Aw, hell

I just discovered tv_elf has died. I didn't know her well; we were mostly the friend-of-a-friend to each other, with our shared territory a single mailing list that was mostly killed off by LJ.

But I knew her, and knew her to be a good person, and a fun one, and the part that's gutting me the most is looking at her still-active journal and seeing the ephemera of an engaged life and (most heartbreaking of all) yuletide requests in the confident hope of actually being there to read them.

Memento moris used to be skulls and bones and things that lost their thoughtfulness many halloweens ago. Now they're phosphor on screen and they're devastating.

(no subject)

The next couple of days are going to be concerned with Being An Adult, alas, instead of being a squeeing fan (read: pay bills, exchange money, buy food, do laundry). At this rate, the detailed ChicagoTARDIS notes - and they do exist, I promise - won't go up before Wednesday and possibly not until the weekend.

So to provide something to tide the gap, The Sarah Jane Newsroom has short videos of two of Lis' talks, discussing the SJA and doing "Eldrad must live."

No one apparently has pictures of Lis sneaking out Saturday morning "incognito" so that she could shop at the mall across the parking lot. I'm told, from someone who witnessed it, that her "no, I'm not Lis Sladen" act was hilarious.

Pure Squee

( Cut for single-line SJA spoiler )

MADE. OF. AWESOME.

(And that you could take full dental impressions of the entire cast off the scenery is making it better.)

Rule 34 fic of the pair in the final scene in 5... 4... 3...


ETA: Yes, I am squeeing over fandom on the day that a distant friend died. She was a fan. She'd totally understand.