Just a small heads up to let everyone know that I'm off to England tomorrow and won't have any internet access until I get to Canada on Aug 7. Then I'll be fully back online when I'm back here in France on Aug 18. So this journal will be sort of quiet until late August. I haven't dropped off the face of Earth, just gone on holiday. ;)

I thought it was about time I compiled recommendations for Doctor Who music videos I love. I recently lost all my data in my computer crash, including one of the videos below that I loved, and after spending over an hour searching for it again, I decided I should stop procrastinating and just make this post.

So here goes, my favourite Doctor Who videos!

Right, I've been trying to fiddle with the settings of my (formatted) laptop and I ran into (another) problem.

I was moving my user files to D (newly created partition) but somehow messed up and now I have a folder named "Kaethel" in My Documents, in which there's my Desktop folder. And of course I can't change it back. I created a folder named "to be deleted", but it wouldn't move "Kaethel" to it. Says I need authorisation. And when I delete the "to be deleted folder", it resurrects it after a few seconds. So I don't know what to do, and I need help. Big time.

*begs*

I think I screwed up in a monumental way tonight. My hard drive was very full so I tried transferring a large (very large) folder of audio files to my external hard drive. Sometime in the transfer, the whole computer froze. And so I did something I should NEVER do: take the battery out and restart. Usually that solves it.

Um... not this time.

Vista won't restart. At all. I got a black screen, then a BSOD saying:

STOP: c0000142 {DLL initialization failed}
Initialization of the dynamic link library winsrv failed. The process is terminating abnormally.

... then I restarted again, trying to restore from the last time the computer had booted normally. Black screen, then a large mouse-arrow... nothing else.

I don't know what to do. Mostly I wonder what I should do. I don't really want to SEND the computer back to Dell if I can avoid it. I want my stuff back. My works-in-progress (thank goodness I'd sent the fic I'm currently working on to jennijungle a few minutes earlier, so I got that back. But all my other files are there. Everything from videos to word files to music to everything.

I think I'm gonna cry now.

Title: Does it need saying?
Author: Kaethel (kae_nine)
Characters/Pairing: Ten, Ten/Rose
Rated: G
Spoilers: Journey’s End
Summary: not available for spoilers’ sake.
Disclaimer: Aaah, if Ten was mine...
A/N: Writing fic at 4:20 am and thanking RTD for it. This drabble is my excuse for watching one special scene over and over and over.

What to say about The Stolen Earth, other that it turned out to be yet another Doomsday for me? I cried. I cried the way I had cried watching the final scenes of Doomsday. I smiled and screamed and cried and felt pretty much every emotion one can feel while watching an episode, and I cursed and worshipped RTD all at the same time. And it took me a week to recover enough to write this review. Fanfic writing and reading was the catharsis I needed first. But wow. Just... wow.

Title: Last Breath
Series: Breathing – Story 4/4
Author: Kaethel (kae_nine)
Characters/Pairing: Ten, Rose, Ten/Rose, Donna, Jack
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Stolen Earth
Summary: ... can't be given without spoiling the episode, other than saying this final story deals with the Doctor’s point of view throughout *the* scene.
A/N: This is the fourth and final story in the series I started writing on Saturday night after watching Stolen Earth.
Here are the links back to the first three stories in the series:
Keep Breathing (Rose's POV)
Holding My Breath (Donna's POV)
Breathless (Jack's POV)
Many thanks to  wendymr and dark_aegis for BRing, and to jennijungle for the fanfic posters.

Title: Breathless
Series: Breathing – Story 3/4
Author: Kaethel (kae_nine)
Characters/Pairing: Jack, Ten/Rose, Donna
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Stolen Earth
Summary: ... can't be given without spoiling the episode, other than saying this third story in the series covers the same scene, this time from Jack’s point of view.
A/N: This is the third story in the series I started writing on Saturday night after watching Stolen Earth. All four stories will be posted throughout the week, and the series will be done and completely posted by Saturday. The first story, Keep Breathing, was dealing with Rose’s point of view, and the second one, Holding My Breath, with Donna’s POV.
Huge thanks to  wendymr for her extremely helpful suggestions and edits, and to jennijungle for the fanfic posters.

Title: Holding My Breath
Series: Breathing – Story 2/4
Author: Kaethel (kae_nine)
Characters/Pairing: Donna, Ten/Rose, Jack
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Stolen Earth
Summary: ... can't be given without spoiling the episode, other than saying this second story in the series covers the same scene, this time from Donna’s point of view.
A/N: This is the second story in the series I started writing on Saturday night after watching Stolen Earth. All four stories will be posted throughout the week, and the series will be done and completely posted by Saturday. The first story in the series, Keep Breathing, was dealing with Rose's point of view.
Many thanks to  wendymr for BRing this at very short notice, and to jennijungle both for the fanfic posters and for helping me when I was struggling to rewrite a specific paragraph.

God. Where to start? I’m not even feeling coherent right now. Even the morning after having seen Turn Left, I’m still on a high. Or a low. I’m not quite sure. I spent so long thinking about what this episode would be like, what Rose’s return would be like, what the Doctor’s reaction would be to having Rose back, what would inevitably come in the way to stop them from shagging snogging hugging at least saying hello. I was so terrified of being disappointed, of having to face another Dobby-Doctor or a moralising point or a whole ‘let’s turn back times and make none of the last four years happen at all’. I suppose I was wrong to worry. I should have remembered that this is RTD’s creation, that he usually doesn’t mess up (too much) and that both Rose and Donna seem to inspire him to create wonderful plots and dialogues.

There are many reasons why Turn Left was an episode I’ll want to watch again.

Title: Run
Author: Kaethel (kae_nine)
Pairing: Ten/Rose
Rating: PG
Spoilers: mid-S4 trailer (which was the last actual spoiler I allowed myself to see)
Summary: Her name was a sigh on his lips, last whispered too long ago, now rusty on his tongue.
A/N: Inspired by pre-episode-induced-squee and too many times listening to the songs on my current playlist. Written in-between opening a gazillion boxes in my new flat. I’m so excited (and terrified to be disappointed, too) about what tonight's episode might or might not be (especially since I even refused to watch last week's end-of-episode preview for fear of being spoiled) that I felt I *had* to write my own Ten/Rose scene before I got to see what RTD did. Reality will probably be as far from this as it can be. But hey, take it as what I’d wish for it to be, I suppose. Unbeta’ed.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!

SQUEEEEEE!!!

Like that's a question you need to ask. That guy is simply wonderful. Yesterday, I tell him, in random conversation, that I'm ready for a change in my LJ and could he, if he has time, once S4 is over, take a look and think of a header if he feels inspired?

This morning, he'd created several versions of a header for me, and didn't even complain when I was fussy with him and made him tweak and redo and was a complete pain in the backside. He's simply the best. And the new header looks spiffy, I think! Plus I switched to Expressive for a layout, which means I finally have that tag cloud I was missing so much in TranquilityII! Yay!

And yay for dave7!

No, no, no, no, NO! Just... no!

I had a thought tonight that maybe I ought to post a note whenever I update my rec list. I should really post the rec list in question to the comms - just haven't got around to doing it yet. But will do, really, will do!



Don't forget to check the full rec list!

I like less and less the idea that Steven Moffat is going to be our new guru. Sorry to start the review with such a negative sentence, but this was really his pass-or-fail episode to me, and while I enjoyed the episode to some extent, I didn’t find it amazing, extraordinary, breathtaking, or russelltdaviesish in the least. It’s a whole bunch of been there, done that, got the t-shirt, can we move on now please? I mean, at times it truly felt like he’d been grabbing various elements from various episodes (mostly those he’s written), thrown them in together and made one great big salad out of them. And the fact that the confidential this week looks like one great big Moffat-can-write commercial didn’t put me in good spirits either.

Just a short post to tell everyone wondering that I'm still around, haven't dropped off the face of Earth, and my interest in DW hasn't dwindled one bit.

However, you might have noticed I'm posting less often than I used to, both on my journal and all over the comms. This is a very temporary situation due to an enormous amount of work and real-life issues colliding at the wrong time.

Once I've moved into my new apartment, once the last bit of the school year and preparation for next year is done, once I've taken my Cambridge English exam, then I can breathe again and relax and do fun stuff like write fic, comment, review etc.

So that's it, really. I'm still around, just swamped. :P

Just been told about this and I *have* to share with my f-list in case some of you haven't seen it yet.

Doctor Who: Well...

Hilarious and just plain brilliant. A must-see!

I was *very* excited about my upcoming summer holiday. Very naively, I had planned it all, was going to have a big Doctor Who trip to England, visit the exhbitions in London and Cardiff, take a DW tour of Cardiff, go to the DW proms concert in London with yconnell, then go see Hamlet in Stratford and finally see David Tennant in something different, which I was very curious and enthusiastic about.

Well, this morning I learned that we couldn't get seats to the proms concert (but that was okay, because I'm so excited about seeing yconnell again anyway that the concert was just the icing on the cake) and right after, that all tickets to Hamlet had been sold out... which I'm actually a lot more disappointed about. I should have expected it, I should have booked tickets waaaay ahead of time, but then I figure that even when I discovered about the play a few weeks ago, things were already sold out anyway.

Anyway, can't have everything, eh? Got very good news in my job this week, so I guess Murphy's Law figured now would be a good time to crush my mood. :P No Stratford for me this summer then. We'll go to Brighton instead.