ganked from trillsie

Using only EPISODE names from ONE SCI FI TV SHOW, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to at least 7 people and include me. Try not to repeat an episode title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as “my life according to (Sci Fi TV show)

(I'm not passing it on, but I'm hoping ysobelle and maybe harkalark play along..)

Pick your SciFi Genre Show:
Doctor Who

Are you a male or female?
Kinda

Describe yourself:
The Girl in the Fireplace

How do you feel:
Survival

Describe where you currently live:
Castrovalva

If you could go anywhere where would you go?
New Earth

Your favorite form of transportation:
Time-Flight (stealing trillsie's answer)

Your best friend is:
Snakedance (..since the Mara is in that)

What’s the weather like:
Utopia

Favorite time of day:
Midnight (again, stealing the perfect answer)

If your life was a TV show, it would be called:
The Unquiet Dead

What is life to you:
Music of the Spheres

Your fear:
The Parting of the Ways

What is the best advice you have to give:
Fear Her

Thought for the Day:
42

How I would like to die:
The Underwater Menace (which as close as I can get to a GIANTSQUIDGIANTSQUIDGIANTSQUID reference)

My soul’s present condition:
The Doctor Dances

My motto:
An Unearthly Child

and here, have another song

Cris Williamson, "Song of the Soul"

( lyrics here )

Background:
This is - heh! - old school womyn's music. As a child, isolated in a home full of anger, it was music such as this that got me through many a bad night. I had..I think 3 8-track tapes of music by Cris and Holly, and maybe some Tret Fure as well. Long before Melissa Etheridge roared onto the music scene, we had the voices of these ladies to sing along with.

Guest Poster Idiomagic and an important post about Iran.

This is quoted in its entirety from idiomagic's LJ. Read. Repost. Remember these names of these brave, brave people. And this is the truth about Iran, from the heart of one who loves her country.
~~~

http://idiomagic.livejournal.com/144770.html

Through all of this work with Iranian protesters, I have come into contact and become friends with three people there.

For their safety, I can't give you any details of who they are, but I'll give you their names, since they're very common there.

Rashid.

Fayah.

Ali.

Two of them have become very influential on a grass roots level, partially because they are in contact with so many people internationally, and have access to better information than most.

Through many, many email conversations, I have grown to love and admire and deeply respect these people, these friends.

Two of them are planning to deliberately seek martyrdom on Thursday. Here's what Fayah wrote to me:

"I love life. I love to laugh and be with my friends. There are so many books I want to read, movies I want to see, people I want to meet. I want to marry, to be a good wife and mother. I want to grow old with the people I love, to feel the sun on my face, to see the ocean, to travel.

My country is in a terrible state. People have no jobs. There is no money. People have no freedom. Women must hide themselves from the world, and we have no choices.

Our people--we are not terrorists. We hate terrorists. And that is what our government has become. They kill our people for no reason. They torture us in their prisons because we want freedom. They make our country look evil, they make our religion look evil.

We are fighting for our freedom, for our religion, for our country. If we do nothing while injustice abounds, we become unjust. We turn into the ones we hate.

I have to fight. I have to go back on the streets. I will make them kill me. I will join Neda, with my friends, and then maybe the world will hear us.

I never thought I would become a martyr, but it is needed. The more of us they kill, the smaller they become, the more strength the people will have. Maybe my death will mean nothing, but maybe it will buy my country freedom.

I am very sad that I will never be a mother, that I will never do the things I love, but I would rather die than do nothing and know that I am to blame for the tortures, the murder, the hatred.

Please tell the world how much we love life. That we are not terrorists. We just want to be free."

[Note: I have corrected spelling, removed identifying details, and cleaned up the word order a bit...English is her fourth language.]

Please, my friends, remember these names:

Rashid

Fayah

Ali

Please keep them in your thoughts and your prayers.

Gods bless the people of Iran.


If any of you want to reprint Fayah's letter, or disseminate it in any way, please do so. We are her voice, and it needs to be heard.

Fob watch!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dr-Who-Chameleon-Arch-FOB-Pocket-Watch-Props-Replica_W0QQitemZ320403312334QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4a99868ece&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

This is one of the 'adult' watches that has been unavailable for quite some time.

So, ya know, if anyone out there wants to get me a wicked early birthday present...*snicker*

But - it's nice to actually see what they looked like.

ETA: And holy poop - the same seller has a TARDIS key I don't have!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dr-Who-ANTIQUE-SILVER-TARDIS-KEY-Time-Lord-set-1-1_W0QQitemZ220442735446QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3353693356&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262

(The one on the left I've never seen before. When the hell did they make that??)