Doctor Who
I’ve got quite a lot of these hanging out in my bookmarks and forgot about them. Which of course means it’s well past time to post them. Most of these are variations of Doctor/Rose because that’s what I’ve been reading. I’ve never watched more than 5 minutes of a classic Doctor Who episode, which I imagine is to blame for this if there is something needs blaming. These are all fairly short as I don’t usually read WIP’s and people just don’t write really long stuff in this fandom much, sadly.
The Difference by themuslimbarbie.
Ten II/Rose, past Ten/Rose strongly suggested // G to PG, not sure // Author’s Summary: "He isn't you!" Rose cries. "He looks the same, sounds the same, usually he acts the same, but he isn’t you. He isn’t the Doctor. Not really." The Doctor suddenly looks so very old. She can see all of the love and pain and regret flashing in his eyes. "But," he answers slowly, "I'm not him."
I left a fairly long--for me--comment to the writer on this because I was actually surprised that I liked it as much as I did. My advice on this would be to ignore the author’s notes in the header because they might give a false impression. I do and don’t agree with the idea some people have that Ten and Ten II are not the same person, which just means I have my own thoughts on that and it can make reading a story like this difficult for me sometimes, but I really did enjoy the writer’s take on it here. I can see where, regardless of whether or not they are/were the same person, Rose would find it confusing to deal with and come to terms with. I think she captured that strange feeling here pretty well. I also enjoyed the fact that Eleven doesn’t look at Rose the way Ten looked at Rose and I don’t know why I liked that except that it makes so much sense that he might not.
Love Song by damalur.
Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose // G // Author’s Summary: "Oh, she knows," he'd said, and she did. This is how.
I liked the mood and the tone of this a lot. It was solemn and kind of angsty but still she slipped in little things that were amusing to break the tension like the Doctor’s jealousy of Mickey and the little bit about Harry Potter. That was very cute. I do hope that the fest the author originally wrote this for got some attention and that she got comments there because for some reason it doesn’t have any on her journal. One thing I didn’t like about it was that she chose to completely disregard the existence of Ten II. I would always much rather an author explain a character out of the picture if they need to instead of pretend they don’t exist at all. I think it made the ending less conflicted than it would have been if he did exist which may be why she decided to do it, but I still was really disappointed in the story at the end because of this. Very good, though, even so.
Vesuvius (you are all I have) by mannaplowsk.
Gen, Ten, Donna Noble, Adelaide Brooke // PG-13 // Author’s Summary: The Time Lord Victorious, he describes himself to Adelaide, a sort of mad jollity padding the steel in his voice, fluff juxtaposed directly to substance. This is not the moment he falls. Post-Donna, the Doctor descends.
So much love for this fic and all the ways it does things I like. I have this real thing for using religion, fairy tales and mythology in literature and I love to read it when someone does this and carries it off well. This worked for me like that in a lot of ways. It’s not written in a linear kind of story telling way really, but like flashes of memory or significant moments and it’s mostly a character study. It looks at the character of Donna through the eyes of the Doctor and the character of the Doctor through the eyes of Donna and others. The way she wrote it was truly beautiful and I love Donna so much the way she writes her.
the pain of remembering by stillxmyxheart.
Eleven/Rose, mentions of Ten/Rose and Ten II/Rose // PG-13 // Author’s Summary: She lifts her gaze to his face, her brow knitted slightly, though her lips twitch in an amused way, and he suddenly feels as though he can't quite catch his breath.
This was a strange one to me in that it left me wondering about how it would work if this were to happen within canon and Eleven visited Rose between the time she fell into Pete’s World and then Ten leaving her with Ten II on Bad Wolf Bay. She would have already met his future self and know that Ten was going to die. It’s a strange idea and I really liked that about it, how it left that possibility open. And then the idea of him doing that, going back into her past at strategic moments to visit her until he runs out of times when he can is just sad as hell to me. It’s a theme I just seem to not get tired of and this story was really well written and a great take on the idea.
When You Feel My Silence by rowofstars.
Ten II/Rose, mentions of Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose // PG-13 // Author’s Summary: He's not used to a Rose who doesn't want to be touched.
This was really sweet I thought. The author explores the idea of Rose and Ten II figuring out how to be with each other and around each other, which I think is really interesting. She does it well here, showing them as distant and confused, learning how to deal with things and figuring out how it’s going to work. There’s also this real feeling of need from Ten II that I liked a lot because it seems right. I do want to read something that focuses more on both of them learning to cope, especially Ten II, someday but that would have made this much longer and a lot different than I think she intended it to be. It still suggested a kind of turmoil in them both which I enjoyed watching them work out. As it is, it’s cute and a little sad, but it leads to a hopeful conclusion.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of fan art that I’ve seen in this fandom. Too bad, too because there is a lot of great stuff to inspire art. Anyway, I hope you find something you like to read here. If you do, please don’t forget to leave the author a comment.
The Difference by themuslimbarbie.
Ten II/Rose, past Ten/Rose strongly suggested // G to PG, not sure // Author’s Summary: "He isn't you!" Rose cries. "He looks the same, sounds the same, usually he acts the same, but he isn’t you. He isn’t the Doctor. Not really." The Doctor suddenly looks so very old. She can see all of the love and pain and regret flashing in his eyes. "But," he answers slowly, "I'm not him."
I left a fairly long--for me--comment to the writer on this because I was actually surprised that I liked it as much as I did. My advice on this would be to ignore the author’s notes in the header because they might give a false impression. I do and don’t agree with the idea some people have that Ten and Ten II are not the same person, which just means I have my own thoughts on that and it can make reading a story like this difficult for me sometimes, but I really did enjoy the writer’s take on it here. I can see where, regardless of whether or not they are/were the same person, Rose would find it confusing to deal with and come to terms with. I think she captured that strange feeling here pretty well. I also enjoyed the fact that Eleven doesn’t look at Rose the way Ten looked at Rose and I don’t know why I liked that except that it makes so much sense that he might not.
Love Song by damalur.
Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose // G // Author’s Summary: "Oh, she knows," he'd said, and she did. This is how.
I liked the mood and the tone of this a lot. It was solemn and kind of angsty but still she slipped in little things that were amusing to break the tension like the Doctor’s jealousy of Mickey and the little bit about Harry Potter. That was very cute. I do hope that the fest the author originally wrote this for got some attention and that she got comments there because for some reason it doesn’t have any on her journal. One thing I didn’t like about it was that she chose to completely disregard the existence of Ten II. I would always much rather an author explain a character out of the picture if they need to instead of pretend they don’t exist at all. I think it made the ending less conflicted than it would have been if he did exist which may be why she decided to do it, but I still was really disappointed in the story at the end because of this. Very good, though, even so.
Vesuvius (you are all I have) by mannaplowsk.
Gen, Ten, Donna Noble, Adelaide Brooke // PG-13 // Author’s Summary: The Time Lord Victorious, he describes himself to Adelaide, a sort of mad jollity padding the steel in his voice, fluff juxtaposed directly to substance. This is not the moment he falls. Post-Donna, the Doctor descends.
So much love for this fic and all the ways it does things I like. I have this real thing for using religion, fairy tales and mythology in literature and I love to read it when someone does this and carries it off well. This worked for me like that in a lot of ways. It’s not written in a linear kind of story telling way really, but like flashes of memory or significant moments and it’s mostly a character study. It looks at the character of Donna through the eyes of the Doctor and the character of the Doctor through the eyes of Donna and others. The way she wrote it was truly beautiful and I love Donna so much the way she writes her.
the pain of remembering by stillxmyxheart.
Eleven/Rose, mentions of Ten/Rose and Ten II/Rose // PG-13 // Author’s Summary: She lifts her gaze to his face, her brow knitted slightly, though her lips twitch in an amused way, and he suddenly feels as though he can't quite catch his breath.
This was a strange one to me in that it left me wondering about how it would work if this were to happen within canon and Eleven visited Rose between the time she fell into Pete’s World and then Ten leaving her with Ten II on Bad Wolf Bay. She would have already met his future self and know that Ten was going to die. It’s a strange idea and I really liked that about it, how it left that possibility open. And then the idea of him doing that, going back into her past at strategic moments to visit her until he runs out of times when he can is just sad as hell to me. It’s a theme I just seem to not get tired of and this story was really well written and a great take on the idea.
When You Feel My Silence by rowofstars.
Ten II/Rose, mentions of Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose // PG-13 // Author’s Summary: He's not used to a Rose who doesn't want to be touched.
This was really sweet I thought. The author explores the idea of Rose and Ten II figuring out how to be with each other and around each other, which I think is really interesting. She does it well here, showing them as distant and confused, learning how to deal with things and figuring out how it’s going to work. There’s also this real feeling of need from Ten II that I liked a lot because it seems right. I do want to read something that focuses more on both of them learning to cope, especially Ten II, someday but that would have made this much longer and a lot different than I think she intended it to be. It still suggested a kind of turmoil in them both which I enjoyed watching them work out. As it is, it’s cute and a little sad, but it leads to a hopeful conclusion.
Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of fan art that I’ve seen in this fandom. Too bad, too because there is a lot of great stuff to inspire art. Anyway, I hope you find something you like to read here. If you do, please don’t forget to leave the author a comment.