Fic: Of Tea and Etiquette and Other Niceties

[thisbluespirit]

Title: Happy Endings: Tea and Etiquette (and Other Niceties)
Author: thisbluespirit
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1,574
Characters: Leela, Fourth Doctor, Professor George Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago
Summary: In which our heroes both propose to the fair Amazon Leela over tea and muffins and she must choose between them. (The jade.)

clocketpatch, I'm sorry I've neglected your drabble for the meme below (I've only got 4 requests filled - people can still make one if they want! Go on!), but this was why and given that you suggested it (even if, evil mind that I am, I was already trying to write it), you may forgive me.

Dependent on when it appears on Teaspoon, of course.

And I've spent most of today writing out one (longhand, so you're all safe for a bit) for Image of the Fendahl. (It nearly turned into an epic).

Edit: 'Tis up on Teaspoon already, so it is.

Comments

[clocketpatch]

Oh, but that makes oh so much more sense than her leaving with Andred, and it's so lovely and lulzy too. xD

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I'm glad you liked it, even though I haven't done Sarah in the wardrobe yet.

I don't know, because Leela and Andred are so wonderfully bonkers and, after all, I owe them this series. Also, I spent most of yesterday when I was home writing out one for Image of the Fendahl and my vote's with that exit as the most sensible so far, for Leela anyway. :-D Mind you, Litefoot and Leela would also have been interesting. As someone said, she's such a strumpet, that girl.

What's lulzy?

[clocketpatch]

I don't know, anything with Jago in it is lulzy by dint of his being there. His patter makes me giggle.

[thisbluespirit]

Sadly, I can't do it anything like as well as jjpor or, obviously, Robert Holmes, but at least I went in armed with a thesaurus.

I am feeling rather triumphant, at having typed up my Image Happy Ending, so stand by for that one. (And while I was allowed to write fic today, it was supposed to be something else. What can you do when you get a violent leela-bunny?)

And I still don't know what lulzy means!! Am I being dim?

[clocketpatch]

Ah well, there's only so far as us mere mortals may go when put up next to the likes of jjpor and Robert Holmes. I seem to have lost my thesaurus however, which makes me really quite sad (it's over 50 years old, missing its original cover, and by FAR the best thesaurus in the world *wibbles* I shan't find another like it)

You aren't being dim, lulzy would be my adjective corruption of lol. If I would stop making up words maybe people would be more apt to know what I'm on about half the time (but I can't, especially now that my thesaurus is gone... *sad*)

[thisbluespirit]

This is true. *sulks* I'm sorry about your Thesaurus - I have two & I wouldn't like to be without one; ones on Word are very unsatisfactory! (One is combined with a dictionary and the other is the proper Penguin Roget's Thesuarus all thematic. I try the one first as it's quicker, but am often forced to resort to Roget.)

Aha, you have enlightened me and I now understand. See, if you keep at it, it'll be in the Oxford Dictionary, like Dalek and TARDIS!

[clocketpatch]

I found it! I found it!

after posting I went on a house clean&search mission and now my 1959 Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms is back safe on my desk where it belongs.

Some silly person had put it on a bookshelf. It doesn't have a cover and it's pages go all funny when you do that. *sighs*

[thisbluespirit]

Yay! Well done, you!

[belantana.livejournal.com]

I do love your Victorian Gentleman voice! I really need to find an excuse to write someone saying "dash it all". Anyway, I think I got the general idea but I am entirely in the dark about the jade?

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! Just stumbling along behind the late great Robert Holmes on this one, I must admit. And I'm sure you'll work a Victorian in there somewhere. These things can be done by someone with ingenuity. :-)

Jade is an insult for a female of uncertain morals, originally, although Jago uses it more as "The heartless female." (It also means a worn out horse).

[belantana.livejournal.com]

And here I was thinking it only meant green stone. LJ-word-a-day!

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed. (But that's why you get 'jaded' to mean tired, disillusioned, from the horse meaning, that is.)