Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

I pretty much love the fact that the instructions for the Talking TARDIS Money Bank basically say that if after installing the batteries in your bank it doesn't work it might be because you have reversed the polarity on the batteries.  I have Classic Who giggle fits every time they pop up.

Also, my toys came today, so I now have a total of ten action figures.  The new arrivals are Mickey with his big gun from Doomsday, Martha in the red leather jacket, blue-suited, red-Conversed, sexy specced Ten (Donna was so happy to see him), the season 1 DW Great Coat with incidental Jack Harkness included, and the Torchwood Gwen Cooper doll who is wearing high heeled boots and thus ends up spending a lot of her time on her back, which doesn't actually seem wrong given the character's relationships with Jack, Rhys, and Owen.  She does have a pedastal to stand on and holes in the bottoms of her boots, but I find it much more fun to walk into the room and find she's on her back again at Jack's feet.  They got the body right and the hair is close but the face isn't very accurate.

Best part?  There were pictures on the back of Gwen's packaging of Wave 2 of Torchwood's action figures and they will have Ianto and Tosh and they look pretty close to the actor's faces.  No Owen, though.  But Spike, I mean Captain John Hart, will be released then, too.

Anywho, I've got them all arranged now on the top of my dresser.  Mickey and Martha are holding off a little green dragon, while Season 1 Rose and Nine are fighting a giant pink one.  Donna and blue suit Ten are talking to K-9 to see what they can do to help while Cassandra's robot spiders from Platform One are being held at bay by the Great Coat with incidental Jack and his revolver and Gwen, on her back but with her trusty, shiny black gun aimed at one of the spiders.  Brown suit Ten in the trench coat and Season 2 Rose are oblivously dancing away in the middle of it all, totally caught up in each other.   If I have time this week I may very well do a picspam.

I just ordered my birthday prezzies from Who North America (yes, I do that, DH doesn't have the time or inclination) and I am such a little girl.

But I found  5 inch action figure Jack Harkness in his great coat!  His great coat!  I have serious love for the great coat.  I have not been able to find the great coat (with incidental Jack figure tucked inside) anywhere up until now.  It was more elusive than season one Rose.  But now it'll be in my hot little hands very soon.  Along with that I ordered a blue suit Ten in sexy specs for my Donna doll because she was lonely (not like that, they're just friends!), Mickey with the big gun and Martha because I so ship them together (don't ask) and the new Gwen Cooper to keep Jack company.

Now if they'll put out a season 4 Rose doll I'll be over the moon.  I saw a mock-up on someone's LJ not too long ago but I never heard if it was real or a photo-shopped version.  It certainly looked real.

Now the question is whether or not they will arrive before the 12th.  Not that they have to come on my actual birthday but it'd be nice seeing as Chris will still be in Alaska then.

What's left on my wish list?  The Master, Sarah Jane and the TARDIS playset.  Maybe for Christmas.

Meanwhile Tobias wants a Rose, K-9, and Ten for his birthday and a sonic screwdriver.  I've corrupted both my kids now. *grins gleefully*  We're a 3 generation Who loving family now.  Hee.

I bumped my bookcase on the way out of my room as I left for town today and when I came home I noticed that Nine and Rose had fallen down into a rather compromising position.  I had them balanced rather precariously as they were dancing and in order to make them dance they have to lean kinda funny and be all up on their toes, especially with the way season one Rose's knees are permanently bent.  Well, looks like they're still dancing...
( A compromising situation )

Nine!muse is conspicuoulsy absent at present.  I think I may have smutted him out in Shredded.  I'm sure he'll be back.  He always comes back with his...tail between his legs.  I do have one line around which to wrap the next chapter of You're What? with if Nine!muse does decide to come back.  I hope so.  I'd hate to think he's run off to wherever it is that alt!Nine muse has hidden himself in.

Right now Ten!muse seems to be in full flair. Well, Ten!Muse and Ten2!muse anyhow.  Vortex has about 300 words on the next chapter, but Zeppelins has 1648, so it's at the halfway mark.  No, that does not mean stay up all night hitting the refresh key (you know who you are!).  It won't be done tonight.  There is a vague possibility it will be done tomorrow night but I'm thinking more along the lines of the evening of the 1st Pacific Time.

The Jack Harkness/Claire Bennett fic that I am not writing is now up to 1200 words long.  I'm also not talking about it.  *kicks plot bunny*

( Yes, my mind is a strange place to visit. Try living here... )

Well, both A Sky Without Zeppelins and the next chapter of You're What? are rolling along quite nicely.  The first is a little over 1700 words in and the second 1400, so both are about half done.  I'm trying to think up something for a sequel to Body Paint, but all I'm getting is grumpy, uncooperative Nine grousing at Rose.  Tried to come up with some smutty fluff for ladychi who isn't feeling well and all I've managed is a couple hundred words of hurt/comfort that is far more hurt than comfort and I don't think that will make anyone feel better. *shrugs*  I'll likely just save it and insert it into a "the Doctor is being a jerk" chapter of something else.

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