writing Christmas cards

[incandescens]

I love all of you -- well, most of you -- well, a significant proportion -- well, some of you, at least, dearly, but I have just been reminded about why I hate writing Christmas cards.

Hm. Side note. You know the sort of relationship in shoujo anime/manga, between a worldly-wise but weary hero who has Seen And Done Too Much and who hides himself behind a veil of flippancy and/or standoffishness, and the cute but sincere shoujo heroine whose warm heart and open nature and sweet affection will touch his heart and help him turn to the world around him again, help him open his own heart once more and care and so on?

Rose and the Ninth Doctor. It just suddenly clicked while I was watching a bit of Trinity Blood earlier this evening.

(And no, I'm not going to write a Doctor Who/vampires crossover. Besides, it's already been done, in State Of Decay with the Fourth Doctor, not to mention a couple of novels.)

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The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

-- William Blake

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[rfrancis]

And Big Finish audios. I'm currently listening to Project: Lazarus, which itself is a sequel to Project: Twilight. I'm told there's a novel called Project: Valhalla that fills in some gaps between the two.

On a very related note, Colin Baker is a revelation in the audio plays (as well as in the BBV Stranger shows.) I curse John Nathan Turner yet again for hobbling him. He could've been great.

[incandescens]

Yes, I've heard that he's very good in the audio plays. A shame that he never matched that in the regular series.

[doire]

Now I'm going to have an ear-worm. Not a bad one, a Peter Pears - Benjamin Britton worm, but, still, I'd better not start singing under my breath today.

[incandescens]

And now I've got the urge to put on The Turn of the Screw . . .

[rheow.livejournal.com]

I remembered that you moved and the last address I have is your old place. Can I get your newest address?

[incandescens]

Will do.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I discover that though I've sent off six international cards, I've only used four international stamps. Oooh, christmas card lottery!

Was Britten the one who mucked about with There is no rose so that it's now sung in flat minors? Or was it Healey Willan? Whoever, I want to find his grave and spit on it.

[incandescens]

I will await the result with interest.

I think there is a setting of There is no rose in Britten's Ceremony of Carols that is in minors, but don't know about Healey Willan.