#and i don’t love everything about how they characterized TenToo

[girl-hwat]

anyone else crying about TenToo and Big Finish’s Flight into Hull and him saying to Jackie “i thought you hated me” and “i know i’m messed up” and “sometimes my head hurts because sometimes all i can think about is fire and war” and “i absolutely 100% love Rose and i love you” and “your wonderful, beautiful, clever daughter saved me from myself before” and “all because of you, you made her into the Rose Tyler that saved me” and “i’m sorry” and she says “i know you only have one heart now, but it’s a good one” and “you’re still the Doctor” and “we’re mates, then?”

and he says, “oh yes, Jackie Tyler, we’re mates”

just me?

[wordsintimeandspace]

There are SO many things I love about Flight into Hull, I don’t even know where to start. Spoilers under the cut!

The humour of it... like Jackie “trying” to hide she’s upset made me laugh so hard

Rose and Pete tricking Jackie and the Doctor onto the zeppelin

Jackie calling her parallel version darling and sweetheart and offering her champagne although she’s pointing a gun at her... bless her

The Doctor saying that HE LOVES ROSE TYLER

THE DOCTOR’S PUPPY DOG EYES

Jackie wanting to hug the Doctor like asfghfd yes I need that

JACKIE SAYING SHE LOVES THE DOCTOR

The Doctor crying and being vulnerable and sdfghgfd why don’t you just rip my heart out?? 

ALL the mentions that Tentoo is still the Doctor!!!

The Doctor saying that HE LOVES ROSE TYLER A SECOND TIME

The Doctor saying that he LOVES JACKIE TYLER

Jackie referring to him as her family

Jackie and the Doctor saying they’re mates!!

Jackie realizing how much she’s worth because honestly she’s such a bamf 

And just... everything, the characterization, the dialogue, the interactions between the characters sdfghgf it’s so good

[megabadbunny]

2016 fic in review

I was tagged by the lovely and talented @gingergallifreyan and @lvslie . Thank you, dahlings! <3 <3 <3

is that olivia de havilland? it sure looks like olivia de havilland. damn, she’s pretty

total number of completed stories:

16

total word count:

75,228 (not including the massive folder of WIPs on my computer, sigh)

fandoms written in:

Doctor Who, Penny Dreadful

looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected?

Yes...? Lol I was pleasantly surprised at my total published word count for this year. I expected it to be about half of what it is.

what’s your own favorite story of the year?

It’s a toss-up between la belle dame sans merci and Observations of Competitive Reproduction. The metacrisis Doctor is quite possibly my favorite character to write. And I’m a sucker for angst. Pete’s World is just so rife with possibility.

did you take any writing risks this year?

Probably not...? Maybe if you consider writing fem!Doctor to be risky, but I feel like it’s only risky in the sense that it has a much smaller readership, so you’re “risking” spending a lot of time on something that might not receive much attention. But that’s okay. I love me some fem!Doctor. :3

do you have any fanfic or profit goals for the new year?

I would really, really like to finish my WIPS, especially the two that I have started to publish. But there are also a couple on my computer that I’ve been working on since like...2014. Blerg.

best story of the year?

Weirdly, I feel like Things The Devil Taught Me (Penny Dreadful) might actually be one of my best-written fics. I feel like it has a good theme and atmosphere. But for Doctor Who...that’s a toughie. It might be OCR, or it could be Spatial Awareness in Bloom. I feel like the characterization is pretty strong in those, the reactions and emotions fairly realistic and the endings satisfying.

most popular story of the year?

AO3 says it’s Revelations in Dream-Time.

story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

I almost hate to say it, because I don’t want to seem like I’m complaining, but I was a little surprised that the readership for the last few chapters of A Thousand Ways to Say Goodbye seemed to drop off so dramatically and that la belle dame seemed to fly under the radar like it did. But to be fair, they’re both pretty angsty and I did take a pretty long time to update, sooooo :’D

most fun story to write:

One Percent. Fluff + adventure + smut + angst + tropes galore and a heaping helping of fucked-up timelines made me rub my grubby little writer’s-paws together with glee. (dear nonny who asked: I am still working on the follow-up, I promise!)

story with the single sexiest moment:

Probably Revelations, though One Percent might give it a run for its money. But Revelations is like 50% smut ^ ^;;

most sweet story:

A Whole Other League is definitely the fluffiest thing I’ve ever written. Like holy hell, it’ll rot your teeth out. A trip to the dentist will definitely be required afterward. I have a big soft spot for it. :3

”holy crap, that’s wrong, even for you!” story:

I don’t know if I wrote anything that fits this exactly, but True Heroes probably comes closest, if only because it features some very dubious/grey morality on the Doctor’s part. I like to think it’s a little glimpse of the Time War-era Doctor. (Not to be confused with the War Doctor, because as much as I like John Hurt, I’m perfectly content to pretend the 50th never happened.) Although it might also be worth mentioning that I received multiple distressed/angry comments on pretty much all of my angst prompt fics. Because when I want to be, I can be a very bad person. <3

story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters & most unintentionally telling story:

Observations. I was already team Rose x Metacrisis Doctor (or Rose x Tentoo x Happiness, if you’re of the OT3 persuasion), but writing Observations, particularly writing it as a thoughtful response to someone who was probably fishing for something snarky and defensive--actually, dear troll, I’ve been meaning to thank you for your query, because it prompted me to examine my viewpoints and write one of my favorite things I’ve ever created--really forced me to think about how something like Journey’s End would impact its players in real-life terms. I had already explored a lot of these thoughts in a meta reply (and have since streamlined them in a standalone post) but writing this fic really brought it home for me, especially from both Doctors’ perspective. And as far as “unintentionally telling” goes--well, tbh, you can definitely hear some of my voice in their conversation about family. My family is extremely important to me, so even the briefest thought of never seeing them again hurts. That really made me think about how the Doctor would feel, losing his family, watching Rose give up her family for him. That sort of thing seems to get overlooked so much in film and TV, especially in stories where one character gives up their entire world to be with another. It’s romantic, sure, but we also never see the emotional fallout experienced by the character who gave up everyone else she loved. (And it’s almost always the woman who gives up everything, too--another reason why I like Journey’s End. About damn time the dude had to give something up.)

hardest story to write:

A Thousand Ways to Say Goodbye. I like it, I’m proud of it, but damn, it tore me up to write it, not only because of the timey-wimey/trying-to-fit-it-within-canon/trying-to-cram-everything-I-wanted-in-there-while-tying-up-all-the-loose-ends nonsense, but it was emotionally draining.

biggest disappointment:

I wish I had read and completed more fic. But I try to avoid reading fic for the most part while I’m writing--to avoid accidentally copying other people’s ideas/styles/tones/etc. (not to mention the muddy swampy pit of despair that is the “Waaah their writing is so good, mine will never compare, what’s the point” mindset)--and I’m almost always dabbling, even if my pace is glacial.

biggest surprise:

The spurts of inspiration I had this last year. There were a couple of months here and there where I was actually posting fic or art on a regular basis. How lovely! Wish me luck that I can get back to that place. :3

taggity tags:

@tiffotcf @sequencefairy @jem-scribbles if you haven’t already and you would like to do the thing, do the thing! <3