jennreese

I thought I understood small towns. I went to college in Ithaca — a town listed as “rural” in my college guidebook. But the tiny college town of Fredonia makes Ithaca look like a bustling metropolis.

At first I was shocked by the general lack of necessities. (By “necessities” I mean: book stores, coffee shops, and movie theaters. There was one of each, although for a while we’d thought the theater had closed.) But despite the lack of essential businesses, the town was utterly charming. I loved the architecture most. I loved the old houses with wrap-around porches, with candles in every window, with honest-to-goodness yards.

From 2009 Photobook

Chris gave me the grand tour, and I wanted to jump out of the car and take pictures of the abandoned drive-in theater he used to frequent as a kid. I saw Little League fields, the SUNY Fredonia campus, crisp streams carving their way between snow banks, and the mighty (and mighty cold) great Lake Erie. It felt like a trip to another time, not just another place.

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doctorwho

so here's maybe a silly question.

we all know that crossing into your own timeline is a fussy issue as was evidenced in father's day and mawdryn undead and the fact that the Doctor can't go back into the Time War since it's Time Locked &c &c &c.

Now, ( in the End of Time... )

that last bit isn't *important*, per se, because the episode writing plays out the way that it should play out. just trying to bring out some discussion and theories and what not. i feel like it brings out one of the problems with time-travel and... urgency, for lack of a better word. If you're able to travel at any point in time, then any sense of urgency until you arrive at a particular point in time and become a part of those events is false, yes? it's like you're at the start of a race and have the leisure of starting whenever you want. in this particular instance, the fact that the Doctor becomes aware of a Crisis that's in a timeline outside of the context of the actual Crisis should make the sense of urgency pretty minimal?...