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Fic: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood

Apr 04, 2009 21:08

Fic: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood

So, I was sitting down this morning to write some fic (in between watching the Grand National - my donkey didn't even finish! - and the footy). I swear that I was trying to write the next part of Battlelines; I swear. However, instead I wrote this, straight off the bat, more or less in one sitting (which is ( Read more... )

doctor who, fanfic, writing, fic, romana ii

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gm_andy April 4 2009, 20:58:47 UTC

I look forward to reading this one once it is up. Should be very interesting.

gm_andy April 5 2009, 01:22:20 UTC

Read. Reviewed. You is awesome. :D

jjpor April 5 2009, 21:14:45 UTC

Yes, I am, aren't I? XD

No, not even I am that egotistical - I was trying to be cool like Four, honest! Anyway, thanks for reading and I'm glad you liked it.

clocketpatch April 5 2009, 06:27:08 UTC

That was lovely you know, if lovely is the word? It doesn't seem right to call it lovely when the actual story was so harsh, but then, I am tired, and a lot of things go wibbly when I need sleep. I was *this* close to crying at a few points, at ( ... )

jjpor April 5 2009, 21:42:15 UTC

Oh yeah, Morbius. I'm doing that one soonish, if I can just get to grips with my pesky WIPs; I've kind of sworn scary oaths on strange alien relics that I'll get at least one of them finished before I embark on another multiparter. Sworn it. Yes, so Morbius has assumed some sort of strange mythical status for me in my weird private fanon, officially the very worstest thing ever to happen to Gallifrey (and a lot of people outside Gallifrey!) between the rumble with the Great Vampires and the Time War, and instrumental in the "origin stories" of both the Doctor and the Master and possibly a few other famous Time Lords tbc. Basically, Morbius starts out with the best of intentions (or so he tells himself!), but ends up being an object lesson in how not to go about shaking up stuffy Time Lord society ( ... )

lost_spook April 5 2009, 06:48:53 UTC

Heh. I might read it, if I'm feeling brave. I'm not very much into reading angst, nor Time war stories, but I suspect I'll have to take a peek. ;-) The title's lovely anyway.

What I want to know is who was entering a donkey in the Grand National in any case and how they got away with it? Eh? (:lol:) (Confession: I totally forgot!!)

jjpor April 5 2009, 21:22:06 UTC

I know, and a three-legged blind donkey at that!! I thought they had rules against that sort of thing...

You can't go wrong with Robert Frost quotes, I always say; it's something I picked up off Clocket! In fact, I only started reading Robert Frost because she featured it in one of her fics, so I'm grateful to her for that too. The story's called "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and it's also the only reason I started writing Romana-in-the-Time-War fic too. Truly, if it weren't for Clocket I don't know where I'd be today, LOL.

I think the Time War's kind of a Marmite thing; I know some oldschool fans who prefer to pretend it never happened; I like it because it lets me dwell on the horribleness of Daleks and toss around throwaway references to planets exploding and zillions of people getting blown up and stuff. I'm shallow like that. :)

clocketpatch April 6 2009, 18:38:27 UTC

Let's you get the most bang for your action movie buck eh?

*blushes* It's always really bashful/awesome-making to discover that you're a fic inspiration; especially for such wonderful fic! And really, you can't go wrong with Robert Frost! (I've got to read more of him though, because for the life of me I don't know where the head lice poem is from... but, that throw-away line is one of the best I've ever seen. And SO very something the Doctor, or Romana, would say)

jjpor April 6 2009, 20:32:06 UTC

The line about seeing ourself as others see us is actually by Robert Burns (the antimatter twin of Robert Frost?! Burns? Frost? Geddit??), the man who's so popular in Scotland that they named a night after him. The poem's called "To A Louse" and it's written in that strange Scots dialect he wrote most of his poems in (basically, the words are spelled the way Jamie talks ( ... )

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akashasheiress April 7 2009, 22:04:05 UTC

I'll be reviewing this (and some of your other work) on the Teaspoon itself but I have to say that I'm so glad you had Romana chose the less ruthless path. To me she'll always be a freedom fighter rather than a politician (and RTD and co are already blaming her for the war *glares*).

I'd be able to relate more to that poem more if it wasn't so damn... forresty. We don't have natural forests in the Faroes. Now, ocean on the other hand: ''Water, water everwhere and not a drop to drink!'' That I can relate to.

jjpor April 8 2009, 19:34:21 UTC

Thank you for reading; I hope you enjoyed it. Yes, I know what you mean; hardcase!Romana as depicted in the EDAs doesn't really sit well with me, if I'm honest, on a sort of instinctive level; it feels wrong to me. I don't think blaming Romana for the war makes any sense at all; it quite clearly started sometime in the 70s; I mean, by the time of Resurrection, the Daleks were talking about assassinating the High Council, when there's no evidence in previous stories that they even knew about Gallifrey, so the Time Lords must have done something to annoy them. Not that Daleks need a reason to be annoyed. Don't get me wrong, Gallifrey was a bad place full of bad people (or painfully misguided people, anyway), apart from the Doctor and Romana of course!, but the Daleks were just bad news. It's very conventional, and I think comes from RTD too, to say the Time War goes back to Genesis of the Daleks. I think it actually goes back to Day of the Daleks; no way would the Time Lords tolerate the Daleks fiddling with history. That's my theory, ( ... )