Note to self: Stop sucking, and also stop hitting refresh on the flist.

Because that, folks, is exactly what I am doing. I ought to be finishing Sons and Lovers, Oedipal UST-ridden nightmare that it is, and I ought to be writing my summary and review of Peter J. Rabinowitz's "Reader Response, Reader Responsibility: Heart of Darkness and the Politics of Displacement". But I'm not. I am looking at my flist, and fretting at iTunes, which refuses to work, and pretending that I am contemplating the Martha wallpaper I'm about to make. It's going to be pretty! And come with music! And it will then be followed with a wallpaper about Martha and Rose!

This is because of goldy_dollar and her fic about Martha and Rose getting coffee together.

I just can't get that fic out of my head- it's really stuck fast. The idea that the Doctor, despite his love for Earth and humanity and all, is not human. And when he goes all dark and vengeful-god-like he needs someone to stop him, to balance and moderate him, and to let him know what it means to be human. Rose was that for him, and he wanted Martha to be, and sometimes she just couldn't stand up to him. And neither could Donna, really, not enough to stop him- but enough to say she couldn't go with him when he invited her. So I guess the issue that niggles at me the most is, what is the toll on the humanity of the Doctor's humans? Jackie thought that Rose was losing her humanity in AoG. Martha left to get on with her life as a doctor- did she feel her humanity slipping away? And Donna just opened her eyes and learned what it meant to be part of a glorious human existence, and turned the Doctor down. What is the price of traveling with the Doctor? And is it possible that the only healing and rejuvenation the companions could find might be with each other, as the only others that could understand?

*ponders*

This was supposed to be a short whiny post about homework. Damn you, fandom, you take up ALL my brain and time.

I'm going to go fold laundry now.

Wallpaper- "Wandering Kind"

[1] Ten/Rose Wallpaper

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Free musics! Yay!

This wallpaper was blatantly inspired by boxed  's wallpaper of Martha Jones, which is beautiful and you all ought to go check it out cause she rocks.




 


And here is the music that inspired the piece! It's "Wandering Kind" by Laura Veirs, from her album "Saltbreakers" which I am currently totally obsessed with and have had playing in my car for the past three weeks, at least. Brilliant sea and stars imagery and well-written songs and fun music. So, enjoy, and if I get enough comments of people saying how much they like Laura Veirs music I shall post more songs by her. Upcoming is also a Martha and Ten wallpaper to her song "Pink Light" and possibly a Martha and Rose wallpaper to the song "Wrecking".

Wandering Kind

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