Days of Love 2

[thefourthvine]

Victory Dalek Poster, by Francesco Francavilla. Doctor Who. Gen.

For my second day of fannish love, I bring you - um. Robots who hate you? Sorry. That is just how I say "I love you," and Best Beloved will back me up on this if you ask her.

This art is so fabulous. I want this on a poster. I think it would look fetching on my wall. (Or imagine it hung up at your place of work! Think how much it would improve your days, if not necessarily your personnel evaluations.) But, really, the place for this art is on a postcard that you can attach to your dashboard.

See, I used to have a really long commute, and keep in mind that I live in Los Angeles, where people who have commutes that take under an hour are considered lucky to the point where they are sometimes shunned at parties. And so, like I imagine most people do on the freeway, I would fantasize about having a disintegration beam mounted on my car that I could use to target other drivers. (Don't fret. I had a totally fair system worked out to make sure I didn't disintegrate people just because I was in a bad mood. If I ever run for Keeper of the Universe, one of my slogans will be: "You can trust me with all the disintegration beams." Or maybe: "Only disintegrating the unworthy, since 1999." VOTE FOR ME.)

My point is, if I had had this on a postcard to stare at during times of total traffic stoppage that turned out to be caused by, say, some idiot not understanding how to do a zipper merge, I would have - um. Actually, probably fantasized about the disintegration beams even more.

But I would also have fantasized about being a Dalek. And I think, in the end, that's what fanart can bring to us: New horizons, new visions, new hopes. (It just so happen that this specific piece of fanart brings us visions and hopes of exterminating large swathes of humans and then doing the Dalek Beep of Victory. THAT IS MY HOPE FOR TODAY, OKAY? DON'T JUDGE.)

(And while I'm recommending things, let me recommend fanart_recs, a community for, as you might possibly have guessed, fanart recs. I don't know if I got this one from there, but I do find a lot of great fanart there. So awesome!)

Comments

[cleo]

Omg I just bought a Dalenks To Victory poster the other day. It's going to live in my kitchen. yay for killer robots!!!

[thefourthvine]

yay for killer robots!!!

MY FEELINGS PRECISELY. Killer robots are the BEST.

[kass]

I want this on a poster.

Voila: Doctor Who posters at Think Geek.

[thefourthvine]

...But no there's no EXTERMINATION. Although that is still pretty wonderful. And I guess when I look at Daleks, I think EXTERMINATE anyway.

[foursweatervests]

Can you explain this zipper merge to me? Like, are we talking quickly, or are we talking a zipper, i.e. one left, one right, one left, one right...etc.

[dzurlady]

The latter - one car from each lane at time, so no one stops moving and just sits there. (When I was in New Zealand a few years ago the had road signs up explaining this, and even more horrifyingly signs as you approached roundabouts explaining how to give way, which is not comforting! Aside from that it's a lovely country, would recommend for holidays.)

[foursweatervests]

I am having the weirdest sense of deja vu. Did I ask this question before and have you explain it to me before, as well?

[dzurlady]

Not that I remember, so it's probably déjà vu, but my memory isn't great so it is possible that I have. (Also I remain amused by the NZ signs so would likely have included that detail too.) Hope you feel less uncertain now!

[foursweatervests]

I do! Now I'm just uncertain about the déjà vu bits of this conversation. :-)

[thefourthvine]

Dzurlady has the right of it. The thing is, okay, so two lanes must become one. DO NOT TRY TO MERGE BEFORE THE MERGE POINT. DO NOT TRY TO MERGE OUT OF PATTERN. JUST ZIPPER MERGE AND WE WILL ALL BE OKAY.

(Some other things residents of LA rant about:

* That is not how you use a diamond lane, fucker.
* For the love of god, WHY ARE YOU OBEYING THE NUMBER ON THE SIGN? THAT IS NOT THE REAL SPEED LIMIT AND WE ALL KNOW IT.
* You are going the speed limit in the diamond lane. I am planning to rip your still-beating heart from your body. NO JURY MADE UP OF LA RESIDENTS WOULD CONVICT ME.
* STOP BREAKING JUST BECAUSE IT'S A CURVE. If you're that scared of curves, you don't belong on the freeway.

And so on. We care a lot about driving in these parts, is what I'm saying.)

[stasia]

... are you secretly sitting in the back seat as Geordie drives? Because really, if you are, please don't be shy, join in when we rant and yell at the other drivers.

His British accent really adds to the amusement - he can call some stupidhead driver a "twonker" with a panache that I just can't achieve.

Heh.

Stasia

[foursweatervests]

In NY and CT I've heard 2, 3, 4, and...wait, no, I've heard all of these. Except the zipper merge one. We don't know how to merge on the east coast. We get the assholes who zip down the shoulder to get to a better spot, and then the ones who won't let you merge in a zipper pattern because their time is CLEARLY more important than yours, and then there's everybody else, who just wants to run any dickhead over who gets in their way. BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE IF YOU ARE NOT OBEYING THE "ONE PERSON ON THE HIGHWAY AT A TIME, AND THAT PERSON IS ME,/i>" RULE.

[sothcweden]

I want this poster, too! It's awesome! And all I could think of when I saw it, since I've never seen Doctor Who, is the podfic of the J2 story Counting the Steps to the Door of Your Heart, read by pennyplainknits. (I'd link to it, but I can't get to it at work.) EX-TER-MIN-ATE!

[thefourthvine]

I have never heard the podfic and never read the story, but I can get behind EX-TER-MIN-ATE, all right.

[lastscorpion]

And so, like I imagine most people do on the freeway, I would fantasize about having a disintegration beam mounted on my car that I could use to target other drivers.

And then when I was ferrying children around all the time, that became a "Go Home Ray", which magically transported people who needed to be disintegrated really shouldn't be out here driving like that back to their own homes, where they couldn't cause so much road rage trouble.

Of course, the children only knew the meaning of the word "ray" that is those big flat fish they have in the touch pool at the Monterey Aquarium (bat rays), and so they told stories about the big magic fish that fell out of the sky onto the offending vehicles and carried them home. LOL :-D

[thefourthvine]

...Now I want a big magic fish that falls out of the sky onto drivers that have pissed me off. Man, why is this not an animated series somewhere?

("I summon you, Magic Ray!" SPLOT!)

*dreamy face*

[andraste]

The poster is awesome! However, Daleks are not robots. There is a mutant blob inside

(I'm sorry, I don't want to be that fangirl. I just cannot help myself. Also, they have been climbing stairs perfectly well since 1988, just in case anybody was wondering.)

[dzurlady]

Now I want a tshirt with a Dalek logo that says 'climbing stairs since 1988'. :)

[thefourthvine]

You are absolutely right, and as the aunt of the world's most devoted Doctor Who fan, I should have acknowledged that. (And, truly: you can totally be That Fangirl at me. It makes me feel at home, and relaxed. I am really not kidding when I say my nephew is That Fanboy ALL DAY LONG. Right now his brother is at my house because the rest of the family had to take That Fanboy to the Doctor Who con. Fandom is fucking genetic, I swear.)

However, I am prepared to count Daleks on Team Robot. I mean, I'm happy to include cyborgs, too. MECHANICAL SENTIENTS OF ALL STRIPES ARE WELCOME HERE.