Of Memes and Morals

[thisbluespirit]

Since I took advantage of this meme to make requests of clocketpatchand persiflage_1, I must reciprocate!!

The first ten people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me. In return, requesters should post this in their journal, offering in return fanworks of the kind they enjoy doing. Fic? Icons? Meta?

Probably not a good idea in many ways but I like a challenge. (Although if primsong is thinking of anything along the lines of the suggestion she gave last time I did a meme, I may run away).

Edit: I should add, I'm happy to do anything, not just DW provided I know it in some way, having read/watched/written it.  (As I said, challenge is fun.)

Oh, and here's the 'moral' for Image of the Fendahl from DWM's Everything I Needed To Know About Life I learned From... The Fourth Doctor (by Gareth Roberts). From 2000 - I feel ancient!!

IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL
Granny Tyler knew there was something wrong up at old Fetch Priory when them scientists moved in. I mean, imagine you got a new a job and your colleagues were called Dr Fendelman, Max Stael, Thea Ransome and Adam Colby. Why don't they just call themselves 'Professor Crazy', 'Adolf Evil', 'Wendy Doomed' and 'Johnny Squarejaw' and have done with it?

Moral - Beware people with made-up sounding names.

(I re-read the whole series after finding it and giggled again. These things amuse me.)
 

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I have two other Happy Endings in the works for Leela. Aside from her mad departure, she's just the Alpha Female whatever the planet. It amuses me no end. :-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

That was brilliant! And very true to Leela's character; “For you, I shall not kill him.” That's her, to the life (although as you point out, there was more than one characterisation of Leela during her tenure as a companion, which is a little unusual; you would have thought Bob Holmes would have been on the case). I can't wait to see more of the Happy Endings; they're very good, both the humorous ones and the slightly more serious ones too.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you!

And, as to characterisation, I imagine that it was down to both scripts being written simultaneously and both working off different aspects of Leela from Face of Evil. (Robert Holmes works on her savagery and tries to do Pygmalion, while Chris Boucher uses her wisdom based on experience and instinct to counter the science and civilisation around her and the whole set up of the two stories is very different. It probably didn't look wildly different on the page.)

I have about 5 of the Happy Endings half-written at the moment, although one is rapidly becoming an UnHappy Ending. So it's good to know someone won't mind reading them!!! Hopefully the one for Talons will be around soon. :-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

As self-damning as it may be to admit it, I can totally see Leela/Litefoot, if that's your angle; their little dinner scene together was strangely touching, from my point of view, anyway. As for Jago, I always had the impression that there was some shrill, shrewish Mrs Jago somewhere off-camera; he just seemed like that sort of character!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh heh. I 'll post the Talons one soon, as I've only the last part to type up and it's already written in rough. *grins evilly*

Actually, I think that dinner scene is one of my favourite Who moments. And now that you mention it, I can entirely see that Jago scenario, although on the other hand I can also see him having hastily slid out of getting hitched at all, coward that he is.

Leela is such a flirt, you can do Leela/Anyone. At least, so i've been discovering lately. :-D