triedunture | A post about a book and some TV

So I finally FINALLY finished reading John Hodgman's latest book, More Information than You Require. It's a funny book, but exhausting to read. The joke is that it's a book packed with "information" and so there's a lot of it, but sometimes the energy required to read all of it so as not to miss out on any of the funny is just too much.

There was, however, an awesome tangent Hodgman went on concerning a love affair between Thomas Jefferson and a re-gendered mole man. That made me LOL hard out in the park this afternoon.

I declare it good times, but maybe not good subway reading.

OK, onto TV.

SO GUYS I JUST FINISHED WATCHING SEASON 3 OF DOCTOR WHO. ZOMG.

Jesus fucking Christ! That was some epicness that just wouldn't stop being epic! The GAH and the WHEW and the WUT and the ARGH! Emotional rollercoaster. Emocoaster?

So now that I've finished the season *grabby hand gesture* MASTER/DOCTOR FIC PLZ. I'm obv. going to be scrounging for some myself, but if y'all got some that you've been hiding from me, plz to be sharing because...because...because....!

IMMA GONNA HAVE A PAIRING SQUEE RIGHT ABOUT NAO.

Guys, this is totes the feel-bad pairing of the century! It's doomed and twisted and sick and wrong, and it's also sad and weird and a little crazy. But it's also, I dunno, sweet the way the Doctor wants to take care of the Master, to help him, to keep him safe. And the Master is fucking insane in such a cool way. But so is the Doctor! And so, so, so, soooooo BLARGH.

ZOMG I have no FUCKING idea how the canon works here, but I've already got questions. I've already got ideas! Was it the Doctor that gave the Master the watch that would allow him to run from the Time War? Did the Doctor let him go because he wanted to keep him safe? No, no, no, he had no idea the Master was still alive, right? So I guess these watches are just, I dunno, Time Lord kit that gets handed out at the academy? How fucked up is that!?

Oh, hey, speaking of fucked up...

"We've gone back exactly one year ago, right after the President of the USA was assassinated. EVERYTHING'S BACK TO NORMAL! :D"

GUYS YOU COULDN'T HAVE GONE BACK 1 OR 2 MINUTES MORE TO I DUNNO SAVE OUR LEADER FROM BEING INCINERATED?

Hey, that's cool. I know how pissed you were at us back in 2006. I get it. But still. You've sort of left America hanging there. (Though I guess your PM was also teh ded so I suppose that's fair.)

ANOTHER QUESTION THIS TIME ABOUT TIME LORD BIOLOGY. So I guess, barring any accidents, a Time Lord's body can live indefinitely? I mean, the Master packed 900 years into the Doctor's body and it was still going, even though he looked gross. I heard a rumor somewhere (*cough*wikipedia*cough*) that Time Lords can only regenerate 13 times. Trufax? Or no?

ALSO HAI JACK HARKNESS = BOE. That's effed up too. Even a trillion years into the future, even if Jack was just a floating head in a jar, you KNOW he'd still be coming onto that Furry nurse of his and trying to shoot people in the face and downright being AMERICAN.

(btw, how cute is it when he says British phrases in his American voice? "You lot"? Dang, Russell T Davies, get an American friend to glance over your script. Or not! After all, you did kill our president like hard.)

While I'm at it, I guess Jack/Doctor isn't TOO distasteful. Bring it on, INTERNET.

I think that's all the squeeing and questions I have for now. MAN, am I glad I stuck with this show. Brew, thanks for kinda sorta making me watch it.

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Looms!

Seriously, if you want to cause chaos in a Doctor Who comm, just mention the canonocity of the Looms. There has been massive wank on whether this is canon or not, and whether it's the *only* way Time Lords reproduce or not.

(My theory is that reproduce, marriage, and sex are all culturally separate entities. Who a Time Lord reproduces with is based on genetics (and yes, I think there are Looms). Who a Time Lord marries is based on politics. And who a Time Lord has sex with is based who they actually like. And this is usually three entirely different people. That's all just my personal fanon, though.)

dameruth gives Time Lords some very strange sexual organs. This fic is probably the best example of that.

Most fic, however, even fic I love, is in that aspect disappointingly human. Although some people do get some good telepathy!sex going.

Edited to fix link.

I was JUST thinking about telepathy!sex. I mean, when you look at the biggest differences between Time Lords and humans, it's the fact that Time Lords aren't very attached to their bodies, yeah? I mean, they get a new one every few seasons. Soooooo why wouldn't their naughty pleasures be mental instead of physical? I think that's plausible.

Ooooo...thank you for explaining looms.

I was about to call in some backup to help tell about eet. :D

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