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[itsarift_thing]

OMG! I am so taking liberties with my own comm *apologises*

Title: Serenity
Author: mad_jaks
Characters: The Ninth Doctor, the crew of Serenity
Genre: Ficlet, gen
Rating: G
Prompt: consci_fan_mo: aeron_lanart wanted, Firefly/Doctor Who; Mal, Doctor (any incarnation); box
Summary: The Doctor needs somewhere to recover - where better than a ship called Serenity?
Notes: Pre-"Safe

Comments

[donutsweeper]

You already know I love this, but I shall repeat myself just to make sure we're clear on the matter: I LOVE this!

[itsarift_thing]

*bounces*

Thank you!

[donutsweeper]

and I think, while the scenes aren't massively deep or wordy, they work just fine with the amount of info given- it's supposed to be a broad brush stroke piece and works wonderfully that way

[itsarift_thing]

I like my broad brush strokes but I also really do think I'd kind of like to fill in the gaps, you know? (I don't feel like that nearly often enough *g*)

[laurab1]

Oh, yes :) Everyone sounds right, love it, well done :)

[itsarift_thing]

Thank you!
And thanks for all your help when I first got started - it was *much* appreciated.

[kel_reiley]

"Sheh-sheh"
thank you

HAH! i actually knew that one and i know how to pronounce it, too!
2000 words? you maniac!
i shall have to save this for later though
will comment, promise!

Sit down if you are standing up!

[itsarift_thing]

2000 words? you maniac!
AND I had to NOT write stuff to keep it that low!!!!

Re: Sit down if you are standing up!

[kel_reiley]

whoa! you wild woman!

Re: Sit down if you are standing up!

[itsarift_thing]

*yawns* tiredz womanzzzzzzz nowzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[adafrog]

Well done. Is there going to be more of this?

[itsarift_thing]

There was so much I had to leave out just to fit into the word count that yes, I really might be back to fill in missing scenes *nods*

People really will have to mither me about doing it though! *g*

[aeron_lanart]

mither mither mither!

I can throw in a bribe of chocolate if needs be too...

[itsarift_thing]

*whines*
You'll have to let me draw breath first! :P

(talking of chocolate - did your 'Hero' arrive safely?)

[rustydog]

Hey, look at you! Two thousand words! (Exactly! Cool.)

I really like the pictures this all paints in my mind: Nine, maybe fresh from the Time War, and the TARDIS seeking out another beloved ship, two scarred men understanding each other, and especially Kaylee getting her hands grubby in the TARDIS. :) (I love her up on the beam on the wall!)

Neat. I'm so glad you did this!

*
I haven't done much Firefly browsing and didn't realize fandom used phonetic spellings for the Chinese. It seems really strange to me, since there is actually an official Romanized version of Mandarin, pinyin. "Sheh sheh" is spelled xie xie for instance. I wonder if it goes back to the cast needing to have an idea how to pronounce the Chinese? /irrelevant babbling

[itsarift_thing]

and the TARDIS seeking out another beloved ship,
Yes :D the name alone had the TARDIS zeroing in I reckon but that Serenity is so much loved was definitely the clincher :D And she'd love Kaylee to bits!

I've only done a limited amount of reading myself so I don't know what would be aceptable on a Firefly fanfic page. But it seemed logical to me to write the Chinese in a way the readers would most readily understand - I know enough - very random - knowledge myself to have made a stab at xei xei being pronounced - wait while I organise my logic - soft ch followed by ay if I'd come across it in someone else's fic, but I also know that not everyone else knows what I know./// *stops rambling*

[rustydog]

Awwwww, Kaylee would make a great companion for a Doctor and I agree, the TARDIS would love her. I'd just hate for Mal to lose her!

With the Chinese, it's probably just me. I noticed on the reference site you used, the site's author used phonetic spellings as well as pinyin in her dictionary. Xie xie (i before e) would be tough to pronounce, coming from an English speaking perspective. You're right, the closest we have to the "x" is a "sh" but it's not that exactly, more of a flat-tongued hiss. The vowel is more of a "yeh" - like "shyeh shyeh". ::shrug::

Though (musing as I type) I wonder how important it is for readers to be able to pronounce foreign words in a story? Maybe it's an individual thing. I tend to skip the words I don't know and work from context, but for some people that might be distracting. I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do it, and I didn't mean anything about your fic! It's just interesting to think about.

[mad_jaks]

I think... um, I am okay if I have no idea how to *actually* pronounce words in foreign languages as long as I can take a stab at them. So I think that would involve writing phonetically (if acceptable) rather than simply romanizing non-Western/European alphabets.