dvd commentary (sort of): essentual singularity

I refuse to do a full-on commentary for this one, because it's epic and ruthless and scary and I only wrote half of it, but nextian asked me some questions about it.

I am doing this for Aria & Emma on the condition that they show me their Thomas/Henry. As I told Ji: this will render the vicious quadrilateral complete, and the four of us will never again be able to disentangle our cynicisms, and there shall be wacky crossover drabbles galore!

( In which I spend a lot of time waxing enthusiastic about Thomas Beech )

THE COMING OF THE MOOBS!

1) I am now a (re)qualified first aider, albeit a qualified first aider with a strapped wrist, because apparently practicing CPR for extended periods of time is one of the many activities which screws up my weak wrists. However, I know all sorts of things, including how to improvise a cervical collar in order to move someone with a suspected spinal injury, and how to use an external automatic defibrillator. THESE THINGS ARE SO AWESOME. You just open them up and they talk at you, and there are explanatory diagrams, and they can ONLY deliver a shock if a person's heart is in v-fib, and they even talk you through CPR if you don't know how to do it. Doubleplusgood.

2) I have now worked out why my Yuletide fic is such an utter disaster, and while unfortunately it's more a compatability problem between my prose style and the canon than anything easily fixable, I think I'll be able to lower my expectations and change my approach enough to get it done in time.

3) Um, I think I need to talk for a while about Starcross, which I read in one glorious sitting last night.

( Mostly capslock. It's unavoidable. )