#zoom booze no doom

[batnbreakfast]

Zoom, Booze, no Doom

Hi friends,

given that I'll be traveling a bit more during the next months, I'd like to give everyone a heads up on the upcoming Zoom schedule:

Due to the work of @starfleetwitch @seahorsepencils @ktlsyrtis we're going to have all early Serena & Bernie scenes in HD quality for the first time, so we'll be going back to our roots during the next Zooms and watch our favourite Holby City doctors in excellent quality.

[seahorsepencils]

zoe evans, feat. the jeremy irons pun that nobody asked for

[lapalfruity]

Could this be a shot of Jemma’s initial reaction when she saw the screenplay for Blue Murder?

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

Missing the Zoom Crowd today…

[dk-thrive]

That little flicker of lucidity, light

This was true. That little flicker of lucidity, light, like sun glinting off a snake in the grass...Booze worked that way sometimes, clarifying—briefly—what his mind couldn’t. It was like sitting in the optometrist’s office, booze flashing its different lenses in front of your face and sometimes, for a second, it’d be the right prescription, the one that allowed you to catch a glimpse of the world as it was, beyond your grief, beyond your doom. That was the clarity alcohol, and nothing else, gave. Seeing life as everyone else did, as a place that could accommodate you. But of course a second later it’d zoom past clarity through a flurry of increasingly opaque lenses until all you were able to see would be the dark of your own skull. [...]

I remember sitting there feeling, not happy exactly but simple, maybe? Like a jellyfish just floating along. Someone said alcohol reduces the ‘fatal intensity’ of living. Maybe it was that.

— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)

[technicallywrite]

I can't quite believe this is happening, but chapter 6 of *that Cosmos osgate fic* is out. In which we get a tiny bit of insight into the Osgood family dynamics, more KStew revelations and some Tower-related silliness (the Bench!)

I credit/blame @batnbreakfast and the Zoom, Booze, No Doom crew for inspiring me to marathon-write through the weekend. I'll send y'all my kids' therapy bills.

EDIT: It’s all fun and games until you switch am to pm on the phone alarm by accident and you oversleep and get the 7yo to school half an hour late, good job mother of the year here

[swartmaan]

Here it is, zoom folks.

@batnbreakfast and the whole crew fell responsible for this.

[doctorjameswatson]

After being unable to find an advert to show in zoom last night, this morning I’m apparently back to bananas and bowels 🤦‍♀️

[ktlsyrtis]

hi, can anyone join in on the zoom chat?

Absolutely! The whole thing is basically founded on the idea of ‘the more, the merrier.’ Anyone is welcome to join in the thirst fun! 😊

[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!

[seahorsepencils]

instrumental: chapter 2

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Holby City Rating: Mature Relationships: Serena Campbell/Bernie Wolfe Characters: Serena Campbell, Bernie Wolfe Additional Tags: alternate universe - saxophone lessons, crack treated seriously Chapter Summary: In this chapter, we learn that Serena is a very driven saxophone instructor.

[rauzadian]

Damn, I want to write about Berena and dungarees now ...

[shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn]

Why yes, I am watching Big Business!

[starfleetwitch]

Thanks to Zoom, Booze, No doom I finally got to work on this.

It’s a scene from The Winter Time Paradox which is basically Osgood’s origin story to working under Kate. Re-posting because the brightness was turned down on my drawing tablet and there were SO MANY FLAWS when I looked at the original post on my laptop XD I mean... there still are flaws but I think its time to walk away from this one.

[fortytworedvines]

Tag game

I was tagged by @slightlyintimidating, @pers-books and @batnbreakfast. Thanks guys!

Last song listened to: Y fasged siopa, sung by sprog. She told me I couldn't have siocled in my fasged siopa. I told her I definitely would, thank you. This morning I listened to Can you point your fingers and do the twist.

Last film watched: Blue Murder, on last week's zoom, booze, no doom. It was, well... it was that.

Currently reading: Just finished a read through of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books (Alanna, Daine and Kel). A great universe to hide in.

Currently watching: Series 8 Taskmaster

Current craving: A break. A nice weekend away somewhere quiet with a comfy bed and unlimited amounts of sleep and good food (and no kids). *sigh*

Tagging: @professorflimflam @lapalfruity @rauzadian @beezarre

[berena-tbc]

Hi everyone,

it’s the 5th of September and the Berena Summer Sequel Event “to be continued...” will start today at 12pm BST!

I bet we all are excited about the new works that will be posted a whole week long because so many of you joined in!

Thanks to everyone following our blog, liking and sharing our posts, writing, sprinting, zooming, sending us parts of their works and being as excited about this as we are! Kudos to all of you...

If you like, join in on today’s “to be continued...” side event, the 

Zoom, Booze, no Doom Berena rewatch

It starts at 7pm BST and the link will be posted as a comment on the original post a few minutes before the start.

And of course...

Let’s enjoy and share all the new works!