A Meme

[thisbluespirit]

I had this from stellastars about 4 days ago or so, but I seem to have been busy. (Plus it took me a while to think of 12 things!).

Here goes:

Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter. Then, write 12 things that you love starting with that letter. Post the list in your journal. Give out letters to those who comment in return.

I was given the letter D, so 12 things I love, in no particular order, except for the first:

1. Dad (who is also called David and it's his b'day on WEds, so he has to go in here).
2. Doctor Who
3. Durham (go there!)
4. Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon, not the film or the actual game)
5. Drabbles
6. Diana Wynne Jones
7. Death Certificates (I am a family historian, okay? It's only a little bit morbid.)
8. (old) Documents (on a similar note)
9. Discworld
10. Devon
11. Dickens (half of the time)
12. Dyfed (even though it technically doesn't exist any more, but it's a way to still sneak Aberystwyth in here and Aber should always be included in some way in a list of things I love).

I was busy mainly because I've been writing UNIT Strange Weapons. I'm very pleased with Chapter Three because I put in frivolous 1980s refs, but I seem to be alone in that opinion. I really should go write something less obscure, like all those other WIPs I've been promising forever, I suppose.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I didn't even realise you'd posted chapter 2 of that fic. My fault for failing to add the story to my favourites, though. (Bad, bad Pers!)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. Well, you had a lot on your mind yesterday! Are you feeling a bit better today?

I thought the apparently irrelevant (but it isn't) OC dialogue going on might have driven you (and everyone else) away. ;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

The only thing that'd drive me away from your fic is if you suddenly started writing schmoopy Doctor/Rose fic - then you wouldn't see me for dust! :D

I am feeling a bit better, thanks - the sinus headache's gone away and I don't feel *quite* so wrung out.

PS Are you going to give me a letter?

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, right, yes, this is a meme!! Have a P for persiflage_1. Glad you feel a little less rotten, anyway.

Thanks for the compliments. I think a sloppy Doctor/Rose fic is unlikely, although I don't mind a fun bit of Nine/Rose fic here and there. ;-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

12 things beginning with P? Oh boy!!

I run away from all Doctor/Rose fic these days unless it's written by someone I really trust not to insist on the damned 'twu wuv' aspect.

[thisbluespirit]

To be perfectly honest, I find that a downside in any story. I like a bit of romance, but not Two Hearts Beat As One/True Love Forever! sort of stuff. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

That's why I'm a multishipper - MUCH more interesting...

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I hadn't read that one yet - mostly because I avoid anything with the word "Torchwood" on it, but seeing as it's YOU... well, heck, yeah, I'll have to go give it a looksee. :-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I've read up to the end of Chapter 3 now, and I'm really enjoying this so far. Poor old Webber! And all of the canon characters are very well-drawn; loved K9 in the last part. And hedgehog flavoured crisps!

[thisbluespirit]

It's about Torchwood only in exactly the same way that UNIT: Transition was. In otherwords, Torchwood are Bad and create trouble and UNIT are Good and deal with it. (Although that one was Torchwood trying to scupper UNIT and this one is UNIT having to clean up mess created by Torchwood).

It's far more about Colonel Crichton, Bambera, Sarah Jane & K9 and what it's like getting dragged into being UNIT's scientific adviser when you're not the Doctor. Or an outright genius like Liz Shaw. ;-)

[thisbluespirit]

I saw! :-D I'm very glad, because it has got a hefty bit around OCs, which is a cheek, really, in fan fic.

K9 was much great to write, but took a bit of work. (Poor K9 is not having such fun in ch4). I know, how could I not have hedgehog crisps? I thought it would be just about the most inappropriate thing possible to eat while Nat was trying to deal with a dead body.

[stellastars]

Death Certificates (I am a family historian, okay? It's only a little bit morbid.)

I am right there with you! (It is so difficult to find other people sharing this view!) *♥s you like crazy*


Your UNIT fic... Are there any Classic Who serials that you consider to be prerequisites before reading? I've only seen a handful of UNIT-related eps with Doctors 2, 3, and 4...

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. I mean, it's not that I don't feel bad that my ancestors died young of TB/Cholera/ etc etc, but you know how it is. The last one, though, cause of death was 'A Visitation of God'. :-D

Well, yes and no. UNIT: Strange Weapons doesn't really need any watching of serials (although knowing who Bambera is, from Battlefield would be a bonus). The other one (which has some of the same characters in) is UNIT: Transition and that is full of spoilers for Image of the Fendahl, as it picks up on the aftermath of that serial. But they're both separate stories. :-)

Colonel Crichton is also the on-screen replacement for the Brig, but I don't think viewing his five minutes on The Five Doctors is at all necessary!!