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[sebastienne]

for a while, when i was being silly & panicky & anxious, i'd be in the shower and suddenly i'd KNOW that there was something horrible behind me, and if i didn't turn round, despite shampoo in my eyes etc, Bad Things would happen. as with all my other irrational panicky symptoms, it had been starting to go away as finals drew to a close, and had been completely gone for the last few weeks.

well not any bloody more. before, there was just a nebulous feeling of dread.. now the fuckers have a face! and a proper REASON why i must open my eyes NOW despite soap suds and consciousness of my own irrationality. quantum crack-science.

great. baths for me for the rest of time, then...

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[janetmweiss.livejournal.com]

I am too scared to click on the link and give myself a new fear, but I am also so curious...

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

From Doctor Who on Saturday night - seriously 'hide behind the sofa stuff'.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

it will probably not affect you as it has me/us unless you have seen the most recent episode of Doctor Who to air in the UK. it's really a very standard horror trope and it's only the episode-context that makes it SO pants-wettingly terrifying. to be honest i'm embarassed by how lame it is, out of the context of DW..

[janetmweiss.livejournal.com]

*clicks* Hmm. Well, that would look out of place in my bathroom. I think I'll be ok.

[hildabeast.livejournal.com]

i couldn't sleep last night. i thought they might be in my room :(

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

Lol - one has to love one's subconcious doesn't one - we're perfectly willing to acknowledge the existence of these creatures from a fictional television program, but not to acknowledge their destruction as a threat at the end of the episode.

Also from that episode I loved the implicite tension in the narrative between the fact that the Doctor, as a 'good' character *should* have rescued the people who were sent into the past by the angels - you can argue about historical continuity all you like, but they were sent back there by an outside force so didn't belong there and the Doctor has always been willing to interfere with that sort of thing before - but if they were sent back to their present day then the messagers from the past wouldn't work - therefore it had to establish that the people were 'happy' in the past, and wouldn't want to return to the present day.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

but not to acknowledge their destruction as a threat at the end of the episode
How? The Doctor got his TARDIS back, but didn't eliminate them - that was never his goal. I'm not sure he would even have known how ("with a chisel" just seems to simple, somehow).

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

Possibly 'destruction as a thread' was badly worded - maybe 'rendered (temporarily) impotent as a threat' would be better - doesn't the fact they are now constantly observing each other mean that they (assuming that the 4(?) were the only ones in existence ) are no longer able to stalk lonely college students?

Of course that then raises the issue of whether were they to be seperated, or not longer observing each other (for instance were there to be darkness) would they revert back to being able to move again. I'm sure the Doctor would take steps to stop this happening, but even if it did not the fact that the TARDIS wouldn't be on Earth might mean that they would move on to another planet.

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

There was a strong implication that they were now observing each other constantly, and so were no longer a threat. Not sure what would happen in darkness, though, and they were in a cellar... also, it was strongly hinted at the end that they were not the only four in existence.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

To destroy them, you have to observe them, and the Doctor explicitly says you can't destroy the stone they become. (And presumably, if they're as old as the universe, no one has yet succeeded in figuring out a way to destroy them.)

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

but who's to say they aren't a "natural" part of life on earth? they've been around since the dawn of time, after all...

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Earth's only about 4.5 billion years old, these things are nearly 15 billion years old (if they're nearly as old as the Universe). So they're not native to this planet.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

not native perhaps, but conceivably as natural a part of life on earth as carbon or gravity...

[darwinian-woman.livejournal.com]

Wibble - I was having the same problem in the shower this morning. Now my eyes hurt... :(

[arifirh.livejournal.com]

This has happened to me too. There should be a Facebook support group.

[darwinian-woman.livejournal.com]

Done!

http://oxford.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2392553442

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

XD

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

I TOLD you: Oxford statues are good statues. And the White Horse would know if there were Weeping Angels moving anywhere near her vale and send the proper local authorities to deal with them.

'Course if you go to London all bets are off, but there's a system of webcams set up that'll keep you mostly safe.

Anyway you should stop being so mean about your local statues. When was the last time you left some dried flowers for a college Gargoyle?

Which reminds me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47284425@N00/379227522/

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

oh, i'm not afraid of the Oxford statutary any more.. the Sheldonian heads made me jump a bit this morning, but that was just a corner-of-my-eye thing.

that picture is wonderful!

[terminalbeach.livejournal.com]

I am the face of nebulous dread... and I bring you... FEAR!

[gin-gerkitten.livejournal.com]

*freaks*

Was slightly expecting that, but it still made me catch my breath.

[terminalbeach.livejournal.com]

... and silly icons.

[vass]

Oh, joy. *moves chair a few cm back from the desk, gingerly closes browser tab*

[me-ves-y-sufres.livejournal.com]

I should probably not watch this episode. One of my tutors pidged me a postcard this morning with a grimacing gargoyle on it, it's now pinned up above my laptop...

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

where are you seeing that? it may well actually BE a bajillion years old, as i didn't have to do a philosophy paper when i applied. is that specific to philosophy & theology applicants?

sorry i can't be more use - which college were you thinking of?

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

given that i didn't have philosophy a-level, nor do all schools offer it, i really don't see how a paper that requires knowledge of specific authors and so on can be current.

hmm - looking at this (http://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/interviews/tests/philtheol.pdf), i reckon it's just about how you think - even if there is a "right answer" by current orthodoxy, that's not necessarily what they're looking for (although mentioning that you know it can't hurt). think critically, consider the meaning of every word, write down and refute possible alternative explanations, even if they seem obviously false to you - show the examiner that you know why they're obviously false. that kind of thing.

[sebastienne.livejournal.com]

Psychology & Philosophy under the rubric of PPP - never did any physiology in my whole time here, so it seems a bit of a con to claim PPP, even though that's what my degree will be. And I am at Wadham, home of "queers" and "lefties".

[sebastiality.livejournal.com]

Arrrgh! If they couldn't look at eachother, they must have had the WORST sex. Feel sorry for them. x

[ex-leighwoos982.livejournal.com]

What's Wrong with blindfolds?