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Looks like Doomsday is over and we're all still here?
So let's continue with pictures.

I watched the episode where they went to Risa and Jon talked about going to the beach with Porthos, but we never saw it. So I made these.








"This is the last time, okay? Oh, who am I kidding..." Porthos gets some cheese!








Then I got a comment that instead of waiting to be fed, he would go for the whole plate, so I had to add one more:





And then I watched "A Night in Sickbay"...
Porthos is ill in that one, possibly even dying, and the captain can't sleep in his room and sleeps in a sickbay bed instead to be close. Awww.

I thought Trip's hair was painted too dark so I gave him some blond highlights.
He then showed the hairdresser how grateful he was.

Captain's best friend has arrived! This is Porthos.

I finally put Scotty into the kilt that I bought for him. He immediately started a band. We are still searching for a name.










The red picture was done for a photo contest for the word “Red”. I’m calling it “Still life with random red things”. I wanted it to look like one of those old paintings.

There was an episode once where Neelix' lungs were stolen by the Vidiians. Tom and Harry have a solution.

For shivver13 alumfelga elisi

This show was so inspiring, I wrote three (about 1,000 words) fanfics within the one week after watching! Here they are, if you like.

Running away

The scene in episode 2, when they mocked poor Phileas about only ever having been to Edinburgh. There is a close-up on his hurt face that made me feel so badly for him, that I just had to write something.

Phileas Fogg x3

This came from a discussion with one of my readers, it is also set in the train and drunken Passepartout sees not just one but three Phileas Foggs that wait to be undressed by him ;)

The Woman from the Wild West

One of my new friends wished for a fanfic about Phileas and Sally, the stagecoach driver. I was happy to deliver.

And a few recommendations:

Unstitched and Unmoored

This was the very first fic in the new fandom, the author started the hashtag. Like many of us, she had been drawn to THAT scene in Hong Kong and felt it needed more exploring, especially with the after effects. First few chapters are similar to the show, showing us Phileas' thoughts while in prison waiting for it to happen, but once we are on the island it will be AU with more whumping. Very well written! Still WIP but gets updated regularly.

To love and to be loved

This one has the same theme like the one above, but I certainly liked this approach as well. Only one chapter so far though, but nicely written with many details.

A sliver of courage and a second chance

Also this one sounds very promising. Very well written, four chapters so far. It's set six months after Phileas is back home in London, with Estella asking him to help with something.
The author says it like this: "Set six months after his victory over Bellamy, Phileas Fogg is taking a well deserved break to catch up on the cricket scores, when his past comes crashing back into his future. Using both his ingenuity and his newly found courage Phileas will have to defeat his old enemy once more; as this time more than money and honour hang in the balance."

Got me hooked right away! There are many more nice ones, have a look for yourself! I've even seen a crossover with "Good Omens", should that be your thing.

Please give the authors plenty of feedback, it is so exciting to be at the start of a new fandom and to see it grow!

Guys! Friends! Lovers of David Tennant! alumfelga!

I can't be the only one being OBSESSED with "Around the World in 80 Days"? Where are you? I need people to talk to!

For the unaware amongst us: It is a new 8 part series, NOT made by the BBC. It's made by a TV alliance of several countries, mainly Germany, France and Italy. But it does currently air at the BBC and in America it is airing at PBS. Poor guys only getting it once a week on Sundays. It will take them forever to go through.

In Germany it aired over three days before Christmas. I recorded it but hesitated to watch as usually German TV is dubbed. But to my delight it was available in original language and there are several different original languages from whichever country they travel to which makes it rich and full. So I only watched it last Sunday. When I say watched, what I mean is I binged it within one day. Yes, it's that good.

I was not yet sure after the first episode. David's Philas Fogg is a very insecure angsty man. But of course he grows, and with him grow the other characters. It is a modern and fresh take. It's very funny, I have been giggeling at times. It's also heartbreaking. David can show the full range of his acting.

Yes, there are those that say it does not stay true to the book, and how dare they have a black man and a woman in main roles. Ignore those ignorants! Go watch for yourself! On Twitter we are loving it, and we even already have fanfictions. One of them is by me:

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Around%20the%20World%20in%2080%20Days%20(TV%202021)/works

Everyone is embracing this new fandom, and a second season (with a different adventure) already was confirmed before it even aired.

Did I say it's good? How could I have even any doubt. Everything David Tennant is in is good. I am just falling in love with him all over again. It also has a certain Doctor Who feeling, which I think may be intentional. Him travelling the world with companions, running around with coat tails flapping, and looking at a fobwatch.

What are you still waiting for? Go watch, watch it now! Watch it till the end, and then come talk to me!

Have you started wrapping your Christmas gifts already?
Who will get these wonderful boxing gloves I wonder...

My mother gave me these, they are for children to be painted. At first I thought, a piano should be black or white, but then I made them as colorful as possible!

I got new booze! I have so many already, but I always like to buy some more. This is part of a bigger set by Re-Ment, you can build a whole bar if you like.
I love how you can play with it, you can fill the glasses (the liquids are extra pieces) and even the decorating lemons are extra.

The figure is Dr. Robert Ford from "Westworld", played by Sir Anthony Hopkins. I don't really watch the show but bought the figures anyway as they look so great. So I took these pictures and just before posting I read that he apparently struggled with alcohol abuse and has been clean for decades now.

I'm sorry, I had no idea. I still love my pictures though and so still want to share them. It's just meant to be a figure, not a comment on his person.