Staying safe

[clocketpatch]

 Hello to any and all still on this feed. I am safe and secure during this great isolation event (which feels like the backstory for a Classic Doctor Who episode tbh). My area has no reported cases and is working hard to keep it that way. I am laid off (like half the planet, it feels like), but on the plus side that means I can stay home and do my bit to keep my community safe.

I haven't been around here for a long time. I've been busy with life, and have been avoiding the latest season of Who since I've been told by reliable sources that the finale would make me unhappy (and since I've never been a Chibnal fan, I'm taking that warning seriously), but if anyone wants to chat during this time about past seasons of Who, Blakes 7, art, writing, gardening, that terrible tiger docuseries, or anything else, I'm here to natter on and help take your mind off things.

Take care everyone. Stay safe.


(and special thanks to JJPOR for reaching out and reminding me that I hadn't checked in with everyone here yet)

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[thisbluespirit]

CLOCKET!!! ♥ *glomps you from a socially responsible virtual distance*

I am very sorry about you being laid off, but am delighted to hear from you. I miss you loads when you're not around.

Not watching the finale is probably a very good idea. It made me very unhappy and unfannish indeed, and I didn't even know such a thing was possible.

As for B7, my flister hamsterwoman has just made it through the series and has, if you can find them, posts on their thoughts on S2 and on S3 (and no doubt presently on S4), and is happy if stray B7 fans drop in, if that will amuse you.

The situation is terrible, but I am in the bemused position of, at least, for the moment being almost better off - now everyone is isolated like me and coming back online! Nobody is making me go to appointments, they don't want to see me at all!

[clocketpatch]

*Glomps*

It is good to virtually see you too!

I shall definitely heed what I am hearing about the finale. I don't think I've ever seen so many Whovians in agreement about something being a bad episode. Shame. I was enjoying Thirteen and her crowded TARDIS too.

I may ambke over to watch Hamsterwoman's reactions (brilliant username she has. I am quite partial to hamsters)

And as for being laid off, it is temporary for the crisis, I still have benefits, I can stay at home and prevent the spread while playing with the critters, and I'm lucky enough to live in a country that has set up UBI for those affected so I'm taking any income hit.

On the downside I am scatterred brained mess who can't figure out which project to conquer first and ends up doing very little instead. Alas. But that is not the worse problem to have at a time like this.

I'm also, via internet and phone, reconnecting with so many friends and family members.

[thisbluespirit]

I shall definitely heed what I am hearing about the finale. I don't think I've ever seen so many Whovians in agreement about something being a bad episode.

It's not so much that it was a bad episode, really, just that it involved a very big retcon that affected everything and it depends on how you would feel about that retcon as to whether or not it would be fine with you. I got spoiled for it and then took nearly a week before I could bring myself to watch it, and the ep itself in contrast doesn't even seem to realise the magnitude of what it's done, so it's odd, and I can see how some people can miss how significant it is. (It's like he tried to do the Moffat thing where you do a big reveal but restate the ethos of the show except he missed and changed everything ever without realising that what he's done. It's very perplexing.) The best thing I can say about it is that Sacha Dhawan was excellent again. But, yeah. If the particular thing about the retcon didn't bother you, you might even enjoy it.

If it does bother you, though, you might wind up joining those of us on the bench where CC somehow killed our fannishness. I am really so weird about DW right now. Happily, I was simultaneously having one of my intermittent episodes of intense Star Wars Prequel feels and so have just gone off to the land of Canon AUs over there. (Everything is an AU in that corner of the fandom. :lol:)

I'm glad you are basically okay though! ♥