The Christmas Invasion - Behind the Scenes [Part 2]

It seemed appropriate to post photos from David Tennant’s first episode on the day of Peter Capaldi’s first episode. 

There are just sooooo many great behind-the-scenes photos from this special (even though the Doctor was unconscious for most of it)

Excerpts from Benjamin Cook’s article for DWM #365

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WIP Meme: Post the last sentence in your WIP and tag the number of people that there are words:

thanks for tagging me @thatravenclawbitch, @findingtallahassee and @loboselinaistrash :)

“You smell nice.“  (ha, easy one!) - from “hold to the now, the here” 

Tagging @reflectingiridescent, @rikerssexblouse and @thekingisagirl (and anyone who feels like it) 

Climbing up her body, he pressed a wet kiss against her mouth.

Tagging @captacorn, @pg1890, @delwin47, @alphaflyer, @pixiedane, @mia-cooper, @jhelenoftrek, @radioactive-violet, @cheile, @reflectingiridescent, @cosmic-llin. 

Very late to the party…

“Tom closed his eyes, thinking of Megan.” 

I think @rikerssexblouse tagged a lot of the people I would have, but I’ll add on @devoverest and @carlynroth and @angrywarrior69 if they haven’t gone yet…

Thanks @captacorn, WIP snippets are always fun. I’m verrrrry curious as to why Tom Paris is thinking of Megan now. 

Mine: 

“They held each other close against the brutal past.“

@cheile, @killermanatee, @dvandme, @admiralkatcornwellfan, @weary-hearted-queen, @poetictrekkie, @coffee-in-that-nebula-oitnb, @thesearchforbluejello, @icecream-junkie – play if you wanna – and everyone else … play if you wanna! 

I absolutely wanted to tag @littleobsessions90 but was still searching under her old Tumblr name. 

Thank you, @devoverest Last sentence of my current wip: “They moved languidly, content to just be joined, to share this intimacy.“

Everyone I can think of has already been tagged. So do this already! ;) 

thanks for the tag, @devoverest and @rikerssexblouse :)

Kathryn lay a gentle finger on his lips. “Never mind that; I’ll be fine. Now how are you doing?”

tagging @darkin520, @warp6, @rawkfemme, @purpledog47, @pixiedane, @angelicsharonraydor, @spiletta42, @kinzleyyy, @zjofierose and @emmikamikatze (since everyone else i would have tagged has been tagged lol)

It’s not fan fiction, but I haven’t added on to my only WIP in months.

Three young ladies walked ahead of two gents, who by all accounts seemed more interested in pushing one another out of the way than in doing anything to engratitate them in the hearts and minds of their companions.

Has anyone not been tagged? Feel free everyone!

Okay… well, I’ll do my lastest WIP, since I have a few…

“He tightened his grip on her wrists causing her to gasp from the pain.”

Everyone join in! @basmathgirl @cheile @killermanatee and anyone else that wants to!

The last sentence I typed in a WIP was: And life didn’t get better than that. 

I tag @raywritesthings​, @shivver13, @lady-macgyver, @mirthfulwoman, @some-thrilling-heroics, @uglywettiewrites and @reallyginnyf

Sorry, mine’s boring:

“No!” Leo pounded the steering wheel, punctuating his protest.

Tagging @accio-toffy

A few words on Donna Noble

I have a friend, who is a man, who hates Donna Noble, and it upsets me every time we talk about it.

Let me tell you why.

Donna Noble is all the girls and women who feel like they’re too loud, and take up too much room. They are all the girls and women who have opinions; who want to be heard, but nobody really wants to listen.

But they keep trying anyways. They keep being loud, and they keep taking up room because they don’t know how not to.

They’re not Disney Princesses.

They’re not the love interest.

They want to be the hero of their own story, but they don’t feel like they matter enough to make it happen, because in all the stories they’ve seen, they’re the sassy, goofy, too-loud friend.

Donna was for us girls who want the world, but the world’s not so interested in us.

The idea that we matter, that we’re important, when everyone has told us for forever that we’re not, was huge for me.

So my friend saying he didn’t like Donna, kind of felt like he was saying he didn’t like me.

Peter Davison is wrong about a female Doctor Who, but he’s not being sexist – so stop saying he is

So, this has been a bit of a difficult article!

In short: I wanted to defend Davison from a lot of the stick he’s been getting, which was based predominantly on a misinterpetation of his comments, and people only reading article headlines rather than the full piece. However, the problem arose that not many people read beyond the headline here - arguments abound!

But, to conlcude - Davison was supportive of the casting, the doubts he did express weren’t sexist ones, and I personally am thrilled we’re finally going to have a female Doctor.

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Fanfiction Recs

Good Doctor/Donna fics are somewhat hard to come by and even though you all have probably combed the internet just as much as I have, I figured I’d compile a list of my favorites. It will probably grow. As of February 2016, I’ve reorganized this list by genre instead of alphabetical order which makes a lot more sense. Some stories will be listed in multiple categories. Fics added on the 28th of February 2017.

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Um, wow, I got a rec for Blue Rain! I’m just speechless. I never get recs. Thank you!

Small list of actual things that actually happened in Big Finish

Allow me to add the following:

Fic Writer Week

So I found @shivver13 and the Blue Rain Au with the Doctor and Donna. Love it so much. Just beautifully written.

Just wow because, um, thanks! <3

First face he saw, and the last

Can we talk about how the first face Five saw was either his TARDIS family or Nyssa depending on whether you focus on where he’s facing

And when he dies he is surrounded by visions of them urging him not to die (some of them from beyond the grave) but every. Single. One. Of the faces he sees is a friend or loved one he couldn’t save except Turlough who tried to kill him.

And Five’s last word is “Adric,” and he sacrifices himself to save one companion. just. FUcking. ONE of them.

To make up for the times he failed.

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Five was fricking cursed. (OOC, he really was; JNT decided to mix things up by bringing in a vulnerable and fallible Doctor to contrast with the previous incarnation.) If he were a Doctor in the modern era, he’d ooze more manpain than Ten.

Ghostly Images Of London Landmarks Then And Now

These incredible images show locations throughout England’s famous old capital as they looked both in history and today. Released by the Museum of London, the composites create a ghostly visual of the city old and new, and include such landmarks as Covent Garden, Tower Bridge and Piccadilly Circus.

The images have been revealed to mark the launch of the Museum’s Streetmuseum 2.0 iPhone app, which is available on iTunes now. The app guides users to sites across London, where hidden histories of the city dramatically appear, illuminated thanks to the institution’s photographic collections.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/25/16-ghostly-images-of-london-then-and-now_n_4856191.html

1.Gloucester Road Station

2.Cheapside

3.Duncannon Street in the City of London

4.Oxford Street

5.Bow Lane off Cheapside

6.Blackfriars station

7.Covent Garden

8.Tower Bridge, west side

9.Byward Street

10.Palace Theatre

(now rebloggable by request!)

COULD I

yes. yes i could.

this handsome-ass motherfucker is george gordon lord byron, romantic poet, ladies’ man, lords’ man, greek national hero, and all-around beautiful fuckup. yes, he’s dead. yes, he’s wearing a laurel wreath. yes, those bedsheets are artfully draped as fuck. don’t question it. this shit happens.

in january of 1816, byron’s wife left him, mostly because he was pretty terrible to her. a former lover of byron’s, lady caroline lamb, decided that this was a fabulous opportunity to ruin his life. (lady caroline lamb was… a lot like byron, actually. she liked to dress up as a dude, which byron found sexy as fuck, and be scandalous, which byron… also found sexy as fuck. after she and byron broke up, she made a huge bonfire in the english countryside, in which she burnt portraits of byron and things he had given her. then she had local village girls dance around said bonfire, singing a song of her own composition. contrary to popular belief, this song was not “we are never ever getting back together”.)

byron had told ms. lamb quite a lot of things he shouldn’t have; the most pertinent were that a) he was getting it on with a fuckload of dudes and b) he was also getting it on with his own half-sister, augusta. caroline lamb, being caroline lamb, told byron’s newly estranged wife. at which point the sodomy and incest made it into the divorce papers. at which point the entirety of england was suddenly talking about it.

soooooo amidst a cloud of scandal byron swanned off to switzerland with a cute young doctor (though not before throwing a goodbye party of viking proportions, which actually involved a cup made out of a real human skull that he had found on his grounds) and settled in a gorgeous house by a lake to do some artful lounging. 

while byron had been sleeping with everyone in sight, percy shelley and mary godwin had been having troubles of their own. mary’s dad was a leftist radical, but wasn’t a big fan of his political followers (i.e., percy) coming around to sleep with his daughter. percy and mary did not give a fuck, and proceeded to make out on mary’s mother’s grave. this is literally true.

unfortunately, percy was already married, so he and mary proceeded to fuck off to switzerland with mary’s stepsister claire clairmont, whereupon they got their own house by the lake and decided to make friends with their new neighbor.

so, among byron, his doctor, percy, mary, and claire— well, mary and claire were not sleeping together, and i’m pretty sure the doctor was only sleeping with byron? but. apart from that.

other interesting events of those months were mary shelley inventing science fiction, byron hypnotizing the doctor into jumping off a balcony, and the doctor and byron sort of accidentally co-inventing what would become dracula.

it was a hell of a summer.

anyway, byron proceeded to get claire pregnant, and percy’s first wife died, and the doctor got pissy about being generally left out of everything fun and went back to england, and everyone sort of wandered over to italy and almost got arrested a few times, and then byron stole his baby from claire and stuck it in a convent, where it died.

then percy got caught in the middle of a storm and died, dramatically, and they burnt his body on the beach. mary got to keep his heart, which remained unburnt. they found its remains among her belongings when she died at the ripe old age of 53. it was very romantic. capital r.

and then byron decided it would be a great idea to help liberate greece from the turks, so he went to greece and got stuck in the middle of a fucking swamp doing literally nothing except giving people money and being sexy in order to get other english people to give greece money. and then he caught some fucking swamp disease, and his doctors were terrible, upon which he died.

there’s more— byron’s fake gay autobiographical poem, percy’s fondness for explosives, mary’s sassy feminist mother— but this has gotten long enough. i sure hope it’s been helpful, though!

mary’s sassy feminist mother? mary motherfucking wollstonecraft. nbd tho!

also ada lovelace is the spawn of lord byron so yeah there’s that too

HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT KNOW THAT ADA LOVELACE WAS BYRON’S DAUGHTER? LIKE, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I HAD NEVER LEARNED THAT?  Dude, this whole family is amazeballs and should be canonized in an 8-part HBO miniseries called “BYRON RUINS EVERYTHING BUT SOMEHOW YOU DON’T CARE”.

This clique of what would nowadays basically be a bunch of mall goths are ultimately responsible for some of the most influential works of speculative fiction, on top of being the forebears of the first computer programmer.

There’s a reason Ada’s mom didn’t want her associating with poets.

This seems like an excellent time to remind people that Sydney Padua’s delightful take on Ada Lovelace is available in graphic novel form:

I think we forgot about the part where Mary Shelley ran off to explore the universe with the Eighth Doctor.

not to mention that byron was a faction paradox agent, ada lovelace was part of the star chamber, and the analytical engine was actually a means to decode bach’s musical offering (and that was actually a software program to invade universes, written centuries before the computer systems to use it were invented) later re-purposed as a path to the Eleven Day Empire, resulting in the clockwork ourobouros incident and gosh everything really is about doctor who