Early Birthday Greetings & Fic

[thisbluespirit]

I'm posting this early, but the fic is on Teaspoon, so it most likely will be the 21st by the time it's accessible:

Happy Birthday to john_elliott.

This was going to be an apology as to why I didn't write you birthday fic, but I suddenly worked out to make my idea a short one-shot instead of an epic, and lo and behold, there was fic!

A Stitch in Time
In which UNIT go about their business as usual. Except it's not 1970, it's 1922, the Doctor's run off somewhere, Liz is going undercover dressed as a flapper and the Brigadier's in need of some expert advice from someone... (1882 words, All ages)

This fic ought to be set in a more distant time for the point to work, but I couldn't resist the 1920s once I'd thought of it. But the other birthday-ish thing about this fic is that - if you want, you can now make an open series on Teaspoon and put my story into it. (Just be careful - the power crazed feeling that goes with this is worrying.)

Hope you have a nice day tomorrow!!

(If others are going 'Eh?' you must go at once and read John's fic Business As Usual in which the logic behind this is explained. And because it's brilliant, of course.)

Comments

[john_amend_all]

*Waits impatiently*. Though perhaps I oughtn't even to click the link until tomorrow...

[thisbluespirit]

:lol:

Sorry - didn't mean to give you a dilemma! :-)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I love these stories. Although, because I'm needlessly pedantic, it does bug me that UNIT is still called UNIT prior to 1945...

(I'm now tempted to write one going in the opposite direction - Jo gets a call on her mobile, while the Doctor comandeers Osgood's laptop, sort of thing.)

[thisbluespirit]

Ha. Ahahahaha. I just went and checked it, and even though, I'd forgotten to think about that (although I suppose they could be something to do with the League of Nations), I never used the term UNIT actually in the story. ;-p Besides, it is part of the random of it. :lol:

And, thanks. And forwards is as valid as backwards! You should definitely do that!

[john_amend_all]

Fortunately, the "Unified Intelligence Taskforce" retcon works to our advantage here.

And of course there is precedent for 3&UNIT works set in the 'present day' — the radio play The Paradise of Death certainly felt as if it was set in 1993 rather than 1973.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

There WILL be a sequel. You're just not aware of it yet. You will warm up to the idea. In time. A thousand years in a box can do that to a person.

(Also, yes, my ability to recognise English registers is Shakespeare English - Jane Austen English - what I hear every day. 1920s seems to work best under "Jane Austen". *has the decency of looking embarrassed*)

[thisbluespirit]

Erm... what are you planning to DO to me? 8-o

Heh. Well, I think I never quite recovered from writing the UNIT version of P&P for This Time Round. I think something of that still creeps into some of my Brig/Liz stuff. :lol:

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Oh man, a new subgenre of Three-era crackiness! :D I love the unexpected crossover character!

(Annnd the plot-bunnies ATTACK! I've come up with three possibles already, plus a totally unrelated piece made possible by the same time-shifting conceit... *g*)

[thisbluespirit]

Yay! :-)

The evil plot to take over the world worked! :lol:

And thanks - glad you liked it. It wasn't my idea, the random dating thing, I should add.