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It is funny listening to the Big Finish chatty bits where an actor says they're surprised the stories have gone on so long already
and it is a recording from about twenty years ago
and their next episode is out next month.

Today I had a nice walk to the library and back
where the tiny child rhyme group were singing
zoom zoom zoom we're going to the moon.

... my brain is still singing it many hours and a sleep later...

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This week I have finally got sorted out a computer task I was not managing to do for literal years. There's a few fiddly details to fix but basically I have the new computers set up and running, which was getting a bit urgent with the odd behaviour of the older computer.
Unfortunately that means I'm now on windows 11 instead of 10. All the emojis look Bad, including the one I sign my name with sometimes, which is annoying. The keyboards are slightly different including the on screen keyboard. I can't figure out how to stop it suggesting things. It keeps popping up a menu when I'm trying to type and I haven't figured out why yet. It is more than usually pants.
And it keeps trying to search things that are not my computer, thus making it less useful than any previous computer.

But it works, so, yaay ish?

... I can't fit all my files in this littler computer even though they all fit on the older version that said it was the same size. The audio shall have to go on another device. I guess Windows is just eating all the space.

So, typos will be more, typing is more annoying, I keep finding new settings to turn off, and I have nothing interesting to say Anyway.


I have been relistening to 8 and Charley and C'rizz audios. I have little memory of these, it has been a long time since I first listened, and I suspect I mostly listened on the bus on the way to or from college which is a less detailed focused listening experience. They are quite good and Charley is less annoying than I remember. The arc stories keep ending just when I am about done with them. I'd probably like them even better if I didn't listen while I had a headache but headache days are boring.

The last Torchwood monthly adventure is due out soon. I am appropriately apprehensive after the publicity they've been doing. As is everyone on the tag on tumblr. I think I shall have to listen close to when it comes out or read all about it anyway. I hope they do the good horror and not the annoying wreckage. Tricky balance.

... this keyboard is most annoying. It keeps telling me what to type and I cannot figure out why it keeps going back down or giving me the menu from the little window button in the corner underneath it. blah.

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see that doesn't look like llap sunshine on this version of windows at all it is all blobby.

... gifs? I have a keyboard that offers me gifs???
well that is just wrong.


okay, I shall go do something else. probably involving more Doctor Who.

This evening's dream involved
getting swallowed by a hellmouth
(teeth teeth so many teeth)
with the Legends, so Ray, Nate and John were there, but everyone got split up
until I was just sticking with John
but gradually becoming less and less sure he was in fact actual John
which, in Hell, could be seriously Consequential.

Hell was a lot more like a going out of business sale in a department store than Dante wrote it
but it was otherwise pretty themey by floor.

The basement was cold and flooded
and I stopped the lift before we got drowned
but then had to decide
stay with and support (probably) John
or leave (that) him
and either way gamble with belonging down there.


I woke up thinking I should reread the Inferno

... but possibly the Niven version...

I have been relistening through 8 and Charley starting from the beginning, though I don't have Stones of Venice or Invaders from Mars loaded on the device I'm using so I skipped those for now. ... getting out of bed to grab a CD or use my other computer seemed like Effort. And I'd listened to Minuet in Hell a while ago and did not feel the need to do so again.
Storm Warning is good, Sword of Orion is pretty good, Chimes of Midnight is tedious and annoying and I don't get why it's so popular.
Seasons of Fear did a good ending from a redemption point of view but the paradox of it all is a lot.
Embrace the Darkness was proper creepy and doing audio correctly, and I like the resolution.
Time of the Daleks likes Shakespeare more than I do, and yet does nothing with him. Also just saying that none of the time travel should work doesn't make it less irritating. Even if time travel through mirrors is perfectly acceptable in other episodes so I suppose I also might not have minded if they didn't keep saying it doesn't work.
Neverland is in the right place because I was getting *really* fed up with Charley being inexplicable magic.
Zagreus did at least make a sufficiency of sense on this relisten, but I still can't actually like it.
Scherzo is a level of messed up about dying for each other that makes me vaguely worried about the author, even before you get to the cannibalism, and while it uses audio correctly in many respects, with the terror of not having any sense but hearing, it makes itself full of bad noises deliberately uncomfortable to listen to, so I would on the whole rather not. I understand many people like it and find it the right kind of messed up shippy. I just make wrinkly forehead when I think about it and consider it horror all the way down.

So today I relistened to Creed of the Kromon.
... I see a lot of posts on tumblr pass by referencing
the author's very specific ...interests
and the level of body horror applied to Charley as a means of getting her to breed
after mind control talking her into eating until she can't move
is just
uncomfortable
on more than one level.

It is a bit more dark than I expect from Doctor Who.

I can see why this story had several of its story elements but it also only had two women and the other existed to get fridged by her husband. So I think probably someone should have poked it with a stick a bit more. And maybe done something different instead.



I don't know if I'll keep listening these tonight but they're definitely solid audios even if they are over twenty years old now.