I try to avoid reading works-in-progress, because it's so frustrating waiting until they are finished. But in spite of that, I have been sucked in to reading them every now and then, and I keep on accumulating them. So I thought I'd share my frustration (and who, knows, encourage some authors) by giving my current list of works-in-progress that I have started reading and wish the author would update and finish soon.
( mostly Harry Potter and Doctor Who )

Cross-posted to http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/597016.html.

Someone on my flist was asking for recommendations for Big Finish Doctor Who audios, with emphasis on historicals. Since I can't remember who it was, I thought I'd make a general Big Finish post. Note that I am not at all up to date with my Big Finish listening, so this list is lacking recs for anything past #87.
( cut for length )

This entry was originally posted at http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/579757.html.

tardis_bigbang is live! Lots of juicy Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane stories! With art!
Go, read, comment!

I did one of the pieces of cover art for the story "The Centre of the Universe" by Azar.

Well, "Necessity" did not win nor run-up in the smith_awards. (sigh) What is worse, the other one I wanted to win in the New Who Gen category ("Psycho Savior, qu'est-ce que c'est?") didn't win or run-up either. (sigh) And even worse, I dislike the one that won ("The Gift of the Mad Guy"). (sigh)

But yay for the winners in Classic Who Gen, Classic Who Het, and New Who Het. 8-)

Edited to Add: I hadn't realized they've revealed the reviews. So now I've read the reviews of Necessity (one negative, two positive) and I'm feeling happier.

Yes, I got one negative review, but since it was along the lines of "I hate AUs, this was a self-indulgent story by someone who didn't like canon" I think I can safely ignore it, because I know I wasn't writing it because I disliked the canon; I just wanted to explore a what-if. Mind you, considering that the people who liked Necessity said "read this if you disliked canon", I suppose the negative reviewer has a point, but it's a point against the existence of the story, rather than its execution, so I still think it can be safely ignored.

I can now also understand why "Psycho Savior" didn't win; it got an amazing number of negative votes, and I can see why those people didn't like it, because they felt it was out of character. Me, I didn't think it was out of character, I thought it was brilliant, but obviously our milages have varied.

My page on RedBubble now has two vaguely Doctor-Who-ish T-shirt designs! Well, I'm quoting the Doctor, anyway.

I watched this one spread out in bits, so I didn't have the benefit of seeing it as one whole. Mind you, as seems to happen a lot in these adventures, there was a lot of escaping and being recaptured.
( cut for decades-old spoilers )
( musings about the Master )

The Smith Awards voting is now open! The Smith Awards is a nifty idea; voting is done by anonymous reviews, which means one gets actual reasons to go with the votes, and one ends up with a whole bunch of reviews at the end. Which is cool.

So go and join in!

I've now read a few reaction posts, and thinking a bit about what I thought of it, rather than moment-by-moment reactions.
( spoilerific )
There are probably more thoughts to be had, but it is way past time for me to go to bed.

I decided to write my reactions as I saw it, but that means that it's incoherent about a third of the time. So I've also decided to add notes (in italics)
( hugely spoilerific and disorderly ramblings )

I don't remember seeing "Colony in Space" before, though I had fun speculating about what the plot would turn out to be. Yes, it was full of cliches, but it was fun to laugh at them.
( rambly musings )