Trabia Garden

You know, Otacon would be sort of delightful as the Doctor's companion. He would be so fascinated by everything. (He would also be terrified, but he would never be able to leave the Doctor, on account of having fallen madly in love with the TARDIS.)

Other possible companions for the Doctor (I've posted on this topic before, of course, but the possibilities are never quite exhausted): Sora, Riku and Kairi. The trio have been planning for years to build a raft and sail away from Destiny Island together. One night, their island is overrun by Heartless and swallowed up by the darkness. Sora, Riku and Kairi are standing back-to-back-to-back on Riku's favourite part of the island, slashing ineffectually at the little shadowy creatures with their wooden swords, and just when all hope seems lost a blue box materialises before them.

Riku doesn't trust the Doctor at all; he's convinced that he is the one responsible for the destruction of their home. Sora trusts him completely, though, and Kairi, despite some initial wariness, seems to like him, so Riku rolls his eyes and steps into the TARDIS. Just to make sure his friends don't get themselves killed.

...hey, wait. This is completely unrelated to the characters-as-the-Doctor's-companion subject, but does Riku have a Nobody? (Kixur? Kirux?) Surely it would make sense. He did have the Heartless symbol on his chest in the first game, so I sort of assumed there was at least a period of being a Heartless. (I was going to say 'a period of Heartlessness', but of course the Heartless aren't heartless. It's the Nobodies that don't have hearts. In fact, Nobodies are just, er, bodies. DEAR KINGDOM HEARTS: YOUR NAMING SYSTEM MAKES PRECISELY NO SENSE.)


OTHER CHARACTERS WHO SHOULD BE THE DOCTOR'S COMPANION: DONNA NOBLE.

YES, SHE IS A CANONICAL COMPANION, BUT SHE SHOULD BE HIS COMPANION ALL THE TIME.

I love you, Donna.


Unrelatedly: yesterday, when I posted my ill-advised Captain John Hart: Team Rocket Agent manip, dracothelizard asked who his team partner would be.

The obvious answer was 'Suzie Costello'.

They've never met in canon, of course, but I have a feeling that they could make a rather marvellous team. Jack's Houndoom, Gwen's Eevee/Flareon, Ianto's Aerodactyl and Owen's Carvanha had better watch out. (Tosh's Porygon lives in the computer system, so it's probably safe. UNTIL HART AND COSTELLO INFECT THE TORCHWOOD COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH A VIRUS AND IT EVOLVES INTO PORYGON-Z, OH NO.)


On an even less related note: this morning, I received a large envelope in the post.

It contained a High School Musical paper plate and nothing else.

Most perplexing. (wanttobeatree... wanttobeatree? Was that you?)

Troy looks like a Hobbit on it and I don't know why.

I have returned from the 'Asylum' Supernatural convention!

Firstly: I was terribly nervous beforehand, and it was very expensive, and the organisation was dreadful, and we lived off crisps and Subway sandwiches for three days, and I've never queued so much in my life, but it was such a good experience and I'm so glad I went. I was sharing a room with wanttobeatree and theoret, who are amazing, and all of the actors were some combination of friendly, hilarious, adorable and insane.

(From what I've heard, however, Jensen Ackles may have had a less good experience, which makes me quite sad. THINGS FOR FUTURE CONVENTION ORGANISERS TO BEAR IN MIND: you cannot force a man to sign a million autographs in two afternoons, because his hand will fall off.)


Friday was a rather frustrating day of travelling on trains and failing to travel in queues, of which the highlight was playing 'Truth or Unicorn' in the photo queue with a_starfish. Basically, the players sit in a circle and spin a toy unicorn, and then the person to whom the horn is pointing has to either act like a unicorn or tell the truth... about unicorns.

We are easily amused. Also, wanttobeatree is an excellent galloper.

By the time we filed into the panel room on Saturday, we had spent countless hours in queues and on trains, and we were tired, and the start was delayed, and I was wondering whether I had made a horrible mistake by coming, and then a fanvid to 'The Boys are Back' from High School Musical 3 started up and I knew it was going to be a good weekend.

Here is the story of my favourite part.


( That Time Riona Got Autographs From Genevieve Cortese And Also Some Dude Called Jared Padasomething. )


Speaking of High School Musical (well, I was before the cut): an audience member suggested that Zac Efron play Sam in ten or twenty years' time. THAT'S RIGHT: ZAC EFRON IS FIFTY-YEAR-OLD SAM WINCHESTER.


At some point in the future, I shall probably make a rambling and disjointed entry about the actors who were, you know, actually there to talk and things, all of whom were amazing. For now, however, all you get is this little tale of my being smitten and ridiculous. Also, I'll tell you that at one point Jensen Ackles, rather oddly, said, 'If I were a dude, I would be here.'

It doesn't make any more sense in context.

Sorry I've been a bit rubbish at responding to comments recently! I've been panicking about deadlines and such, but now I don't have any more exams until the ninth of June, so I'll be able to spend some time on Livejournal without the horrible WHY ARE YOU NOT WORKING guilt.

Here are some recent events:

- MY HOUSEMATE GAVE ME A MUG FEATURING THE MANIP I MADE OF MYSELF WITH A BULBASAUR AND A ZUBAT.

WHAT ON EARTH? (BEST HOUSEMATE EVER.)

- Because I am not nearly so good a housemate, I forced her to watch the first episode of Pokémon, which had been tragically missing from her childhood. She was unimpressed.

I, on the other hand, wept.

ASH HAS SUCH A GOOD HEART. He has no brain whatsoever, but he has such a good heart.


Today, I watched the first episode of Death Note. I've been spoiled backwards for the series, but it's something I've always been vaguely interested in investigating, because, hey, who doesn't love twisted ethics and insane protagonists?

My main conclusion so far: Light reminds me a bit of my brother. I hope that's just because of the hair and the clothes and the massive intelligence, rather than the megalomania and murder. There was also a very confusing moment at which Ryuuku strongly reminded me of Dr Frank-N-Furter. A Death Note/Rocky Horror crossover would probably not work terribly well.

A Death Note/Silent Hill crossover, on the other hand...

Also, who knew that writing in a notebook could be made so dramatic? (A link to TVTropes would be appropriate here, but I'll spare your afternoon.) And I love that Light screams and falls off his chair when Ryuuku shows up, and then immediately starts saying 'well, yes, of course I was expecting you' in a very controlled voice. You're not fooling anyone, Light.

(Apparently, there are Death Note videogames. How do those work? Is the aim to write names?)


A while ago, I was speculating on what Sharpay of High School Musical would be like with a Death Note (answer: terrifying). dracothelizard commented that she would decorate it, and thus the travesty beneath the cut was born. A couple of you may have seen this before, but I've never actually posted it in an entry.


( Cut to protect you from the sparkles. )


This is also, incidentally, what Edward Cullen's Death Note would look like.

A telephone call I just received:

rionaleonhart: Hello?
reipan: Hi! I was just calling to ask you what time it was.
rionaleonhart: ...summertime?
reipan: Excellent! I'll talk to you later. 'Bye!

YES. THIS IS HOW WE CELEBRATE THE CLOCKS GOING FORWARD. BECAUSE WE ARE DORKS.


And now, after the brief respite of the past two entries, some thoughts on Derren Brown.

The problem with writing Derren Brown fanfiction is the lack of a character pool. Obviously, Derren interacts with many people in the canon, but most of these are members of the public whom he meets only once and about whom we know very little. There are a few 'characters' with whom we know he has a more sustained relationship, such as Coops and Andy Nyman, but we see him interacting with them only on brief behind-the-scenes bits and so we cannot build up a full sense of how he and they behave together. We know Derren has a boyfriend, but we do not know anything about this boyfriend; he wants to stay out of the public eye, which is perfectly understandable. I think the want of other characters is the reason there are so many crossovers on derrenbrownfic (there are now eighteen crossover tags, which is impressive for such a tiny fandom); we need to borrow characters from other fandoms to give Derren someone with whom to interact. Well, that and the fact that I shamelessly encourage crossovers at every opportunity.

Why, yes, I am just musing aloud on Derren Brown fanfiction in the hope that it will somehow inspire people to write some. I cannot help it. I'm hooked. He lends such a wonderful tone to everything. (Only eighteen crossover tags! We can do better than that! ALSO, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SAM WINCHESTER/DERREN BROWN OR FANFICTION ABOUT DERREN BEING A YOUNG DUMBLEDORE.)


A question about moderating derrenbrownfic: my system when a pairing is implied or barely-there is to tag the entry with both 'gen' and 'slash', as it could appeal to fans of both. Do you think this makes sense? Is it too confusing?

(EDIT: Er, obviously this is when a slash pairing is implied. We don't have any Derren Brown hetfic yet, but I would certainly not object to some. I am oddly intrigued by the idea of Derren Brown/Fran of Final Fantasy XII, actually. Derren Brown finds himself off-balance because he does not know how to read Viera! Balthier is torn between amusement and resentment! Fran is awesome!)

Oh, dear. I keep wanting to update, partly because I am bored and partly because finding myself confronted by the twin stares of Derren Brown and his Jigglypuff every time I visit my journal is starting to seriously unnerve me, but my fandom of the moment is this ridiculous imaginary universe in which Derren Brown is the Doctor's companion, and I don't want to ramble about that too much for fear of giving away everything that happens in the fic.

Perhaps I could write a few snippets in which Derren and the Doctor pop into fandoms that aren't going to show up in the actual story? Yes, I believe I shall.




"I've worked it out!" the Doctor announces. "The cliff face on the left is allergic to feet!"

There is a pause.

"The cliff is allergic to feet," Derren says.

"I thought maybe it was sunglasses, but it's definitely feet. See, all the Zoombinis with feet are on the other side."

"The cliff," Derren says. "Is allergic. To feet."

"Humans," the Doctor says, rolling his eyes. "Show them a species that's born wearing rollerskates and they'll still have trouble with a little allergic cliff."

-
"I'm sure there are more interesting places to visit than contemporary New Mexico."

"Contemporary for you, maybe," the Doctor points out. "I haven't been in 2008 for aaaaaages."

"I see," Derren says. "And is there any particular reason we've come to a school?"

The Doctor grins. Somewhere inside the building, a bell rings.

Derren's mind goes suddenly blank, and the next thing of which he is aware is dancing in a huge group of brightly-clad teenagers, singing enthusiastically about the end of the school day. He is more than a little perturbed by this. The mildly worrying issue of involuntary singing and the embarrassment of being twice the age of his fellow dancers aside, Derren is not particularly enthusiastic about the end of the school day. The end of the school day means there are many more Channel Four watchers on the street to stop him, making any sort of journey five times longer. The song is a highly inaccurate representation of his feelings.

When whatever has induced this (hopefully) temporary insanity forces him to drop to one knee and serenade the Doctor, however, he decides that accuracy is overrated.

-
Derren has a vague feeling that bursting into giggles may not be the wisest thing to do, given the circumstances. The circumstances, of course, being 'Derren is at present concealed in the undergrowth, downwind from a vampire with incredible speed, strength and senses, who has recently ripped the head off a still-living deer and is probably entirely capable of doing the same thing to Derren'.

But there are only so many reponses possible when a deadly, terrifying predator stands in the sunlight and sparkles.




Speaking of giant mechanical spiders, I have been rewatching the first season of One Tree Hill with my housemates, and I find myself massively 'shipping Haley/Peyton this time around. They would be adorable! Please tell me that there is Haley/Peyton in the future, One Tree Hill watchers.

( Ramblings on the Eleventh Doctor. Do not read if you don't want to know who's been cast! )


Anyway! Who do you think should be the Eleventh Doctor's companion? My vote is for you. YES, YOU, THE READER. Or Zac Efron, because that would just be hilarious. (EVEN THOUGH ZAC EFRON IS IN FACT THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR OH DEAR DID I JUST LEAVE A SPOILER OUTSIDE THE CUT?)

Why, hello, Toph! I haven't yet seen enough of you to make a judgement, but it's nice to meet you at last.

'ZUKO ALONE' MAKES ME SO SAD. But wee Zuko may be the cutest thing ever to grace my television screen. Bless him! (I think I said 'OH, ZUKO' about five times during that episode. Zuko! I adore you! COME TO MY HOUSE; I PROMISE I WILL LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. THERE WILL BE ROOM FOR YOUR CHOCOBO SOMEWHERE, I AM SURE.

...'Chocobo' sounded like a horrible euphemism there, but I can assure you it was not.)


I totally started singing 'Gotta Go My Own Way' from High School Musical 2 at the end of 'Avatar Day'. I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself.

'I need to find my own way.'
'OH, I'VE GOT TO MOVE ON AND BE WHO I AM...'


Have I mentioned how incredibly pretty Avatar is? Because it is. It's absolutely beautiful. Also, it has eight billion fighting scenes, and somehow they never get boring. I have no idea how it has managed that, because fighting scenes usually bore me senseless.

(I just realised I was absently singing 'Secret tunnel, secret tunnel...' to myself. Hooray! I think this is something I shall now have to do every time I go through anything remotely tunnel-like.)


This time, when I opted to restore the entry draft, what appeared was 'So, if a Zoombini knew Waterbending...'

I am not sure where I was going with this, but I suppose the Titanic Tattooed Toads stage would be a lot easier. In fact, if the Zoombinis had a Waterbender, an Earthbender and an Airbender in every team, very few of the stages would be a problem.

Of course, now I am thinking about what Zoombini Katara, Aang and Toph would look like. Airbending Zoombinis totally have propellor feet. Katara, Aang and Sokka would all have blue noses; Toph would have a green one. Zoombini Zuko has a red nose. I suppose Zoombini Zuko would find disguising the fact that he is from the Fire Nation much more difficult than non-Zoombini Zuko. (EDIT: And I have just realised that Zuko's scar would totally translate to cyclopism, were he a Zoombini.)




INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE REAL THING, I THINK YOU'LL FIND.

I should not be this fascinated by the idea of Avatar characters as Zoombinis.

To the three persons from my English Language course who came up to me on the train platform and allowed me to join their conversation: you won't see this, but I was feeling terribly lonely after the seminar, and you are the reason I wasn't in tears on my journey back from campus today. Thank you so much; you have no idea how much you helped me.


To America: I hope you have been voting for Obama. He plays the ukulele. And he's probably got some policies and things, but, seriously, you need a president who can play the ukulele. Don't deny it. (Everyone I passed today was discussing the election. Everyone. There's not nearly so much interest when it's time to elect a party for our country.)


To self: I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU BOOKED A PLACE AT A SUPERNATURAL CONVENTION. YOU ARE SUCH A DORK. AND IT'S GOING TO DRAG YOU UP TO BIRMINGHAM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR EXAMS. AND YOU FORGOT TO FILL IN YOUR ADDRESS, SO YOU MAY NOT EVEN GET THE CONFIRMATION LETTER WITH THE DETAILS YOU NEED. WAY TO GO. (I've e-mailed the guy in charge, so with any luck I have not ruined my chances of meeting wanttobeatree and sazzlette eeeeeeeeee. APPARENTLY THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME ACTORS OR SOMETHING TOO, BUT wanttobeatree AND sazzlette ARE THE IMPORTANT PART.)


To everyone on my flist: ahahaha, I love that you're all falling for High School Musical. (Pretty much all of the posts on my friendspage lately have been about either High School Musical or the American election. I FEEL A TRULY HORRIFYING CROSSOVER COMING ON.)

A CONFESSION:

At moments in the third High School Musical film, I actually find Zac Efron quite attractive.

(At other moments I think he looks freakishly like Tobey Maguire. SOMEBODY WRITE 'TROY BOLTON IS SPIDER-MAN' FOR ME.

Hey, as Robert Downey Junior and Tobey Maguire seem to play lovers more often than your average pair of actors and Zac Efron appears to be growing up into Peter Parker, does this mean that Tony Stark/Troy Bolton is canon?

It totally does. Nobody cares about your so-called 'logic'.)


ALSO:

Gabriella Montez is going to do pre-law at Stanford.

Who else do we know who went to Stanford for pre-law?

There needs to be Sam Winchester/Gabriella Montez fanfiction. That's all I'm saying. I think I actually speculated on this before the revelation that the two characters go to the same freaking university. IT IS CLEARLY MEANT TO BE.


Also also Ryan is so adorable and gay and I need to write him a boyfriend.

And Chad is so in love with Troy, and Rocketman clearly has a crush on Troy as well. And then there's Gabriella, obviously, and Sharpay, and Ryan was obviously smitten with Troy in the stage version. WHY IS EVERYONE IN LOVE WITH TROY BOLTON? IT IS ABSURD. (reipan 'ships Gabriella/Kelsi/Troy. I can definitely get behind this.)

And I think 'I Want It All' is proof that every film should be done in the style of one of Sharpay and Ryan's deranged fantasies.


To be honest, I genuinely think that the Troy-and-Gabriella relationship is adorable. That didn't stop me from cracking up in the cinema when she stood up to sing encouragement at him during 'Now Or Never', though.

There was originally a paragraph here whining about my Tuesday schedule (long story short: my combined waking time before leaving for university in the morning and after returning in the evening? Even though I wake up at seven? Three and a half hours. My Tuesday semesters are completely awesome, but still), but I deleted it because it was boring. Instead, have an instalment of Strange Things I Have Discovered In My Notebook Today. I cannot recall writing any of these.

I want to create a television series in which all the male parts are played by women and vice versa, purely to sexually confuse the fans.

HERE IS A TERRIBLE FANFIC IDEA FOR YOU: begin with the prologue of Twilight. Have it turn out that the hunter is Dean Winchester. I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CONSIDERING WRITING TWILIGHT FANFICTION. (I'm not supposed to be considering reading Twilight fanfiction, either, but, er, somebody write this for me?)

(from a dream) He had a ukulele, so we performed the ukulele owners' secret handshake by placing the backs of our ukuleles together and shaking them solemnly up and down. (I am so going to do this the next time I meet another ukulele player whilst carrying my own ukulele. Which, er, I'm fairly sure has never happened. BUT IT COULD.)

(from a dream) Oh, and also Gabriella from High School Musical was the Winchesters' sister. I dreamt that the first few episodes of Supernatural were about her and Dean travelling together, rather than Dean and Sam, and wondered why nobody wrote fanfiction about her. She and Dean were obviously close; she didn't feel like a random addition to the family. (WHO IS GOING TO WRITE ME FANFICTION ABOUT GABRIELLA WINCHESTER? YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.)

(from a dream) Dreamt that I was James Wilson and I had a pet bird. I somehow turned into a bird as well, and we crashed a bird show to steal some bird seed and bird ladies. THAT'S RIGHT: IN MY DREAMS, JAMES WILSON HAS SEX WITH BIRDS. LITERAL BIRDS. Also, House apparently has bird porn on his desktop.