Kind of Long Doctor Who Opinions Meme
Aug. 27th, 2023 01:58 pmMemed from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scifirenegade !
1. When did you start watching?
10 October 2015, about 6 or 7 pm local time.
1a. Why?
People had been telling me for years I'd like it, but I'd never given it a try. It was my first year of college and I felt like I could maybe try some new things, so I went along to the weekly watch party hosted by a cool older girl called, and this is completely true, Clara. Peter Capaldi explained the bootstrap paradox while gazing directly into my soul and I've never really recovered.
2. What was your first episode?
...As that indicates, Before the Flood. I didn't even care that it was in the middle of a two-parter.
3. Which episodes have you seen?
Many, but not all of them. Almost all of the modern series and maybe about half of the classic series? I keep rewatching the bits I know I like, is the thing.
3a. Favorite?
City of Death, maybe?
4. Are your friends/family interested in the show?
Most of my friends are polite but not terribly interested, or watched Tennant and Smith and haven't thought about it in years. B. watches it, though, and we go to conventions and all. I'm more actively fannish but he does really like it.
5. Which Doctor is your favorite?
*points at icon*
Or Seven. But actually Six.
6. Which Doctor is your least favorite?
There's not one I don't have a soft spot for.
Just going by the numbers, however, I seem to have written 10 the least. But there are stories in which I love him (just not by me).
7. Which TV companion is your favorite?
Romana! (I dithered for ages over this question because I forgot she was a companion. She's her own thing. XD)
8. Which TV companion is your least favorite?
IDK, probably Kamelion or something. XD There are a number of characters I don't really feel like I get, probably because I don't have enough familiarity with their eras, but I don't hate them, at all.
9. Do you listen to the Big Finish audios?
Yes!
9a. If so, which is your favorite?
I refuse to pick a single one. It's Caerdroia though.
9b. Also: which Big Finish companion is your favorite?
Charley or Evelyn. (Very ~basic~ answers!) I think Evelyn would be more fun in real life but Charley's story makes me go more crazy.
10. Have you listened to any non-Big Finish audios?
Like scifirenegade, I have listened to The Time Travellers! It's surprisingly good, really. I also own that one where Stephanie Cole narrates as Bessie (?) but I haven't listened to it yet.
10a. If so, which is your favorite?
Punchline was great and messed me up.
11. Have you read any of the novels or short stories?
Yes, most of them in a frenzied binge during lockdown, with the result that I often cannot remember what had which thing in it.
11a. Have you written any of the novels or short stories?
...not official ones, no?
11b. Which is your favorite?
The Left-Handed Hummingbird is the one I got Sophie Aldred to sign.
12. Have you read any of the comics?
Yes, a few!
12a. You guessed it – which is your favorite?
They kind of all blur together, I don't remember them very well. I'd like to get my hands on more of the old DWM comics. I've mostly only read the Titan ones. Oh wait no, I do have an answer to this question, it's the Eighth Doctor and Josie Day comics.
13. Do you watch any of the spin-offs (e.g. Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures)?
Not regularly.
13a. Which is your favorite?
I've liked the bits of SJA that I've seen.
14. Is there any particular episode/book/audio/comic you desperately want to watch/listen to/read?
Lots I'd like to get to eventually. Some of the ones I'd like to watch are missing though, of course, so I probably won't.
Fandom
1. Do you write fanfic for Doctor Who?
Do I ever!
1a. If so, post a snippet of a work-in-progress (or several)!
2. Do you create Doctor Who icons?
Occasionally.
2a. Let’s see a sample!
*points at icon*
3. Recommend a fanfic/icon/fanvid/fancomic/fancreation!
Still banging the drum of the incredible Doctor Who: Darker Side by QuokkaMocha.
4. Have you been to any Doctor Who conventions?
Yes! LI Who! Twice!
5. Have you ever dressed up as a Doctor Who character?
Yes! Seven! Twice!
6. Do you own any Doctor Who merchandise?
Oh yes. Official merch versions of Seven's sweater vest and paisley scarf for aforementioned costume; action figures of Sarah and both Romanas (they came as a set, I really mostly wanted Lalla); a mug with the Seal of Rassilon on it; lots of pins; besides homemade stuff.
7. Are you a fan of Russell T Davies?
Not a rabid fan, but he's definitely made some stories I like.
7a. Steven Moffat?
Ditto.
7b. Paul Cornell?
Ditto. How old is this meme?
8. What say you to Season 6b?
Sometimes it's true and sometimes it isn't.
9. The UNIT dating controversy?
It's a time travel show, what do you expect?
10. The Blinovitch Limitation effect?
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. For reasons.
11. Multi-Doctor episodes?
Bring 'em on! I'm glad we don't have them any more often than we do, because we'd get used to them; but they're lovely and joyful even when the story is a bit ehh, and I'm very glad we have them. (Rewatched The Three Doctors the other day. What an absolute delight. Also I realized that if Sgt. Benton is a companion he is a Second Doctor companion.)
12. What’s your favorite Doctor Who technobabble?
"Confusing the polarity" is the only reference I regularly make in real life to people who won't get it. Like when you're both turning on a light with two different switches.
13. Have you watched other TV shows exclusively because of the presence of Doctor Who actors?
Yes, some! Hotel! is an incredibly bonkers comedy including Paul McGann and Peter Capaldi (among others). It's not good! At the convention last week Paul McGann was taking questions about his non-DW work, and I asked him afterwards about Hotel!, specifically what was it, in fact, supposed to be? He said "It was meant to be funny! It wasn't, but it was meant to be." I do love to watch it but, like, not for the reasons its writers hoped.
Also Lost at Christmas, a terrible, terrible rom-com in which Frazer Hines and Sylvester McCoy are side characters. They're very good in it. Their bits are the good bits. I made my mother watch it with me and we were so bemused by the behavior of the leads. It made no sense.
Somehow Lost at Christmas also came up at the con, but Frazer brought it up during the panel, I think. It wasn't me that introduced the topic.
14. Have you met any of the actors?
Yes, at the aforementioned con! But I haven't really properly met everyone who's been at the con--I always feel awkward trying to make small talk with people when they're doing autograph lines and I'm not paying for an autograph. And I only really run to one autograph a year. So properly met and talked to, Sophie Aldred and Paul McGann. I think Frazer Hines counts as well because he just wanders the halls and talks to people. Been in the audience for a panel, also Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Peter Davison, Wendy Padbury, Katy Manning, and Sacha Dhawan. I have no idea how they got him at our little con, but he seems like an old hand already, and I suspect that in thirty years he'll still be doing it and they'll still be trying to get him to do the Rasputin dance. (He wouldn't.)
14a. Traveled to any filming locations?
Not on purpose, but I've been to Cardiff, and you can't avoid them. That was actually part of what got me back into the show after somewhat losing interest during the long break between 12 and 13.
15. What do you think of The Curse of Fatal Death?
Never actually watched it.
16. Do you have any fannish opinions that you think are fairly unpopular?
I don't have a good sense of what opinions are popular! I will say that I seem to be a lot more willing to say of any given episode "it was mediocre, but still fun" than many DW fans do. I don't need an episode to be TRANSCENDENTLY WONDERFUL or else I HATE it. Some episodes are TRANSCENDENTLY WONDERFUL, but it's not something I demand of the show. They're often just... reasonably fun episodes of television, you know? My standards are low.
17. What’s your favorite pairing?
Doctor/Romana <3
18. What pairing(s) won’t you touch with a really long pole?
Never say never! XD Really, though, my default state is not shipping, and I have to be specifically convinced to ship. So I also don't spend much energy actively disliking any pairings; I just go on my merry gen-ish way, periodically dipping into the couple of pairings I do ship.
scifirenegade !1. When did you start watching?
10 October 2015, about 6 or 7 pm local time.
1a. Why?
People had been telling me for years I'd like it, but I'd never given it a try. It was my first year of college and I felt like I could maybe try some new things, so I went along to the weekly watch party hosted by a cool older girl called, and this is completely true, Clara. Peter Capaldi explained the bootstrap paradox while gazing directly into my soul and I've never really recovered.
2. What was your first episode?
...As that indicates, Before the Flood. I didn't even care that it was in the middle of a two-parter.
3. Which episodes have you seen?
Many, but not all of them. Almost all of the modern series and maybe about half of the classic series? I keep rewatching the bits I know I like, is the thing.
3a. Favorite?
City of Death, maybe?
4. Are your friends/family interested in the show?
Most of my friends are polite but not terribly interested, or watched Tennant and Smith and haven't thought about it in years. B. watches it, though, and we go to conventions and all. I'm more actively fannish but he does really like it.
5. Which Doctor is your favorite?
*points at icon*
Or Seven. But actually Six.
6. Which Doctor is your least favorite?
There's not one I don't have a soft spot for.
Just going by the numbers, however, I seem to have written 10 the least. But there are stories in which I love him (just not by me).
7. Which TV companion is your favorite?
Romana! (I dithered for ages over this question because I forgot she was a companion. She's her own thing. XD)
8. Which TV companion is your least favorite?
IDK, probably Kamelion or something. XD There are a number of characters I don't really feel like I get, probably because I don't have enough familiarity with their eras, but I don't hate them, at all.
9. Do you listen to the Big Finish audios?
Yes!
9a. If so, which is your favorite?
I refuse to pick a single one. It's Caerdroia though.
9b. Also: which Big Finish companion is your favorite?
Charley or Evelyn. (Very ~basic~ answers!) I think Evelyn would be more fun in real life but Charley's story makes me go more crazy.
10. Have you listened to any non-Big Finish audios?
Like scifirenegade, I have listened to The Time Travellers! It's surprisingly good, really. I also own that one where Stephanie Cole narrates as Bessie (?) but I haven't listened to it yet.
10a. If so, which is your favorite?
Punchline was great and messed me up.
11. Have you read any of the novels or short stories?
Yes, most of them in a frenzied binge during lockdown, with the result that I often cannot remember what had which thing in it.
11a. Have you written any of the novels or short stories?
...not official ones, no?
11b. Which is your favorite?
The Left-Handed Hummingbird is the one I got Sophie Aldred to sign.
12. Have you read any of the comics?
Yes, a few!
12a. You guessed it – which is your favorite?
They kind of all blur together, I don't remember them very well. I'd like to get my hands on more of the old DWM comics. I've mostly only read the Titan ones. Oh wait no, I do have an answer to this question, it's the Eighth Doctor and Josie Day comics.
13. Do you watch any of the spin-offs (e.g. Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures)?
Not regularly.
13a. Which is your favorite?
I've liked the bits of SJA that I've seen.
14. Is there any particular episode/book/audio/comic you desperately want to watch/listen to/read?
Lots I'd like to get to eventually. Some of the ones I'd like to watch are missing though, of course, so I probably won't.
Fandom
1. Do you write fanfic for Doctor Who?
Do I ever!
1a. If so, post a snippet of a work-in-progress (or several)!
From everywhere and nowhere, she heard a voice: her rescuer’s. It had the slightly unnatural rhythm of recorded speech, but the recording was astonishingly clear, allowing her to hear every note of the lilting voice.
“Charley—I may call you Charley?” he said. “I’m sorry I couldn’t welcome you to the TARDIS personally—oh, this is the TARDIS, by the way—but I’m sure you’ll find your way around. The kitchen is down the third hallway, second left, first right. You’ll want a cup of tea perhaps. Second hallway, bedrooms, pick whichever you like, and oh! if you want to shower, get rid of the smoke, there should be clean clothes when you look for them. Not that you aren’t lovely as you are, I mean. I’m the Doctor by the way. I’ll talk to you later, I wish I could explain….”
The message ended in a fuzz of static and a beep.
2. Do you create Doctor Who icons?
Occasionally.
2a. Let’s see a sample!
*points at icon*
3. Recommend a fanfic/icon/fanvid/fancomic/fancreation!
Still banging the drum of the incredible Doctor Who: Darker Side by QuokkaMocha.
4. Have you been to any Doctor Who conventions?
Yes! LI Who! Twice!
5. Have you ever dressed up as a Doctor Who character?
Yes! Seven! Twice!
6. Do you own any Doctor Who merchandise?
Oh yes. Official merch versions of Seven's sweater vest and paisley scarf for aforementioned costume; action figures of Sarah and both Romanas (they came as a set, I really mostly wanted Lalla); a mug with the Seal of Rassilon on it; lots of pins; besides homemade stuff.
7. Are you a fan of Russell T Davies?
Not a rabid fan, but he's definitely made some stories I like.
7a. Steven Moffat?
Ditto.
7b. Paul Cornell?
Ditto. How old is this meme?
8. What say you to Season 6b?
Sometimes it's true and sometimes it isn't.
9. The UNIT dating controversy?
It's a time travel show, what do you expect?
10. The Blinovitch Limitation effect?
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. For reasons.
11. Multi-Doctor episodes?
Bring 'em on! I'm glad we don't have them any more often than we do, because we'd get used to them; but they're lovely and joyful even when the story is a bit ehh, and I'm very glad we have them. (Rewatched The Three Doctors the other day. What an absolute delight. Also I realized that if Sgt. Benton is a companion he is a Second Doctor companion.)
12. What’s your favorite Doctor Who technobabble?
"Confusing the polarity" is the only reference I regularly make in real life to people who won't get it. Like when you're both turning on a light with two different switches.
13. Have you watched other TV shows exclusively because of the presence of Doctor Who actors?
Yes, some! Hotel! is an incredibly bonkers comedy including Paul McGann and Peter Capaldi (among others). It's not good! At the convention last week Paul McGann was taking questions about his non-DW work, and I asked him afterwards about Hotel!, specifically what was it, in fact, supposed to be? He said "It was meant to be funny! It wasn't, but it was meant to be." I do love to watch it but, like, not for the reasons its writers hoped.
Also Lost at Christmas, a terrible, terrible rom-com in which Frazer Hines and Sylvester McCoy are side characters. They're very good in it. Their bits are the good bits. I made my mother watch it with me and we were so bemused by the behavior of the leads. It made no sense.
Somehow Lost at Christmas also came up at the con, but Frazer brought it up during the panel, I think. It wasn't me that introduced the topic.
14. Have you met any of the actors?
Yes, at the aforementioned con! But I haven't really properly met everyone who's been at the con--I always feel awkward trying to make small talk with people when they're doing autograph lines and I'm not paying for an autograph. And I only really run to one autograph a year. So properly met and talked to, Sophie Aldred and Paul McGann. I think Frazer Hines counts as well because he just wanders the halls and talks to people. Been in the audience for a panel, also Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Peter Davison, Wendy Padbury, Katy Manning, and Sacha Dhawan. I have no idea how they got him at our little con, but he seems like an old hand already, and I suspect that in thirty years he'll still be doing it and they'll still be trying to get him to do the Rasputin dance. (He wouldn't.)
14a. Traveled to any filming locations?
Not on purpose, but I've been to Cardiff, and you can't avoid them. That was actually part of what got me back into the show after somewhat losing interest during the long break between 12 and 13.
15. What do you think of The Curse of Fatal Death?
Never actually watched it.
16. Do you have any fannish opinions that you think are fairly unpopular?
I don't have a good sense of what opinions are popular! I will say that I seem to be a lot more willing to say of any given episode "it was mediocre, but still fun" than many DW fans do. I don't need an episode to be TRANSCENDENTLY WONDERFUL or else I HATE it. Some episodes are TRANSCENDENTLY WONDERFUL, but it's not something I demand of the show. They're often just... reasonably fun episodes of television, you know? My standards are low.
17. What’s your favorite pairing?
Doctor/Romana <3
18. What pairing(s) won’t you touch with a really long pole?
Never say never! XD Really, though, my default state is not shipping, and I have to be specifically convinced to ship. So I also don't spend much energy actively disliking any pairings; I just go on my merry gen-ish way, periodically dipping into the couple of pairings I do ship.
Meme: Fic Superlatives
Aug. 16th, 2023 10:49 pmrules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.
memed fromnostalgia!
most hits: The Strands of Fate (527)? Really?? I know it's popular, but it's beat all the New Who fics on hits??? Nice.
most kudos: With the exception of a kudos bot victim, Ms Smith (63). Predictably, with a very popular companion and the then-current Doctor.
most bookmarks: Somewhere to Belong (18 according to Statistics, 15 visible). I have a theory that "headcanon accepted" reactions tend to lead to a lot of bookmarks, because people want to look back and remember what the headcanon is that they accepted, and this is a very headcanon-y one.
most words: mumble mumble never-finished WIP...
Barring which, it's Never Too Late (4652), my alt!Sixth Doctor/alt!Romana II romance set in the universe of the Gallifrey audio Reborn. What can I say, they both talk a lot. I'm still quite fond of this one; they're both such messes.
least words: since I stuck my Three Sentence Ficathon fills on AO3, I have a fic with only 37 words, sing me a song. Besides 3SF fills, I have exactly sixty drabbles.
memed from
nostalgia!most hits: The Strands of Fate (527)? Really?? I know it's popular, but it's beat all the New Who fics on hits??? Nice.
most kudos: With the exception of a kudos bot victim, Ms Smith (63). Predictably, with a very popular companion and the then-current Doctor.
most bookmarks: Somewhere to Belong (18 according to Statistics, 15 visible). I have a theory that "headcanon accepted" reactions tend to lead to a lot of bookmarks, because people want to look back and remember what the headcanon is that they accepted, and this is a very headcanon-y one.
most words: mumble mumble never-finished WIP...
Barring which, it's Never Too Late (4652), my alt!Sixth Doctor/alt!Romana II romance set in the universe of the Gallifrey audio Reborn. What can I say, they both talk a lot. I'm still quite fond of this one; they're both such messes.
least words: since I stuck my Three Sentence Ficathon fills on AO3, I have a fic with only 37 words, sing me a song. Besides 3SF fills, I have exactly sixty drabbles.
12 Characters Meme
Aug. 9th, 2023 11:03 pmThe 12 Characters Meme (Plotty) is here.
The characters (themselves randomly selected from a Doctor Who list) are:
The characters (themselves randomly selected from a Doctor Who list) are:
- Jack
- Eleven
- Katarina
- Adam
- Liz
- Donna
- Sarah Jane
- Nine
- Ian
- Romana II
- Mickey
- Mel
- 8 [Nine] and 4 [Adam] get stuck in a lift. What happens? At which point exactly in Adam’s brief inglorious tenure? If they’re still traveling together, presumably they do lots of techy things to get out. If it’s after Adam gets left, I should imagine a lot of quarreling ensures. Rose finds the building maintenance people and gets the lift open.
- Randomise a song by your preferred means (shuffle your iPod/MP3 player/iTunes/the internet). Pick out the line that best fits 2 [Eleven]? Well, I got “Flower of Scotland,” which… I don’t know, I mean if you wrote an Eleven tries to go back for Jamie story you could use almost any line as the title, and I do now want such a story, but that’s not a line about Eleven as such. Amy is equally Scottish but it doesn’t fit her particularly well.
- What would be your plot device of choice for a fic involving 11 [Mickey] and 6 [Donna]? Probably Donna’s presumably existing counterpart in Pete’s World.
- Rec a fanwork about 12 [Mel]? QuokkaMocha’s “Consensus in Idem,” an entry in her ongoing Doctor Who: Darker Side series featuring Mel and Six, the Valeyard, the Forest of Cheem, and mysteriously missing time!
- Where would 9 [Ian] take 5 [Liz] on a date? Somewhere classy and extremely normal. Or alternatively, to whatever place they are fake-dating to infiltrate, because I really can’t picture this happening organically.
- 2 [Eleven] and 4 [Adam] are now buddy cops. Do they make a good team, and is this bad or good news for nearby criminals? The Doctor thinks Adam is unscrupulous and selfish and Adam thinks the Doctor is incomprehensibly terrifying, presumably, at this point. They do not make a good team. But they possibly do scare criminals quite badly as well.
- Make up a summary for an apocalyptic fic featuring 5 [Liz] and 10 [Romana II] The boundaries between universes are breaking down. At least, that’s what the woman who’s mysteriously appeared in Liz Shaw’s lab claims. She says she’s spent hundreds of years in a place called E-Space. She also says the consequences of the universes meeting will be catastrophic. Will the combined skills of two scientists from different worlds be enough to stop the disaster—or even survive it?
- If 3 [Katarina] and 7 [Sarah Jane] were a couple, how would they meet and would it work out? How would they meet? Time travel, presumably. Sarah spends the whole time trying to boost Katarina’s self-respect. Explaining basic feminist theory to Katarina makes a change from explaining it to Harry, I guess.
- 1 [Jack], 10 [Romana II] and 8 [Nine] go on an epic road trip. Where are they going, who drives, and who gets left behind at the first stop?
- In a coffee shop type AU with 9 [Ian] and 4 [Adam], what would their establishment be called? It would be Adam’s weird idea for one of those techie coffee businesses that processes the coffee with supplements to make you focus better or whatever. So he gets his old science teacher on board as a consultant. Adam would probably name it something meaningless but sleek-sounding, like Entropy or Epsilon or something.
- What would the title be for a romance novel/film featuring 7 [Sarah Jane] and 12 [Mel]? According to the Unconventional Pairing Generator, it’s called Trouble in Tourmaline, Sarah is an ex-lawyer and Mel is a psychologist. She gets involved with Sarah through wanting to fix her problems, which tracks for Mel.
- If forced to choose, would you rather have an evening out with 1 [Jack] or 11 [Mickey]? In-universe, Mickey. I’m immune to Captain Jack, he comes on far too strong. But it’s very hard to get past the actors on this question. Bad call, generator.
- What's your favourite pairing (romantic or otherwise) for 3 [Katarina]? I keep getting Katarina in memes when I really don’t know her at all. Katarina/not dying, perhaps? That seems like it would probably brighten her existence.
- Write a snippet from a 8 [Nine], 9 [Ian] and 3 [Katarina] pirate AU. ('Snippet' here meaning 'as brief as you like'.)
The captain’s eyes were haunted by loss. He hadn’t expected to escape burning Troy; and yet here he was, alive, sailing in the long term for a prophesied new home and in the short term for, well, whatever they could find. He clung to Katarina; some days it was all she could do to keep his dark mood away.
Ian had tried to object when he realized “wandering on the sea” in this era was next door to outright piracy. But the only answer he got amounted to “shut up and row.” If this was going to happen a lot, he thought, he would have to ask Barbara for some more historical context.
[on the list of things I didn’t expect to write today: an Aeneid fusion AU. But it works!]- 11 [Mickey], 1 [Jack], 12 [Mel] and 5 [Liz] are on a talent show. Who wins? It’s a close thing between Mel’s singing and dancing and Jack’s magic act involving objects appearing and disappearing from very strange places indeed. But when Mel reveals she can also scream the theme tune in tune, she’s got to win. Besides, this is a family show.
- Aliens try to make 2 [Eleven], 6 [Donna] and 12 [Mel] do it. Do they have any luck? Eleven’s always willing to try things, but it’s unclear whether he knows what “it” is meant to be. Donna slaps him anyway. Mel is practical and escape-oriented in the moment, but later she finds herself looking at her own Doctor, wondering…. No. No. Never in a million years, she tells herself.
- What might 1 [Jack] say to compliment 5 [Liz]? Knowing Jack, he’s liable to say almost anything.
- What would 10 [Romana II] hate most about 2 [Eleven]? And what would 9 [Ian] love most about 10 [Romana II]? All of Eleven’s Gallifrey-based neuroses would annoy Romana no end. But then, if she were alive, he wouldn’t have them. Or at least he’d have different ones.
- If you had to write a crossover involving 6 [Donna] and 4 [Adam], how would it go and/or what would the crossover fandom be? I don’t know what fandom exactly, but something terrifically mundane, probably a sitcom. You’d have to end up with some kind of comedy in which Adam’s head portal is constantly going off and Donna is constantly just missing seeing it happen.
- Go here to generate a random poem. The second line is now the title of a fic about 11 [Mickey] and 7 [Sarah Jane]. What's the plot? After much effort trying to find a random poem generator in 2023 that would give me a random existing poem and not something cobbled together by a so-called AI, I ended up with “The Lady of Shalott.” The second line of which is “Long fields of barley and of rye.” Perhaps… I don’t know, perhaps they have to deal with Evil In A Quaint Country Village, Mickey is far too much of a Londoner but Sarah has experience in these matters. And as a reference to the rest of the poem, perhaps something about how they’ve both spent quite a lot of time breaking their hearts over people who run off into space.
- If 3 [Katarina] and 9 [Ian] decided to get together and pull off a jewel heist, how would that go? Neither of them has any relevant skills whatsoever, as far as I can think. I think they’d have better luck asking for the jewels politely.
- 7 [Sarah Jane] has got to save the world from 8 [Nine]. Is the world saved or doomed? If the world needs saving from Nine, it’s because he’s gone all dark and scary like in Dalek—and if anyone can snap him out of that, it’s his old friend Sarah. So the world is safe.
Ian would love that Romana knows how to steer a TARDIS.
I meme'd a meme
Jun. 11th, 2023 03:51 amOver on Tumblr, but it seems like it would transplant well:
Memes are for stealing!
1. How many works do you have on Ao3?
158 (one currently unrevealed).
2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?
103,185. I cracked 100k recently!
3. How many fandoms have you written for?
All the Doctors Who + Gallifrey + Iris Wildthyme + The Time Travellers + GoR etc.; Ancient Greek Religion & Lore; WtOVPIC; Blake’s 7; Dracula; Discworld; Windrose Chronicles & Sun-Cross series also by Barbara Hambly (one crossover); All Creatures Great and Small; Lost at Christmas, heaven help me. That makes nine as I count it. Most only for one small thing or crossover.
4. Top 5 fics by kudos?
Skipping kudos bot victims:
Ms Smith (13 and Sarah, fun with fake names)
don’t worry, he’s with me (Ten and Donna five-times-fic)
Vicarious(Six & Martha drabble)
Time Flies Like an Arrow (witches fly on a broomstick) (Discworld, Lancre Witches, having a philosophical conversation about time) (I have come to detest this title but I’m glad people enjoyed the fic)
to all our nights and days to come (Seven/Romana Time War AU)
It’s helpful to include extremely popular, well-known characters in your fics. Or, apparently, to write a slightly darker twist on your rarepair OTP and happen to plug it one day on a relevant popular post.
5. Do you respond to comments? Why/why not?
I do, because I love getting comments and I am always genuinely grateful to hear that someone has enjoyed my work!
6. A fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?
Wow, last time I did this meme I said it was That Which We Call. That’s changed. It might actually be to all our nights and days to come, or else one of the Six-post-Trial ones.
7. Do you write crossovers?
Apparently! But not much, and not well.
8. Ever received hate on a fic?
Nope, touch wood.
9, Do you write smut?
Not my thing.
10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I know of.
11. Ever had a fic translated?
Yes!! @sci-firenegade translated Making History into Portuguese! It is so cool.
12. Have you ever co-written a fic?
Sort of, with Moki! We more tend to write sequels to each other’s stuff, but we also have listed ourselves as co-authors on a couple of things.
13. All time fav ship?
Seven/Romana.
14. WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?
Never say die! Probably the Eight/Charley babyfic AU, though. If I go back to it it’ll be as a very different writer and I’ll probably want to rework what exists and it’ll be technically a different fic.
15. Writing strengths?
Character voices & dialogue. Also, focalization. I always know what A thinks of B and what B notices about A, which is hilarious as I absolutely do not know any of this in real life.
16. Writing weaknesses?
Used to be length; I’m still very brief but I feel like I have more control over the length of a fic now. Like it comes out more or less the length I expect it to; I can tell what size something’s gonna be. Probably now I would just say plot. I’m not great at Things Occurring. And like everybody else I get hung up on how to describe basic actions like walking across a room.
17. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?
Don’t do it if you can’t get the other language right (as well as how code-switching actually tends to work). Also, translation convention exists for a reason. Probably don’t pull an ‘opening lines of War and Peace’ unless you are in fact Tolstoy, in which case you don’t need my writing advice. Nothing inherently wrong with it though.
18. First fandom you wrote for?
Officially, DW. Unofficially, probably something as a kid before I knew fandom existed. Redwall or something.
19. What’s your fav fic you’ve written so far?
to all our nights and days to come, probably.
Memes are for stealing!
15 Characters Answers!
Mar. 27th, 2023 11:52 pmHere is my list of characters!
1. Horatio (Hamlet)
2. Charley Pollard (Doctor Who - I'm not sure I'm legally allowed to do a meme without her)
3. Ray (Doctor Who, Delta and the Bannermen)
4. Annie Hacker (Yes, Minister)
5. Mell Kelly (Narbonic)
6. Data (Star Trek)
7. Cally (Blake's 7 - and I still haven't finished her episodes, so while I do know an amount of spoilers that distresses my more experienced friends, you should probably not tell me specific things that happen to her just in case I don't know. But I love her and she's going in the meme.)
8. Macbeth (Macbeth)
9. Verity Kindle (Oxford Time Travel)
10. Lottie Grote (Bad Machinery)
11. Tristan Farnon (All Creatures Great and Small)
12. Margaret Lyons (Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully)
13. Alan Breck Stewart (Kidnapped)
14. Joanna Sheraton (The Windrose Chronicles)
15. Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
Fromthisbluespirit:
1 [Horatio], 6 [Data], and 14 [Joanna] go on a road trip. Whose idea is it, who drives, and who gets left behind?
Data wanted to experience this human thing! Joanna is the only one who can drive, and she doesn't let people drive who can't drive (cf. Antryg), so she's driving. Horatio answered a phone call from Hamlet when they stopped for gas, and two hours later they decided to just leave him.
2 [Charley], 3 [Ray] and 12 [Margaret] are locked in a cell together for a night. Do they get out, what crimes have they committed, and do they all survive the night?
Well, Charley and Ray have definitely both been led astray by their mutual friend; and if Margaret's there, I can only assume the Doctor was getting involved in Cresdon Green's affairs and his friends are now locked in the closet off of Uljabaan's office. Margaret certainly wasn't helping, but perhaps there was some massive misunderstanding. Or perhaps she was in the closet looking for a dustcloth (the state of this place!) and nobody saw her when they locked up Ray and Charley. The companions escape rather quickly (throwing off the Doctor, who is about ten minutes late to rescue them), but Margaret won't go out the window, she waits in the closet to give Uljabaan a piece of her mind in the morning.
15 [Clara] has been murdered! Can 4 [Annie] solve the mystery with the help of their trusty sidekick, 7 [Cally]? Why is 8 [Macbeth] a red herring? And, out of the remaining numbers, who did it?
Annie Hacker and Cally will be a fantastic mystery-solving team, I'm in love with this idea. Macbeth is a red herring because he is quite visibly racked with guilt over a murder--just not Clara's. The most violent of the remaining characters is probably Mell Kelly (Evil Intern in a mad scientist's lab) who is fond of enormous weaponry and has enough meta-awareness to pick up on the fact that Clara is a splinter and must inevitably die once she's saved the Doctor. So she streamlined the narrative. She'll be fine, though--she's also studying law.
Fromceruleantactician:
3 [Ray], 5 [Mell] and 6 [Data] spend the afternoon trying to put together some IKEA furniture. How does it all turn out?
Data would love putting together IKEA furniture (much as I do). Ray would be a valiant contributor and would be intrigued by Data's android nature, so she'd enjoy that. She'd also be great at it as long as she wasn't required to use the dinky little Allen key it comes with. Mell gets bored and wanders away in about five minutes, unless Helen (her boss, the Evil Mad Scientist) is there, in which case they build some kind of doomsday device instead of IKEA furniture. But it probably doesn't work without Dave (the lab's IT guy).
10 [Lottie] and 11 [Tristan] have been recruited by 7 [Cally] for an undercover mission to rescue 4 [Annie]. Are they able to work together to complete the mission, and how does it all turn out in the end?
Well, Cally's got to rescue her new detective partner! Why she needs a schoolgirl and a veterinary student is less clear to me. I mean, Lottie thinks it's perfectly natural for Cally to enlist the help of one of Tackleford's top mystery solvers, but Lottie has an interesting view of her own place in the universe. And perhaps she needs Tristan to do voices on the phone (he's very good at this). I don't know. I think Cally is going to be carrying a lot of the weight in this partnership. I feel like she could get more effective help to rescue the Prime Minister's wife. Like, I don't know, MI6? But perhaps she doesn't trust the powers that be. Understandable, given her background. She'll probably pull it off, and her assistants will do their best, but... honestly, Cally!
13 [Alan] and 14 [Joanna] are told that in order to accomplish some goal that they both find compelling, they must spend a month together without leaving the other's side. What is their reaction?
They've both put up with much, much worse in the service of goals they find compelling. Joanna might take the opportunity to learn some of Alan's 'walking all the way down Scotland' skills. What I am curious about is what goal they both find compelling! Possibly it is walking all the way down Scotland.
Fromquailfence
1 [Horatio], 2 [Charley], and 6 [Data] end up trapped in some place together. They are told that they have to beat 15 [Clara] at some task, challenge, or game in order to leave. What do they pick and how do they fare?
...Do they all have to participate? Because otherwise they could pick something like calculating digits of pi in your head, and Data could beat anyone at that. But if it has to be all of them, and Clara has to agree to it, I think they'd pick some kind of word game. Data has a lot of knowledge, Charley plays Scrabble, and Horatio went to university, you know, and therefore speaks Latin and is qualified to talk to ghosts. Clara holds her own well, but the other three work together well enough to gang up on her and get out.
5 [Mell] and 9 [Verity] are on a sinking ship. What do they do?
Nothing sensible! Verity, who is a time traveller, is looking for her drop to get back to Oxford 2060--she wasn't meant to die on the Titanic or whatever it is--while Mell, by the rules of her universe, probably sinks with the ship, but turns out to have a diving suit at the last moment and discovers a secret conspiracy on the ocean floor. That's just what being in Narbonic is like. Neither of them notices the other.
3 [Ray], 10 [Lottie], 11 [Tristan], and 13 [Alan] are forced to live in the same house for a month. What happens?
I feel like there ought to be hilarious consequences, but I don't think I'm hilarious enough to work out what they are! Lottie confides startling schemes to Ray at two in the morning. Lottie and Tristan either have a prank war on each other or gang up to annoy everybody else. (Hooray for Yorkshire!) If there's murder done, it'll be Alan getting fed up with Tristan.
7 [Cally] is told that they can pick up to three of the other people on the list to take along for an around-the-world all-expenses-paid trip. Who do they choose and why?
Annie Hacker, of course, her new best friend and ally, according to the previous questions! No, seriously, the meme has convinced me. Then I think she'd like Joanna, a small unimposing indomitable woman, and maybe Alan Breck? We have never seen Cally apart from Men With Politics, have we? Of people I think she might actually like, those two seem most likely to enjoy a round-the-world trip.
I think that if I do this again, I may pick characters who have slightly more to do with each other. Or at least a Theme. This was fun but it was quite hard in some cases!
1. Horatio (Hamlet)
2. Charley Pollard (Doctor Who - I'm not sure I'm legally allowed to do a meme without her)
3. Ray (Doctor Who, Delta and the Bannermen)
4. Annie Hacker (Yes, Minister)
5. Mell Kelly (Narbonic)
6. Data (Star Trek)
7. Cally (Blake's 7 - and I still haven't finished her episodes, so while I do know an amount of spoilers that distresses my more experienced friends, you should probably not tell me specific things that happen to her just in case I don't know. But I love her and she's going in the meme.)
8. Macbeth (Macbeth)
9. Verity Kindle (Oxford Time Travel)
10. Lottie Grote (Bad Machinery)
11. Tristan Farnon (All Creatures Great and Small)
12. Margaret Lyons (Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully)
13. Alan Breck Stewart (Kidnapped)
14. Joanna Sheraton (The Windrose Chronicles)
15. Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
From
thisbluespirit:1 [Horatio], 6 [Data], and 14 [Joanna] go on a road trip. Whose idea is it, who drives, and who gets left behind?
Data wanted to experience this human thing! Joanna is the only one who can drive, and she doesn't let people drive who can't drive (cf. Antryg), so she's driving. Horatio answered a phone call from Hamlet when they stopped for gas, and two hours later they decided to just leave him.
2 [Charley], 3 [Ray] and 12 [Margaret] are locked in a cell together for a night. Do they get out, what crimes have they committed, and do they all survive the night?
Well, Charley and Ray have definitely both been led astray by their mutual friend; and if Margaret's there, I can only assume the Doctor was getting involved in Cresdon Green's affairs and his friends are now locked in the closet off of Uljabaan's office. Margaret certainly wasn't helping, but perhaps there was some massive misunderstanding. Or perhaps she was in the closet looking for a dustcloth (the state of this place!) and nobody saw her when they locked up Ray and Charley. The companions escape rather quickly (throwing off the Doctor, who is about ten minutes late to rescue them), but Margaret won't go out the window, she waits in the closet to give Uljabaan a piece of her mind in the morning.
15 [Clara] has been murdered! Can 4 [Annie] solve the mystery with the help of their trusty sidekick, 7 [Cally]? Why is 8 [Macbeth] a red herring? And, out of the remaining numbers, who did it?
Annie Hacker and Cally will be a fantastic mystery-solving team, I'm in love with this idea. Macbeth is a red herring because he is quite visibly racked with guilt over a murder--just not Clara's. The most violent of the remaining characters is probably Mell Kelly (Evil Intern in a mad scientist's lab) who is fond of enormous weaponry and has enough meta-awareness to pick up on the fact that Clara is a splinter and must inevitably die once she's saved the Doctor. So she streamlined the narrative. She'll be fine, though--she's also studying law.
From
ceruleantactician:3 [Ray], 5 [Mell] and 6 [Data] spend the afternoon trying to put together some IKEA furniture. How does it all turn out?
Data would love putting together IKEA furniture (much as I do). Ray would be a valiant contributor and would be intrigued by Data's android nature, so she'd enjoy that. She'd also be great at it as long as she wasn't required to use the dinky little Allen key it comes with. Mell gets bored and wanders away in about five minutes, unless Helen (her boss, the Evil Mad Scientist) is there, in which case they build some kind of doomsday device instead of IKEA furniture. But it probably doesn't work without Dave (the lab's IT guy).
10 [Lottie] and 11 [Tristan] have been recruited by 7 [Cally] for an undercover mission to rescue 4 [Annie]. Are they able to work together to complete the mission, and how does it all turn out in the end?
Well, Cally's got to rescue her new detective partner! Why she needs a schoolgirl and a veterinary student is less clear to me. I mean, Lottie thinks it's perfectly natural for Cally to enlist the help of one of Tackleford's top mystery solvers, but Lottie has an interesting view of her own place in the universe. And perhaps she needs Tristan to do voices on the phone (he's very good at this). I don't know. I think Cally is going to be carrying a lot of the weight in this partnership. I feel like she could get more effective help to rescue the Prime Minister's wife. Like, I don't know, MI6? But perhaps she doesn't trust the powers that be. Understandable, given her background. She'll probably pull it off, and her assistants will do their best, but... honestly, Cally!
13 [Alan] and 14 [Joanna] are told that in order to accomplish some goal that they both find compelling, they must spend a month together without leaving the other's side. What is their reaction?
They've both put up with much, much worse in the service of goals they find compelling. Joanna might take the opportunity to learn some of Alan's 'walking all the way down Scotland' skills. What I am curious about is what goal they both find compelling! Possibly it is walking all the way down Scotland.
From
quailfence1 [Horatio], 2 [Charley], and 6 [Data] end up trapped in some place together. They are told that they have to beat 15 [Clara] at some task, challenge, or game in order to leave. What do they pick and how do they fare?
...Do they all have to participate? Because otherwise they could pick something like calculating digits of pi in your head, and Data could beat anyone at that. But if it has to be all of them, and Clara has to agree to it, I think they'd pick some kind of word game. Data has a lot of knowledge, Charley plays Scrabble, and Horatio went to university, you know, and therefore speaks Latin and is qualified to talk to ghosts. Clara holds her own well, but the other three work together well enough to gang up on her and get out.
5 [Mell] and 9 [Verity] are on a sinking ship. What do they do?
Nothing sensible! Verity, who is a time traveller, is looking for her drop to get back to Oxford 2060--she wasn't meant to die on the Titanic or whatever it is--while Mell, by the rules of her universe, probably sinks with the ship, but turns out to have a diving suit at the last moment and discovers a secret conspiracy on the ocean floor. That's just what being in Narbonic is like. Neither of them notices the other.
3 [Ray], 10 [Lottie], 11 [Tristan], and 13 [Alan] are forced to live in the same house for a month. What happens?
I feel like there ought to be hilarious consequences, but I don't think I'm hilarious enough to work out what they are! Lottie confides startling schemes to Ray at two in the morning. Lottie and Tristan either have a prank war on each other or gang up to annoy everybody else. (Hooray for Yorkshire!) If there's murder done, it'll be Alan getting fed up with Tristan.
7 [Cally] is told that they can pick up to three of the other people on the list to take along for an around-the-world all-expenses-paid trip. Who do they choose and why?
Annie Hacker, of course, her new best friend and ally, according to the previous questions! No, seriously, the meme has convinced me. Then I think she'd like Joanna, a small unimposing indomitable woman, and maybe Alan Breck? We have never seen Cally apart from Men With Politics, have we? Of people I think she might actually like, those two seem most likely to enjoy a round-the-world trip.
I think that if I do this again, I may pick characters who have slightly more to do with each other. Or at least a Theme. This was fun but it was quite hard in some cases!
15 Characters Meme!
Mar. 12th, 2023 10:21 pmIt's been almost a year since I last did this and it is a very fun meme. I've got my list--ask me questions!
Here are the meme rules:
1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.
2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"
3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.
Here are the meme rules:
1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.
2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"
3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.
12 Questions Meme
Feb. 10th, 2023 02:39 amFrom here.
The characters (themselves randomly selected) are:
- Second Doctor
- Eighth Doctor
- Liz
- Romana II
- Katarina
- Seventh Doctor
- Nyssa
- Donna
- Mel
- Ben
- Leela
- Jack
(Romance-related questions omitted; I wasn't feeling up to it tonight.)
- 8 [Donna] and 4 [Romana II] get stuck in a lift. What happens?
- Romana has a sonic screwdriver and Donna has the phone number for building maintenance. They get out. And then Romana fixes Donna's memory.
- Randomise a song by your preferred means (shuffle your iPod/MP3 player/iTunes/the internet). Pick out the line that best fits 2 [Eighth Doctor]?
- I got The Corries singing "Twa Recruitin' Sergeants." (I don't listen to the right kind of music for this, I don't think. Unless it was Jamie instead.) But "Over the mountains and over the main" is a pretty good fit for any Doctor, wanderer that he is. You could use the whole song (which is about how great it is to join the army because it allows you to avoid all of your responsibilities) really bitterly and ironically in a fic where Eight joins the Time War.
- What would be your plot device of choice for a fic involving 11 [Leela] and 6 [Seventh Doctor]?
- Crossed timelines: Seven and pre-canon Leela!
- Rec a fanwork about 12 [Jack]?
- Practical Mythology. From the stats on it probably everybody in the world has seen it already, but it sprang to mind because it is very good.
- 2 [Eighth Doctor] and 4 [Romana II] are now buddy cops. Do they make a good team, and is this bad or good news for nearby criminals?
- They make an incredible team. Nearby criminals are doomed. It won't last long, though; they'll have ethical differences and/or the Doctor will get restless.
- Make up a summary for an apocalyptic fic featuring 5 [Katarina] and 10 [Ben]
- Ooh, this is not my usual kind of fic! I don't know what the moving parts of it are! ... oh, wait, can this be things like a zombie apocalypse? In that case:
The undead are rising. And they're hungry. Even the TARDIS isn't safe anymore when Ben finds that one of the Doctor's ghosts has returned...
- 1 [Second Doctor], 10 [Ben] and 8 [Donna] go on an epic road trip. Where are they going, who drives, and who gets left behind at the first stop?
- In the TARDIS? I assume the Doctor must be driving, and Donna sure isn't getting left behind so Ben must be. Perhaps they got lucky enough to find 60s England again.
- In a coffee shop type AU with 9 [Mel] and 4 [Romana II], what would their establishment be called?
- I feel like they'd pick something a bit tacky and obvious -- Mel likes the obvious and Romana doesn't know how coffee shops are supposed to be called. It would be a cozy place to get strong coffee and sensible advice from intelligent women. Caffeine Solutions? Terrible pun.
- If forced to choose, would you rather have an evening out with 1 [Second Doctor] or 11 [Leela]?
Probably Two. I'd love to do something with Leela, but only if it was an activity she wanted to do. Most of which I would not be any good at.
- What's your favourite pairing (romantic or otherwise) for 3 [Liz]?
- I don't really ship her with anyone, so I guess her friendship with the Doctor. Although I once wrote a drabble where she was Clare-from-Shada's doctoral advisor, and I do like that headcanon.
- Write a snippet from a 8 [Donna], 9 [Mel] and 3 [Liz] pirate AU. ('Snippet' here meaning 'as brief as you like'.)
- "Why do you want to be a pirate?" asked Liz.
Amy hesitated, her eyes darting between the three women seated at the other side of the rough wooden table. "Honestly? It's just a whim. The outfit looks good on me?"
Mel shook her head disapprovingly, and Donna made some notes on a pad of paper.
"Look," said Amy, getting frustrated, "you can't criticize--you're recruiting based on hair color!"
- 11 [Leela], 1 [Second Doctor], 12 [Jack] and 5 [Katarina] are on a talent show. Who wins?
- Leela has the most impressive talents, but the Doctor would take it seriously and actually try. Jack might have some surprise talents, though.
- What might 1 [Second Doctor] say to compliment 5 [Katarina]?
- I really don't know that much about Katarina. But I think she'd like to know that he remembered her and cared.
- What would 10 [Ben] hate most about 2 [Eighth Doctor]? And what would 9 [Mel] love most about 10 [Ben]?
- Ben would be annoyed by the Doctor's vagueness and still not being able to get where he's trying to go half the time. I think Mel would appreciate Ben's practicality.
- If you had to write a crossover involving 6 [Seventh Doctor] and 4 [Romana II], how would it go and/or what would the crossover fandom be?
- I've actually wanted to send Seven and Romana on a double date with Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane for a long time, but I can't write mysteries and it felt like it should be a mystery, so I haven't done it. But that's what I would do.
- Go here to generate a random poem. The second line is now the title of a fic about 11 [Leela] and 7 [Nyssa]. What's the plot?
- The link is broken, so I used this one. I got Poe's "Lenore," whose second line is "Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river." It sounds like a sad fic; it would pretty much have to be about someone's death. But maybe you could use the title for something like... bittersweet vignettes of both of their lives as aliens on Gallifrey in an AU where Nyssa stayed there in Arc of Infinity?
- If 3 [Liz] and 9 [Mel] decided to get together and pull off a jewel heist, how would that go?
Mel is great heist team material and Liz would be good at organizing it. But they have some knowledge gaps. Can Mel rope in Seven and Ace? They're a ready-made heist team: hacker, mastermind and demolitions. And Liz would be their respectable-looking front-person.
- 7 [Nyssa] has got to save the world from 8 [Donna]. Is the world saved or doomed?
- On the one hand, Nyssa is not really the solo world-saving type; she's more of a team player. On the other hand, it depends what Donna is doing to the world; if it's something like she's accidentally causing the apocalypse by, say, turning left, and just needs it explained to her, Nyssa will be very good at explaining gently but firmly what she needs to do to fix it. If Donna were some kind of evil overlord, I think she would be able to catch Nyssa plotting against her.
Average Stats Meme
Nov. 26th, 2022 11:26 pmNicked from thisbluespirit. It's a bit early for an end-of-year meme, but I will probably do a proper end-of-year meme as well--this is average over all time, I just did it in December last year--and I'm not likely to write a ton more this year other than my Yuletide fic (touch wood).
Average word count: 717
Average hits count: 100
Average Kudos count: 17 [this should probably be slightly less because I've been hit by a couple of kudos bots, but I can't be bothered doing the math]
Average no. of comment threads: 3
Average no. of Bookmarks: 2
Work(s) closest to the average word count: On either side of it are Walk in the Park (prompt fic, random dog walker encounters Eight) at 700 and someone's planted a bath bomb in the matrix (tiny sketches of a Gallifrey retail AU) at 744. My average word count is thrown off badly by the number of drabbles I write, I think.
Work(s) closest to the average hit count: I do not believe in hits whatsoever, but it's whistle and I'll come to you (Eight & Charley and Six & Charley doing some psychic bond angst in the Gen Freeform Exchange) and the mind, that ocean where each kind / does straight its own resemblance find (Four/Romana telepathic cuddling), both at exactly 100. Very psychic. These are both extremely typical of me. Maybe I do believe in hits after all.
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ kudos if too many): So very many! So including kudos, the closest is Sauce for the Goose (Seven & Ace drabble for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
dw100), also typical of me. Perhaps I in fact tend to write things that are typical of me. Insightful!
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ bookmarks): Using comments and bookmarks, I get: Rascals! (Academy era, not actually by me--it is my translation of a French fic by Umanimo), Dog Park (Four, Romana & K9, written for a drabble fest), and Stolen Moments (Eight/Charley double drabble, written for the same drabble fest).
Work(s) closest to the average no of kudos (/+ bookmarks): Only two of mine have exactly 17 kudos: Like Sunshine Through Rain (Six/Charley surprise kiss ficlet) and Untying the Knot (Six & Clara-echo, accidental mail-order marriage, written for Just Married).
Charley shows up in this more than I expected. I suppose that makes sense; she's sort of averagely popular in the sense that she's really popular in a small corner of the fandom.
thisbluespirit. It's a bit early for an end-of-year meme, but I will probably do a proper end-of-year meme as well--this is average over all time, I just did it in December last year--and I'm not likely to write a ton more this year other than my Yuletide fic (touch wood).Average word count: 717
Average hits count: 100
Average Kudos count: 17 [this should probably be slightly less because I've been hit by a couple of kudos bots, but I can't be bothered doing the math]
Average no. of comment threads: 3
Average no. of Bookmarks: 2
Work(s) closest to the average word count: On either side of it are Walk in the Park (prompt fic, random dog walker encounters Eight) at 700 and someone's planted a bath bomb in the matrix (tiny sketches of a Gallifrey retail AU) at 744. My average word count is thrown off badly by the number of drabbles I write, I think.
Work(s) closest to the average hit count: I do not believe in hits whatsoever, but it's whistle and I'll come to you (Eight & Charley and Six & Charley doing some psychic bond angst in the Gen Freeform Exchange) and the mind, that ocean where each kind / does straight its own resemblance find (Four/Romana telepathic cuddling), both at exactly 100. Very psychic. These are both extremely typical of me. Maybe I do believe in hits after all.
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ kudos if too many): So very many! So including kudos, the closest is Sauce for the Goose (Seven & Ace drabble for
dw100), also typical of me. Perhaps I in fact tend to write things that are typical of me. Insightful!Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ bookmarks): Using comments and bookmarks, I get: Rascals! (Academy era, not actually by me--it is my translation of a French fic by Umanimo), Dog Park (Four, Romana & K9, written for a drabble fest), and Stolen Moments (Eight/Charley double drabble, written for the same drabble fest).
Work(s) closest to the average no of kudos (/+ bookmarks): Only two of mine have exactly 17 kudos: Like Sunshine Through Rain (Six/Charley surprise kiss ficlet) and Untying the Knot (Six & Clara-echo, accidental mail-order marriage, written for Just Married).
Charley shows up in this more than I expected. I suppose that makes sense; she's sort of averagely popular in the sense that she's really popular in a small corner of the fandom.
shall we play?
Jun. 23rd, 2022 07:44 pmI was reading some of the old stuff on the isurrendered comm, and thinking it's a shame the meme seems to be dead, and perhaps it would be fun to revive it? Since I'm so new to Dreamwidth, I missed it the first time round, so I'll take the plunge:
(REVERSE) I SURRENDER
1. Comment to this post with a basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. I will create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. There will be actor photos, character bios and show synopsis, among other things.
4. Post to your own journal!
I hereby vow to include at least one actor in each show who wasn't in Doctor Who! Honest!
isurrendered comm, and thinking it's a shame the meme seems to be dead, and perhaps it would be fun to revive it? Since I'm so new to Dreamwidth, I missed it the first time round, so I'll take the plunge:(REVERSE) I SURRENDER
1. Comment to this post with a basis of some TV show idea. (Science fiction show, medical drama, criminal procedure, etc...)
2. I will create a cast of characters, including the actors who'd play them.
3. There will be actor photos, character bios and show synopsis, among other things.
4. Post to your own journal!
I hereby vow to include at least one actor in each show who wasn't in Doctor Who! Honest!
15 Characters Meme - Answers!
Mar. 31st, 2022 08:57 pmThanks for the incredible meme questions, everyone! Here's the characters I selected:
Fromthisbluespirit:
2 (Romana II) is publishing 10 (Sam Vimes)'s tell-all memoirs - can 3 (Weyoun 6) succeed in stopping them and what's the secret they don't want them printing? (Gosh, it's confusing how many of my characters are already numbered.) Well, I think if Vimes is publishing his tell-all memoirs he must be really unhappy with the state of things in Ankh-Morpork. I don't think he'd like Romana much--she's too posh for him and thinks she knows how things should be run--so I can't imagine they have some kind of sordid past together. More likely he's going to expose something about the diplomatic relationships between Ankh-Morpork and the Dominion, presumably to the benefit of Gallifrey. (Ultimate crossover of ultimate destiny!) I don't think Weyoun will succeed in stopping them, especially since this is the renegade Weyoun, but Vetinari probably will.
6 (Sixth Doctor) and 9 (Pippin Took) go on a blind date. How does it go and why is 7 (Charley Pollard) trying to sabotage it? I don't think there are sparks, but I can definitely see Sixie taking Pippin along as a companion--he's enthusiastic, naive, bright-yet-dumb, and appreciates the pleasures of life. Charley is presumably trying to break them up out of jealousy. She's the companion, thank you very much!
1 (Eighth Doctor) has been murdered! Why did 8 (Ezri Dax) do it, and can 12 (Sir Humphrey Appleby) and their trusty sidekick 11 (Seventh Doctor) solve the mystery in time? What kind of red herring is 4 (Fitz Kreiner)? I can only assume Ezri was messing about with Joran again and he made her do a murder. Maybe Eight was trying to use his multi-life experience to help her come to terms with Joran (and figure out why "Field of Fire" made no sense). Poor darling. :( Sir Humphrey and Seven (incredible combination!)--well, either of them could separately solve the mystery in about five minutes, so together they should be even quicker, but in fact I think they slow each other down considerably by constantly lying and concealing information from each other. I think they end up each trying to arrest her separately, each thinking that the other is an enemy agent. Poor Fitz is a red herring simply by being shady and in the way: neither of our detectives can believe that he was genuinely "just hanging out" in the area of the crime.
- Eighth Doctor (DW)
- Romana II (DW)
- Weyoun (Six, the ‘defective’ one that runs away - DS9)
- Fitz Kreiner (DW)
- Clara Oswald (DW)
- Sixth Doctor (DW)
- Charley Pollard (DW)
- Ezri Dax (DS9)
- Pippin Took (LotR)
- Sam Vimes (Discworld)
- Seventh Doctor (DW)
- Sir Humphrey Appleby (Yes Minister)
- Kira Nerys (DS9)
- Peri Brown (DW)
- Keiko O'Brien (DS9)
From
thisbluespirit:2 (Romana II) is publishing 10 (Sam Vimes)'s tell-all memoirs - can 3 (Weyoun 6) succeed in stopping them and what's the secret they don't want them printing? (Gosh, it's confusing how many of my characters are already numbered.) Well, I think if Vimes is publishing his tell-all memoirs he must be really unhappy with the state of things in Ankh-Morpork. I don't think he'd like Romana much--she's too posh for him and thinks she knows how things should be run--so I can't imagine they have some kind of sordid past together. More likely he's going to expose something about the diplomatic relationships between Ankh-Morpork and the Dominion, presumably to the benefit of Gallifrey. (Ultimate crossover of ultimate destiny!) I don't think Weyoun will succeed in stopping them, especially since this is the renegade Weyoun, but Vetinari probably will.
6 (Sixth Doctor) and 9 (Pippin Took) go on a blind date. How does it go and why is 7 (Charley Pollard) trying to sabotage it? I don't think there are sparks, but I can definitely see Sixie taking Pippin along as a companion--he's enthusiastic, naive, bright-yet-dumb, and appreciates the pleasures of life. Charley is presumably trying to break them up out of jealousy. She's the companion, thank you very much!
1 (Eighth Doctor) has been murdered! Why did 8 (Ezri Dax) do it, and can 12 (Sir Humphrey Appleby) and their trusty sidekick 11 (Seventh Doctor) solve the mystery in time? What kind of red herring is 4 (Fitz Kreiner)? I can only assume Ezri was messing about with Joran again and he made her do a murder. Maybe Eight was trying to use his multi-life experience to help her come to terms with Joran (and figure out why "Field of Fire" made no sense). Poor darling. :( Sir Humphrey and Seven (incredible combination!)--well, either of them could separately solve the mystery in about five minutes, so together they should be even quicker, but in fact I think they slow each other down considerably by constantly lying and concealing information from each other. I think they end up each trying to arrest her separately, each thinking that the other is an enemy agent. Poor Fitz is a red herring simply by being shady and in the way: neither of our detectives can believe that he was genuinely "just hanging out" in the area of the crime.
From romanajo123:
6, 4, and 3 (Sixth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, and Weyoun 6) are on a road trip! Who's driving and who's in the back? Well, the Doctor’s definitely driving. I’m going to bet that he’ll quite like Fitz (Eight has such good taste in companions) and let him ride shotgun. On the other hand, it would be just Fitz’s luck for Weyoun to manage to get him relegated to the backseat, and the Doctor would certainly be intrigued by Weyoun as a fellow ‘defector from decadence’ as TVtropes puts it (since that's the Weyoun I picked). So I’m going to say it’s poor Fitz that has his long legs folded up in the back.
1 and 9 (Eighth Doctor and Pippin Took) have to be fake-married to get away from 2 (Romana II). Does it work? Eight won’t be uptight about the fake marriage, although Pippin might spill the beans by mistake. But Romana knows the Doctor far too well and sees through it immediately.
Under what circumstance do 7 (Charley Pollard) and 12 (Sir Humphrey Appleby) fall for each other? You know, I’ve always wondered about the never-quite-seen Lady Appleby! But I think it would take very specific circumstances to get them together. Perhaps if Charley had never travelled with the Doctor (and if they weren’t a generation apart) she might eventually decide to find a man who had money, status, intelligence, and wit and could give her an interesting life, if she’d given up on falling in love. … I have absolutely no sense of what Sir Humphrey’s attractions are based on. … OR! He’s the sort of husband she might be given in one of those situations where you get a whole phantom life. He’d represent the well-bred conventional life she could’ve had. Yeah, that could work.
5 (Clara Oswald) has somehow locked themselves in the toilet. How does 11 (Seventh Doctor) get them out? Well, I’m sure he can pick locks, so no difficulty there. The real question is what they’re doing together! If she’s a Clara splinter, presumably she has to get out so she can save his life or something. But I quite like the idea of original flavor Clara + Seven as well. Given how she’s NOT A CONTROL FREAK!!! as she will be sure to let him know.
14 (Peri Brown) and 15 (Keiko O’Brien) have to investigate 13 (Kira Nerys)'s murder. How do they go about it? Do they solve it? Poor Kira! People need to stop getting murdered in these! Anyway, space botanist team-up, hooray. I think they have a pretty good chance. It can’t have been Dukat because he would gloat and there wouldn’t be a mystery, so it was probably Kai Winn. Keiko’s very driven and Peri’s the ideal sidekick, so I think they’d make a good team, and perhaps there would even be botanical evidence that gets them specifically involved. (The poison was extracted from berries that only grow in one location….) But the space botanist who would in fact make the best detective is definitely Ekaterin Vorkosigan, whom I nearly put in the list, and now I’m sorry I didn’t.
romanajo123:6, 4, and 3 (Sixth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner, and Weyoun 6) are on a road trip! Who's driving and who's in the back? Well, the Doctor’s definitely driving. I’m going to bet that he’ll quite like Fitz (Eight has such good taste in companions) and let him ride shotgun. On the other hand, it would be just Fitz’s luck for Weyoun to manage to get him relegated to the backseat, and the Doctor would certainly be intrigued by Weyoun as a fellow ‘defector from decadence’ as TVtropes puts it (since that's the Weyoun I picked). So I’m going to say it’s poor Fitz that has his long legs folded up in the back.
1 and 9 (Eighth Doctor and Pippin Took) have to be fake-married to get away from 2 (Romana II). Does it work? Eight won’t be uptight about the fake marriage, although Pippin might spill the beans by mistake. But Romana knows the Doctor far too well and sees through it immediately.
Under what circumstance do 7 (Charley Pollard) and 12 (Sir Humphrey Appleby) fall for each other? You know, I’ve always wondered about the never-quite-seen Lady Appleby! But I think it would take very specific circumstances to get them together. Perhaps if Charley had never travelled with the Doctor (and if they weren’t a generation apart) she might eventually decide to find a man who had money, status, intelligence, and wit and could give her an interesting life, if she’d given up on falling in love. … I have absolutely no sense of what Sir Humphrey’s attractions are based on. … OR! He’s the sort of husband she might be given in one of those situations where you get a whole phantom life. He’d represent the well-bred conventional life she could’ve had. Yeah, that could work.
5 (Clara Oswald) has somehow locked themselves in the toilet. How does 11 (Seventh Doctor) get them out? Well, I’m sure he can pick locks, so no difficulty there. The real question is what they’re doing together! If she’s a Clara splinter, presumably she has to get out so she can save his life or something. But I quite like the idea of original flavor Clara + Seven as well. Given how she’s NOT A CONTROL FREAK!!! as she will be sure to let him know.
14 (Peri Brown) and 15 (Keiko O’Brien) have to investigate 13 (Kira Nerys)'s murder. How do they go about it? Do they solve it? Poor Kira! People need to stop getting murdered in these! Anyway, space botanist team-up, hooray. I think they have a pretty good chance. It can’t have been Dukat because he would gloat and there wouldn’t be a mystery, so it was probably Kai Winn. Keiko’s very driven and Peri’s the ideal sidekick, so I think they’d make a good team, and perhaps there would even be botanical evidence that gets them specifically involved. (The poison was extracted from berries that only grow in one location….) But the space botanist who would in fact make the best detective is definitely Ekaterin Vorkosigan, whom I nearly put in the list, and now I’m sorry I didn’t.
From john_amend_all:
john_amend_all: One (Eighth Doctor) and Ten (Sam Vimes) have to go undercover as musicians. How do they get on (or find excuses not to do it)? I think they might stretch the assignment a bit--is there room for a famous diva violinist and his scruffy, cross-looking bodyguard? Maybe?
All the characters have to play seven-a-side rugby. Who's on which team, who's the referee, and who wins? All I know about rugby is that it's a game in which people get knocked down a lot, so this will be based on that, and on picking teams:
Clara is the referee because she's organizing the game. She assigns the Eighth Doctor and Kira Nerys as team captains--it's only fair to have one from each of the two biggest fandoms on the list.
Major Kira picks Keiko, whom she likes and trusts, and who's from Earth and might have some context.
Eight picks Seven because he certainly doesn't want him on the other team.
Kira picks Six, a big burly guy to balance out her hitherto not-really-built-for-contact-sports team. (And, if she's been paying attention, to avoid having all the Doctors on one team--oh my!)
Eight picks Charley because he wants her around. And because in order to keep the game on track they should probably not be allowed to tackle each other. Anything could happen!
Kira picks Ezri because she doesn't want her to be picked last, and because she understands this is a game and it's supposed to be fun and Dax was always good at helping her have actual fun when she was being too serious.
Eight picks Vimes because... I don't know, I just think he would. I think Vimes has the qualities the Doctor looks for in a teammate.
Kira picks Romana because she looks like she knows what she's doing. She has the qualities Kira looks for in a teammate.
Flustered by the prospect of not having all his friends on the same team, Eight quickly picks Fitz. He becomes distracted when Fitz and Charley start trying to work out whether they're before, after, or somehow during each other, and (in subtext) which one of them has the better claim to the Doctor. They're both quite possessive. I think Charley wins though.
Kira picks Peri, the most athletic-looking and non-Weyoun of the remaining players.
Eight picks Pippin.
Kira picks Sir Humphrey.
Eight picks Weyoun.
I think Kira's team wins, unless the Doctors cheat somehow. She made her choices with a view to actually playing the game, mostly, whereas the Doctor was more interested in assembling the maximum number of people he really likes a lot. Of course, that's basically how he picks companions, and that seems to have worked so far. So who knows really?
But actually what will happen is there will be an alien invasion of some kind before the game is concluded and the two sides will join forces to defeat it magnificently and with the minimum violence possible in the situation, and Clara will decide who she thinks was winning before they stopped playing. But actually I also think she'll pick Kira's team. The Doctor doesn't need that kind of ego boost.
All the characters have to play seven-a-side rugby. Who's on which team, who's the referee, and who wins? All I know about rugby is that it's a game in which people get knocked down a lot, so this will be based on that, and on picking teams:
Clara is the referee because she's organizing the game. She assigns the Eighth Doctor and Kira Nerys as team captains--it's only fair to have one from each of the two biggest fandoms on the list.
Major Kira picks Keiko, whom she likes and trusts, and who's from Earth and might have some context.
Eight picks Seven because he certainly doesn't want him on the other team.
Kira picks Six, a big burly guy to balance out her hitherto not-really-built-for-contact-sports team. (And, if she's been paying attention, to avoid having all the Doctors on one team--oh my!)
Eight picks Charley because he wants her around. And because in order to keep the game on track they should probably not be allowed to tackle each other. Anything could happen!
Kira picks Ezri because she doesn't want her to be picked last, and because she understands this is a game and it's supposed to be fun and Dax was always good at helping her have actual fun when she was being too serious.
Eight picks Vimes because... I don't know, I just think he would. I think Vimes has the qualities the Doctor looks for in a teammate.
Kira picks Romana because she looks like she knows what she's doing. She has the qualities Kira looks for in a teammate.
Flustered by the prospect of not having all his friends on the same team, Eight quickly picks Fitz. He becomes distracted when Fitz and Charley start trying to work out whether they're before, after, or somehow during each other, and (in subtext) which one of them has the better claim to the Doctor. They're both quite possessive. I think Charley wins though.
Kira picks Peri, the most athletic-looking and non-Weyoun of the remaining players.
Eight picks Pippin.
Kira picks Sir Humphrey.
Eight picks Weyoun.
I think Kira's team wins, unless the Doctors cheat somehow. She made her choices with a view to actually playing the game, mostly, whereas the Doctor was more interested in assembling the maximum number of people he really likes a lot. Of course, that's basically how he picks companions, and that seems to have worked so far. So who knows really?
But actually what will happen is there will be an alien invasion of some kind before the game is concluded and the two sides will join forces to defeat it magnificently and with the minimum violence possible in the situation, and Clara will decide who she thinks was winning before they stopped playing. But actually I also think she'll pick Kira's team. The Doctor doesn't need that kind of ego boost.
Secrets Meme
Mar. 29th, 2022 10:41 amNabbed from nostalgia:
Tell the world one (1) fact/anecdote/secret/etc about each of the last ten (or whatever) things you wrote.
Well, we shall have to see if I have any secrets that I haven't already put in the author's notes!
1. Hour of Our Deaths (Six & Peri) - I was disappointed that this didn't magically come out over 1000 words. I've somehow set a bar in my brain that anything over 1000 words is a "real" fic and shorter than that doesn't "count." Which doesn't make sense.
2. What Do I Look Like, Some Kind of Magnet? (Antryg Windrose & Sara Leibnitz) - I think the big secret about this one is just "who are these people and what book are they even from?". Antryg Windrose, the wizard bartender, is from The Windrose Chronicles by Barbara Hambly, a fantasy trilogy which everyone should read. (She said that she imagined him being played by Tom Baker, and I can see it!) Sara Leibnitz is from Sun-Cross, a duology also by Hambly, which I didn't actually like as much as The Windrose Chronicles, but I did like Sara.
3. were it not that I have bad dreams (Six & Seven) - I made a friend who knows very little Classic Who look over this for me, because she was the only person I could get a hold of and she'll beta anything, and she said Seven seemed kind of awful. So I had to explain that actually I love him, in spite of this fic.
4. someone's planted a bath bomb in the Matrix (Gallifrey OT4) - I really want someone who has the knack of writing convincing AUs to take this away from me and finish it. Or an artist!
5. Anything Once (Sabalom Glitz/Inquisitor Darkel) - Blame![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
animate-mush for this one: but blame me, too, because I was the one who started the discussion of how to assemble a cast for Iolanthe out of entirely Doctor Who characters. We got stuck because we had two generations of people that both had to be Six and Peri for different reasons, but at one point we cast Glitz and Darkel in roles that get together in the finale... so this happened.
6. Hic Sunt Dracones (Six & Charley) - I think Six and Charley are the secret. They're wildly underappreciated. Although is it me or has there been a distinct jump in attention paid to them lately? It might just be me getting into them at last.
7. Doubt and Doubles (Five/Tegan) - this was an exchange gift forthisbluespirit but it wasn't the pairing we actually matched on! I didn't offer Five/Tegan because I didn't even know if I could write them. But when I saw thisbluespirit's letter and prompts it just felt right.
8. Book Learning (Ian/Barbara & Susan) - My First Doctor era fics always do really well by my standards, for some reason. But this one got hit by a kudos bot, so that's why it has 61 kudos. But even including only logged-in kudos and comments, this one seemed quite popular (by Aurelia-standards and Classic Who standards). I'm not sure why my fics in that era are so well-received; it's not even an era I'm particularly into, although I like it and like writing it when I get an idea. Maybe it just has a lot of intense fans?
9. Rascals! (Doctor & Master, academy era; by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Umanimo, translated by me) - An anecdote, not a secret: Umanimo was really fun to work with and I'd like to do more translation work in the future! But I wish ao3 had a more straightforward way to post it that didn't make it look like it was your own work.
10. Reunion (Five & Jo) - I forgot the due date for this exchange and wrote this in a hurry on the day it was due. Fortunately it was a drabble exchange!
nostalgia: Tell the world one (1) fact/anecdote/secret/etc about each of the last ten (or whatever) things you wrote.
Well, we shall have to see if I have any secrets that I haven't already put in the author's notes!
1. Hour of Our Deaths (Six & Peri) - I was disappointed that this didn't magically come out over 1000 words. I've somehow set a bar in my brain that anything over 1000 words is a "real" fic and shorter than that doesn't "count." Which doesn't make sense.
2. What Do I Look Like, Some Kind of Magnet? (Antryg Windrose & Sara Leibnitz) - I think the big secret about this one is just "who are these people and what book are they even from?". Antryg Windrose, the wizard bartender, is from The Windrose Chronicles by Barbara Hambly, a fantasy trilogy which everyone should read. (She said that she imagined him being played by Tom Baker, and I can see it!) Sara Leibnitz is from Sun-Cross, a duology also by Hambly, which I didn't actually like as much as The Windrose Chronicles, but I did like Sara.
3. were it not that I have bad dreams (Six & Seven) - I made a friend who knows very little Classic Who look over this for me, because she was the only person I could get a hold of and she'll beta anything, and she said Seven seemed kind of awful. So I had to explain that actually I love him, in spite of this fic.
4. someone's planted a bath bomb in the Matrix (Gallifrey OT4) - I really want someone who has the knack of writing convincing AUs to take this away from me and finish it. Or an artist!
5. Anything Once (Sabalom Glitz/Inquisitor Darkel) - Blame
6. Hic Sunt Dracones (Six & Charley) - I think Six and Charley are the secret. They're wildly underappreciated. Although is it me or has there been a distinct jump in attention paid to them lately? It might just be me getting into them at last.
7. Doubt and Doubles (Five/Tegan) - this was an exchange gift for
thisbluespirit but it wasn't the pairing we actually matched on! I didn't offer Five/Tegan because I didn't even know if I could write them. But when I saw thisbluespirit's letter and prompts it just felt right. 8. Book Learning (Ian/Barbara & Susan) - My First Doctor era fics always do really well by my standards, for some reason. But this one got hit by a kudos bot, so that's why it has 61 kudos. But even including only logged-in kudos and comments, this one seemed quite popular (by Aurelia-standards and Classic Who standards). I'm not sure why my fics in that era are so well-received; it's not even an era I'm particularly into, although I like it and like writing it when I get an idea. Maybe it just has a lot of intense fans?
9. Rascals! (Doctor & Master, academy era; by
10. Reunion (Five & Jo) - I forgot the due date for this exchange and wrote this in a hurry on the day it was due. Fortunately it was a drabble exchange!
15 Characters Meme
Mar. 26th, 2022 05:27 pmNicked from thisbluespirit!
1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.
2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"
3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.
thisbluespirit!1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.
2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"
3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.
Trope meme fills
Mar. 5th, 2022 12:32 amI was doing this meme over on Tumblr, and I ended up with a fun little batch of fills:
Summer camp AU and Teacher AU with Seven & Benny (+ optional Ace)? (fromswinging-stars-from-satellites) ( Read more... )
Fairy tale AU & Magical accident for 7 & Ace (fromromanajo123)
( Read more... )
Historical AU for the Doctor and Nyssa please (fromromanajo123)
( Read more... )
Bookshop AU for 8 and Charley & C’rizz (fromromanajo123)
( Read more... )
Six & Evelyn 7 [Florist AU] + 63 [It's Not You, It's My Enemies] (fromthisbluespirit)
( Read more... )
48 [Accidentally Married] & 49 [Marriage of Convenience]. For Doctor/Romana, obviously (fromjanuarydivide)
( Read more... )
Six & Charley, Historical AU+ fake dating ( OR Marriage of convenience 😃) (fromromanajo123)( Read more... )
Royal AU & babyfic + whatever pairing you choose! (fromromanajo123)
( Read more... )
Still taking requests from this meme on Tumblr or here, if you'd like!
Summer camp AU and Teacher AU with Seven & Benny (+ optional Ace)? (from
Fairy tale AU & Magical accident for 7 & Ace (from
romanajo123) ( Read more... )
Historical AU for the Doctor and Nyssa please (from
romanajo123)( Read more... )
Bookshop AU for 8 and Charley & C’rizz (from
romanajo123) ( Read more... )
Six & Evelyn 7 [Florist AU] + 63 [It's Not You, It's My Enemies] (from
thisbluespirit)( Read more... )
48 [Accidentally Married] & 49 [Marriage of Convenience]. For Doctor/Romana, obviously (from
( Read more... )
Six & Charley, Historical AU+ fake dating ( OR Marriage of convenience 😃) (from
romanajo123)( Read more... )Royal AU & babyfic + whatever pairing you choose! (from
romanajo123)( Read more... )
Still taking requests from this meme on Tumblr or here, if you'd like!
Average stats meme
Dec. 18th, 2021 11:43 pm(snaffled from thisbluespirit, she of the best memes)
The idea, you see, is that the works at the top and the bottom of your stats are not necessarily representative, nor are they necessarily the ones you want more people to read. But maybe the average-for-you ones are!
The math is fairly easy for me this year because I only started posting fic this year (in March, I think). Next year I shall have to actually manipulate the ao3 interface.
Average word count: 887
Average hits count: 79
Average Kudos count: 13
Average no. of comment threads: 3
Average no. of Bookmarks: 2
Work(s) closest to the average word count: Ecdysis is by far the closest at 889 words. It is fairly typical for me--a one-scene Six and Peri character sketch. I like writing that sort of thing. But it is also about (and dedicated to) cicada swarms, which not all my fics are.
Work(s) closest to the average hit count: It's between Making Lemonade (Six and Peri character sketch + trope subversion, but really more just 'pun on fandom term,' so yes, very me) at 78 and All the Time in the World (Six and Mel first meeting + character sketch; my first posted fic!) at 79. I suspect that these may be literally the exact same seventy-odd people opening all my Six stories.
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ kudos if too many): There's one that has exactly the average number of comments AND kudos, my very recently posted drabble Sixes and Sevens. Drabbles are one of the main Aurelia-things that hasn't come up yet, so that seems apt. I swear I do write things without Six in them sometimes, though! Where's Romana in this meme?
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ bookmarks): The aforementioned Sixes and Sevens has 1 bookmark, as does "She's Already There": 10 AUs for Iris Wildthyme, an answer to a Tumblr askbox meme that I archived for, uh, posterity? The comments on the latter work, however, are very disproportionately lovely.
Work(s) closest to the average no of kudos (/+ bookmarks): Besides the previously mentioned Sixes and Sevens, the also previously mentioned Making Lemonade has 13 kudos (although a whopping 5 bookmarks!), and then there's Motivation, a Six and Mel humor ficlet that I really should've just edited down into a drabble. Motivation also has, inexplicably, one subscription, from I think probably someone who was trying to subscribe to the series.
So... on average I write short genfic with Six in it. If you like this sort of thing, as they say, then this is the sort of thing that you will like.
(The meme is, of course, everyone's for the taking!)
thisbluespirit, she of the best memes)The idea, you see, is that the works at the top and the bottom of your stats are not necessarily representative, nor are they necessarily the ones you want more people to read. But maybe the average-for-you ones are!
The math is fairly easy for me this year because I only started posting fic this year (in March, I think). Next year I shall have to actually manipulate the ao3 interface.
Average word count: 887
Average hits count: 79
Average Kudos count: 13
Average no. of comment threads: 3
Average no. of Bookmarks: 2
Work(s) closest to the average word count: Ecdysis is by far the closest at 889 words. It is fairly typical for me--a one-scene Six and Peri character sketch. I like writing that sort of thing. But it is also about (and dedicated to) cicada swarms, which not all my fics are.
Work(s) closest to the average hit count: It's between Making Lemonade (Six and Peri character sketch + trope subversion, but really more just 'pun on fandom term,' so yes, very me) at 78 and All the Time in the World (Six and Mel first meeting + character sketch; my first posted fic!) at 79. I suspect that these may be literally the exact same seventy-odd people opening all my Six stories.
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ kudos if too many): There's one that has exactly the average number of comments AND kudos, my very recently posted drabble Sixes and Sevens. Drabbles are one of the main Aurelia-things that hasn't come up yet, so that seems apt. I swear I do write things without Six in them sometimes, though! Where's Romana in this meme?
Work(s) closest to the average no of comments (/+ bookmarks): The aforementioned Sixes and Sevens has 1 bookmark, as does "She's Already There": 10 AUs for Iris Wildthyme, an answer to a Tumblr askbox meme that I archived for, uh, posterity? The comments on the latter work, however, are very disproportionately lovely.
Work(s) closest to the average no of kudos (/+ bookmarks): Besides the previously mentioned Sixes and Sevens, the also previously mentioned Making Lemonade has 13 kudos (although a whopping 5 bookmarks!), and then there's Motivation, a Six and Mel humor ficlet that I really should've just edited down into a drabble. Motivation also has, inexplicably, one subscription, from I think probably someone who was trying to subscribe to the series.
So... on average I write short genfic with Six in it. If you like this sort of thing, as they say, then this is the sort of thing that you will like.
(The meme is, of course, everyone's for the taking!)
