Rec: Home Is Where the Journey Begins

[nonelvis]

Hello, calufrax! I'm a bit late in getting today's rec up -- stupid work getting in the way of what's really important -- but I hope you enjoy it. And if you'd like to rec something yourself (we really do need more reccers!), please drop by the sign-up post.

Story: Home Is Where the Journey Begins
Author: Inkfire
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 662
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[flowsoffire]

Goodness, thank you so much for recc'ing! I'm just glowing and utterly honoured :D

P.S.: This delighted writer has been utterly unclear, though. I… did worry my character reference would not be clear enough, and for some reason it didn't even occur to me it would obviously be interpreted as Amy. How stupid is that? I meant to insert River using her father's name as an alias (River+Rory is always a thing, even in tiny allusions), which is why it was "Miss Williams" and not "Mrs. Williams". Because in my world, small details like that win over big details like a name. Um… in my mind it could only be River, because history and archaeology, the professor and the teacher, her doing her own time-travel, and well, River would be the one to ask slightly awkward, if not downright kinky questions about reincarnation being cool with gender-switching. I was just so wrapped in my own image and fangasm that I missed the obvious, aka there was a Mrs. Williams and hello, this is too close. So that's my rambly clarification and add a big apology in a pretty wrapping! It was just very unclear.

…I'll go and edit it as "Miss Melody Williams", Christ, how did I not think about this before. *laughs hysterically*

Anyway. Thank you for reccing! SO MUCH. ♥

[nonelvis]

You're welcome! But whoops, what an error on my part about River! Sorry about that; I've fixed the tags and the rec.

I admit, the "Miss" didn't make me think River, partially because I never think of her as a "Williams," and partially because if Amy were in a classroom, she'd probably be addressed as "Miss" unless the teacher knew she was married. (I also assumed Amy had just time-traveled and was undercover for some reason in Barbara's classroom … which I suppose would make for an entirely different but perhaps equally interesting story ;) Regardless, I apologize for getting this wrong in the rec.

[flowsoffire]

It was really my mistake! And that's a very good point about Amy's appearance screaming "Miss" much more than River's! I pictured a rather young River, in which her demeanour/way of carrying herself might look less classy and femme-fatale, more wild/youthful, but it's still a good point. Anyhow, you fixed the rec, I fixed the fic, let us headdesk no more!

(Melody Williams is a geography teacher… ;))

[nonelvis]

(Melody Williams is a geography teacher… ;))

Ha! Well, who am I to argue with Moffat on that point? ;)

[flowsoffire]

The Moff spoke and we bow… ;)