Stray Daydreams & Scattered Minutia

Old school fandom and all-around hip nerd: ST:TNG, SW, BSG, The Avengers (Peel & Steed), Berena straight, she/her, @AO3~Guinan333

[batnbreakfast]

Zoom, Booze, no Doom - Back to the roots

Hello everyone,

here we go - after realising that Tumblr somehow lost my scheduled post for the beginning of May, I finally have the energy to say:

Happy Birthday, Zoom!

“I’ve actually never watched Holby,” I confessed at some point, while I had already written fic and found myself to be part of the Berena fandom.

“We should do a group watch with the fandom friends,” @danceswithcows01 mused.

Soon after this everyone was more or less advised to stay at home and a virtual group watch didn’t seem so weird anymore and so we started

Zoom, Booze, no Doom

- a weekly Saturday evening meeting for everyone who wanted to see our two favourite doctors pining, kissing and being loveable idiots.

The initial plan was to stop after “For Eternity” (aka no doom), and sure, we did stop the first rewatch at that, but we still all stayed home most of our time.

So we met a week after and watched Silent Witness. Inspector Lynley. The Grid. What The Butler Saw. Doctor Who. Berena again, doom included. The Cazalets. Mood Music. Bramwell. Serena’s Holby scenes. By then we had a list of what we watched to keep track of things. We branched out: Theatre plays, Bletchley Circle, Deadloch, bits and bobs with actresses we love. Theatre trips to London and Manchester, meetings in several countries.

And suddenly it's 2026.

Me, doing something for six years in a row? Honestly, I don’t know how that happened. It’s still great fun though. Something steady in tumultuous times, time to spend with friends, a place to have a regular chat and a catch-up, watching things we all enjoy.

By now our fandom is rather on the small side. I'm still pretty sure that the Zoom has changed how we interact with each other. Which I'm very, very grateful for.

I should stop my musings now though, before you all go TL/DR on me. 😅

So, come join in on

Six Years (and a bit more) of Zoom, Booze, no Doom

Saturday, the 23rd May

Germany 8pm

UK 7pm

Wisconsin 1pm

We’re going to watch (drumroll) Holby City Series 18, where a certain Major recovers astonishingly fast from being blown up (for the first time) and a certain vascular surgeon struggles not just with her car.

I’m looking forward to seeing you all - even if you haven't taken part for quite a while or even if you never took part in a Zoom before!

[batnbreakfast]

Finally!!

Hi friends,

please click this link to join our Zoom or use ID 4692146554 and PW 932186 to enter our meeting.

[danceswithcows01]

It’s been 6 years?! What a lovely thing we did, @batnbreakfast .

[dduane]

The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen

Check this out.

...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)

[danceswithcows01]

O, sweet summer child. If only you had been in the battle… waiting for AOL to connect and when you finally hear the battle cry ‘you’ve got mail’ … only for you mom to pick up the phone and try to dial out… You know nothing, Jon Snow.

[riverkingston1]

Well, I suppose it has to be acknowledged. Ten years ago today (February 23, 2016)...

[danceswithcows01]

Time flies, eh? Seems like Bernie was only blown up once…

[batnbreakfast]

A menace.

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

Beast back at ya

[danceswithcows01]

Double Trouble looking for action

[seahorsepencils]

Kate Bowstring Arch-Bridge Stewart

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

Kate Bridge Over the River Kwai Stewart

[danceswithcows01]

Kate Bridge Over Troubled Water Stewart

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

[seahorsepencils]

@shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn and @danceswithcows01 absolutely killing it in the "Kate Stewart movie/song title jokes" department - and I really hope they have more.

19 more days of bad Kate Stewart name jokes to go!

[danceswithcows01]

Kate Don’t Burn The Bridge Stewart

[seahorsepencils]

Kate Bowstring Arch-Bridge Stewart

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

Kate Bridge Over the River Kwai Stewart

[danceswithcows01]

Kate Bridge Over Troubled Water Stewart

[ktlsyrtis]

Went to TK and I feel like the cats should have catnip pizza! Not the worst Germann Pizza idea.

OMG!! Yes they absolutely need that. Though how are the toppings on fake cat toy pizza still kind of weird?? 😂

[danceswithcows01]

Where’s the pineapple???

[marlagraysonn]

Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood in Yorkshire Tea advert

[blade-bird]

[dduane]

[danceswithcows01]

[katsitsiyo]

When I was 5, I watched the Star Trek: TNG episode “Attached” (s7 ep8) and positively IMPRINTED on it 👁️👄👁️

So I comm’d fellow ST fan @marleywardart to create this piece of Picard & Crusher having their simple breakfast of “coffee and croissants” together. 🥰

I just love them sm. 🥹💗🫶

But yes, highly recommend the whole series but especially the episode Attached. The bond forcing them to feel each other’s feelings and hear each other’s thoughts!! ✅ The yearning!! ✅ The loaded history between the two of them!! ✅ It is a perfect episode. 😌😌

[stasiclaire]

Here is my latest colored pencil drawing of Gates McFadden from The Big Goodbye! It’s been long overdue but I’m relieved it’s finally finished!! Enjoy 😊 @gates-hepburn @voyager-book-club @jhelenoftrek @startrektng @gatesmcfaddens @inwaitforsomethingbetter @klugtiger @killermanatee

@ariella884

[technicallywrite]

The discord Osgays made me do it

[batnbreakfast]

Zoom, Booze, no Doom

The 4th Year Anniversary Zoom

Hi everyone,

honestly, I feel like by now we're all kind of expecting to make the fourth anniversary happen - and yet it still comes as a surprise. Holby City might have been cancelled, but we're still going strong.

What started as a great idea by @danceswithcows01​ for the Berena fandom to connect during complicated times, became a weekly Saturday evening meeting for all of us who wanted to see our two favourite doctors being loveable idiots.

Then we decided to not just stop there, but to continue meeting up to chat and watch things.

Inspector Lynley, Bramwell, Chandler & Co, Frankie. Doctor Who, The Grid, Halloween specials, What The Butler Saw, Bernie's resurrection, the rooftop proposal, ESC, Buddha of Suburbia, and so many other things.

Last year we even had a live Zoom crowd meeting in the UK to watch Jemma and Catherine on stage (unfortunately separate ones).

The whole thing is great fun. A constant between all the changes during the last years. It transitioned the fandom quite a bit.

Therefore I hope that many of you who've joined in during the last four years will also join in to celebrate

Four Years of Zoom, Booze, no Doom

on

Saturday, 13th April

at the usual time

Germany 9pm

UK 8pm

Wisconsin 2pm

It doesn't matter if you haven't been part of this for ages, if you only joined in once, or if you always thought about joining in, but never actually did so. Message me if you got any questions.

We're going back to our roots and we'll watch the fandoms ten eleven favourite Berena moments.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all!

[yorkshirelarrie]

put in the tags:

your first concert

your last concert

your next concert

your favourite concert

[jxpper]

STAR TREK: What could’ve been if I had known. A father. A husband. I know now I would never have been my father… but I could’ve learned that 20 years before

semi-AU gif vision board

[seahorsepencils]

the unsung hero of the beekeeper: jemma redgrave's amazing weird american accent

[danceswithcows01]

Our local movie news critics actually gave it 2 thumbs up, tho Lee originally went thumbs down. The other dude said it was the new John Wick. So take that for what it’s worth.