Remix Fic!

[astrogirl2]

The Remix Duello stories are up! And they're not doing an anonymous phase, so I can just go ahead and repost mine here. I said during the writing of this that I felt like the right person could do something really interesting with it, but I was afraid I wasn't the right person... By which I mean that there was no way I felt comfortable enough

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[midnightsjane]

I really like this. It has whimsy and angst together, a no mean feat.
I like the way Eleven seems to have incorporated the lessons Ten was learning, and how he seems somehow more grounded and mature than Ten.
Amy? is awesome, always.

[astrogirl2]

I like the way Eleven seems to have incorporated the lessons Ten was learning, and how he seems somehow more grounded and mature than Ten.

This is very much the way I see Eleven, so I'm really glad to know that it comes through here. I wasn't entirely sure how much it did.

Thanks!

[ladymercury_10]

Your Eleven is so very Eleven. And I love this line:
The Doctor liked to believe that the universe was not an inherently cruel place, but sometimes events made that just a little difficult.

[astrogirl2]

Thanks! I admit, I kind of liked that line, myself. :) And I'm really glad Eleven seems to work for people. I haven't really written him much.

[eve11]

Oh my goodness, I love both of these stories. I love how you remixed this as well-- keeping Reinette and Shakespeare and changing from Four and Sarah Jane to Eleven and Amy. I love how Eleven pouts "the Laws of Time"-- because of course there is a difference between a Law and a Rule, especially in Physics, you can break rules but not laws. And the last line is wonderful, very much in Eleven's personality, I think.

[astrogirl2]

It was really hard for me to think what to do with this story, because the most obviously fruitful possibility was to do something more or different with Shakespeare and Reinette interacting, and I just did not feel up to that. (I wrote about 500 words of Reinette once, and that completely exhausted my ability to do historical fiction.) And the way the original slotted things into continuity was so neat that I didn't see any productive way of altering it. But the author did mention in her note that she thought that the core of the story was about Shakespeare traveling in the TARDIS and about meeting Reinette, so she thought it would be perfectly fine to change Doctors. I figure this was probably meant to make things easier for a remixer who might more familiar with the new series than the old one and resisted it for a while, but once I thought seriously about changing it to Eleven, possibilities started falling into place, so I went with it.

Remixing is such an interesting process. :)

[mtgat]

That was lovely. I like what you did with the idea, and really enjoyed your Amy voice in this.

"Because, I don't know, I think that if time takes away someone you care about, the thing to do is to say screw the rules and... and punch at it until it gives them back!" She punctuated this sentiment with a little motion of her fist through the air.

This? Is totally Amy. :D

Also, I teared up a little at this: "Tell her she will have a brilliant life." Surely there would be little danger to the timelines in that. "Tell her... she'll be remembered."

[astrogirl2]

Thanks! Amy is kind of fun. :)

And it seems to me that, well, a lot of S5 is about remembering people...

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Lovely. As the previous commenter said, the Eleventh Doctor seems to have learned from his previous regeneration's mistakes, and to be avoiding the extremes.

[astrogirl2]

And, again, I'm very glad people are taking that from the story, because it was very much in my mind when I was writing it. :)