.... I'M TURNING INTO ONE OF THOSE FANS AAAAH

Awesome Things in the NuWho that Eight Apparently Did First

1. Paradox Machines.


2. Opening a rift in space-time in a major city, unleashing crazy unto it.


3. Blowing up Gallifrey.


4. Living as a human. Eight did it for a hundred years, even.


5. Kissed a male companion. Hell, Eight is a bit of an Innocent Fanservice Boy and a big fan of backrubs. Talk about sexualizing the Doctor.


6. more I haven't gotten to yet

Okay, I liked Ten and I adored Nine, but I kinda think Eight is my Doctor. I've read The Taint, Dominion, Unnatural History (which was fucking awesome), Coldheart, part of Fear Itself, and now about half of Year of Intelligent Tigers (which I was going to save for later but I accidentally read the opening pages and had to read the rest right then and there). Yeah, the Fitz books, I know, but as far as companions go he is up there with Donna in inspiring massive levels of love in me. There is not a single aspect of his character I don't love, strengths, neuroses, and flaws in all.

BUT ANYWAY. Eight. He's amazing. He is a bit rude and very obviously alien (unlike, say, Ten, who often is just odd). He bakes when he's stressed and plays violin like a demon, and is just fabulous.

So, yes. I'm enjoying my EDA books. 8D I think Eight is My Doctor.


OKAY SO MOVING ON. I said ages ago I had a bunch of music to share. Next post: Nine albums up for grabs. After that, I think I have to post about fanvids because I'm so full of love for vidding right now and a specific new one demands meta and squee.

-Lucy

Comments

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

HEY. HEY I LOVE EIGHT LIKE A LOVING THING TOO.

I've no knowledge of the EDAs, but I do have the audios Paul McGann does with Big Finish and he is, quite simply, divine :) If you feel so inclined I can provide downloads of such brilliance.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

May I propose a trade? A lovely lady I know hooked me up with them. Ta-da! And if you listen to the Big Finish audios, Fitz was featured in "Company of Friends". Oh Fitz. ♥

But yeah. Eight. Fitz. Awesome. Why the fuck they don't have them show- oh well. I'm writing that fic anyway, so.

♥

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

A trade would be most agreeable :) I do have that Big Finish audio, so *squee!* relisten time! I must investigate this Fitz fellow.

There are quite a lot of Big Finish audios with Eight (all ones listed in gold), but I'm more than willing to upload, as I'm already in the process of doing so for another friend of mine. As long as I can be forgiven for slowness, I can get them all up :D

Thank you for the EDA! I've been lacking reading material of any sort, so this will be the shot in the arm I needed!

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Fitz is so wonderful. If I may point you to this post for a douse of at least the slashy aspect of his amazing. But really he's so complicated and lovely. He wants to be somebody, but not himself. He plays at being different people and is more comfortable in an assumed identity than his own. He's cowardly but always pulls through. And he's a guitarist and ridiculously Genre Savvy. And by the time you get into the book I'm in, he's a bit brilliant in his own way, competent and hopelessly devoted to the Doctor and their causes. I cannot gush about him enough.

I'd suggest "The Taint" (Fitz's intro) and "Unnatural History" for starters. The latter in particular is so brilliant though with the former... it's not nearly as good. by halfway through I was just skimming for character bits.

Uuuuuh. Uh. IDK what I'd want. Do you reccommend a good one to start on? Or maybe one with Bernice, as any woman who manages to become a minor god of alcohol is one I'll like.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

*saves bookmark* And thanks for the heads up; I'll likely get through all of them, but the starting point is nice :)


IT'S A BIT OVERWHELMING. I'll certainly compile some of the best ones first, I think. Benny is only in one with Eight so far ("The Company of Friends", I'll put it up if you don't already have it for Fitz!), but she has more with Seven, though I'm not finished listening to his or Six's audios just yet.

Stay tuned, I'll have some for you in the next, oh, twelve hours, haha.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I have "Company of Friends". In fact it's the only one I had. I'd listen to Benny's story in that but... uh. It's written by Lance Parkin. 8|

I really need to find a way to watch old Who. I wish I had BBC America, I think they show it on Sundays.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

It does? Huh. I have to find a way to commandeer the television on Sundays, in that case.

I started watching Classic Who by downloading torrents which allowed for en mass viewings (there's one with the entirety of Four's run, for instance. zomg, eight seasons of episodes.) If torrent's not your thing, surfthechannel.com is usually where I start with searches, and ninjavideo, though I confess I don't know what their current stock looks like. It is more than forty years' worth of material, after all D:

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is a lot. Thank you for the links, I'll try there. Mum also works with a Who fan who has most of the DVDs. One way or another, I'll get to it. 8D

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, how very convenient *rubs hands* Have a nice alibi for the night Who Fan's house is robbed.


I mean, what?


I has audios for you! Eight's companion at this time is an audio-exclusive named Charlotte Pollard, Charley to her friends, a rather young self-proclaimed Edwardian adventuress :) She has a sphere of awesome all her own, and it really feels like Eight treats her well and they're on even footing.

Invaders From Mars -- "War of the Worlds", Orson Welles, and frivolity and daft alien invasions in early 20th century New York :) Bonus Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (Spaced reunion!) as other characters in the story <3

The Chimes of Midnight -- probably my favorite of any of the Big Finish audios for any of the Doctors (save, maybe, the Five audio "Spare Parts"). Immense with the timey-wimey aspects, utterly brilliant besides with some amusing gallows humor. Though this one does requires a bit of background on Charley: before she met the Doctor, she was running away from her household and snuck aboard the airship R101 in male disguise, set to meet an acquaintance in Singapore. things went wrong, big alien plot-related thingy, the Doctor saves her life as the R101 is destroyed. This fact is very important :3

Seasons of Fear -- even more timey wimey stuff, with shades of potential arch-villainry, and being distinct in that it has a somewhat strange format, having Eight narrate at points. It's a bit cliffhangery at the end, only because it leads into a simply EPIC string of stories afterward, if you are interested in listening to them at such a time too :)

enjoy!

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh. :already half-done with DLing: I'll hit up the TARDIS wiki if I get confused about anything. Question though! The files are all.... .m4b? Do I need to play them in a certain program?

:eeeeeeeee excited:

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

if you have iTunes you're good -- if not, i think VLC will play that format...

EDIT: it's the same format that audiobooks are in when you buy them on iTunes. Convenient for when you need to take a break or something similar, because when you return to it, the file will pick up where you left off.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

I have never used itunes (Ubuntu user, la) but I'll figure it out. There's probably a GNU program I can use. 8D