EDA squee

[kindkit]

I just finished The Blue Angel, by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad. It's amazing, although I think I may need someone to explain to me what the hell happened. Whatever kind of crack Magrs and Hoad are smoking, it's gooooooooood and I want some.

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[mad_march_hare]

I wish there were lots and lots of fic about the Doctor and Fitz (Compassion is very, very optional) living in their big alternate-universe house and not having any adventures at all.

I second the notion! I love curtainfic as well, shame on me. ^_^ Please write us some lovely domesti-fic! I haven't read The Blue Angel yet, but it's high on my to-do list!

(Pretty much everything Paul Magrs writes is fabulously cracktastic, and he's awfully keen on establishing the Eighth Doctor as an unwitting sex symbol. Have you read The Scarlet Empress or Mad Dogs and Englishmen?)

[kindkit]

I haven't read Magrs's other EDAs yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to them now.

*contemplates domesti-fic*

[mad_march_hare]

You know you want to write that fic. You do.

Oooh, boy. You're going to want to read Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Yes, you are. Mmm-hmm.

This really isn't integral to the plot at all, so I'll spoil this teensy-weensy bit. If you don't like spoilers, please delete this comment now.

Still here? There's a place in the novel where the Doctor, Fitz and Anji are forced to strip completely down in each other's company, with nothing on at all. Anji is mortified, naturally, but the Doctor and Fitz are described as being totally comfortable with it, and with each other. The wallpaper started to peel, I was squeeing so loud. Theirloveissocanon. ^_^

[kseda]

rainfire_dancer wrote a darkish little slightly porny ficlet set in the alt!universe, but there needs to be more. Actually I think there needs to be more epilogue/missing scene fics fullstop. *makes note to get on that*

I first read The Blue Angel over a long, lazy afternoon and took a nap in the sun halfway through it. No, I still have no idea what the hell it's really ABOUT but it is certainly pretty, character-driven crack of the finest sort.

[kindkit]

Thanks for the rec! I had read it before, actually, but it makes a lot more sense now.

And yeah, my sense of TBA is that most of the plot is even more of a mcguffin than usual. It's all about the characters and the meta, which makes me very happy.

[some_stars]

The Cabinet of Changes may not be exactly what you want, but I remember liking it A LOT.

[kindkit]

Oooh, that story was marvelous. I'm always happy to read such a good fanfic, even if it doesn't happen to indulge my 'shippy cravings. Thanks for the rec!

[gillyp]

"*happysigh* I wish there were lots and lots of fic about the Doctor and Fitz (Compassion is very, very optional) living in their big alternate-universe house and not having any adventures at all..."

That whole domestic world, with the doctor going out to his cafe with the scrubbed pine tables and tending the garden and making toast and scrambling eggs (perfectly)just fills me with squee - it is by far the most perfect bit of the story - though I also loved Iris (*why* was she so unpopular with such a swathe of the fandom?) and her bus, and the boy, of course...

But it was, as you put it the curtain fic that got me most and why this book is up there in the list of my most favourite EDAs - I have it on the table, here, beside me aamof.

It's much better than Interference, IMO

[kindkit]

I totally agree with you about the appeal of the novel's domestic world. Even though the main plot was inventive and interesting, I was much less engaged by it than by the cafe, the garden, and the cooking.

So Iris is unpopular? That's strange. And also depressing, as it seems to confirm the theory that fandom tends to reject the really cool female characters. I'll admit that I don't care to think of Iris as the Doctor's old flame, but that's because I don't like het 'ships, not because I don't like Iris. Iris is pretty damn fab, all rakish and James Bond-y.

[gillyp]

Well I'm going back a bit (re the Iris debate) - to when the fandom was all about newsgroups; rec.arts.doctorwho specifically - overwhelmingly male, aggressive and combative; they all seemed to *hate* Iris - and Magrs, too, for that matter. ::shrug::

Things are much nicer these days (though I rarely hear Iris discussed anymore, tbh).

[kindkit]

Things are much nicer these days

I'm always a bit terrified when I hear old-school fen say that, because to me as a newbie, Who fandom seems pretty combative and kerfuffle-prone. It must've been hardcore nasty back in the old days.