30 Days of Fanfic

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So I realised that if I do a few of these a day, I can get it done in a week and then I am less likely to forget about it. Shall I try that? Yes, I think I shall. Memez rok!1!

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[time_converges]

Ooh, I might steal this meme.

Also, I think we've talked about this before, but I also took forever to figure out what "slash" meant, in fic. I think it was because i first encountered it in X-files stuff, and it was all this Mulder/Skinner stuff that started with them beating the crap out of each other, so I thought it was for violence. Ah, youthful naivete. :D

Also, yes, the Doctor is the most fun to write because he can do/be anything.

[nostalgia_lj]

It is a great meme!

I think it was because i first encountered it in X-files stuff, and it was all this Mulder/Skinner stuff that started with them beating the crap out of each other, so I thought it was for violence. Ah, youthful naivete.

For me it was the warnings and the way it was all Mulder/Krycek so I assumed it had to be AWFUL VIOLENCE like cutting each other up hence the name. Maybe if people had written "Warnings: It's just gay sex"? Though there is that whole subgenre of slash where people have hatesex and sometimes I literally can't find any decent Doctor/Master where they don't do violence upon each other.

Also, yes, the Doctor is the most fun to write because he can do/be anything.

The downside is that sometimes in fic he seems OOC just because of different ideas about how far he can go in one direction or another. Like I find him a bit too romantic in a lot of D/D, but then I don't think of him as especially good at that stuff. (I was pretty surprised when he started flirting with River so openly in S6.)

[time_converges]

Oh, I forgot the Mulder/Krycek stuff too, yeah. I miss the X-Files!

[nostalgia_lj]

Was there any nice fic?

[wolfy_writing]

You write lots of womens. You just tend to write them in relation to the Doctor, which is basically the same way you write men, so it's reasonable.

[nostalgia_lj]

Yeah, that is true I suppose. I should point that out maybe when I do that question. I would write more womens if the Doctor was a woman, so clearly it is the BBC's fault.

[wolfy_writing]

Are you getting hung up on the Bechdel test aspect? Because it's not the be-all-end-all of judging feminism in fiction. You write lots of fic with River, Reinette, Amy, Donna, Martha, and other people making decisions, having a sexuality, and leading complex lives.

[nostalgia_lj]

Yah the test makes me feel like I am failing at life :(

[shark_hat]

"[The Doctor's] just this guy, you know?"

... I had not previously considered the Doctor as Beeblebrox-y but oh god, it's totally a way he could go because he would cut bits out of his own brain for a good enough cause, and if he was careful to get all the RAEG bits as well as the social responsibility... clever, rootless, feckless fribble... now I want Doctor/Zaphod. Thank you, I think.

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MWAHAHAHAHA