Instead of doing three separate posts I thought I would just shove my three latest projects into a single post (in order of completion). The first is titled Marzipan Dildo. Originally this piece was going to say "I'm gonna wreck your sweetshop gurl" but as I watching "The Thick of It", Malcolm Tucker inspired me again. Fortunately the words "As Useless As a Marzipan Dildo" still fit within the already finished border. I was at my parent's house putting together the PDF pattern to sell in my Etsy shop when my dad came downstairs. The following is a direct transcript of our conversation:
Dad: What's a marzipan dildo?
Me:...Ummm you know what marzipan is right?
Dad: Yeah
Me: And you know what a dildo is...
Dad: Yeah. What's a marzipan dildo?
Me: You know...marzipan...it err melts very quickly when it gets warm.
Dad: Oh...Ohhhhh
Quality father-daughter bonding time.
Next up we have Hater Vigilante:
I showed a preview of this on the blog earlier. I had started this piece on black cloth using silver satin thread however this soon pissed me off too much. I decided I wanted something quick and easy like an over forty prostitute so I just decided to redo it on this cream with a plain gray thread.
Finally we have Rock Bottom:
This comes from American Dad!, season 3, episode 13 titled "Black Mystery Month". Though it's hard to tell in the photo I used a mixed strand for the leaves in the tree. That certainly made things much more visually interesting when I was doing the second pass over the stitches. The car image I winged and it came out looking pretty good.
While working on Rock Bottom I started watching the second series of BBC's Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Mark Gatiss. I had missed the initial American run on PBS and wasn't motivated to deal with the bullshit of (free) online video sites so I was quite pleased when it was finally added to Netflix Instant watch.
I've seen the first two episodes but haven't watched the third yet. This happens on a fairly frequent basis for me, the whole not watching the last episode thing. I'm strangely unwilling to close the book so to speak on some things. I still have yet to watch the End of Time specials for Doctor Who, refusing to watch the departure of David Tennant. I also was very loathe to watch the mid-season finale of Doctor Who this year.
There were two reasons I was so hesitant, first because of the departure of Amy and Rory and second because WEEPING ANGELS MOTHERFUCKER. I live in a more urban environment. I'm used to lots of background noise all the time ("skank" fights are my favorite). Last weekend I was pet-sitting for my parents who live out in the middle of nowhere where it's silent. It's always when I stay out there that I realize just how much noise I'm used to hearing. Add in the fact that I watch a ton of true-crime shows and suddenly there's an axe murderer in every shadow. I was a late-comer to Doctor Who, getting on the bandwagon shortly after series 5 of the reboot. So my first introduction to the Weeping Angels were "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone" where they are much more freaky than in the original series three episode "Blink". In "Blink" they are the "kindest" killers in the universe, merely sending you back in time to steal your future years. In "Time" and "Flesh" they are neck-snapping, voice-hijacking terrors.
****DOCTOR WHO SERIES 7 SPOILERS****
But the real reason was Amy and Rory. From the beginning of series 7, Moffat seemed to be building towards the Ponds leaving by choice, as in they decide to stop traveling with the doctor while still existing in present day Earth. They seemed to be getting tired of reconciling their regular life with their time with the Doctor and right up until the end of the "Power of Three" it seemed they would ease out of the show. However when "Power" concluded it seemed they had swung back in favor of traveling and so I knew it would be a hard ending. Moffat hinted as much in pre-series interviews but I was hoping against hope he was just yanking our chains.
Rose and Donna were forced away from the Doctor's side. Rose by being in another dimension and Donna by the life and death amnesia. Martha however made the choice to leave the doctor and continued to show up in series 4. Martha is my least favorite companion of the reboot and it had nothing to do with Freema Agyeman's acting. Coming after Rose was a going to be tricky anyways and she was just too much like her to really stand on her own. And having her continually show up was distracting in series 4. Amy is really the new Rose. The whole show was practically rebooted when Steven Moffat took the helm after series 4: new doctor, new companion...new theme song. The new companion (Clara/Oswin) would have had a difficult time if Amy and Rory were readily available to travel with the Doctor. So I get why Moffat wanted to make them totally unavailable. There were worse ways for him to have written them out (at least he didn't kill them!) and this does leave the potential for a very very special occasion reprisal of their roles. And I think that the way he did end it was just another beautiful touch on the love between Amy and Rory.
I've loved watching their love evolve throughout the last 2.5 series. "The Girl Who Waited" made me bawl my eyes out. It began very unevenly with Rory the one firmly in love and Amy all wishy-washy (at least until "Amy's Choice", sort of prophetic) but ended when Amy chose to forsake everyone, including the Doctor, for Rory. I can't go on long enough on how brilliant the acting was between Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill throughout their time on the show.
Together or not at all.
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