I heart Jacob, even if he does talk back

[kalleah]

larielromeniel shared a nice conversation with her and Kit, one of her OCs for her series Tracking Torchwood and most recently, War in Heaven.  In that vein, I found myself talking back to Jacob, at first in response to a comment from karuri.  I thought it was too fun not to share more publicly.  By the way, I want an I <3 Jacob icon.  If anyone makes me one, I'd do a happy dance of victory.  And, on another note, I was hoping someone would get my old-school, somewhat obscure, nod to the Meddling Monk, an actual Time Lord and previous opponent of the Doctor's.  Obviously, not Jacob.  :)

As I've said before, I didn't really intend to, but Jacob in my mind looks and sounds a great deal like Brian Blessed.  I blame it on the Virgin Radio Christmas Panto from last year, which is one of the funniest and silliest bits of comedy I've heard in quite some time.

Disclaimer:  I am suffering from a beastly cold.  I just took another helping of my somewhat mind-altering cough syrup and slept about 2 hours last night.  Jacob, however, is feeling pretty damn feisty.  Silly monk.

THE CONVERSATION

ME: You know, I had planned to off you.

JACOB: Nods sagely  We are all dying, after all.

ME: Stop spouting philosophy.  I really, really had planned to off you.  That's why I created you, for goodness' sake.

JACOB: Waits expectantly

ME: OK, OK, it was a plot device to make the Doctor deal with Rose's mortality, and loss, etc. etc. etc. and I think I managed to pull it off without, er, your death in the middle of it.  It's a little tricky for you to wax philosophical in the story if I killed you off.  And I like you, besides.  And Brother Tomas is nice but really, can we handle more than one monk as an OC?

JACOB: I'm not really an OC.  I never traveled in the TARDIS.

ME: Gets a far-away, rather plotting look in my eye

JACOB: Oh, no.  I'm not getting in that box.  Don't even think it.

ME: C'mon.  It could be fun!  Think of it: Monks In Space!

JACOB: Coughs politely and looks around for an escape.  Since he's in my mind, he's stuck.

ME: OK, maybe that's not such a good idea.

JACOB: It's all right my dear.  Just don't call me "Mary Sue." 

Comments

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha!!

Antihistamines and decongestants are inspiration in liquid form.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Forget those! I've gone straight to codeine. I'm just wooooooooooozy. I think I ate the last quarter of a jar of peanut butter earlier this afternoon. At least, there is some evidence:

1. Peanut butter jar, empty, in trash.
2. Dirty spoon in sink.
3. No one else was here.

Ah, well, it's protein.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Oh man, codeine is happyfuntime.

Iwillnotmakeproteinjokes...Iwillnotmakeproteinjokes

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

And why not? I'd laugh at someone reading the yellow pages right now. :)

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Heh. I would but I'm hypnotized by the wagging finger....

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I love, love, love the Smiths (some emo college trends stick around) and spent a solid half an hour rewatching that scene from Blackpool. I love the whole dance.

[blaidd-wolf.livejournal.com]

Ahh The Smiths. I've been in the emo college trend for a few years. :( Though I only listen to the emo college music. ;D

*is thoroughly convinced that she is not a college-emo kid*

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Things that make me happy. The cover of "There is a light that never goes out" from Neil Finn's 7 Worlds Collide concert with Johnny Marr on guitar. Emo never sounded so good.

[platypus]

Huh, Neil Finn covered "There is a light that never goes out"? I'd like to hear that.

I just bought a Smiths covers CD that has Neil Hannon (well, the Divine Comedy) doing that song. After listening to the original about a billion times in college, it was very weird hearing it done with slightly different timing, but it's growing on me; he does have the voice for it.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Indeed he did. He performed a series of concerts with some musically inclined buddies (Eddie Vedder, Johnny Marr, Lisa Germano to name a few) at the St. James Theatre in Auckland NZ several years back. I (being a Neil devotee) have the CD and DVD that he released of the best of the shows, called Seven Worlds Collide (http://www.amazon.com/7-Worlds-Collide-Live-James/dp/B000060NUQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/103-4512879-8285412?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1172880483&sr=8-4) and "There is a Light" is one. It's amazing.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

*nods distractedly* uh-huh

*drools over hand!porn*

[larielromeniel.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh...have I mentioned how much I like Brother Jacob?

And I've finally managed to get Kit off my back. Of course, it meant putting the cart waaaay before the horse. ;-)

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

You have, you have. And bully for Kit. She had it coming. (Ahem)

[larielromeniel.livejournal.com]

::gigglesnort::

At least now I can concentrate on my ficathon story!

[platypus]

Ha :). I was going to say something about the "meddling monk" bit, but I haven't managed to comment that far yet. By the time I finally have my brain back, I swear, I'm gonna need to start from the beginning again. Oh, the pain. However can I stand it. Such a chore. [Swoons gracefully, perhaps on a convenient fainting couch.] (Plus! I get to see the new edits! I cannot even express how much I appreciate all you've put into this story -- hardly anyone cares to fiddle with bits that have already passed, once the first rush of readers and comments is over. I already noticed a couple of differences that I thought of but didn't mention, so wmr must've brought them up. It is eerily like having my mind read.)

The notion of killing off Jacob is an interesting one. I thought you were headed there at first, but then you got the dramatic mileage out of it without his actually having died (yet). I wasn't sure if you were then going to go through with it (or if it would serve a real purpose, at that point; might have over-depressed a generally hopeful story). And, well, I like him and didn't want him to die.

Monks! In! Space! I think that should be the new story summary, just to mess with people.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

HA! Meddling monk, indeed. But, perhaps, a little lighter on the match-making.

Poor You, having to reread. I made some changes that you noted, some by wmr, some that I saw when I went back. I do, however, want to go firmly on record saying that I DETEST making edits on Teaspoon, because I use entirely too many italics and have to copy in all the dang HTML markup manually. ::kicks tires::

I thought about Jacob dying in the epilogue, but it works much better with him alive and talking. I think he'll be fine. He's a tough little dude.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was soooo dodging dinner clean up by making this.



Not the greatest, a little jumpy. Oh well.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!! What a totally girly font. I adore it. Jacob would be mortified. Ha.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

I know. I had a hard time picking it out. He'd be so dismayed by how many fangirls he's got.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a priceless mental image. Jacob with fangirls.

[blaidd-wolf.livejournal.com]

*joins the Jacob fanclub*

Hee, <3 Jacob, and you for conversing with him. ;P

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Distracting neck photo. Gooooooood. ;)

[blaidd-wolf.livejournal.com]

It's my specialty ;)

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

And I bless you for it.

[karenor.livejournal.com]

he IS an OC. any other fandom it stands for original character. :)

i <3 jacob too. :)

p.s. just realized you friended me. i friended you back. now you'll be privvy to my mostly locked posts which are mostly a lot of whining about my various woes. ;)

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, but original companion fit the humor better. :)