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Recently I got back in touch with an old friend and writing partner who very kindly offered to beta for me. I took her up on it and want to thank her for her help and encouragement writing this fic. Thanks, Midge! Great working together again!
Setting: “Last of the Timelords” Rating: G Characters: Donna Spoilers: through the end of season 3 Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. Summary: Where was Donna during ‘the year that never was’?
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Took a break from stats and mapping to write up a story that's been rolling around my head since this ep re-aired on BBC America. Hope you enjoy! Off to go dig toad traps tomorrow. The life of a wildlife ecologist is ever so glamorous. :)
Setting: Forest of the Dead Rating: G-PG Characters: Donna, Doctor, Lux, River (sort of) Spoilers: Through Forest of the Dead Disclaimer: I own nothing. Summary: Someone has to find and free the Doctor.
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So, I was surfing the BBC website checking out the Doctor Who "Attack of the Graske" game after reading about it (how did I not hear about it sooner?) and I discovered something I am going to enjoy WAY too much: A Doctor Who comic maker. You pick backgrounds, put in characters, props, monsters, talk bubbles, the whole nine, and you can honestly make a comic book to print out. :D Oh, fanfic just went to a whole other level. There are limits (no 9th Doctor, no Rose, it's geared a bit around seasons 3 and 4), but seriously, I can have a disgusting amount of fun with this. I'll try to post my first attempt to work with it, inspired by just what backgrounds were available. Sorry, I had an issue where if you erased one talk bubble, they all disappeared, right up until you printed it and both showed up, so I guess...assume there's an echo or something. If it's not readable or anything, let me know. I can't up the size too much without major distortion, but I can try or translate. ( My Comic ) Okay, I seriously planned to be in bed at a decent hour tonight. Guess that's not happening. lol I'm never going to get back into a normal school routine at this rate. I'm semi-nocturnal these days. (Which is nice if you have friends in vastly different time zones, but not helpful in much else.) ETA: Ooh, that's not pretty. On my computer, I can click on the picture and it comes up bigger in another window. Does that happen for anyone else? I may have to break down and get a Photobucket account someday after all. I'll be happy to write up the dialogue if anyone wants it.
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Getting another little ficlet out of my head. I hadn't planned to write an 11th Doctor fic so early because we haven't met him yet, but he fit into an idea I'd had some time ago, so I finally wrote it out, using the Confidential interview with Matt Smith (though still winding up with a lot of David Tennant's voice I fear). Anyway, similar idea to my last one. Hope you like! Small Things
Setting: Sometime in season 5 Rating: G Characters: 11th Doctor, younger River Song, Donna, Sylvia Disclaimer: I own nothing. Summary: The Doctor saves a life yet again.
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I've been watching a bunch of people write 11th Doctor stories lately. So, of course, my muse did...something else. :) This story isn't quite what I started out writing, but it's where the characters took me, so there you go. Not sure if it works or not, but I'll let you, the readers be the judge. I've got better stuff in the pipeline. With that optimistic start, on with the show! ;) Collision
Setting: very early on Rating: G Disclaimer: Russell T. Davies claims in “Doctor Who: The Inside Story” that they just make the show and we, the fans, own it. Hm… ;) Characters: Donna, Nerys, Veena, Doctor Summary: Donna and her friends go on a normal shopping trip.
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Ah, my annual, somewhat corny but fun Christmas fic for whichever show is occupying my mind and muse most at the moment. This year, it's Doctor Who, so here's my short little story to occupy myself, especially since we in the States likely won't get the Christmas special till sometime around July. :P So! On with the show! Setting: post-Journey’s End Rating: G Characters: Donna, Wilf, Sylvia, a Christmas visitor Disclaimer: I own nothing. Summary: The first Christmas after Donna lost her memory.
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Had a little plot bunny as a result of watching lots of House and Doctor Who in the same span of time. No, not a cross-over or the Doctor as House, though those could be fun if done right. Just making connections between the Doctor and medical doctors. The result is a little drabble for Journey's End. (Seeing Quantum of Solace today gave me a couple flashes of Doctor/James Bond similarity, but that's unrelated to this story.) Also, I've now had the second dream that involved David Tennant's Doctor. First one was running around a mall with him and Rose or Martha (not sure which, just in the dream knew it was his companion) being chased by something. Second one was being in an airport or museum and seeing him walking around looking like he was trying to find something out. We met briefly in that one, but I couldn't help him with whatever was going on. Dreams are funny that way. You'd think, if it was my dream, I'd be a crucial part of whatever he was doing, but instead our two storylines I guess were peripheral to each other. :) Anyway, on with the fic. Hollow Victory (G)
Setting: end of Journey’s End Rating: G Characters: Doctor, Donna Spoilers: Through Journey’s End Disclaimer: I own nothing.
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I was unpacking a box in my room and found my notes from FedCon USA. Among them were my list of quotes that amused the heck out of me from the random and crazy conversations we had Sunday. I never did finish a con report (bad me!), but at least I can get these posted for you guys to enjoy and remember. Now, this being a group of sci-fi fangirls (and surprisingly, not drunk ones at that point), these quotes are random, frequently risque, and I'm sure were probably funnier at the time. :) But, here they are. I've left out identities to protect the not-so-innocent and refuse to comment on which ones I contributed to. If you read further, you've been warned. ( Uncut and Uncensored ) |
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(Spoilers for season 4 of Doctor Who, including slight ones of the finale) Well, I knew watching the Doctor Who finale tonight was a bad idea. My brother moved out this morning and thematically, the episode hit sincerely close to home. (Granted Doctor Who finales tend to be powerful anyway, but when it resonates personally, they affect me all the more.) Goodbyes are always hard, no matter how often you deal with them, and being in an empty house tonight isn't helping. So, I figured it was about time I finally posted this. One of the nice things with writing: characters exist forever, available to be called in whenever you want to see them. They can be together whenever you want to regardless of their canon status. It's like time travel: you can visit them at any point along their personal timelines you want to. So, a story I started months ago, but finally have the time to post and the context to finish properly. (Oh, and please forgive me if I mangle any British phrases, accents, colloquialisms, etc. Trying to catch Donna's voice without pushing it too hard, and I'm not a local, so I hope it's not too glaringly overdone or wrong.) ( Downtime )
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A short little fic based on something Joe Flanigan pointed out during the commentary for "Trinity". I have a longer SGA fic on the way, and am trying my hand at my first Doctor Who fic (gulp, always nervous when writing for a show for the first time). Till then, enjoy my first SGA fic that is not based on "Sunday" or "Kindred" and which is not related to Beckett. :) Hubris Setting: Immediately after "Trinity" The elevator doors slid closed on a suitably shame-faced McKay and Sheppard shook his head. Of course he was going to forgive the man, after he'd had a reasonable amount of time to understand the consequences of his cockiness. The door opened and Sheppard stepped out straight into a faceful of cold ocean spray. "What the--!" he coughed. Squinting through the salty air stinging his eyes, he saw he was on some kind of old dock, long abandoned, leaving very little between him and the open sea. Definitely not the cafeteria. He turned around and swept his hand over the controls for the elevator. They didn't so much as light up. The rusted doors remained worryingly closed. He swept his hand a few more times, then banged on the door, though he knew no one would hear it. He bundled his jacket around him, cursing. Night was on the way and the ocean was soaking him thoroughly. Why couldn't anything in this damn city work properly? He was going to have some words for the engineers when he got inside. A dark feeling wormed through him as a thought occurred. He'd pressed the elevator's controls without looking, confident in his knowledge of how to use the machine and, yeah, not finished making McKay squirm. And now he was trapped outside in a forgotten part of the city as the ocean wind whipped him. He took a moment to glare up at the trickster god he was sure must be watching. "Yeah, laugh it up." A wave washed onto the ledge and soaked his boots in response. "Great." Sheppard huddled closer to the wall and attempted to shield his radio from the wind. "Anybody hear me?" he shouted. "McKay?" He shivered and shifted the tone of his voice. "Buddy?" Looked like the scientist was going to get a chance to redeem himself sooner rather than later. Sheppard did not look forward to explaining to him how he'd gotten stuck out here. So much for that high horse. Seti |
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Yes, another short SGA fic that relates to either "Sunday" or "Kindred". Let the surprised expressions begin. ;) I promise, I've got a deep conversation starter that I'll post soon when I pull together my thoughts on the topic. Random, but I'm interested to hear y'all's thoughts. (And, boy, does "y'all's" look like a weird word typed up.) Also, I'm working on making it to FedCon USA in Dallas this June, but through great strokes of bad luck, one of my hotel roommates just lost her job (please send her and her family prayers and good vibes, if you would) and the other may not be able to make it. So, since I'd rather not pay for a 3- or 4-person hotel room by myself, if you or anyone you know (who, preferably, I might know too or who you would vouch for), are coming to FedCon and need a place to stay, let me know! Thanks! On with the show! ( SGA: Vigil ) Seti |
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Just a short drabble I've been playing with since watching "Kindred". Seti |
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I jotted this little story down while between classes. It's just something off the top of my head and may be purely self-indulgent, but I'm posting it anyway. ;) Hope somebody enjoys it! ( SGA: Nightmares ) |
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I'll do a full post soon, with all the excitement of my attempts to get into grad school. :P For now, here's a quick (sort of) Christmas fanfiction that came to me when we were decorating the house. Enjoy and have a very wonderful holiday!
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Stealing a break in the action of school to actually post an update here. I know, I've been terrible about using my LJ lately. I just for some reason keep forgetting it's here and certainly haven't been lacking for things to hold my attention hostage. I'm sorry and will try to get caught up on everybody's journals this week. Plenty of stuff happening. I've been mostly tackling grad school admissions and talking to professors up at the university. They've been very encouraging and one even invited me up to tour her lab. If I want to work studying the behavior/physiology of migratory grasshoppers, they sound willing to take me on! That's the tricky part about the university I'm trying to get into: mammals are my main interest, but none of the profs there are doing mammal research. I know you're supposed to seek out a grad school focusing on your specific career focus, but the combination of factors just leads to UT Austin being the best school I can realistically plan for, and I think studying lizards, fish, frogs, or insects will be okay for my future since it's behavioral research either way. All in all, just waiting for the good word on whether I'm accepted or not and hoping I find a professor willing to take me on in their lab. Also exciting, my Psychology of Language teacher invited me to work in her lab next semester! :D She does reading comprehension research and needs a writer to come up with sample passages that meet very specific criteria for her subjects to read in the studies. Should be a challenge and a good learning experience as a writer. :) Home front is same as usual. My mom's partner is moody as ever, but everything else is going really well. School and work are good, and for Halloween my tutoring office is holding a party on campus. I'm thinking of going as Organic Chemistry (the scariest class in the Biology major requirements), making a necklace out of my organic molecule modeling kit (a very large circular carbon chain would do the trick), a lab coat, and a shirt with organic chem equations scribbled all over it. :) How have you guys been? I'll find out myself when I can sit and read through your journals, but everything okay? Life treating you well? I've missed you guys and am determined to make more time to visit here. Alright, gotta get back to work. Aside from classes, I have two fics to write for the winners of the Sweet Charity auction by the end of the year. (I sold a Deep Space 9 fic for $10 and a Farscape fic for an amazing $50!) Also must figure out something to do for the TUF gift exchange. I'm blanking completely. Time yet, but I'd like to start shopping soon. Okay, enough rambling. Talk to you more soon, I hope! Great to be back! |
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At officersun524's request/suggestion, I put together a companion scene to my recent fic "Last Patient" (posted here below), expanding McKay's first encounter with Jim Watson after the events of "Sunday". It's my first foray into writing for McKay's POV, so please forgive anything out of character or outright wrong. He wasn't all too willing to let me into his head, and it took a while to coax this story out. I hope it's worth the read, though!
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Hello! I know I haven't posted on here in forever, and I'm sorry. It's been a crazy month and a long summer. I'll try to get caught up and get back to everyone I haven't talked with in ages. I've missed you guys! One thing I did want to post about was a charity I'm participating in. Some of you may already know it. It's called Sweet Charity and is for fans who write fanfiction, make fanart, edit fanvids, etc. You basically offer your skills up for auction to the highest bidder and write/paint/edit a piece based on their requests. I've put myself up there to write two fanfictions for a bunch of different show and book options. All proceeds go to RAINN, a charity for victims of rape, abuse, and incest. So, just thought I'd mention it out here for anyone who feels like checking it out and seeing what everybody's offering. Commercial finished! :) I'll try to do a longer post/update later, but in short, I've just been doing a lot of grad school preparation this summer, passed my driving road test on the second try (about frellin' time as far as I'm concerned), helped some friends move, and now I'm just tackling a new semester and my new job as a tutor for psychology. How are all of you? Busy? Doing alright? |
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Alright, the muse threw me an idea and I'm trying my hand at another Atlantis fic. This one's much longer and focuses on a minor character (the others all make appearances), but again is inspired by the episode "Sunday" (which seems unwilling to leave my head). If you feel like reading it, I hope you enjoy it! (PS - Still haven't figured out how i used to get the doublespacing to work on here, so forgive the crowded look of the story. I'll try to fix it.) ( Read Fic ) Seti |
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A few weeks (a month?) ago, the Scapecast online project got to do a very interesting and touching interview with Claudia Black. Since the interview was done over the phone, the audio quality is a bit dodgy sometimes, so a Polish fan asked for a transcript so those for whom English isn't their first language could enjoy it too. I volunteered to do the first half and am posting it here so other fans can read it. And definitely check out the actual audio interview if you can! They're well worth the listen. Here's a link: http://www.scapecast.org/forum/index.php?t Part 2 is online here: http://www.scapecast.org/forum/index.php?t Another fan will have that one transcribed soon. Oh, and my transcript is VERY long (7 pages of WordDoc), so it's under a cut. And I'd like to voice my thanks again to the people of Scapecast for arranging the interview and to Claudia for being so generous with her time and for sharing so much with us fans. ( CB Transcript ) |
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Well, I've actually written my first Atlantis fic. It's just based on a little thought I had last night and was written at 2am, so I hope it still works. And again, first time, so I hope you'll forgive me if the character's off. Enjoy! Seti |
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