Top 5 Meme - Answers

[thisbluespirit]

(I'm doing them in posts, just to be different. And so I can waffle or have pics if I want. ;-p)

persiflage_1 asked for Top 5 Liz Shaw fics (your own or others - don't be shy about blowing your own trumpet!)

Okay, this was hard to narrow down enough without attempting to blow my own trumpet, so here goes, focusing mainly on Liz rather than on ships as such, and not necessarily in any actual order as such, because that's too hard:

1. House Guest by Gary Merchant (I like that what happens in this is the opposite way round to what you'd expect, it's nice.)
2. Memory by Persiflage (very sweet Eight and Liz, which Pers wrote for me ages ago)
3. The Man in the Brown Tweed Jacket by nonelvis (Liz and Twelve at a conference, it's great)
4. What a Woman Can Do by llywela (great little character study)
5. Going Home by phantomlistener (a gorgeous overview of Liz's life)


And since Pers did ask for me to blow my own trumpet, I think my favourite of my Liz stories is the first Silver/Liz one I did (which is very much more Liz than Silver) - Scientific Spirit (or Five Times Liz Shaw met Silver).

(I'll get to David Collings presently!!)

For scripsi Doctor Who episodes (or serials, presumably, I don't think I could be here going on about episode 3 of six). So, ignoring the fact that I still feel weird about DW right now:

1. Ghostlight
2. The Robots of Death
3. The Aztecs
4. The Eleventh Hour
5. The Happiness Patrol

*prepares to fight over Ghostlight and Happiness Patrol which are awesome*


john_amend_all wanted Crack pairings, and I'm not sure what even counts as a crack pairing and do they need to exist or just seem cool? Here goes, on the basis of mostly "I just thought of them and they could totally be a terrifying thing.

1. Silver/Any sufficiently intelligent artificial intelligence
2. Servalan/Palpatine (please appreciate that I nominated it for space_swap, even though I am not getting it, because I've shaken my gift (it looks v shiny and much less scary). Like, what would happen? It would be amazing and terrifying.
3. Jenna/Steel (I kind of wrote this one, it was cool)
4. The Master/Servalan (bonus for Delgado or Missy)
5. Bill Potts/Kara Danvers (it would be very cute)

(Probably if I raided my 15 Characters tag, I could do better, but it'll do for today.)

He also asked for Female villains

1. Servalan (no surprises here)
2. Missy
3. Milady
4. Cora Mills
5. Cruella de Vil (OUaT version especially)

(I'd put Regina here, but tbh I definitely love her more when she's working on redemption, so I think she doesn't quite count. Even if she is also amazing when evil.)

Comments

[persiflage_1]

*squeaks* I didn't expect you to mention my fic. Which I'd actually totally forgotten about!!

And yay for Liz/Silver!

[thisbluespirit]

I do like a lot of yours, but that one has remained a particular fave. ♥

[persiflage_1]

Aw, thanks. ♥

[sovay]

Cruella de Vil (OUaT version especially)

May I ask how she differs from other versions?

[thisbluespirit]

Well, I loved the book very much as a child, so I don't really care for the cartoon and have never bothered seeing the live action one, whereas OUaT is just a whole other crossover fairy tale/lit/movie retelling thing anyway, and Victoria Smurfit is a delight. So book Cruella and OUaT Cruella for me.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

*prepares to fight over Ghostlight and Happiness Patrol which are awesome*

All the ones you chose are good, but I'm definitely in your corner regarding these two. Both are very underrated, very interesting stories! And there's Ace! <3

[thisbluespirit]

GHostlight is my fave, but my love of THP is deep. And also of Ace!

[scripsi]

Yeah, I should have said serials. :) Must confess I don't remember Ghostlight, bu I really liked The Happiness Patrol.

[thisbluespirit]

I was sure that'd be what you meant! (Although literally favourite classic who episodes would be an interesting challenge of its own.)

Ghostlight is beautiful and literary and layered and gothic and weird and has great Seven-Ace stuff and I might be prejudiced in its favour. XD

THP is very weird but very awesome!

[hamsterwoman]

I'm happy to be able to appreciate (most of) your Servalan-related answers this time around :) Servalan/Palpatine does indeed sound terrifying!

[thisbluespirit]

They would both be so inscinere and flattering and back-stabbing and ruthlessly ambitious! I don't know who would win Servalan but Servalan would have the best costumes!

[hamsterwoman]

but Servalan would have the best costumes!

That is 100% true!

[liadt]

RoD would be in my top 5 DW serials too:D 'Happiness Patrol' is good and 'Ghostlight' is clever. 'The Aztecs' is my fave One serial.

Your crack pairings sound sensible to me;p

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! And, yes, I'm sure I could have tried much harder with the crack. I should have gone to the UC generator!!

[john_amend_all]

Some definite crossover between the two lists, I think, with Missy / Servalan. First one off the generator was:

376) Becoming the Prince's Wife - Rebecca Winters
A forbidden love…with a princess!
Attorney the Mistress keeps her cards close to her chest. But when a chance encounter with the handsome princess ignites a fiery attraction, Missy finds that she may just be the one woman she can trust….
Crown princess Servalan finds herself increasingly distracted from her duty by commoner Missy. But Servalan is playing with fire. To be with Missy she would have to sacrifice everything — including her right to the throne….
Princes of Europe
Torn between love and royal obligation…

and then there was this:

614) The Duke and the Pirate Queen – Victoria Janssen
Aboard her privateering ship, The Seaflower, Captain the Mistress is the law.
Ashore she answers only to her liege, Duchess Servalan. They are a powerful couple, with an intense attraction neither can disguise nor deny. As a noblewoman, Servalan is destined to wed strategically, so her seductive advances must be purely for pleasure. And what self-respecting pirate denies herself any pleasure? Their delicious dalliance is prolonged when Missy is forced to abduct Servalan to thwart a political plot against her.
At sea, with a stunningly buxom woman bound and held in her private quarters, Missy can imagine — and enact — any number of intoxicating scenarios. The heat between captain and captive is matched only by the perils that beset The Seaflower and her crew. Violent storms, marauding corsairs and life-or-death sex games on a desert island — how fortunate for the seemingly insatiable lovers that danger and desire go hand-in-hand.

and this...

380) If I Can't Let Go - Beth Kery
The moment Servalan first glimpsed the exotic beauty dancing across a moonlit beach, she was captivated. Until she realised it was the Mistress - the woman forcing her to confront the dark past they share…
Missy just wants to move on. She isn’t prepared for the passion that flares between them. And now her very future was in the hands of a woman who just might be able to heal her with her touch.…

... and I'd better stop clicking or I'll be here all night.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha! And now you made me go and make a SW PT version for myself. It's quite good on Servalan/Palpatine too:

270) A Question of Intent by Merline Lovelace
U.S. Army Major Servalan was used to giving orders, not taking them — so when she met brusque Commander Sheev Palpatine, the medical officer in charge of her top secret mission, she was a little taken aback. Of course she was also taken with him — a problem, because despite his sterling credentials, she wasn't exactly sure who he was. Or where he came from...
Sheev had always maintained military and medical protocol at all costs, and he wasn't about to stop now — which meant a hands-off policy as far as a certain lovely army major was concerned. But it was all for the best, Sheev told himself. He had secrets to keep — and they were best kept at a distance. She was best kept at a distance....


374) The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane - Sheila Roberts
When it comes to men, sisters don't share!
After a fake food poisoning incident in L.A., Sheev Palpatine's dreams of becoming a caterer to the stars collapse faster than a soufflé. Now Sheev's face is in all the gossip rags and his business is in ruins. But the Palpatine men close ranks and bring him back to Icicle Falls, where he'll stay with his brother Rumplestiltskin.
All goes well between the siblings until Sheev comes up with a new business idea - a tea shop on a charming street called Lavender Lane. He's going into partnership with Servalan, who - it turns out - is the woman Rumplestiltskin's started dating. It looks to Rumplestiltskin as if there's more than tea brewing in that cute little shop. And he's not pleased.
Wait! Isn't Rumplestiltskin seeing the Master? He's a widower with an adorable little girl, and yes, Rumplestiltskin does care about him. But Servalan's the one who sends his zing-o-meter off the charts. So now what? Should you have to choose between your brother and the woman you love (or think you love)?

(Okay, that one is amazing, just because it somehow knew to group all the villains together.)



519) One Night With A Rake by Louise Allen
[Amy Pond / Obi-Wan Kenobi]
Beautiful widow Amy Pond woke up in a strange bed, lying next to a tall, dark, very handsome stranger!
Knocked out in a stagecoach accident, they'd been rescued and it had been assumed that they were married - reason enough to put them to bed in the same room!
Amy had no idea who the man was - but, intriguingly, neither did he! The obviously wealthy gentleman had lost his memory, and was without two guineas in his pocket. Now Amy felt obliged to take the gorgeous stranger under her wing - and continue the pretence that they were husband and wife...

Tbf, does seem like something Amy would do.

[jhall1]

That last Seventh Doctor series was fantastic, which made the cancellation all the harder to bear. I liked Ghostlight, but there were a number of outstanding stories in that series, and I think I might put Battlefield top, not least for Jean Marsh's bravura performance.

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, they all are in different ways, but Ghostlight just has such a layered script with so much Victoriana and Gothic stuffed in it, plus some of the best Seven and Ace bits. Battlefield is great fun and I love Ancelyn & Bambera and seeing the Brig one last time, but it'd probably have to be #3 for me. But they are all so good!!