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[evviejo]

Would you like to answer these? 👁️🏳️‍🌈🌻🐈‍⬛🌏😇😈 Thank youuuz

oooh that's a lot, and a couple i have answered before, but let's gooo

my eyes are blue, not a very intense, slightly greyish, but still blue

i am, thankfully, queer, gay, sapphic, lesbian, any of those i relate to

favourite flower, i guess, hm, i love freesias, roses, carnations, but my favourites would have to be violets

fave animals are all fluffy ones, cats and dogs equally in first place

my favourite place on earth is where i live, kraków, poland 💖

top three blorbos: thirteen, seven of nine and root (spot what all these three have in common lmao)

my meow meow i guess would be the master - gomez and dhawan in particular

[capybaraonabicycle]

Trick or treat! 🎃👻💜

Yay!! ��😈🕸️

To be completely honest, I wrote something specifically for you. I think you'll see why :)

Rating : Gen

Genre : Fluff

Warnings : as before, the cat is not actually a cat but no one knows

[ID: gif of a glowing jack-o-lantern with candles. end ID]

"I really don't think we should give knives to Siren" Yaz remarked, eyeing how the cat was holding the knife with her jaw and claws, working on Ryan's pumpkin.

"You're only jealous cause she's helping me and not you" he shrugged, idly petting Siren's back while holding the pumpkin for her.

"Guys, please" Graham tried to appease them, "this is supposed to be fun!"

"As if" Yaz stuck her tongue out to Ryan. "I don't need help to win the competition."

She proudly looked at the star-filled sky she had produced on her pumpkin when Graham's comment made her jump.

"That's just because it's the Doctor who judges" he said and when they all realised what he had uttered, his and Ryan's eyes grew wide as the pumpkins, Siren dropped her knife and Yaz felt like running away.

"What do you mean?" she asked anyway and it came out way more aggressively than she had anticipated.

"Nothing, nothing at all" he hurried to say and Ryan coughed nervously.

"Hey, have you decided on your costumes yet?" he changed the topic with a strain but they all too happily went along.

"I was thinking about wearing something from a different era" Yaz said. "The TARDIS has some beautiful dresses in the wardrobe."

"I'll be a frog" Graham grinned. "Already got the costume and Grace would appreciate."

"Good choices" Ryan nodded. "But I am going as a sorcerer and Siren is going to be my familiar, aren't you, Siren?"

He held his fist out for her and after a second of consideration, she bumped her paw against it.

"Cool" Yaz grinned at the fistbump. "When did you teach her that?"

"Hey, if you're a frog, Graham" Ryan realised something that made him skip her question, "you could be my familiar, too!"

"Ta, I'd rather be an independent frog than be slumped into a category with the cat" he chuckled. "No offence, Siren."

She looked like all the offence was taken but a few headscratches from Yaz had her back in a good mood.

"I wonder what costume the Doctor will go with" Yaz murmured.

"5 quid it's something silly" Ryan said.

"10 quid it's something she can't fit through the door" Graham added, when already, said door flew open, revealing the Doctor in a giant pumpkin costume.

Obviously, she had no way of getting through but nevertheless she was waving at them happily.

"Who's ready for the pumpkin contest?"

Happy Halloween!

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[capybaraonabicycle]

Okay, let's put my reaction under a cut as well, but just for everyone else: do yourself a favour and click on the above 'keep reading' to read beautiful fluffy fics with the best ships <3

Mels is only in a single episode, which is the greatest injustice ever 😭 Moffat really introduced her just to kill her off after 10 minutes. Like, she was Amy's BEST FRIEND. And she never appears before lkh OR after. It is such a crime, really.

Anyway Ahhhhhh, I love these so much, honey!! Both snippets!

Vastra is the queen of drama 🥰 like, love, you could literally just move out of the sun and it'd probably be bearable to cuddle. Especially after Jenny had already resigned to cuddle despite the heat. Really, the things she puts up with <3 (I mean, I would, too, Vastra is adorable <3)

I LOVE that they hold hands in the end bc that is exactly what I was envisioning for the prompt. Can't cuddle but NEED TO BE IN CONTACT. Desperately <3 So glad your mind went in the same direction :)

Also, as always, adore their pet names 🥰 They are so married <3

It is completely fair that you couldn't imagine them divorcing - tbf I was struggling with that idea as well - and my, am I happy about the choice you made 😊 Any Doctorriver is good Doctorriver but Marchingband is the best <3 as you know <33

You write Mels really well, absolutely no need to worry about that. She is first and foremost (at least in the way she presents herself) a little (flirty) shit who is here to cause problems on purpose, so suggesting the divorce of convenience is totally what she would do. Also peeking into her future! Very naughty but we know she will continue to do so despite knowing better for all her life :) Can't tell her what to do, can you? 🥰

I love that you wrote the Doctor tinkering on something. Especially on something Mels broke. That's just perfect.

(Mels frying those wires, nodding to herself "Providing enrichment for her enclosure, I am going to get a good grade in companion.")

Generally adore how you write the Doctor. I love how she is a little reluctant to let Mels too close but at the same time has kinda resigned that yes, this will definitely happen and she's halfway gone already - or maybe that is just me interpretating my own headcanons into this, but it definitely works with your themes :)

Good move to lure the Doctor with desserts, Mels, darling; I am a tiny bit surprised it didn't work better, especially since you included lovely organic Sontaran milk!! Who wouldn't want to eat that?! But, I mean, it does work in the end, doesn't it? Or maybe it's just that the Doctor can't say no to Mels?? 👀

It is SO them to get divorced before the wedding, too. Never doing things in the 'right' order, are they? 🥰 This is such a nice parallel to 10River or even 11River, honestly <3 Also, I would LOVE to be that divorce lawyer:

"So, am I getting this right, Ma'am-" "Doctor, please, no Ma'am." "Right, Doctor - am I to understand you would like to get a divorce from this woman? Who you are NOT married to?" "We are married, love. Just not in this timeline - yet." "I am terribly sorry, Doctor, but I can't issue a legal document for another timeline!" "- that sounds like a skill issue on your part, frankly."

And then: Even if the Doctor thought Mels a wonderfully complicated woman who shared a similarly horrible upbringing, they were both much too damaged from that to be suited for any sort of relationship.

Honey, no! I mean, love that for her that she is so rational and reasonable about this. And I love the thasmin parallels of deciding you are not in a situation where you can invest emotionally in a relationship, no matter how much you want to. But, like, hng, just - you could be so good together! 🥺 But, like, they are together, are they not? and Mels is bringing the Doctor joy and that is beautiful <3

And then those kisses on the knuckles - I am weak! I can so see them do that, either to the other and always making the other get wobbly knees <3

No, really, thank you, I should have spent more of this reblog on the (actual) wives, because they deserve (and have) my love as well, but can you blame me, when you are giving me Marchingband?? (I am totally going to continue using that shipping name until it is a thing btw, Pine created art with it) Also, correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are officially the second person ever to write for this specific flavour of Doctorriver! (Which also means I am not alone anymore 😅)

Thank you so much, this has considerably brightened my day <3

Divorce of convenience is speaking to me, I gotta say. For anyone you want but Jenny and Vastra ARE married and COULD get divorced (for convenience sake), just saying.

Too hot to cuddle sounds very cute as well though :)

So, like, if either of these inspire anything - I'd be very excited to read it!

Okay okay! I'm gonna give you the second prompt first as I wrote this for Jenny and Vastra! I did the first one as well and wanted to challenge myself (and treat you), so that'll be the surprise at the end! Both are under the cut because it'd be too long a post otherwise XD

Too hot to cuddle - Jenny/Vastra

Jenny was drawn to the greenhouse by Vastra's disgruntled hisses, and when she found her sprawled upon a warm rock in the sun, Jenny knew she would have to resign herself to cuddles despite the heat as soon as Vastra's eyes found her. "Jennyyyy," Vastra made, her eyes barely opened, her chest heaving and sinking with each breath she took. "It's alright, m'ducks," Jenny said as she began unbuttoning her dress. Really, she ought to get some light summer dresses for Vastra's greenhouse and its oppressive heat. Instead, she soon stood only in drawers and a petticoat in front of Vastra, ready to join her. One upside of having a Silurian wife, she thought, was the blessed coolness of her scales most of the time. Jenny sat next to Vastra who hadn't moved, and she just wanted to wrap her arms around Vastra when she was shoved away. Vastra continued sighing as though she were the unluckiest creature in the world, and Jenny frowned. "What was that for? I just wanted to give you cuddles," Jenny huffed, crossing her arms. If anyone had a right to complain here, it was Jenny. After all, beads of sweat were already forming in her neck. "It's too hot for cuddles," Vastra groaned, spreading her arms wide to soak up the heat of the rock instead. "You're impossible," Jenny said with an eyeroll. "I am not!" Vastra was even too sleepy to sound truly offended, and her eyelids were still half-closed. "I want to touch you but it's too warm…" "We could just get out of the greenhouse then," Jenny suggested. "But it is too cold outside, my love!" Jenny slid off the rock with a shrug. "Then I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to help you, darling…" "Staaaay," Vastra demanded with a whine, and she reached out to grasp Jenny's hand with hers. "Mmmh, I like holding your hand." "Daft lizard," Jenny muttered as she sat back down, now holding only Vastra's hand. "You enjoy being complicated, don't you, m'ducks." Vastra smiled proudly. "Always, my dear."

I hope you enjoyed this!! And now for the second one...

Divorce of Convenience - ???/???

"Well. This is a first," Mels said, waving around a brochure advertising a new restaurant at the edge of the universe. The Doctor pushed her yellow half-moon specs up her nose and frowned. "What's that, love?" Mels leaned back in the armchair she had asked the TARDIS to materialise specifically for her, and she gave the Black woman a toothy grin. "This restaurant's offering a special deal to newly divorced couples." The Doctor frowned. "Newly divorced? As in, the couple coming in together?" "Yup. There's something quite… Alluring about it, don't you think? Getting benefits for breaking up?" "Waste of time if you ask me… And an attempt at commercialising everything you can possibly experience." She turned her attention back to the chronon blaster her… lovely companion Mels had overheated on their last little adventure. The wires had completely fused with the power source, and the Doctor wondered again why she had ever let Mels board her TARDIS. She was dangerous and like fire. Well, the Doctor had always liked playing with fire and could never leave her hands off danger. Despite being more reserved this time round, as a precaution most of all, her behaviour could border on reckless at times, as her recent skirmishes with one Mels Zucker proved. "They even have desserts," Mels lured, something that certainly would have worked on less careful regenerations of the Doctor. She, however, remained unmoved, in part to tease Mels. The Doctor's lips curled into a grin when Mels let out a groan. "They even have Sontaran cheesecake with cheese out of 98% organic Sontaran milk!" As though that was something that would convince her to change her mind. The Doctor blanched at the mere thought of Sontaran cheesecake and its ingredients. "What's the other two percent?" "Or Pting popsicles," Mels continued. "Silurian egg soufflé? Mondas sherbet, or perhaps some Ood chocolate. One of them is something I just made up." "I don't know, love. Putting aside the fact none of that sounds edible, you're forgetting the crucial factor that we aren't divorced. Or married, for that matter." A challenging grin appeared on Mels's face, and she looked the Doctor up and down. Immediately, she arched her back and fixed her blue overcoat. Even if the Doctor thought Mels a wonderfully complicated woman who shared a similarly horrible upbringing, they were both much too damaged from that to be suited for any sort of relationship. "We are in the future, you know," Mels said, and the Doctor nearly choked on her laugh. "We're WHAT???" "Married. You and I. In our future." The Doctor raised an eyebrow and glanced at Mels over the rims of her glasses. "And how would you know that?" "I looked it up." The Doctor was about to start giving Mels a lecture about the damage she could have caused to the timelines with her careless behaviour when Mels slid out the chair and, hips swaggering, approached the Doctor. Distracted, the Doctor missed her opportunity to take a step back, and Mels held her hands and placed kisses to her knuckles before the Doctor could prevent it. She felt her resolve melting, the anger dissipating in a beat of her hearts. "Come on, honey. Let's have some fun crashing a party. And we can get dessert as well." With an eyeroll, the Doctor pressed a sloppy kiss to the corner of Mels' mouth. She pushed past her and keyed something into the TARDIS console. "Hey, what are you doing??" Mels complained, perhaps taking the Doctor's behaviour as rejection of the idea rather than an admittance of defeat. "Ah, hun… I'm finding us the nearest divorce lawyer."

I hope, hope hope I did them justice! It was my first time writing Mels, and only my second time writing Fugitive, I think! I couldn't for the life of me think of any circumstances under which Jenny and Vastra would have a divorce of convenience, so I thought I'd pick characters you adored, and these two do seem more the type! (I was first thinking about doing TwelveRiver or ThirteenRiver or FugitiveRiver, but I thought, why not make it Mels, despite me having very little experience writing her, and it's been a while since I've seen the episode(s?) she's in! Thank you so much for these prompts, they were great fun to write!!

[theglasscat]

Helloooo, I would be really intrigued by the "Her Night/Honeymoon" one! Is it the four hour one or their ACTUAL honeymoon? Feel free to tell me all about it!

HIIIIII okay so I listed all those stories because they've been bouncing around my head like rubber balls and then I looked in my wip file to see what I had for this story and all there was was "Hen Night" and literally nothing else when I swear to fuck I had written something so I had to take a couple days to actually put down what was in my brain

Here's the outline with some loose written bits:

Three sections to be filled out further Vastra POV Third person Lines of Communication -Post sewer adventure in Trespassers 2 Ep 2, the gang compiles a comprehensiv-ish map of the sewer system to help them in their cases, Strax eager to explore it. V and J decide they ought to go together bc there's people there and Strax does not have the gentlest bedside manner -((Also figure out why Jenny was so disparaging of the sewer folk when we know she's a street rat herself. It really goes against most popular characterizations of her as a woman of the people.)) -Vastra had seen a version of Jenny in the sewers that lost her ring. They communicate (!!!) to create a system/password codeword of something only the two of them know in the event they ever get swapped out for dopplegangers again. _ _ _ Hen Night

Aka a wonderful moment before Jenny gets replaced. Excuse to write the two happy drunk. This is what I have actually written: They were wise enough not to have the hen night right before the wedding. Vastra can not fathom wedding bells when her head decides to stop swimming and heave itself onto hard dry land. The pubs of Miss Flavisham’s youth are changed since she was a girl, or at least only serve old timers and Jenny takes charge of leading the group of increasingly drunk women through her old networks of clubs for Toms. Laughing and collapsing into the pillows, sweat and stink from the night. Don’t know how we got to this bed or how you managed to just remove your corset My brain is fuzzy but there is the woman I love. I’m going to marry her, this exquisite person. This is going to be my wife. Both hungover the next morning but still willing to help each other out in the morning. The smell of Strax frying bacon and eggs as they gather at the kitchen table with their head in their hands. Strax's voice making everyone flinch and groan. Jenny smirking at Vastra from across the table and gratefully accepting a cup of tea from the booming Sontaran. Vastra realizing that Jenny is thinking just what she was thinking last night: This is going to be my wife. To be loved like this is almost unbearable but what a joy it is.

_ _ _ Honeymoon aka Four Hours in Luton aka "I haven't seen you consume any liquids in 2 days" Jenny didn't drink at the reception. She raised her glass in gesture of a toast but didn't drink. She does not drink all night but indeed the phrase goes that the "bride never eats" and of course who would want to eat all this aspic and of course who would drink on such an empty stomach? In the carriage home Vastra knows something is off. She had expected to see the look Jenny had given her from across the kitchen table three fold. It never comes.

Once in the house Jenny starts to make suggestions leaning towards the "wedding night" and Vastra asks her the question they had formulated that no doppleganger could possibly know. Jenny evades the answer and Vastra suggests that they hold off until the honeymoon, she's planned a surprise. Vastra alters the travel plans. They had initially planned to go to Paris but Paris can wait. A layover in Luton is due first.

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[seaweedstarshine]

#this is lovely 🥰#I raise you 13/mels or fugitive Doctor/mels tho 👀 (tags via @jennyandvastraflint )

Mels says she’s a weapon, trained and conditioned for one purpose. She ditched a place called Leadworth when her tech detected Artron energy, because she couldn't miss a chance to kill the Doctor.

The Doctor doesn’t intend to die, but Mels seems sad, so she listens.

To stories of crushing loneliness, of escaping terrible places, of parents who mustn't know they’re her parents…

Of memory-tampering from her handlers, leaving her more frightened each time.

That one hits home.

The Doctor wishes she could trade her own stories, but Mels is a tank filled with secrets; bursting open in the presence of a perceived stranger. Anyone could see she has drowned alone for too long.

The last thing she needs is someone to kill.

He knows her as soon as he sees her.

Time Lords always do — when they’re looking. And by Rassilon, he has been looking. Afraid of what he’ll find. Afraid he can’t both save Pond’s baby and the naughty friend he loves.

He didn't recognize the child, but then, he hadn’t yet felt how time courses through River's veins. But now — now he can see.

Mels. Melody. The only water in the forest. His bespoke psychopath. His convicted murderer lover, intact. He failed to save the child.

A smile floods his face, and he runs towards her with open arms.

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Videos still processing (might take a little while - episodes 2 and 4 are up already!) and due to copyright I can’t make the file public, but here’s the link to Willow Season 1. You need to require access but I’ve tested and it works perfectly. ☺️ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aDH5nCKwy9HQ-815ydm2rgM1EgX_AQ7L

The awesome @jennyandvastraflint uploaded the subtitled episodes (link 1) and subtitled making of (link 2) to google drive! You will also need to require access, in order to keep it from being deleted ☺️ the two latter links aren’t mine 💜🙏🏻

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Finished the first of my commissioned fics! This is a short (just over 1k) Campal one-shot for @jennyandvastraflint

Title: Don’t Remember That Rush Of Joy

Fandom: The Locked Tomb

Characters: Camilla Hect, Palamedes Sextus, mentions of Dulcinea Septimus

Relationship: Camilla Hect/ Palamedes Sextus

Word count: 1047

Rating: G

Summary: Palamedes wants to practice kissing with his best friend. Camilla has a lot of feelings about it. Surely this won't affect their friendship at all...

Warnings: None

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It was a rare day that the Master Warden of the Sixth House or his cavalier primary truly succeeded in surprising each other. Normally, they simply knew each other too well for anything to come as a genuine shock. But this day, when they were both fifteen, sitting in Palamedes’s quarters and occupied with their own studies, proved to be one such occasion.

“Can I kiss you?” Palamedes asked.

“Can you. What?” Cam blinked, genuinely taken aback.

“Kiss you. I mean, I'm realising I've never actually done that before, with anyone, and, you know, Dulcie probably has, and, you know…”

Of course, Cam thought. Of course this is about Dulcie, who else would it be about? The idea of Dulcie had occupied them both for the last seven years. It was the reason they held the positions they currently did. And the last year or two especially, something had shifted for Palamedes, in terms of how he saw Dulcie. A shift that did not appear to be reciprocal.

“You don't know that,” she said.

It was the least of what she wanted to say. You don’t know she’d ever even want to kiss you, even if the opportunity were to present itself, she wanted to say. This isn’t a fair thing to ask me to do, to pretend to be her. But even as she thought that, she knew that she would do it anyway. She knew that she would do anything for him, she’d always known that.

“I guess not, but even so, it couldn’t hurt. And if I was gonna kiss someone for the first time, I’d rather it was someone like you, someone I trust.”

Someone you trust, she thought. Not someone you like, or someone you actually think is attractive. She knew Palamedes well enough to know that he didn’t intend any of this to be hurtful. On the contrary, she knew that it was all meant to be a compliment. It wasn’t his fault he didn’t know how she felt, the extent of the feelings that kept her at his side. It was a good thing he didn’t, of course, if he knew… Well, she didn’t know what would happen, but it would, at the very least, be really embarrassing if her one-sided crush on her best friend came to said best friend’s attention.

“Okay, I guess I can’t argue with that,” she replied. “D’you want to do it just now, or…”

”I guess so, at least we’re alone in here, nobody’s gonna find out. It can just stay between us.”

Again, Cam knew that wasn’t intended to hurt. Practically speaking, if anyone found out they were doing this, especially if they knew it was Palamedes’s idea, they would consider it a violation of the vows they took just two years ago. They could lose everything, just for their curiosity. But even knowing all that, she couldn’t help feeling a little… uneasy, like he was ashamed of wanting to kiss her.

“Okay,” she said, giving none of her more complicated feelings away. She was good at that, she always had been.

They sat side by side on the double bed. Neither of them had ever told anyone else, but they had gotten into a habit of sharing the bed, neither wanting to be too far from the other. It didn’t mean anything, of course, just like this kiss wouldn’t mean anything.

This position had the advantage of making their growing height difference less of an issue, as well. For the last couple months or so, Palamedes had started to grow tall very quickly, and now he was taller than Cam, and didn’t seem to be stopping. It wasn’t so bad like this, though, even sitting as close as they were.

Cam turned to face him. Her mouth was about level with his jaw, and the thought of kissing him there briefly entered her mind. But no, she had to focus on the task at hand. One kiss, get it over with.

“Should I take my glasses off?” Palamedes asked.

Cam considered this for a moment, before reaching over and gently propping his glasses in his unruly dark hair. Then, before she could overthink it any further, she leaned in, and pressed her lips softly to his. Almost as soon as she did so, she realised she may have made a mistake.

The kiss was like a campfire, licking warmth from the place where their lips met. It was like nothing she’d ever felt, and she wanted more of it, wanted to feel that heat every day for the rest of her life. Palamedes had a hand in her hair, and was kissing her back, and she was torn between wanting to know what he was thinking, and being scared in case he was pretending to be kissing Dulcie.

It felt like an eternity passed before they finally broke apart. They sat staring at each other, and for once, Cam felt the eventual break in eye contact to be a loss, rather than a gain. Her face still burned, and she had no idea what to do now. They should never do that again. They should never do anything else besides that.

She stood up, and started pacing the floor, hoping that would clear her head. Motion was usually good for that, but right now it didn’t seem to be doing much to help. Just about the only thing she could think of that might help would be kissing Palamedes again, but she didn’t know if that would be allowed.

“Cam,” he said, after a few minutes. “Cam, are you okay?”

“Of course, Warden,” she replied. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

“I don’t know. I guess I just… I hope this hasn’t made anything weird between us, I guess?”

”I don’t see why it would, it’s not like it means anything. It was just a kiss.”

She almost believed herself, as she said it. But inside, she knew differently. She knew that this had changed things between them. She knew she was not the only one who’d felt that fire, and she knew she wasn’t the only one who wouldn’t be satisfied with only feeling it once. There was no going back to before that kiss, and there wasn’t much use in pretending otherwise.

[evviejo]

Hellooo, I just wanted to tell you I ADORE your 13th era gif sets! You're doing god's work! Thank you so much. Much love 💕💓❣️💜💛

thank you so much 💖 it's always a pleasure to make those, too.

(also, look out for graham in period clothes tomorrow ☺️)

[capybaraonabicycle]

Hiya! For the writers truth & dare ask game, I'd love to know about..

🕯️On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? Why is that?

🍄Share a headcanon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

❄️What's a dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best? (also, which character would be involved)

🌿Give some advice on writer's block and low creativity (or energy⚡if you like)

🏜️What's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

🌸Do you have any pets? If you do, post some pictures of them

I'm btw planning on reading more Righting Reflex in the evening, I just really need to get at least one and a half more tasks done today for my portfolio. Sending you much love 💚🦎

Thank you, love!! This is way too long, so I will put it under a 'read more'

🕯️On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? Why is that?

Maybe a 3? Like, I don't hate it but I'm not too fond of it either. I enjoy reading what I have written more often than not and I like putting [GERMAN WORD] or [TBD - WRITE SMTH ABOUT XY] ever so often while writing, but I don't enjoy changing the story afterwards much. I rarely change big things, usually only a scene or two and a few expressions. That said, I have to read every scene like 15 times before posting to scour for errors - and I am certain I am missing so many anyway.

🍄Share a headcanon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

Okay, let's go with fugitive Doctor/River. (Did you expect this by any chance? ;) )

You know this bit:

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[ID: two gifs from The Husbands of River Song of River saying "Do you know who you remind me of? My second wife!". end ID]

People have been speculating that she is talking about 13, which I get, definitely. But I want to argue that it is the superior interpretation that she would be talking about the fugitive Doctor (or another incarnation the Doctor has forgotten about but where would be the fun in that?). For the following reasons:

Vibes. This is the important point. River says 12 reminds her of the wife, so they have to be alike-ish. And I feel like 12 and the fugitive Doctor have a certain similarity in their demeanour. I think a big thing is how they hold themselves upright, actually, but also the whole Danny calling 12 an officer when the fugitive Doctor actually is one. Also the underlying kindness both of them possess and the end-life-crisis. They both lose all of their companions (Clara, Bill and Nardole vs Karvanista, Gat and Lee - one lives on but they can never see them again/forget about them, the other two die (or that's what they believe at least) and it is their fault) and I would argue they both are thinking about not regenerating this time. (I reckon the fugitive Doctor does not have a choice though.)

Loss. See the last point. The Doctor loses everything in fotj. Give her her wife, at least, please. Let River bring her some love and companionship <3 13 loses a lot as well but she's got Yaz. Which also leads us to:

Thasmin. Like, you know, if River had been tangibly in the 13th Doctor's life in any way, thasmin would have kissed. 100%. They didn't, so River didn't marry 13, simple as that.

Timelines. River does not know about more faces of the Doctor and well, 13 is older than 12. Of course, she could lie to her and yes, River gets married a little carelessly, so she might have married some John Smith!13. But if she met the fugitive Doctor - who seems very different from the timelord she knows and has no recollection of the Doctor's life, it would be easy for her to draw the conclusion that the Doctor is just some other person going by that name. And the fugitive Doctor would forget about her, of course. There's also a good possibility, River isn't actually married to the Doctor but to Ruth.

Time, Doctor's side. Honestly, 13 just doesn't have enough time to get married to River. Am I still hoping we will get those two on screen (or audio) together? Of course! But 13 is kinda busy, most of the time we either see her with the fam (who don't know River, see lotsd) or very occupied with stuff (like apocalypses or prison).

So, yeah, headcanon: The fugitive Doctor is River's second wife.

(The first is Cleopatra, right? Like Idk if there is canon confirmation but it feels true.)

❄️What's a dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best? (also, which character would be involved)

Okay, when I read this question, I thought I wouldn't have any idea. But I have. Several. Lets start. Fics I would will into existence if I could:

Full-length Little VVomen.

I know we won't get the movie, but I'll gladly take it as a novel fic. Just for an explanation: Little VVomen is a parody trailer for a crossover of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and the horror movie VVitch (I assume, I don't actually know VVitch). And it is glorious. Just -

- If it's about a girl, make sure she's married by the end. - Does it have to be to a man?

lives in my head rent free. I want a full story of Jo March saying gay rights, writing spells and sacrificing innocent men, pretty please <3 And I really, really want to know what's up with the Sean!devil.

This is the trailer btw:

Anyone write this please? (If I could choose, I'd ask Sean and Sinead who wrote the trailer, but I fear, I am already stretching the definition of fic here and using the authors of the og trailer probably defeats the purpose of this question.)

2. Strax fairytale!! written by you :)

Strax as a fairytale protagonist is SUCH an inspired idea and I am hoping very much that you will get round to it some day. But I can't really tell you anything about that that you don't know better yourself.

Or, maybe, I can: I have become kinda enarmoured with the 'Strax as the faithful Johannes' idea, I have always adored that tale, mainly for the tragedy and extremely strong friendship theme. Like, it is so clear that the king's most important relationship is his friendship to his servant. The princess is lovely but they barely know each other, yet. And I think there is SO much potential to improve the abduction scene and the ending. So, yeah, I have been turning that around in my head a bit.

But no matter which tale you will pick, if you ever write a fic for him, I am sure I will absolutely love it!

(also, like, I could mention any of the fairytale ideas you have told me about, here)

3. Heather is an integral part of s10 by @marvellouspinecone

You remember that genius powerpoint Pine made, I assume? Wouldn't it be spectacular if someone wrote that as a fic for me to read? I would choose Pine as the author because she understands the vision best, of course. But, like, I am so grateful already that the powerpoint exists for me to read and dream about :)

(Hi, Pine, not sure you want to read the whole post, but you might see the tag. This is not a request, please don't understand it as such, because that would be incredibly impudent on my part. This is just fancy ideas of mine and a praise to your vision <3)

4. Tenteen is played by Jo Martin by DiscipleOfBrad

So, I actually enjoyed the 60th anniversary (at least wild blue yonder, that much very much had a premise of my type of dw ep) but I still believe we could have done better than bringing back dt for the umpteenth time. (Listen, he is lovely, don't get me wrong, and I liked '14' too, but just - )

I have written a post about why I think making the fugitive Doctor's face return would have been a more interesting choice and I would still love to read it as a fic.

I don't really care whether it would be a simple retelling of the three eps with her instead of tenteen or a completely different tale. I WOULD like to see Donna though (because can you imagine?? Also that scene where Donna just acts like she knows the Doctor all of a sudden? When the Doctor doesn't even really know herself but feels like she should?) and if we could spring for some Karvanista on top, that'd be ace <3

I would give this one to DiscipleOfBrad because I trust them to write a convincing fugitive Doctor. I really enjoyed her in The Cul-de-Sac (which btw I can highly recommend if you'd like some soft thasmin and an intriguing premise. There is a heavy side of whouffaldi, though, I'm not sure whether that is your thing?).

🌿Give some advice on writer's block and low creativity (or energy⚡if you like)

I feel like it always helps me to get myself into a 'I can't do anything else now anyway' situation? That's why trainrides are so good for writing. I just need to be in a situation where I can't take care of more pressing matters, so it won't feel overwhelming if I don't take care of them?

Like, I will rather scroll tumblr than work on my thesis but I won't write. But if I am away from wifi, I might not be able to work on the thesis anyway, so I will easier find the peace of mind (and hence energy and creativity) to write?

Idk maybe that's just me. Maybe it's not working at all either. Honestly, I don't quite know where energy, creativity or motivation to write come from. They just knock and then they're there.

🏜️What's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

Well, obviously, I adore long comments, who doesn't? But just saying 'long' feels both greedy and like cheating, so let's talk content.

I think, what excites me most in a comment is when I can sense the enthousiasm? It doesn't necessarily have to be for the content of my fic, I had someone write 'YOU MADE A CROSSOVER FOR THESE TWO FANDOMS?? THEY'RE MY FAVOURITE!!" and it made me smile for a day. Just, I write those things because I love the characters and themes and if someone shows that they share this passion? That's community, that's what we're searching for, isn't it?

But also I got a comment today that was just a bunch of predictions about the next chapter of my current fic and that felt amazing! Generally, when people notice things or I feel they have been paying attention, that is SO GOOD. That's probably also why we love long comments. I mean, generally, every second you spend reading the comment is gold, so the longer the comment the more seconds there are, but also a long comment will usually go into detail. Make predictions. Notice things. Talk about how they perceive the characters and why something made sense/surprised them. Quote your fic back to you. And like, all of that is so much fun. It's like reading your story again, remembering why you wrote it. It's the best feeling in the world.

I very dearly love comments.

🌸Do you have any pets? If you do, post some pictures of them

I don't 😭 The place where I live doesn't allow pets and besides, I am away a lot and not planning on staying in this town much longer anyway. So, yeah, it'd be difficult to have a pet. I really, really want to though. Preferably a cat but I'd be so happy with a dog as well. Or a turtle? Or bunny? Or a lizard? I think you could make me happy with almost any mammal and many types of reptiles <3 (not much into insects or fish though. And I feel weird about birds in cages.)

[pookachuka]

surprise surprise i've drawn tiny vastra. @jennyandvastraflint 👀 👀

[mostly-functional]

Character You Are Currently Obsessed With.

Feel free to elaborate on why you are obsessed with the character or just list them/picture them without context.

I was tagged by @manicpixiedreamedwins! Thank you :)

As much as I love all the main DBD characters, I had to pick Esther. She's basically the Paris Hilton of witches. She’s so beautifully evil.

Does she have a single redeeming quality? No. Would I fight for her? Without question.

And it’s nice to see a hot woman using a mobility aid and fucking everything up. Also, I physically cannot stop saying "teeth face, what the fuck?" every single time my cat bites his toy.

I don't know how many of these accounts are still active, but I'll tag @uss-genderprise @spacespirk and @jennyandvastraflint

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

ROUND 3 MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Lungbarrow

Synopsis

"Nonsense, child", retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"

All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.

At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.

673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.

In this, the Seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.

Propaganda

Is it good? No. But damn if it doesn't cause some good fandom fights. #LoomRights (@eighthdoctor )

cornerstone of weird doctor who lore and jokes about looms (anonymous)

The Cars that Ate London!

Synopsis

The advent of electric carriages on London's streets causes a stir – until they start careening out of control. Elsewhere, factory workers lose their senses, while a brand-new power plant suffers mysterious outages.

Genius industrialist Fabian Solak has a vision of the future – free from pollution, running on clean electricity. But Madame Vastra knows such ideas are ahead of their time...

Propaganda

We open with one Jenny Flint buying racing pigeons because Vastra keeps eating the- because the pigeons keep getting out. She also buys a swan for Vastra (which, if you know Brit lore, the Queen owns most of the swans for some reason XD, and this is therefore a big ""Fuck you"" from Vastra to the Queen), when suddenly an electric car without a driver attacks the market. At home in Paternoster Row Vastra checks if Jenny is okay and promptly suggests a 'lie down' together... 😂 The guy making the electric cars owns a factory that quite literally works its workers to death in assembly lines, or absorbs the people's brains. The Gang infiltrates said factory (Strax starts a small war after doing a gloriously funny Cockney impression), trip an alarm, and have to flee. Strax runs through a wall. They try to escape in their carriage, two electric cars chasing them. When the carriage crashes, Strax is prepared to take the cars on in hand to hand combat; he sees it as a tactical advantage for himself that the cars don't have arms. Or so he thinks: the electric cars are actually electric TRANSFORMERS. While Strax rallies the workers to seize the means of production (communist king) and Jenny is prepped to be absorbed (she kicks the lady trying to tie her up and frees herself), Vastra has a talk with Mr Solak that ends in her being electrocuted and temporarily disabled for being IBSANELY mouthy. Solak's transformers are automated enough that he doesn't require any more workers, and he plans to absorb the brains of everyone in London with his factory he's made mobile. Well, they manage to escape and get caught AGAIN (they're that skilled istg) they try to absorb Strax as well, and while Vastra talks to Solak and distracts him, Strax takes advantage of the high voltage they connected him to and uses the energy to recharge himself properly. A hilarious audio to kick off the fiest boxset, though not without its serious moments. The concept is insane tho and I love tha. (@jennyandvastraflint )

[lonely-night]

tagged: @barbarawar thank you !!!!

last song: we are by one ok rock

favorite color: blue

last movie/show: shall we dance 1937

sweet/spicy/savory: all of it

relationship status: got a gf <3

last thing i googled: two tailed test critical level 0.01 t test (*shakes fist* fucking statistics)

current obsession(s): WHAT DO YOU THINK LMAOOOO - janeway/seven, also kind of want to get back on my onkaji bullshit

tagging @wickedheadache @suave-alpaca @littlesolo @twtd11 @jennyandvastraflint @wellthatsembarassing @lostlilsnail and anyone who feel like doing this <3 no pressure