Daibhid's Journal

Here's a list of all my fanfic. I think.

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(Gosh, it's June already. If I'm going to get back into the habit of this I should probably get it done...)

1) The Dark Side of the Moon planetarium show is an incredible experience even (especially?) if you aren't actually that familiar with The Dark Side of the Moon.

2) When she was a child, Jane Goodall read Tarzan and Doctor Doolittle and decided she wanted to go to Africa and learn to communicate with animals.
(Although honestly, the more I think about this one, the more I suspect that while it's probably not untrue, hindsight may have exaggerated how much of a defining moment it was.)

3) The too-often forgotten father of geology, Hugh Miller, was as much a part of the Scottish Enlightenment as Smith or Hume, and was actually in an oyster club with them. Not only that, but they're all among the other figures in the famous painting of Rabbie Burns meeting Sir Walter Scott!

4) When your mobile won't charge (fixed now) and you have e-tickets, it's a real pain to have to drag your tablet all round Edinburgh.

(Blows metaphorical dust off the journal)

Hello? Is this thing still working? Goodness it's been a while. Didn't even do a Fringe post (which would have been about 30% "the shows I saw were great" to 70% complaining about the booking site). So, what's been happening more recently?

1. I enjoyed the first two episodes of The War Between Land and Sea, but I don't have the energy to actually review them. Maybe an overview of the whole thing in two weeks.

2. I also enjoyed Zootopia 2, which, after some agonising, I actually went to see at the cinema despite a lack of small children I could take as cover. (I took my nephew to the first one but, of course, that was a decade ago.) Despite my anxiety, this did not seem to attract any attention.

I don't know why my brain turned this into A Thing: no problem with Spider-Verse, possibly because that's superheroes not talking animals; but also no problem with the Muppets, possibly because that's live action not a cartoon. But for some reason, the combo triggered something in my head. But I got past it, and now that I've broken that barrier, I notice there's a Looney Tunes movie out in February...

3. It's December already, and I've just remembered Yuletide is a thing that exists. Ah, well, next year, hopefully. (As I say every year.)

4. Talking of fanfic, I've just realised I don't know how different pseuds work on AO3, but it's possible people following me as Daibhid might not know I've taken to writing Wold-Newton nonsense (or rather, cleaning up and publishing the Wold-Newton nonsense I've already written, although the most recent article is actually new) under the name DM Kennedy WNS. If you're interested in someone taking questions like "What if literally every fictional character named Tyler was actually related?" way too seriously, well, that's what I'm doing.

5. For some reason I was looking at my old posts, going back to the LJ days, and I found a questionaire meme where I was asked "Do you like drama?" and replied "Sometimes". And I stared at it in disbelief wondering what I was thinking, because I hate drama. 

And then I realised that, in 2009, I didn't really know what "drama" meant on the internet. I thought I liked drama sometimes, but mostly I preferred comedy...

Okay. I've spent a week trying to work out what I even made of this (not just that, obviously; I didn't phone work and say "Sorry, I need to spend every minute trying to process what the heck Doctor Who's supposed to be doing."), and I'm not sure it helped. So this is going to be even more stream-of-consciousness and rambling than normal, sorry,

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Okay, so, let's do this.

Joy to the World

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The Robot Revolution

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Lux

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The Well
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So I was browsing Muppet Wiki, as one does, and I learned that the Irish Rodents, from that one episode of Muppets Tonight, have a fake vinyl hanging on the wall in Walt Disney World's PizzeRizzo restaurant (along with the Mice Girls from Muppets From Space, the Ratler Brothers from the "Flowers on the Wall" YouTube video, and Roland Rat from something approaching real life). And I thought it might be a fun exercise of the song parody muscles to actually write the songs on that record: "Salty Rat", "Pied Piper's Call", and "Take It and Scurry".

...So, it turns out that "Piper's Call" is an instrumental (assuming for multiple reasons that it's not the Dave Gilmour one), while "Salty Dog" by Flogging Molly and "Take It and Run" by the Dropkick Murphys are both incredibly dark, so I'm struggling to come up with fun, Muppety versions. I haven't given up, but I'm struggling.

In the meantime, it occurred to me that the Irish Rodents are named after the Irish Rovers, and the Irish Rovers are named after another folk song, so I did that instead.

The Irish Rodent
(with apologies to The Dubliners.)

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No spoilers this week, just

What?

WHAT??

WHAT?!?


(Seriously, I think I need to wait until next week before I know what I think about any of this.)

(But seriously, WHAT?!?)
 

Well, that was surprising.

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Well that was a nailbiter!

 

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