Beyond the Roundels

1. Two more runaway_tales installments:

Errors, Corrections (All ages, 661 words. Charles Terrell, undercover for the revolution – compiling lists.)

The More Things Change... (PG, 1198 words. Charles Terrell, Anna Miller, Edward Woodfield. For some people, it seems the rebellion isn’t over.


2. I was poking around at some very old fic the other day, including some efforts from This Time Round (the pub outside reality where Doctor Who characters go in between stories, courtesy of alt.drwho.creative on usenet), and while most of my TTR fics don't really transfer so well out of the Round, I found this Harry and Sarah do a classic Agatha Christie fic and though, despite being rather meta-ish at the edges, it's comprehensible as an AU and hopefully fairly entertaining & so I've been tweaking it and uploading it to AO3.

(Some of the characters are aware of the narrative they're in though, and there's some playing around with that. I seem to recall the original idea was that there were things called 'genre bubbles' that could occur around Nameless, and the characters in the vicinity would all start acting in accordance to narrative rules of that genre. Hence Harry and Sarah in a Miss Marple story.) I seem to have written it some time during or soon after S4 of New Who.

Murder at Mill Cottage (23135 words) by vvj5
Chapters: 11/12
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Sarah Jane Smith/Harry Sullivan, Ben Jackson/Polly Wright
Characters: Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, First Doctor, Charley Pollard, Eighth Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson (Doctor Who), Jamie McCrimmon, Jane Marple, Various Characters, Amelia Rumford, Louisa Pollard, The Master (Delgado), Inspector Mackenzie (Doctor Who), Mehendri Solon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Detectives, Metafiction, Humor, POV First Person, This Time Round, Murder Mystery
Summary: Dr Sullivan's finally got a nice little practice in the country, just like he always wanted - except it turns out there's a murderer at large. It's lucky for him he's got help from a visiting journalist, and, of course, his favourite little old lady, Miss Marple...

Fic commentary for First Year Camp. Spoilers for the story itself, but nothing else that I can think of. Requested by john_elliott.

( “New )

All right, I will post the other chapters here eventually, but I am a little busy right now, so the whole thing is here at the This Time Round Archive.  But I will have to put the others here eventually, just because Miss Marple really does need italics.  (She has pretty much one per sentence, I tell you...)


http://www.ttrarchive.com/millcottage.html

TTR: Murder at Mill Cottage
Part One: Dr Sullivan in Practice
(All Ages, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Miss Marple and various other supporting characters from a certain 45 year old TV show).

Edit: I've just done something weird to my entry again.  Oh, well.  There must be a html code out of place, but it's hiding when I g to look.  (I've got to get better at this.)  I just realised the below doesn't actually sound like the story, which is a mock-Agatha Christie mystery (I can't quite claim parody) with Harry as narrator & village GP.  If I explain too much more about why & the joke I'm having (with myself if no one else), it'll give away too many clues about whodunnit.  Well, assuming anyone cares...  But put Harry and Sarah in a Miss Marple - don't they fit nicely? - and then think about The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...

Harry's the local GP in Nether St Yorick, Sarah the journalist who's arrived just as there's a murder.  Together they attempt to solve the mystery, but find there are some things that should be left to little old ladies.

My latest This Time Round effort, the idea shamelessly stolen from Helen Fayle, who should have kept something that priceless better guarded.  (That Harry and Sarah should be the leads in an Agatha Christie type village murder mystery).

I'm posting it here because I think the idea's general enough to appeal outside TTR, plus I can give Miss Marple italics here (& writing Miss Marple without italics is not easy).
 
***

( Chapter One: Doctor Sullivan in Practice )

Well, I've been a bit busy lately, but that doesn't mean I'm not getting ideas for fanfic.

The trouble is I now have a computer-bound (well, ish) job that means I should be out running around in my spare time.  (Of course, I don't)   Some weeks are busy and I only resurface again on Saturday, leading to a desperate day of fan fic writing.  I really must sort my life out.

Plus, I should finish the family history forum's Virtual Holiday (we arrived at the fantasy island in June and we're still there.  I suppose it's not all bad); update my family history before I have a third lot of Somerset research that I haven't typed up, update my family history blog and decorate the front room.

And I should do some reccing here, as I keep finding lots of great fics on Teaspoon. 

However, this is what I've been thinking about instead:

( Fan fic Ideas )

TTR/TDTO: Polly's Guide to the Rules
http://www.ttrarchive.com/pgr1.html
(All ages)

Polly's the most popular girl in the school, but she'd rather be Dodo...

( Taster )

 

( Waffling about story )

I was going to rec other people's storytimes, but I realised I'd just have to put them all in because they're all much too good and funny.

So go here:
http://www.ttrarchive.com/storytime.html
Read, laugh and enjoy and then, when you're ready, move onto this: 

Storytime! Macbeth 
by John Elliott, 
(PG)

It has to be said it's the King of Storytimes.  (Curses and all that!)

http://www.ttrarchive.com/macbeth.html

Brief snippet:

 
Not mine.  Sadly.  (Turning green).

Of course, it's not only the Simm Master who likes to tell stories at the creche.  All sorts of characters have been roped in, either by Izzy, or trying to carry out some evil plot.  

Other narrators (1)
Barbara - Izzy asks the most sensible person she can think of to tell the children a classic story.  She was thinking Winnie-the-Pooh, but Barbara tried Pride and Prejudice.

( Waffle )
(Please note I wasn't clear about which chapters should get archived, so I'll have to link to each part separately, otherwise Part 1 doesn't have the obvious joke.  It still should be better, though).

Part One:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.drwho.creative/browse_frm/thread/9eb05fbcb889aa0a/4ca08fa7a8de022b?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=pride+petulance#4ca08fa7a8de022b

Part Two:
http://www.ttrarchive.com/prideandpetulance2.html

Part Three:
http://www.ttrarchive.com/prideandpetulance3.html

Part Four:
http://www.ttrarchive.com/prideandpetulance4.html

Part Five:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.drwho.creative/browse_frm/thread/9a92d925831eb56/82cd55e7c428b356?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=pride+petulance#82cd55e7c428b356

Part Six:
http://www.ttrarchive.com/prideandpetulance6.html

With sincere apologies to both the Brigadier and Jane Austen.

 Sometimes I ship... 

Here are my Tegan / Five stories:

( Why )
Unwanted:
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=14013

In which Tegan's in a bad mood, Turlough says too much and the Doctor has to kiss the girl to save the day.

( Info )

Emptiness
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=14031

The Doctor and Tegan are in a strange house without their memories.  

( Comment )

*
Romance in the Round.

It began in Banned Valentines when the Doctor and Tegan discover their true feelings on Valentine's Day.  Which has been banned in the Round as it only ever causes trouble, arguments and horrible murders.  Plus, nobody's about to give them any space or even believe them.
http://www.ttrarchive.com/bannedval.html

( Banned Valentines taster )
The sequel Interference (in which Turlough causes trouble and the Master plays Cupid) I'm much happier with.   The Doctor's not talking to Tegan and there's trouble with a plot, a PLOT hole, the Master and Turlough.  And a coda with some vegetable jokes.  (I know.  I'm mad.)
http://www.ttrarchive.com/interference.html

( Interference Taster )(I'll leave Geraint and Enid for when I start tackling the wonderful idea of Storytime...)