Comments | dw_historical: The Winter of Our Discontent, Part I: This Sun of York (1/3)

lareinenoire in dw_historical

The Winter of Our Discontent, Part I: This Sun of York (1/3)

Jan 28, 2009 20:34

Not actually for the Ficathon, but it's Doctor Who (albeit with a dash of Torchwood) and it is very, very historical.

Title: The Winter of Our Discontent, Part I: This Sun of York
Authors: lareinenoire and rosamund
Summary: Something is rotten in the state of England...and it's not just the heads mounted above the gates of York. Can the Doctor and Jack solve the ( Read more... )

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themolesmother January 28 2009, 21:19:03 UTC

*Jumps up and down in excitement*

I'm loving this, Edward IV/Jack slash and all!!!

Intrigued to see what happens next.

MM

lareinenoire January 28 2009, 21:47:27 UTC

Yay! Very glad you enjoyed -- and Edward IV proved surprisingly slashable (or perhaps not so surprisingly when one thinks about it).

smtfhw April 15 2009, 19:09:24 UTC

and Edward IV proved surprisingly slashable (or perhaps not so surprisingly when one thinks about it).

I suspect you're right. This is brilliant...! Thank you for writing it! My favourite period of history too!

thunderemerald January 28 2009, 21:41:39 UTC

Ahhh, this is fun! And I do like your Jack-voice, I really do!

I admit I had a bit of trouble following the actual historical stuff, but that's entirely my fault for being... well, whatever the OPPOSITE of a history buff is. :) The bits that I did follow, though, and the character stuff? Dead awesome.

lareinenoire January 28 2009, 21:45:56 UTC

Hee, Jack is rosamund's responsibility overall, and the historical stuff is mine, so obviously that needs some work. ;) I'm rather annoyed with LJ for not letting us put the notes in with the rest of the fic, but I don't know how helpful they would have been.

thunderemerald January 29 2009, 15:12:26 UTC

Oh, no worries, I read the notes too, and they were VERY helpful -- as well as quite amusing. :) I'm just saying, this fic assumes at least a passing knowledge of that time in Brit history, which is totally fair in a community like this, but which I REALLY don't have. I barely know my American history, let alone the Brit stuff.

lareinenoire January 29 2009, 15:47:09 UTC

I'm just saying, this fic assumes at least a passing knowledge of that time in Brit history

That's a really good point. I am seriously considering adding a link to the Wikipedia entry on the Wars of the Roses now, because I often forget that not everyone eats, sleeps, and breathes the fifteenth century just because I do. Which says so many incredibly sad things about me...or possibly just speaks on the hazards of writing fic directly related to one's dissertation!

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tree_and_leaf January 28 2009, 22:04:32 UTC

Hurrah! You've written it!

"It's the end of the world! There were three suns! Three!"

"I always said it wasn't a parhelion."10 *g*

"Medicus quondam, medicus futurus," Ned said under his breath. "Although I would have pegged him as Merlin first."

Jack smiled to himself, thinking that the Doctor could actually have been the famous wizard.

<3 <3 <3

lareinenoire January 29 2009, 01:24:57 UTC

The parhelion was actually one of the first ideas we had for this story, mostly because it's just so weird and coincidental and too much fun not to tweak.

And I hadn't really thought about it before, but when rosamund wrote that line, I really had to wonder if there was a reality where the Doctor (in some incarnation) was Merlin.

tree_and_leaf January 29 2009, 08:08:51 UTC

Canonically, he apparently will be - see Battlefield. Though ISTR that was indeed in another universe.

lareinenoire January 29 2009, 11:01:15 UTC

Ah, nice! I will have to see that.

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tempestsarekind January 29 2009, 00:57:00 UTC

*giggle* This was fun! Also:

"Don't mind my friend," the Doctor put in smoothly, "he's from Cardiff."

That *so* could have come out of an episode. And I liked the idea of the Doctor as Merlin.

lareinenoire January 29 2009, 01:25:22 UTC

Yay! Glad you enjoyed! And, yes, the Doctor as Merlin makes incredibly scary sense!

thunderemerald January 29 2009, 15:13:18 UTC

YES IT DOES. Now I want this to be a fic too. Eep.

lareinenoire January 29 2009, 15:48:09 UTC

Apparently there's an Old Who episode that at least does something with the Doctor and Merlin called Battlefield, but I haven't seen it.

That being said, YES SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE THIS.

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dolorous_ett January 29 2009, 23:10:08 UTC

I loved this - read it all through in one big glorious dollop without pausing to note things because I was just enjoying the story so much.

You've got the pacing spot on here - it reminds me so much of the TV series it's eerie.

lareinenoire January 30 2009, 00:00:25 UTC

Yay! Very glad you enjoyed -- and the episodic feel was precisely what we were going for, so thank you!