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12th-Nov-2009 09:49 pm - More David updates
David will be on Simon Mayo's BBC5 Live show some time between 1 and 3 tomorrow afternoon
BBC 5 Live


Seen on Twitter ...

BBC Doctor Who website has been updated: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho

Tomorrow David Tennant will be on Absolute Radio 6am-10am, Radio1 sometime between 10am & 12.45pm (Fearne Cotton show) & on BBC5 at about 2.30pm (Simon Mayo show). All stream too.

David Tennant on the Paul O'Grady Show today (for those outside UK): http://tinyurl.com/yjbkbz4
(thanks to David_Tennant)



Listen (on Friday) to David Tennant and Fearne Cotton here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nrqzd
(thanks to davidtennantcom)
12th-Nov-2009 09:23 pm - Fic: Dirty Movie
Author: Silverwood aka Geordie Chick
Characters: Nine and Rose
Rating: Adult – this fic features adult themes and smut
Author's Notes: For ms_sardonicus and nylana who were bemoaning the lack of Nine

The first time was unexpected. Slightly stage struck, he had guided her through the scene until they were moving in perfect time. )
13th-Nov-2009 06:22 am - ICONZ and gifs
From-well, last night for me-David Tennant's Breakfast Show! of the 12th of Nov!

As requested by mrs_roy.
And for everyone else feel free to use and edit etc!
These are a bit boring....
but my first time in making icons!

 

Animated:
The same img, one's smaller in size than the other. Not sure which LJ will take....


12th-Nov-2009 11:43 am - Wetting Boughs (DW fic)
Title: Wetting Boughs (1/1)
Author: [info]sinecure - My master fic list
Character/Pairing: Rose, Ten
Rating: All ages
Genre: Gen, humor, fluff, fluff, fluff
Summary: Rose wants to go somewhere and the Doctor wonders why.
Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who.
Author's Notes: This fic hasn't seen a single beta, and I'm sorry for that. I realized how long it'd been since I posted a fic and wanted to get one out there, and since this one is ready, minus the beta, I figured it was the best candidate.



Read it on my fic journal:
Wetting Boughs.
At Gallifreyan Dreams.
Or on Teaspoon.
Mods, please delete if this is not allowed....

According to David on today's LBC interview, he's currently taking dialect classes for his accent and is waiting for his visa to come through. After that he should be spending three weeks in LA shooting the pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer for NBC and will hopefully be done by Christmas. If that's the timetable now, I assume the execs will view the pilot around the same time they are making decisions on other pilots, which would be late winter/early spring. We should know by spring if they decide to pick it up.  Which means, the time to act is now if you want to see this happen! 

Click here to see how you can help... )


12th-Nov-2009 02:37 pm - David Tennant news update
Seen on Twitter ...

from David_Tennant:

All the David Tennant parts of Absolute Radio this morning are now up at http://davidtennant2009.com

David Tennant TV For Today: 5pm Channel 4 Paul O'Grady (PREMIERE), 7pm BBC3 The Lazarus Experiment, 7.45pm BBC3 DW's Greatest Moments

David Tennant's section on Greatest Scot (for non-UKers): http://tinyurl.com/ykdqgcs

St Trinian 2 movie website: http://www.sttriniansmovie.... (With new photos of David Tennant)

Photo of David Tennant at LBC earlier today: http://tinyurl.com/ybblewq Interview will be broadcast this afternoon.

Fearn Cotton has just announced that David Tennant will now be on her Radio 1 show TOMORROW. Starts 10am.

Reminder: David Tennant on Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4 at 5pm.

The David Tennant interview on LBC will be on at about 2.15pm today (it's pre-recorded) and LBC streams on the Internet. http://www.lbc.co.uk




from The_OC:

http://bit.ly/4qSmwn - David Tennant Doctor Who Twittersode Video

Here's the vid of this mornings live DR WHO play with David Tennant on his own bed..http://bit.ly/4qSmwn




from davidtennantcom:

David Tennant The DJ Day Two: http://bit.ly/1QjVXd http://bit.ly/1kSOVV

The official St Trinian's 2 site has now launched and it's fab! Check it out at www.sttriniansmovie.co.uk http://bit.ly/rYetH
12th-Nov-2009 08:01 am - Bar Night: An Alternate Take
Title: Bar Night: An Alternate Take (or: The Dangers of Not Re-reading One’s Own Work)
Author: jlrpuck
Rating: K
Characters: Mickey, Jake, James, Penny, and Anna
Disclaimer: Characters from Doctor Who are the property of BBC, and are used with the greatest of love and respect; no profit is intended from the writing or sharing of this story.
Summary: You’ve read Bar Night --but what if it actually happened like this?
Notes: Written for [info] hazelwho, who won my services through a generous donation to the September Support Stacie auction. Her prompt was, “Another missing scene from TWoT like Bar Night, where the guys discuss Carlisle and Rose's relationship.” I, uh…well, as the title and summary imply, I failed to actually re-read the relevant bits of TWoT, and so it wasn’t until after I’d written this and sent it off to Ms. Who that I worked out that I set this on exactly the same night as “Bar Night”. Much facepalming ensued, as well as a promise to Ms. Who to re-write it. She, bless her, wrote back suggesting this go up as a “Clue”-style “Or maybe it happened like this!” thing, and my beta’s agreed. So here it is.

You’re still getting another story, Ms. Who, set at a different time during TWoT. I just need to move house first. *hugs*

Many thanks to [info] earlgreytea68 and [info - personal] chicklet73 for their beta and feedback on this. Any errors in the story, though, are mine and mine alone.

Bar Night: An Alternate Take )
12th-Nov-2009 06:52 am(no subject)
From [info]xebgoc, by way of [info]jlrpuck:

Very good NPR essay about the theory of spoilers. I'll note that it doesn't actually contain spoilers, exactly, at least not for anything aired since 2005. Which is exactly the point of the article.

On Spoilers. Not Spoilery. Listen, folks, if I know it, you probably do, too. )

But that's all new spoilers. Old spoilers...well, it's a different story.

Which makes me wonder. There's two parts to that last DW episode, right? I wonder if a Mundane Spoiler Challenge would be appropriate? :)

OMG, Spoiler alert! William Hartnell regenerates into Patrick Troughton!
12th-Nov-2009 11:04 am - 5 days of David?
I'm sorry this is such a stupid question.  I thought David was hosting the Christian O'Connell show all this week but can only find audio for yesterday.  Did his 5 days start yesterday or Monday?  If it did start Monday, could some please point me in the direction of mp3s of the days I missed?

Thanks!
12th-Nov-2009 08:58 pm - Irrevocably Complete Chapter 4.

Title: Irrevocably Complete.
Author: Rachel 
[info]mrs_roy
Betas: 
[info]
aquakittie
Rating:Adult.
Pairing:Ten/Rose
Spoilers: Post Doomsday AU. Human Nature.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything. Just sharing with the BBC.
Story Summary: Rose has returned to the Doctors side, What does this reunion mean, will their relationship withstand the unexpected ?


 Rose shivers then, partly because at this moment, she is standing again in a stark white room, hyperventilating, thinking she will never see him again.
12th-Nov-2009 09:32 pm - Christian O'Connell
A picspam.....on my photobucket HERE: [there are probly repeats of images. Sorry.]
PREVIEW:



12th-Nov-2009 08:26 am - graham norton show picspam
 i made a small picspam of david on the graham norton show^^

(image links to entry at my journal)



12th-Nov-2009 07:19 pm - DT on Absolute Radio right now
Discussion Post!


You can listen from anywhere in the world.
Listen
Web cam (He's on Cam 3)

(Mods, I hope you don't mind me doing this.)
12th-Nov-2009 12:28 am - A request
Could someone make a wallpaper with the TARDIS with a christmas wreath on it and the doctor leaning agenst it with a santa hat on??? I would really really be greatful to whoever could do this...or really just anything christmas.. THANK YOU!!!
11th-Nov-2009 09:14 pm - Fic Related Question
So I'm curious, because this is giving me a hard time, and has been for a while now. So I'm working on this fic, see. It's pretty AU from Journey's End. Well basically it is The Stolen Earth/Journey's End but AU. However, I haven't dug very deeply into the plot... but at the same time I've carried it through to the crucible, and I never meant to be there. I don't want to get any further into the plot (mostly 'cause I have no ideas where that's concerned; it's also not really the point of the fic), but I'm afraid if I skip it all that it'll seem rushed and lame and stupid.

Basically it's kind of just a series of different scenes carried out through the episode... it kind of skips and jumps in some places anyway. I realize this is being kind of vague... I hope you guys realize what I'm talking about, at least a little bit. :P Anyway my question is

Poll #1484270 who fic question
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

would it be jarring and/or weird to not go into detail on the plot and how it's different from canon? (i.e. how the Daleks are defeated, planets put back in place, etc)

View Answers

What are you daft?! That's terrible writing! I couldn't read it like that.
1 (4.8%)

DETAILS ARE IMPORTANT LIEK WOAH!
3 (14.3%)

Plot? What plot? GIMME TEN/ROSE!
13 (61.9%)

Eh it's a little weird but whatever.
8 (38.1%)

Nah, I don't really care.
6 (28.6%)

I'm confused.
2 (9.5%)

???????????
1 (4.8%)

11th-Nov-2009 09:29 pm - Nano Update
Final wordcount for the day: 10,970. Which meets my goal for the day, so yay me. I'll admit that I'm disappointed, though - I was sort of hoping to hit 15K so I could post the OT3 fic.

Total wordcount for the month: 12,199. Which is still about 6K less than where I'm supposed to be. But more worrying is that....I'm actually not that far from the end of the story. I knew this might happen - after all, I'm actually writing a children's book, which is something of a first for me. I think I might very well wrap the thing up in another 10K or so, depending on what happens in the next couple of chapters.

Which leaves me with several options: )

Anyway, I do feel bad about the OT3 fic...but I've posted two ficcy things today, which is more than I normally do, so I don't feel too badly about it. But neither do I want to make you all wait until Water Music is done being posted, so I'm thinking I'll post the first bit when I'm actually done with the children's book, regardless of the word count. There are three parts to it now; I'm working on a fourth, and brainstorming a fifth, so it's working to be a good little series. I think you'll all like it. Well, all of you who read OT3, anyway.

It's not smutty in the least. Come on, flisters, I can barely write smut for two people, I really don't have a clue what to do with three. Hi, Dad.


Edited to add: I sent a note to the original author of the remix fic I wrote which was nominated. She seemed okay with me accepting the nomination - so I will. Thanks for those who offered their opinions. Those who said I shouldn't accept, I hope you aren't terribly disappointed in my decision.
11th-Nov-2009 09:18 pm - Fic: Timey-Whimey, Smurfy-Wurfy (6/8)
Title: Timey-Whimey, Smurfy-Wurfy (6/8)
Author: [info]azriona
Characters: The Doctor, Rose Tyler, various Smurfs
Rating: PG

Summary: Smurf Village has some new visitors.

A/N: Yes, yes I did.


Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five



Timey-Whimey, Smurfy-Wurfy - Chapter Six
11th-Nov-2009 05:02 pm - Counting down...
The Waters of Mars: November 15th @ 7pm
End of Time: December 25th (Time unknown but maybe 7 as well)
NOTE: I live in the US central time zone so I am 6 hrs behind London. That is why the first and third counters seem goofy.


 
On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
11th-Nov-2009 03:11 pm - The Waters of Mars Publicity Stills Writ Large
This are the full-octane versions of yesterday's nonspoilery images, which I didn't want to throw in with the icons post since these are HUGE. Thanks to D-T.com (and their newly resurrected galleries) for these versions!

Be warned, these are large! )
January
Doctor Who series 5 premieres
Torchwood series 4 starts filming

March
Primeval series 4 starts filming


Will update will more as time goes on..
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