WhoFic: Taking Care

[lolmac]

After so many months with so little inspiration, I woke up the morning after watching the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode with two shiny new plot bunnies!  One of them hopped away without much to show for it, but this one stayed for tea.

Taking CareThe place really did need more opportunities for people to sit down. Art galleries never had

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[sidlj]

Oh, lovely! And so inventive. A most excellent bunny, and excellent worldmuseum-building. :-)

[lolmac]

Thank you!!

We were staying with friends that weekend, and the next morning, I literally woke up with one bunny hopping around, and hid in the bedroom while I typed up the notes. Then I took a shower, and got bit by a SECOND bunny, and had to hide out again and type THAT one up. Fortunately, our friends didn't mind my sudden attack of antisocial behaviour!

[lost_spook]

Aw, that's lovely! Well done!

[lolmac]

Thank you!

Extra points if you can identify why the gallery that holds the nonexistent artworks is called the Pennethorne. *g*

[lost_spook]

Oh, I'm sorry - I have no brain, and I really don't know! You'll have to tell me. ;-)

[lolmac]

*g* I did a bit of research on the history of the National Gallery, and I was enchanted to find out how much change it's undergone since it was founded, both additions and removals. There was once a gallery called the Pennethorne, but it was demolished over a century ago.

Back when I was writing Aftershocks, I did a massive amount of research into lost artworks, and became very aware of how much has been so easily destroyed . . . so the idea of a lost gallery that would hold all that lost art seemd to fit especially well! Naturally, it wouldn't just be European art, either . . .

[betawho]

Oh I love, love, love this!

Beautifully and wonderfully inventive. I can just see the Doctor creating a museum like that, folding and bending time and dimensions around to his whims, "stealing" amazing old artworks before they could be destroyed, and setting it all up so that everybody could come visit and see, no matter where they were from. (While also keeping them all safe.)

Wonderful. Wonderful!

And I absolutely adore this feeling of an older 4th Doctor, a bit tired, but happy. A bit nostalgic, as he always was, but not fretting or straining at his retirement, enjoying it instead.

That was so, so lovely. I could just see Tom Baker, as he is now, as that Doctor.

This story was like the Doctor had just walked out of "Day of the Doctor" and it was PERFECT!

[lolmac]

Thank you! Thank you so very much!

I squeed like anything over Tom Baker's appearance in the 50th anniversary episode, and immediately wanted to write something about it -- something that could show that, even in retirement, the Doctor would still find ways to help people. I'm so glad the story worked so well!

[juliet316]

Perfect. Simply perfect.

[lolmac]

*beams* Thank you so much!

[a_phoenixdragon]

This was so, so beautiful - and better than I had ever pictured for our beloved Caretaker. Thank you. Bless you!!

*HUGS*

[lolmac]

*HUGS* back

Thank you! I was so squeeful at seeing Tom Baker in the anniversary special, and I immediately wanted to write fic about him!

I had actually done most of the writing on this -- including coming up with the title -- before Christmas Eve, when I watched "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" for the first time. And there was Eleven, doing the wordplay with Caretaker/taking care! \o/

[a_phoenixdragon]

See?! Perfect...and yes, that kind of jetted through my head. Of course he already is a Caretaker, so it makes perfect sense that he would oversee the Museum. Right up his alley, actually!