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Doctor Who fans: go at once and watch this utterly gorgeous vid by [personal profile] such_heights. Doctor/ TARDIS, to Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne."
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I love it when fic makes you realise the greatness of things you didn't know would work!

For instance, Gaila-Spock friendship fic. There's been a number of good Gaila gen-fic, but this one, by [personal profile] igrockspock is particularly good. In which Gaila attempts to work why she keeps getting human sexual mores wrong, with a bit of help from Spock, who admits that he doesn't know much about the matter, but is confident that the matter can be clarified with the application of the scientific method and a proper research plan (no, not like that, it's a gen fic†), and from Nyota, who realises that there's more to her room-mate than meets the eye.

It could have stood a beta, as there are a very few typos, but they don't detract from the fic. It's funny and moving, and a nice exploration of the challenges of culture clashes - and what you can learn from them, if you're willing to try.

† I mean, it's an R, and there's a lot of discussion of sex, because it's about Gaila, but it's not porn (unless social anthropology turns you on, of course...)
tree_and_leaf: Watercolour of barn owl perched on post. (I couldn't possibly comment)
Before I get back to work, I'd like to point out to anyone whose interested in Shakespeare, academic bitchiness, research projects going bad, effective depiction of hubris (with added slashy undertones), old fashioned Oxbridge types, or the sublime acting skills of the late Ian Richardson, that today's Afternoon play on BBC Radio 4 was on AL Rowse's writing of his biography of Shakespeare, with Richardson perfect as the arrogant, brilliant, flawed academic, and a strong supporting cast. Should be up on Listen Again from tomorrow (or may indeed be there already. You can never tell with Listen Again)

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