waking dreams

I just found the following posted on fandomsecrets:





And, really... well, to start with I'm not even sure it counts as a "fandom" secret, but you could say the same of a lot of posts there.

That's not the main issue, anyway. The issue I have is that the OP of that secret, who I'm assuming isn't, say, Neil Gaiman's exwife, is making a poorly informed judgement on the relationship of two people he/she has most likely never met.

It's how poorly informed they seem to be that really gets me. It is easy - very, very easy - to go online, look at Neil's and/or AFP's blogs, and with extremely minimal effort you can find out that actually, he's still good friends with his exwife and that she gets on well with his kids.

As for the "loss of respect"... well. Maybe the OP's definition of respect is different to mine, because I've never lost respect for anyone based on their choice of romantic partner. (Saying that AFP "should have known better" is just dumb, judgemental and poorly informed, thus I will not comment further.)

tl;dr: some anonymous person on the interwebs was excessively judgemental. Two people that I, personally, respect and admire are in a happy relationship together, and it's none of anyone's business but theirs.

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...would be a Doctor Who fanfic that, in some currently-undefined way, involved the characters of the commedia dell'arte, which I've been reading about on Wiki.

I think the fact that two of the traditional commedia characters are "Il Dottore" (the Doctor) and "Il Capitano" (the Captain) might have something to do with it.

(Il Dottore makes me think William Hartnell, and Il Capitano... yeah, very much making me think Jack at this point.)

Unfortunately, this all hits a slight snag when we get to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what the *plot* would be. And without a plot I'm a bit screwed, really.

....so, if anyone's got any ideas on the subject, I'd be really interested to hear them.

{As an unrelated note... I almost literally can't stop listening to the "Who Killed Amanda Palmer?" album. It's awesome. And yes, when the book is out I am TOTALLY getting it.)