Three quick things

[thisbluespirit]

... that I've been meaning to post:

1. Doctor Who Action/Adventure Plot Generator - really rather nifty! Less cracky than some (alas), but can definitely throw out some potential ideas and is very cool.


2. tumblr has polls. tumblr is behaving exactly as anyone would expect tumblr to and it's mostly pretty entertaining. (I was at first deeply impressed by the maths ones, but now I feel I know what it is to be a guinea pig in the hands of evil maths masterminds and have stopped doing them.) Anyway, I got polls and naturally in the spirit of me-when-ill and tumblr, I made my first poll this one. (Posting the bit that had the fun bonus result I got from it.)


3. Not really a proper third thing, I can't remember what the proper other thing was, but I noticed hurtcomfortex put up a new badge reward scheme for treating and I was just looking at it, and I've never felt so hard that someone was posting from another universe. (They're awarding badges for treats created for the exchange, and they start at 25 treats! :-0 They go up - 25, 50, 75, 100 & 200. It is, tbf, an exchange where you can just post anything written from the tagset to the fest, so you wouldn't have to post like 50 works each to the only 4 people you could possibly write for in order to achieve the max, and maybe these numbers reflect what people have written in previous rounds. But, I, a mere mortal, am boggling. lol.)

ETA: (It finally occurred to me after I wrote this (and switched off the pc and went to have my afternoon lie down, of course), that I think they mean communally? Which does make more sense! In my defence, I am literally clinically stupid quite a lot right now, and also I don't understand how communal badges work, but, lol, then again, I also don't have full reading comprehension either!)

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[astrogirl]

That random generator is so good at spitting out completely standard-sounding DW plots that it's simultaneously impressive and a bit boring. And yet, I still wonder if I should enlist its help if I decide to do Space Swap this year and end up writing Who (which I probably will, on both counts). Last time I actually did need to have a plot, and I am very, very bad with those. :)

I did, in one of my off-and-on Tumblr lurking sessions, see that they'd added the polls. I also see that they're re-running the Twitter character polls that happened a while back, or some variant of them, and, checking back now, I see my beloved amnesiac wreck of a detective, who took a very much deserved #1 in Twitter's Most Pathetic Loserman poll, has now come in second on the Tumblr equivalent. Which is a) very wrong, as no one qualifies as more pathetic, and b) deeply amusing, because of course he can't even win at losing. So it all does seem to be living up to its entertainment possibilities, even for someone who is usually a bit bewildered by Tumblr.

[thisbluespirit]

The generator does come up with some very good ideas! And, yes, lol, some that do sound exactly like the latest release from Big Finish, or last ep of New Who. I think the slightly off-putting thing is giving you a typical solution to the plot which, tbf, could be useful sometimes, but does cut off creativity in a way, because just as you're thinking, "Ooh, how would that go?" it's told you. (Also it may be slightly my fault, because originally it had another sentence in which made it go a bit too much to include in one thing and I commented about that, and they seem to have taken that out. But, given the contradictory nature of the brain it might have helped actually, rather than "here's the bones of a plot." But I suppose it is the perfect generator for people who don't want Unconventional Courtship summaries to make them lol and go how the hell would that work, but actually want to sensibly write something. idk. obv i am not that person. XD

So it all does seem to be living up to its entertainment possibilities, even for someone who is usually a bit bewildered by Tumblr.

They keep doing magic things that are apparently Maths. It's all very strange and probably should be in a DW plot generator.

[thisbluespirit]

Ok, I take it back, it just gave me this, which is a collection of contradictory sentences and nearly broke my brain:

The Doctor and Tegan land in a spaceport aboard a spaceship. They discover that a group of terraformers are performing human sacrifices. They promptly get pressed into service, but end up getting help from a ghost. In the end, a new ruler takes over.

[astrogirl]

Now I genuinely sort of want that fic, just to see how anyone could make all that in any way make all that make sense.

[thisbluespirit]

I was just thinking, hmm, you probably could, and I started to rationalise it into something, and I was doing quite well until I came to the ghost part and stopped. I can do the spaceport on a spaceship (it's a very big ship of some kind! some of the travellers there are on their way to do terraforming and have very strange ideas about that, but my brain baulked at the ghost.)

... also FIve and Tegan, do they have the GRavis with them or has he been dropped off already? Because then it is a giant space ship with a spaceport, cult terraformers, a ghost and a giant gravity influencing insect.

[astrogirl]

I mean, the ghost would have to have some kind of science-fantasy explanation that's only marginally more believable than ghosts, like it's some kind of psychic projection or something. But even that does seem like A Lot to add to this already very A Lot-ish concept.

Because then it is a giant space ship with a spaceport, cult terraformers, a ghost and a giant gravity influencing insect.

And that would definitely take things from A Lot all the way to Too Much, for sure!

[thisbluespirit]

The ghost is perfectly plausible as far as DW goes, but somehow my brain just skidded to a halt at that point in my attempt.

And that would definitely take things from A Lot all the way to Too Much, for sure!

I love Frontios a lot, but there aren't many places you could or should take a giant evil woodlouse where it wouldn't be considered Too Much. XD