Myth Making

[calliope85]

Okay, so, things that aren't related to Biggles. They may be related to Who though.

1. Have been listening to the Gallifrey audio-dramas. I'm rather enjoying these from the sheer fan-glee perspective (Mary Tamm!! Yay!!! Multiple Romana stories!!!!), though I have the feeling that some of things which are confusing me a little about the plot aren't

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[sebastienne]

I can't really add anything because you are obviously much better informed on classical mythology than I am; but I read this, and found it very interesting.

I love it when shows like Who get meta about the nature of fiction and reality. I find it especially potent because of how much I have invested in the idea of self-fictionalisation as a way of living, ie, that we spin narratives that put the events of our lives into relations-with-each-other, progressions, cause-and-effect. We turn our memories into the story-of-ourselves, and every experience we have is indelibly coloured by how it fits into the narrative structure we already have in place.

I am sure I used to be more articulate on this topic, but right now I'm not sure what that paragraph means and I just wrote it. Sigh. But. Mythologisation and blurring of fiction and reality = good topics.

[calliope85]

:D Fictional Who is/not fictional. Also, my meta-text is pastede on, yayz!

I may just give my paper entirely in the form of internet memes, it'd probably end up with approximately the same level of coherence ^_^

[livii]

O YS THERE IS NARVIN FIC!

The Unplanned Pregnancy (of Rassilon) by lizbee. Romana/Narvin and AWESOME. :D

I really enjoyed that series, but I've only listened to the first two seasons; can't get myself to listen to the third, now that the Andred plot is wrapped up, which I won't go into because it sounds like you're not done the second season, but believe me, it's really good and I felt it really came together. There is More Than Meets The Eye going on. :)

[calliope85]

YAY NARVIN FIC ^___^ Thank you!! oh, internet. I maligned you unjustly

[livii]

Ah, I did not get the Torvald-is-Andred until they specifically revealed it, at which point it was so dramatic I almost fell off the treadmill! I am not always smart about these things, heh

[crouchinglynx]

I may have already mentioned that a couple of the Virgin NAs involve the Land of Fiction (although in the first of those, this fact is the Big Reveal towards the end of the book, which makes such a recommendation a spoiler of sorts). They both involve some textual 4th-wall-breaking that I'd probably compare with Jasper Fforde if I'd read any.

Part of the "Voyager" arc (6th Doctor DWM comic strips) does this to a lesser extent - again playing to its own medium, with inventions like "shortcut to the next page".

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[crouchinglynx]

As I haven't put those boxes of books away yet, here's one that made my teenage brain explode - the afterword from "Decalog 3 - Consequences". (Out of print for a decade, so I have no qualms about violating rights by reproducing it here in full.)

Afterword
By Professor Arthur Candy
(as dictated to Steven Moffat)

The Doctor, of course, knows that we are watching. And when, as has happened more than once, a culture extrapolates his existence from multiple interventions in their history, the Doctor has a favourite `panic button'. He simply slips back in time and introduces himself as a fictional character in the popular mythology of that particular world. As a consequence, there are now millions of races all over the universe following his adventures in one form or another without ever realising their deadly significance. Naturally, it becomes all but impossible to explain to the Intelligent Tree Spores of Xandar 6 that the hero of their popular weekly bark carvings is a real and dangerous phenomenon when they're too busy

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[calliope85]

Doctor Who: meta-texting the hell out of its own fictional universe since 1963 ^___^

[calliope85]

Oooh, which ones? I can cope with the inevitable spoiler-factor ^_^ I need to glance through the EDAs 'Grimm Reality' and 'Crooked World' again, which both touch on fictionality in Who - it'd be good to add a couple of NAs to my reading list...

[potatofiend]

In the spirit of making sure that all your posts are somehow related to Biggles: I have unearthed a close-to-final (albeit I'm sure missing something) draft of my thesis. Where shall I email it to?