fictional | Thank you all, some incidentals, and a stable shaped TARDIS

Thank you all for your words of encouragement! I am feeling a bit better, and slightly less like an extremely angsty seventeen. Which is good. I don't know how teenagers make it through adolescence without killing themselves or being killed by others. I appreciate it muchly, and will endeavor to be a little less classic lj-whiny in future - but I make no promises. *grin*

I watched the Children in Need charity thing. First of all, it was pretty budget, wasn't it? I mean just the first two mins of the Christmas special? CHEAP. And also, *sniff* it was sad. Two minutes less of absolutely new Ten material. I really want my Seven Doctors story. Now that would've encouraged me to donate!

At some point soon, I've got to post pictures of the Chicago thing, and

magnetgirl's and my incredibly underappreciated halloween costumes. And the regency ball photo essay! I see I have a lot of fiddling with pictures in my near future.

Today I taught "The Last Battle" and Neil Gaiman's "The Problem of Susan." Susan was always my favorite; she had long black hair, as opposed to Lucy's golden curls, she was a wicked shot with a bow, and could swim, and I loved her. "The Last Battle" broke my heart. What do y'all think about the problem of Susan? I don't know why being an outcast from an undesirable redemption filled me with so much woe, but it did. Also, the Stable at the end of the Last Battle? Lewis says it's "bigger on the inside than it is on the outside."

faris_nallaneen accuses me of seeing everything with TARDIS colored glasses. Probably true.

If it's wrong, I don't want to be right.

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I totally do! *has vision of actual, tardis shaped blue lenses* That would be kinda... awesome.

I really loved Susan. I wonder why it is that I never want to like the character that the author clearly wants me to like the most. Is it just contrariness? Or something else? In some ways, I think it always feels unjust to me; if a character is the author's favorite, I feel like they have an unfair advantage. But it's also possible that I'm simply predictably ornery. This gets even worse when you figure that the author picked their favorite because they were the underdog. Like, grownups prefer Lucy to Susan, so good old Clive Staples makes her the "be all, end all" - and then, I feel like Susan gets a raw deal, so I like her better. It's very weird.

But mostly I think I just liked her. She was awesome. I used to make pretend bows with twigs and try to shoot things.

Thank you all, some incidentals, and a stable shaped TARDIS

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